Utter

Looking for a basic text-to-speech (tts) Python module with language conversion and mp3 playback and comes with a Heroku web app? Try utter, https://github.com/rsgalloway/utter. You can play with the web app here: http://utter.herokuapp.com. Sorry, Chrome only, and I've capped the language translation at 2M characters per day.

The Perfect Martini Recipe

via Neatorama

PySeq 0.3.0

Finally released a new version of PySeq, the open-source compressed sequence string module for Python. The biggest change here is that it fixes issue #1, where same-named sequences but with different extensions were not being compressed, e.g.

% lss tests/fileA.*
   3 fileA.%04d.jpg 1-3
   3 fileA.%04d.png 1-3

Change log:

+v0.3.0 - 2012 Aug 05
  + fixed %R in uncompress()
  + fixed minor bug in getSequences() with glob
  + fixed issue #1: same seqs with different extensions don't compress
  + added some simple inline unit tests

Thanks to Erkan Ozgur Yilmaz for the %R directive fix in uncompress.

Skype For TV

I've been using Skype for a while now. At first for video conferencing, but now I use Skype (or gtalk) to make all of my phone calls since I said adiós to AT&T.

From the first time I ever used Skype, I wanted to use it from the living room on a large screen TV. Unfortunately, there weren't a lot of otb solutions for that at the time.

Now, you can purchase an expensive HD TV or Blu-ray player with Skype built-in, or become a Comcast customer and rent a set-top box from them. Or, every time I want to use Skype on my TV I could haul my laptop over and connect and disconnect cables and what-not. I think there is even a hack to make it work on an Apple TV. As far as I can tell, there's no equivalent hack for Roku or Boxee.

So I thought it'd probably be easy to just build an inexpensive prototype of a Skype set-top box using OEM parts, install Linux and write some software that uses the Skype API. Maybe there's even a niche market for one of those, so I put up a simple site to do some market research: SkypeForTV.com http://rsg.io/bO0HN.

UPDATE:

Skype sent me a C&D for the domain SkypeForTV.com (interesting how that domain redirects to bing.com now that MS bought Skype), so I moved the poll to here, however it looks like Skype had an even bigger reason for me to take down my poll, they were working on their own version of the set-top box.

QRangeSlider for PyQt

PyQt is lacking a range slider, or double-handled slider, and I didn't like the ones I found out there, so I implemented this simple one in Python and made it available on GitHub.

Installation:

$ sudo easy_install qrangeslider

Documentation:

http://rsgalloway.github.com/QRangeSlider

Source:

https://github.com/rsgalloway/QRangeSlider