Identicons are those icons based on a user IP or name or so which provide an automated avatar... just like the avatar icon on StackOverflow. Here are some available systems (hat tip to Roger Browne):
http://haacked.com/archive/2007/01/22/Identicons_as_Visual_Fingerprints.aspx
http://digitalconsumption.com/forum/Visiglyphs-for-IP-visualisation
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/ [didn't provide an API for this, but considering generated pics are gender specific...]
http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/
Are there more?
I believe SO uses Gravatars
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Is there a built-in way to add tags to content in a similar way as with WordPress when using ExpressionEngine?
No, there's not an EE native equivalent to WP's tags. For something similar you need to go into the 3rd party market. Here are a couple of options:
Tagger, free & actively maintained & supported (support requires a "developer" license of $50
Tag, commercial at ~$60
Of these two I've only used Tagger. It got the job done nicely but I can't compare it to "Tag" since I haven't used it. There's another one called Taggable but I don't believe it's actively maintained or updated any more. (I would like to it but StackOverflow won't let me add more than 2 links until my rep increases.)
I've used both Tag and Tagger, mentioned by Erik. I have found for my needs Tag is more that enough to do the job. Tagger adds some higher level functions, but I didn't find I needed them in most cases.
I'd probably go with one of the two add-ons already listed though, to be thorough, there is also Taggable which Erik did mentioned though, couldn't link to it:
https://github.com/jamierumbelow/taggable
I am doing an app in which I require a business card reader I googled alot but BBY is the only solution which I was able to find out. Can anybody help me out with some opensource library which can be tweaked or used directly as a business card reader.
Please enlighten me on this.
you can look into the Tesseract open source engine... its pretty good for image processing.. i mean it will extract the text out of the image but then you will have to process it to extract name ,phone numbers and other details.
this guy has explained how to use it in iOS .. http://tinsuke.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/how-to-compile-and-use-tesseract-3-01-on-ios-sdk-5/
We started an open source project to build a Javascript library (based on the OCR engine tesseract.js for the OCR part) that exctract the relevant data from a business card based on heuristic criteria.
The library (BCR Library, available on github) is usable in any html project (included mobile cordova, phone gap or ionic projects) just including it via script tag.
The library doesn't have any external api call and fully works offline.
I think that you should give a try to Covve Bussiness Card Scan API. The quality of the result is great in various languages. You can check a comparison analysis of similar services here.
[Disclosure] I'm part of the team developing the service.
I am doing an app in which I require a business card reader I googled alot but BBY is the only solution which I was able to find out. Can anybody help me out with some opensource library which can be tweaked or used directly as a business card reader.
Please enlighten me on this.
you can look into the Tesseract open source engine... its pretty good for image processing.. i mean it will extract the text out of the image but then you will have to process it to extract name ,phone numbers and other details.
this guy has explained how to use it in iOS .. http://tinsuke.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/how-to-compile-and-use-tesseract-3-01-on-ios-sdk-5/
We started an open source project to build a Javascript library (based on the OCR engine tesseract.js for the OCR part) that exctract the relevant data from a business card based on heuristic criteria.
The library (BCR Library, available on github) is usable in any html project (included mobile cordova, phone gap or ionic projects) just including it via script tag.
The library doesn't have any external api call and fully works offline.
I think that you should give a try to Covve Bussiness Card Scan API. The quality of the result is great in various languages. You can check a comparison analysis of similar services here.
[Disclosure] I'm part of the team developing the service.
I'm just starting to evaluate joomla CMS as a tool to build out my personal site. I'd like to manage multiple sites/domains with one copy of joomla on one host. so I'll own mysite.com and myothersite.com, which will both point to the same host/joomla code. If I do this I need to be able to set which domain/site the content I add shows up on. For some sites the content will be on both for others it will be on only one. What would be ideal it to have some kind of filtering mechanism so I don't have to manually set where the content goes.
What would be ideal is for me to set tags on the content and each site can specify which taged content to show.
My last requirement is that I be able to have different pages on each site.
Is this possible or am I asking too much from a "free" CMS?
Thanks all
I don't know if there's a component that achieves what you're describing here. I use a multi-language component in some of my sites that shows translations, but it doesn't "suppress" articles that doesn't have references to a translation: it just says "No translations to this article". I know you're not asking for translations methods, but I think the Joomfish way of selecting content based in a chosen language would be what you wanted, but not based in languages, just domains.
The only component I know it would be able to suppress articles based in pre defined parameters (in its case the language), is the Joomfish's "Table Localization Plugin", but you need to be a Joomfish silver member paying $60 to Joomfish's developers.
You could write a component(see here for plugin documentation), that analyzing the domain, would suppress articles that shouldn't appear in that specific domain. But I think it's going yo be a lot of work. You would learn a lot of Joomla's architecture, though.
How Joomla displays its content (output) is controlled entirely by parameters. So if you can control what parameters are loading, you can create multiple displays per host
However, that may be overkill in this case. You can just easily hack your template. Just make it load a different menu for siteA and siteB. (The host is set in $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
The menu on siteA could have a tagging component item, set to display articles tagged siteA.com. The siteB will have the same for its domain.
While there are extensions that will do what you describe (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/multiple-sites), Joomla is really designed for one site at a time. I've done setups where I use the same codebase for Joomla and manage it with version control, but I always end up launching multiple sites with individual databases.
However, I don't know of any CMS that inherently allows you to share articles across instances while keeping the data centralized. You may be looking at an extension (or your own customization) regardless of which platform you pick.
We had a similar problem with needing to share content across multiple Joomla! sites so we developed this extension: http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/simple-sharing
It is not very robust in terms of what it can share but it does let you share Articles across multiple sites and choose which sites and categories those articles get published into. I hope it works for you.
Thanks!
We are trying to build a media sharing site. I want to use existing commercial or open source frameworks if they are available.
I saw some sites like:
http://www.phpmotion.com/
http://www.jamroom.net
http://www.clip-share.com/
http://www.videoscript.us
http://www.vidiscript.com/
http://www.alstrasoft.com/videoshare.htm
Are there any good open source (or) commercial packages that I am missing out? I want the media site to stream normal as well as HD content and integrate with a payment gateway when the user wants to view HD.
I am the primary developer of Jamroom (http://www.jamroom.net) - while Jamroom is a commercially licensed system, it is "open source" in the fact that we do not encrypt the PHP code in any way, and our license allows for full modifications to suit your needs.
Let me know if you have any questions and I can follow up. Thanks!
Brian
I will research your listed sites. i will come back with good one.
There is available one more [video sharing script: http://www.rayzz.net/index.php][1]