Experiments in Musical Intelligence

Music composed by computer, made to match whatever human composer style is wanted. And it’s pretty good.

The software does musically-intelligent pattern matching. You can read an explanation and listen to various compositions.

This was written by David Cope, professor emeritus at UC Santa Cruz.

Clipboard Text Scrubber

A cool Windows tool is Clipboard Text Scrubber.

Do you copy/paste only to discover that waaaay too much font/size/formatting was carried with it? When all you really wanted was just the text? (Copying from web pages or Word docs to email is when it most happens to me.)

This tool transmogrifies the clipboard contents to remove any formatting, leaving just the text. It can be configured to happen automatically or on-demand.

It has some problems. When automatic scrubbing is enabled it can get into an infinite loop when remote desktop is involved. That’s why I leave it configured for on-demand.

It’s free, but donations are welcome.

http://www.binaryfortress.com/clipboard-text-scrubber/

Taskbar Shuffle for Windows

Finally!!! A glaring omission in Windows is fixed very elegantly with this add-on.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve cursed as I couldn’t rearrange the Windows taskbar buttons. (You can in IE, Firefox, … well everywhere else, actually.) Why Microsoft doesn’t support this type of obvious stuff is beyond me, but thank God someone has.

Every friend and coworker I’ve told about this has thanked me profusely, so tell your friends and bask in the undeserved glory.

It’s free, but I encourage supporting something as wonderful as this.

http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm