Wednesday 21 March 2007

Version 0.2

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A fame calibrator using YahooSearch written in pyqt.

Find out who is more famous and quantify their relationship in numerical terms.

Just enter two names or concepts and the program will quantify their fame and their degree of relatedness. It will also download random images associated with the query.

Some interesting queries:

Paris Hilton Vs Madonna
The Beatles Vs Rolling Stones
Luck Vs Destiny
Love Vs Sex
Marilyn Monroe Vs Arthur Miller
Quentin Tarantino Vs Uma Thurman
Marlon Brando Vs James Dean

... Have Fun!

INSTALLATION (very esasy):

Unpack, cd to kalibrator directory and run in terminal "python kalibrator.py" or "./kalibrator.py" if you turned the archive into executable.

It requires the pyqt module (if you installed Amarok you already have it).

HISTORY:

0.2

Image download.
Redesign.

0.1

Restricted release.



TO DOs:

- Support for triangular relationships.
- Pull news feeds.
- Keywords defining the relationship (semantic anaylsis).

KNOWN BUGS:

- Quotemarks are not accepted.
- Does not support accented characters.
- Sometimes downloading the imades times out because the source is too slow or messed up. Progress dialogs should be albe to stop the query most of the time. It can hangup from time to time.
- Images are not 100% adult-free. The yahoo filter is not perfect :)

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Friday 9 March 2007

Release 0.1

Version 0.1 released.

Kalibrator.tar
Kalibrator.tar.gz
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A fame calibrator based on the Yahoo Search api written in python+qt for Linux.

Find out who is more famous and quantify their relationship in numerical terms.

Just enter two names or concepts and the program will quantify their fame and their degree of relation. Some interesting queries:

"Paris Hilton" Vs Madonna
"The Beatles" Vs "Rolling Stones"
Luck Vs Destiny
Love Vs Sex
"Marilyn Monroe" Vs "Arthur Miller"
"Quentin Tarantino" Vs "Uma Thurman"

... Have Fun!

Use "" if you use more than one word.

INSTALLATION:

Unpack, cd to Kalibrator directory and run in terminal "python kalibrator.py" or "./kalibrator.py" if you turned the archive into executable.

It requires the pyqt module (if you installed Amarok you already have it).

TO DOs for future versions:

- Support for triangular relationships.
- Icon display.
- Pull RSS news feeds.
- Keywords defining the relationship.

Kalibrator.tar
Kalibrator.tar.gz
Click to Download