Perfect Low-Carb Chocolate Ice Cream 24 Jul 2013 | 12:27 am

This perfectly indulgent ice cream is so good you’ll never buy Jen and Barry’s again! You need to start the day before you make it. Letting the base sit in the fridge overnight is a must. The recipe w...

Carl's File Uploader - A nice little file uploader for HTML/JS/JQuery/WebAPI 20 Jun 2013 | 09:19 pm

Carl's File Uploader is available at http://franklins.net/CarlsFileUploader_1.1.zip Carl's File Uploader is a browser based asynchronous file uploader with progress reporting and auto-resume. It r...

I just finished mastering the Good Sponge Sampler Vol 2. Great original music from New London, CT 2 Feb 2013 | 02:54 am

Take steps to avoid an “echoey” room. Build a $30 sound baffle! 18 Jan 2013 | 12:14 am

Watch this video on how a guy created a vocal area in his bedroom $30 worth of stuff you can get online and at your neighborhood store (cheap Uhaul moving blankets and some hanging hooks). You can REA...

ROAD TRIP JOURNAL #2 29 Sep 2012 | 11:07 pm

I think we were driving through Iowa. I was working at the table in the back of the RV and I hear Richard say "Holy Crap! That was the biggest turbine blade I've ever seen!" I immediately look out the...

Automatically Adjust Input Gain During Speech Recognition 13 Jun 2012 | 08:09 pm

When we use speech recognition on our Windows 7 machine, the last thing most of us think about is the record level of our microphone. If it's too low, recognition will not be accurate because the syst...

Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking (Kinect For Windows) 1 May 2012 | 11:30 am

The Kinect For Windows SDK v1.0 is awesome, but it doesn't recover well when it loses sight of you whilst tracking your skeleton. With a timer control and a little code to restart the KinectSensor, yo...

Getting Started with Kinect For Windows in Visual Studio .NET 15 Mar 2012 | 07:51 am

If you haven't heard, Microsoft has released a new version of the Kinect that's just for Windows applications, along with a new Software Development Kit so .NET developers can write apps for Windows t...

Acoustic Addicts Pilot - A Little More Depth 29 Feb 2012 | 12:23 pm

Now that we've ah ... got your attention with the very well-received Acoustic Addicts pilot episode, we'd like to dig a little deeper into spectral analysis, in higher resulotion than we could provide...

Same guy. New blog. 5 Feb 2012 | 05:35 am

I like to think of myself as an intellectual hedonist, and as far as physical hedonism is concerned, I call myself a responsible hedonist. I enjoy life, try to avoid stress, and get my share of fun, b...