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This article was written on November 12, 2010 by CyberNet.

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I’m sure we’ve all come across some text we had to work with where you had to sit there removing extra line-breaks, removing duplicate lines, and other mundane tasks. I’ve seen a lot of this happen when getting poorly formatted emails that you have to turn into something halfway readable, but there are other scenarios that can be troublesome as well. Maybe you’re trying to put together a text-based version of your resumé (typically a DOC to text conversion), or even tried copying a bunch of text from a PDF file that didn’t end up transferring over very well.

CleanHaven is the free cross-platform solution. It’s not going to be a miracle worker, but I’ve come across several instances where this has saved me a surprising amount of time. I’ve even used it for copying over some Excel columns, performing a few operations on the data to make it look nice, and then copied it back over into the spreadsheet. Here are some of the different conversions/operations you can perform on any text you put into CleanHaven:

• Case: Title Case, Sentence Case, UPPERCASE, lowercase, random case, curly quotes
• Sort order: ascending, case-sensitive, descending, random, reverse, numerical value
• Duplicates: remove, only duplicates, only unique
• Remove characters: excess returns, excess spaces, linefeeds, linefeeds to returns, non-ASCII, non-letters, non-numbers, periods, punctuation, returns, returns to linefeeds, spaces, tabs
• Personal: combine columns, combine paragraphs, email address to web URL, full name to first/last name, phone number format, salutation, UK postcodes
• Info: only correctly-spelled words, only incorrectly-spelled words, original-spelling and result, ASCII, overall text information, value and frequency
• Find and Replace text

Or maybe the nerd in you is trying to shine through, and you just want to see what the most frequent words are that you’ve used. Go to the Settings tab and choose the Clean By -> Word option. Then switch back to the Convert tab, check the Info box, and from the drop-down select Frequency. When you click the Clean button you should see the most frequently used words in the text you provided (as seen in the screenshot to the right). Kinda cool.

The app is free, and once you get used to all the functionality I’m sure there are even more uses you’ll find for it.

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The path to availability for cars of the future is one wrought with roadblocks, potholes, and indeed IEDs — increasingly expensive developments. This was most recently seen with Fisker’s Karma getting a price boost up to $95,900, a hefty jump over initial $80,000 estimates, but Tesla is taking this chance to give new reassurances that its Model S sedan’s price of $57,000 is comfortable. That’s largely thanks to smaller Li-Ion batteries, which are similar to those used in laptops and, according to Musk, will be swappable as a single unit. This type of batteries are much less expensive to produce than the large, monolithic packs used in the Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt, about $200 per kWH vs. $750 for Nissan’s. That’s cheap enough for Tesla to assure that it can still make a profit on the Model S, despite its cost being set at roughly half that of the Roadster. Will that still be the case when it hits production in 2012? We can’t wait to find out.

Update: Defendor commented with a link to this CNET article in which Elon Musk indicates the battery pack will be swappable too. The post was updated to mention this.

Tesla assures $57k Model S will be profitable, sexy looking too originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As you’re no doubt aware, some of the precious metals used in consumer electronics — like palladium — can be both pricey and hard to come by, which has prompted some to harvest the materials from old electronics and reuse them, while others have been busily working on more readily available alternatives. Among that latter group are a team of researchers from Japan’s Kyoto University, who have just announced that they’ve managed to create a palladium-like alloy using what’s being described as “present-day alchemy.” More specifically, they used nanotechnology to combine (and “nebulise”) rhodium and silver, which don’t ordinarily mix, into the new composite, which they say could eventually replace the real thing in a whole range of electronics and other products. Unfortunately, it’s not clear when that might happen, but the researchers aren’t just stopping at palladium — they’re apparently already looking at using a similar process to create other alloys.

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Japanese researchers create palladium-like alloy using nanotechnology, ‘present-day alchemy’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The idea of waiting around for hours for your EV to recharge is soon to become a thing of the past — or rather it already is in Japan, where the CHAdeMO-style chargers are enabling cars like the Nissan Leaf to get to 80 percent battery capacity in just 30 minutes. Now they’re properly starting their US invasion. The first assault came in Portland a few months back, with 310 more stations lining up for deployment in Arizona, California, Texas, Tennessee, Oregon, and elsewhere in Washington according to Yomiuri. The move will cost about $230 million total, though there’s no word on whether they’ll be publically available like the one in Portland is. CHAdeMO, which is a play on the Japanese “O cha demo ikaga desuka” (“let’s have tea while charging”), works by handling the AC to DC conversion externally and providing power at up to 500VDC and 125 Amps, much higher than on-board AC/DC converters can handle. This drives down recharging time massively — even if you don’t like tea.

CHAdeMO EV quick-chargers to get wider tests across US, 80% capacity in 30 mins or less originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Meet Charles: the robotic GPS system that can tell when you’ve got road rage. Yes, he’s a tad scary looking, but according to the Cambridge professor who created him, you won’t feel like throwing him out the window when you’re frustrated. The disembodied satnav robot (head and torso only), which sits in the passengers seat, is designed to respond to a driver’s emotional cues, like facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice. Charles takes this information and responds accordingly, providing sympathetic phrases when he senses frustration. Researchers say the robot is about 70 percent accurate at detecting emotion, or about as accurate as any human. We say a backseat driver that can’t hit back is 100 percent awesome.

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Cambridge professor creates creepy, emotion-sensing GPS system originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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