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Silas S. Brown, partially-sighted computer scientist
Academic Publications
Advantages of dark backgrounds on computer displays
Algorithmic Composition and Reductionist Analysis
Android viewer app for static HTML
Anemone DAISY maker
Annotator Generator
Apology to Chinese recruiters (Chinese + English)
Bolo Adventures "walk-through"
C Vu articles
Cambridge to London avoiding large stations
Cat scarers becoming audible
CD recommendations & track listings
CedPane: Chinese-English Dictionary Public-domain Additions for Names Etc
Charlearn, a program for learning to recognise foreign characters
Chess FEN codes for handicapped games
Chinese mistakes in commercial speech synthesizers
Chinese music and CUCOS
Civica UK is wrong about middle names
Clara Empricost
Clara Empricost: How it Works
Clara Empricost: Installation Instructions
Common problems adding pinyin to Chinese names
Compositions
Connecting to a Psion PDA
Consciousness and blindsight
Converting imp/kWh to watts
Coping with exam stress: unofficial guide (Chinese + English)
Coping with exam stress: unofficial guide (Traditional Chinese + English)
Cortical visual impairment
Current-transformer "energy monitors"
Curved quotes on Wattpad
Director Musices with Lilypond ``Howto''
Eating at other Cambridge colleges
Elgar Op.74 scanned score and notes (1914 setting of Ps29)
Emacs and XEmacs configuration
Energy deals coherence checker
English phrases for tourists
Eulerian paths around polygons
Flute chords and other fingerings
Four-dimensional markup language (4DML)
Four-dimensional markup language (4DML) download page
Getty Images copied my words
Google Maps "Share" link simplifier
Gopher protocol considered inferior
Gradint, a program for self-study of foreign languages
Gradint (page in Full-form Chinese)
Gradint (page in Simplified Chinese)
Heating a flat: vegetable-oil candles or oil-filled radiators?
Hedgehog magnifier
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound on the NHS
Home page in Full-form Chinese
Home page in Simplified Chinese
homenet.org is down
How NOT to marry a foreign national (UK visa experience)
How the Cambridge Student-Run Computing Facility (SRCF) started
How the M3GAN franchise appeals to youths with unusual conditions
How to deal with "rate us" boxes on mobile apps
How to just about survive in Android OS
How to use Economy 7 effectively
How to work around Zoom's no-audio bug
I am not Sina Weibo's silascambridge: theft of a virtual identity (Chinese + En…
If We Only Understood poem + Chinese translations
ImapFix: a filter/fixer for IMAP mailboxes
Instructions for F95B fan
Introducing OOP in a Python game 2 (Chinese + English)
Introducing OOP in a Python game (Chinese + English)
Ipsos Mori Internet devices
Is gradint-wrapper.exe a virus?
Is the PH Corpus really public domain?
Is WeChat's "cleaver" a death threat?
Jianpu in Lilypond
Large print in Wayland
Large-print notes on EPOC or Symbian
"Legal name fraud" nothing to worry about
lexconvert: a converter between the lexicon formats of different speech synthes…
Lighting notes
Lighting: spiral CFLs in tight fixtures
LINE limitations
List of vaguely-usable old Windows Mobile phones
Loophole in Microsoft YaHei font license?
Low-vision configuration for terminal applications
Low-vision X11 configuration
Mac magnification setup
Mac MIDI player utility
Magnetic field physics: is your phone charger really killing you?
Manually removing Windows "adware" with race conditions
Manuscript Writer home page
MIDI Beeper (and RISC OS Maestro / BBC Micro converter)
Minmin's reply to Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem
Mobile-phone contract checklist
Mortgaging versus renting
Notes on video conversion with mencoder
Offline HTML Indexer
Offline package installation for Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions
Old CUCCS (CUCUS) website
(Old) Netgear VMDG280 command-line control scripts
Old notes: Adding Chinese web pages to Baidu
Old notes: Desktop SSH via Android devices
Old notes: FreeType in low resolution
Old notes: iPhone UK billing and messaging issues with Virgin and Vectone (with…
Old notes: Raspberry Pi Zero W projector controller
Old notes: Using weibo.com's S60 client
Old notes: VNC with inverted colours
Old notes: Windows Mobile email setup
Old notes: X11 hardware magnification
Old notes: X11 software magnification: last resort
OpenID with command-line authorisation
Openreach broadband providers
Pen-sized digital voice recorders
People misread emotions 30% to 50% of the time
Pinyin Web & EPUB and related apps
Polipo2: a caching Web proxy forked from Polipo
Preparing enlarged lesson notes with Unix tools
Primer Pooler (multiplex PCR)
Python utilities for S60 phones
Removing Android "Clean Master" malware
RISC OS and low vision
River Snow translation
Satellite navigation devices that work with GNU/Linux or Mac
Screenshotting Chinese Web documents for WeChat
Shower-head water filter tested
Silas S. Brown's home page
Simplifying Unicode punctuation for SMS
Software patents and mental health
Solving Micropower Chess (1982)
Sound-recorder applications on Android OS
Spaced-out audio tracks with cdrdao
Spare processor cycles
Spotify's numerous "radio" channels
Stylesheets for low vision
TermLayout: flexible tabulation on Unix terminals
The AI Misnomer (Chinese + English)
The "go and argue with THEM" fallacy
The Raven annotated for Chinese readers
The Telegram Borrowers (Chinese + English)
Time and item counter
Toothpastes suitable for an electric brush
Trademarks mentioned on my website
Transcript of Bilibili video to encourage Chinese with disabilities (Chinese + …
Twitter on a 1982 BBC Micro
Typescript player for HTML5
UK citizenship application and referee requirements
UK passport application questions
Unclarity in WhatsApp's new Terms
Undergraduate Project Dissertation (A Representation and Conversion System for …
Undergraduate project dissertation: errata
Understanding rejection on WeChat (Weixin)
Upgrading old Windows to GNU/Linux
UPnP router command-line control scripts
URL encoder for mobile chat
Useless metrics
Using Microsoft Windows with low vision
Volume settings for unpowered speakers
Warning about gradually increasing white noise at night
Web Access Gateway: Chinese entry page
Web Access Gateway: GIF Patent Problems and the Language Viewer
Web Access Gateway home page
Web Access Gateway: Japanese entry page
Web Access Gateway: Korean entry page
Web Access Gateway: Online Help
Web Adjuster (domain-rewriting Web customiser)
Web design advice
Web statistics services can be harmful: anatomy of a shady advertising network
WebCheck: monitor text strings on websites
WeChat (Weixin) limitations
Wenlin improvements
"White noise", silent and other MIDI ringtones
Why animated flip boxes are not always good
Why I admit to being prejudiced (Chinese + English)
Why I unsubscribe from MailChimp
Why I'm not a lecturer (Chinese + English)
Why Wi-Fi routers should be left switched on
Windows Mobile 6.1 setup notes
X11 low-resolution scrollable desktop
X11: Using large print when in high resolution (via DPI)
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem NOT about Lin Huiyin (Chinese + English)
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation (Full-form characters)
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation (version with notes in F…
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation (version with notes in S…
