Projects
This year has shown to be a busy year for Celerus. Among our many products and services in
development are StamWriter™, StamReader™, VirtualTorah™, DiaperFund.org™,
and SuperFetch™.
StamWriter is a modern replacement for standard UTF-8 Unicode
encoding when targeting a small subset of Unicode characters. This
project began out of the need to transfer a large amount of Hebrew
characters across a network and to reduce the file size from over 800 KB
to under 75 KB to avoid trapping the text in .NET's large object heap.
The solution to these problems was to map the most common words, roots,
and letters to single bytes, which reduced the original file size to
well under 75 KB. StamReader™ is a freeware application that interprets
the raw bytes into their equivalent UTF-8 strings of text. This project has since been
expanded to compress any Unicode document to about 1/10th of its
original size, and is now known as X-Compress.
VirtualTorah is the world's first complete vector graphic Torah built
with Silverlight and ASP.NET. Unlike its predecessors, which use
poorly rasterized images of sections of the Torah, VirtualTorah is fully
scalable to the screen size of the user. It allows the bar or bat
mitzvah student to study their Torah portion complete with audio and tikkun, just as they would in the synagogue. We are currently
developing an iPhone and iPad version of this software to be released at year's end.
Our newest project is DiaperFund.org™, which will launch at the end of September. DiaperFund
is an organization that distributes free diapers to moms and expectant
mothers to help ease the cost of raising a child.
SuperFetch is a graphical search engine, which can recognize, index,
and translate the objects and qualities of any image into qualified
strings, which can then be searched just like any text on the web.
The new home for this engine will be SuperFetch.org coming this
December.