Friday, May 14, 2004

TVT RSS TVT RSS-1.2 released (TVT RSS Linux Client). Total project downloads to date: 5 Project description: The TVT RSS Linux Client fetches RSS feed into Gtk2 GUI and lets user download torrents and optionaly launch their favorite BitTorrent client. Requires Gtk2-Perl and XML::RSS::Parser. [Download] [Release Notes] By zyplocc@users.sourceforge.net (Jason Swan). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 11:42:54 AM    comment []  trackback []

Meeting Room Booking System 1.2-pre3 release candidate. Multiple site meeting room bookings. [freshmeat.net] 11:12:15 AM    comment []  trackback []

Yahoo takes on Google with extra mail storage. Not to be outdone by Google Inc.'s recent bold e-mail offering, Yahoo Inc. said that it plans to dramatically raise the storage limit given to its free e-mail users while at the same time bumping its premium subscribers up to a "virtually unlimited" capacity. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:50:35 AM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft adds toolkit to open-source list. Microsoft Corp. this week released its Windows Template Library (WTL) technology under an open-source license, marking the second time the company has turned one of its projects over to the SourceForge.net development site. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:46:51 AM    comment []  trackback []

MySQL Backup Pro 1.0.6-4. MySQL Backup Pro provides backup and restore services for MySQL databases. It provides a friendly tab-based user interface that lets users create backups of given MySQL databases to files, list previously generated backups, restore a given backup, and delete backup files. [freshmeat.net] 8:31:36 AM    comment []  trackback []