Sunday, June 27, 2004

Chronicle Lite 1.3.002. Chronicle Lite provides a friendly blogging client application to servers like Blogger.com, blojsom, and Nucleus CMS. It also aims to satisfy the needs of "power users" who want a local copy of their journal, as well as the copy that is published on an external Web site. [freshmeat.net] 10:47:50 AM    comment []  trackback []

The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet Posted by michael on Sunday June 27, @06:05AM from the looks-like-rain dept. An anonymous reader writes "The National Weather Service wants to update a 1991 policy that limits what data it can put on the Internet. The proposed new policy makes putting free data on the Internet official. The Private Weather Sector wants NWS to provide its new digital forecasts only in specialized data formats and would like NWS to shut down new XML data feeds. Barry Myers (MS Word doc), president of Accuweather wants you to have pay before using Kweather and other similar tools. Myers is asking friends to comment against the new NWS policy by June 30. Should we have to pay twice to get weather forecasts?"  [Slashdot] 10:41:13 AM    comment []  trackback []

Mnemo 1.1.2. Mnemo Note Manager is the Horde notes/memos application. It provides Web-based notes and freeform text in a way similar to the PalmOS Note application and shared notepads. It requires the Horde Application Framework and a SQL database for backend storage. [freshmeat.net] 10:23:27 AM    comment []  trackback []