Monday, March 25, 2002

From The Shifted Librarian: How to Display Which RSS Feeds You're Subscribed to Written for Radio 8 using the Transmitter template, although you should be able to adapt it to other templates as well. You should also be able to add almost any Javascript code using this same process. Send me your comments and suggestions for improving it! Note: these instructions are courtesy of Jon Udell! Don't forget to drop him a note of thanks. You can read more about why he did this here. 10:51:03 PM

XtremWeb 1.0.4 XtremWeb is a research project belonging to lightweight GRID systems. It is a software platform to explore scientific issues and applications of Global Computing and Peer to Peer distributed systems, and allows you to setup and run Distributed System projects. [freshmeat.net] What if we lashed all of the spare CPU cycles available in law schools together to locate and index legal material on the web? 10:40:47 PM

Registry hack turns XP Pro into server, vice versa. Update of old NT gag unleashed [The Register] A routine currently circulating on the web reawakens the old controversy over how different the workstation and server versions actually are. NTSwitch, apparently produced by Hungarian outfit 3am Labs, is claimed to allow various versions of Microsoft workstation operating systems to be turned into server versions, and vice versa. This one's for Dan.  Hi. Dan. 10:35:51 PM

Consuming Multiple Web Services. Web service functions needn't be lonely; in fact, they often work best when offered in groups. Find out how to utilize multiple Internet Explorer Web services within the same HTML page with the latest installment of Doc's Web services series. By Yehuda Shiran and Tomer Shiran. 0325 [WebReference News] 10:31:17 PM

phpMerlin 1.1 phpMerlin is a PHP script that is used to create DHTML drop-down menus. It has a small codebase and provides many features for a custom look. It does not require any sort of database and can be set up in minutes. [freshmeat.net] 'Cause I love menus.  This one looks good, but maybe limited in how it's configured. 10:26:42 PM

EasyMailings 0.1.2 EasyMailings reads in an ASCII text file of addresses and outputs mailing labels in Adobe's Portable Document Format. The labels are sorted according to U.S. Postal Service regulations, that is, by tray and then package. It prints a header at the start of each tray and package, which greatly simplifies the mailing party. It can print bar-coded labels (both address and tray). It has no GUI and requires somewhat laborious printer calibration.  [freshmeat.net] 10:21:24 PM

Children's Desktop & Browser 1.5 RC 1 Released [BetaNews.Com] Control what your kids on the PC and the Internet, including what sites they visit.  How long will it take my 5 year-old to hack around it. 10:19:04 PM

This Radio site is noteworthy because it's the first to flow through Phillip Pearson's Python clone of Radio Community Server.  [Scripting News] 10:11:01 PM

Brent Simmons explains MySQL in terms that make sense to Frontier users. Mark Paschal adds: "In doing so, he also explains Frontier (as a database environment) to MySQL users."  [Scripting News] This is the sort of cross-pollination that I like.  People thinkging about how things work and how they can work together. 10:02:23 PM

LinuxWorld: How to Get Started Editing Video & Audio with Linux  "Originally, the plan called for record the readings using my Sony TRV36 Handycam, then use a pair of VCR's to do the editing. An ordinary home video project. One of the obstacles to executing that plan has been the fact that I don't have two VCRs. A recent story (see Resources for a link) about video editing on Linux, however, has me re-thinking the project. The question that had me going 'think, think, think' was whether or not I could toss the VCR editing solution and do the assembly and editing on my Linux desktop..." [Linux Today] 9:58:45 PM