Monday, April 22, 2002

freshmeat.net: MyHeadlines 4.0.4:"MyHeadlines is module that adds syndicated headline functionality to any PHP and MySQL-based website. Your users may subscribe to multiple RSS feeds from a fully categorized database of over 1,000 sources. It was previously a PHPNuke/PostNuke Addon, but can now be integrated with any Web site." 11:33:52 PM

freshmeat.net: PHP 4.2.0:"This release contains over one hundred changes, bugfixes, and improvements. Among the highlights are experimental support for Apache 2, cleanups in variable handling, and the overhaul of various PHP components, including the domxml, POSIX, sockets, and iconv extensions." 10:57:57 PM

freshmeat.net: PHPortal 0.1.8 (Alpha):"PHPortal is a PHP application development environment similar to Zope. It is a pipeline or tunnel application that can help you quickly create dynamic Web applications such as portal and intranet sites. It comes with membership, search, news, and more. Its easy-to-use tools allow teams to productively and safely work together. It provides access to databases and other legacy data. Its support for Web standards such as SMTP, POP, FTP, and XML-RPC allows you flexibility and interoperability. It consists of a number of components which work together to provide a complete, yet flexible, application server package. It includes an XML-RPC server, an object-oriented database schema, a search engine, a database virtual file mapping system, a Web page templating system, a Web-based development and management tool, and comprehensive extension support. " 5:32:52 PM

"Google Outline Browser" [Daypop Top 40] 5:26:56 PM

freshmeat.net: phpMyAdmin 2.2.6:"This release fixes the inability to define and use wildcarded databases name for privileges, some Javascript bugs with textareas in Netscape, the relations feature with a blank in the key, wrong intervals being displayed in browse mode, and the inability to change field properties if the field name contained localized characters. It has better CSS, titles for images, and labels for check boxes and radio buttons. Some languages have been updated." 5:25:05 PM

freshmeat.net: SpamAssassin 2.20:"SpamAssassin is a mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam. Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering. It provides a command line tool to perform filtering, a client-server system to filter large volumes of mail, and Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of Perl modules that implement a Mail::Audit plugin -- allowing SpamAssassin to be used in a Mail::Audit filter, a spam-protection proxy POP/IMAP server, or almost anywhere. " 5:19:31 PM

ResearchBuzz found a semi-documented Google feature, searching by date.   [Scripting News] 9:49:05 AM

Windows XP nightmares - Software Reviews - CNET.com:"I can't start my system! For all I know, my Windows XP machine may be toast, but since I can't boot the computer, I'm in the dark. As a longtime Windows vet, I'm used to grabbing the boot disk I made, sticking it in the drive of a balky box, and rebooting the PC that way. But as far as I can tell, Windows XP won't boot from a floppy. Am I dreaming or what? " 6:14:36 AM