Thursday, June 05, 2003

Topicalla and Mozile: Mozilla In Front. Jon Udell has been writing lately about the bright outlook for Mozilla, including innovative new uses for the platform. Here's two outstanding examples: Topicalla and Mozile. Topicalla is a blisteringly innovative project from Neil Deakin, the guy behind XulPlanet. (Note: the Main Tutorial at XulPlanet is the best documentation I've ever seen, because Neil understands the concept of "finishing work".) Neil describes it as: "Topicalla allows one to view information using a UI that is generated based on the kind of data available."  [Zope Dispatches] 6:13:40 PM

bogofilter-stable bogofilter-0.13.6.1 released (bogofilter -- Fast Bayesian Spam Filter). Total project downloads to date: 10804 Project description: The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X. [Download] [Release Notes] By relson@users.sourceforge.net (David Relson). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 4:59:37 PM

DVD Master Backup 0.2.2 released (DVD Master Backup). Total project downloads to date: 57157 Project description: DVD Master Backup has been designed for the backup of your DVD movies by transforming the DVD format to the DIVX format and to fit it on a standard 700MB compact disc. [Download] [Release Notes] By bibi95@users.sourceforge.net (BiBi). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 4:54:28 PM

MARC::Record 1.29 released (MARC.pm). Total project downloads to date: 1841 Project description: MARC/Perl (formerly known as MARC.pm) is a project to develop Perl libraries to process MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) data. [Download] [Release Notes] By edsummers@users.sourceforge.net (Ed Summers). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] I am a library geek... 4:20:17 PM