Monday, July 07, 2003

Desktop Sidebar 1.03 Build 39 Released Desktop Sidebar (formerly SidebarXP) is docked to the edge of the screen and displays not only your appointments, tasks and e-mails but also shows other useful information such as news downloaded from the Internet. It is integrated with Microsoft Outlook so you don't have to transfer your data to a new application. When are you using it you don't have to switch to Microsoft Outlook in order to check your schedule. Your schedule is always displayed on the screen and one look at Sidebar is enough. It displays information in separate panels. The user can freely arrange panels by adding, removing or moving and grouping together. [BetaNews.Com] 6:12:08 PM

FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 2A Released [BetaNews.Com] 4:05:37 PM

RealNetworks Opens SMIL Implementation  RealNetworks Opens SMIL Implementation Posted by Hemos on Monday July 07, @08:44AM from the releasing-the-code dept. Rob Lanphier writes "RealNetworks just released the source code to their SMIL 2.0 implementation (along with JPEG, GIF, PNG, and WBMP implementations) as part of the Helix Community initiative, under the OSI-approved RPSL. Some neat tricks to do with the code: superimpose images on top of video, or transition effects between videos, using standard W3C-defined markup. More tech details in the Helix community datatype project page, or look at the SMIL production topics page. A precompiled release with this code will be coming out very soon."  [Slashdot] 11:23:04 AM

HTML Utopia: Chapter 4: CSS Web Site Design, Pt. 3. The development of any Website begins with its design. In this and the following chapters, you'll move from tables to using CSS as your primary page layout tool and learn a new set of design principles. By Sitepoint. 0707 [WebReference News] 11:17:42 AM