Monday, August 25, 2003

The BBC's digitally televised revolution. By digitizing its huge archive of programs and making some shows available free on the Net, the BBC hopes to help usher in a second, public-minded phase of the digital revolution. [CNET News.com] 5:20:31 PM

AOL launches blogging service. America Online launches a new feature called AOL Journals in an effort to piggyback on the grassroots popularity of Web logs, or "blogs." [CNET News.com] AOL launched this today.  It has been in testing for weeks.  This will certainly bring change to the blogsphere. 2:12:27 PM

HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 24, @11:41AM from the build-your-own-pvr dept. -tji writes "A new company, www.pchdtv.com, has just released the first digital TV receiver card for Linux. Along with the Linux drivers, they have also modified xine to support HD playback and add XvMC support for MPEG2 hardware acceleration with some video cards. This has great potential for integration into PVR apps, like freevo and mythtv. There is also another project to reverse engineer drivers for the Teralogic TL880 based DTV cards. The one active developer has done a great job, but could use some help."  [Slashdot] And it's only $189!!  Bad news: doesn't work with cable or satellite, only terrestial signal (that is, over the air). 2:05:42 PM

The MusicKit and SndKit 5.4.3 The MusicKit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing, and MIDI applications. The distribution is a comprehensive package that includes on-line documentation, programming examples, utilities, applications and sample score documents [freshmeat.net] 1:56:40 PM

A new feature on the Harvard weblog server. When someone posts a comment on your weblog, your notification list receives an email containing information about the comment. Previously this feature was only available for discussion group posts, not comments. [Scripting News] 1:40:03 PM

Macromedia Extends MX Line of Tools. The company Monday announced new versions of Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Fireworks MX, Macromedia Studio MX and a new product known as Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004. [eWEEK Technology News] 1:31:48 PM

PHP 4.3.3 released!. The PHP developers are proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.3.3. This release contains a large number of bug fixes and we strongly recommend that all users of PHP upgrade to this version. Full list of fixes can be found in the NEWS file. [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor] 1:30:01 PM