Thursday, September 04, 2003

Windows Media Center 1.5 Due End of September. Testers hint update will look less like XP and more like an entertainment-hub operating system. [eWEEK Technology News] 3:57:12 PM

Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning:"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy." 3:55:53 PM

bluefish 0.11 released (Bluefish). Total project downloads to date: 2372 Project description: Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. [Download] [Release Notes] By oli4@users.sourceforge.net (Olivier Sessink). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:09:39 AM

freemind 0.6.5 released (FreeMind). Total project downloads to date: 41073 Project description: A mindmapping tool and an intuitive editor for tree structured data. The data is represented as a Mind Map. Future versions may contain backends for XML, Topic Maps, Directory structures, Databases, etc. [Download] [Release Notes] By danielpolansky@users.sourceforge.net (Daniel Polansky). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:07:40 AM

Will Richardson: Manila Procedures Manual. [Scripting News] 9:04:57 AM

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released Posted by simoniker on Wednesday September 03, @09:38PM from the thunderbird-is-go dept. An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 is out! For those who haven't heard about it yet, Mozilla Thunderbird is mozilla.org's new standalone mail client and sister product to Mozilla Firebird. According to MozillaZine's article on the release, new features include 'a redesigned Options dialogue, spell checker improvements, enhancements to the default theme and better performance and stability'. More information can be found at the Mozilla Thunderbird Project Page and in the release notes (which include the important information that a clean install is vital). Builds are available for Windows (7.3Mb), Mac OS (11.1Mb) and Linux (9.5Mb) or you can download the source (29.1Mb) and build it yourself for extra geek points."  [Slashdot] 9:03:21 AM

spambayes 1.0a5 released (SpamBayes anti-spam). Total project downloads to date: 22975 Project description: Bayesian anti-spam classifier written in Python. [Download] [Release Notes] By richiehindle@users.sourceforge.net (Richie Hindle). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 8:57:14 AM