Tuesday, October 07, 2003

BolinOS Installer 3.5.1 released (BolinOS). Total project downloads to date: 3858 Project description: BolinOS is a complete true-WYSIWYG modular web portal management system in PHP with plug-ins for image-collections, games, quiz, forums, forms, polls, webmail, search, agenda, banner, workflow, java-animations, user management, palm & cdrom creation,... [Download] [Release Notes] By jebi@users.sourceforge.net (Jérôme Billet). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 1:32:03 PM

GIMP goes SVG  GIMP goes SVG Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 07, @09:49AM from the whats-your-vector-victor dept. An anonymous reader writes "The GIMP developers released a new snapshot in the development series. Version 1.3.21 (aka the path to excellence release) features an improved path tool with superb path stroking and adds SVG support. You can now export your GIMP paths to SVG and the new SVG import plug-in not only renders Scalable Vector Graphics for you at the desired resolution, it also imports SVG paths as GIMP paths."  [Slashdot] 1:29:05 PM

nntp2rss 1.2 nntp2rss provides a bridge to access newsgroups using an RSS reader. It assembles the latest few articles' subjects of one newsgroup into one feed. Users can read any newsgroup with the same script as the group name is passed as a parameter. The feed can contain up to 25 articles (also a parameter), and there is the option to use Google Groups links to view groups and article texts. Feeds are compliant to RSS 0.91, 1.0, or 2.0, PIE/NECHO 0.1, or Unix mbox.  [freshmeat.net] 1:26:08 PM

Microsoft, Amazon partner on Web services. A software application allowing access to Amazon.com Inc. products and data without a Web browser while users are working in Microsoft Corp. Office System applications will be available for free download later this quarter, the companies said Tuesday. [InfoWorld: Top News] Most excellent.  This will be of considerable use.  Imagine being able to refer directly to a book in a Word doc with a link that includes information about the work.  Also a great aid to find sources, etc without going off to browse the web and getting sidetracked. 1:19:26 PM

FeedCreator 1.3  FeedCreator (formerly RSSCreator) is a PHP class that provides an easy way to create RSS feeds from within PHP. RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0, PIE/NECHO 0.1, and Unix mbox are supported. [freshmeat.net] 1:03:32 PM

spider 1.04 released (Mobilemaps). Total project downloads to date: 35 Project description: Mobilemaps is a Nearby Engine which allows users to find Web pages by location. Extremely fast and capable of scaling to any number of pages, it supports OpenGIS map-servers and uses MySQL, Perl and C. [Download] [Release Notes] By abrahap@users.sourceforge.net (Philip Abrahamson). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:09:05 AM

yala yala-0.28 released (Yet Another LDAP Administrator). Total project downloads to date: 1973 Project description: YALA is a web-based LDAP administration GUI. The idea is to simplify the directory administration with a graphical interface and neat features, though to stay a general-purpose directory manager. [Download] [Release Notes] By mar_garina@users.sourceforge.net (Oren Held). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:06:32 AM

netmrg netmrg-0.10 released (NetMRG). Total project downloads to date: 18 Project description: NetMRG is a package for network monitoring, reporting, and graphing. It uses RRDTOOL for graphing data, PHP for web-based configuration, and a C program for data gathering, with native SNMP support and the ability to accept data from custom scripts. [Download] [Release Notes] By balleman@users.sourceforge.net (Brady Alleman). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:04:58 AM