Monday, December 08, 2003

Paper Chase introduces MP3 audio. * Download this post for playback in MP3 audio ; listen to the streaming version hereAs a pilot project over the law school exam period, JURIST's Paper Chase is offering certain posts in MP3 audio format, presented by LANGDELL, our resident text-to-speech [JURIST's Paper Chase] Well now, ain't that a kick.  This is a cool application of text to speech tech.  Now how about sending the MP3s as enclosures.   11:46:32 PM

Yahoo preps spam-blocking tech. Yahoo is working on a software package for open-source mail servers that will require authentication before e-mail will be accepted. [Ars Technica] 11:35:24 PM

Jan Storms: ACID-data management to Frontier apps. Jan Storms has released an alpha version of a new transaction application for Frontier. to prevent conflicts between threaded read/write operations on the same database objects; to provide a mechanism to ensure aborted write operations do not invalidate data structures. [UserLand Product News] 3:51:02 PM

Edesk v1.7 Edesk v1.7 Upgrade released (EDesk). Total project downloads to date: 155 Project description: EDesk is a web-based program that let's you create, manage, and distribute portfolios, lesson plans, presentations, study guides, and more. [Download] [Release Notes] By edesk@users.sourceforge.net (Coy Ison). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] Looks interesting but appears to only run in the windows environment. 3:38:50 PM

Macromedia Flash MX - Using a Macromedia Flash MX quiz template:"This tutorial allows you to use a Macromedia Flash MX quiz template to create a movie with the following six interaction types: True or False Fill in the Blank Multiple Choice Drag and Drop Hot Object Hot Spot The quiz templates included in Macromedia Flash MX handle cumulative scoring and are compliant with standards set forth by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC) and the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)." 11:46:34 AM

MediaWiki 1.1.0 MediaWiki is a Web-based collaborative editing environment originally built for the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia. It's geared to support a large number of users and pages. It requires PHP and MySQL.  [freshmeat.net] 11:16:50 AM

Guitar Tuner 0.1 Guitar Tuner is a small Java application, which allows the user to tune their guitar with the aid of their computer. [freshmeat.net] 9:14:57 AM

Localfeeds. I just discovered Localfeeds, a search engine for feeds where the searches are based on geographic location. This seemed interesting enough, so I typed in my ZIP (10001) and was shown the most recent blogs within 50 miles of 10001 (New York City). Sure enough, there are a lot of people talking about the big snow storm we're having here. Neat. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs] 8:57:50 AM

With Little Fanfare, MS Posts Remaining Schemas. Last month, Microsoft promised to post its Excel 2003 and InfoPath 2003 schemas on December 5. And today, December 5, the company made available for download the appropriate info. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 8:43:43 AM

Flash for Linux alpha.0.1 Flash for Linux is an SWF editor, similar to Macromedia Flash.  [freshmeat.net] 8:30:00 AM