Friday, April 30, 2004

DCP-Portal 6.1 (Final). DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc. Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more. [freshmeat.net] 9:09:58 PM

Microsoft's Live Meeting Connects with Lotus Notes. Microsoft offers an addition for Lotus Notes users to schedule and launch Office Live Meeting 2003 Web conferences from within the groupware client. [eWEEK Technology News] 9:07:09 PM

phpsysinfo 2.2rc1 released (PHP SysInfo). Total project downloads to date: 195598 Project description: PHPSysInfo is a customizable PHP Script that parses /proc, and formats information nicely. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, PCI devices, SCSI devices, IDE devices, Network adapters, Disk usage, and more. [Download] [Release Notes] By webbie@users.sourceforge.net (webbie). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:00:23 PM

Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec Posted by michael on Friday April 30, @01:50PM from the knowing-is-half-the-battle dept. NickFitz writes "Need To Know this week has a piece about Dirac, a BBC R&D project to produce a video codec, which has been released as an Open Source project. From BBCi: 'Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (180x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced... Our algorithm seems to give a two-fold reduction in bit rate over MPEG-2 for high definition video (e.g. 1920x1080 pixels), its original target application. It has been further developed to optimise it for internet streaming resolutions.'" [Slashdot] 3:45:46 PM

rox 2.1.2 released (ROX Desktop). Total project downloads to date: 190122 Project description: The ROX Desktop is a desktop based around ROX-Filer - a powerful file manager. [Download] [Release Notes] By tal197@users.sourceforge.net (Thomas Leonard). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 2:24:30 PM

PHPGeek Utilities 0.1 PHPGeek Utilities is a set of utility scripts for building regular expressions, debugging form submissions, modifying strings, etc., all aimed at making life easier for PHP developers.  [freshmeat.net] 1:56:03 PM

WebCit 5.10. WebCit is a Web-based front end to the Citadel/UX BBS package, an attractive Web middleware system that allows user-friendly access to the most powerful and flexible open-source BBS available today. By combining WebCit and Citadel/UX, you can have a versatile BBS/groupware environment with many users concurrently accessing the same system using the user interface of their choice (text, Web, or downloaded client software). [freshmeat.net] 1:38:21 PM

A Roadmap to Standards. This afternoon I was asked by a friend what I would recommend to an old designer who wants to learn more about web standards, CSS, XML, and XHTML. This is a perfect example of when an email response is better... [Dave Shea's mezzoblue] 1:30:53 PM

WordPress Home:"WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. " 11:25:39 AM

openmcu 2.0.4 released (OpenH323). Total project downloads to date: 14027 Project description: The OpenH323 project provides full featured, interoperable, Open Source implementation of the ITU H.323 teleconferencing protocol that can be used by personal developers and commercial users without charge. [Download] [Release Notes] By csoutheren@users.sourceforge.net (Craig Southeren). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:26:27 AM

adqt 1.0. adqt is a GUI database query tool that lets users specify the data to display based on a few mouse clicks. Users can drill down through the data and print a report at any time. It is a query only tool and does not require the user to know the structure of the data or SQL. [freshmeat.net] 9:24:46 AM

New features in JDK 1.5. Version 1.5 of Sun Microsystems' Java Development Kit (JDK) is set to be released this summer and promises a list of features to ease the development of your Java applications. In this article we'll introduce you to many of the new features and provide code samples, so you can hit the ground running when the final release becomes available. [NewsForge] 8:37:38 AM

XP Users Cop a Feel of OS X. What's better than a nice new Mac running OS X? For some people, it's a cheap Windows XP box hacked and tweaked to look just like an OS X machine. For a lot of XP users, converting PCs into faux Macs is a consuming pastime. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 6:40:06 AM