Monday, May 03, 2004

Core CSS (2nd ed.) Core CSS (2nd ed.) Posted by timothy on Monday May 03, @03:06PM Simon P. Chappell writes "It used to be that a website could be standards compliant or it could be attractive and impressive to prospective customers, but it could almost never be both. Now with the rise of CSS compliant browsers, a new generation of web designers are finding that the old wisdom is ready to be retired. CSS technology allows a website to have both excellent, semantically indicated content and attractive layouts. Core CSS (2ed.) positions itself as a complete guide to all of this standards based goodness."  [Slashdot] 6:38:37 PM

paud 1.0.4 released (PAUD - Parted And Utilities Disk). Total project downloads to date: 12738 Project description: PAUD is a disk image that contains filesystem/system utilities, such as e2fsprogs, mc (midnight commander), parted, and more. PAUD is ideal for rescue/administration purposes and transferring files from one filesystem to another for windows users. [Download] [Release Notes] By nehalmistry@users.sourceforge.net (Nehal Mistry). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 6:25:00 PM

OASIS approves XML business documents specification. OASIS has approved Universal Business Language (UBL) 1.0 as a Committee Draft, meaning the XML business documents specification is ready for implementation in commercial and open source efforts. [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:23:45 PM

Blender 2.33. Blender is a fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, real-time interactive 3D, and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility. [freshmeat.net] 6:18:27 PM

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday May 03, @09:46AM from the stopping-spam-and-looking-good dept. KonijnenBunny writes "May 3rd sees the release of the 0.6 version of Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail and newsgroup client, featuring improved junk-mail controls and a new brand identity, including a new Firefox-style icon. I switched from some murky client which didn't exactly have a bright outlook regarding spam to Thunderbird a while back and was not dissapointed. Grab this latest version at Mozilla.org." Mac OS X users can also enjoy the new Pinstripe theme, which matches the previous theme of the same name applied to Firefox. [Slashdot] 1:50:28 PM

Wow, this is cool. The next release of Microsoft's OneNote will import OPML outlines. Very good. Of course it should export them too. [Scripting News] 1:41:32 PM

misterhouse 2.90 released (MisterHouse: Home Automation with Perl). Total project downloads to date: 118321 Project description: MisterHouse is a Windows/Unix home automation program written in Perl. It can respond to voice commands, web browsers, time of day, serial port and X10 data, external files, etc and can speak via Text to Speech engines. [Download] [Release Notes] By winter@users.sourceforge.net (Bruce Winter). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:07:56 AM

It's the Data, Stupid. I finally have a personal content management system that lets me access the data, even when the software isn't running. Read on for details. [O'Reilly Weblogs] A tantalizing peek into managing your data but a bit soft on details.  I get that structured text is the best idea, but processing it all is an issue that is not easily overcome by non-teknoid.  How would your average law faculty or student deal with this? 8:28:55 AM