Month: June 2005

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New York Law School to Offer Certificate Law Practice Technology

New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy to Offer Certificate of Mastery in Law Practice Technology
“New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy is introducing a “Certificate of Mastery in Law Practice Technology”.Starting in the fall 2005 semester, students will be able to pursue this certificate, to be awarded as an honor upon graduation. Students receiving the certificate will have demonstrated mastery of particular technology skills –such as electronic litigation, online transactions, or courtroom technology–that will prepare them for law practice and distinguish them as especially qualified candidates for legal positions.

In order to receive the certificate, students complete a core curriculum in cyberlaw, intellectual property, and information law; attain at least four

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Clam AntiVirus Update

freshmeat.net: Project details for Clam AntiVirus
“This release introduces a number of bugfixes and cleanups. Possible descriptor leaks in archive unpackers and mishandling of fast track uuencoded files have been fixed in libclamav. Database reloading in clamav-milter has been improved.“

I’ve been waiting for this update:) We’ve been having issues with the db reload in clamav-milter, especially when under load from worm email.

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NYT Finds Blogging Via Cellphone…

Software Lets Bloggers Post via Cellphone – New York Times
“A handful of companies have begun offering software that allows people to read and write blogs on cellular phones. The concept, known in some circles as moblogging, lets bloggers take pictures, record sound and type in text while on the go.

This month, the Intercasting Corporation, which is based in San Diego, became the first mobile blog company to enter into a partnership with a major cellular phone provider, Verizon Wireless.“

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Tracking Down Folksonomies

Folksonomic Discovery
“Gataga will display its folksonomic search results as an RSS feed (just as Technorati does), which is very useful: you can subscribe to stay updated. But there are big missing pieces in this application. For one thing, it doesn’t include 43 Things and Flickr, off the beaten track of social bookmarking spanning web content, but far and away my favorites for fun and utility as self-tagging folksonomies.“

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WebObjects Now Free To Tiger Users

Slashdot | WebObjects Now Free With Tiger
“Macworld reports that has Apple released WebObjects as a free application. From $50,000 to free, the software used to build the iTunes Music Store and Dell’s original online store is now available for free to Tiger users via Xcode 2.1.” From the article: ” The software has historical importance to Apple-watchers: it was originally released in March 1996 – but not by Apple. In fact, WebObjects was developed by NeXT Computer and became Apple’s software only when that company acquired Steve Jobs’ second computer company later that year. While not software on the tip of every Mac users tongue, WebObjects sits behind several significant implementations – the most famous current example being Apple’s iTunes Music Store.“

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DittyBot: iTunes on Your Phone

Plastic Bugs – Home of the ‘Original’ GIMPshop » Blog Archive » DittyBot – An Applescript Adventure
“You send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email account. Your text message should contain the keywords of a song title (and possibly an artist name) that you want to hear. DittyBot finds that email (he checks Mail every 45 seconds) and copies the song name into a text file. The song name is then copied into iTunes and a playlist is created from your search. Next, DittyBot loads Skype (the internet telephony app) and begins calling your mobile phone. Your mobile phone rings and when you pick it up, you should hear your song start playing in all its compressed glory. “

Picked this up via MAKE blog. While it is all about using AppleScript for cool iTunes stuff, it does provide a bit of a road map on how we can get Classcaster to route around complex menuing issues. Following the Dittybot map, a student sends an email to a specific address including the name of a lecturette in the message. We grab this via POP, extract the info, locate the MP3 and then have Classcaster call the number associated with the from address and play the lecturette. Will require user registration, but it could be a cool feature.