NASA World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.
Wikibooks Trys For Electronic Texbooks
There is an entry for Contract Law.
Wikibooks takes on textbook industry | CNET News.com
Today, Wikibooks contains 11,426 submissions. The topics covered range from biology to economics in New Zealand. Because the books are digital and open source, any teacher can decide to assign one and simply point students to PDFs they can print.
Build a Telephone Recording Circuit
MAKE: Blog: Build a Telephone Recording Circuit from an Old Modem
This little hack is useful for those of us wanting to record Voip telephone calls for podcasts with good quality audio. Keep in mind that recording telephone calls without notifying all parties involved is against the law in many parts of the world.
Use a Blog as a Powerpoint Alternative
For all you folks looking for an alternative to .ppt, try a blog. For a bonus use Classcaster to add audio.
LawLibTech: PowerPoint Alternatives – From Browsers to Blogs, Part II
StarOffice 8 Released
StarOffice 8 offers enhanced Office compatibility – Computerworld
Sun Microsystems Inc. today released a new version of StarOffice designed to better address the software’s compatibility with Microsoft Office, one of the chief complaints among users of Sun’s office productivity suite.
Palantir: Streaming media over the rweb
freshmeat.net: Project details for Palantir
Palantir is a client-server streaming system designed to transmit live video, audio, and data over a TCP/IP network. The server runs on a Linux box. The supplied Java client can display the live video stream as well as interact with hardware devices connected to the server. A native Windows client also allows full-duplex audio communications with the server.
AOL Adds Podcasting to Portal
BetaNews | AOL Launches Podcasting Site, Search
AOL on Wednesday unveiled a new podcasting section on its AOL.com portal, which highlights the best podcasts and a Podcasting 101 guide on how to get started with the emerging technology. Along with its hosted podcasts, AOL offers a search utility powered by iPodder.
Flock: A Browser for Social Web
Wired News: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser
Flock advertises itself as a “social browser,” meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promises to detect and authenticate all those user accounts automatically. It’s a clear attempt to be the browser of choice for the Web 2.0 user.
MySQL Stored Procedures
MySQL Stored Procedures: Part 1
A stored procedure is simply a procedure that is stored on the database server. MySQL developers have to date unthinkingly written and stored their procedures on the application (or web) server, mainly because there hasn’t been an option.
Google Blog Search Beta
Slashdot | Google’s Blog Search
“Google BlogSearch beta is out. Clean UI, fast responses, not yet such a great index, but it is getting there. That’s what you should find in the much-awaited new Google service. Some say Technorati and friends have been having nightmares about this very day.“