Category: CoolTools

freshmeat.net: Project details for Trac
“Trac is a minimalistic but highly useful issue tracker and software project environment based around an integrated Wiki engine. Features include an interface to Subversion (source revision control), a bug/issue tracking database, and convenient report facilities.“

Tiotha – Home
“Tiotha is a replacement shell for Windows that seeks to simplify limiting available applications by user roll and machine context in an Active Directory environment. Combining a suitable Tiotha configuration with appropriate Group Policies results in a robust, centrally managed, desktop security solution.”

freshmeat.net: Project details for OPEN-XCHANGE
“Several bugfixes were made, making it possible for this release to be used with the Outlook connector (OXlook), which is also provided in the download section. Better support for Eclipse were implemented along with easier installation and improved performance for heavy concurrent use.“

Scripting News: 3/3/2005
“Kosso gave me a sneak peek at something very very cool he’s working on. It’s a Flash-based podcast browser. It’s so funny, I was laughing out loud while playing with it. Wowowo!“

Do check this out, it is very cool.

BetaNews | Netscape Browser 8.0 Beta Goes Live
“America Online’s Netscape team has opened its doors to the public, releasing the first beta of the revived Netscape Web browser. Based upon Firefox, Netscape version 8 focuses on security and user privacy, and supports rendering with both Mozilla’s Gecko and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser engines.“

Neat feature: toggle back and forth between Firefox and IE rendering. It really works like 2 browsers in one:)

ITworld.com – Skype One-Upped by Teleo
"A software telephone on the laptop ties into your Microsoft software making it a one-click operation to call anyone listed in your laptop. Highlight the name of an e-mail sender who’s in your address book, click to call, and hear that person’s phone ring. See a phone number on a Web site in IE? Click and call. Calls to other Teleo users are encrypted like Skype calls.

The phone number assigned to your laptop accepts incoming calls from any other telephone, something Skype has yet to introduce (their SkypeIn service is still in test mode). When your laptop is off, forward the calls to your cell phone. No modern road warrior/expense account white collar wage slave is without one of the two every hour of the day and night."

Unlike Skype, Teleo is using SIP to power their system. It would be neat if you could route the line to an Asterisk PBX .  Of course, the technology behind this is pretty straight forward and open to anyone if your handy with Linux:)

NewsForge | Podcasting from Linux
“Podcasts are reinventing talk radio on the Web. These homemade audio downloads have become popular since they were introduced last year. Pontificate on your political opinions, praise your favorite bands, interview your hero — the possibilities are limitless.

Podcasts were created by fans of the Apple iPod, but you don’t need an iPod or a Mac to make your own. Properly configured, the average Linux distribution can podcast with the best of them. “

And yes it is that easy. It’s also easy using the very same tools in the Win32 world.