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Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, RISC OS, and DOS. It converts the documents from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003 to text, Postscript, and XML/DocBook. Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact.
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Nicely displays system info for the host it is living on.
links for 2005-11-28
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takes advantage of the canvas tag in firefox and other browsers.
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Private media sharing. You create the group.
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This project expands the capabilities of the SWISH-E search engine to include theme extraction or categorisation. This combines the best features of handcrafted catalogues with the benefits of a search engine.
Tool for Building Repositories of Documents
This project expands the capabilities of the SWISH-E search engine to include theme extraction or categorisation. This combines the best features of handcrafted catalogues with the benefits of a search engine. Users do not have to build and maintain complex knowledge bases of their own in order to establish relationships between topics, nor do they have to formulate complex queries to find information that may be worded differently in the documents being searched.
Neat. Feed it some docs, it analyzes them and builds a theme list. Docs are linked together by the themes. Sounds interesting.
technorati tags: swish-e, knowledge mapper, document repository
links for 2005-11-24
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ARSC Really Simple Chat is a Web chat system that uses PHP and MySQL.
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Use PHP to build windows desktop apps.
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hyperjournal facilitates the administration of academic journals on the Web.
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O’Reilly looking for cool eTel stuff.
BitTorrent, MPAA Strike Accord
In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films, Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent.
The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of films.
Hollywood, BitTorrent Reach Agreement – Yahoo! News
Cohen will remove links to pirated films from the bittorrent.com search engine. While this will certainly slow traffic in pirated films, it will hardly stop it. Although BitTorrent has enough legit use to stop it from shut down like Napster or Grokster, it certainly lacks the resources to wage a lenghty legal battle against the MPAA. I hope that Cohen’s decision here leads to a wider adoption of BitTorrent as a way to deliver properly licensed films.
Update: Seems Variety also thinks this move may signal the beginning of a better relationship between BitTorrent and the film inudustry.
technorati tags: bittorrent, mpaa
HigherEd BlogCon
HigherEd BlogCon aims to bring together in a single Web space many of the leading players who are transforming academe with their use of the new tools of the Social Web.
Preparations for HigherEd BlogCon – Overview
An online web conference to be held in April 2006. It is corporate driven with ProfNet, CASE, Thomson Peterson’s, and PR Newswire doing all the organizational and logistic work. Heck, they even have a tag: higheredblogcon. This will be worth keeping track of.
technorati tags: higheredblogcon
AOL Updates Desktop Search
Unlike homegrown desktop search solutions from Microsoft and Google, AOL utilizes technology developed by Copernic. Version 2.0 will feature a full preview window for viewing entire files without opening them, and integrates with the standard Windows Open dialog box. Beta 1 of AOL Desktop Search 2.0 is available for download now, but it’s not yet feature complete, company officials say.
BetaNews | AOL Spins Off Desktop Search Product
Copernic is a favorite desktop search tool that alos does neat thinga like querying a bunch of search engines and intergrating results. AOL is moving in the right direction to use this as a base.
technorati tags: desktop search, AOL, AOL desktop search, Copernic
links for 2005-11-23
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This is a fairly complex process and requires a certain degree of technical skill in using Linux and such.
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FreeMED is a Web-based medical records (EMR) and patient management system. Legal needs somethng like this.
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WIKINDx is a single or multi-user research environment storing searchable bibliographies, notes, and citations, and integrated with a WYSIWYG word processor for the authoring of publication-ready articles automatically formatted to chosen citation styles.
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Add a ‘play it now’ button to MP3s on your site. Hmmm….
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Good article on how to do your own screencasting. Lots of info and links
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Analyzes your music, recommends other tracks based on the rhythm etc of your tracks. Sounds interesting.
links for 2005-11-22
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a del.icio.us clone. looks to have lots of social features.
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The AMBULANT Open SMIL Player is an open-source, full SMIL 2.0 media player.
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web-based flash card system. Keeps score.
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multi-platform voip client
The FBI Is Not Watching You.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert Monday about a scam involving unsolicited e-mails, purportedly sent by theFBI, that tell computer users that their Internet surfing is being monitored by the agency.
FBI Warns of E-Mail About Surveillance – Yahoo! News
This looks a lot like a replay of the Sober.K outbreak from Feb. 2005. At that time the FBI issued a press release that was virtually identical to the one issued today. My scanner reported a copy I picked up as Sober.cf. It is interesting that the major AV sites have not picked this up yet.