Slashdot | TB-303 Give-Aways from Propellerheads and d-lusion
“Good news for those of you who are into music synthesizers: Propellerheads has opened its Rebirth Museum and gives away the ‘revolutionary’ software simulation of the classic Roland TB-303. Interestingly, that happened just a day after the small German company d-lusion released another ‘legendary’ TB-303 simulator called Rubberduck as a free give-away.”
Creating a Software Demo Using OS Tools
NewsForge | Creating a software demo with Impress
If you’ve ever tried to explain how a particular feature or application works without actually showing it, you know how difficult that can be. A good software demo can really save the day for anyone from developers wanting to demonstrate their software to home users trying to explain to their family members how to create a simple document. If you want to create a software demo, you don’t have to buy an expensive closed source application such as Demo Builder, Viewlet Builder, or Turbo Demo. Instead, you can use free software tools that may already be installed on your machine, namely the GIMP and Impress. Here is how to create a software demo that includes some essential elements: cursor movements, button clicks, animated menus, and callouts.
Create Your Own Online Library Catalog
This is neat. I’m setting up my O’Reilly collection to try this out.
Library Stuff
Library Thing allows you catalog your books using tags and LOC classification. Also, you can look at other catalogs or tags and see what others are reading or have tagged.
NOLA Web Blogs, Audio and Video Feeds
Here are some links to info on what is going to on live in New Orleans.
Making Firefox Scream
Hacking Firefox: Speed Up Your Browser
Hack it, tweak it, and make it scream down the information highway. This chapter covers several of the much-touted hacks that you will find on the Internet, as well as some other less popular but very useful hacks. You will get the skinny on the what, how, and why of them. More important, you’ll see how to customize them to fit your current setup and situation. The primary method of hacking for this section is adjusting key hidden preferences.
Podracer: Podcast Aggregator
Podracer is a shell script with calls to Python to handle bit-torrent.
freshmeat.net: Project details for Podracer
Podracer is a podcast aggregator that gets the enclosures from your list of podcast subscriptions and stores them in the location you specify. It supports BitTorrent, HTTP, and FTP downloads, and runs best as a cron job to automatically retrieve podcasts throughout the day.
Temporary Official Tulane Law Website | Teknoids
Temporary Official Tulane Law Website | Teknoids
n response to the emergency situation created by hurricane Katrina, Tulane Law School has created a temporary official website at Emory Law School. This temporary site will serve as Tulane Law School’s official website for communicating with their community and the larger law school community. Members of the Tulane community are encouraged to visit the site to get the latest information on the situation.
Direct Link: Temporary Official Tulane Law Website
Ziepod – Podcast Receiver and Player
Ziepod – Podcast Receiver and Player
Ziepod is an easy-to-use toolkit to reach and manage audio-based content published through podcasts. It feeds you voice of people from all around the world by bringing what people talks through podcasts right in front of you.
The Technology Source Archives Return
This is an interesting archive. Too bad that publication of new stuff has ceased.
The Technology Source Archives
Published from 1997 to 2003, The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030) was a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical whose purpose was to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that would assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.