The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Scribus Team Releases 1.3.0 – La Liberté :: Scribus :: GPL Desktop Publishing for Linux and more
“With this release, we also commence support for Scribus running natively on Windows and Mac OS X.“
Native builds for Windows are not yet available, but alpha compiles have been done and Win32 builds are on the way.
This is one cool extension for FireFox and another reason to move IE. Be sure to check out Scribe’s features.
MAKE: Blog: Word processing in web forms
“Scribe adds Word Processor like functionality to web forms, including opening and saving form entries as files. Open and save form entries as files. Quickly save to a local file as you type. Never lose a post again due to your internet connection being dropped or laptop battery going out.“
Slashdot | OSS Funding through Fundable
“FredCK, developer of the popular FCKEditor, recently raised $600 from supporters through Fundable to port his open source HTML editor to Safari. Fundable is a new site that lets groups of people pool money for specific purposes, like software features. Unlike generic donation dropboxes (such as PayPal buttons), if a group’s targeted collection isn’t reached after 2 or 4 weeks, everyone gets a complete refund.”
Maybe I’ll use this help fund some of my innovations…
freshmeat.net: Project details for Apache2GDL
“Apache2GDL is a Perl script that parses an Apache log file and generates a directed graph of visitors’ movement in GDL format for visualization with aiSee. It also allows you to pipe the graph directly through aiSee and get a mapped SVG or PNG image of the layout. The generated images help you find out how people actually browse your site — which paths they take to get from page A to page B, which paths are more popular than others, which pages get the most hits, and whether there are one-way paths and dead-end pages.“
Slashdot | Windows AntiSpyware Downgrades Claria Detections
“A week after word leaked out that Microsoft was negotiating an acquisition deal with Claria (See recent /. coverage), spyware researchers have noticed that the Windows antispyware application has downgraded Claria’s Gator detections and changed the recommended action from ‘quarantine’ to ‘ignore.’ Screenshots of the new default settings.“
freshmeat.net: Project details for OpenKiosk
“This version features major enhancements to both the clients and server module of the system. One of the key features is the introduction of the Kiosk-Mode User Interface. Other features include membership support, delegation of configuration access to operators, restricting prepaid and member access to a particular workgroup, remote viewing of site status using a Web browser, remote reporting, detailed reports, and more.“
Hell of an idea. You get filing sharing through an RSS feed. Add files to the folder, links show up in the feed, an aggregator/reader d/l’s the files. Neat, clean, fast. Of course Box.net costs money and is likely to go the way of other online storage schemes. But the idea is sound. It could use more security and encryption too.
MAKE: Blog: RSS feeds to online storage…
“Box.net’s filefeed lets people easily subscribe to your shared files through any web or software-based RSS reader (including firefox, my.yahoo, newsgater, feedster, and more). Distributing files through filefeed is easy: just add a file to one of your Box.net shared folders and all of the subscribers will instantly receive a link to that new file. Imagine the possibilities… share documents with your blog’s readers, send brochures to clients, syndicate recent photos automatically to friends and family, or simply use RSS to sync up your web folder with another location. “
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO make KML data for Google Earth
“Great reference. Tao of Mac writes “I’ve decided to put up a short tutorial on generating KML data for Google Earth – anyone with PHP installed should be able to use these simple techniques to layer their own data atop Google Earth from nothing but a CSV file, and build up from there”. Link.“
I’m thinking way cool CALI membership map…
XML User Profiles
“XUP is an attempt to replace static per-site user accounts, which most present dynamic web sites use in absence of an easy to use and open/shared user account system. It allows people to use a single account or profile with many sites, or one of their existing user profiles on multiple other web sites.“
MAKE: Blog: Build your own Chat-Cord
“Voice over IP is taking over the world and I also like the idea of calling for free! The problem I’ve experienced so far is the fact that you always have to use those cumbersome headsets. When it would be possible to use your standard phone for this application, the experience of VoIP would be much more like the real POTS (plain old telephone system).“