Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
Oct 30th 2006cyberchucktxCollaboration & Technical & Web22 & Work
Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool. Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.
Oct 27th 2006cyberchucktxCMS2 & Collaboration & Open Source & Work
KnowledgeTree Open Source Document Management System: KnowledgeTree™ is a commercial open source document management system – a powerful tool that allows your organization to secure, share, track and manage the documents and records you depend on.
Oct 26th 2006cyberchucktxCMS2 & Technical
Content Management System Selection Process at UT Austin: Powerpoint presentation (HTMLized) of the evaluation processes followed at UTexas to evaluate their Enterprise (campus)-wide CMS. VERY good overview IHMO.
Oct 25th 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Web22
alahup!: the agile web development CMS. FLASH-based, cross-platform (LINUX/Windows/MacOSX) website creation / maintenance tool. Continue Reading »
Oct 25th 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Video
SUPER: Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. A GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc,
ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn.
If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.
Oct 24th 2006cyberchucktxPolitics & Statistics & Technical3
Oct 24th 2006cyberchucktxEducation & Media & Progressive2 & Science & Tech
TCS Daily : Technology – Commerce – Society International Journal. “The dynamic nature of modern society presents mankind with enormous opportunities and challenges. TCSDaily.com is the online journal that will explore our exciting and unsettling times with news, commentary and analysis that will help you make sense of it all.
Each day the writers and editors of TCS examine a range of issues, including science and technology; business, finance and economics; politics, law and foreign policy; entertainment, media and culture. We hope you will join us.” Continue Reading »
Oct 24th 2006cyberchucktxMedia & Online & SciFi & Web
“The Next Big Thing”: the Metaverse (from Neil Stephenson’s Snow Crash).
The Internet continues to evolve, integrating video and podcasts as well as the inexorable increases in broadband access and processor speed. Browser enhancements proceed and the Web is now the largest recipient of advertising dollars. Blogs have achieved a critical mass and online magazines are more central to the intellectual debate than printed materials as more people get their news online than from any other source. Continue Reading »
Oct 24th 2006cyberchucktxBlogging & Online & Podcasting & Technical & Web22 & iPod
CALI Classcaster: acourse blogging system. Classcaster is a course blogging system that provides faculty, librarians, and staff of CALI member schools with a new way to interact with students and communities. A Classcaster blog provides authors with tools for posting not only traditional blog articles but also tools for podcasting and sharing any documents and/or files with students and communities.
Oct 24th 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Web22
Details on CSS changes for IE7
@ IEBlog. “We are currently locking down IE7 for shipping and I wanted to give an update on the CSS work that went into IE7.” Continue Reading »
Oct 23rd 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Sysadmin & Technical
Oct 23rd 2006cyberchucktxAJAX & Javascript & Programming
Oct 23rd 2006cyberchucktxCMS2 & Open Source & Technical
MODx Content Management System: Techies call MODx a Content Management Framework (”CMF”): equal parts custom web app builder and Content Management System (”CMS”). With a flexible API and a robust event override system, MODx makes building engaging web projects straightforward — or changing core functionality without hacking the core code possible. Custom tweaks won’t leave you pulling out your hair when it’s time to upgrade.
Oct 19th 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Web22
G2ImageGallery2 Image Chooser allows you to choose an image from your Gallery2 photo albums by browsing thumbnails. You can then insert a thumbnail or link.
Oct 19th 2006cyberchucktxProgramming & Sysadmin & Technical & XML & XSLT
XSI: is a system monitoring daemon that replies to network queries with XML-encoded system information and statistics. This data can then be analyzed, graphed or otherwise presented by a front-end. It is BSD-licensed and free for anyone to use for any purpose. Continue Reading »
Oct 19th 2006cyberchucktxProject Management & Technical
faces: flexible, automated, calculating, extendible, simulating. faces is a powerful and free project management tool. It is based on python, an easy to learn and powerful programming language. Continue Reading »
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Oct 19th 2006cyberchucktxPolitics & Technical3
League of Technical Voters: “Imagine a future…: Changing the World Through Transparent Communications” Continue Reading »
Oct 19th 2006cyberchucktxHardware & Technical
Project Blackbox : world’s first virtualized datacenter from SUN.
After today, you’ll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter–built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies. Continue Reading »
Oct 19th 2006cyberchucktxHardware & Media & SciFi & Technical
Scientists create cloak of invisibility: A team of American and British researchers has made a Cloak of Invisibility. Well, OK, it’s not perfect. Yet. But it’s a start, and it did a pretty good job of hiding a copper cylinder.