The XML Construction Kit is a library for
generating XML in a builder pattern. It is only
for generating valid XML, not parsing it. There
are dozens if not hundreds of projects for parsing
XML. Very few address a lightweight low/no
dependency way of generating XML.
SDL Asylum is a C/SDL port of Andy Southgate’s
1994 game Asylum, originally for the Acorn
Archimedes. In the game, Young Sigmund has a few
problems. To help him resolve his mental
instability, you must enter the surreal world of
his inner mind and shut down the malfunctioning
brain cells.
Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and graphs for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format, and also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card accounts.
Pukka is a fast and light del.icio.us client that supports multiple accounts.
FiForms is a framework of PHP classes that lets you rapidly prototype and develop a Web/database front end using the latest PHP and XML technologies. It currently includes data-entry classes and XML report generation scripts. These libraries utilize the new XML capabilities of PHP 5 to create a framework for developing Web applications completely in XML languages. The FiForms framework also includes a collection of XML Schemas for building these forms, reports, and scripts in XML. FiReports uses XML and XSLT to generate high-quality on-screen and printable reports, as well spreadsheets from an SQL query stored in a PHP or XML definition.
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The Internet Radio Death Watch
PC Magazine - 3 hours ago With royalty fees sucking up profits, who knows how long sites like Pandora Radio and Slacker will last. by Dan Costa This week my retired stepfather, who lives in Tucson, Arizona, called for advice about a new technology purchase. Internet radio booming but threatened San Jose Mercury News SoundExchange Head: Pandora Is Great, But It Needs Audio Ads Wired News DailyTech - CNET News - BetaNews - ZDNet all 97 news articles |
An anonymous reader writes “The web is evil and must be stopped — because it makes public information too public. So says Canada’s Privacy Commissioner. She wants to ‘anonymize’ court records by substituting initials for names. The Toronto Star quotes Jennifer Stodddart as saying ‘The open court rule, which is extremely historically important, has now become distorted by the effect of massive search engines… Court decisions and other related documents, which contain all sorts of personal information, are now searchable worldwide, which was never intended when openness rules were devised.’ All Stoddart’s proposal would do is erect a minor barrier for the techno unsaavy. Researchers, reporters, geeks, and most teenagers would still be able to figure out who’s who. Stoddart seems to believe only in an abstract notion of freedom and access — but only as long as not too many people use it and no one suffers. She cites the case of someone who is upset at reading the divorce case of her parents. Is Stoddart a danger or a menace? Or just clueless?”
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Students' Personal Data Posted Online
Washington Post - 4 hours ago By Michael Alison Chandler Personal information for hundreds of Fairfax County students was accidentally published online this summer by the Princeton Review, a test-preparation company. Princeton Review Security Flaw Outed By Competitor InformationWeek Personal info on Fairfax students accidentally put online Daily Press United Press International - Forbes - Dark Reading - The Tech Herald all 92 news articles |
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FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Blocking Some Large Files
Washington Post - 5 hours ago By Cecilia Kang Comcast is testing new technologies that would slow the transmission of Internet files for its biggest users by as much as 20 minutes during times of heavy network congestion. Comcast to Slow Web Service at Times to Its Heaviest Users New York Times Comcast to throttle some customers' Web speeds CNET News ZDNet - Philadelphia Inquirer - Los Angeles Times - Afterdawn.com all 61 news articles |
An anonymous reader writes “In an online survey, 42 percent of Internet users admitted to logging into other people’s email and social networking accounts without their knowledge. The poll doesn’t ask if passwords were found, granted, or stolen — which would make for further interesting results. The write-up summarizing the results defines the respondents as part of an “educated tech-readership” and questions the ethics of logging onto someone else’s account, and whether those differ depending on the person and relationship.”
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In-flight Wi-Fi no longer pie in the sky
San Francisco Chronicle - 36 minutes ago (08-20) 18:29 PDT — One of the country's last Internet-free zones was plugged in Wednesday as a fleet of American Airlines jets became flying Wi-Fi spots, offering passengers full, in-flight Web access - except for phone calls. American expands inflight Internet service USA Today American Airlines launches in-flight Wi-Fi CNET News CRN - FOXBusiness - TechNewsWorld - Computerworld all 376 news articles |
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Comcast to Slow Web Service at Times to Its Heaviest Users
New York Times - 1 hour ago By BLOOMBERG NEWS The Comcast Corporation plans to slow service to its heaviest Internet users during periods of congestion after regulators ordered the company to devise a new method for managing its Web traffic. Comcast to throttle some customers' Web speeds CNET News Comcast has new traffic 'throttling' system Afterdawn.com Bizjournals.com - Ars Technica - VentureBeat - Wired News all 50 news articles |
Dead Space (PS3)
The Ishimura: a highly unlikely vacation spot.
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Palm introduces new Treo Pro smart phone
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago By Brandon Bailey It may not have that fanatic appeal that makes customers camp in front of stores to buy the latest model, but Palm is hoping the new Treo Pro smart phone unveiled Wednesday will make its own waves in the world of mobile phones. Palm unwraps the unlocked 3G Treo Pro smart phone NetworkWorld.com Palm Releases Treo Pro Washington Post InformationWeek - TechNewsWorld - Wired News - Reuters all 350 news articles |
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Boston Court's Meddling With 'Full Disclosure' Is Unwelcome
Wired News - 1 hour ago In eerily similar cases in the Netherlands and the United States, courts have recently grappled with the computer-security norm of "full disclosure," asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a fare-card vulnerability that … Judge Lifts Gag Order On Student Subway Hackers InformationWeek Gag order lifted on subway hackers VNUNet.com DailyTech - BetaNews - Boston Globe - CNET News all 208 news articles |
Carnival Games Mini Golf (Wii)
Go on a golfing adventure with these pics.
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Nintendo's Wii Faces Complaints by Hillcrest Labs (Update3)
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago By Susan Decker Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co., the maker of the top- selling video-game console, was sued by a Maryland electronics laboratory that claims its motion-control inventions are being used in the Wii system. Hillcrest Labs sues Nintendo over Wii controller patents CNET News Startup Says Nintendo's Wii Violates Its Motion-Sensing Patents Wall Street Journal Digital Media Wire - Slashdot - Punch Jump - BusinessWeek all 65 news articles |
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Internet radio booming but threatened
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago By Troy Wolverton With a growing audience of 54 million monthly listeners, Internet radio is one of the biggest trends in digital music. SoundExchange Head: Pandora Is Great, But It Needs Audio Ads Wired News Death of a Streamcaster Part Deux: Pandora Could "Pull the Plug DailyTech CNET News - BetaNews - ZDNet - Washington Post all 96 news articles |
Yakuza 2 (PS2)
Engage in Japanese mafia warfare with these pics.
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Intel announces dual-core Atom, chains it to 945C chipset
Ars Technica - 1 hour ago By Joel Hruska | Published: August 20, 2008 - 07:15PM CT It looks like we'll be seing Intel's new dual-core Atom 330 on the market sooner rather than later. Peek-a-boo Look at Intel’s Atom Processor InformationWeek Intel IDF 2008: Day 1 Wrap Up PC Magazine PC World - Computerworld - eWeek - ZDNet all 451 news articles |
Sonic Unleashed (Wii)
Unleash these pics on your computer.
DesktopLyrics is an application that displays the
lyrics of the song currently playing in “iTunes”
right on your desktop. The lyrics for the song
have to be set in iTunes; DesktopLyrics does
nothing to fetch them if they aren’t available in
iTunes. If you don’t want to set all your lyrics
manually, you can use an application like “Harmonic”.
SMARTReporter warns of ATA hard drive failures before they happen by
periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drives. S.M.A.R.T.
(Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology
built into most modern hard drives that acts as an “early warning
system” for pending drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of
impending drive failures by sending email messages, displaying a warning
dialog, or executing an application. The current status of your drives
is always displayed through the customizable menu item.
MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written
entirely in assembler. It’s not intended to to
become a fully-fledged general purpose OS.
Instead, it’s designed for learning basic OS
design and x86 assembly language. Consequently, it
runs in 16-bit mode (for BIOS access) and has very
low system requirements. It features rudimentary
DOS compatibility.
autoglade is a tool that automagically creates a
fully working application from a GUI Glade
definition plus some declarative information with
no programming.
CONSIDEO MODELER allows you to mindmap a complex
problem, analyse it qualitatively to discover
levers and bottlenecks, and even to simulate it by
automatically building a system dynamics model.
One can integrate any external data and setup a
customized management cockpit for playing out
scenarios. It is useful for organizational
problems, project management, financial analysis,
production processes, score cards, and much more.
pdfrecycle creates a PDF file by composing pages from other PDF files. It lets you define PDF bookmarks, scale and rotate pages, put multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet, and add metadata. It uses a simple text file format to define the layout and what pages to include. From this input file, it creates a LaTeX file and then runs pdflatex to produced the PDF file.
Calf is a set of audio effect plugins compatible
with audio technologies popular in Linux and other
open-source operating systems. Currently, several
plugins are available (flanger, reverb, multimode filter, vintage delay, phaser, simple monophonic VA synthesizer, and organ/pad synthesizer). All of these plugins are available in versions compatible with major Linux plugin specifications: LADSPA+LRDF, DSSI, and LV2. A standalone application using GTK+2 and JACK is provided.
Lucas123 writes “With gas prices 30% higher this summer over last, telecommuting is back on everyone’s radar. According to a Computerworld story, however, IT and telecommuting don’t have a great record of success. For example, citing negative impacts on productivity, HP ended its telecommuting policy for hundreds of workers two years ago, and this year, Intel began requiring more than half the teleworkers in its IT group to report to the office at least four days a week. So before leaping, some questions you should ask as a manager if you’re considering telework include: How will you define and measure performance? Will creativity suffer? What about employees stuck in the office?”
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Garfield: Lasagna World Tour (PS2)
Lasagna! I hate Mondays!
