The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
The free public beta of Safari 3 is available immediately as a download at www.apple.com/safari, and is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. The final version of Safari 3 will be available as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS® X version 10.5 Leopard, and will be available as a free download to Mac OS X Tiger and Windows users in October.
Apple Introduces Safari for Windows
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Print-on-demand books boosted in partnership
Emory is launching a new model for digital scholarship through a partnership with Kirtas Technologies Inc., a maker of cutting-edge digital scanning technology. The partnership will enable Emory to apply automated scanning technology to thousands of rare, out-of-print books in its research collections, making it possible for scholars to browse the pages of these books on the Internet or order bound, printed copies via a fast, affordable print-on-demand service. The project is limited to materials in the public domain.
Amazon will handle the PoD aspects of this project. The project is not a part of the Google digitalization project, but rather represents a stand-alone effort. I think this is a better idea than letting Google do it. Certainly the text will be indexed by Google, but the project remains under the control of the University. This aspect makes it a scholarly project with roots in archiving and education, not a a quasi-commercial operation that is really rooted in drawing ad dollars. I hope more universities step up and take these projects in house.
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Adobe has renamed Apollo. It’s now known as AIR: Adobe Integrated Runtime. A beta release of AIR replaces the alpha version of Apollo. You can download the beta here.Adobe® AIR™, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
technorati tags:adobe, apollo, AIR
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A topsites list ranks a group of related sites by popularity. Webmasters join the topsites list and are given a button to put on their site and link back to the topsites list. Aardvark Topsites PHP is a free topsites script built on PHP and MySQL.
Aardvark Topsites PHP – A Free PHP Topsites Script
OK, suppose we put topsite buttons on la wschool websites to see who is most popular? Would it mirror the rankings we know and love? Would it reflect admissions trends? size of alumni community? Something to ponder…Blogged with Flock
Parsing XML With The DOM Library | PHP Coding Practices – Become an expert PHP Programmer – Great article that goes deep into the the DOMXML extensions of PHP, showing you how to do serious manipulation of XML documents. Includes loading, parsing and writing XML docs, using XPath queries, adding nodes, removing data and more.
The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.
movabletype.org: Welcome to MTOS: the Movable Type Open Source Project
Six Apart is trying to build a open source around MT4. May work, but it is a crowded arena. Note to self: requires lots of Perl and MySQLBlogged with Flock
LII and PLE « PLE Theory and Practice – Interesting piece. Seems as though this author has left the blog. Too bad I didn’t find it sooner.
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