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OPML Community Server Release on the horizon?

I hope to see this soon. We’ve been thinking about the impact of shared outlines on legal education. Can you say virtual study groups? It is not hard to imagine law students finding the OPML Outliner very useful and adding a CALI sponsored community server into the mix is a good thing:)

GEEKS.OPML.ORG :
“The OPML Community Server, the blogging software, membership system, file system back-end and directory displayer. The goal here is to make it fairly painless to set up and administer.“

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Compromise Windows With USB Device

Of interest to teknoids, especially with more and more schools handing out USB keys like candy.

USB Devices Can Crack Windows
“Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI Dynamics, which discovered the security hole.“

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A Better CALI Booth?

Perhaps we could do some cool things for the CALI booth with this sort of thing. It would certainly spiff up the AALS and AALL booths.

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO build a trade show booth on a budget
ou work your guts our on your software product only to go to the show and sit on folding chairs in front of a banner? No more!… Now you can build yourself a trade show booth using nothing but stuff from Home Depot and Kinkos!

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DittyBot: iTunes on Your Phone

Plastic Bugs – Home of the ‘Original’ GIMPshop » Blog Archive » DittyBot – An Applescript Adventure
“You send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email account. Your text message should contain the keywords of a song title (and possibly an artist name) that you want to hear. DittyBot finds that email (he checks Mail every 45 seconds) and copies the song name into a text file. The song name is then copied into iTunes and a playlist is created from your search. Next, DittyBot loads Skype (the internet telephony app) and begins calling your mobile phone. Your mobile phone rings and when you pick it up, you should hear your song start playing in all its compressed glory. “

Picked this up via MAKE blog. While it is all about using AppleScript for cool iTunes stuff, it does provide a bit of a road map on how we can get Classcaster to route around complex menuing issues. Following the Dittybot map, a student sends an email to a specific address including the name of a lecturette in the message. We grab this via POP, extract the info, locate the MP3 and then have Classcaster call the number associated with the from address and play the lecturette. Will require user registration, but it could be a cool feature.

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A Listing of Legal Etnics Sites

Legal Ethics Sites

This list includes the LII materials on legal ethics
. It occurs to me that this is some space that CALI might get further into. We have a handful of Lessons
 in this area, but it is an area that is of ongoing concern to all prationers (or should be). A reference library of Lessons linked to the LII materials would be something that would generate interest among attornies.

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iWebCal – OS iCal Tool

iWebCal: Choose Calendar
“iWebCal lets you view calendars from iCal (and other calendar tools) on the Web. Just upload your calendar file to the Internet somewhere and type its address in the box above. Read the quick start for more info, or see iWebCal in action with an example calendar from Apple’s calendar library.“

Cool. Also works with the WebDAV-enabled versions of the Mozilla calendar tools. So, you could setup a group calendar that would be be pretty functional and web-enabled.