XSPF Web Music Player (Flash) – Plays MP3 on your website
XSPF Web Music Player is a flash-based web application that uses xspf playlist format to play mp3 songs. XSPF is the XML Shareable Playlist Format. The software is written in Actionscript 2.
RoundCube: AJAX Webmail
Slashdot | Open Source AJAX Webmail
“It seems AJAX webmail is all the craze. Right on the heels of both Microsoft and Yahoo launching beta versions of their new AJAX webmail clients, an Open Source startup RoundCube has released an alpha of a GPLed AJAX webmail client. While there are still many features missing (like search!), the demo they have is completely cross-browser compliant and overall very impressive.”
Novell Releases Linux Usability Research
The research including videos, results, and some analysis is available at http://www.betterdesktop.org/ and is provides some insight into the usability of the OpenSuse. Developers and those lookng to migrate users to Linux desktops will find this data useful.
Novell Shares Linux Usability Research Videos
Novell Inc. released a large amount of primary desktop-usage research—including more than 200 video clips of users bumbling their way through unfamiliar computer interfaces—to the software development community Monday, as part of a new program aimed at making Linux desktops a more comfortable fit for users.
DIY GPS Tracking on Nextel Phones
MAKE: Blog: DIY GPS tracking
Mod a GPS enabled Nextel and fauxjack yourself…or your car, or your kid, or a big dog, or an elephant. We really, really want to track an elephant. Mologogo is a free service that will track a “friends” GPS enabled cell phone from another phone(gps not required) or on the web. It currently works on pretty much any Nextel phone with Java and GPS – even a $60 no-contract Boost Mobile phone.
FreeCast: P2P Streaming Media
freshmeat.net: Project details for FreeCast
Freecast is a peer-to-peer streaming system that makes it possible to stream Ogg audio or video to a large number of listeners from a DSL connection. The client can be customized graphically, doesn’t require a user configuration step, and is updated at startup when needed.
PfP Studio: RAD for PHP-based web apps
freshmeat.net: Project details for PfP Studio
PfP Studio is a visual programming system for rapid application development of DHTML-based applications using PHP and Javascript. The front-end runs in a Web browser. It is intended to complement the skills of the developer rather than to mask out the base languages. Its objective is to implement reusable widgets in an easy-to-use front end.
Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mashups.
CiteULike: Social Tagging and Bookmarks for Academics
CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There’s no need to install any special software.
FCKeditor 2.1 Released
Time to update…
freshmeat.net: Project details for FCKeditor
Development is now concentrated on bugfixes and stability, so this update is highly recommended. There are also some interesting new features like ‘Protected Source’ which makes it possible to use server side code in the editor, and the new keyboard handling for Firefox.
WebConference LiveHelp Switches to GPL
The switch to GPL makes this package more interesting since the previous license limited use in a lot of ways.
freshmeat.net: Project details for WebConference LiveHelp!
WebConference LiveHelp! is a fully-featured online customer service solution. It links your support team to your customers in real-time and provides real-time one-on-one customer chat, pro-active Web site visitor tracking and engaging tools, a complete Web history, transcripts, a searchable dynamic knowledge base, and automatic feedback collection and reporting.