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Software engineers at Apple Computer have been toiling away on a new set of features that will allow users of its next-generation Mac OS X operating system to place phone calls over their Internet connection, AppleInsider has learned.
AppleInsider | VoIP features expected in Apple’s Leopard
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It seems as if everyone is a Web publisher today — from the habitual bloggers and online diarists to the companies running major news outlets, portals, and magazines — and they’re all using some kind of database-backed content management system (CMS) to do it. There are a lot of CMS choices — Drupal, Mambo, Bricolage, WordPress, and Plone are some of the most recognizable names. While they all perform the same basic functions, you have to pick only one. How do you do it?
NewsForge | Choosing an open source CMS
This article, while short, mahages to cram in am entio of most major open source CMS packages. Worth the read.Blogged with Flock
This looks pretty cool…Developers Jay and Steve McDonald have come up with a solution to this problem, and it’s called Fjax. Fjax works a whole lot like Ajax — it uses an XML file to pass data to a browser — except that it uses a tiny bit of Flash, instead of the browser, to parse the XML. All of that browser-specific code is eliminated, leaving the application more lightweight and putting less of a strain on the browser.
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University of Wisconsin Law School professors Stewart Macaulay and Beth Mertz join Robert Nelson, the Director of the American Bar Foundation, as guest bloggers on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog for the week of June 19, 2006. The blog can be found at www.elsblog.org.
University of Wisconsin Law School – News
This is interesting because U of Wisc considers a guest blogging gig as press release worthy. The tone of the release implies that this is serious scholarship type stuff going on and that is a significant change in attitude.
CALI really needs to do more to encourage these sorts of releases when we add faculty authors and podcasters to our programmers. I think the success of upcoming eLangdell projects will hinge on this sort ofbuy-in from schools.
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This is a step in the right direction.Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft® Office applications. The copyright licensing tool will be available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online, http://office.microsoft.com, and CreativeCommons.org. The tool will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel® and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® to select one of several Creative Commons licenses from within the specific application.
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