Mozilla opens up Microsoft’s closed Outlook PST format – Udell. Writes Jon Udell: “In no time flat I had my Outlook mail sitting in MBOX (i.e., plain text) files under Mozilla’s mail tree. Importing my Outlook contacts was equally successful…As a bonus, I tried again to establish signing/encryption capability in Mozilla’s mail client, something I’d failed to achieve with the…
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Automatic warchalk symbol generation [1]….
Automatic warchalk symbol generation. Yoz (who insists that he is a far less than excellent geek) has whipped up a little Web app that takes the specifics of a wireless access point as parameters and spits out a printable PDF of the wibo warchalking mark for it. Here’s the one for mine. (Matt Jones adds that the back end for…
RSS Tutorial [1].
RSS Tutorial. Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web “In this workshop you’ll learn how to create, validate, syndicate, and view your own RSS news channel. The emphasis will be the practical application of RSS XML/RDF metadata for dynamically publishing….” [via Serious Instructional Technology] Now this is an excellent resource! Put up by the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) folks…
Fed up with everything? Read…
Fed up with everything? Read this. Author Alan Cohen says he didn’t merely write “Why Your Life Sucks” for cube dwellers with career angst. He charted a “road map out of hell” for everyone who has “come to accept soul starvation as a way of life.” Is he talking about you? [CNET News.com]
*IBM introduces wireless starter kits…
IBM introduces wireless starter kits: a neat idea from a support and deployment standpoint as long as IBM can provide world-class technical help.[80211b News]
*InfoWorld’s wireless columnist’s wrong-headed column…
InfoWorld’s wireless columnist’s wrong-headed column on free networks: Ephraim Schwartz’s latest head-scratcher makes me mad. I almost didn’t blog an entry on his wrong-headed column about why freenets won’t last, and I just can’t bottle it up inside. First, go and read the column. Then, when you finish laughing or screaming read the rest of this. I know that Ephraim…
Oracle Focuses On Portals At…
Oracle Focuses On Portals At JavaOne. The new architecture uses Java and J2EE for core business logic, and XML infrastructure to deliver the app to the end user. [XML News by CodingTheWeb.com]
K-Log Pilot Notes [1].
K-Log Pilot Notes. Within our team, we have been surprised at how well the team klog has helped us to have a better understanding of what each of us is currently working on. We didn’t realize how much of our individual work was below the radar of our closest co-workers. [David Gammel] I’m trying to convince our I.T. department to…
Day 15: Defining keyboard shortcuts…
Day 15: Defining keyboard shortcuts. One of the least known features of HTML is the accesskey attribute for links and forms, which allows the web designer to define keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used links or form fields. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. If the access key…
MoreNews 1.0 released [1]. MoreNews…
MoreNews 1.0 released. MoreNews is a bundled PHP application and class for reading and displaying 300+ newsfeeds from moreover.com. It provides an easily configurable navigation interface, and has built-in search and feed caching. MySQL can be enabled for several features, such as displaying the news categories. MySQL is not required, however, since all current features are supported in its XML-only…