Rob Flickenger explains the benefits of long-haul Wi-Fi and captive portals in PC World magazine: a nice article that explains a lot of the benefits of sharing and extending bandwidth via Wi-Fi and simple technologies. [via Phillip J. Windley][80211b News]
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An international TV guide for…
An international TV guide for public radio. Kevin Kelly (not this Kevin Kelly, this Kevin Kelly) wrote to tell us about the site he maintains at PublicRadioFan.com. Kevin’s site has a massive and comprehensive guide to audio on hundreds of public radio sites around the world, with direct links to the audio streams, program home-pages and station sites. You can…
Mozilla opens up Microsoft’s closed…
Mozilla opens up Microsoft’s closed Outlook PST format. Tim O’Reilly has written his annual braindump in preparation for the Open Source Convention. His essays are always thoughtful. This time, I was struck by one particular comment: … [Jon’s Radio]
Atomz unites search with content…
Atomz unites search with content management. Online service aims for lower costs, speedy deployment [InfoWorld: Top News]
Book review: XSLT Developer’s Guide…
Book review: XSLT Developer’s Guide (Builder.com) [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News]
Mozilla opens up Microsoft’s closed…
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…
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]