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Getting Started With Dreamweaver and CSS Workshops

The five-city tour of one-day workshops is designed for those new to building websites, or migrating from GoLive or a previous version of Dreamweaver.

Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game

a boy named woo writes "Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play... thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at the University of Washington." In collaboration with others, Baker has designed a game, called "Foldit," with a practical outcome: players manipulate on-screen images of protein chains and attempt to predict their folding patterns. From the article: "'Our main goal was to make sure that anyone could do it, even if they didn't know what biochemistry or protein folding was,' says [co-creator Zoran] Popovic. At the moment, the game only uses proteins whose three-dimensional structures have been solved by researchers. But, says Popovic, 'soon we'll be introducing puzzles for which we don't know the solution.

Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser

Dekortage writes "Although it's been up for a few weeks, today is the official launch of FontStruct, a web-based font creation tool. That's right: in your web browser, you can build your own typeface, and download it as a TrueType font. The site's user agreement requires you to release your creations online under one of the Creative Commons licenses. The typefaces tend to be a little blocky, but it's still impressive (and a great way to pass time)."

Dynamic HTML to PDF Conversion

activePDF WebGrabber is a multithreaded application, designed for use with activePDF Server™, that dynamically converts any URL, HTML stream, or HTML file to PDF on the fly, while retaining embedded styles.

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The Transition to a Solar/Hydrogen Economy Will Trigger an Economic Boom Unseen Since the Marshall Plan.

Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers?

An anonymous reader writes "The Kindle made waves when it came out, but they've now had the chance to calm. How many of you have been using your eBook readers since you've received them? How many of you forgot you had one, and how many of you swear by your reader? I like my single-purpose (well, dual — music player) Sony Reader because I actually use it to read, rather than multitasking myself to death. Is this technology as convenient and useful as you expected?" If not, what refinements or improvements would reKindle your interest?

Leading Web Development Firm Rockfish Interactive Selects Internap to Deliver High-Quality, Interactive Applications Online

Internap's Managed Server and Content Delivery Network (CDN) provide firm with the ability to consistently deliver a high-quality online user experience --

Black Sheep Web Software Form Tools Multiple Remote File Include Vulnerabilities

RoMaNcYxHaCkEr discovered these vulnerabilities.

Softpress updates Freeway, offers special to GoLive users

imageSoftpress Systems has released Freeway 5.1, an update to its web design software. And the company is also offering a special for users of GoLive, which has been discontinued by Adobe.

After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released

evanbd writes "After over 3 years of work, the Freenet Project has announced the release of Freenet 0.7. 'Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet without fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve this Freenet makes it very difficult for adversaries to reveal the identity, either of the person publishing, or downloading content' ... 'The journey towards Freenet 0.7 began in 2005 with the realization that some of Freenet's most vulnerable users needed to hide the fact that they were using Freenet, not just what they were doing with it. The result of this realization was a ground-up redesign and rewrite of Freenet, adding a "darknet" capability, allowing users to limit who their Freenet software would communicate with to trusted friends.

Theorizing a Big Apple Push Into Gaming

Ian Lamont writes "Terrence Russell has outlined an interesting theory about what industry Apple intends to break into next. He points to games. Forget Pippin II, or an iMac gaming rig — he thinks the mobile realm is where Apple will make a big product push. It's not the first bit of speculation about Apple's renewed interest in gaming, but Russell's theory may have more legs, considering Apple's invitation to develop games on the iPhone SDK, its strong mobile product line, and a Apple trademark extension filed three months ago."

Dreamweaver 8: a first look

For veterans of this professional Web design tool, Macromedia's Dreamweaver 8 may look and feel much like its earlier version, but subtle usability tweaks promise to show up once you dig into the program. To start with, you can zoom in to enlarge a page. But the most welcome change may be the program's ability to show and collapse sections of code for less scrolling, faster navigation and an easier overview of a project. You can also roll over design elements and view pop-ups of source code.

Macromedia Studio 8: a first look

Macromedia boasts that the Studio 8 Web design, animation and video suite is the package's most impressive update yet. We'll wait for the gold code to make our final judgement, but from what we've seen of the beta versions of Studio's five applications -- Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8, Fireworks 8, FlashPaper 2.0 and Contribute 3.0 -- the upgrade to Flash is the most tantalising among them. Just don't expect Adobe's plans to buy Macromedia to result in hybrid Adobe-Macromedia software quite yet; Studio 8 offers no such surprises. See the table below for previews of each application in the suite.

Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit

techmuse writes "Comcast is considering the imposition of bandwidth caps and reductions in network bandwidth to customers who, while paying for the use of a certain amount of bandwidth, dare to actually use it! Gizmodo has more on the subject." Reader Acererak points out that it would take some pretty heavy usage (by current standards) to hit the cap described. Bear in mind, too, that these reports are based on the word of an unnamed "insider," rather than an officially announced policy.

Nuke ET Journal Module Security Bypass and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Copyright 2007, SecurityFocus

It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane

waderoush writes "Aviation enthusiasts have been dreaming of flying cars since the 1940s. But in an old machine shop in Woburn, MA, a team of MIT aero/astro grads is building what could be the first practical airplane that's also certified for highway driving. Angel-funded startup Terrafugia, headed by 2006 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner Carl Dietrich, hopes to have its first full-scale proof-of-concept vehicle ready to show off at July's AirVenture aviation festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin."

What a Botnet Looks Like

Esther Schindler writes "CSO has an annotated, zoomable map of real botnet topologies showing the interconnections between the compromised computers and the command-and-control systems that direct them. The map is based on work by security researcher David Voreland; it has interactive controls so you can zoom in and explore botnets' inner workings. Hackers use botnets for spamming, DDoS attacks and identity theft. One recent example is the Storm botnet, which may have comprised 1 million or more zombie systems at its peak. As with any networking challenge, there are good (resilient) designs and some not-so-good ones. In some cases the topology may be indicative of a particular botnet's purpose, or of a herder on the run."

Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies?

Jeppe Utzon writes "Back in 1987, when I was a teenager in high school still, I spent most evenings, nights and weekends writing small programs in BASIC on my Amstrad CPC 6128. Some of these programs were simple games, some drew graphics, some could help me with math or train me in French — and most were utterly pointless. But I never had as much satisfying fun as when writing those programs — even if no one in my family understood any of it when I proudly displayed the fruits of three sleepless nights of labor. Now, 20 years later, I still have a sealed pack of about 15 disks with all my work on them (along with a few of my favorite games) and I was wondering if it was possible to get the data out somehow so that I could run it in emulation on my Mac.

A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)

An anonymous reader writes "The folks over at Thought Lab have produced an extremely high-density mobile computing platform in a scooter and have been kind enough to teach us all how to make our own! The end result was a rolling system capable of long-distance war driving, GPS navigation, Skype calls on the road, serving as an Internet hot spot or a low-power pir8 radio station, as well as recording your favorite TV program so you don't miss Lost because you are lost. If that's not over the top enough, you can actually drive your scooter to, say, the Grand Canyon, plug in your electric guitar and perform live over the Web at a whim!"

Borland Finally Sells ...

Saturday is International Computer Shutdown Day. But I don’t accept the thought that the Internet is some kind of addiction, a dark mental prison that keeps us from living our lives.

NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed

tracer818 writes "In order to study a person as if they were in space without gravity, NASA scientists are paying subjects $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days. The study will follow the Bed Rest Project standard model and be conducted at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Participants will live in a special research unit for the entire study and be fed a carefully controlled diet."

Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan

An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades."

In Australia, XP Cheaper Than Linux On Eee 900

KrispyDollars writes "It sounds crazy to say this, but the XP-based version of the Eee PC 900 (the new version with the 8.9" screen) will actually be considerably cheaper than the Linux-based version. At the official launch today, the company told journalists that 'Microsoft has been a longstanding supporter of Asus' to explain the price discrepancy. And — get this — only the XP-based machine will be sold at mass-market retailers, while the Linux-based model will be consigned to computer stores."

Albuquerque Realtors Add New Interactive MLS Report Tool to Website

Printer Friendly Graphic For many people, their home represents a large portion of their net worth. Homeowners want to know… What did the home down the street sell for How long did it take to sell What homes are for sale in my neighborhood And most importunately, what's my home worth

Adobe stops GoLive

Here's a good round-up of the biofuels debate. There's been a lot on this recently and I've also read good things about Times' opinionated coverage "The clean energy scam", which I haven't read yet. Mars is even weirder than we...