"The Wikimedia Foundation today announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain high quality print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. The development of the underlying open source software is supported by the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org) and the Commonwealth of Learning (www.col.org), and led by PediaPress.com, a start-up company based in Germany."
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable
Example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Solar_system_final.pdf
Dolenni Diddorol / Interesting Links These are just links (dolenni) to things that appear interesting (diddorol).
2007-12-19
NicEdit
NicEdit is a Javascript/AJAX inline content editor to allow easy editing of web site content on the fly in the browser. It integrates into any site in seconds to make any element/div editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing.http://nicedit.com/
Wii Opera SDK Now Open to the Public
The popular Wii Opera SDK has been opened to the general public by popular demand, allowing anyone with knowledge in HTML and JavaScript to take on the task of creating homebrew games and software for the Wii’s Internet Channel. Previous to this release, the Wii Opera SDK was only available by request.
http://gonintendo.com/?p=31868
http://gonintendo.com/?p=31868
Colorzilla
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271
FireFtp
"FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers."https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
Open-Audit
Open-AudIT is an application to tell you exactly what is on your network, how it is configured and when it changes. Open-AudIT will run on Windows and Linux systems. http://www.open-audit.org/
Personas for Firefox
Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser.http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/personas-for-firefox/
German ship fights climate change with high-tech kite
"The 132 meter (433 ft) long MV "Beluga SkySails" will make its maiden voyage in January across the Atlantic to Venezuela, up to Boston and back to Europe. It will be pulled by a giant computer-guided 500,000-euro ($725,000) kite tethered to a 15-metre high mast."http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSL1548100520071217
Daylight-Saving Causes Twin Arrival Pickle
"Because of Daylight Saving Time, Allison's time of birth was 1:06 a.m., which makes her 26 minutes older than her brother even though he was born first."http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2011296/
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