Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
October 2002

Newsletter Subscription Methods and New Technologies   In my attempts to improve the subscription rate to MasterMind Explorer I have started exploring during the month of August some alternative technologies. My curiosity had been strucked by an Internet Marketing web site that prompted me to sign up for their offering while saying that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Alternative Methods To Augment User Subscription or Sign-Up To Your Online Offer or Newsletter   by Luigi Canali De Rossi and Alexandru Mihai Bocsaru October 2002 As some of you have already found out, today it is indeed possible to obtain a person email address and even his name and last name, by simply persuading this person to click on a dialog box... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Desktop Multilanguage Dictionary and Learning Tool   Pop-up Dictionary http://www.popdict.com/ = interesting, promising Software (Win) Free to try - Full USD $ 19.95 Pop-Up Dictionary is an award-winning program that can help you to translate and memorize chosen words of many foreign languages. Just add your words, set the time, and the program will be asking... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Web Globalization Strategies   Internationalization and Localization http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/ Globalization = interesting, promising Book Excerpt Online FREE A very interesting set of excerpts from a book by John Yunker entitled Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies are accessible at this URL. While you can easily get the book online for some $ 39.95 through a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Translation and Internationalization   Find in this section the following articles: 1. Web Sites Globalization Strategies 2. Desktop Multilanguage Dictionary and Learning Tool ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

State of the Art Remote Control Utility   Switch Off http://yasoft.km.ru/eng/ = interesting, promising Software Utility (Win) FREE An award-winning utility that should be in every webmaster ammunition bag is tiny Switch Off. This is a great utility that allows to perform a set of remotely controllable tasks on a selected PC. Functions available allow you to shutdown,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Remote Shutdown with Scheduling Facility   Remote Shutdown http://www.coruscant.ltd.uk/ RemoteShutdown/ = worth knowing Software Utility (Win) FREE Remote Shutdown by Jon Roch-Berry is even more reliable. PadRING and also from http://www.Shareware.com You can specify a delay, which can either be an absolute time (eg. 8pm) or a relative time (eg. "20 minutes from now"), during which a message you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Microsoft Own NT Remote Shutdown Utility   SHUTCMD.EXE Windows NT Resource Kit = worth knowing Software Utility (Win) FREE The Windows NT Resource Kit comes with two interesting utilities called SHUTCMD.EXE and SHUTGUI.EXE which you can find inside the \i386\netadmin directory. The small utility called "SHUTCMD.EXE" that is included in the Windows NT Resource Kit can be reliably... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Free Powerful Digital Image Converter and Visual Toolkit   XnView http://www.xnview.com = must have Software Tool (Win) FREE XnView is a magnificent and well built image browser and conversion tool. XnView incorporates also a screen show utility, a screen capture module, and the ability to apply filters and digital adjustments to existing images. As far as digital image editing is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Zoomable Image Browser   Photomesa http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photomesa/ = interesting, promising Software Tool (Win) FREE PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser. It allows the user to view multiple directories of images in a zoomable environment, and uses a set of simple navigation mechanisms to move through the space of images. It also supports grouping of images... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Navigate Ancient Structures and Learn   Theban Mapping Project http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/ = must have Online Resource FREE This online multimedia project offers extensive resources and information on the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, and of the many archaeological discoveries made in this region. Through the home page of the site a visitor can access immediately the Atlas... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Interaction Design Patterns   http://www.welie.com/patterns/ = must have Online Resource FREE Martijn van Welie has put together a very valuable and useful collection of interaction design patterns, which can greatly help the work of interface designers and information architects working at Web or other general electronic interface-based projects. Martijn has indeed listed and identified... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Personal Knowledge Mapping Tool   Grokker http://www.groxis.com/ = interesting, promising Software Tool (Win) Preview soon available N/A Knowledge mapping is the discipline that is concerned with the design and engineering of technologies that allow advanced organization, filtering and management of information in visual ways. The PARC or the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is one of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Online Library Of Business Book Summaries   getAbstract http://www.getabstract.com/www/jsp/ en/Home.jsp = interesting, promising Online service FREE to try + Paid service getAbstract is a very interesting service, which provides access to well written book abstracts at a subscription cost. The key advantage of using abstracts is the ability to save a great deal of time while being able... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Small Box for Fast Searches   GoBox 2.0 http://gobox.net/ = interesting, promising Search Engine utility (Win) FREE This handy small application allows users to make searches utilizing one among the major online search engines with a truly simple and elegant small box-like interface. A minimalist approach and a sense for what people need the most make this... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Professional Search Assistant Organizes, Filters and Tracks   Copernic Agent PRO http://www.copernic.com/desktop/ index.html = must have Search Engine utility (Win) FREE Copernic Agent is the last interesting product within a family of quality search utilities that Copernic has developed in the last few years. I must say that Copernic has worked hard to create a truly professional search tool... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Interactive Management, Support, Monitoring and Demonstration Software for Computer-Based Classrooms   NetSupport School http://www.netsupport-inc.com = breakthrough tool Software (Win) FREE to try ($ 452 for 10 users) Here is a modern computer classroom trainer dream-come-true technology. Classroom-based trainers with scores of computers in front of you, rejoice. This has got to be too good to be true. I wish I had known... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Use of Blogs and WebLogs for Online Learning and Education   http://www.schoolblogs.com/ http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/ eclipse/Resources/elblogs.htm http://www.elearnspace.org/edutechblogs.htm = must have Online Article, Resources FREE The three links above offer a good introduction, many resources and pointers to more articles and know-how related to the use of blogs in education. Blogs are electronic journals published online directly by their authors. This is achieved by the use... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Effectiveness of Computer-based and Online Training   http://teleeducation.nb.ca/ nosignificantdifference/ http://teleeducation.nb.ca/ significantdifference/ = must have Online Article FREE At the above two links you can find both views on the issue of how effective e-learning really is. The first one reports on studies that show "no significant difference" between e-learning and traditional classroom settings, while the second one... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

How To Prepare Students For E-Learning Courses   http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/ Preparingstudents.htm = must have Online Article FREE by Jennifer Cowley, Sharon Chanley, Stephen Downes, Lisa Holstrom, Dawn Ressel, George Siemens, Mitchell Weisburgh This is an excellent reference generated after four weeks of online discussion by a group of seven e-learning insiders and academic experts in the area of online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Digital Intercom for your Office LAN   Office Intercom http://www.nch.com.au/oi = worth knowing Software Tool (Win) 30-day free trial - Full License starting at USD $9 Produced by NCH Swiftsound, Office Intercom is a useful little tool that can be utilized to talk freely to other colleagues and staff that are connected to PCs inside your office/organization... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Online Audio Conferencing and Chat Rooms   Paltalk http://www.paltalk.com = worth knowing Online Service FREE + paid options Dressed like an instant messenger, you would never think that this tool is capable of providing live audio and video conferencing, virtual discussion rooms, interoperability with AOL IM (instant messenger), video mail and more features. And if you want to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Peer-to-Peer Online Collaboration Killer App   Groove Workspace http://www.groove.net = breakthrough tool Software (Win) FREE + paid options Groove Workspace is a technology that has been available for at least two years and that only now, with the recent release of version 2.1 has reached a maturity level that makes it a fantastic proposition for any... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Mini-dossier: What to do to limit junk email, spam and email viruses   by Luigi Canali De Rossi September 2002 Here are the best solutions available. I have researched up and down and I did find some interesting answers: 1) You may wish to subscribe to a service like spamcop.net they operate a service that can track the originating source. Their address... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Mini-dossier: Klez email-based virus - How to remove   Klez Virus - General Information, Symptoms and Treatment W32/Klez.I is a worm designed to propagate via e-mail by sending itself out to all the contacts found in the Address Book. The worm reaches systems as an e-mail attachment with a variable name and extension. This worm has... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Hijacked Email Addresses and Identity Theft   by Luigi Canali De Rossi September 2002 Someone has hijacked my email address and is sending emails loaded with viruses to other people with high risks of ruining my company reputation and credibility. How can this happen? Many people like me have found themselves victims of the tidal wave... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Paula - From Spoken English to American Sign Language   Automatic Translation http://asl.cs.depaul.edu/ = worth knowing Software Prototype Info and small demo only This is an interesting project to read and get curious about. This tool is being developed and only a very short video clip is available to showcase what the system will do. See a demo at: http://asl.cs.depaul.edu/demo.html You can either download... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Translation Links for Translators and Interpreters   Rojas Links http://www.jrdias.com/JRD-Links.html = worth knowing Online Resource FREE More than 4100 glossaries and other interesting links for translators accessible at: http://www.jrdias.com/JRD-Links.html A very rich resource especially valuable to Portuguese translators and interpreters. It offers a very extensive index and links to many valuable resources. Find easily what you are looking for by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Word Translator for Macintosh   http://www.halldor.com/mac/index.html = worth knowing Software Tool (Mac) FREE to try (USD $ 39) Word Translator is a nice and welcome tool for all those people working on Macs and dealing with international audiences. Word Translator is a foreign language dictionary tool with simple text translation features. Over 14 dictionaries... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Multilanguage Content Management   Spider http://www.star-ag.ch/eng/software/spider.html = interesting, promising Software N/A Spider is a new interesting technology that allows content publishing in a variety of formats through a unique workflow based on the strong components of SGML or XML. Organizations who have largely invested in either one of these technologies could truly benefit of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Online Multilanguage and Multibrand Live Tech Support   Juvio - Providers of Solutions and Security http://www.juvio.com/ = interesting, promising Online Service Born out of the initial 8-month long successful experience of San Diego's Speak-with-a-Geek online service (featured also in an interesting and valuable Wall Street Journal article on different online tech support services. See http://www.juvio.com/shared/wsj.pdf) Juvio offers an... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Online Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Service   HitsLink http://www.hitslink.com/ = breakthrough tool Online Service FREE to try + paid options HitsLink is a new online tracking service targeted at collecting information about web site access and traffic statistics, in the same category of HitBox, Superstats, Extreme-DM, WebTrends Live and many others. *Private Label Service* Hitslink breaks new grounds and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Jpeg Royalties   US Company Requests Royalties for JPEG Use Considerable buzz has been stirred around the issue of free use of the .JPG file format standard, as a US company has started claiming a patent over it and it has been supported and backed in this efforts by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

ILU - Color Calculator   http://www.sessions.edu/ilu/ = must have Software Tool (Win & Mac) FREE With the Sessions.edu Color Calculator, you can identify colour harmonies faster than with any colour wheel or chart. Use it to select a colour scheme for a corporate identity or design project. Rotate shapes on the colour wheel to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

IBM HotMedia   IBM HotMedia v3.5 http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/hotmedia/ Software Tool (Win) FREE Launched in the fall of 2000 IBM HotMedia 3.5, a component of IBM Studio Homepage Builder and IBM WebSphere Studio, is a free e-software that creates Java-based images for Web applications. IBM HotMedia is a comprehensive Java™-based solution for incorporating rich media effects... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Photogenics   http://www.idruna.com = breakthrough tool Software Tool (Win, Linux, AmigaOS) FREE evaluation + $ 79 after 30-days Idruna Software's Photogenics is a revolutionary image editing and manipulation tool that utilizes a totally new, more intuitive and highly innovative approach to digital image editing. Photogenics allows you to create paint-like or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Atlas of Cyberspaces - Information Design Nirvana   Atlas of Cyberspaces http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/ atlas.html = must have Online Atlas FREE For the ones of you interested in information architecture, information mapping, data visualization and information design this is an absolutely wonderful resource to explore, study and analyze information spaces and different ways in which they can be mapped to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Automatic Image Optimization Through Visual Evaluation   Photogenetics 2.0 http://www.photobox.co.uk/static.html? name=photogeneticsfull http://www.qbeo.com (not accessible anymore) = interesting, promising Software Tool (Win & Mac) FREE evaluation version / USD $ 19.95 Photogenetics is an innovative image color adjustment tool that allows the end user to improve the appearance of an image by evaluating interactively alternative image adjustments offered by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

PhotoPlus   PhotoPlus 5 http://www.serif.com/Photoplus5 = must have Software Tool (Win) FREE Serif is a company that has a rich set of graphics software tools to offer to its customers. Among them, PhotoPlus is the professional image editing tool that provides many of the facilities and functions available only to higher and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

ThumbsPlus   http://www.cerious.com/ = must have Software Tool (Win) FREE (for evaluation purposes only) ThumbsPlus is a very powerful digital image browser, thumbnail-creator and editor. Now in version 5.x, ThumbPlus is a well designed and functionality-rich tool that should be in the hand of any serious digital image editor. ThumbPlus interface is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Create Online Shareable Visual Information Spaces With Your Own Documents   Shared Space http://www.shared-space.net = interesting, promising Software Tool (Win & Mac) FREE Shared Space v2.0 is a powerful information and data visualization tool that is being developed by Ben Copsey, as part of his MA Electronic Arts course at the University of Middlesex (http://www.mdx.ac.uk/). Shared Space is a new application which... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

EBONI: Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines   http://ebooks.strath.ac.uk/eboni/ guidelines/ = must have Guidelines FREE A new project originating at the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Strathclyde, UK, EBONI strives to provide useful guidelines and baseline standards for the creation of effective and highly usable electronic documents and hypertexts. The guidelines cover two major... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Communication Initiative Vacancy Service   http://www.comminit.com = worth knowing Online Service FREE While many of you probably already are aware of this great resource, let me point it to those of you that while working in the research or development sector are in frequent need to search for qualified staff. An extremely useful and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Expert-based and Community Search Engine Service   Wondir http://www.wondir.org = interesting, promising Search Engine FREE "The core of Wondir is people and organizations who are committed to helping others and who have a mission to reach out to others with relevant information and assistance -- in contrast to individuals who are trying to make money based on... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Innovative Content Search Tool, with Theme Ranking Identification and Categorization   Powerful Web Search, Categorizing and Content Ranking Tool iFind http://www.kbsim.com/ifind.html = worth knowing Software Tool (Win) FREE This is a new desktop-based research tool that allows you to search for information and content in a peculiar new way. The key feature of iFind is how this tool organizes and categorizes the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Web-based Natural Language Question Answering System   Natural Language Search Engine http://www.answerbus.com = interesting, promising Search Engine FREE If you are looking for natural language nirvana, there is a new interesting new kid on the block called AnswerBus. Unlike Ask Jeeves which is a more popular and well known natural language search engine, AnswerBus replies to your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Quality of E-learning Systems Reports and Reviews   How Good Are Brandon-Hall's Reports at Evaluating LMS, LCMS CMS? by Luigi Canali De Rossi Recently I have received many requests for further information relating to the evaluation and selection of an appropriate LMS (Learning Management System) or LCMS (Learning Content Management System). There are not indeed many ways... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools, Technology 2003   http://www.geteducated.com/ bdlgs_tech.htm = must have Electronic Publication FREE GetEducated.com's Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools, Technology 2003 (USA Edition) is now available free for downloading at http://www.geteducated.com/ bdlgs_tech.htm. GetEducated.com's Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools: Technology 2003 is a free 67-page, downloadable PDF guide book to accredited, technology related, distance learning graduate schools... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Game Studies   http://www.gamestudies.org/ = must have Online Publication FREE Game Studies is a cross disciplinary online journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year. Primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games. If you are interested in studying and learning about the cultural and strategic issues related... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Online Presentation tool with Application Sharing   Orbitalk http://www.orbitalk.com = breakthrough tool Online Service Starting from $14.95/month To be honest I got so involved in this research and testing that I have material to make a whole dossier on this very tool and on the real competitors that it has in the market. To my surprise I have... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

Online audio conferencing and presentation services with crystal clear audio even on low bandwidth   VCOM Central http://www.masternewmedia.org/vcom.htm = breakthrough tool Online Service Free to try - Paid monthly service This is possibly one of the most interesting tool I have ever been able to uncover recently, thanks to Kim Gregory who pointed me to it. This is a unique tool, company and business altogether,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

One-to-one quality low-bandwidth videoconferencing   Microsoft Portrait http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/ = breakthrough tool Software Tool (Win) FREE Microsoft Portrait is a research prototype for mobile video communication. It supports .NET Messenger Service, Session Initiation Protocol and Internet Locator Service on PCs, Pocket PCs and Handheld PCs. It runs on local area networks, dialup networks and even wireless... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 7

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