NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MARK GIBBS ON WEB APPLICATIONS 10/13/04 Today's focus: Co-Tracker tracks images
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Co-Tracker captures and catalogs images found on Web pages * Links related to Web Applications * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas Meta Group Whitepaper Database Infrastructure Performance Challenges: Approaches to Better Manage Application Database and Storage Subsystem Performance Corporate relational databases now manage the majority of business-critical data within the enterprise. IT organizations face continuing challenges in managing increasingly complex, data-driven application environments. Read this white paper to discover several factors which will converge to challenge the IT organization's ability to manage its database software infrastructure. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84726 _______________________________________________________________ SECURITY CONCERNS STOPPING YOUR WLAN PLANS? 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This is a small download and when installed - a process that takes a few seconds - it adds a new command to the context (right-click) menu when the mouse is over an image labeled, rather sensibly, "Grab Image." When that command is selected a dialog box for filing the image opens with the text from the image's ALT attribute as the default description to which you can add whatever text you like. You can also assign a category to the image. If the image is linked to a URL the link is also saved to the catalog with the image. To access Co-Tracker's image catalog you need to use the Co-Tracker application. This appears to be based on an embedded IE control so the catalog display is actually a Web page (which also means that if you right-click on an image in the displayed catalog you can access the Grab Image command and duplicate the image - no, I have no idea why you might want to do this but it does confirm that Cogitum is using the IE control). You can edit image descriptions, create multiple catalogs, move image between the catalogs, sort images, import and export categories or the whole image catalog, send categories or the whole image catalog by e-mail, as well as search and print images. This is a very useful tool and free for non-commercial use. A one-user business license is the princely sum of $10, which includes e-mail customer service and 1-year of free upgrades. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Gearhead on Net Snippets http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1011gearhead.html Net Snippets http://www.netsnippets.com/ Image Co-Tracker http://www.cogitum.com/co-tracker/index.shtml NetContinuum upgrades for Web services Network World, 10/11/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104netcontinuum.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Mark Gibbs Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and he writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We'll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go to <http://www.gibbs.com/mgbio>. Contact him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas Meta Group Whitepaper Database Infrastructure Performance Challenges: Approaches to Better Manage Application Database and Storage Subsystem Performance Corporate relational databases now manage the majority of business-critical data within the enterprise. IT organizations face continuing challenges in managing increasingly complex, data-driven application environments. Read this white paper to discover several factors which will converge to challenge the IT organization's ability to manage its database software infrastructure. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84725 _______________________________________________________________ ARCHIVE LINKS Archive of the Web Applications newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/web/index.html _______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE THE NEW DATA CENTER Today's top companies are accelerating toward Web-based computing. That means building the new data center -- where grids, virtualization, autonomic computing and other big changes shatter the traditional boundaries on applications and information, and bring the extended enterprise to life. 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