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What to do, what to do…Part II

World Wide Web Consortium Presents the US Patent Office with Evidence Invalidating Eolas Patent. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee urges US Patent and Trademark Office Director to review prior art, take action to eliminate “this unjustified impediment to the operation of the Web.” We first mentioned this issue on October 9, with links to sources of information about changes that might need to be made in Web pages.

Inexpensive Flash Goodies

SWiSH – Download Flash Animation Software – Tutorials Movies Menus Buttons Examples Templates SWiSH has several Flash related items that can make learning Flash and using Flash with Dreamweaver easier.

What do the assistive devices actually do?

Juicy Studio: Assistive Device Chart is a nice summary of what various devices including JAWS, Home Page Reader, pwWebSpeak and others actually do with a Web page.

How much are you spending on computer books a month?

Here’s an interesting concept from Informit Safari Tech Books Online that allows you to read complete versions of over 1500 technical books on line for a monthy fee that depends on your usage. These are books by Peachpit Press, O’Reilly, New Riders, Prentice Hall and Sams, among others.

Find out what your site’s operating system is

Netcraft What’s That Site Running This free service uses your URL to tell you what operating system your web site host is using.

Watermarking Images for copyright protection

Digimarc Corporation is the company that makes the watermarking technology which can be used in PhotoShop and other software to protect images from intellectural property theft.