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MyTunesRSS 3.7.0 is considered as an excellent and useful tool that allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser. The user interface lets you search for titles or browse your whole library by album, artist or genre.

You can access your iTunes playlists or create new ones directly in MyTunesRSS. You can even create smart playlists which get updated automatically with tracks from your library matching the smart playlist criteria. Add YouTube videos to your database. This does not add the videos themselves but only the meta information. The YouTube videos appear in the web interface just like all local tracks but they are fetched seamlessly from YouTube for playback.

Major Features:

1. Create RSS feeds, M3U or XSPF playlists, play MP3 music directly in your browser with a flash music player and much more.
2. Create multiple user accounts, assign permissions, create download quotas and much more.
3. Discover other MyTunesRSS servers on your local network.
4. Use your iTunes library or simple watch folders.
5. Upload new music to the server through the beautiful web interface.
6. Browse your music library by album, artist or genre.
7. Download single tracks or play them right inside your browser.
8. Get a playlist as an RSS feed on your computer and stay up-to-date to the contents all the time.
9. Cover images from the tracks if available in the files and supported by the RSS reader.

Enhancements:

• Smart playlists which are defined by some search criteria and contain all matching tracks.
• Support for more media types than just audio and video. Added default definitions for "jpg", "gif" and "png".
• More compliant RSS feeds which validate correctly now.
• Fallback names for album and artist name can be freely configured now.
• No restrictions on the original cover artwork image size anymore.
• Remote control playback of media files in Quicktime environment on the computer running MyTunesRSS.
• User can select preferred language on login screen.
• H2 database can optionally be configured to any file system location.
• Add YouTube datasources where video meta data is inserted into the MyTunesRSS database. Videos are always downloaded from YouTube on playback.
• JW Media Player updated to version 4.4.
• Existing datasources can be edited in configuration GUI.
• Users can have parent users now. Most settings are inherited from the parent user, so you can manage the settings/permissions for a set of users by modifying the common parent user of those users.
• Option for disabling files using certain MP4 codecs. The files using the configured codecs are not imported into the MyTunesRSS database.
• Generic transcoder (to MP3) support. You can define any transcoder tool for a list of suffixes and (in case of MP4) optional MP4 codecs.
• Wide theme, Leopard theme and french web interface translation bundled.
• Several bugfixes and smaller improvements.

CourseForum 6.4.1 is an useful tool which helps you to make e-learning website in which you and your students to interact, whether to create, post, share or discuss course content.

With just their web browser, students use Courseforum to get answers to questions, dig deeper into issues, and work on projects at any time and from anywhere, not just when classes meet. Powerful but easy to setup and use, downloadable and hosted versions are available.

Major Features:

1. CourseForum is an easy to install web application, used through standard web browsers, that lets you and your students host discussions and share knowledge, adding interaction to your courses. Create, share, and talk about ideas, Q&A, research, student portfolios, project work, and more. CourseForum delivers the ease of use, flexibility, and accountability needed for today's courses.
2. Much more flexible than discussion-only tools, each page can not only hold a discussion on a specific topic, but also a set of questions and answers, links to supplementary course material or research, a student's note-taking from a lecture, student portfolios, or more.
3. CourseForum is centered around simple free-form text, making it easy to understand, and easy to work with - creating or modifying content within the course is as easy as writing an email message.
4. Powerful Simplicity
   • Easy content creation
   • • Creating new pages and changing existing ones is done right in your web browser, and is as easy as writing an email message.
   • Link material easily
   • • Connect your ideas and resources, by linking from any page to any other, or to material anywhere on the web.
   • Flexible organization
   • • Through creating and linking content, you decide how your forum is organized and structured. Start simple and adjust things as you go. Put things where they make sense to you, not where a cumbsersome user interface forces you to put them.
5. Easy to Learn and Use
   • 100% Web based
   • • All interaction is done through a web browser, meaning no software installation for your students, and no new application to learn.
   • Short learning curve
   • • CourseForum is designed so that you and your students can be creating, sharing and discussing in minutes, devoting time to course material not software.
   • WYSIWYG Editing
   • • A browser-based 'What You See Is What You Get' editor provides a familiar writing and editing environment.
   • Simple formatting
   • • CourseForum makes it easy to format pages for easier reading, without needing to learn complex tools like HTML.
   • Quick comment posting
   • • Every page provides a comment area making discussions about topics quick and easy.
   • New page templates
   • • Customizable templates provide an easy way to create many similar pages, such as for lecture notes or student information pages.
   • Recent changes
   • • See at a glance the last few changes, to quickly identify and contribute to the "hot topics".
   • Search
   • • A search box on every page lets you easily find information throughout the course, even across projects.
6. Easy Setup
   • Easy to install server
   • • The CourseForum server application can be installed in minutes, and needs no cumbersome configuration or special software. A single install supports everyone in all of your courses.
   • Cross-platform
   • • The server runs on any Windows, Mac OS X, Linux or FreeBSD machine. Users just need their existing web browser, whatever their platform.
   • Easy administration
   • • Administration is all web-based, and generally requires little time to maintain, so you can just set it up and run.
7. Users
   • Guest Users
   • • Forums can optionally be left open so that users do not need to have an account or password to view and/or edit them.
   • Unlimited users per forum
   • • License includes unlimited number of users (license based on number of courses).
8. Courses and Projects
   • Multiple courses
   • • Multiple courses can be run off a single instance of the CourseForum server application, so no system changes are needed.
9. Permissions
   • Password protect courses
   • • Let only the people you want into your course, by assigning it a password, either to enter it or just to make changes.
10. Rich Content
    • Include Markup
    • • Build up larger pages by including the contents of other forum pages or even pages from other web sites.
11. Advanced Features
    • RSS Support
    • • Easily track changes in any forum, or include an RSS feed in a forum page so everyone can track changes in other web sites.
    • Email Notification
    • • Receive emails when pages in the forum change, making sure you are notified of any changes.
    • Activity tracking
    • • See who has been contributing to discussions and who has not, or verify what each person has seen or changed, and quickly isolate trouble makers.
    • Web Views
    • • Provide a view-only mirror of a forum, suitable for use as an external web site, whose content is updated as the forum changes.
    • Custom Themes
    • • Create a new theme to more closely blend in with other web resources in your school.

Enhancements:

• Bug Fixes and Changes:
• • Upgrade internal WYSIWYG editor to use TinyMCE 3.2.4.1
  • Fix bug where insert table toolbar item was not disabled when edit insertion point was in a table
  • Clean up extra debugging associated with 'forgot password' in Campus version
  • Added additional logging of startup errors to both error.log and the Windows event log.

Requirements:

• The CourseForum software runs as a server application on a central server or your own computer, and you and others use your web browser to connect to the software, the same as you would any other web site. All regular use by you or your users therefore is done via any standard web browser (IE, Netscape, Safari, Opera, etc.) running on any platform.
• The software is designed to be able to run on your normal desktop computer if you want; you do not need to have special "server" hardware (though you can certainly put it on a server if you have one available), existing web server software, etc.
• The computer you run the software on should be regularly connected to the network (e.g. have a static IP address/name), be able to listen on port 3455 or another port such as 80, and at least 5mb of free disk space (though you'll want more as your courses use CourseForum).
• The server software will run on any machine running Windows 2000/XP or newer, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher, Linux (kernel 2.2 or higher), or FreeBSD 4.5 or higher.