I've been watching Tinderbox for a while now, even though it's a Mac program. I once used StorySpace from EastGate and Tinderbox looks like an interesting tool for my work. I'm looking forward to the Windows version.

Tinderbox 2.2.

Tinderbox 2.2 is out. You can download a free demo. The upgrade is free if you bought Tinderbox in the last year. If not, you can get another year of free upgrades for just $70.

This is primarily an infrastructure release, paving the way for Tinderbox for Windows. But there's plenty of great new stuff here for everyone:

• Quick lists (like this)
• Much faster interactive spell checking
• Lots of new, advanced HTML export features
• Support for richer syndication formats -- both RSS and Atom

[Mark Bernstein]

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Another approach to protecting your investment in your music library

Easy DRM Stripping for Windows iTunes. Use the Video Lan Client to generate your iTunes Music Store license key, then deDRMs to strip the copy protection--but not the personal information identifying you as the owner of the music--from protected .M4P songs. Although the deDRM interface is clunky, at best (drag and dropping individual files onto the... [Gizmodo]

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We have a winner! Judith has dutifully tabulated the results and Lee LeFever is the winner of the Perfect Pitch competition for the best "elevator pitch" on weblogs in the organization. Here's his winning pitch:

First, think about the value of the Wall Street Journal to business leaders. The value it provides is context — the Journal allows readers to see themselves in the context of the financial world each day, which enables more informed decision making.
              
With this in mind, think about your company as a microcosm of the financial world.  Can your employees see themselves in the context of the whole company? Would more informed decisions be made if employees and leaders had access to internal news sources?
 
Weblogs serve this need.  By making internal websites simple to update, weblogs allow individuals and teams to maintain online journals that chronicle projects inside the company. These professional journals make it easy to produce and access internal news, providing context to the company — context that can profoundly affect decision making.  In this way, weblogs allow employees and leaders to make more informed decisions through increasing their awareness of internal news and events.

Second Place — Randal Moss
Third Place (tied) — Michael Angeles & Jack Vinson

Dave Pollard, Dina Mehta, Don Park, Flemming Funch, Jim McGee, Lilia Efimova, Martin Dugage, Phil Wolff, Ross Mayfield, Scott Allen, and Ton Zijlstra

[The Social Software Weblog]

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