Bob DuCharme, a long-time XML.com contributor, shows us how to turn eBay email alerts into an Atom channel.

In his latest XML Annoyances column, Micah Dubinko reports from last week's XML 2005 conference in Atlanta.

Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone, by Kevin Kelleher. "It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is...

Say you had your eye on a color printer with 128MB of memory standard and you wanted to upgrade it to 384MB. Would you prefer to spend $90 for that upgrade -- or $1,300? Some of the vendors whose printers

Color printers on the office network can serve important purposes. Your organization's design or publications group probably considers a color printer essential for creating public documents such as Web page layouts, brochures, mailers, and posters. They're handy in finance, marketing,

Some small offices or departments have outgrown their color inkjet but lack the volume or budget for a color laser. Xerox's Phaser 8500 and 8550 solid-ink printer family is one alternative, but based on our tests, these printers seem best

The roundup marks the full rollout of a major adjustment to our speed ratings. Our test suite, based on the one developed by our sister publication's PC World Test Center, calculates ppm (pages per minute) speed based on printing a

A printer depletes toner and wears out other components at varying rates, leading to operating expenses that fluctuate over time.

By shooting lasers at an RNA polymerase (RNAP) and a strand of DNA, scientists have learned a critical component of how a complex protein develops.

WidgetServer is a Java/XML server-side GUI-framework which enables an application to run as either a monolithic Swing app, a client/server Swing app, or as a Web app without any change and without loss of functionality. A rich widget set is

Drqueue is a distributed rendering queue. It helps manage jobs on a render farm. It works under Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, IRIX, and Windows, supports Maya, Blender, Lightwave, Mental Ray, Bmrt (Renderman), 3Delight, and Pixie out of the box,

DieHard automatically hardens software applications against a wide range of bugs. These bugs, known as memory errors, often end up as serious security vulnerabilities, cause crashes, or lead to unpredictable behavior. DieHard either eliminates these bugs altogether, or avoids them

ControlTier is a complete system for automating the release, deployment, and configuration of multi-tier application services. It enables you to specify a configuration and procedural model for an integrated application stack (e.g. a LAMP stack), and then use that model

Socks Server 5 is a socks server for the Linux and Solaris platforms. It supports the SOCKS protocol versions 4 and 5. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes mod statistics and mod balance.

Conflux is Web-based groupware and collaboration software. It offers a shared central document repository, shared calendars, tasks and contacts, and an email client. It has support for Unicode, multiple languages, and date/time formats for the English, German, and Estonian languages.

phpBMS is a Web-based billing, scheduling, and client management system. Its features include PDF generation for printing, mass emailing to clients, repeatable task and event handling, and quote/order/invoice tracking. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: The package has undergone many bugfixes

Libp11 is a library that implements a small layer on top of the PKCS#11 API to make using PKCS#11 implementations easier. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This release exports the PKCS11_get_rsa_method for engine_pkcs11, has small documentation fixes,

Engine_pkcs11 is an implementation of an engine for OpenSSL. It can be loaded using code, config file, or command line and will pass any function call by openssl to a PKCS#11 module. Engine_pkcs11 is meant to be used with smart

Lost Labyrinth is a rogue-like role-playing game. It uses a Zelda-like graphics engine, and has high replayability. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Automapping; the "M" Key can be used to see a map of where you have been