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This looks interesting, if it works.
http://www.nvu.com/
From the web site:
Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) is an Open Source project started by Linspire, Inc. Linspire is committed exclusively to bringing Desktop Linux to the masses, and realized that an easy-to-use web authoring system was needed for Linux to continue its expansion to the Desktop. Linspire contributes significant capital, expertise, servers, bandwidth, marketing, and other resources to guarantee the continuation and success of the Nvu project.

http://www.shspvr.com
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
http://www.pcalchemy.com/

Korean Language Input (IME) for writing Korean text on computer
http://www.declan-software.com/korean_ime/
From the web site:
A comprehensive guide to installing and using the Microsoft Korean IME
for Window95/98/ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP - Korean language support for Windows or the Korean language pack. The IME allows users of
non-Korean versions of Windows to read and enter the Korean Hangul scripts
in IME enabled applications.

Korean Bookstore online
http://www.koryobooks.com/

Although there are a lot of online brokerages, there aren’t a lot of easy ways to trade foreign currency. I came across this last summer in an article in Barrons.

http://fxtrade.oanda.com/

Update 09-22-2005 21:16 PDT: profile of Oanda.com at alarm:clock

http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/
From the project web site:
Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.
It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/noppes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!

http://www.mythtv.org/
From the project web site:
MythTV is a suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems.

MythTV has a number of capabilities. The television portion allows you to do the following:

Advertised in EETimes, December 20/27, 2004
www.rabbitethernetize.com

Includes development board with RCM3720, 512K flash, 256K SRAM, 1MB Serial Flash, 33 digital I/O, full version of development software, TCP/IP stack, sample programs, AC adapter

Promotional price $99, normally $199.

Could be handy for building ethernet devices of various sorts.

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/

This might be useful for building a “gift shop” for Kuppam or similar projects. Perhaps the women’s jewelry activity could do something with this.

Also Anu Radha or someone should follow up on the Amazon listing for the Kuppam coffee table book.

Today I saw a demo of Andy Fitzhugh’s Virgil software. He is combining GPS trackpoint logs with digital photos to generate metadata which can be used to group photos together by date/time, physical proximity, and also to prepare queries to various search engines based on location.

He uses a Garmin Geko clipped to his camera bag to generate a track log, and then uses the EXIF time stamp to match photos to locations. He also has a method for tagging existing photos with a location. The mapping display is generated by queries to the Microsoft MapPoint service, which also returns a vicinity-based list of points of interest.