Project of the Month July 2011: Moodle

We are happy to honor Moodle as our Project of the Month for July 2011. An open source Learning Management System, this tool is an invaluable asset to educators, trainers, instructors or anyone responsible for providing a virtual learning environment. This large team works tirelessly to improve this tool for all who use it, and their hard work has paid off. Moodle is being used by large companies such as Google, Cisco, Shell, BP and others for internal and external training. More importantly, Moodle has helped millions of individual educators and schools manage courses and make virtual learning effective (myself included!).

We salute you, Moodle, for your hard work and tireless efforts over the past 9 years to help educators and learning establishments do their jobs better.

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ASRock Teams With Fatal1ty For AMD MoBo

ASRock and Fatal1ty teamed up to offer a gaming motherboard based on AMD’s new 990FX chipset.

Friday ASRock said that it teamed up with Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel to create the first AMD-based gaming motherboard, the Fatal1ty 990FX Professional, featuring support for the AM3+ socket, 8-core CPUs and AMD’s 990FX chipset. The board also sports premium gold caps and enables AMD Quad CrossFireX, 3-Way CrossFireX and CrossFireX as well as Nvidia Quad SLI and SLI.

“I wanted a motherboard for AMD CPUs with the same successful features as our award winning, Intel based Fatal1ty P67 Professional” Wendel said.

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H.264 Video Is Dominant for HTML5, Says MeFeedia

How prevalent is H.264 video online? According to a blog post from video search and index site MeFeedia H.264 video is the dominant codec for HTML5 video and is still growing.

H.264 video actually became dominant in HTML5 video in October, 2010, when it was used in 54 percent of HTML5 videos. That rose to 63 percent in February, 2011, and 69 percent in June, 2011. MeFeedia notes that its growth as a percentage has slowed, but adoption is increasing.

Part of the reason for H.264′s rise, the post says, is browser upgrading, with new releases able to support HTML5 video.

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Navy violated own policy over WikiLeaks suspect

A special investigation has determined that the Navy violated its own policy by keeping WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning on extended suicide watch.

Indeed, the commander of the Marine base chose to ignore psychiatrists who 
concluded Manning posed no threat to himself. 



“On two occasions … a medical officer determined suicide risk status was no longer warranted and the brig staff did not immediately take PFC Manning off the suicide risk status,” Chief Warrant Officer-5 Abel Galaviz wrote in a recent report obtained by Politico. 



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