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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 17 declined, 2 accepted (19 total, 10.53% accepted)

Apple

Submission + - Smokescreen: a javascript-based Flash player (smokescreen.us)

Tumbleweed writes: How to make Steve Jobs your mortal enemy: Smokescreen, a 175kB, 8,000-line javascript-based Flash player. To be open-sourced "in the near future". From Simon's blog: "It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG." Badass! (Via Simon Willison's blog)
Microsoft

Submission + - MS releases beta s/w to manage Unix/Linux systems (msdn.com)

Tumbleweed writes: "The Cross Plat and Interop teams at MS announced today on their blog , some new beta products for managing Unix/Linux systems from MS Operations Manager 2007, as well as connectors for HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console. Both betas are available at http://connect.microsoft.com (search for systemcenter), according the blog."

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