WordPress 4.0 beta 4 is now available.

Get inspired: 9 Amazing Projects Made in Microsoft Excel.

Here’s a lovely browser-based tool for generating image thumbnails.

This is interesting: IFTTT is teaming up with ADT (ADT press release). “ADT and IFTTT are planning to test a beta version of an ADT Pulse® Channel on IFTTT, connecting a customer’s ADT Pulse-enabled home with more than 100 existing Channel partners. Whether it’s adjusting the thermostat to react to local weather conditions, or arming the security system based on users’ GPS data, an ADT Pulse® Channel on IFTTT could enable users to put many aspects of their home on auto-pilot.”

The Smithsonian is asking for help in transcribing its collections. “After about a year of testing with a small group of volunteers, the Smithsonian opened up their Transcription Center website to the public last month. Today, they issued a called [sic] for volunteers to help decipher everything from handwritten specimen tags to the personal letters of iconic artists to early U.S. currency.”

A new Web site wants to shame apps with lax security. “One high-profile example includes well-liked travel-information firm TripIt. TripIt allows users to bring together information on their tickets, flight times, and itinerary and then sync it with other devices and share the information with friends and co-workers. Information shared with calendar applications, however, is not encrypted, Webster says, leaving it open to eavesdropping on public networks. Among the details that could be plucked from the air by anyone on the same wireless network: a user’s full name, phone number, e-mail address, the last four digits of a credit card number, and emergency contact information. An attacker could even change or cancel the victim’s flight, he says.”

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The UT Health Science Center Libraries have digitized a bunch of medical school yearbooks.

The NHTSA is finally launching its vehicle recall tracking tool.

The North Dakota State Historical Society now has an online archive.

The Royal Air Force Museum has launched the RAF Museum Storyvault. “The archive provides free access to recently digitized records, including a Muster Roll of NCO’s and men, an Air Force List of Officers, and a selection of Casualty Cards and other records for those who were wounded or killed in the air service.”

The Drug Industry Documents Archive (DIDA) has been expanded with additional documents on Zyprexa and clincal study reports related to neuraminidase inhibitors. Good morning, Internet…

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