Fruits of working openly: transLucid (MySQL/PHP)
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:04:44 -0000
From: "Ton Haarmans" <tonhaarmans@yahoo.com>
Subject: FlashBrain News: introducing transLucid
Hi!
As you might know already we have stopped our work on FlashBrain. It was not possible to develop FB any further because of security reasons built right into Flash.
But then we discovered Lucid Fried Eggs! LFE is basically a number of php scripts that reads and writes a MySQL database and is developed by Stephen Danic as Open Source. It works but not as we envisioned that it should. We hired Andrius Kulikauskas who introduced us to Emad El Deen and together we re-programmed LFE. The outcome of our work is called transLucid. It can be seen, tested and downloaded for install on your own webserver from our website
pantha.net. 
What can you do with transLucid?
* transLucid can put a PersonalBrain on the web (you still need BrainUtil for making an importable xml file). This can be done during install, but also afterwards. It cannot import Notes yet.
* You can edit your 'lucified' website online: text, images and menu (adding, renaming and deleting of 'thoughts', (un)linking to url, making 'pins', attach files) . In this way transLucid works as an online CMS tool.
* Editing can be done in 'public mode', which means than anybody can do editing, or in 'restricted mode' where only you can edit the contents of your website.
* Layouts and style of your transLucid website can be changed by any HTML editor.
Installation requirements of transLucid
You need a webserver which is php-enabled and has full access to a MySQL database.
Future of transLucid
transLucid is now in beta. For version 1.0 we want to add the following features:
* Wysiwyg editing with built-in FCKeditor.
* Sorting 'pinned' thoughts in any possible order.
* Fixing export to TouchGraph applet.
* Exporting to xml which can be read by BrainUtil
* Fixing all reported outstanding bugs.
Feedback
We welcome any feedback you might have. You can do that by directly mailing one of us (see addresses below), by using the feedback form on http://www.pantha.net/index.php?request=displaypage&NodeID=395 or by becoming a member of the transLucid Yahoogroup on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translucid/
Download now!
You can download transLucid directly:
http://www.pantha.net/transLucid.zip We hope sincerely that transLucid can be of use for you!
the transLucid team.
Ton Haarmans, Bjoern Schliebitz
info@wideopenwin.com | bjoern@schliebitz.name | info@pantha.net
http://www.pantha.net http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translucid/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucid