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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Biosphere – Novelty waves
One of the classics in electronic music. Ideally listened to at home, in the dark, with a good pair of headphones. Laying down.
K-Lite Codec Pack Full 4.4.2
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. It is designed as a user-friendly soluction for playing all your video files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats. Remember to uninstall any previous versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack before installing a new one. Continue reading
Pidgin Facebook chat plugin
This is a Facebook chat plugin for Pidgin and libpurple messengers. It connects to the new Facebook Chat IM service without the need for an API key. Currently the plugin can log into the Facebook servers, grab the buddy list, send/receive messages, add/remove friends, receive notifications, search for Facebook friends and set your Facebook status. Meebo has also used this to provide Facebook connectivity on their online messenger.
Pidgin 2.5.3
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins. Continue reading
Windows Live Messenger 2009
Microsoft has released new versions of their Windows Live Messenger 2009 and the rest of the Live family. You can choose to install the other Windows Live products during install. If you don’t want them, don’t forget to tick them off!
Linux Mint 6 Felicia
Based on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Linux 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” comes with a brand new “Software Manager”, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mint4win (a Windows installer), tabbed browsing in Nautilus and a lot of other improvements. For a complete list of new features read: What’s new in Felicia? This is the Linux distro I’ve been running myself for the past months.
Songbird 1.0
Songbird is a music player built from Firefox’s browser engine. It is open source and runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Songbird plays the media web. Play MP3s without leaving the page. Songbird views Web pages as dynamic playlists to play, save, download or subscribe to. Songbird plays your music too with all the features you’d expect in a desktop media player. Like Firefox, Songbird’s features may be improved with user installed and contributed cross-platform extensions. Continue reading