Monthly Archive for March, 2009
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development. It’s come a long way and it’s actually quite enjoyable now. Don’t run Songbird on a computer with less than 1 gb of ram however. Songbird is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The most noteable change for me in this release is this: you can choose to watch a folder hierarchy for changes and the content will auto-magically be imported in your library. If a file is removed from the watched folder, the corresponding track will be deleted from your library. Previous versions of Songbird needed a plugin for this. Read on for the whole shebang. Continue reading ‘Songbird 1.1.1′
Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning. Continue reading ‘Winamp 5.551′
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 ‘Pidgin 2.5.5′
Hideously expensive clip for the new Depeche Mode single “Wrong”. The song itself is ok, but I’m looking forward to the remixes.
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible and provides many avenues for customisation. Continue reading ‘Miranda IM 0.7.17′