Jan 8, 2008 by Cristi
Got an e-mail in my inbox this morning from Pandora with the thing all UK-based users of this service have feared: Pandora will stop streaming to the UK as of January 15th. They have been forced to isolate everyone except the UK for a while, in hopes they might still be able to work out a deal. I guess it did not work out.
Oh well, there's always Last.fm ...
Nov 27, 2007 by Cristi
TechSmith is giving away two of their most popular screen capture and screencasting programs: SnagIt and Camtasia Studio.
Along with snapping screenshots, SnagIt can capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and so on: quite a way from a regular Windows Print Screen.
While there is a catch (both apps are not the latest version but a decent version nonetheless), you can download them, and after ...
Nov 16, 2007 by Cristi
Less than a month away from its launch, Apple's Leopard switches version to 10.5.1 with a fresh update that works out some of the annoying bugs and problems, including password management, nat issues and the annoying (to some developers, including me) file uploads via flash.
Apple has also launched the newest version of Final Cut Express, namely version 4. Final Cut Express 4 lets you edit footage captured in ...
Nov 2, 2007 by gary
François Bancilhon has all but accused Microsoft of dirty tactics in an open letter to Steve Ballmer concerning a Mandriva contract with the Nigerian government.
A few days ago Mandriva announced that the Nigerian government has selected Intel-powered classmate PCs running on Mandriva Linux for educational use in nationwide pilot in Nigeria. But then they started to hear a different story from the customer : “we shall pay for ...
Sep 26, 2007 by saxxonian
A French court decided yesterday that Acer had to pay back € 311,85 for unused and unwanted pre-installed operating system + software to a guy who bought an € 599,-- notebook.
Additionaly they had to pay € 650,-- for the time lost in court plus all court related costs.
Full article here: http://perso.libre-zone.net/article-125 ... -ro-4.html (French only at the moment)
thanks slam for the info!
Sep 19, 2007 by gary
IBM have announced that their suite of office applications called Lotus Symphony will be offered for download free of charge.
Symphony is made up of 3 applications: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. Available in Linux and on Windows, Lotus Symphony supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and Open Document Format (ODF), and also can output content in PDF format.
This annoucement follows IBM recently ...
Sep 12, 2007 by Cristi
I am not usually interested in offline news reader software. I know there are so many of them, and you'd think: who needs a reader when Google's web-based Reader has got (almost) everything you need, without ever installing anything, and accessible from anywhere?Well, for one, Google did not include a search for the feeds until this week. I mean, come on, they're Google, right? Plus, although they have ...
Sep 5, 2007 by Peter
Microsoft announced today the release of Silverlight 1.0 for Windows and Mac and support for Moonlight, a Linux implementation of Silverlight. Up until today Microsoft was a bit standoffish toward Moonlight, but today something changed in Microsoft land. They've announced support for internal specification and test suite as well as access to codecs, more details here.
So why is this "important"? You can pretty much do everything that Silverlight ...
Sep 3, 2007 by saxxonian
In the latest release (Beta version 4.1.7076.4458) of Google-earth there is a fine add-on for those who like virtualisation: the Flightsimulator. If you have dedicated hardware, like Joystick, Steering-wheel, Flightyoke, etc. you will enjoy a better experience.
Just it the special keyboard shortcut: CTRL-ALT-A (Command+Option+A on the Mac) and you get a requestor allowing you to choose from two types of aircraft - an F-16 or a ...
Aug 30, 2007 by Cristi
Tired of my bulky Eclipse installation, out-of-memory messages, on-screen scrambled text due to bugs or memory resources (although I have 4 GB of RAM), I have decided to give "e" a try. E has just recently come out of beta, and although some vi (or other editor) enthusiasts out there might say it's a waste of hard drive space, I think e is a very good alternative for ...
