Not that the install base of Silverlight is so big, but it might still be nice to have a working browser plug-in for non-Windows platforms.
The brave developers of the Mono Project have released a beta version of Moonlight 1.0, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.
Check this nice article on Ars Technica for more details or surf to the Moonlight website to grab it right away.
After about 2 years of development, we can finally embrace the first major release of Songbird. It’s an open-source media player using the Mozilla Application Framework that has the capability to surf the web and is able to play, queue or subscribe to embedded media from a web page. Video support isn’t all that super, yet!
There is support of portable media devices, although the support of iPod devices is limited. As a (might-be-maybe-we-will-see) future owner of an iPhone, I would love to see Songbird supporting it. I do not like iTunes at all.
And of course… it’s cross platform! So your Mac, Linux box or Windows PC will happy to run it for you.
UPDATE: After writing this post I searched around a little and came upon this page: 10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod. Enjoy :o)
I’ve replaced my install of RegexBuddy with a free alternative: Expresso. Some years ago I tried both and RegexBuddy had more features… But last week a colleague demoed Expresso and I was convinced. So let’s give it a try.
Check out the Songbird Blog for the announcement of Sonbirg 1.0 RC1.
The devs of Google Chrome released a new version: 0.3.154.9.
Seems that they have fixed the performance issues with plugins… Gonna test the Flash plugin on GarageTV for my daily portion of Terzake.
Google Chrome is still in beta, though :o)
Full list of changes and fixes can be found here on the official Chrome release blog.
After an upgrade of my desktop machine to Ubuntu 8.10 Beta the NetworkManager in GNOME makes a mess of my network settings (Say truely, which “manager” doesn’t make a mess out of the thing he/she needs to… manage :p).
Anyway… my setup is very simple. One ethernet connection with a static IP. Can’t be hard, don’t you think? Well, NetworkManager manages to redefine an “Auto eth0″ (DHCP enabled) connection every time it restart and just ignores the nice “Static eth0″ I’ve added.
The config of “Static eth0″ is not in /etc/network/interface, but added through the NetworkManager. You would think that does the trick, but it ain’t.
Also, when I delete “Auto eth0″ and I set the “System setting” flag on “Static eth0″, the flag is reseted as soon as I open the “Static eth0″ details again.
There is a bug filed at Launchpad.
And another.
And another.
Gotta take some time to start trying the proposed solutions in this threads… I’ll report back to you!
As a future Mac user (I’m considering buying a Mac as my main development machine at home in the next year) I’m very interested in Windows/Linux virtualization on Mac OS X.
Ars Technica has a very thoroughly reviewed the VMWare Fusion 2.0 experience on a MacBook Pro Core2Duo 2.4GHz and a Mac Pro Xeon 4-core 2.66GHz.
Check this nice article on Ars Technica: Google liberates Android source code, so start developing!
Barre Vlucht by Slavomir Rawicz
LINQ in Action by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley
Illustrated WPF (Expert’s Voice in .Net) by Daniel Solis