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Now THAT feels ever more like home…

Posted by Nils - 18/06/08 at 06:06:22 am

Firefox 3 is finally ready to download (though all servers are at the moment more or less overwhelmed, due to the worldrecord attempt).

Since it’s first release it integrates very well into the various systems because someone at Mozilla (after all) had the look & feel in mind. I think thats a big achievement though I stilled wished a support for the various password managers like the keychain or the kde wallet would have made it into the final release.

To top it all off, the UI gets even more “mac” with Aroonax’s GrApple Theme from takebacktheweb.org. (Which is an awesome domainname by the way )

So folks, have a nice day and light a candle, hoping for people around the world to finally abandon this so called “internet explorer” and get their copy of web-freedom.

word!

Songbird

Posted by micele - 17/06/08 at 11:06:21 am

Did anyone try Songbird? As a Linux user I’m always in search of a good audio player. Of course there is Amarok and of course there is Audacious but in my eyes there is not much in between. Amarok is quite large and didn’t really work out at all on my 600MHz P3. On the other hand Audacious is quite tiny but not made for handling large music archives like, .. let’s say.. mine
More accidentally I discovered a new audio player called Songbird. It somehow uses mozillas xul and seems to be a good compromise. To be honest, I didn’t test it too much so far. This might relate to my love-hate relationship to some other media player. Obviously the design is somehow inspired by this specific product
The current version 0.6 is still alpha, so please be patient. Maybe at some day it becomes a real alternative to the mentioned audio players. At least I already love it for it’s logo