del.icio.us bookmarks for December 21st through January 1st

ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto –
Screen shot of email to Steve Jobs at Apple auf Flickr – Fotosharing! –
Synergy – share mouse&keyboard between several computers (win,mac,linux)
Nokia Europe – iSync – Download software – Get support and software –
H323 installation on Debian and Asterisk 1.4 – voip-info.org –

Opera Mini 3.0 released

norwegian-based Opera Software has released version 3.0 of their free, java-based mobile browser Opera Mini. while preceding versions already outperformed most phones’ preinstalled browser-applications by using server-side compression-proxies and optimizing html not intended for mobile rendering, version 3.0 goes even further with several new features:

content-folding collapses overly long item-lists, which makes scrolling through long [...]

iTunes 7.0.1 released

as anticipated by many customers, Apple quickly released a follow-up to the bemoaned 7.0 release of iTunes. iTunes 7.0.1 (both windows and mac osx) “addresses stability and performance issues with Cover Flow, CD importing, iPod syncing, and more”. however, feedback on the update indicates that some problems still persist, so I was glad to find [...]

Songbird 0.2 goes Beta

sometime last night, the Songbird-developers hatched released version 0.2 Test Flight, therefor lifting the Mozilla-based opensource audio-player officialy into Beta. Songbird comes with a built-in Wikipedia-plugin, a cool example of what the integration of browser & player can do: browsing artist-pages in Wikipedia, Songbird automatically offers all linked audio-tracks/samples for playback. the new Audioscrobbler-extension connects [...]

traffic-visualization: VisitorVille

thx to Marcus, I finally rediscovered the SimCity-esque traffic-visualizer I mentioned some days ago. VisitorVille by World Market Watch is a Windows desktop-application building game-like graphic representations of webserver log-files. pages are represented as buildings, visitors referring from search-engines arrive in Google- or AOL-busses and carry a passport disclosing details like javascript- & flash-support and [...]

Microsoft Windows Live Writer

Microsoft Windows Live Writer is a free offline/desktop-blogging tool released as beta last friday. like similar tools (TechCrunch mentions Qumana, which is available for both Windows and Mac OS), Live Writer allows users to write and edit blog-posts using a local application rather than the common browser-based richtext-editors. every blogger who has lost a post [...]

my favorite mac-tools

since Martin from futurenews.at is currently installing his very first MacBook, I thought I’ld collect some of my favorite Mac-utiltities for him…
Transmit 3 is probably the most popular FTP-client for the mac. it’s capable of all important protocols (FTP, sFTP, WebDav, .mac), integrates well with common text-editors for remote edit, syncs folders and offers a [...]

education: best platform for students?

Bill Belew from the recommendable TheBizOfKnowledge-blog asks: “So, which PC is best for new students?” (meaning mac- or windows-PCs). there are obvious arguments of course, like lower price-point and greater choice of hardware for the windows-PC, while an Apple-computer shines regarding the ease-of-use and the ability to run both windows- & mac-software. I guess it’s [...]

Songbird 0.2 (almost) released

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beta: phpBB 3.0 Beta 1 released

the phpBB-team released the first public beta of phpBB version 3.0 (‘Olympus’) this saturday. phpBB is probably the worlds most often installed opensource bulletin-board system and therefor also an inviting target for automated mass-hacks. besides tightening security, new features in 3.0 cover many things previously accomplished by external extension as well as loads of new [...]