Jan 31 2007
It’s getting to be that Gaim2 betas are like point releases for other software. Lead programmer Sean Egan seems to think this will be the last beta before a final release.
Beta 6 mostly quashes internal bugs, including the funky Wimp-GTK bug in Windows, but one noticeable change is a modified Status bar…
Jan 31 2007
XnView, a free (for noncommercial use) image viewer/manager/converter, recently saw a rather important upgrade, with a lot of fixes.
XnView supports a lot of formats, and I do mean a lot—400+, in fact. It can also convert to about 40 different types, easily.
The latest version, 1.90, is available for download. I won’t…
Jan 31 2007
I understand that news companies are attempting to give an unbiased view of the news, even when they clearly aren’t (”We report, You decide” my ass, FNC).
But I agree very much with Jon Stewart’s view of the media as feckless and overly corporate—not everything, as he says, should be reported…
Jan 30 2007
If you already know about Paint.NET, you can just go right to the download page, or see the lead programmer Rick Brewster’s explanatory blog entry.
The history of Paint.NET is an interesting one: it began as a senior project at Washington State University a mere three years ago, intended as…
Jan 29 2007
After almost two years of inactivity (in terms of public releases), the handy little Windows SSH tool, PuTTY, has been updated.
For those who don’t know, PuTTY is a little (444KB) standalone app that allows an SSH connection to a remote server, giving one command-line access to that particular server.…
Jan 28 2007
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings trilogy is something that I’ve been meaning to read for years. I read The Hobbitt as a freshman in high school, but never graduated (if…
Jan 26 2007
The “It’s been a while since I did an all-classical FRT” edition
Jan 25 2007
Stunningly, an updated version of Azureus has been released less than two weeks after the last release. My thought is that there must have been some important bugs in 2.5.0.2 that necessitated a quick update (I noticed at least one when opening up .torrent files by double-clicking).
Head to the general…
