Floola is a cross-platform applications to play music from your iPod on any computer. It is now up to beta 34, which adds podcast support. The only time a platform choice comes into play is when downloading the installer: there are packages for Linux, Windows (98 and up), and Mac OS X (10.2 and above).
The only problem is that DRM’ed tunes cannot be played. For that, we suggest using QT Fair Use.
Thanks to GHacks for the links.
As mentioned earlier, an initiative is going on to get an independent artist on the number 1 spot of the iTunes Music Store.
Today is the day. So go for it!
Josh Kuo has an interesting article about giving your old Linksys a new lease on life with the OpenWRT project.
Some of the options after installing OpenWRT:
OpenWRT is not officially released – its current version is Release Candidate 6.
When Apple TV was launched, arguably the biggest complaint was that you couldn’t record your own shows with it. Now it seems Apple is thinking about doing a HD DVR, but the limitation seems to be the internal 40Gb hard disk.
Enter the USB ports on the Apple TV. What if you could hook up an external hard disk? Miglia seems to provide the functionality Apple is looking for. However, making iTunes recognize that external USB drive may means some serious software integration, and it wouldn’t be in Apple’s best interest to leave Miglia completely independent.
Sources: The Apple Blog, Blackfriars, and MaxDailyNews.
I just received notice (even though it was released March 13th…) that Miranda has done a minor upgrade from 0.6.7 to 0.6.8.
Miranda is an instant messenger with multiple protocol support, like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk. Version 0.6.8 has a few bug fixes for AIM, Jabber (Google), and MSN support.
If you have never used Miranda, give it a try. It’s Windows only, but that’s OK – still stuck with a Windows workstation at work (oh how appropriate… oh well).
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