Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use.
Check the release notes for further info.
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Dev-Team has just released ultrasn0w, which unlocks iPhone OS 3.0 on iPhone 3G devices.
1. Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
2. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy)
3. Run Cydia or Icy
4. Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia or Icy. That last “o” is actually the number zero “0”! If you use the letter “o” you’ll get an error.
5. Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or icy and install ultrasn0w
6. Reboot your iPhone 3G
7. T-Mobile USA users should disable 3G before using ultrasn0w
8. Enjoy
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Introduction – or – isn’t iTunes enough?
First of all I have to mention that I love iTunes. It is a fantastic media player and organizer, with all the playlist options, the Genius feature, the iTunes store etc.
However there are certain occasions that I would like to play an mp3 with a player other than iTunes:
For example, before adding a new track on the iTunes library, I first have to quickly listen to it and evaluate it. Or if I plug-in an old disk with mp3 files, and want to play easily a selection of them.
When I used to be a PC, Winamp was the perfect solution for quickly playing mp3 files.
When I became a Mac, I tried using VLC for that matter.
VLC is an excellent video player, with lots of options, but as an mp3 player was pretty poor (at least on the Mac). I had occassionally skipping on tracks, and the interface isn’t specifically built for music files.
Thus I went through Google and some of my favorite Mac forums to find a decent free mp3 player.
The application that I liked most as you can figure out, is Vox.
Vox – Interface
Vox has an excellent minimal interface, which rapidly fires up and does its job, i.e. playing the music files.
The main window (as shown below) gives you the basic info of the track, as well as the default playback controls.
While playing an audio file, Vox automatically adds on the playlist all other audio files that can be found on the source folder. Therefore you can easily select another track without going back to the Finder.
By clicking on the i button on the top-right corner, you get some extended info about the audio file, as well as view the associated artwork (if present).
The Vox dock icon is pretty slick, and has an animated badge that shows the current track’s progress (position).
The equalizer window can be opened via the main window. You can select one of the preset equalizer settings, or customize them.
Vox – Extra features
Vox gives you the opportunity to add various music effects on the track that is currently played. As you can see on the screenshot below, you have options for Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Chorus, Reverb/Distortion, Echo/Compressor, Flanger/Phaser.
With Vox you can also export an audio file into one of the other supported file formats with enabled effects.
Vox – Preferences
Preferences are well-organized and let you set Vox according to your needs.
You can enable/disable Growl notifications, change the interface, window behavior and much more.
Last.fm/Audio Scrobbling is also supported.
Conclusion
Vox is a simple and lightweight music player (not an iTunes alternative!) that provides quite a lot of options.
It supports a variety of music file formats including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM and Games Music and it is completely free.
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Release Date: June 13, 2009
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Finally, iPhone OS 3.0 has just landed!
iPhone OS 3.0 brings exciting new features like cut/copy/paste, MMS, Spotlight search, Push notifications, new languages/keyboard layouts and many more!
Update your iPhone through iTunes and enjoy every new feature.
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Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 and later. This release updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_13, J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_19, and J2SE 1.4.2 to 1.4.2_21.
For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3581
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What’s new in 1.2.2 version:
- Fix Twitpocalypse search wackiness
- Fix following with protected users
- Fix Open in Browser
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Firefox 3.0.11 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.10:
- Fixed several security issues.
- Fixed several stability issues.
- Several issues were reported with the internal database, SQLite, which have now been fixed by upgrading to a newer version.
- Fixed an issue where, in some specific cases, the bookmarks database would become corrupt.
Check the release notes for further info.
Download (en-US):
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The latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8, has been released today.
It includes more than 180 new features, changes, upgrades and improvements on the Codex.
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Apple has released today the final version of Safari 4, advertised as “the world’s fastest browser”.
You can download it for Mac or PC.
I liked the fact that the tabs are appearing underneath the location bar, and not on the title bar (as they did on the beta version).
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