VLC, quite simply the best media player available, have updated and released a new version. Available for almost any operating system including Mac, Windows, Linux and Pocket PC, you can grab a copy here . Now up to version 0.8.5, Video Lan (Client) continues to offer a one stop shop for video and music encompassing numerous formats and even offering the facility to easily multicast over a high speed network.
Keep up the good work……
Updates include; MacIntel support, New AJAX HTTP interface, MSN and Growl “Now playing” plugins and they have done ‘Loads of bugfixes’.
Microsoft yesterday announced the official Beta 2 release of Internet Explorer 7. The previous release was billed as a preview and according to IEBlog they have fixes and changes have been made based on feedback from the previous releases (including CSS). It looks like another couple of releases to come including Beta 3 before the official release which is likely to coincide with the official launch of Vista to business around November.
For those who haven’t heard, Apple yesterday sensationally announced their Boot Camp software, allowing you to dual boot to Windows XP (Home or Pro). The software is available in beta form at the moment though it is scheduled for an official release in the next version of the next major version of Mac OS X, Leopard.
It might be worth all you gamers from holding fire just yet though. Michael over at Binary Bonsai has got the system up and running on his Mac Mini and as suspected this clearly isn’t gonna be the Mac gaming rig of choice. Early reports on the iMac are proving to be much better and when the video drivers are optimised results are likely to be much improved.
I completely missed this one but for those of you that also don’t know, Songbird have released a minor update to their quality Firefox based music player (available here). This would appear to be a much more stable version and they have eliminated the problem with the player continuing to play after right clicking and closing from the taskbar. Updates include;
- Prefs page from mozilla with browser settings
- Some UI fixes
- M4A playback (oops)
- Faster metadata scanning
- More file types (flac/wav)
- Slurping through <embed>
With Apple’s OSX and the advent of Vista, Windows XP has begun to look really pretty stale and dated. This is understandable for an operating system that has been available for nearly 5 years but there’s a pretty simple stop gap solution that can keep us going until the next big Windows release.
The Energy Blue Theme originally came with Windows Media Center 2005 and then was released as part of an ‘Enhancment Pack’ for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. This slick and fresh theme has since been made available as a seperate download (one of the Tablet PC’s power toys) from Microsoft, but still no release for XP Home or Pro.
