GoogleRumors has announced the successful launch of Google Talk. The following quote from the Google Talk page clearly describes the application in as few words as possible.
They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world.
The Google Talk client is currently only available for Windows. But, since the Google Talk network is Jabber-based, it can be accessed from a variety of third-party clients, including Adium and iChat (included with MacOS X).
Adium X has been updated to v0.83. This update includes “many bug fixes and improvements as well as security fixes … The executive summary is that after over 2 months of development past 0.82, this is the most stable version of Adium yet.” The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Adium X here.
Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Bryan celebrates one year of blogging.
Owen gives us a preview of the new WYSIWYG post editor in WordPress v1.6.
Michael Heilemann and Chris release K2 Beta One.
Khaled launches Broken Kode v4.0 (“Saida”).
Michael Hampton releases Bad Behavior v1.2.
Jon draws a disturbing connection between Digg and Slashdot commentators.
Craig reminisces about the old Hollywood Squares.
And, Chris posts a short “aside” linking to a terrible, but hilarious, translation of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (aka: “The backstroke of the west”).
Jon Gales, the mastermind behind MobileTracker and CarbWire, has recently launched GoogleRumors. GoogleRumors is a new blog dedicated to, you guessed it, rumors about Google. Jon frequently updates the blog with the latest rumors, and he also accepts rumor submissions. All submissions are kept 100% anonymous.
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Pros: Inkscape is a free and easy-to-use alternative to most commercial drawing tools. Inkscape is a cross-platform application for Mac, Windows, and Linux/Unix.
Cons: None significant.
The ColourMod Widget has been updated to v1.8. This update fixes a bug which prevented the new method for selecting colors (introduced in v1.7) from appearing. The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for the ColourMod Widget here.
