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Month: December 2005

  • Favored Freeware: BootCD

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    BootCD is a Cocoa app that creates a disk image that can be used to burn a MacOS X boot CD with a working Finder and Dock on it. This utility is unfinished and still has some flaws, but works. The current version works much better than previous versions, and includes the ability to run…

  • Donate to Support Wikimedia for 2006

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    The Wikimedia Foundation needs your help to cover their expected costs for the coming year. Please keep in mind that the Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization which operates several multilingual and free-content projects. Please donate to the Wikimedia Foundation to keep Wikipedia and the rest of their free services alive and online for us,…

  • Camino Update v1.0b2

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    Camino has been updated to v1.0b2. This update greatly improves “rendering accuracy and speed, bookmarks and history management, preferences, and plugin support.” The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Camino here.

  • Celestia Update v1.4

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    Celestia has been updated to v1.4. This update fixes several bugs and adds some new features. The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Celestia here.

  • Blogroll Dive: 12/26/05

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    James Huff

    Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive: Bryan reviews the Performancing extension for Firefox. Owen discusses the likelihood of plugin incompatibilities under WordPress v2.0. Michael Heilemann recommends that we “unite around a common feed icon.” Khaled ruminates on the need for Flock. Rick has a new puppy. Michael Hampton discusses the roadmap to Bad…

  • Favored Freeware: Conversation

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    Conversation makes chatting on the IRC network as easy as using iChat and other IM clients. Conversation allows you to chat in channels and with your friends in a simple, elegant and Mac-like interface without the use of any text commands, and it has a comprehensive set of features, some unique to Conversation. Pros: Conversation…

  • OpenOffice.org Update v2.0.1

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    OpenOffice.org has been updated to v2.0.1. This update fixes a few minor bugs and adds some new features. It is now possible to disable and hide particular application settings, which comes in handy for central administration in networks. Plus, a new keyboard shortcut permits the user to return to a saved cursor position. The bullets…