Month: December 2005
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Favored Freeware: Celestia
Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the…
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Review: iPod Video
When Apple announced the fifth-generation iPod with video playback features, I could do nothing but laugh about the concept of viewing television shows and music videos on its tiny screen. Why would I want to watch videos on my iPod? An iPod is for listening to music while you drive and read. You can’t watch…
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Adium Update v0.87
Adium has been updated to v0.87. This update adds more localizations, improved encryption, and “a slew of tasty bug fixes”. The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Adium here.
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VLC Update v0.8.4a
VLC has been updated to v0.8.4a. “This minor update to VLC v0.8.4 fixes a few annoying bugs. OSX S/PDIF has been fixed (thanks to the donations we got for the G5), and so has A/52 over S/PDIF in Linux ALSA. MusePack is also now enabled in Windows version.” The release notes are available here. Read…
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Sarah Completes a Musical Portrayal of Christ
I am pleased to announce the completion of Sarah’s latest compositional project, Three Images of Christ’s Final Hours. This is a fifteen minute collection of three individual pieces that, when performed as a set, depict the Garden of Gethsemane (including Christ’s prayer, arrest, and trial), the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. The completion of this collection…