Top 10 Shareware Apps – MacZealots.com

Top 10 Shareware Apps – MacZealots.com

For those of you who are loyal MacZealots readers, you will remember that last year we ran an article about the Top 10 Shareware applications of 2004. The article went over so well that we decided to do it again this year. With the release of Tiger there has been a great deal of third-party development recently. Although Macs are great straight out of the box, third-party developers are the glue that holds Apple and its customers together. Developers continue to create freeware and shareware applications that allow Macs to perform at their very best.

New Apple Store in The Woodlands

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Apple will be opening two new retail stores this Saturday, July 30. In Texas, Apple will open The Woodlands Apple Store at 1201 Lake Woodlands Drive, Suite #1038, The Woodlands, TX. The Apple Store is located on the first floor, near Sears.

Yay! Only 45 minutes away!

iTheater: Mac Media Center

iTheater: Mac Media Center

Welcome to iTheaterProject.com, the home of iTheater: Mac Media Center!

iTheater is an open source project that will be a media center application for OSX, not just the Mac Mini. We are currently programing this application, so check back often to see our progress! Any help is greatly appreciated, so please feel free to join and volunteer!

InformationWeek > FireFox Patches > Firefox 1.0.6 Release Fixes Flaws > July 20, 2005

InformationWeek > FireFox Patches > Firefox 1.0.6 Release Fixes Flaws > July 20, 2005

The Mozilla Foundation late Tuesday updated both its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client for the second time in eight days to fix flaws that popped in last week’s refreshes.
Versions 1.0.6 of both Firefox and Thunderbird, said Mozilla, have been patched to “restore API (Application Programming Interface) compatibility for extensions and Web applications “which were unintentionally broken in the editions released last week.
One of the most popular extensions for Thunderbird, Enigmail PGP, which is used to encrypt e-mail, wouldn’t work with the 1.0.5 version, for instance.
This week’s updates should quiet the complaints from the developers of foreign language editions, who were told last week by Mozilla to skip localized versions of 1.0.5, and await Tuesday’s 1.0.6.
Firefox 1.0.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 can be downloaded from the Mozilla Web site.

Legal music downloads triple in 2005 – vnunet.com

Legal music downloads triple in 2005 – vnunet.com

Legal music downloads triple in 2005
Lawsuits take their toll on P2P usage
Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 22 Jul 2005

New figures from the
International Federation of
Phonographic Industries (IFPI) show that legal music downloads have grown
threefold in the first half of 2005. 

Sales from January to June in the UK, France and Germany outstripped last
year’s total sales, reaching 180 million tracks compared to last year’s 157
million.

In the UK, single-track downloads in the first half of 2005 were up tenfold
on the same period last year at just over 10 million. Meanwhile illegal
downloads on peer-to-peer networks rose by just three per cent.

Transporter 2 Movie

Transporter 2 Movie

Ah, that Jason Statham is such a good looking man! Transporter 2 comes out 09.02.2005

Integrating Gallery with WordPress 1.5 – 1.5.1.3

I will be working on another tutorial in the coming days on integrating Gallery version 1.5 with Wordpress version 1.5 (specifically Wordpress 1.5.1.3).

In the meantime, my photos can be accessed through my Flickr page.

Updating My WordPress Install

I’m in the process of updating to the recent version of WordPress, so please stand by :)

NewsForge | Podcasting from Linux

NewsForge | Podcasting from Linux

Podcasting from Linux
Wednesday March 02, 2005 (08:00 AM GMT)
By: Johnathon Williams

Podcasts are reinventing talk radio on the Web. These homemade audio downloads have become popular since they were introduced last year. Pontificate on your political opinions, praise your favorite bands, interview your hero — the possibilities are limitless.

Podcasts were created by fans of the Apple iPod, but you don’t need an iPod or a Mac to make your own. Properly configured, the average Linux distribution can podcast with the best of them. Here’s how.

Before you start practicing your radio voice, make sure that your system includes the following programs:

Audacity (sound recorder and editor, included by default with most distributions)
Lame (MP3 encoder, available through RPM or APT)
iPodder (subscription tool — see install instructions below)
Skype (VOIP client, optional for recording interviews through VOIP, available through RPM or APT)

On the hardware side, you’ll need:

A microphone
A pair of headphones
A sound card with a line-in port

If your distribution can handle these modest requirements, it can handle podcasting.

Listening with iPodder
Essentially, a podcast is an MP3 file paired with a syndication feed. iPodder is the most popular subscription tool for these feeds. The program incorporates an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader and a simple download agent to grab the feeds that you select.

The Linux version has come a long way, but it is still in beta. An RPM package is available directly from iPodder. Before you install it, make sure your machine is running the latest version of wxpython.

For Debian-based distributions, iPodder installation is a little more complicated. iPodder isn’t available through APT, but an alien conversion worked straightaway on my Mepis Linux machine. Open a terminal, move to the RPM’s directory, and type the commands:

alien –to-deb ipodder-1.1.2-1cl.noarch.rpm
dpkg -i ipodder_1.1.2-2_all.deb

The article continues with step by step instructions…

Audio Activism – HowTo podcast with WordPress 1.5

Audio Activism – How To podcast with WordPress 1.5
How To podcast with WordPress 1.5

As of this minute I only have one way to create my Podcast RSS 2.0 feed with Word Press 1.5. My old install of Movable Type had a plug-in that added the mp3 link and all info into my RSS 2.0 feed automatically. So far I haven’t found a method as easy in Word Press. But here is a HowTo to make it work in Word Press 1.5 anyway. This is what I did to get my enclosure tags for RSS 2.0 working and part of what I do each and every time I release a Podcast. IF ANY ONE KNOWS OF A PLUG-IN OR EASY HACK FOR WORD PRESS 1.5 THAT MAKES PODCASTING SIMPLER PLEASE PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
Update: Supposedly WP 1.5 should add links to MP3s in the post to your RSS feed automatically. Here is the Word Press Codex page that describes this. I’m not getting this functionality. Hmmmm.

The article continues with more information and directions.