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iTunes Killer Plays the Web on Windows Mac and Linux

Here’s a screencast from our friends over at puddlegum.net demonstrating some of the features of the cross-platform media player Songbird. Songbird is built on the XUL framework (like Firefox) and works on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

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Second Day with Edubuntu 6.06

Our second day of working with the newest release of Edubuntu was much more successful than the first. In just a couple of hours, we got six of our old computers up and running. We needed to replace the video card on one machine. For the rest of the machines, we just [...]

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First 24 hours with Edubuntu 6.06

I got my hands on Edubuntu 6.06 about 24 hours ago. Since then, I’ve had a chance to install it on 2 different machines. Here’s a brief rundown of how things have gone so far.
First Install – My Notebook
I have a Sony VAIO V505BL that was running Ubuntu 5.10. I decided to [...]

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Edubuntu 6.06 LTS Released – Download now!

The newest version of Edubuntu (6.06 LTS – Dapper Drake) has just been released to download servers. This release has many new features (see press release). I’ve used previous betas of this release and was very impressed. We’re downloading now, and tomorrow we start a new project to setup our student computer [...]

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Mac OS X Installation Instructions That Don’t Suck! (Rails, Lighttpd, MySQL, Apache2, PHP5)

I had to reinstall my computer the other day, it’s needed it for a while (mostly because I’ve installed every stupid program I could get my hands on for the last 6 months). I haven’t wanted to reinstall because I had a “working” install of Rails and I remembered how hard it was to [...]

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RadRails 0.5.3 Is Out!

RadRails 0.5.3 has been released! It seems like forever since we’ve seen a release from the RadRails team (but, it really hasn’t been that long, they were just spoiling us with such a fast release schedule). The biggest change in this release is the reintegration of the RDT Ruby IDE.
I haven’t had time to try [...]

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WebKit Nightly Builds Offer Great New Features For Web Developers

I recently learned that you can download nightly builds of WebKit. What is WebKit? From the site, “WebKit is the system framework used on Mac OS X by Safari, Dashboard, Mail.app, and many other OS X applications. It is based on the KHTML engine from KDE.”
Why would you want to download and use WebKit [...]

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Why I’m Switching to Mac and Linux

People sometimes ask me why I would want to switch away from Windows and use Mac OS X and Linux. I sometimes ask myself the same thing. Then, I go and read the news, and I’m reminded (every day) of why I’m making the switch. People, it’s just not safe to use [...]

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Goodbye Windows (Sorta)

Last night, I took a major step in my long-term goal to free myself from the curse that is Microsoft Windows. I’ll never be able to get completely away from it, but I can choose to use something other than Windows for my daily work. I’ve spent the last 3 months using my [...]

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RadRails 0.5.1

The RadRails team has released version 0.5.1 of their Ruby on Rails IDE. I downloaded this release and gave it a good workout.  There are lots of great features, but I think it’s still a bit buggy for daily use. With every release, RadRails looks even better, and these guys are on the right track, [...]

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