Monthly Archive:: June 2009

Amarok 2.1

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Have you already downgraded Amarok back to 1.4? You may want to reconsider. I did! Amarok 2.1 is the real deal. Check out the screencast I made (available in HD) and read the release notes. You won’t look back again.

Crossover Linux? No thanks!

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As you all know Crossover Linux 8.0 was announced a few days ago. New and “exciting” features such as IE7 and Outlook 2007 support are presented as “major development” by the company’s CEO. Sorry, but I have to strongly disagree. Come one, IE7? Not even IE8? And what’s with

Pidgin Twitter Plugin

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This is a part of the microblog-purple project which aims to add microblog support to libpurple based clients. It allows you to quickly receive and update your Twitter messages from a Pidgin conversation window. It is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. The project home page only links to

Amarok 1.4 RPMs for Fedora 11

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If you’re like me and hate the way Amarok changed with v2 release then you’re probably still using the old 1.4. Thanks to ingvar.blog.linpro.no you can find RPM packages for Fedora 11 here (both i386 and x86_64). Enjoy!