The archives for You open them 16th, 2008


Apr 16

AMD Catalyst 8.4

ati.jpgAt this point Ati/Amd is not strange to us more. After to have waited for a long time immemorabile that Ati was decided to support in decent way pinguino and the AIGLX, there is intentional the acquisition of the company from AMD in order to make that this happened. And it has been gone beyond the most rose-colored forecasts, because from the end of 2007, period of the historical release of driver the 8,42, first with support AIGLX, has been all growing of releases, improvements, name changes (Catalyst), till it ago puts into effect them 8,4 “come to the world” little hours.
The changes of this last one release are minimums regarding the 8,3, some update of some scripts, the bug-fixes, and a correction of aticonfig for means of which it will not go more in crash on Ubuntu 8.04.
This the page of the Release Notes and this the link for the download.

Apr 16

The war of the player

It dictates thus would seem a new episode of Star Wars, but nothing fear, I want to only speak about the last egg of the generation of the “sparrows”. Still nothing fear, without warning is not driven crazy, or perhaps! Boh!
I am recomposed…, and I recommence.
The object of this post is Songbird the 0,5 by now famous one player based on the platform XULRunner di Mozilla, which released a ten of days facon an important series of improvements that you can discover here.
This instead the Home Page of the site and this the link for the download.

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Songbird is an application stand halo for which enough unloading it, scompattarla, moving the Songbird folder where he wants (have put I it in /opt) and launch the program from shell with the ./songbird commando. If then a voice in the main menu is wanted to be created I send back you to this my guide: Start of an application stand halo from the bar of menus.
The icona to copy in the Songbird folder it can be easy reperita through the database of images of google.
Who, instead, thus finds the software interesting to deserve of being advertised on its site can take code HTML here.
I forgot that, like in the best tradition than Mozilla, Songbird it has much Add-ons (Extensions), as iTunes Library Importer (allows the import of the bookcase of iTunes), or iPod Device Support (in order to manage the ipod), than of it they multiply the functions in nearly esponenziale way. The use is simple, is necessary to unload them and to install them from the menu Instruments/Extensions of Songbird. For a complete directory of Add-ons visited this page.
Conclusion: all adding, for being a product still in phase of development, me seems much stable and rich of functions, such one from being able ambire in future, in competition with amarok, in place of iTunes in “penguin world”