BePodder beta2
Stephen B. - March 3rd, 2006
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BePodder developer Giuseppe Gargaro sent in an EMail today to let us know about the second beta of their PodCast client for ZETA. BePodder is made available as shareware and its developers have generously pledged to donate 20% of each sale to the Haiku Project. It sounds as if quite a lot of work has gone into the latest release, Beta 2 – from the announcement on Il Tuo Sistema:
And for those curious as to what the new version looks like, head on over to the homepage of BePodder’s developers – FunkyIdeaSoft – where they have more screenshots than you can shake a baby at.
The webmaster of TurkBUG.org, the Turkish BeOS Usergroup, sent in an EMail letting us know that the site is now back after a six month hiatus. It sounds like there are a lot of cool new and planned features, so head on over and check it out if you read Turkish – and even if you don’t, it’s worth it just for the very slick “Bootscreen” splashpage. Read on if you’re interested in some details of what’s new with TurkBUG.org.
First reported by Studio-33, there’s a new Weekly Haiku update online, as of Feb. 24. In the last week, the Haiku developers have been hard at work on MIME support, tweaks to threading. and the ability to build Haiku images directly to a specified partition. Rudolf Cornelissen has also made some interesting discoveries that could lead to simultaneous hardware 3D and video overlay in Haiku.
The BeZilla project posted a Firefox update to BeBits on Sunday, built from the current Firefox “development trunk.” The most significant change mentioned in the version details is that tab close buttons have been moved to the tabs themselves – it only works with the default theme presently, no tab close buttons are shown using the HaikuFox theme. The new build also includes a patch to fix NetPositive bookmark support. Zenebona, music player and library program, was updated on Sunday as well. The new version, RC9, includes read / write support for BFS attributes, changes the GUI, and the ability to change sorting by clicking on column headers.
Studio-33 has spotted some intersting work being done on the im_client by Slaad, im_kit contributor and all-around foutain of cool application ideas (QueryWatcher, Snoopy, etc). First off, he’s added a customisable toolbar – if a program is capable of opening People files, a link to it can be placed in ~/config/settings/im_kit/im_client/toolbar and its icon will show up in the im_client’s toolbar. Clicking on the toolbar icon will run that application on the current person; on Slaad’s blog, he shows a screenshot with a Snoopy icon added to the toolbar. The second change he’s made is to replace the “User is typing…” notification with an icon (screenshot). And if that weren’t enough, he’s also been hacking away at the info_popper lately. Great work, Slaad, I can’t wait to try out the modifcations.
Weekly Haiku, the Haiku Project’s roundup of recent development progress, has just posted their Feb. 21st issue. The update covers a wide range of topics including work on bootup debug output and the syslog daemon, advancements in PCI support, and the elimination of a few bugs related to graphics and memory accesses. Most significantly, a more recent PCI ID database has been added, which should bring improvements to PCI device identification, and there has also been recent work specific to PCI support on the PPC platform. An update was also posted on the 16th of February, as reported on over at Studio-33. In that update, we find details of some progress on the Haiku Installer application, as well as Marcus Overhagen’s recent work on Haiku’s PS2 busmanager. And of course, Rudolf Cornelissen has been working on more graphics related items than I can count. Head on over to Weekly Haiku for all the details!
It looks like the sever gremlins (or is that graemlins?) are having their way with BeOS news sites these days; BeGroovy has been offline for the last week or two and recently IsComputerOn has been displaying an error page. The admins of both sites have my sympathies and “get well soon” wishes, I know firsthand how maddening it can be to clean up after server problems. In the meantime, BeOSNews recommends IsComputerOnFire as a temporary substitute.
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