May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Most (if not all) of the eskwela.com team members uses either a Macbook/Powerbook/iBook or Ubuntu. They really don’t like using Windows unless it’s really necessary (like developing XackMail) and these guys weally (really) love OSX and Linux.
Yes, you are right. I use Windows XP (which was pre-loaded with the notebook I got, so what?). And don’t you try to belittle me, I love Macs too! Ha! 
Actually, I’m saving for a MacBook Pro (I can also run Ubuntu and Windows here you know). But there are tons of other priorities than that so I leave it the way it is for now. 
One of my job at eskwela.com is quality testing. I use different versions of IE (Internet Explorer) and a very good tool for this is MultipleIEs.
For those who doesn’t know, (yes) you can actually install all versions of IE3, IE4.01, IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 on one machine. It works fine (don’t crash now, please) on my machine together with the new (or old) IE7.
Why don’t you give it a try.
Disclaimer: Use at your own risk. hehehe… 
Good luck!
–aj
April 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
Songbird according to their site is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source.
The great guys that are working on Songbird (a very young media player) have tons of experience on their sleeves. Their previous gigs includes Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine.
Songbird beats industry giants Apple iTunes (it has an iTunes media import too) and Microsoft’s Media Player on cross-platform availability. It can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux.
On top of the team’s expertise, their board of advisors are industry heavy-weights (and I’m a fan!):
Aaron Boodman (Greasemonkey), Josh Aas (Mozilla/Firefox), Bart Decrem (Flock Founder).
Some interesting facts about Songbird:
- Hatched: February 7, 2006
- Lots of add-ons (and growing)
- Painless updating/downloading of add-ons. It’s like Mozilla or Firefox since Songbird is made from XUL (Mozilla and Firefox’s User Interface Language).
Related Links: The Joy of XUL, XUL Programmer’s Reference
I think I’ve said enough. There are more features that I can write about Songbird here, but I’ll leave that to this page.
More screenshots below:
Enjoy downloading and make it your default media player. It has more to offer than the rest.
April 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Do you love open source but don’t know where to find a collection? Don’t fret, here’s a FOSS collection.
