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ted
in Findings, Reviews, Software, Uncategorized on January 14th, 2009
I’ve been using Songbird (instead of iTunes) lately, and I have to say it’s quite a nice media browser/player. It is an open-source project with a focus on the api and web integration throughout – very similar to Firefox. In fact, it uses Firefox’s XML-based XUL user interface description language, so it even supports many of Firefox’s add-ons like DOM Inspector. One popular add-on is a panel that displays lyrics.
On launch it can import your iTunes library and settings, and instead of “The Genius” it has mashTape, with artist info, reviews, news (Digg, Google News, MTV Music News, etc.), photos and…
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Posted by
ted
in Reviews, Software on October 15th, 2008
Our good software engineer friends at Adobe have launched InContext Editing (ICE), which (long last) allows any user to edit directly into pages using Dreamweaver. It’s what people have been asking for since I started making web pages in 1994. Other companies like Yahoo (and their YUI tools) allow for some in-page editing, but Adobe has done it with elegance and complete breadth. I’ll be curious to see how much of the content management software market they will have in 1 year. Sign up, view a tutorial and register a site to get started. The support site is here.
In the next month or…
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