Archive for June, 2010

Software improvements

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Hey there people, how you’ve been? 
These days I see there were some popular software updates.  
First few days ago firefox said it updated itself so I guess guys from mozilla did some coding and patches and now current is ff 3.6.4.  
EDIT: Actually I just went to mozilla site again and it says that it’s up to 3.6.6  
 
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Then I went visiting some of official websites of programs and I see VLC media player reached 1.1.0 so I grabbed source and gone compiling long long time till I get it working on (k)dpup since I was determined to compile it with gui this time – last time I compiled v 1.0.5 without GUI and used sc0tman’s GTK frontend which is quite good actually – full of options, but today I made a pet for 1.1.0 with both Qt and skins2 interfaces enaled and you can get pets for dpup here.  
 

This version seems quite fancy – new gui brings playlist integrated into interface and tray icon with controls and option to minimize to tray with popup notify balloons on song/item change. Plus, as always it has great support for both playing and streaming many audio/video formats and remains in the very top of media players beside mplayer. Very cool. 5 stars for the videolan team. 
 
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Finally, the most popular blogging and publishing tool reached a round version number of 3.0. Yes, I’m talking about WordPress here and am currently testing it locally – did a clean install – before I update it from my dashboard.
Seems like it also has some new surprising features but haven’t yet tested it much – compiling and testing VLC took the most of my time today :)  
 
 
 
OK, that’s it, stay well people. ;)
 
 

Hoshi no Hate instrumental cover

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

This is one of the best electric guitar instrumentals I’ve heard
It’s originally composed for anime series “Saikano”
There’s video with original album instrumental  
with scenes from anime here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORCq9CURdGc&NR=1 
And also here’s version with vocals by Fumiko Orikasa:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1h0J7yGCA