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Songbird get 1.0
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development, now with dozens of integrated services, hundreds of add-ons and new features.
Calaboration added to FreeSMUG directory
Utility to configure Google Calendar as CalDAV calendars in iCal.
Zipeg - free alternative to WinZip/WinRar
For those who miss WinZip / WinRar on Macintosh and who routinely unarchives photo image zip or rar files - Zipeg may be a good helper utility.
Handbrake 0.9.3 released
This release of HandBrake was worth the wait.
Correction: NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 3 replaced with Patch 4
Problem was found to only occur on Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard machines and no problem exists on Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger or 10.3.x Panther machines.
Petition to stop software patents in Europe
This petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications.
Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 Released
Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 contains several notable improvements, including tab overview, full content zoom, better support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and a “Recently Closed Pages” menu. Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 also has all of the improvements in version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, leading to better performance with popular plug-ins and enhanced support for web standards.
Perian 1.1.2 released
Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 2 released
Bug fix release to most stable code available.
Gimp on OS X 2.6.0 released
Gimp 2.6 for OS X Leopard Intel build by Simone Karin Lehmann.
Senuti 0.50.2 released
Adds iPod Touch and iPhone support and fix some bugs.
Perian 1.1.1 released
Bug fix release of the swiss-army knife for QuickTime™.
Camino 1.6.4 released
A maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 1.6.x.
September 24 Is World Day Against Software Patents
Brussels, 2nd September 2008 — A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". Five years ago, on 24 September 2003, the European Parliament adopted amendments to limit the scope of patent law and thereby protect small software companies from the harmful effects of broad and trivial software patents. A global petition asking to effectively stop software patents worldwide will be launched on 24 September 2008, together with specific additional requests for certain regions such as Europe, the United States or India.
