{"id":123,"date":"2006-10-20T02:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T10:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/123"},"modified":"2007-11-13T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T04:09:27","slug":"wares-they-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/123","title":{"rendered":"Wares, they cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some very cool stuff in the wonderful world of software(tm):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/penguin.swf\/\">Flash 9 beta for Linux<\/a> (<em>finally!<\/em>)<br \/>\nOMG OMG OMG &#8211; so much better.&nbsp; faster.&nbsp; no (or way fewer) sound issues.&nbsp; GTK standalone player available, as well.&nbsp; Now I don&#8217;t have to cringe when I receive a link to &#8220;that really cool flash site.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gaim.sourceforge.net\/\">Gaim 2.0 beta 4<\/a> multi-protocol IM client (cross-platform)<br \/>\n<em>Vast<\/em> improvements.&nbsp; File transfers on MSN still <em>teh suck<\/em>, tho.&nbsp; And, of course, it doesn&#8217;t support the anything complicated.&nbsp; Now I will use <a href=\"http:\/\/amsn.sourceforge.net\/\">aMSN<\/a> for complicated features, and Gaim for minimal chattiness.&nbsp; Like when I&#8217;m supposed to be doing homework.&nbsp; &#8230;.&nbsp; Like now.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude41\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/\">Songbird<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/\"> 0.2<\/a> webby music player\/manager (cross-platform)<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re still of the <strong>1)<\/strong> <em>Find music file in filesystem<\/em> <strong>2)<\/strong> <em>double click to play in audio player mindset<\/em>, please come to the current generation.&nbsp; You need a library manager.&nbsp; You do.&nbsp; This is based on Firefox XUL and it&#8217;s pretty slick.&nbsp; It&#8217;s even quite snappy!&nbsp; It browses the web, collects media files from web pages&#8230;. oh just click the link and watch a video about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: Posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/deepestsender.mozdev.org\/\">Deepest Sender<\/a>.  Which seems to prefer &#8216;BR&#8217; tags over &#8216;P&#8217; tags.&nbsp; Eewww&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some very cool stuff in the wonderful world of software(tm): Flash 9 beta for Linux (finally!) OMG OMG OMG &#8211; so much better.&nbsp; faster.&nbsp; no (or way fewer) sound issues.&nbsp; GTK standalone player available, as well.&nbsp; Now I don&#8217;t have to cringe when I receive a link to &#8220;that really cool flash site.&#8221; Gaim 2.0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/123\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wares, they cometh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[12,248,4],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-general","tag-floss","tag-links","tag-linux","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-1Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}