Originally written June 30, 2007
There’s always been a significant faction of foobar2000 users whose primary attraction to the player is its appearance, or rather the level of control given to its users over its appearance. In its infancy, with the standard (and still default) UI, very little was possible — the main window consisted solely of a […]

Microsoft publicly released Windows XP Service Pack 3 yesterday, which means that it should appear in your list of available updates. To grab your own standalone copy of the update, download the EXE or the ISO directly from Microsoft. Lifehacker also has a tutorial on getting SP3 onto a Windows install disc to […]

Songbird 0.5 was released last week, and, while not technically inconsistent with claims that its RSS parsing had been “improved,” I was disappointed to see that two of my three podcast subscriptions still aren’t coming through. The problem has been migrated to a new bug ticket.
There’s also a new “Media Views” feature, which looks promising. […]

have a proper CoverFlow clone that doesn’t lag or rely on Java (like AlbumApplet), and that allows for custom locations of art on the drive.
monitor folders for new music.
have an integrated BitTorrent client that puts music from trackers directly into your library.
jump to the location in a page where the currently playing mp3 was found.
properly recognize all XML podcasts […]

Things I’m looking forward to in the next week:

Tears of the Valedictorian on Tuesday
Bishop Allen at The Middle East Upstairs tomorrow night
Acid Mothers Temple at The Middle East Upstairs Saturday night
Trans Am at Great Scott on Wednesday night
Sunset Rubdown at The Middle East Downstairs next Saturday

The other day I downloaded and installed Pine. I’m having some difficulty getting it to […]

Praise Jesus.
One of the handiest features in Firefox, and one that I use frequently and absent-mindedly, is the “find as you type” shortcut. Press forward slash, and Firefox will jump to the next text that matches what you type; press single-quote, and Firefox will jump to the next link text that matches what you type. […]

I still don’t get why Firefox is better and more popular than Mozilla ever was, but okay, I’ll play along. Especially given these enhancements:

Cookie Button: one of the best features of Mozilla that inexplicably didn’t make it to Firefox.
Flashblock: Only see Flash when you want to! This is a miracle.

Finally found a video player to be […]