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Songbird 0.2 Developer Preview

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2006-10-24

I finally got around to testing out Songbird…

First impressions? It’s cool. It’s usable. It’s still in development, but I love the concept. It even says “Now with video hack!” which you can see the results of in the image above, where I visited my videoblog at tinkernet.org.

Songbird (the application, and the idea behind it) is cool. I see potential for this thing. As Apple & iTunes seem to take away our rights with each new release, I see Songbird opening things up more and more with each release. When it comes to consuming media, that’s what I’m all about.

Tags audio, mozilla, music, songbird

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My First Freelance Job

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2006-10-22

Emma was playing an online game, and she was telling me how much it would cost to furnish her house, and how much it cost for a couch, a rug, etc. and finally she say “Hey, I earned $1000 but I didn’t get the money!” to which I had to reply “What are you, a freelancer?”

Har har har…

Tags freelance, humor, kids, money

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I ran out for a byte

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2006-10-20

My brother is funny…

I’ve seen at least a few IM status messages that say something like “Sorry, I ran out for a bit!” which I’m guessing is a default for some client out there, but I noticed my brother’s status message today:

Nice one… (And yes, he is a computer nerd…)

Tags byte, humor

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iChat (Maybe…)

I’ve been using iChat lately, but I’m still not convinced I like it…

I was a long time user of Fire, until I switched to Adium, which I still really like, so why mess with iChat? Video…

Yup, I’ve been toying with video chat, and since Adium can’t do that, iChat is what I’ve been using, and it works great for video, but as an IM client, it is a bit lacking…

iChat doesn’t do Yahoo! or MSN Messenger (I don’t use MSN, but some people do) but it does do Jabber/XMPP and handles Bonjour connections, which is nice.

You can enhance iChat a bit with Chax, and I’ve also added growliChat as well. They help a bit, but for a Mac OS X client, I still like Adium, but the chances of Adium doing video any time soon are pretty damn slim.

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Meetup, or Not?

We’ve been discussing whether or not the Milwaukee Web Design Meetup should continue to use Meetup.com or venture off onto our own…

I’m convinced we could replace the web tools that Meetup provides, the main issue in my mind is if people will be able to find us, since we won’t really be a “Meetup” group any more. I think with the power of the web (and blogs!) we can do it.

We’ll be meeting in November at Z2 Marketing + Design and I’m hoping at that point we can make a decision about it. If you’ve got comments about this, discuss it at Meetup.com or feel free to leave a comment here…

Tags meetup, z2