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Released: Dec 04, 2008
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Flickr has overhauled its website for mobile devices, m.flickr.com. The updated version allows video playback, based on the Yahoo Video platform, and will eventually support a range of handsets, screen sizes and audio/video codecs. The interface has been enhanced, now focusing on the most recent activity of the user and any contacts. Favorite images, contacts and privacy settings can be changed th...


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Flickr has overhauled its website for mobile devices, m.flickr.com. The updated version allows video playback, based on the Yahoo Video platform, and will eventually support a range of handsets, screen sizes and audio/video codecs. The interface has been enhanced, now focusing on the most recent activity of the user and any contacts. Favorite images, contacts and privacy settings can be changed th...

ink writes Sun released JavaFX 1.0 today, in a bid to take on Adobes Flash and Microsofts Silverlight technologies. It is Suns first Java release to include standardized, cross-platform audio and video playback code (in the form of On2 licensed codecs). The lack of a Linux or Solaris release is a notable absence. The development kit currently consists of the base run-time, a NetBeans/Eclipse plug-in and a set of artifact exporters for Adobe CS 3amp;4. An anonymous reader adds a link to several tutorials accompanying the new release.pa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/04/2226228amp;from=rssimg src=http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/04/2226228 //a/ppa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/04/2226228amp;from=rssRead more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/O1F_IybH7GyeHp2AFZ9fu2esEHM/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/O1F_IybH7GyeHp2AFZ9fu2esEHM/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/DLj929HZigc height=1 width=1 /

Boxee, the excellent, multi-platform, FOSS social media frontend has received a major upgrade: it now supports Netflix and all its functions — queue, watch instantly, and so on. In addition to that and all the regular bugfixes, they've updated the look and feel of some of the major media sites: Hulu is now a little more native-looking, Youtube supports "higher quality video playback" (whether it was a Boxee or Youtube limitation before is not clear), and also updates integration with Apple movie trailers, Flickr, MTV Music, and a host of other sites. Not bad at all! If I had a TV, I'd definitely be using Boxee or a Popcorn Hour.

News/release from silmarilion
Hi there, i'm here to release GameMusicGear_MX Version 1.0 (no more release candidate this time ).

The most important changes are the addition of a 10 band equalizer with preset support, a new browser/playlist behavior and several new input and visual plugins .

Here is the changelog:


Quote:
Version 1.0

+ add new vis_plasma visual plugin.
+ add info tag charset conversion.
Available charsets are: UTF-8, GBK, BIG5, SHIFT-JIS, EUC-KR, MS-EE, MS-CYRL, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2
You must change this value manually from the main config file.
+ ADD new browser-playlist behavior more ala winamp: you can browse
any folder and play or enqueue files to the playlist, wich is saved
in m3u format.
+ ADD psf input plugin . For now in_psf doesn't support equalization nor
volume boost.
+ ADD new mp3 input plugin based on the pspsdk's pspmp3 library:
Currently it doesn't support ff/rewind but consumes less battery life.
It only suppports files with 44k sampling rate.
+ add s98 input plugin.
+ add new vis_cube visual plugin
+ add new vis_gel visual plugin
+ add Steven Wittens's UnConeD Goldie semiclone 3d visual plugin (vis_goldie).
+ add hprm support .
+ add show attached picture in fullscreen visual mode.
+ ADD real time equalizer with presets support.
+ add implemented a 'semi' sleep mode. Clock is changed to 22 hz and
screen and power led are turned off.
+ add changed skins settings to a more friendly xml style format.
+ add (PSP Slim Only) Support for 7zip compressed files.
+ add ...

* fix selector is now placed in the last folder when browsing back.
* fix selected plugins are now shown first when entering setup.
* fix in_sid input plugin is now based on libsidplay1 since it was having
some issues with the libsidplay2 engine .
* fix songs with different samplerate than 44k and 48k caused a crash,
well for now only 44k and 48k samplerates are supported .
* fix files with different language names were not played at all.
* fix album art was not found sometimes.
* fix nsfe info was not shown properly.
* fix display bug when browsing plugin settings.
* fix crash when encoding some files to mp3.
* fix controller config didn't read simultaneous keys.
* fix crash when entering several zip subfolders.
* fix corrupted files and folders in 8GB memory sticks.
* fix log file is now closed when a crash occurs.
* fix zip icon was not shown correctly in folder name.
* fix changed cpu clock values of input plugins to optimize battery
life.
* fix play all subtunes was not working properly.
* fix crash when atempting to change subtune or play next song on an
empty playlist.
* fix changed max volume boost value to 15.
* fix in_spc plugin cpu clock is set to 266 by default for better playback.
* fix ...

- del removed exception handler because was causing some strange
graphic bugs.
- del removed fade in when playing new song.
- del rar files are no longer supported by psp fat due to lack of memory.

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/ihome0.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="531" style="display:block;float:none;" /strongThe Gadget/strong: iHome's iP47 speakerphone has an unbelievable amount of integrated functions, like A2DP stereo Bluetooth connectivity, iPhone/iPod docking, GSM interference shielding, iPod alarm clock playback, AM/FM radio and on-board dialing direct from the unit. And, it has a remote control. It's one of the only iPhone speakerphone units out there now./p pscript type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('ihomeip47', 3, ''); /script/p pstrongThe Price/strong: $199/p pstrongThe Verdict/strong: Good, but not fantasticmdash;and a bit pricey. For all the functions it has, each one has a small flaw that prevents the whole from being spectacular./p pThe main point of the iP47 is the speakerphone functionality, which connects to your iPhone via Bluetooth (not via dock connector). The speakers for speakerphoning sound fantastic, but the microphone is definitely less impressive. Everyone we called said we sounded like we were on speakerphone and had varying degrees of difficulty understanding us once we moved too far away from the base. But, it was a joy for ius/i to use it, no matter what the other people said. Their voices came through quite nicely, and it can be bloud/b./p pOther bits like iPod music playback and AM/FM radio were alright, but not great. The speakers are slightly tinny for the size, and in general the sound reproduction can be described as top-heavy. For playing back music as an alarm clock in the mornings, it's definitely more than adequate, but it's no substitute for a decent speaker system./p pWe didn't get a chance to test the A2DP stereo Bluetooth playback, but other features like alarm clock, radio, and the remote all worked fine./p pThe biggest function is the speakerphone, which, like we said, works just fine on our end. You can charge your iPhone at the same time you're talking (iPhone 3G compatible) and even leave your phone in another room and still be able to converse. The price is fairly steep at $199, but for users who NEED a better speakerphone than the one built in, we'd recommend it. [a href="http://www.ihomeaudio.com/products.asp?product_id=10247"iHome/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c799166da65af8aefcd0189599388e0bp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c799166da65af8aefcd0189599388e0bp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c799166da65af8aefcd0189599388e0b" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=7AT9Txgx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=CDAAEgXN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=4Spi9cXG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=4Spi9cXG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=STXtX7iT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=STXtX7iT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/LJJYLsYuHEQ" height="1" width="1"/

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/IMG_0013.PNG" width="320" height="480" /Photo-sharing site Flickr's mobile interface (a href="http://m.flickr.com"m.flickr.com/a) got a facelift and a few upgrades today, notably the ability to play back video clips. Right now the a href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/12/04/going-more-mobile/"Flickr folks say video playback is limited to the iPhone and iPod touch/a, but despite several tries on my iPhone, I never did see any video movement. (Update: Video playback's rolling out to iPhone/iPod touch users over the next few weeks.) Once it's available to all, mobile Flickrinos will love this upgrade. [a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/flickr-revamps-mobile-site-adds-video-streaming-support/"via/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ae13b648b53364f8ff4307b3821b2521p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ae13b648b53364f8ff4307b3821b2521p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ae13b648b53364f8ff4307b3821b2521" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=BV949irx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=7kiuEUMw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=XGV4BikY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=XGV4BikY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=M1vtHzDQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=M1vtHzDQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/JiyZbBO9qhY" height="1" width="1"/

Photo-sharing site Flickr's mobile interface (m.flickr.com) got a facelift and a few upgrades today, notably the ability to play back video clips. Right now the Flickr folks say video playback is...

Newly updated release from Patrik Rak
ZXDS is an emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum for Nintendo DS, written by Patrik Rak. It is steadily reaching a mature stage of development, and it already has some noteworthy features, like accurate emulation of Spectrum 48k, 128k and Pentagon models (including sound), or support for TAP/TZX/PZX tape files, TRD/SCL disk files and RZX playback files.

ZXDS 0.8.1 beta 2 (3.12.2008)

* Tweaked RZX code to work with more nonconformant but commonly available recordings.
* Worked around sound clamping while keeping the sound loud by throwing dummy sample into the mix.
I knew there must have been a reason why I didn't use sound bias 0 alone long time ago.

ZXDS 0.8.1 beta 1 (27.11.2008)

+ RZX playback (no SZX snapshot support yet, though).
+ Files stored in ZIP archives can be browsed and loaded directly.
+ Support for poke cheats in POK file format, including autoload.
+ Added log screen for better problem diagnostics, especially those RZX related.
+ Turn off the bottom screen backlight after configurable timeout.
+ Automatically save state and enter sleep mode when the lid is closed.
* Alternatively boot from saves/boot.z80 instead of last session state.
* Skip loading of either state upon startup when L/R buttons are held.
* Replaced few busy loops with inactive waits to further improve battery life.
* Improved the last menu action to cycle through all recently used views.
* Extended the range of both AY and speaker samples to make the sound louder.
* Tweaked the Z80 snapshot loading code to support some less conformant files.Download and Give Feedback Via Comments
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pimg alt="flickr_logo.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/flickr_logo.png" /According to a href="http://flickr.com"Flickr/a, its mobile site has seen a more than 50% increase in traffic over the last year. Today, Flickr is rolling out a new version of its mobile site, a href="http://m.flickr.com"m.flickr.com/a, which not only updates the user interface in general, but also adds video playback to its already long list of features. Starting today, iPhone and iPod Touch owners will be able to make use of this feature and Flickr will roll out video playback for most other phones capable of supporting video streaming over the next couple of weeks. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12818amp;cb=12818' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12818amp;n=12818' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pThe video platform for Flickr's mobile site is based on Yahoo's Video Platform, which allows Flickr to support a wide variety of codecs and video sizes.. /p pimg alt="flickr_mobile_dec08.jpg" align="right" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/flickr_mobile_dec08.jpg" /Flickr will also release the new features it first introduced for the iPhone and iPod Touch in October to the rest of its mobile users on other mobile devices with support for Webkit, Firefox Mobile, and Opera Mine. These new features include a more user friendly interface to view your own photos and recent activity, as well as that of your contacts. Users can also now add contacts, favorite images, and change privacy settings while on the go./p pOverall, this is a nice update to Flickr's mobile site, which was already very strong in terms of usability and speed. Adding video is a nice touch (though, Flickr's users were of course a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/no_video_on_flickr/"somewhat hesitant/a when Flickr first added video). The core feature for Flickr, however, is still photos, and here the mobile site really shines./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_updates_its_mobile_site.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5LQa6cjzXgUnF0dYuILcIDNTieE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5LQa6cjzXgUnF0dYuILcIDNTieE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=rd1ifkMm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=xusqKscb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=JZXsLtFZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=JZXsLtFZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=DLuXLSay"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=DLuXLSay" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=Qy7Zl2oS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=Qy7Zl2oS" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=x5ckmK3I"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=gd91oa0z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/6cEZqXu0daE" height="1" width="1"/

Flickr has just rolled out a new mobile site, adding some significant improvements to its interface as well as adding a few new features you can now use on-the-go. Additions include video playback (on devices that support it), as well as the ability to add new contacts, favorite images, and make changes to privacy settings from m.flickr.com.

Some of these features were already available in beta to iPhone users, but Flickr indicates that with today’s launch, they’ll also be accessible on devices using other mobile browsers including Opera Mini, Firefox Mobile and Webkit.

In-line with the boom we’ve seen elsewhere in mobile usage, Flickr says that their mobile site has seen a 50% increase in users since last year. With the upgrade, the site is a fairly complete mobile version of the Web experience, building on existing options for uploading photos and seeing uploads from your friends and the Flickr community at-large.

Here’s what a couple of the new features look like:

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Flickr updates its mobile Web site and introduces support for video playback, a huge feature thats still not quite open to all.

Flickr updates its mobile Web site and introduces support for video playback, a huge feature thats still not quite open to all.

Flickr has released a new version of its mobile site that affords several new features, most notably the ability to stream video clips up to 90-seconds in length.

Video streaming will be initially available for only the iPhone and iPod Touch, with support for other handsets that use Webkit, Firefox Mobile, or Opera Mini to come. Previously, users could upload videos to Flickr from mobile devices but this is the first time they can actually watch them on their phones.

Mobile playback for Flickr is based on Yahoo’s Video Platform, which can serve content to various device types, screen sizes and codecs. In addition to video playback support, the new mobile site supports the favoriting of photos and videos, as well as the changing of photo permissions. Flickr doesn’t have a native application for iPhone or Android, so this mobile site is intended to be a universal access point for all device types.

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Songbird is a new open-source music player that has this week landed at 1.0. Songbird is described as a web player- a music player for this modern, connected era. It blends the web-rendering core of Firefox (Gecko), with the media capabilities of GStreamer- a cross-platform, open-source media playback engine. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...

Mac OS X only: Using your Mac's iSight camera to detect the hand gestures you make in front of it, free utility FluidTunes controls your iTunes library playback based on those motions. File this...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/fluidtunes.png" width="485" height="297" style="display:block;" / Mac OS X only: Using your Mac's iSight camera to detect the hand gestures you make in front of it, free utility FluidTunes controls your iTunes library playback based on those motions. File this under "really cool but not sure I'd actually use it every day": you swipe your hand back and forth in the air in front of your Mac to move through your iTunes library in Cover Flow mode, and then swipe at a button to play a selected album. FluidTunes shows what you look like on your camera behind your album covers, so you can center your hand over buttons to press them. (It's dim, but it's theremdash;in the screenshot above the user's hand is at the bottom of the screen.) While not touching the keyboard, mouse, or any other digital remote to play your music is amazing, you'll look like a flailing crazy person while you use FluidTunes. Here's a video demo./p pobject width="494" height="306"param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2376525amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=00ADEFamp;fullscreen=1" embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2376525amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=00ADEFamp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="494" height="306"/objectbr FluidTunes is a free download for Mac only./p div class="related"a href="http://fluidtunes.com/"FluidTunes/a [Majic Jungle Software via a href="http://gizmodo.com/5100725/fluidtunes-lets-you-frantically-flail-through-your-itunes-library"Gizmodo/a]/div br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b9d228da8a91a0ee304740941caa815cp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b9d228da8a91a0ee304740941caa815cp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=b9d228da8a91a0ee304740941caa815c" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=UxvtVCrU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=vSm3wib7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=jPoH7vwv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=jPoH7vwv" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=6BKzH9Yn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=6BKzH9Yn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/34G0q_6LK-U" height="1" width="1"/