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Pavel Kanzelsberger, maker of the multi-platform image editor Pixel, has been interviewed over at LinuxInterviews. In this interview he talks about how he started (and how long ago) working on Pixel, its licensing (why it's not released as OSS) and when he thinks the final version will be released, among other subjects. It's an interesting read, so head over and get your interview fix. Thanks to Sarted from LinuxInterviews for the e-mail.
An on a related note, Pixel's latest build now has full support for OpenEXR, a format for working with high-dynamic range (HDR) image files. The samples are most impressive.
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TuneTracker Systems has produced and now released a new sales DVD for TuneTracker Command Center and associated products. The tour on video is narrated by TT's own Dane Scott, and it gives the viewer a detailed demonstration of the system and its applications, what it can do and what (most importantly) the user can do with it.
To order the DVD, you can call TT Systems at 920-273-0543 (for those outside the US add 001 before), or you can download the entire tour on divx, weighing in at 232MB. Of course, at the downloads page you can get much more, like documentation, testimonials, wallpapers, etc. So if you own a radio and want a good and affordable system, order or download the video and see if TT is for you.
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As is the norm (for the most cases) with private software companies, yellowTAB before, and now Magnussoft, have been reserved in commenting what's coming down the road. We know Multi-User is coming (as we here at ICO have shown you) and also that GCC4 is part of ZETA's future, but today we're going to bring you a small glimpse in what's coming for ZETA and its users.
So click below and enjoy.
Ed. Note: I think, by reading some comments below, that I wasn't clear enough when writing this piece. What we've shown you isn't what Magnussoft is working at the moment, it's what might happen in the future. Those plans and designs were made at yellowTAB and they (that's the plan so far) will be implemented in the future, but it's not what they're working on presently. Now back to our regular programming.
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Flojo-Soft has yesterday released their first free application, named MyShoutcast. As the name says, it enables the user to search for shoutcasts on the web, and then, using a media player (be it Soundplay, the Media Player or another), to listen to it. Its features include:
- Search for song title, artist or genre
- Launch directly the website of the streaming host
- Store your favourites
And others. The authors are also asking for translators to help localize MyShoutcast to their native language, thus making it available to more and more people (who don't like software in English for example). As they mention on their site, you need to assign the filetype audio/x-scpls to the media player of your choice. So go ahead, download it and give it a spin, you know you want to.
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Bruno Albuquerque, aka BGA, aka The Bug Master (for the wrong reasons), known member of the community and Team Leader for the Haiku BFS team, will be present at the 2006 edition of Encontro Mineiro de Software Livre, which will be held in the state of Minas Gerais, between October 10th and 12th, at the city of Ouro Preto's Convention Center.
This event is sponsored by Google (which has an office in that state), and Bruno will be giving a presentation named "Haiku OS -- Challenges of Creating an Operating System", on Haiku's technical challenges, motivations, interests, etc. The presentation will take place on October 12th at 10:00, in Auditorium 1.
So if you're in the state or can travel there, why not go there and show your support for Haiku?
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Wow, this is article number 900. Quite a milestone for us, and celebrated with some great news for the many of our readers that follow the Haiku development.
Just days after we reported that Gerasim Troeglaszov, alias _3dEyes** had released his first public beta of a NTFS write driver for BeOS, he again contacted us to tell us that the driver now was working under Haiku as well.
Great work once more from Gerasim. Don't forget to provide him with feedback.
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Flojo Soft today released their second commercial application, MyContacts. A few of you might know this application better as Peat.
MyContacts can be bought through PayPal for 15 €. By buying this software you will also support Haiku, as 10 % of money will be donated to Haiku.
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Magnussoft, via their ZETA-OS site, announced today that the ZETA 1.21 CDs are now in production. They have been, in fact, since September 19th, when they gave the manufacturing company their OK (they had been given the Master on the 15th). The manuals and key cards have also been printed, and their resellers should start getting their copies by next week.
"We purposely kept a lid on the exact release date, to not cherish false hopes among our users. We also wanted to avoid another delay of the release date under all circumstances. But now we feel the time is right to go public."
So you should be able to get your copy soon, online or from a reseller near you.
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It's my pleasure to give the news of a recently opened new community site. Specifically targeted at the Polish community, BeOS Central will focus on BeOS, Haiku and ZETA news.
Work on the site, done by bs0 and dubh, started in late August and it went live on September 12th, its goal to replace the now defunct BeOS.pl portal. There is another polish site Haiku-OS.pl, which as the name indicates, is more focused on Haiku (though their most recent news piece is about ZETA).
So if you're polish (or happen to read polish) and are interested in BeOS/Haiku/ZETA, why don't you stop by and welcome the new site?
Update: Community member Serban Dragos mailed me today about another newcomer community/news site, this time the romanian site RoBUG. In the site you'll also find the ZETA Magazine, which Serban recently started. You can read Issue #1 online and download Issue #2 in PDF format.
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magnussoft today published ZETA 1.21 Live CD. They have been kind enough to put up to versions of the Live CD: The complete CD-Image, or for those of you with an unstable connection or with little bandwidth 9 RAR-archive files have been made available, each of them are 75MB.
magnussoft has also made available a guide on how the the images can be burnt to a CD with Nero under Windows, for those of you who don't run BeOS or ZETA already.
ENJOY!
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