LimeWire 4th on download.com

LimeWire is on the 4th position of the download.com top ten for the week ending on feb 26th. I love my job.

Frostwire: Might end a year long flame war

This screenshot might be the end of a 100 reply flamewar in gnutellaforums.com which started almost a year ago when I said “Browse Host” should be optional in LimeWire. A friend from the Frostwire team sent me a CVS build and it seems they thought about my request, they might include it in their next […]

pages.google.com is up.

It seems it’s finally up, go to http://pages.google.com to try creating your google page. I found it very boring… still, probably useful for the average joe, it features a simple wysiwyg editor, a few layouts, and a page manager, to publish, unpublish, remove, edit your pages. http://gubatron.googlepages.com/home It seems they took the first step in […]

The future of media – Part II – “The triad of DVRs, P2P and Social Networking”

In honor to the future of media, and by the suggestion of kakei-ho I decided to make this post in audio, aka, a Podcast. OGG Stream (Point your xmms, winamp, iTunes to this location) Magnet Download in ogg vorbis (You need LimeWire to download Magnets) Magnet Download in mp3 In this podcast you’ll hear me […]

The future of media – Part I – “Radio that plays what you like.”

Last August 2005 I used AmaroK, a very innovative music player that currently runs in Linux, one of the features that caught my eye was the integration with a website called last.fm with a plugin called “The AudioScrobbler” I had to set up an account in last.fm once this was done, AmaroK would send statistics […]

Easier Internationalization in LimeWire

Many LimeWire users always come to tech support asking what can they do to have their LimeWire display on their native language. This can be done by going to the View menu, and selecting the last option, then you’ll see a submenu with all the languages available. If you don’t speak a word of spanish, […]

Amazing: Demo of a MultiTouch Screen

Watch this, and hold your jaws from dropping, let’s hope this is the future of GUI’s, I so want this for me. It’s a demo of a new user interface prototype. Basically it allows multiple Touch input concurrently, this means, you can use all your fingers, or you can have two people or more touching […]

My sunset picture on plone.org

When I saw the outcome of this picture I knew it was good to define what the Plone Snowsprint in Austria was. Today I browsed Plone.org and I found out they used my picture!!! See the original picture in all sizes here, and do as you please with it, it’s CCed

GTalk in Gmail – First Screenshots

Ok, fresh stuff from GMail. I hear some people still don’t see this on their Gmail accounts, so here’s some screenshots of what you’ll see in the next hours.

Create Base32 SHA1 hashes out of files in PHP 5

LimeWire and other Gnutella clients uniquely identify files by creating a SHA1 hash of the files. I thought that it might be useful to the gnutella network to have regular webservers sharing legal files. Usually regular Joe webmasters don’t have permissions to run java programs or have tcp ports open due to their webhosting contracts, […]