Freevo release 1.7.0
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Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC. It uses MPlayer or Xine to play and record audio and video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.   Freevo 1.7.0 release contains quite a few major new features. Including a great web interface to the media on your freevo machine, a web remote, an encodeserver to compress recordings in the background, an rss feedserver so you can download your favourite podcasts in the background, support for Linux event devices, support anamorphic skins and colour in the tv guide to show overlapping recording, currently showing and already shown, a commercial detection and duplicate recording additions to the record server.   https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=669176
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_FunctionCallTracer 1.0.0RC1XML_Query2XML 1.4.0Validate_LV 1.0.0Validate_LV 1.0.0RC2PEAR 1.6.2
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Pierre-Alain Joye has made an update to his information about building Cairo on Windows with more fixes and the creation of a dedicated page for the project.   I fixed a possible issue with PDF and PS support, it should work way better now. The cairo_build_windows archive has been updated and a decent freetype2 is now included (from gnuwin32). The build system has been tested with VC++ Express and VC.net 2003. Also a configure.bat is now included, it is a simple "alias" for "cscript /nologo configure.js ". You can call it just like any real configure.   As mentioned, a project homepage has been set up for cairo-win32, and can be found here along with some results of it: PNG file, PDF file.
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Latest PECL Releases:PHK 1.4.0automap 1.1.0mqseries 0.11.0perforce 1.0.0
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Latest PEAR Releases:Auth 1.5.3Auth 1.5.4HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.2PEAR_Info 1.7.0RC2Validate_FI 0.4.0File_Fortune 0.9.2File_Fortune 0.9.1PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.0I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC1I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC2PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.1MP3_IDv2 0.1.2Testing_Selenium 0.3.2OpenDocument 0.1.1HTML_Template_PHPLIB 1.3.3File_Fortune 1.0.0RC1
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The eagerly-awaited Ubuntu Studio has been released, adding another entry into the expanding list of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but interested readers can peruse some installation screenshots or check out the latest news and information on the Ubuntu Studio Wiki. I plan to review the distro in a future column, along with an update on the latest version of the venerable PlanetCCRMA, but in this entry I'm focused on another very exciting new release. Ardour 2.0 is now available for download. This version is a significant improvement over the 0.99 series (1.0 was never released), with many new features and enhancements to performance and stability. The following article profiles the new Ardour as I employed it for three projects, all involving the program in the processes of composition and arranging as well as the more typical tasks of recording and editing. I've described each project in some detail, and each description includes a link to the final audio output.
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Paul Jones has released two new concurrent versions of the Solar framework today:   Yesterday, I released Solar 0.27.0, then quick-fixed two minor bugs and released 0.27.1 an hour later. It feels so good to be back doing releases on a monthly basis.   Some of the updates/changes in these new releases include:  The use of spl_autolaod to load classes Locale functions have a new home a super-fast JSON encoder/decoder a modification to the SQL adapter for PDO A new bit of functionality in Solar_Url that can find the ".ext" filename extension in a URL automagically  You can download this latest update(s) from the framework's main website.
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THE MAKERS of the free open source browser Firefox are expected to release version 1.0 today. Although it will technically be a preview release, with the full 1.0 version hitting the web in about a month&#39;s
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Microsoft releases critical Explorer patch VNUNet.com
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Latest PECL Releases:memcache 3.0.1memcache 2.2.3svn 0.3imagick 2.1.0bbcode 1.0.0
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Latest PEAR Releases:Services_Technorati 0.7.0alphaImage_Barcode 1.1.0Text_Wiki_Creole 0.5.0XML_RPC2 1.0.1pearweb 1.9.0
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Pierre-Alain Joye has posted about the latest update to his Zip PECL package today:   This release fixes two small issues, a leak happening on error and a bug in extractTo. Empty directories were not created recursively, for example an entry like "test/emptydir", only the "test" directory was created.   This latest download is here and the homepage for the project is over on this PECL page (as well as details on what the package can do and documentation of all of its features).
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Latest PEAR Releases:File_Bittorrent 1.0.2Translation2 2.0.0beta11Crypt_Blowfish 1.1.0RC1PHP_CompatInfo 1.3.2Net_Sieve 1.1.4Auth 1.4.0RC1
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Latest PEAR Releases:Structures_Graph 1.0.3Console_ProgressBar 0.5.0betapearweb 1.2.0RC1Text_Wiki_Creole 0.4.1Text_Wiki_Creole 0.4.0Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2 0.1.7Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery 0.1.7Text_Wiki_Creole 0.4.2pearweb 1.2.1pearweb 1.2.0Auth 1.5.0RC2HTML_Progress2 2.3.0a3XML_XUL 0.8.3pearweb 1.2.2pearweb 1.2.3XML_Query2XML 1.1.0Text_CAPTCHA_Numeral 1.1.0Text_Figlet 1.0.0Log 1.9.10
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We are proud to announce the release of version 0.9 or LeafRSS! This version includes full smarty template integration, as well as options to embed the articles in another web page, or even to allow the output of the filter as an RSS feed.   A patch file has been included to upgrade from version 0.8 to avoid any loss of data. Please see the PATCH file for details.  This will be the final major release before we release our first stable version.  If you have any questions or discover any bugs in this version, please post them either in the Help section of our sourceforge forums or in our sourceforge bug tracker. We would appreciate any input you could give us to help us test this release in preparation for moving this project to stable status.  More detail is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leafrss
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Microsoft released a refresh of its first service pack for Vista to beta testers on Thursday, indicating the final release might be near.On Thursday, beta users of SP1 received an e-mail from Microsoft alerting them that Vista SP1 refresh 2 is available for download. Microsoft released the latest build, which addressed a small number of bugs that testers encountered in the previous version, to around 15,000 beta users, the company said.Microsoft issued Vista SP1 Release Candidate in December&#160;and a refresh earlier this month. It has said that the&#160;final Vista SP1 will be available to the public during the first quarter of this year, with some reports suggesting that it might come out as soon as Feb. 15.The fact that Microsoft even has a beta of SP1 and has now issued two refreshes to it indicates that the company is trying to be very careful in testing the software and ensuring compatibility, said Andrew Brust, chief of new technology for consulting firm twentysix New York. &quot;They are working hard to under-promise/over-deliver,&quot; he said. &quot;Given the dynamics around the initial release of Vista, that is a prudent course to pursue.&quot;Because it&#39;s quite unusual to issue a beta and multiple refreshes, Microsoft is likely very close to issuing the final public version of SP1, Brust said.That will depend, however, on any problems that testers may find in the newest refresh. If something is broken, Microsoft will have to spend time fixing it, said Chris Swenson, an analyst at NPD Group. &quot;We&#39;re just in wait-and-see mode,&quot; he said.The release of a second refresh doesn&#39;t provide many more clues about when to expect the final version of SP1, agreed Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft. &quot;The only thing is that we know they are making progress, but we don&#39;t know how close they are,&quot; he saidStill, the initial indication from people who have been testing SP1 is that it&#39;s pretty solid, so it&#39;s reasonable to think the final version might come out in a couple weeks, Swenson said.The final public release of SP1 could boost Vista sales, at least among enterprise users, since&#160;some companies have said they are waiting for the release of SP1&#160;before upgrading from XP to Vista. Consumers, however, don&#39;t appear to have decided to wait. Retail PC sales were up last year and less than 1 percent of all computers including Macs that sold in retail outlets last year had XP, Swenson said. &quot;It&#39;s more of an issue for businesses,&quot; he said.
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Let the countdown begin After months of pre-launch wrangling, legal jousting and clause tweaking, the Free Software Foundation is ready to launch the final version of the GNU GPL version 3. The champagne corks will officially pop at 12 noon, EDT, tomorrow, Friday June 29.â¦