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09-28-08 / 12:06 AM : Omniweb 5.8 available / WebKit (cjed)
Omniweb 5.8 is available (15$). It now uses WebKit for rendering, and it still brings features lacking on Safari and other competitors. To remember, it was the only browser available on MacOSX mid 2000 (Public beta), indeed it was available on NextStep so the porting was in someway easy.

Besides Camino (whose new version based on Firefox 3 engine isn't yet availble) we could find Shiira, however its development status hasn't changed since January, 2008.
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09-27-08 / 11:46 PM : VLC 0.9.3 fixes slowness on PPC (cjed)
An 0.9.3 update to VLC is available. It notably fixes a slowness problem on PowerPC. More details can be found here.
Playing of MKV container files is however better with MPlayer-OSX-Extended (chapters management). Moreover it seems VLC cuts playing of these files towards the end.
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09-25-08 / 10:31 PM : MPlayer OSX Extended 1.0 : ext6 (cjed)
MPlayer OSX Extended is an unofficial version of MPlayer OSX GUI. The new 1.0 ext6 version brings support for MKV chapters (VLC lacks that feature), and the software is said to handle more video formats than the later. Subtitles management is very strong and the preferences settings look greater compared with VLC (brought however many improvements in the latest version). From comments, MPlayer OSX Extended may experience some bugs while forcing aspect ratio.
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09-15-08 / 09:45 PM : NeoOffice 2.5.2 available / NeoOffice 3 (cjed)
A new version of NeoOffice, the 2.5.2, is available. It is presented as two times faster than OpenOffice.org 3.0 (that is being ported to Cocoa) for slideshows.
Finally NeoOffice 3 is announced for mid January, 2009 (beta in mid November, for subscribers).
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09-15-08 / 09:40 PM : VLC 0.9.2 available (cjed)
A new version of VLC, the 0.9.2, is available here. It is stated as a major revision, the latest having being released in late 2006 (0.8.6). We can read the new features list on their wiki :
For video playback, new protocols, new codecs, new demuxers and many bug-fixes have been added to support more formats... better decoding and better performance.
For audio playback, cover art and metadata support (and editing) have been vastly enhanced. It can play audio when the playback speed is changed.
For the developers, libVLC has been simplified and improved, many bindings for many languages were added and there is a new Mac OS X Framework.


The (very) detailed release note is available here.
The extended image controls allow many settings, including gamma and saturation (good for fixing movies like Starwars remastered editions, whose colors are too much saturated). Moreover the preferences panel has been completely rewritten.
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09-04-08 / 10:10 PM : VirtualBox 2.0 : 64 bits, native interface (cjed)
A new 2.0 version of VirtualBox, the free virtualization system from Sun (allows to run multiple systems on an Intel computer) is available. Among new features are the support for 64 bits VMs, better networking performances, and a native interface under OSX.
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09-01-08 / 10:44 PM : iSquirt & DVD to iPhone converter tools (cjed)
To convert with the best quality and the best speed videos to iPhone format, we can use two free tools : iSquirt (manages .mov .mp4 .avi .dv .mpg .vob .3gp .asf .wmv .flv .m4v, divx and xvid input formats, and converts to mpeg4 or H264. It doesn't allow DVD riping), and Mac DVD to iPhone converter (free version available, it can directly convert a DVD by choosing the tracks to process, and takes care of the riping - 40 minutes for a 2h movie -, outputing iPhone targeted mpeg4 or H264).
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