Tag: CROSS-PLATFORM

Clementine -- the upstart music player inspired by Amarok -- continues to mature into a very capable app. Recently, Clementine 0.6 was released and it added several nice new features. For starters, Clementine now offers Jamendo and Icecast on its Internet listening tab. With thousands of Icecast streams to choose from and Jamendo's massive catalog of music (which is available everywhere in the ...

Clearly threatened by the recent competition put up by RockMelt, Flock has brought in both speed and security updates with a new Chromium 7 core. Even the maligned Mac OS X version of Flock has been blessed with a move from the old Gecko engine to the speedier WebKit-based Chromium. In the social stakes, Flock touts a 'one of a kind' sidebar full of networking and sharing goodness, with Facebook, ...

It's finally here! OnLive, the mythical service that almost everyone still believes is impossible -- at least in a cost-effective sense -- goes live tomorrow. For now, you'll only be able to sign up in America -- and if you sign up now, you might be picked for a 'limited-availability' first-year-free offer. After that, it's $4.95/month -- about the price of a single top-tier AAA mega-shooter ...

Today... my Android phone arrived! Yes, I finally bit the bullet and bought one. I had hoped that someone would send me a review sample of a sexy HTC or something, but alas... cheap bastards... Anyway! This means you'll now be treated to reviews of Android apps. Most of them will be free and available from the Android Marketplace, but I will also occasionally turn my attention to the slightly ...

We covered the exciting launch of the Humble Indie Bundle a few weeks ago -- and more fool you if you failed to pick up titles like World of Goo and Penumbra at a fantastic price -- but now it's time to look at the results, because they're even more interesting. First and foremost: Linux users made up 25% of the total sales revenue. Take a look at the tasty pie chart on the right: while Linux ...

It seems the camel's back has finally snapped: Adobe's Flash department has curtailed all Flash and AIR development for the iPhone OS platform. Citing the recent change in Apple's developer license, Adobe no longer believes the iPad or iPhone to be a safe or worthwhile investment. The ability to target iPhone and iPad in Flash CS5 will still exist, but no further work will be made by Adobe to ...

Last month, I wrote about the Synergy+ project, which is an update to the original Synergy project. Synergy is a cross-platform tool that allows multiple computers to be controlled with a single keyboard and mouse. While Synergy+ has a lot going for it, one area where it is still lacking is configuration tools for non-Windows machines. Luckily, there's a new Synergy configuration tool in town, and ...

You've surely heard of Silverlight, Microsoft's shinier and altogether more-fluffy answer to Flash. Silverlight is now at the stage where the only real feature it lacks is ubiquity -- the only real reason we keep using Flash is because the plug-in is installed on almost every computer in the world. Well, Microsoft wants to change that -- Microsoft wants Silverlight to be as prevalent as Flash. ...

AT&T continues to live the good life as the exclusive U.S. mobile carrier for Apple's iPhone, riding the wave of customers attracted by the App Store. That could all change at any time, though, with speculation that Apple plans to drop its exclusive deal and bring the iPhone to new carriers sometime this year. AT&T isn't going to take that lying down, though: they're teaming up with other ...

Back in April 2009, Microsoft demonstrated a pure-Silverlight Facebook application called Silverface. Everyone thought it had vanished into thin air, especially with Fishbowl's release. It seems, however, they've been working on a Silverlight client the entire time: ladies and gentlemen, the beta Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook! And boy was it worth the wait. I won't bore you with a ...

XBMC is a cross-platform, open-source media center app that can play almost any file format and makes a perfect companion for your home theater system. On top of its other attractive features -- it's compatible with all sorts of remote controls, and can even be installed on the original XBOX! -- the latest version of XBMC includes a sweet-looking new default skin. The new look, Confluence, ...

TeamSpeak 3 (TS3) has been released. It's just a beta, but considering how long we've had to live with TS2, a beta is still big news! There's so much traffic to their site right now that they've simply got a temporary holding page up. TeamSpeak is a 'voice communication' program (or 'voice comms') most often used for online games. It's like a bunch of chat rooms, all connected together, but ...

Mozilla Messaging, a subsidiary of Mozilla, has just released Thunderbird 3. Compared to its illustrious brother Firefox, Thunderbird receives relatively little attention. Why? I have no idea...Thunderbird is frickin' great, and with version 3 there's lots of new, juicy functionality that will hopefully (finally?) make a dent in overlord Outlook's market share. Version 3 brings everyone's ...

App for the Milk is a cross-platform Adobe Air-based desktop client version of the extremely popular online task management application Remember the Milk. One of the unique aspects of Remember the Milk is that it lends itself well to various user interface interpretations. There are already a number of different UIs for RTM, including the classic web interface, the embedded Gmail interface, the ...

Buried way, way down at the bottom of an ID Software press release, there's some exciting news for Linux and Mac users who have been waiting to join the fray at Quakelive.com. This Tuesday's update will bring with it a number of fixes and improvements. Leaderboards will be returning, but the most noteworthy change is that the browser-based FPS will finally support all three major platforms. ...