Have you heard abour the bird?

I recently had the chance to check out a new nightly build of SongBird, an open source media player/web browser. You are probably saying Wha? A web browser? I thought you said it was a media player! I don’t mean the same kind of web browser as the embedded browser in Windows Media Player (who uses that?) I mean a full blown real web browser. Your homepage is a search engine that is used to find music, any music, and present it in a list form. The software allows you to download the music and play it right in the player. It has a real address bar, unlike WMP, and like iTunes, with an extension, can do coverflow and iPod syching. You can add different “feathers” that change the apearence t0 your choice such as an iTunes clone, and a special custom version just for Ubuntu.

The default skin is a beautiful subdued black that reminds you of pastels for some odd reason. You can visit any site with SongBird, and listen to your tunes at the same time. 2x the power, 1/2 the memory usage. SongBird is based on Gecko, Mozilla’s top notch rendering engine. All in all, this is the greatest experience I have had with a “mashup” style software, and is completely ingenious. Kudos to the SongBird team. Click on the button to go to th Songbird website.

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Thinkpad after a bath

My Thinkpad was okay around 25 of my closest friends and their drinks, but with just me and a glass of water, I completely screwed it, or so I thought. I waited about a 2 weeks before attempting anything. Turned it on. Nothing but a BIOS error. I thought all was lost. Or not. I waited about another week. I turned it on again. This time I thought it out. I searched Google for the BIOS errors. The first one was an error about the battery being exhausted, no surprise their, it had been sitting for a month, and had about 15% battery left when I spilled water on it. The other, an error for the Trackpad. The keyboard itself seems to be fine, the only problem is a bulge in the keyboard, the “B” key not working, and a non-working trackpad. A site on the web told me how to disable the trackpad, and now XP Pro boots again!!!!

Here’s a pic:

I hooked up an Apple Pro keyboard I had lying around, and an old PS/2 mouse and it works perfectly. I will be ordering a new keyboard so I can have the B key and trackpad that works, but it Works okay for now.

Thinkpad after a bath:

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Z@chery Maloney