Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free & Open Source Software)

StopBadware.org Declares RealPlayer 10.5 and 11 are Badware
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:56:10

I've never mentioned RealPlayer here although it is a well-known freeware because of the numerous negative experiences I've had with it crashing and then being difficult to remove from a Windows system (never installed it on Mac OS X). However, I never thought to consider it badware in the sense of malicious software (though sometimes it appeared to behave like one IMHO).

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Twitter Getting Flakier?
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:18:59

Twitter has really been flaky for the past month or so. It has gone down a couple of times. For the past couple of weeks I have not been able to get to the follower request screen to deal with requests. This morning, it is just down. Of course, it is hard to complain about a FREE service that is great when it is working. I hope the good folks at Twitter figure out some kind of income generating business model soon that gets them the added servers and technical expertise I suspect they need. Good luck, Twitter!

NOTE: Follower request finally started working again for me a few days ago.

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vLite 1.1: Reduce Vista Bloat
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:47:06

This might be useful to Mac users who want to run Windows Vista as a virtual machine using Parallels or VMware Fusion.

Windows Vista is heavy. My recollection is that a new install requires about 2 or 3 times more disk space than a fresh Windows XP installation. And, it seems really slow on hardware with good specs (Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, dedicated graphics RAM, etc.). Even copying a file from my notebook to a Samba share seems to take much much longer than from an XP PC to the same Samba share. So, I was very interested to read about...

vLite 1.1. Final

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