September 2006 Archives
One of the most sought after features for Camino has been RSS feed handling similar to Firefox's live bookmarks. Well, finally we're getting our wish. I've had my eye on the ticket on bugzilla for a while and saw a few days ago that a patch was in. Tonight I grabbed an updated nightly build and lo and behold, RSS feed handling! So if you follow nightly builds and haven't updated in a while, now seems like a good time!
Standard disclaimer. While I encourage folks who have an understanding of the development process to download and run nightly builds and contribute to bugzilla, those who cannot deal with possible bugs or instability, or who don't really know what any of that means, should avoid nightly builds. If there's going to be a problem with software, that's probably where you'll find it.
MacLibre is a cool new piece of software built for the Google Summer of Code. Basically it's an open source package manager for Mac OS X software with a pretty GUI to it. I'm a little bit fuzzy on just what applications will be featured, or more to the point whether they'll feature applications that aren't open source, but any way you twist it this is a great idea.
Some of you may be thinking that this is related to Fink. Not so. Fink is more oriented toward command line applications whereas this seems to be oriented toward cocoa and aqua apps. It's geared a bit more toward the power user than the UNIX user, as far as I can tell.
It think it's nice to see an application like this come out for OS X, and I hope that developers will start releasing to it.
[via TUAW]
Wired is running an article about Vermonters opposed to building wind towers on mountain ridges. As I've heard it, this state actually has some anti-development laws in place to preserve the natural environment.
I haven't got a solid opinion on this yet. Wind power would be great, but I do love looking at the mountains and seeing the pristine nature. I'd hate to taint that. It's kind of a lesser of two evils deal, I think.