Soon you all may be able to use Gimp without that nasty X11 starting in the background (and slowing down your Mac).
Gimp uses the so-called Gtk+ toolkit to display it’s widgets & visible elements. Gtk had originaly been developed for use in Gimp but then continued on a bright path conquering all kinds of territory; it’s now Gnome’s official toolkit, used as the standard-toolkit for Mono (an Open Source .net development) and thus drives a lot of open source applications. Now some people have been working hard on porting it to Mac OS X – natively, that is without any X11. The benefit of this would be that, next to Gimp, a gigantic amount of Gnome-Applications would be available on Mac OS X. And since Gnome proposes and follow a HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) which is quite close to Apple’s, there’s a good reason to look forward to this event.

I just tried this application recently (they offer a downloadable trial). It’s awesome, offers great usability and, if you’re a bit comfortable with 3D / game stuff, allows to create games in a blaze.

http://otee.dk/

Ok this is not directly Mac related, but the K750i is an awesome phone, pity it lacks some mediaplayer capabilities which the w800i offers, like for example playback of unencrypted AAC files. Now Jaran of JaranBlog managed to flash his K750i with a W800i Firmware (the 2 phones are technology-wise really similar). There’s no tutorial on how to do it, yet, but I guess it’s just a matter of downloading the Firmware and flashing it. So in case you’re a tad adventurous and would really like to play all your ripped AAC files on your K750i, follow this link

A friend send me this code which basically reduces almost every webspace plan by DreamHost to up to 50% of it’s original price. That’s darn cheap considering all the features Dreamhost offers. Stylemac itself runs at Dreamhost, and I’m really happy with them and their service. In order to use this weird offer (It says ‘Interal use’ if you want to use it, I wonder if it’s not meant for public use, so better use it while it lasts), you have to go to the DreamHost Site, choose a Plan (that is a Product) and then there’s a box somwhere which allows you to enter so called ‘promo-codes’ into which you enter the following promo-code:

PLEASEDONTSHARE1

try it.

There’s been a small problem in the multimedia par of Mac OS X for a long time now: If you wanted to watch Windows Media Files (WMV) you had to use Microsofts proprietary Windows Media Player 10 for Mac which had a rather limited featureset: No playlists, no videoformats besides WMV (not even things like Microsofts own ASF), an ugly interface, no real drag and drop support, and apart of all that an ugly install mechanism that places files in so many folders so it’s really difficult to uninstall it again. But on the other hand, at least watching WMV files worked. Mac Users, as Macs used PowerPC processors, couldn’t use hacked Windows DLL’s unlike Linux users do so they can watch WMV content.

Just some weeks ago, Flip4Mac made it’s debut: A great Quicktime plugin which allows to play WMV content using every available Quicktime application (Quicktime, Finder, etc), but the only drawback was that it cost $9.99.

And now Microsoft bought Flip4Mac and released it for free for all Mac users. Yep, you read that right. Microsoft bought it, released it for free, and even more than that: Replaced the old Windows Media Player for Mac with this nice app.

Great.

Get it here
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