Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art grabber, performance improvements, and loads o' little tweaks. The killer new feature is a single menu option, u...

… I was tagged!  (by way of @SaraD (blog), who came from @sogrady (blog), and an undoubtedly longer (and more famous) path from there…) So, 7 things you may or may not know about me….  I believe in open communication and transparency… especially when I’m drunk, so it&...

What do i need to learn to make add-ons of my own for Firefox and/or Songbird? I'm interested in using my computer skills to improve my favorite open source programs. Unfortunately, I don't know a damn thing about coding, programing, writing lines, terminal, etc. I need to know, where's a good place...

Like Firefox, the open source media player Songbird is a pretty neat alternative to a big-name competitor on its own, but the ability to extend it through add-ons is what really makes it boss. We considered the release candidate of the potential "iTunes killer"—Songbird a sloppy mess, then bac...

After yesterday’s Ubuntu Developer Summit, I headed over to the Mozilla Open House w/ the Ubuntu Mozilla-team guys. T’was good to hang out with the Moz folks… there was some interesting conversation over add-on versioning, the FF3.1 release train, AMO policies, and backwards/forwar...

Canwest News Service: The first time Bruce Di Labio heard the distinct song of the cerulean warbler, he could not see the bird itself. It was tucked away high in the canopy of trees, and Di Labio left without catching a glimpse of the bright blue ball of feathers. That was in 1973. "I wanted to...

Canwest News Service: The first time Bruce Di Labio heard the distinct song of the cerulean warbler, he could not see the bird itself. It was tucked away high in the canopy of trees, and Di Labio left without catching a glimpse of the bright blue ball of feathers. That was in 1973. "I wanted to...

Aside from 2 hours spent idling on 880 today, I spent most of the day at FOSSCamp… congrats to Jorge of Ubuntu for putting together a great unconference. I sat in on a session led by Jono regarding how distributions (with a bias towards Ubuntu of course) could facilitate less fearful (my empha...

I’m always glad whenever Apple has some competition. Anything to light a fire under their asses is a good idea to me. And iTunes could use some serious competition. Maybe Songbird will provide that? A multi-year effort to deliver an open-source and customizable iTunes rival came to fruition th...

I am actually listening to some tunes via the latest release as I type this. Thanks to me already having it downloaded, I was able to update it easily from the Help menu and the rest as they say, is history. Outside of some drastic speed improvements, the main thing I noticed was missing was the que...