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spotyxbmc – Spotify in XBMC – for all xbmc users out there looking to integrate Spotify.

Microsoft Courier Shaping Up as a Truly Novel iPad Competitor shows some interesting videos demonstrating features in the upcoming Microsoft tablet.

Songler — a Spotify plugin for Windows Media Center.

Spotify: Jim & Pat Garrett Show – Right And Wrong is a great song by a local band which I have come in contact with.

Mark Shuttleworth speaks about the new Ubuntu graphical profile. It’s lovely!

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky is a nicely written introduction to Mercurial, as an alternative to Subversion.

How to Upgrade the Windows 7 RC to RTM makes things much easier for people doing the upgrade.

I recently wrote about Postbox, a new email client. It was then a private beta, but a public beta has now been released. Grab it now at postbox-inc.com.

Postbox brings innovative new features to easily find pictures and other files, but also how to get things done.

I still use Apple Mail and Gmail for daily email handling, but I will definitely try Postbox again now that a new version has been released.

OS X 10.5.6 has now been released! Lots of things has been updated, and some highlights follow:

• Address Book
• Airport
• iChat
• Graphics
• Mail
• MobileMe
• Time Machine
• Safari
• … and more!

Macrumors has the details on their forum.

Some people have been reporting problems with the update as usual. If in trouble, just get the Combo Update directly from Apple.

WordPress 2.7 was recently released, and now even I have made the upgrade! If you follow my blog, you probably know that I just love WordPress (even with the bugs in Safari), and with the 2.7 upgrade it has gotten even better!

The whole admin backend is completely rewritten to among other things make it faster to navigate. The WordPress blog writes the following about the 2.7 version:

The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.

Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

Upgrading to the newest release was easy as ever, since I track the Subversion tree. I just run the “svn switch” command, and presto — Subversion changes the release!

The following video shows more new features in the new admin interface, such as one-click WordPress upgrade and changeable interface.

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So go ahead and download WordPress now!

WordPress for iPhone has been released, making it super easy to post to your WordPress blog on the go!

There have been reports on the iPhone crashing when using international characters such as åäö, but it will surely be fixed soon.

I will write a review when I have the opportunity to try it myself.

WordPress 2.6 has just been released, bringing lots of new features and polish as usual. The following video from the WordPress website will give you a tour on what has changed.

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I have not updated yet, but will be doing it very shortly.

The time has come for the new Ubuntu version to be released. The Gutsy Gibbon is here with lots of new features including desktop search, NTFS writing, encrypted hard disks and AppArmor. You can read more about the new features in the release notes.

Updating to 7.10 is very easy and just involves starting the update manager and press upgrade.

If you don’t want to upgrade or is doing a new installation, just head over to Ubuntu.com and download your ISO image now!

There was a small meetup in Stockholm yesterday with people from the Ubuntu-SE forums and #ubuntu-se IRC channel. My camera photos did not turn out very well, but hopefully someone else will have some images.

The Ubuntu-centric magazine Full Circle Magazine released their fourth issue earlier this week. Of course there is lots of new interesting content as usual, but this time there is another thing to take note of.

The format of the magazine has wandered away from the regular A4/letter format and uses a format perfect for on-screen reading. This is some serious thinking outside the box, and makes for some interesting design opportunities, and constraints.

Great work as always!

Edit: Ops, I accidentally wrote the wrong issue number.

The popular IMAP and POP server Dovecot is now finally at 1.0. Read the announcement.

I have been running Dovecot for a while now, and it seems to be performing really well and is very feature rich. As a side-note, I will be releasing a document on how to setup Dovecot, Postfix and other common solutions here soon.

I would like to take a few minutes to introduce you to DailyLit. It fixes that feeling you get when you really want to read a book, but just can’t seem to find the time to do so. You will of course not get that flipping-though-dusty-paper-pages feeling that a real book will give you, but it’s a bit more convenient if you spend much time in front of your computer.

The main idea is that you first go to their website and find a book you want to read. They have a fairly large library containing many classics such as Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment and The Count of Monte Cristo. You then enter your email address, a period and a time. Chunks of the book will then automatically be emailed to you at said time. These chunks are small enough to read within a few minutes, but large enough to not lose the story itself.

If you have a fairly modern phone or a PDA, you could of course fetch those emails right there and do something worth-while on your commute to work.

There has been a lot of talk about Compiz and Beryl in the Linux community lately and for those who not know what it is, have a look at the Wikipedia article on Compositing window managers. Mark Shuttleworth recently wrote an article about how to make the world embrace free software, and the number one reason that someone will try it it because it looks cool.

It has to be perfect, with snazzy graphic effects from the Composite window managers, beautiful artwork from the community, but one must of course not forget the foundation of what all this must build on – quality software, which is usable for everyone.

Google has released a new service called Google Co-op where users can create their custom search engine. It of course still uses the Google search, but it enables you to only include certain sites, or put emphasis on them.

There is also the possibility to host the results on you own page, using their web-API. For this demonstration, I am showing the results on their site for simplicity. Here is a search box that only searches this site.

More information can be found on the Google blog.

Officially due tomorrow, Firefox 2.0 final has been pushed to the file servers and can already be downloaded. Lots of new features such as a built-in spell checker, nice looking theme, microsummaries, overall speed improvements and lots of other things.

Download it for yourself and give it a try! Windows, Mac, Linux.

I stumbled upon a very inspiring and and touching speech by Steve Jobs from Stanford in 2005. He talks about life, death, love and passion.