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+Amidst last week's the hoopla over the iPhone, Bare Bones Software quietly [announced a new version][1] of their flagship editor BBEdit. This release, which brings the venerable Mac text editor to version 8.6, features enhanced Java and TeX language support, and adds support for the "Markdown" structured text format.

The Markdown support includes coloring and folding of document structural elements, as well as the ability to preview the finished document using the "Preview in BBEdit" command, which leverages WebKit. 

I have several modified versions of Markdown and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to get BBEdit to use these for the native features.

Other enhancements include new commands "Save as Styled HTML" and "Copy as Styled HTML" which generate HTML code duplicating the layout and text styles of syntax-colored code. BBEdit can also now read and write the "binary property list" format, primarily used for preferences files in Mac OS X 10.4. 

BBEdit 8.6 is also a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds several other refinements to this award-winning HTML and text editor.

BBEdit 8.6 is a [free upgrade][2] for users with version 8.5.x. Users of BBEdit 8 may upgrade for $30, while those with version 7 can upgrade for $40. A new copy of 8.6 is $125.

[2]: http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/updates.shtml "BBEdit 8.6"
[1]: http://web.barebones.com/company/press.php?news_id=158 "Bare Bones Software Ships BBEdit 8.6"
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+<img alt="Wiredblogs" title="Wiredblogs" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/wiredblogs.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Elsewhere on Wired:

*	Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk has a story about [libraries and Windows-only DRM][1]. "Physical library cards don't require a certain type of wallet; why should the electronic ones only work on Windows?" 

[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/library_media_l.html "Public Libraries, Private DRM"

*	Game|Life [reports][2] that someone has figured out a way to use the PlayStation 3 as a digital video recorder using the Plextor ConvertX DVR and MythTV.

[2]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/ps3_does_dvr.html "PS3: The Next TiVo?"

*	According to an as-yet unverified document provided to [27B Stroke 6][3] by a privacy activist, there's a program afoot to standardize state driver's licenses and create a de facto national I.D card using private sector contractors.

[3]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/national_id_to_.html "National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs"

*	Hopefully the last item will one day end up in [The Museum of Unworkable Devices][4], which we discovered this morning via Table of Malcontents.

[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/the_museum_of_u.html "The Museum of Unworkable Devices"
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+There's an interesting, albeit rather long, new study available from an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers that documents Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and its economic influences on the EU.

The full text of the 287 page report, entitled ""Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU," is [available online][1] (PDF). The report provides one of the most thorough and comprehensive looks at the FLOSS community and what FLOSS software has done for the IT community that I've ever seen. 

While most of the statics and numbers are geared toward EU and European nations in general (the lead contractor of the study was UNU-MERIT from the Netherlands), the study nevertheless provides a fascinating look at free software and its impact on the world at large. 

Particularly stunning is the estimated time to reproduce this software in proprietary format (131,000 person years) and the estimated amount of donated programming effort in monetary terms (800 million per year).

Here's some more highlights pulled straight from the text:


>*	Almost two-thirds of FLOSS software is still written by individuals; firms contribute about 15% and other institutions another 20%. 
*	Europe is the leading region in terms of globally collaborating FLOSS software developers, and leads in terms of global project leaders, followed closely by North America (interestingly, more in the East Coast than the West). Asia and Latin America. 
*	The existing base of quality FLOSS applications with reasonable quality control and distribution would <strong>cost firms almost Euro 12 billion to reproduce internally</strong>. This code base has been doubling every 18-24 months over the past eight years, and this growth is projected to continue for several more years. 
*	This existing base of FLOSS software <strong>represents a lower bound of about 131 000 real person-years of effort that has been devoted exclusively by programmers</strong>. As this is mostly by individuals not directly paid for development, it represents a significant gap in national accounts of productivity. Annualised and adjusted for growth this represents at  least Euro 800 million in voluntary contribution from programmers alone each year, of which nearly half are based in Europe. 
*	Firms have invested an estimated Euro 1.2 billion in developing FLOSS software that is made freely available. Such firms represent in total at least 565 000 jobs and Euro 263 billion in annual revenue. Contributing firms are from several non-IT (but often ICT intensive) sectors, and tend to have much higher revenues than non-contributing firms. 
*	Defined broadly, FLOSS-related services could reach a 32% share of all IT services by 2010, and the FLOSS-related share of the economy could reach 4% of European GDP by 2010. 
*	Proprietary packaged software firms account for well below 10% of employment of software developers in the U.S., and "IT user" firms account for over 70% of software developers employed with a similar salary (and thus skill) level. This suggests a relatively low potential for cannibalisation (sic) of proprietary software jobs by FLOSS, and suggests a relatively high potential for software developer jobs to become increasingly FLOSS- related. 


This report gives me a warm fuzzy feeling every time I think about it. As government documents go this one is pretty readable and if you have any interest in evangelizing for open source software there's a enough positive numbers in here to sway the opinions of the most hardened proprietary skeptics. 

[Discovered via BoingBoing][2]]

[1]: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf ""Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU"
[2]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/17/giant_amazing_study_.html "BoingBoing: Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software"
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+Since my dream of a native OS X port of [Amarok][1] seems unlikely I've taken to exploring other options. Today I ran across [Jajuk][2], a cross-platform, Java-based music jukebox. Jajuk is a Free Software published under GPL license and requires Java 1.5.

Jajuk has been around a while, but they recently upgraded to version 1.3 which utilizes mPlayer to add more supported music formats. Because I don't have mPlayer installed I wasn't able to test that feature, but MP3 files play fine without an extra work.

Jajuk has some nice features and mirrors Amarok fairly closely. highlights include:

*	Ogg, ID3 V1 and V2 support
*	Dockable perspectives and views
*	Wikipedia view displays artist discography
*	Visual catalog of all albums by covers
*	Dynamic playlist creation by drag and drop
*	Configurable cross-fade
*	Recursive play/repeat/shuffle/push in directories/sub-directories or by genre/artist/albums...
*	Best Of smart function to play your favorite tracks

Jajuk recommends using Java 1.5, but I got it to run using 1.4, though it did flicker occasionally so if you want to test it on OS X without upgrading Java it's possible, though for long term usage I'd recommend you upgrade to Java 1.5.

Jajuk has no trouble scanning my library and in fact it was able to do so in just over 5 minutes which isn't bad for 65 gigs worth of music, the same task in iTunes takes at least double that.

I had no trouble fetching cover art or CDDB info and the in-app Wikipedia lookup was surprisingly fast. There's also a nice graphical breakdown of your music based on tags that lets you see some aggregated metadata about your music collection (see screenshot below).

I'll admit that I don't really like Java apps, but Jajuk bucks the trend of the previous apps I've used by managing to be both fast and stable. That said, it still won't replace iTunes for me.

Because it's Java-based you can [test out Jajuk in your browser][3] if you'd like to use it without downloading.

[1]: http://amarok.kde.org/ "Amarok"
[2]: http://jajuk.info/index.html "Jajuk Advanced Jukebox"
[3]: http://jajuk.info/jnlp.html "Launch jajuk online"
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+Autodesk, Inc. announced [Maya 8.5][1] yesterday with support for Intel-powered Macs, which should be music to ears of many an animator looking to upgrade their workstation.

The new software enables faster completion of complex animation and simulation tasks, giving artists enhanced creative control on multiple platforms.

Marc Petit, Autodesk's Media &amp; Entertainment vice president, says in the press release, "Autodesk Maya 8.5 is our first Universal application of Maya. This multi-threaded software leverages the latest multi-core workstations from Apple. Maya 8.5 equips digital artists with innovative new technologies such as Maya Nucleus, a unified simulation framework, as well as greater productivity."

New features in Maya include the Maya Nucleus Unified Simulation Framework, a unified simulation framework, Maya nCloth, a module built on Nucleus technology which lets you quickly direct and control cloth, and other material simulations, and the addition of a Python scripting support.

The Python support has bindings to the OpenMaya API which gives you an alternative language for plug-in development. In addition, the Maya Python modules can be imported into an external standalone Python interpreter for batch processing. 

There are half a dozen other enhancements which you can [read about on the Autodesk site][2]. Maya ships in two versions, Complete which will set you back $2000 and Ultimate which is a whopping $7000.

[1]: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=7635770 "Maya 8.5"
[2]: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7635643 "New Features Maya 8.5"
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+<img alt="Nightlybuild" title="Nightlybuild" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightlybuild.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build:

*	Our own Listening Post has some good coverage of Apple's announcement that the company will [license its FairPlay DRM technology][1] to hardware vendors that are part of the "Made for iPod" program. 

[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/apple_opens_fai.html "Apple Opens Fairplay DRM to NetGear"

*	Not to be outdone by its stateside equivalent, the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries has [threatened to take legal action against ISPs][2] if they don't stop users who illegally upload and download music. Luckily, the folks at the IFPI don't seem to have heard of [Tor][3].
[2]: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/music-industry-declares-war-internet/story.aspx?guid=%7B0D43D22C-F418-4947-95AE-82A44A2B55DB%7D "Music industry declares war on Internet providers"
[3]: http://tor.eff.org/ "Tor: anonymity online"

*	The Choose Your Own Adventure series is coming to the iPod. I don't know if I would get into these anymore, but I loved them when I was kid. Book number one is [now available for download][4] &mdash; free of charge until Jan 25, 2007.

[4]: http://www.cyoastore.com/product/show/5773 "Choose Your Own Adventure for the iPod"

*	And finally, this Reuters story is just [too amazing not to mention][5]: A New York-based designer has come up with a mirror equipped with infrared technology that sends a live video feed to any cell phone, e-mail account or personal digital assistant device selected by a shopper. Christopher Enright, chief technology officer for digital design company IconNicholson, said putting these mirrors outside store fitting rooms meant women could go shopping with their friends -- remotely. "She could be in Paris, your mom, watching you try on your wedding dress (while you are in New York)," Enright told Reuters on Tuesday as he unveiled the interactive mirror at a retail trade show. Just think of the possibilities for all those one-way mirrors in Italian restaurants...

[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-18T002818Z_01_N17321711_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-MIRROR.xml&src=rss "Mirror, mirror on the wall, is this dress for me?"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The morning reboot notes that the third whiskey seems far less essential the morning after.

*	Global digital music sales [nearly doubled in 2006][1], but still failed to over take CDs. The same report, from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) also claims that overall music sales were down 4 percent, something the report attributes to piracy, though it lacks any evidence to back that up. 

[1]: http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/digital-music-report.html "IFPI Digital Music Report 2007"

*	MySpace will begin [offering parental notification software][2] in an effort to appease critics who claim the site is chock full of underage users. The software, dubbed "Zephyr," can be used to find out what name, age and location their children use to represent themselves on MySpace. No word on how that software might also be used by people who are not the parents of the children.

[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-17T065753Z_01_N16209418_RTRUKOC_0_US-MYSPACE-ZEPHYR.xml&src=rss "MySpace to offer parental notification software"

*	Despite Microsoft's claim of 100 million IE7 installs, Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market is at 14 percent and has [continued to grow][3] each of the last three months. The disparate claims can probably be attributed to the fact that most IE7 users are upgrading from IE6 rather than switching from anther browser.

[3]: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901142 "Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft's Browser Still Loses Ground"

*	Bad news for my English friends: According to a UK survey one in eight men would [swap their girlfriend for an iPod][4] or similar must-have gadget. No word on how many lonely nerds would swap their aging 3G iPod for a girlfriend.

[4]: http://techdigest.tv/2007/01/1_in_8_men_woul.html "1 in 8 men would dump their girlfrend for an iPod"
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+Today's RSS power user tip is a modification of a [Lifehacker tip][1] I ran across recently. Some information, like job and apartment listings is extremely time sensitive, miss an announcement and you could miss out on that rent-controlled beauty in the East Village. 

The Lifehacker article linked above outlines how to get RSS feeds for Craig's List searches. Just enter your search criteria and look for the RSS link at the bottom of the page. Of course you need not use Craig's List, any similar service that offers RSS feeds for searches would work as well.

But rather than refreshing your news reader obsessively, why not just use [Yahoo's Alerts][2] or a similar service to send those messages to directly to your phone so you can find out about new apartment listings even when you're away from the computer? 

To use Yahoo Alerts just login to your Yahoo account and head to the alerts page. Click the "feed/blog" category and paste in the url from Craig's List.

If you haven't already, set up your Yahoo Alert's account to send messages to your mobile phone. Enable your new feed to send SMS text messages and you're done. Using Yahoo Alerts you can limit the number of messages that get forwarded to your phone since, depending on your mobile plan, this may cost a bit of money.

Now you can get new apartment listings (or job leads or any number of other things) even when you're away from your computer.

[1]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/technophilia-craigslist-for-power-users-204312.php "Craigslist for power users"
[2]: http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=splash_signup_signin&.done=http%3A%2F%2Falerts.yahoo.com%2Fmain.php%3Fview%3Dblogs "Yahoo Alerts"
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