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I received the link for the Flock Developer Preview 0.5pre last week and, I love it! It’s pretty much like Firefox, but in a way, it’s unique with some of its features and user interface.

Google has released the beta version of its instant messenger called Google Talk. Even though there’s no statistic figure showing how many times have the client been downloaded, I believe it’s gonna be a major player in the IM(instant messenger) world, and likely to become the number one IM.

Microsoft just released an early developer beta of Windows Vista in the end of July and already the first Virus was spotted for the next generation Microsoft Windows OS. Security company F-Secure reported on their blog that proof-of-concept scripts for the new command console Monad in Windows Vista have been published by an Austrian hacker that show that malicious code can be written. This code samples are in itself not real viruses yet. F-Secure says though that those script holes in Monad could lead to an outbreak of script viruses when Windows Vista is going to be released.

Links:
F-Secure blog
Related article at ZDNet

GX::Transcoder (formerly GermaniXEncoder) is a universal audio and video file transcoder. You can transcode audio files into many formats: AAC, MP4, M4A, Bonk, FLAC, LA, LPAC, MIDI, MP2, MP3, MPC, MPP, MP+, OptiomFrog, Ogg Vorbis, rkAudio, VQF, WavPack, TTA, WMA, Shorten, PCM, GSM, ADPCM, VOX, G721, G723, G726, uLaw, aLaw, DSP, Raw PCM, Monkeys Audio, AVI (Audio), MOD, Bonk and more.

I installed Sencer’s Google Sitemap Plugin for Textpattern a while ago but I always had this “Invalid Date�? status. That left me no choice but editing the date in all the tags of the xml file so Google Sitemap can read it properly.

Yesterday I came across to an article at YippeeSoft that described the same problem with another content management system, and the author’s solution for the problem…