October Roundup – Best of the Web

Posted by Sharninder on November 3, 2009

So, here we are. Another month and another installment of our Best of the Web Roundup.

This last month had been extremely hectic for me. My brother got married last month and if you’ve ever been to an Indian wedding, you’d know how long and tiring they can be for everyone involved. And because of that and the amount I travelled in the last month, I really couldn’t devote as much time as I’d have liked to, to Geeky Ninja.

Now, just because I wasn’t posting much on this blog, doesn’t mean that I’ve been goofing around.

Windows 7 was released and while I’ve played with the betas and the RCs, I haven’t had the time to install the GA build on any of my machines, yet.

I also managed to build my first fully functional hackint0sh last month. I’ve installed OS X on non-intel hardware before but all those installs always had some driver or the other missing and I couldn’t really enjoy the complete OS X experience. But, this time I followed the MacYourPC guide and successfully installed OS X on my Dell Inspiron 1525 machine and so far, I’m loving it.

Since, I had OS X on my inspiron, I configured it to work with the Cisco VPN solution that my office uses, and also did some digging around with .pkg package format that OS X uses to distribute installable applications.

Well, I’ll be posting more posts on my experiences with my hackint0sh and till then here is a sample of what’s been happening around the web.

Tips and Tricks

5 Smart Playlists to help you manage your iTunes library: Get some smart tips on playlist management from the masters – TUAW

How to create customer rebranded Firefox and Thunderbird version: Create your own custom versions of firefox and thunderbird.

Cool new Applications

TubeRadio.fm: A slick and cool Internet Music Player for Youtube.

AbiWord 2.8 released: AbiWord is probably the most underrated word processing software around. Show some love people ’cause this is one rockin’ release.