HaikuFox Theme Updated

Tigerdog has updated his HaikuFox Theme to version 0.36.

This update fixes scrollbar bugs in downloads and extensions panels, cleans up a few scattered icons, reduced theme file size and adds scrollbars when HaikuFox is used under Mac OS X.

Awesome stuff. I use HaikuFox on my all my OSes including my Mac ;)

New Version of VideoEditor Released (ZETA)

yellowTAB mid October announced that they were to bundle the pro version of their VideoEditor as part of their ZETA DeluxeEdition. Today they announced that a new version of the VideoEditor had been made available for download for customers of ZETA R1.0 and R1.1.


Click here for the full story.

RDesktop 1.4.1

3dEyes** brings us his latest edition of RDesktop 1.4.1. RDesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000/2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. RDesktop was initially written by Matthew Chapman based on various scarce documentation, wire sniffs, and trial-and-error.


Needs BONE.

HaikuFox Theme Updated

The very cool, HaikuFox Theme by tigerdog, has been updated to version 0.35. The fix was for a minor problem with the "insertion arrow" when rearranging tabs using drag'n'drop under BeOS / Zeta.


Click here to install this awesome theme. I must say, I've installed it on all my machines at work and at home and it looks great on the Mac as well as on BeOS.

Beezer makes Archiving a Breeze

If you get a chance, check out this new app by Ramshankar called Beezer - it's a freeware GUI-based Archiver that currently supports the following formats:- zip, tar, gzip, tar.gzip, bzip2, tar.bzip2, lha (lzh), rar, 7zip and arj.

More formats, as they become available, can simply be "plugged" into the application.

Click here to download.

Haiku's First Employee

Axel Dörfler has been announced as Haiku's first full-time employee.

Thanks to user donations, Haiku, Inc. has been able to raise enough money to pay Axel through to the end of November, as a full-time, 40-hour week employee.

As part of his job, he is maintaining a blog of his work. Check it out.

Python and Bethon Back On Track

"Donn Cave has updated his port of Python to BeOS, as well as the Bethon BeOS API interface library.

This brings BeOS up to date with other platforms with regards to Python, and merges some independent patchsets into Bethon."

Thanks to our friends at Haiku News for picking this one up.

Haiku Theme for Firefox

Tigerdog has released a Haiku inspired theme dubbed HaikuFox for Firefox (0.9.x-1.6+).


Click here for the official site.

WalterCon 2005

On the 6th to 7th August, WalterCon 2005 was held at the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, USA.

Full report from Michael Phipps (Our Fearless Leader).

VNC Server for BeOS

Now that we've got our NYEs and NYDs out of our system for another year, Alexander G. M. Smith has published his VNCServer port of RealVNC's version 4.0 final source code.

Whilst he recommends that you use RealVNC as a client, I'm a fan of TightVNC. It just has more features than Real.