Windows/Linux: VLC gets a lot of praise around here, but its Achilles’ heel has long been a lack of hardware-accelerated playing, which means HD content choking up. A rough 1.1 preview offers GPU-accelerated video on Windows and Linux for curious testers. More »
Mac/Linux: We’ve already seen unofficial Mac and Linux builds of the Google Chrome browser’s open-source base, but now the Chromium team is throwing them out for real—even if they’re also saying “DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM” More »
The first alpha release Thunderbird 3 (for extremely early adopters) is now available, and it’s got tabs! T-bird 3 can open several messages in tabs rather than popping new windows—great news for your clean desktop.
