Mike Cohen

Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac

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Via Slashdot:

plasmacutter writes “The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project’s MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward.”

VLC is one of my favorite applications, so I’d hate to see it die. Unfortunately I have too many other things going to take on another project, especially an unpaid one, or I would get involved.

Baaba Maal to Speak About Climate Justice at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

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Via World Music Central:

In a special event to mark the closing stages of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Senegalese star Baaba Maal will be interviewed by BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur on Thursday, December 17, at 8pm CET at the Pumpehuset, Copenhagen. The interview will later be broadcast on BBC World Service’s ”The Strand”.

“In Conversation with Baaba Maal” will hear the acclaimed singer talk about his life, discuss his concerns about climate change in the developing world and play a short acoustic set. Baaba Maal is attending COP15 as the climate change ambassador for Africa Talks Climate, a research and communication initiative from the BBC World Service Trust, the BBC’s international development charity.

I hope this will bring him more mainstream recognition. Most people who aren’t African music fans have never heard of him.

New blog theme

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If you’ve visited my blog in the last few days, you’ll notice that I changed the theme. After trying out a few themes, I’ve settled on Suffision, which is very customizable with over 20 pages of options. I’ll continue to fine-tune it. I also made my software page the default home page, to emphasize my iPhone applications.

links for 2009-12-11

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PicSlide 1.1 has been approved

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I just got an email from Apple saying that PicSlide 1.1 is ready for sale, 10 days after I submitted it. It may take a few hours for it to appear in the store.

Download it here.

I’ll keep the price at $0.99 until the Monday after Christmas, when it will return to the regular price of $1.99.

The major changes in this version are 10 new pictures, a new scoreboard, and the ability to post your completed puzzle scores to FaceBook.