Songbird – Firefox for your music

Since leaving windows behind (yey!) I couldn’t find decent music player (which won’t frustrate me). Foobar was my choice for a years. Tried many after that like Rhythmbox, Amarok (3 and 4), Listen, Sonata (MPD client), Banshee (<1.0 and 1.0) and others… Finally yesterday I found advertised-as-itunes-alternative Songbird – XUL/Mozilla powered music player! Main features are:

• Addons
  Just like in Firefox. There is almost 300 of them right now.
• Shoutcast client
  This is most important feature for me as I listen to radio most of the time (Secret Agent is my fav pick)
• Webrowser with tabs
  Web is everywhere in this player.

I feel so foobar-like when using it. For those of you who like iTunes, there is (of course) iTunes theme.

Eclipse PDT 1.0.5 – Zend’s hidden release

When PDT 2.0 is still slow and DLTK 1.0 hasn’t reached final milestone, Zend guys are using unreleased PDT 1.0.5 in their Zend Studio 6.1. Most important thing is ZS is based on Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymade) and prior PDT 1.0.x builds worked only with 3.3 (Europa).

You can get it in 2 ways – first is to compile it from CVS according to these instructions and the second is just to download Zend Studio 6.1 and copy /features/org.eclipse.php* and /plugins/org.eclipse.php* to Eclipse 3.4 installation.

Update (17.11.2008):
PDT team have officially released 1.0.5 build for Eclipse 3.4. You can get it directly from download page.