No Stable Offical XBMC on Karmic Until A New Version Of XBMC Comes Out
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XBMC is a beloved application by many. It is cross-platform, running on a multitude of systems ranging from the original Xbox to computers with graphic card processing enhancements. The application is a huge success, going toe to toe with the best that the commercial applications have to offer! One of the great reasons is due to it’s open source nature and mentality. Any and everyone can contribute. With this people are free to design for it, code for it and make it their own. And for a home entertainment center it is extremely important how your entrainment center looks when we bring over guests. It must have the right mood for you and your party.
Edit: Update: XBMC Beta 2 is now out in the Karmic PPA’s. You can read about it here.
One of the best things to do with XBMC is to run it as application ontop of Linux, particularly Kubuntu (or Ubuntu if you’re one of those ‘weird’ Gnome lovers 
). Up until Kubuntu Jaunty we’ve been able to enjoy XBMC with ease, with Karmic 9.10 it’s a bit more difficult. It’s do-able but takes a little extra work. You can read by post here on how to install XBMC on Karmic.
Now why do I post something everyone knows already? Because not everyone knows this information from the XBMC blog:
Rather than wasting the time and effort required to update the current stable release of XBMC (Babylon) to work with Karmic, we’ve decided to focus on getting a new version out the door. This means that until the next XBMC release, it is recommended that most users stick with Jaunty. But there’s no need to panic; despite the fact that it’s taking a bit longer than we had hoped, development is shaping up nicely and the first 9.11 alphas should be rolling out very soon.
Reads: No XBMC in Karmic until new version is out. Darn … So we’ll have to wait a bit. How long? Dunno. We’ll have to wait and see. Hopefully their new version which they claim will have a plethora of new toys and joys will be out soon in Karmic for us to party to very soon.
Happy Partying!
No XBMC in Karmic Yet via the XBMC blog
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In light of the previous post about a wonderful collaboration tool EtherPad, LifeHacker has a good roundup of the top 10 web based collaboration tools. These range from project management to documenting to simple text ’stuff’. I admit, not all are so called ‘web 2.0′. But they all can be after the Web 2.1 patch.
They list their top 10 picks, with explanations and all. Here is a short version of their list:
- Cc : Betty
- MediaWiki
- TimeBridge
- Google Groups
- TextFlow
- DimDim
- MindMeister
- present.IO
- Campfire
- Zoho
I remember reading about a few of these, such as present.io. MediaWiki is, as I remember it, a wiki-software that you can install on your own servers. And we all know Google Groups. Read the post to find out more.
Link: Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren’t Google Wave) [via Lifehacker]
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Excited about the new Google Wave e-mail system? Or should be call it a collaboration system?
Want a wave into Google Wave but don’t know anybody? Enter one of the great sites and a thing that makes the internet so wonderful: Google Wave Invites.
The site is extremely simple to use, and rather pleasing to look at as well. All you need to do is select if you already are a Wave member and have invites to give out, or you need an invite. If you want an invite, all you provide is your e-mail address and name. That’s it.
After that it’s waiting for someone to send you a invite. Might be a while. We still haven’t gotten ours yet. We’ll see how it goes.
So, want a invite head over to Google Wave Invites (http://googlewaveinvites.com/)!
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