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I was just installing an spanish language pack for some Open Source product we use, and I decided to take a look at the constants before installing:

"Cagando… por favor, espere"

Ask anyone which understands spanish. I'm still laughing! =))
Next time you get some translation packs, try to get someone which speaks that language to proofread it. It also applies to automatic translations a la Babelfish :D

UPDATE: seems like there are still a couple of sites with that wrong language pack

UPDATE v2: An example of the message! :D

Something very weird happened to me yesterday. I was viewing one movie with VLC player and suddenly an alert box appeared saying me "Your start-up disk is almost full". What? I had more than 8gb free, what is that?

Effectively, I had. Then I had just 400mb. 395, 380… Agghh! I just closed VLC and it continued doing that, so I thought: let's restart!

After restarting, fortunately no more space was consumed but, I still kept having just 300mb free. I presume VLC was storing too many frames in the cache or something (since it was the only program that I was using at that very moment) :D

I started looking at several folders where I thought that the temp files could be, but after finding some of them, and deleting old files, and taking the opportunity to delete old stuff I wasn't using, by the way, I still was with just 500 mb free.

Fortunately I found a program called Cache Out X, from NoNameScriptware, which magically cleaned all the unuseful stuff which was in the Library/Application Support folder. Suddenly I had 10gb free!

If you know a better way to do this, just leave a comment :)

So I am the last one in writing this, after all the announcements in different places such as vjforums, dmstk, xplsv.com, xplsv.tv, pouet.net, escena.org, trace's blog and only-God-knows-where-else, encouraged by all the people which has arrived to my blog looking for "neon v2 download", "neon xplsv" and so on. No need to worries, people, you can now download it for free and use it in your own VJ sessions.

All the information in neon v2 official website. I'm looking forward to see what people can do with it!

Today at lunch time I was commenting with luy about some of the latest releases of mac software, and I thought it may be interesting to point out some programs that I find interesting. They are not as mainstream as the ones we mentioned (i.e. Apple's Aperture, iLife'06, etc…) but they can be as useful or useless as the other ones, depending on the hands they fall on. So there we go, let's have a look at my Applications folder!

• AdiumX. A gaim based instant messaging application. Can connect with MSN, yahoo!, gtalk and all of those other networks I can't remember now. It's quite nice and leaving aside the fact that it still can't work with a webcam (specially because I don't have a webcam), it's very very good. Highly recommended! (Stop using that MSN Messenger crap)
• Azureus. Best BitTorrent application I have ever tried. Runs under java in fact but in this case it doesn't hurt that much. (You have used this one under windows too)
• Bricksmith. A lego simulation software. Not really useful but very entertaining.
• Camino. The native-mac-os-interfaced browser with the gecko engine. Now in their 1.0 release!
• Chicken of the VNC. A simple program for connecting to VNC servers. Very handy if you want to control all the computers from your chair…
• ClamXAV. Mac version of ClamAV. I installed it just for making sure there weren't infected files in the folders I copied from my old pc, and for cleaning possible malware html pages (specially in the form of evil spam mail messages).
• CocoModX. A module player with a Cocoa interface! If you can't stop listening to your favourite tracked music even in your mac, this is the perfect solution. Comes with fmod, bass and mikmod libraries integrated, so as to make sure each module is played with the best and most accurate player. The icon (a 3.5" disk with headphones and an amiga bouncing ball) is lovely!
• Colloquy. For your oldskool IRC chats. Can connect to multiple servers, etc. Like mIRC but without the pop up with the author's picture ;)
• Cyberduck. Simple [S]FTP client. Allows for online editing as well. It's often updated, and they say they are now using universal binaries, so they should work on your brand new mac-intels.
• Firefox. The one and only.
• iEatBrainz. This application will look through your iTunes collection and find out which songs do not have tags. Then it can proceed to analyse them and look for their right tags in an online database of songs.
• iFeedPod. Read your favourite rss feeds on your ipod! (obviously, it's useless if you have an ipod shuffle).
• Jomic. Simple Java based application for reading scanned/electronic comic books.
• LameBrain. A powerful all-in-one Lame interface. It can rip cd's, encode them, convert between formats, etc…
• Linotype Font Explorer-X. Nice font manager.
• Locomotive. Superhelper for developing ruby on rails applications. A must have.
• NeoOffice. The Mac flavour of openoffice. Stop pirating Microsoft Office and start using OpenOffice!
• Paparazzi. This creates screenshots of a whole page (no matter how much it needs to scroll). Now you can create a png with the contents of your front page, even if you have a very long blogroll on it! ;)
• Pixen. A very funny pixel art program. Latest version, even if it's a bit buggy, has nice features.
• Schism Tracker. The definitive replacement to Impulse tracker.
• Skype. For those neverending phone calls. It doesn't support video yet but who cares?
• svnX. A subversion client for MacOsX.
• TextMate. My favourite editor by the moment. It doesn't annoy you when it tries to help, it's fast, mac os native, etc.
• UnRarX. For all those folks which keep compressing things in rar, well, we now can open that stuff with this little program.
• VLC player. Usually, it plays more videos and better than quicktime. Honest! Audio sucks a bit, anyway.
• xnntp. A news reader (nntp). For extreme boredom cases…

So you have a lot of things to procrastinate with now!! I'm so evil…! Most of these programs are free or very cheap, if you were wondering about that…

This is way better than flashget, flashgot, download accelerator or anything else you have seen before. And it works under mac, or windows, so you must definitely have it. Get this funky extension DownThemAll right now!

It is specially useful when you are browsing netlabel's pages which just offer an html view of their archives and you have to download each song one by one… eeek!