Filed under: Internet, Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source
Democracy Player now better, stabler
by Jordan Running Jun 22nd 2006 at 7:40PM
I got a little notification in my Inbox today telling me that a new version of Democracy Player is out. Version 0.8.4.1 (note to software developers: when your version numbers start to look like IP addresses, they've gotten out of hand) is available for WIndows, Mac, or Linux. The biggest improvements to the RSS-and-BitTorrent-enabled internet TV viewer from the Participatory Culture FOundation are in the stability department, but it also comes with a few new features. In particular, Democracy now pulls double-duty as a desktop video player, allowing you to play videos from your hard drive and add them to your library. Democracy is free as in speech, so go download it already.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tristan Phillips said 8:21PM on 6-22-2006
Don't blame the developers. IBM has been doing it's versioning that way for over 30 years.
But do get annoyed when developers go from v0.9 to v0.10. Now that's annoying.
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rich said 11:16AM on 6-23-2006
this thing is crashing left & right on my macbook pro.
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some dude said 11:49AM on 6-23-2006
By "stability" do they mean no more memory leaks and CPU hogging? I used to leave Democracy running on my mac mini and when I'd come back to it the CPU would be going at full blast, there would be no available RAM left, and Democracy was the culprit.
Great concept, though.
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Yale R said 3:35PM on 6-23-2006
I will give this a try, but the old version never worked with the RSS links I got from tvrss.net. I prefer fireant.tv player. Combined with RSS feeds from tvrss.net and you have a replacement for TiVo.
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Neal Saferstein said 8:50PM on 6-23-2006
This is a great concept, in concert with FEEDBURNER you can do some interesting things.
Neal Saferstein
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Renova said 12:31PM on 6-25-2006
Too buggy for me. I prefer other software
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