Winamp for Mac OS X

Well since Nullsoft does not provide any support for other then Microsoft Windows OS it could be tricky somehow to get it running on another OS like Mac OS X or even another *nix system…but it is not impossible. The thing you need is Wine to get it running on your *nix system or if you own a Mac like me you can use your copy of Crossover as well. I must say the last option will work the best if you want to use this kind of app….

This time we are going to use Crossover Mac 9.0.1 Standard/Professional in order to run Winamp 5.57 on Mac OS 10.6.4. In advance I must say that this version of Crossover does not support Winamp by default and neither does any previous versions of it. But you might ask…is it possible anyway…? I must say yes…! To my surprise the installation went smooth without any bugs and after the installation the program does work very well or at least for everyday use. Although I have came into the problem when you drag the window around it may feel kinda laggy when doing so. But otherwise it works well for most of your tasks with Winamp.

As you can see from the picture above it even runs with the new theme style in Winamp but for better compatibility I suggest to use the old Winamp skin for faster response and use of the program.

To setup your Bottle in Crossover you only need to use a WinXP environment and continue with the installation. Winamp does not need any other runtime components to run and after installation you can use it like you did on your Windows PC.

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World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade Cinematic Intro

Thanks to Cider, Mac users can run windows applications and games without running a virtual OS. Now that I think about it… I'm not sure if this COD4 was actually made for mac or if it was a port running through cider. This works for many other things as well. Codeweavers CrossOver also does the same type of thing using wine instead of cider. Somewhere on their site they have a compatibility list. I successfully use CrossOver to run Steam games like DOD:S and other stuff. With virtualization through Parallels or VMWare Fusion, you still need a copy of the windows OS. With wine, you dont. Long Live Mac! The ONLY reason I ever used windows was because I wanted to play games.

Name: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Release
Date: January 16, 2007
Platform(s): PC and Mac OS X
Publisher: Activision Blizzard
Developer: Activision Blizzard

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WineHQ WineConf 2010 dates and location have been set

Francois Gouget the coordinator of this years WineConf sent a e-mail to the wine-devel mailing list informing everyone of the date and location of WineConf 2010.

Below is a copy of Francois e-mail with relevant information on WineConf 2010.

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Hi,

WineConf 2010 is taking shape, the date has been set and we are now in the final stages of picking the venue.

The host city : Paris France

The date : Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of November 2010

So mark the date in your calendar and start booking your plane tickets, this will be the place to be for Wine developers.

Note that most further communication will happen on the wineconf@winehq.org mailing list so subscribe there to get all the details. You will also find all the details you need as they become available on WineConf 2010s Wiki page:

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WonderWebWare Sitemap Generator on Linux with Wine

A couple days back I was looking for a tool to create a sitemap of our sites so I could send the sitemap to Google and Yahoo to help improve our site listings and page rank. After allot of waisted time trying to create a decent sitemap with the free online SiteMap Generators. Most if not all of free online Sitemap Generators are fronts to serve ads or in the end try to sell you what they advertise as free! Most of the free online SiteMap Generators only create 500 links, and if you have a large site this is not acceptable. And if you find a Generator that does upto 5,000 links at the end of the process they then ask for a payment before they hand over the "what was suppose to be free" data.

Just when I was about to give up I came across a tool that not only does what it says but also does so much more. Sitemap Generator from WonderWebWare was just what I was looking for. Below is how to run this and other tools from WonderWebWare on Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris with Bordeaux or vanilla Wine from WineHQ.

I ran the programs on Linux but they should also run on any platform that Wine runs on.

Description:

Sitemap Generator is a free software that will help you to automatically generate sitemaps in google (XML) or yahoo (TXT) format or just to spider your website and collect all the internal links for you. The tool may export collected links to CSV or HTML file too. The main reason to build this tool was that all other similar programs didnt fit my requirements.
This software is free for any use, but comes without any warranty. Please, note that the program acts like a spider, but will download all the pages of the target site. Do not use this tool to crawl 3-rd party sites without their permission.

How it works:

Although the program isnt very simple, the way it generates the map is simple, it acts like a web-spider. When you give the starting url to the tool, it will start crawling your site, extracting all the links from all the pages.

Download and setup on Linux with Bordeaux or Wine

SiteMap Generator Download
Bordeaux version used 2.0.4 for Linux
Wine 1.1.44 or higher should also work

This howto is based on installing and using SiteMap Generator with Bordeaux but a recent version of Wine from WineHQ should also work without any problems.

After you download SiteMap Generator you will need to install it as a unsupported application with Bordeaux. To do this is extremely simple just run the installer with Bordeaux bundled Wine from the command line and install the software.

$ /opt/bordeaux/bin/wine SiteMapG.exe

The program should install without any errors, after the install has completed you will need to cd to the install directory and then run SiteMapGen.exe

$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/SiteMap\ Generator
then
$ /opt/bordeaux/bin/wine SiteMapGen.exe

At this point SiteMap Generator should run without any problems.

Below is some screenshots of SiteMap Genorator running on my laptop with Ubuntu Linux installed. I created a sitemap for http://www.wine-reviews.net/ and then submitted it to Google and Yahoo!

SiteMap Generator Front Page.

Google XML SiteMap Contents.

Yahoo SiteMap Contents.

HTML Map of http://www.wine-reviews.net/

Preview of the HTML Map.

CSV Map Contents.

Outbound Links

Robots.txt Page.

Robots.txt after a Fetch.

Saving a new Sitemap.xml file so it can be sent to Google.

About SiteMap Genorator.

I also wanted to use "Site Submit" to Submit my sites to about 5000 seo friendly ("dofollow") directories.

Overview

Site Submit is the new kid in the town: a simple semi-automated website submission tool which can speed up the directory submission process. The main advantage is that it's free, however (if the public is interested) I plan to add more features, more directories and some sort of online updates... The tool comes with about 5000 seo-friendly ("dofollow") directories in the database.
Site Submit also works near perfect if you install it into a IE 6 or 7 Cellar. This is verry easy to do because at this time Site Submit comes in a zip archive. After you install IE with Bordeaux or Wine all you need to do is un zip Site Submit in the Programs Directory and then cd to the SiteSubmit directory and then run SiteSubmit.exe

Example :

$ cd /home/tom/.bordeaux/ie6/drive_c/Program\ Files/SiteSubmit
then
$ /opt/bordeaux/bin/wine SiteSubmit.exe

SiteSubmit on Linux with Wine and Bordeaux.

 

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