I recently tried to sign up for the Tartan mailing list but gave up in utter frustration after putting up with screen after screen of ads, etc. because it is hosted by a mailing list service called Topica (not linking to them in order not to boost their pagerank.) Paul Kenney, if you're reading [...]

The HelloWorld sample application that ships with Tartan has a small bug that might leave you scratching your head when you try to access them via Flash Remoting. It's a minor path issue which you can fix in two ways. Taking the helloWorld example, either: Copy the config folder in tartanSamples\helloWorld to tartanSamples\helloWorld\remote, or Alter line 28 [...]

If you don't want yet another window and process clogging up your system, you can easily use Google Talk via the Jabber client in Miranda. Google has instructions for configuring Miranda for Google Talk on their site and you will need to place the OpenSSL DLLs (Windows) in your Miranda folder for it to work. [...]

I just saw on PSPHacks that the first PSP firmware hack that lets you go back to 1.0 from 1.5 has been released. I tried it out and, lo and behold, my 1.5 PSP can be tricked into thinking it's a 1.0, 1.51, 1.52 or 2.0. (The very first version of the app, which I'd installed [...]

Edwin van Rijkom just announced on the OSFlash mailing list that Screenweaver 3 has been released as Open Source. See the web site on OSFlash, online documentation or jump straight in and download it (setup.3.1.0.0.exe; ~2MB).