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 this, you have a shiny new, ad-free mailing list waiting for you for Tartan on OSFlash if you want it.

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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: (more...)

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. Get them from the Jabber Protocol Plugin for Miranda IM page.

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 a few days ago, could only trick the PSP into 1.51 and 1.52.) This is a definite victory for the homebrew crowd and will probably mean that Phillip Torrone will start buying PSP games again :)

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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).