{"id":1494,"date":"2007-04-29T00:40:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T03:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2007-04-29T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T03:41:07","slug":"what-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"What software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>wo weird incidents: Earlier, I decided to look for a new version of The Gimp for Windows and ended up at WinGimp.org which provides downloadable Gimp versions, however, for a price. Right: I&#8217;m not sure if they&#8217;re related to the Gimp organization itself: so, if you need Gimp for Windows, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">go here<\/a>, or download it straight from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/windows\/\">here<\/a>. The official Gimp for Windows homepage is right at Sourceforge. <a href=\"http:\/\/gimp-win.sourceforge.net\/\">You can&#8217;t miss it<\/a>. Notice that official Gimp packages are MD5-ed.\n<\/p>\n<p>The second incident was that I decided to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxtorrent.com\/\">FoxTorrent<\/a>. I was utterly surprised that the XPI installed an executable called RedSwoosh (which apparently seems to run a webserver\/main torrent code). I don&#8217;t like that.\n<\/p>\n<p>Staying on the software path: I read that Adobe has open-sourced <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Flex:Open_Source\">the Flex project<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Flex:Open_Source:FAQ\">more details<\/a>). I&#8217;m not sure what Flex is all about, but if I remember correctly, this is what supposed to go head to head against Microsoft&#8217;s WinForms. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/flex\/?tab:samples=1\">Sample applications in Flex<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/04\/26\/140241\">And Slashdot discussion<\/a>. Where does this leave Java?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weird incidents: Earlier, I decided to look for a new version of The Gimp for Windows and ended up at WinGimp.org which provides downloadable Gimp versions, however, for a price. Right: I&#8217;m not sure if they&#8217;re related to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1494\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}