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Smuxi bugfix release 0.7.1 available

Monday, February 1st, 2010

3 weeks after the last release, Smuxi developer meebey presents a new release of his IRC client, covering a few important issues.

In his announcement, he lists the most notable ones being “important crash fixes, seen and unseen highlights are now remembered when reconnecting to the smuxi-server, improved error tolerance for temporary Twitter issues, fixed /join command and adaptive excess flood handling”.

Another highlight is the new, though only partial, translation to Catalan by Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals.

The full changelog can be found here and the download is available here.

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Tags: IRC, Smuxi, Software
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Quassel IRC client releases version 0.5.2

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

The Quassel IRC project – “a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt4 framework” – has released a bugfix release of their IRC client which is now available as version 0.5.2.

This bugfix release mainly contains “build system fixes for recent versions of KDE and Qt” and “some issues with netsplit handling have also been fixed”. A bug that made the menu-bar vanish has been fixed and if you are affected you now can “use the context menu on the chatview to re-enable it”.

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Tags: IRC, Quassel, Software
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lightIRC Flash webchat is updated to version 0.9.7

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

The lightIRC project just announced a new version of their Flash webchat, 0.9.7, which has the “longest changelog ever” and that it is “going straight to version 1.0″.

The list of bugfixes and feature additions is indeed pretty long – two new translations have been added (French and Albanian), you can now save your nickname and preferences so it remembers them once you come back and it also supports highlighting of your nickname now – to name just a few.

The UI also had a few usability improvements – /whois output in the user central looks cleaner now and the default bans are now set to match *!*@host instead of nick!*@*.

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Tags: IRC, lightIRC, Software, Webchat
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Smuxi 0.7.0 released – now with Twitter functionality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Smuxi 0.7.0 – “the user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users for GNOME / GTK+” – has just been released.

Smuxi is a client that seperates its core and GUI so you don’t necessarily need to run both on the same machine which, if you run the core on a server, gives you bouncer-like features like being always online.

One of the new features introduced with this release, amongst a host of bugfixes and new features, is support for the microblogging service Twitter.

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Tags: IRC, Smuxi, Software
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HowTo: IRC anonymously with TOR

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

On networks that don’t hide your IP or hostname automatically on connect, your IP is exposed for everyone to see and possibly abuse.

Also there are many reasons you might not want to show everyone from what point of the world you are connecting from and/or want to add a little more anonymonity to your online activities.

You can do so by connecting to IRC via TOR – dubbed “The Onion Router” – how exactly that works and is set up is shown in a small tutorial video we’ve put online.

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Tags: How-To, IRC, Software, TOR
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