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Asia's 1st songbird in a century
Source: Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

HANOI - A 'BALD' bird discovered in Laos is Asia's first new species of bulbul, or songbird, in more than 100 years, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said on Thursday.

Songbird's iPod Add-On Deleting Music - Uninstall It Now
Source: Lifehacker

Songbird's developers are telling users to disable or uninstall the iPod support add-on, normally recommended and installed at first start-up, because it can erroneously delete music from your music device.

Hawaii's Bird Family Tree Rearranged
Source: Science Daily

ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2008) — A group of five endemic and recently extinct Hawaiian songbird species were historically classified as "honeyeaters" due to striking similarities to birds of the same name in Australia and neighboring islands in the South Pacific.

Why Apple Should Be Worried About Songbird
Source: Read/WriteWeb

Earlier this week, the open-source music player built on Mozilla technology, Songbird, finally made its 1.0 release. After being in development for two years, this version feels like the kind of solid media player we've been expecting and hoping for all along.

Songbird: Out of BETA, into the real world

Songbird - the long awaited application set to rival the likes of iTunes and Windows Media Player, has finally come out of BETA and has entered a new stage in it's life.

9 Downloads to Free Yourself from iTunes
Source: MSN

Nine free downloads promise to help you get the most out of your iPod -- without iTunes. See more irresistible headlines

Hands on: Songbird 1.0 music app soars
Source: Ars Technica

In a desktop media realm dominated by iTunes and Windows Media Player, Songbird is an open source player that dances to its own beat.

Hawk Clawed Open by Own Last Meal
Source: FOXNews.com

A hawk was found dead along a California highway with the claw of a songbird protruding from its chest. It's not clear, however, if the partially digested meal, one claw somehow managing to get back out from a terribly wrong location, had anything to do with the hawk's death.

Songbird media player: the love child of Mozilla and WinAmp
Source: Ars Technica

Songbird is an open source media client with tight web integration that is designed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a San Francisco-based company whose previous efforts include WinAmp and the Yahoo Music Engine.

Wolverine can't be tamed, but can he be killed?
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An ex-cop tries to track down the beast in the yellow and blue tights

10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod
Source: SimpleHelp.net

This overview details the features (with screenshots) of 10 different programs other than iTunes to manage your iPod. Tutorials are included for every program, and they're all either free or Open Source.

iTunes Killer Plays the Web on Windows Mac and Linux
Source: puddlegum.net

A screencast that shows how to surf the web inside Songbird, create playlists of the media found on websites, download songs, subscribe to sites, search for the songs and artists around the web, or shop for the music online.

Birds grasp basic rule of grammar, study finds
Source: -

Songbirds were able to distinguish a grammatical rule, recursive center-embedding, which was once thought to be unique to humans. An example of recursive center-embedding is the phrase "recurse center-embedding" in the previous sentence.

Males with elevated levels of testosterone lead shorter lives but have more success siring offspring
Source: EurekAlert!

Comparative studies have studied testosterone levels and related them to mating systems and aggression, but very few studies have attempted to relate testosterone to fitness, that is, the combination of lifetime reproductive success and survival, in the wild or experimentally.

Songbird's tune not so sweet........yet

Well Songbird (http://www.songbirdnest.com/) may have arrived but can't say I am jumping for joy about the usability of this preview. I still have high hopes for it, as I like many, dream of the day we can stop relying on iTunes.

First Thoughts on Songbird

With the release of the "proof of concept" of Songbird comes the possibility of a great new media player for computer users.

Songbird Review

Songbird was just released today, so I've voiced my opinions. Here we go, you can see the article in it's entirety with screenshots here.

Songbird Proof of Concept Released
Source: songbirdnest.com

Songbird is a media player being developed right now for Open Source, built off of the Mozilla Firefox engine. Today the 0.1.0 version was released, so check it out.

Songbird has launched!
Source: songbirdnest.com

Songbird has launched. This is a great media browser (Firefox) that looks to have alot of potential, and will change the way media is viewed on the web. Plus it's open source, allowing for constant improvement. More comments to follow, as I become more familiar with it.

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