Nifty Downloads

[laura_seabrook]

I like to download different apps to try them out, and these are some I really liked.

Music Players

OK, I used to use WinAmp but I found that it used up a lot of resources on my PC. I've been trying out the following.

• SongBird is open-source, but mysterious cuts out on me. It's stable at last but could do with improvements. It's sophisticated (you

Comments

[aesmael]

Surprised about Winamp and Songbird - I only run Songbird if I am doing little else, as it takes up about three times as much memory as Winamp does. Still think it needs a lot of work to become first-choice, but I have some definite fondness for it so far.

I'm curious about the text formatting toolbar. How useful have you found it? I've been trying to use HTML directly as much as I can over the past year.

[laura_seabrook]

I found it much easier to use than the BBComposer add-on. BBComposer swapped the text area over into a "rich text" type display. It worked but was a pain to use and had random results under certain conditions.

The text formatting toolbar adds a button and a toolbar like the one below: