Metalink News : 11 Sep 2007
Ant Bryan
Metalink Editor 1.1
DownThemAll! 1.0 Beta 2 (Firefox extension
Free Download Manager 2.5 with Metalink support
aria2 0.11.3
TheWorld browser (Windows), first with built in metalink support
Origo
GRDDLing Metalink
Celerius, a new Python/GTK downloader in progress
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Metamirrors is back!
Looks better than ever, an easy way to share and find new metalinks!
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Metalink Editor 1.1
New features include SHA-256 checksums which are now supported by
aria2 & DownThemAll!
http://metamirrors.nl/metalinks_project
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DownThemAll! 1.0 Beta 2 (Firefox extension
So, did you enjoy your summer? Your tan is amazing? Great.
Now you can celebrate your return to your beloved computer testing
dTa! 1.0 Beta 2.
http://www.downthemall.net/main/install-it/downthemall-10-beta/
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Free Download Manager 2.5 with Metalink support
Free Download Manager 2.5 now supports Metalink!
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
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aria2 0.11.3
This new version includes numerous features, fixes, and a new
translation. But, it still needs more translators!
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TheWorld browser (Windows), first with built in metalink support
Just a test version so far, but we'll let you know as it progresses!
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Origo
Origo is a new and easy to use software development and hosting
platform for open and closed source projects. Among many features, it
has easy release management and mirroring with automatic metalink
generation.
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GRDDLing Metalink
Danny Ayers has been continuing the Metalink in RDF work that Dan
Brickley started, and working on GRDDLing Metalink: "There isn't
actually all that much to do before it's kind-of alpha release ready"
A by product of this is that the site is now XHTML Transitional.
GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects
of Languages. This GRDDL specification introduces markup based on
existing standards for declaring that an XML document includes data
compatible with the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and for
linking to algorithms (typically represented in XSLT), for extracting
this data from the document.
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Celerius, a new Python/GTK downloader in progress
Not ready for use yet, but it's coming along.