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Benjamin Higginbotham
with TechnologyEvangelist.com.
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With me, I've got Nicholas once again,
from a Participatory Culture Foundation.
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Those are the guys who make
"Democracy Player".
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-Nicholas, welcome!
-Hi, how are ya?
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Doing great, how about yourself?
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Brilliant, thanks.
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So, you guys are on the cusp of
releasing Democracy Player 0.9.5,
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it just kinda rolls right off the tongue.
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Tell us a bit about this new release.
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Yeah, this is a big update for us,
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it's the biggest update you'll see before
our 1.0 comes out.
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We have a lot of important stuff in here,
a lot of it's behind the scenes,
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but some of the stuff you'll notice
is a redesigned interface,
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it's smoother and simpler and slicker.
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We have some nice things like
the MAC users,
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it will generate thumbnails automatically.
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If you want to download a video and
don't have that yet for Windows or Linux,
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that's something that
we're definitely working on.
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There's proxy support,
better BitTorrent support.
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It does a better job resuming downloads
if something gets interrupted.
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And all in all, I just think it's a
smoother and cleaner experience,
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and it's a big step towards
the update coming out.
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You know, one thing I noticed is that as
each build keeps getting released,
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the system seems to use less and less
RAM and get faster and faster and faster,
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in its ability to playback files
and download files,
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cause I remember working with the beta,
I think it was 0.8 or something like that,
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and it was a pretty big RAM hog.
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How are you coming on with the
optimization of Democracy at this point?
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