Michael Phipps, Haiku's CEO/Fearless Leader delivers this address on the "state" of Haiku, at this years WalterCon - The Haiku OS Annual User and Developer Conference.

"Haiku Rocks" video and music by Darkwyrm - shown at WalterCon 2006 - The Haiku OS Annual User and Developer Conference.

{mosimage}I originally saw djay being shown off on Call for Help. Whilst, Amber has no DJ skills what-so-ever (she actually liked Numark's iPod Mixer), she wasn't able to show it off as best as I would have liked. To cut a long story short, I use to DJ (Drum n Bass / Big Beat), have decks and switched from vinyl to MP3s when FinalScratch came out.

So what is djay ?
The German students, who have coded this free app, describe it as "groundbreaking new software for Mac OS X that takes full advantage of Apple's latest audio and graphics technologies, and runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors."

Some of the features I was impressed with were:-

• iTunes Integration
  
• Automatic artwork image loading on both turntables
  
• Pitch-Shifting
  
• Pre-Cueing (requires multichannel sound card)
  
• Crossfade automation
  
• Magnetic tempo slider for precise beat matching
  
• Cue points for beat-juggling
  

BF2142Tracker.com reports "I have received a letter from EA/IGN and they asked me to disable the stats services. I am not allowed to collect stats anymore."

Good one EA. Thanks for killing the ONLY available service for tracking your stats in Battlefield 2142 with your buddies and clan.

The stats site went on to say "I am really sorry for this. I hoped to get access to stats soon (in BF2 it worked very well), but now we have to make a longer pause and wait for their decision and the official stats-feed for us (if we will ever get it; I don't believe it anymore after I read our forums today and saw the new 'official stats' website from EA ...)".

Update 28/10: In the meantime, head on over and Sign the EA Stat Petition.