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Samba is an Open Source suite/protocol that provides file sharing, printer sharing, and authentication that is built on reverse engineering the NetBIOS network protcol used by Microsoft Windows. It essentially allows a server other than Windows (like Linux) appear to be a Windows server.

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Ulteo (beta) lets you run OpenOffice.org without installing it. It provides a Java powered web-based version with 1GB free storage. Note that you need to a Java runtime 1.4 or newer running to use Ulteo OOo.

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It figures. Right after I said I only found one YouTube downloader/converter for Mac OS X in a Mashable list, I found a second freeware option while thumbing through the current issue of Mac Life (Dec. 2008, p. 18). It is…

TubeTV 0.9.2

Ruby on Rails 2.0 is out. This web development framework written in the Ruby dynamic programming language was the hot web dev topic for the past year or two (is it still a hot topic?).

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UnRarX 2.2 is utility for Mac OS X to unpack files stored in the Rar archive format. I don’t use Rar. If you do and have tried UnRarX, please let us know here how it works for you.

The UnRarX website says that source code will be released on SourceForge. However, there isn’t any source code on there. So, although UnRarX lists its license as GPL, I’m going to call it Freeware for now.

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DLO is an iPod peripherals retailer. However, they do provide one very handy web application on their website…

DLO OpenFM

…finds open FM frequencies in your area (US only) by ZIP code or City/State. If you use a DLO (or any other) FM transmitter with your iPod or MP3 player, this can help find an unused frequency in your area to use.

If your child (or you for that matter) want to track Santa’s progress in style on Christmas Eve head over to read the Official Google Blog item…

Tracking Santa, then and now

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It doesn’t get much more amazing that this… Images from the Hubble Telescope…

HubbleSite Gallery

Be sure to check out the Wallpaper section of the site for free downloads of truly amazing images.

Although I believe in all the Web 2.0 hype, on bad days I may respond to the “what is Web 2.0″ question with: It’s all about candy colored buttons! If you want quickly build some of your own Web 2.0 candy colored buttons, head over to…

My cool button

Its single page menu driven service is so simple even I could build a button :-)

Google Maps’ new Terrain View kind of looks like a blueprint to me (maybe it’s the colors). You can see buildings in a 3/4 3D-ish relief view with hills looking like a big smudge (see that thing between the Street View and Traffic buttons above?). Terrain View also doesn’t let you zoom in as close as the Map or Satellite views do. BTW, the pure Satellite view with no street labels is gone. Satellite gives you what used to be called Hybrid.

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Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.10. According to the release notes, it provides three security related fixes. I will say this about Firefox though. Although it has been mostly stable on Mac OS X, the Windows versions have had a lot of big memory leaks in previous versions. The memory leaks seem less severe starting with, hmm, maybe 2.0.0.8. It still seems a lot slower to me that Firefox 1.5 on both Mac OS X and Windows to me though. I haven’t tried the Firefox 3 betas yet.

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After reading about Ares Tube for Windows, Basketball Jones (check references to Cheech and Chong if you don’t know about that character :-) asked if there is some app for Mac OS X that can convert YouTube videos. Here’s one that claims to do the job for Mac users…

Get Tube

It was the only Mac OS X based application in a YouTube converter article over on Mashable.