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Development on the 64-bit version of VLC Player for Mac has hit the pause button. The Videolan team is looking for Mac development talent to help move the project forward, and revamp the program’s interface to be more Mac-like. While the team says that reports of VLC Mac’s death are ‘greatly exaggerated,’ they could definitely use some help.

As we’ve mentioned before, VLC is a free, open source media player that supports various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and streaming protocols. While the 32-bit version still works fine on Snow Leopard, the 64- bit version (which briefly appeared as 1.0.3, only to disappear again with 1.0.4) is intended to be higher-performance; it also would work more seamlessly with the 64-bit version of Handbrake.

It’s always nice to own the latest and greatest Apple hardware, but some of us still use vintage machines. I’ve got a G3 All-In-One on my workbench that displays iFixIt PDFs while I work. I’ll admit that I’ve wanted to tweet from that machine from a dedicated app, and now I can.

Grackle68k is a Twitter application for OS 9 through System 6. Yes, System 6! It’s quite bare bones and low on bells and whistles, but it works. You’ll have to enter your credentials every time you launch Grackle68k unless you’re comfortable using ResEdit (if you’re using this app, you likely are).