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Yorba, developers of Shotwell, the open source photo manager for GNOME, Announced That version 0.8.0 is now available.

New release features include video support for MOST major video formats as well as the Ability to import the photos off of camera and add photos to events and tags. Dog users now publish videos to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and PicasaWeb.

In addition under users now Have runtime monitoring of library and auto-import directory of newly created files. Also users flag dog photos and dog Operations for September batch multiple photos to Their desktop background as a slideshow. There también Various Numerous translation updates and bug fixes.
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The second preview release of NX 4.0, the Italian manufacturer NoMachine the features of the upcoming version of its terminal server software. With version 4.0 the first time all NX versions are under a closed source license.

The NX Free Edition is different in the new licensing and nomenclature assignment of a Workstation Edition. NoMachine describes the move to closed source as an important milestone in its history. The open source community is likely to feel not so much as a milestone, rather than backwards. It is unclear at present, showing what the licensing model is. NoMachine lodged with the preview issue a Preview License Agreement. The agreement is secured in advance from NoMachine itself, because the previous version could be faulty and there was no support claim. In addition, the manufacturer claims the right to the feedback from the tester without further obligations included in the software allow. Redistribution is excluded, allowing copying only for backups.
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KDE developer Frank Karlitschek has announced a free beta version of Qt-Creator-ins, developed by the project Bretzner.

The project co-financed by Nokia Bretzner wants software developers to open a way to build applications easily for different platforms and to publish from the development environment.

The invented in Opensource Conference in October officially announced project for its objectives, the wheel is not completely new, but sees himself more as an intermediary between existing development tools and services. These include the resulting library for KDE Attica, Creator of the Qt and the Qt toolkit. The plugin for the Qt Creator will then mediate between the different build services that stimulate the construction of archives, packages and binaries as well as save the developer time and effort.

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ParaType issued new PT Serif fonts for free (available under the OFL) swimming. This is the second free headset (the first was PT Sans), who released ParaType in the project of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. The project is part of a program devoted to 300 anniversary of the reform of the Russian alphabet.

PT Serif – is a transition from a humanistic antique finish (serif), designed to meet the sharing of grotesque PT Sans (sans serif font chopped) and agreed with him on the metrics, proportions, color saturation and picture. Fonts include all characters used in alphabets titular languages of the Russian Federation.
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The new version of the new music player Foobnix, oriented not only to listen to local music collection, but also to search for music on the network and working with Internet radio stations.

Changes from previous release:

• Displaying directories with music in multiple tabs, which is convenient when the music to be in different directories
• Compact pull-down menu of the program, the ability for the menu as a panel
• Improved format support CUE
• Support for custom visual themes
• Transparency of the main window
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With companies the size of Google supporting free software , the picture looks even better. In this case, the Mountain View company has decided to launch a channel on YouTube with the aim to organize and display all the videos related to the “open source projects in Google.

In recognition of the vital role that open source plays in Google, the Open Source Programs Office have the task of maintaining a healthy relationship with the community of free software development.

For now, the channel has 14 videos, plus links to many other themed connected.

Mozilla has warned the company registered users of the site addons.mozilla.org, that Mozilla mistakenly posted on a public web-server is a file that contains private information, including e-mail, name, last name, md5-hash of user passwords.

Posted on the site addons.mozilla.org extensions to a number of software Mozilla: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Sunbird, which provides users with new opportunities and changes the work of browsers and other applications.
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Presented by the New Year edition of this wonderful game.

Added:

• map: Capture the Flag (Blizzard) Map
• Topic: Christmas
• snowballs at Christmas / The snow theme snow settles on the ground
• modifiers games: No wind, More wind
• Mission: Dangerous ducklings, Diver, Spooky tree, Teamwork
• Weapons: Mudball, Drill strike
• timer status
• New hats: beaver, porkey, sheep
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For a few weeks working out the developer Timothy Howard to port the F-Spot photo management for Windows.

In recent days he had the icon preview and import the image running on Windows to be related to, the British reported in his blog . The import is still quite slow, admits the programmer. In addition, still missing many features such as color management.
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Linux project Wary Puppy, a desktop distribution for older hardware, published in version 5.0.

The Linux using older versions of system software such as 2.6.31.14 kernel and X.org 7.3 (xorg-server 1.3.0.0) to support analog modems and older graphics cards better. As applications are including Firefox 2.0.7 and GIMP 2.7 on board, the Office needs, there is Abiword and GOffice. Details and a classification in the Puppy Linux project, it is more in the Release Notes .

According to the maintainer Barry Kauler Wary to long-term support for the years to get, there should be no fundamental changes to the system, only bug fixes and small updates of the applications. Kauler added to a FAQ posted on the Web.
Wary Puppy 5.0 is on the mirrors of the Puppy project, download Wary Puppy 5.0 the ready. There are two different size CD image to boot and install live act.