Archive for June, 2012

06.30
12

Compiz 0.9.8 arrives on Ubuntu 12.10

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Compiz is a Window Manager, made famous for the fact that it offered, as the cube, writing with focus on Desktop, and many other water effect, Compiz, although not part of the Gnome project. He looked dead, but it seems not so.
It was used in a variety of distributions instead of Metacity (the Gnome Window Manager Native in class 2), but was honorably discharged, however (speaking in military terms, set aside with the computer) in favor of the new Window Managers Gnome 3, called Mutter, modern distributions using Gnome because they use almost all Mutter, except one, Ubuntu, which is still based on Compiz Unity.
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06.30
12

Apple has made ​​a ban on the sale of Galaxy Nexus in the United States

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As long as the presentation of new services, Google (Voice Assistant, etc.), Apple has made in a court ban their top-end phone Galaxy Nexus.

Application submitted in February was granted. The suit appeared scheduled patents:

  • 8,086,604 - Implementation of Voice Assistant
  • 5,946,647 - Identification of phones in the program and the call by pressing
  • 8,046,721 - Slide to Unlock
  • 8,074,172 - word prediction when typing on the onscreen keyboard

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06.28
12

FishPi Ahoy – The Raspberry Pi sets sail

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The Raspberry Pi-Fan Greg Holloway is about to build a low-cost mini computers with some other components in a model boat. The “FishPi” to cross the Atlantic autonomous shortly.

The FishPi mentioned project is a 20-inch (51 cm) long model of Cygnus DS25, which from a Raspberry Pi is controlled. Holloway joins the small, for educational and research purposes, computer imaginary with an I2C-GPS Navigatron v2, a compass HMC6352, an 8-channel servo-controller for the motors of the rudder, a speed controller Mtronics Microviper Marine10 and Kinobo 5 megapixel USB webcam .
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06.28
12

Google Nexus Tablet presented seven

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Google used this since yesterday in San Francisco held developer conference Google I / O is not only an arena for the presentation of Android 4.1, but presented with the Nexus 7 before his own first Android tablet.

The Nexus 7 is to make a competitive price of $ 200, which lies below the production costs, according to Google, especially Amazon’s Kindle Amazon’s Fire competition and how the device import of e-books, movies, music and more revenue. Also, the Kindle Fire runs with Android, but can access digital media from the Amazon fund. To catch up with a variety of media offer to the Amazon device, Google plans to expand its backing store , in addition to the existing range of books, music and movies will soon also magazines and TV shows have to offer. Purchasers of the Nexus 7 will receive a starter kit from some digital magazines, a film and an e-book and a $ 25 voucher for the play store.
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06.28
12

KDE 4.9 RC1 Released

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It is shortly to release the new and final branch of KDE 4, version 4.9, which will be released after KDE 5, the new KDE, but should not lead to a drastic change as rather occurred between version 3 and 4, then see the latest (just past) innovations in KDE 4
  • Dolphin is upgraded by improving the visualization of searches on metadata. Files can be renamed in line, offering a user experience much easier.
  • General improvements in system performance and bug fixes that make the user experience easier than ever (according to developers)
  • Greater integration of files, windows and other resources, users can now attach files to the windows of activities, thus enjoying a more organized workspace properly. Folders can now show the files related to an activity, making it easier to associate with a specific context.
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06.28
12

ZFS: the new benchmark for Ubuntu 12.04

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It’s been a bit ‘last benchmark of the Sun filesystem, ZFS, but ow it came to new for the new operating system of Canonical, the well-known than Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and, apparently, ZFS works well on a hard drive or on an SSD.
The ZFS filesystem support is not in the mainline Linux kernel because of its license (CDDL) incompatible with the GPL.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for this reason, it releases all its public sources, thus the user is free to be able to compile the kernel modules alone.
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06.28
12

Mozilla Firefox Release 14 for Android

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What’s new in Firefox 14 for Android:

  • accelerated browser starts and reduced load time;
  • significantly speed up the browser;
  • added support for Adobe Flash;
  • completely redesigned user interface and intelligent screen browser;
  • on the revised home page added thumbnails of most visited sites and tabs open at the conclusion of the previous session;
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06.28
12

EAP is open 12-th version of IntelliJ IDEA

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Officially launched Early Access Program for IntelliJ IDEA 12, the name of the new release – Leda. As always Jetbrains embedded support for new versions of frameworks:

  • Designer UI for Android;
  • completely new approach to the compilation of the project;
  • Support jBPM 5.0 (BPMN 2.0);
  • Support Play Framework 1.2.4;
  • support for Hibernate 4.0;
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06.28
12

Release of Eclipse Juno

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Unreleased Eclipse Juno 4.2. This is the first release branch 4.x, 3.x branch is closed and will no longer develop. For compatibility with old plugins and RCP applications included in Juno compatibility layer.

  • Code Recommenders: a new draft code autocompletion. Analyzing the use of Java API application forms the base best practices. Further, Code Recommenders offers the developer to use a specific Java API in their projects.
  • Virgo: new kernel, which allows you to create less bulky applications based on OSGi.
  • Koneki: a new project to create a LUA IDE. The project is an important part of the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group.
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06.28
12

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

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On passing the San Francisco conference «Google I / O» was announced a new version of Android – 4.1 «Jelly Bean».

The main changes are:

  • new modes of buffering and synchronization for output to the screen, through which applications will be more responsive to user actions and accurately display the animation and scrolling the screen;
  • voice input to the offline-mode, a voice reading out the results of search;
  • support for images in the screen notifications, additional action buttons in the notification;
  • automatic scaling of widgets;
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