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WebP – this is a new image file format, which provides the ability to compress both lossless and lossy. Image format WebP, lossless compression, have a size of 26% less than PNG. Image format WebP lossy have the size to 25-34% smaller than JPEG for equal values ​​of SSIM. WebP also supports transparency (alpha channel), animation, color profiles and metadata (XMP / EXIF). WebP and WebM formats promoted as web standards by Google as part of an initiative to reduce the world’s Internet traffic and improve the quality of Internet-based technologies. WebP and WebM is based on the codec VP8, developed by On2 Technologies, later purchased by Google. (more…)

The free web analytics solution Piwik is available in version 1.11. The developers also added seven new functionality, improved usability and corrected more than 40 errors.

Piwik 1.11 contains new survey maps that show the country of origin of visitors over a certain period of analysis in real time. Users can at the new maps to focus on specific regions or cities and visualized as best seen from where your website visitors come. The real-time map is updated every ten seconds. The maps are created using the cartographer frameworks created, endorsed by the Piwik developer Gregor Aisch implemented in Python and JavaScript, and is licensed under the GPLv3. The maps are shown in SVG format so that Piwik now completely do without Flash.
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Linux Hosting simply means Web services running on a server running a Linux operating system, so no need to follow your description confused over housing. Hosting Linux is mainly considered by online business owners or small or medium that running in nature.

Considering Linux hosting main reason is that Linux hosting costs much less to other options such as Windows web hosting for example. Now the question is why is it cheaper? A product of open source software is what Linux is and why step carries high fees that other systems are associated with them can even download the Linux operating system and use it without paying anything like everybody. While on the other hand, if a web host offers Windows hosting would be expensive as they pay maintenance charges for software costs. (more…)

The Ubuntu One team has announced the opening of the Ubuntu One Music Store for the web and your mobile phone. From now on users can not Rhythmbox detour buy their music via a browser or mobile device in the Ubuntu One Music Store.

The integration in cooperation with the 7digital -powered and available for Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu One Music Store was previously using the Gnome media player Rhythmbox. Banshee also has a corresponding extension. The shares purchased will be transferred except as a local downloads in the personal Ubuntu One memory of the user and can be synchronized from there, with each connected client PC. At extra cost from there also streaming the shares purchased is possible on a mobile phone.
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Innovations:

• a significant reduction in memory consumption, additions to the project MemShrink;
• Added built-in document viewer in PDF format - PDF.js supports zooming and navigation features on Thumbnails for loading TrueType and Type 1, can form graphs and charts, supports compressed objects. (The default is 15 PDF.js version disabled. For those who want to test this feature in about: config, locate the pdfjs.disabled and set to the value false);
• added support audikodeka Opus ;
• support of the third version of the protocol SPDY;
• development tools integrated into a full-fledged debugger JavaScript (Ctrl + Shift + S);
• added tool ”Adaptive Design” (Ctrl + Shift + M) to view Web pages on different types of devices with different screen resolutions;

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WebP – this is a new image file format, which provides the ability to compress both lossless and lossy. Image format WebP, lossless compression, have a size of 28% less than PNG. Image format WebP lossy have the size to 25-34% smaller than JPEG for equal values of SSIM. WebP also supports transparency (alpha channel). WebP and WebM formats promoted as web standards by Google as part of an initiative to reduce the world’s Internet traffic and improve the quality of Internet technologies. WebP and WebM is based on the codec VP8, developed by On2 Technologies, later purchased by Google.
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The release 1.4 of the Django web framework is ready. It is the last version to support Python 2.5.

How the Django developers in their blog to announce they have released their version 1.4 based on Python web frameworks. The release notes lead to a variety of changes, including some that are designed to improve the security of Web applications that are written in Django. These are some improved password hashing with PBKDF2 and Bcrypt and devices to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and clickjacking.
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With a delay of several weeks, there was a new major release of the framework for developing web applications in Python – Django 1.4. List of changes is extensive, the most interesting ones:

• Advanced support for time zone (timezone).
• Support for browser testing frameworks (eg, Selenium ).
• Templates for creating new projects.
• Improved support for WSGI.
• Support for SELECT FOR UPDATE in the ORM , which allows you to block access to reading and deleting of records, the relevant inquiry.
• Now you can store data in a user’s session cookie.
• Added a method for efficient Model.objects.bulk_create insert multiple records in the database.
• Added method QuerySet.prefetch_related, similar to the known method select_related, but that works better in some difficult situations (for example, the many-to-many, or when using GenericForeignKey).
• Improved hashing passwords. Now the algorithm PBKDF2 .
• Pages built-in admin are now HTML5 Doctype.
• Improvements admin: improved filters , added the ability to multi-sorted.
• FormWizard rewritten using class-based views.
• Added method reverse_lazy, allows you to use a reverse resolving UI op URL (django.core.urlresolvers.reverse) before loading URLConf.
• Improved support for internationalization of the URL.
• Improved debug output for errors in the templates.
• Added protection against clickjacking (disabled by default for backward compatibility).
• Improved protection against CSRF.

It should be noted that in the 1.4 release, removed support for Python 2.4, but 1.5 will release adds experimental support for Python 3, as can be read here .

Apache Software Foundation and Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.1, the first stable release of the new 2.4.

Major improvements:

• Dynamically loaded MPM. Several MRM can be collected in the form of loadable modules that can be activated without rebuilding
• Event MPM module is no longer fully supported by experimental and
• Improved support for asynchronous read / write for the MRM

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Came the next version of the universal modular web client LeechCraft 0.5.0 , combining tools for navigating Web, IM-client, client to read RSS / Atom-feeds, BitTorrent-Client, and much more.

For more than a year of active development, with the last release of 0.4, LeechCraft has undergone significant changes. Perhaps most important of them – a new plugin, and a very advanced multi- IM-client , and modular. In 0.5 it supports the XMPP and IRC, XMPP, and support of the extension is sufficiently complete . In the main thread of development has already implemented modules support protocols MSN and MRIM.
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