The KDE community has released the first RC candidate of version 4 for the very famous software KDE ,K desktop environment , codenamed “calamity”.While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish a first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place all over the KDE codebase.
The KDE community writes :-
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality.
For those who dont know , KDE or the K Desktop Environment, is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fulfill the need for an easy to use desktop for UNIX workstations, similar to desktop environments found on Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
You can download it from here http://www.kde.org/info/3.96.php
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Apple® today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS® X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple’s history. Sales included copies sold at Apple’s retail stores, Apple Authorized Resellers, the online Apple Store®, under maintenance agreements and bundled with new Mac® computers. Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X and is packed with more than 300 new features.
“Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Leopard’s innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac.”
Leopard introduces Time Machine, an effortless way to automatically back up everything on a Mac*; a redesigned Finder that lets users quickly browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to instantly see files without opening an application; Spaces, an intuitive new feature used to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; a brand new desktop with Stacks, a new way to easily access files from the Dock; and major enhancements to Mail and iChat
The Yahoo Messenger for mac has undergone some more changes and is avaiable for download now. Since the first release of Yahoo Messenger for Mac beta 2 first release ,the messenger has undergone the following changes:-
- Improved stability and compatibility with Mac OS X Version 10.5 (Leopard)
- Some small interface improvements, including a new Show/Hide Display Images button in the IM and chat room windows
- Improved chat room layout, with the list of chatters in a left hand, scrollable panel with age/sex/location details available on hover (if the user is sharing his/her profile)
Daily 1000’s of new videos appear on the net.It is really difficult to create track of them specially of the ones you want.It would be really cheerful to get the videos of your choice directly in your mail box.Now this is also possible.The famous and extremely useful Google Alerts have got a new feature to create alerts of videos.This feature is really useful for those who want videos on a particular subject.
Video Alerts enables you to specify any topics or queries of interest so we can deliver interesting and relevant videos on a daily, weekly, or as-it-happens basis (your choice) to you via email.You can subscribe to Google Alerts by visiting http://google.com/alerts . You will get videos not only from google but also from youtube,metacafe and many other sources from the web.
Enjoy!
The Web Messenger by Yahoo received some major updates.This new release includes:– Sending of SMS!-Now you can send text messages (SMS) to your friends’ mobile phones for free, right from Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. When your friend replies, it comes back to you in Messenger. You’ll notice the contact list is now divided into two areas: regular IM contacts and Mobile Contacts.SMS is only available when messaging to mobile phones in the U.S., India and Canada. Note that it’s free for you to SMS from Messenger but your friends will incur any applicable data charges from their carrier to receive your messages.
Brand new, local language versions for Thailand and Indonesia.
9 new languages for the Indian version (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada). After signing in at http://in.webmessenger.yahoo.com, start an IM with a friend and choose the Indian language you want to chat in from a drop-down menu.
If you haven’t already given Yahoo! Messenger for the Web a try,then do it immediately. There’s no download required, making it really handy when you’re at work, on the road or away from your own computer.
It was in news Highights recently ,”OpenOffice.org 2.3 is about to release” and finally it has been released.OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
It includes six products which are also free and open sourced:-
- Writer – a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book.
- Calc – a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics.
- Impress – the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations.
- Draw – lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.
- Base – lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within OpenOffice.org
- Math – lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor
You can download the OpenOffice.org 2.3 version from here.You can also order the CD’s and even download it via P2P networks.
In April,Google announced that they are working on adding Presentation(online creation of Microsoft PowerPoint like presentation slides).Today ,this announcement came to a reality by the introduction of presentation feature in Google Docs.For those who dont know ,Google Docs is a set of collabarel tools which lets you the creation of spread sheets ,word documents and now even presentations online that too for free.
The presentations can be imported(max 10mb) ,created,edited or shared and publish.To create a new presentation ,sign in to google docs and click new and then click presentation.A new window will be opened with a pop up windows size.(I recommend you to immediately bring it in full size before loading otherwise you might face size problems later on).The presentation feature has got many many features including image uploading and resizing(no online URL image addition supported although) , A pretty and sleek interface, A pretty comfortable WYSIG editor , and also 15 nice themes to choose from.You can also import your documents from powerpoint and export your presentation as HTML and also make your presentation viewable to the whole Internet.See the presentation created by us here.
Source- Technoworld
Siddharth | November 22, 2007
! Windows Live SkyDrive has just doubled the space provided to its users.It has increased the maximum space from 500 mb to 1 GB.Now users can just upload the double size of data then previous.
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