Wallpaper Contest for Ubuntu 13.04is open for submissions.
Rules:
Dont create busy and filled with too many shapes and colours.
Use a similar tone throughout is good.
Use a single point of focus, a single area that draws the eye in.
Avoid having anything on the left and top edges as this will clash with Launcher and Panel.
Try your image at different aspect ratios.
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iOS 6.1 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
adds LTE support for 36 more wireless carriers that sell iPhones
23 new LTE carriers for the iPad
added a ability to use Siri to purchase movie tickets in the US through Fandango
Now iTunes Match subscribers can download individual songs to their iOS devices from iCloud.
iOS 6.1 is compatible with iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad (third and fourth generation), iPad mini, iPad 2 and iPod touch (fourth and fifth generation)
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Wordpress 3.5.1 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
Fixes:
Editor: Prevent certain HTML elements from being unexpectedly removed or modified in rare cases.
Media: Fix a collection of minor workflow and compatibility issues in the new media manager.
Networks: Suggest proper rewrite rules when creating a new network.
Prevent scheduled posts from being stripped of certain HTML, such as video embeds, when they are published.
Work around some misconfigurations that may have caused some JavaScript in the WordPress admin area to fail.
Suppress some warnings that could occur when a plugin misused the database or user APIs.
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Facebook announced it has developed a programming language called Feature eXtraction Language (FXL) in an effort to help combat spam on the social networking service. FXL described as a narrowly-optimized implementation of a well-chosen subset of Standard ML (with some customized syntax).FXL offers two key advantages: it is simple and easy to write, yet extremely efficient for Facebook-sized workloads.
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Mozilla has announced two Developer Preview Phones for app developers.These developer phones are being developed by Geeksphone in partnership with Telefonica and Geeksphone. We are looking to make them available in February.
The Keon model
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Microsoft has now confirmed via a blog post that Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro will go on sale February 9 in the US and Canada.Surface Windows 8 Pro pricing starting at $899 and that it will be available in 64 GB and 128 GB models. Both devices include a pen but no keyboard which costs an extra $119 for a type cover or $129 for a touch cover.
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Windows Phone 7.8 SDK is now available for download.What’s new in this windows phone SDK?
Windows Phone 7.8 emulator: This OS image emulates your app running on a 512-MB device running Windows Phone 7.8 (build 8858).
Windows Phone 7.8 256MB emulator: This OS image emulates Windows Phone 7.8 (build 8858) running on a 256-MB device.
If you’re running a Windows Phone SDK 7.1 installation, the update will also download and install the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update onto your machine as part of the update.
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Mozilla firefox 18.0.1 final is now available for download.This is a bug fix release.
what’s new in this firefox 18.0.1?
Fixed:
Problems involving HTTP Proxy Transactions (Associated bugs)
Unity player crashes on Mac OS X
Disabled HIDPI support on external monitors to avoid rendering glitches (bug 814434)
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Windows 8 upgrade editions will be sold as follows after jan 31st 2013:
The Windows 8 Pro upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $199.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $119.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 Pro Pack will cost $99.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 Media Center Pack will cost $9.99 MSRP (U.S.).
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LiLi USB Creator 2.8.19 is now available for download.what’s new in this release?
New Linux Distributions supported :
Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow” Gnome/KDE/Xfce/LXDE/SoaS/Design
Manjaro 0.8.3 MATE/Openbox
Slax 7.0.4
Linux Mint 14.1 “Nadia” MATE/Cinnamon DVD
Linux Mint 14 “Maya” KDE/Xfce DVD
Gparted Live CD 0.14.1-6
Finnix 107
Fuduntu 2013.1
Clonezilla Live CD 2.0.1-15
Tails 0.16
SMS (Superb Mini Server) Live 2.0.2
ArchBang 2012.12.03
ArchLinux 2013.01.04 x86/amd64
Chakra 2013.01
Gentoo Live DVD 20121221 x86/amd64
Pear Linux 6.1 R2
KNOPPIX 7.0.5
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