Canonical announced that support and maintenance period for ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu for desktop users from three years to five years. The first two years of the LTS period will provide hardware updates and Maintenance updates will continue for a further three years.
Ubuntu 12.04 is scheduled for release in April 2012.
Support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ends in April 2013.
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1.Redesigned Video End-Screen – to make it easier for you to find the next video.
2.Enhanced Playlist Bar.
3.Updated YouTube.com/Charts page.
4.WeVideo Now on YouTube.
5.Smart Subscribe button.
6.Added Kenya, the Philippines and Singapore to the list of countries where YouTube is localized, bringing this total number to 35.
Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth says on his personal blog,
“we can focus on polish, performance and predictability. I’d like to improve the user experience around Workspaces for power users, and we’ll publish our design work for that, but I think it would be wisest for us to defer that unless we get an early and effective contribution of that code.”
“12.04 will be the first LTS to support the ARM architecture on selected ARM SoC parts.”
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The search giant Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of mary blair with an google doodle on its homepage. Mary Blair (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson in McAlester, Oklahoma was an American artist who was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella.
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Next week Google Reader will get brand new design and integration with Google+ and share the best of your feeds with just the right circles.
And some other changes are
Many of Reader’s social features will soon be available via Google+.
retiring friending, following and shared link blogs inside of Reader.
Opera 11.52 is available for download.This release is a recommended upgrade offering security and stability enhancements.
Fixed:Adjusting volume on a YouTube HTML5 Video causes freeze
Fixed:a non-exploitable bug which allowed injection of untrusted markup into the X-Frame-Options error page.
Fixed:Crashes when downloading via BitTorrent
Fixed:an issue where manipulating fonts in SVG could allow execution of arbitrary code
Fixed:Installation of Opera in Ubuntu 11.10 by changing the compression method.
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Wordpress 3.3 beta 2 is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this version of wordpress?
Updated the Blue theme
Fixed IE7 and RTL support
Improved flyout menu styling and fixed several glitches
Finished the Pointers implementation
Landed the Welcome screen
Improved contextual help styling
Tweaked the admin bar a little more
Fixed a bunch of bugs
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What’s new in Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich?
Refined, evolved user interface and multi-tasking.
improvement? in resizable widgets.
new home screen folder for users to group their apps, get app info.
New lock screen actions.
Quick responses for incoming calls.
Powerful voice input engine-dictate text to the phone for as long as they want in any language.
native photo editing to the Android camera interface.
improved auto-completion feature
improved Native Browser.
developers now have the ability to set device specifications with backwards functionality.
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Google announced a new Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions.With the new API,users just need to add “tts” to your permissions and it is easy to change the rate, pitch, and volume. In addition to the main API, Google also introduced the TTS Engine API which allows developers to implement a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine.Users that have Chrome on Mac OS X or Windows, or those using Chrome OS, should be able to use the native client voices immediately. Linux users will have to download a voice from the Chrome Web Store.
New and improved animations.
Revision history stores edits
New themes.
Character-by-character collaboration.
Chat with collaborators directly within the presentation.
Draw organizational charts, flowcharts, design diagrams and much more.
Transition between slides to add more effects.
Shape linking turn shapes within your presentation into hyperlinks that link to other slides, presentations, or webpages.
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