Archive for November, 2009

iPhone Software icons become coffee cup Coasters

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Currently the number of softwares in iPhone software stores has more than 100,000 kinds, the icon design is naturally strange. But I am afraid that users face most everyday are the softwares of the official Apple , many of which have already deeply rooted among the icon image.

Recently a new site have been fighting the idea of these icons ,they made a lovely coffee coasters. The alleged pattern of these coasters is strictly to install iPhone 1.1.4 firmware version of the software icon to enlarge come back the use of cork materials, non-slip and insulation effects.

The iPhone Apps Coasters have three groups, namely:

Core Software: SMS, calendar, telephone, mail, Safari, and iPod;

Home Software: Notepad, set, camera, calculator, clock and address book;

Media software: Maps, YouTube, stocks, video, weather, and photos.

Price of 19 dollars each group of six, and targets Christmas gift market. The following is an issue that what they authorized by Apple begin?

Microsoft announced CFO Liddell will leave by the end of this year

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Beijing November 25 morning news, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft announced today, CFO (Chris Liddell) will leave by the end of 2009 and Pitekelai will be appointed as its new CFO.

In the past fiscal year, Microsoft’s cost reducted three billion U.S  dollars compared with the original plans . It repaid 14 billion U.S. dollars through dividends and stock repurchases from shareholders.

Klein joined Microsoft in February 2002, he is CFO of the current corporate business unit , responsible for financial strategy, management, etc.; Before, Klein served as Microsoft’s CFO OF server and tools business unit for 3 years. Before joining Microsoft, Klein has 13 years work experience in corporate finance .

Liddell joined Microsoft in May 2005, previously served as CFO of paper products maker International Paper Company and paper products manufacturer Carter Holt Harvey’s CEO New Zealand. Riedel said that he is paying attention to other opportunities, hoping to engage in other work outside the CFO.

Riedel work at Microsoft by the end of the year and work closely with Klein to ensure the smooth completion of the transition.

Klein received a bachelor’s degree at Yale University and MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree at Washington University .

Six 32nm Clarkdale Core i5/i3 begin accepting reservations

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

There are a month and a half from it is officially released, the German online store HPM-Computer.de has begun to accept reservations of the dual-core processors Intel 32nm Clarkdale , including the four Core i5 and two Core i3, only lack of a low-end Pentium.

32nm Clarkdale first products are divided into three series and the seven models which are used the same LGA1156 interface as 45nm Lynnfield , in which the high-end Core i5-600 series of frequency 3.20-3.46GHz, supporting Hyper-Threading and Core-frequency acceleration, 4MB 3 level cache, in which Core i5-661 integrated graphics core frequency ups to 900MHz, thermal design power consumption is 87W, the other are 733MHz and 73W.

Core i3-500 series was cut on the support of Core-frequency acceleration, frequency is also slightly lower (2.93/3.06GHz), the other is unchanged.

The only Pentium G6950 specifications lowest frequency is only 2.80GHz, Core does not support Hyper-Threading and frequency of acceleration, 3 cache is also streamlined to 3MB, but it will still be thermal design power 73W.

The models which are now starting be booked are Core i5-670/661/660/650 and Core i3-540/530, prices from € 103.9 to € 252.9 range, but that contains 19% of the tax removed, only slightly higher than the official price.

Google Chrome 4.0 stable version will be released on January 12

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

In early November Google released the first Beta version of Chrome 4.0, and introduced bookmarks synchronization function which is more value for the users , but the extensions are inadequate. Recently, Google will launch a Web site which can show the extension function of Chrome . After running the latest release of development version 4.0.249.0, its welcome page and a new page are both on the promotion of this feature.

Promotion of the page says the new Chrome now has extensions and bookmarks synchronization functiuon. At the same time it is provided with a yet-to-date web link: https: / / chrome.google.com / extensions.

Chrome 4.0 is currently only released a test version of Windows platform, supporting for Mac OS X and Linux  will also be an important feature of Chrome 4.0.It is expected that this test version of the two platforms will be available early in December.

According to the development calendar display of Chrome browser, Mac OS X and Linux platforms beta program will be released on December 8, while the Chrome 4.0 stable version will be released on January 12, it will be better co-operation of Google Chrome OS system.

In addition, Google Chrome extensions will also provide additional third-party themes gallery (Theme Gallery), Chrome and Firefox extensions is also one of the competitive weight. It is learned that Firefox will be the 3.7 version of the first half of 2010 to start using a new and expanded framework of the Jetpack, and Mozilla has just launched its own Jetpack gallery.

Fedora 12 officially is released

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Fedora project team today released the final version of Fedora 12, although later than the official release schedule for nearly two weeks, the improvement of the performance of Fedora 12 will not allow many users disappointed, except the pace of optimization of the i686 CPU and the Intel Atom. Fedora 12 added support for Moblin Intel desktop environment for the first time , providing the Fedora 12 Moblin Fedora Remix version.

Fedora 12 Moblin Fedora Remix version originally plans to release in the form of Live CD and Fedora 12 at the same time, it is regrettable that, although the official version of Fedora 12, today issued , Moblin Fedora Remix version also can not obtain.

Fedora 12’s Some of the new content:

-GNOME 2.28 desktop environment;

-KDE 4.3 desktop environment;

-PolicyKit 1.0;

-NetworkManager Network management fully support IPv6;

-LVM user-space interface liblvm;

- The default instant messaging client Empathy;

- Read-only file system troubleshooting information online;

-Dracut (replace the existing nash / mkinitrd);

- Advanced Application Software Static Tracker Systemtap;

- Office software OpenOffice 3.

Microsoft’s online stores officially support Windows Mobile 6.0/6.1

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Today Microsoft announced in its official blog,  prior online store Windows Marketplace for Mobile which was provided for the Windows Mobile 6.5 mobile phone users also officially supports Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.1 . Microsoft Windows significantly improved Marketplace for Mobile last week , newly adding the function of browsing and buying the application proceeding through PC.

After offering online store service to all Windows Mobile 6.5 new machine users , Microsoft said Windows Mobile 6.0 and later users can also visit the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, and this  also provides access to more than 30 million mobile phone users opportunities for the developer of the Windows Phone . Currently, about 90% applications of Windows Marketplace for Mobile are added to the Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.1 phone support.
 
Windows Marketplace for Mobile now offers more than 800 applications, it is published three times the amount than a month ago . In addition, more than 1,000 software vendors have already registered and will provide software for the Marketplace. Compare, App Store Apple’s online store offers more than 100,000 applications.

Windows Mobile 6.0,6.1 and 6.5 users can directly access via mobile phones http://mp.windowsphone.com, PC users can also login through a browser http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/get -marketplace.mspx to buy Windows Mobile applications.

Palm officially released webOS 1.3.1

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Smart phone operating system, Palm webOS today released the latest 1.3.1 version, the update did not release new applications, it only upgraded and changed the previous version of the application functionality to resolve several security issues.
The main features include: backup feature now supports backup browser cookie, calendar, contacts, and Yahoo instant messaging and related services can now be synchronized, wide-screen video can be in the default widescreen mode to normal displays. For more detailed information you can log on Palm’s official blog query.

According to foreign media reports,  yesterday by the stimulus of Nokia’s takeover rumors , Palm shares had surged as much as 8.3%, Palm webOS as a very modern operating system,  facing the competitive edge of iPhone, Blackberry, and Android . Some analysts believe that Nokia wants to buy Palm in order to seek a breakthrough in the U.S. market, while Palm also needs to have better development of a larger company as a backing.

Microsoft officially released 3D Game for Zune HD

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

A few days ago Microsoft released a new Zune HD 4.3 firmware,  in the upgrade instructions Microsoft said: “The upgrade adds the support for 3D games and applications ” Today, Microsoft  released a new applications and games at Zune Marketplace for the Zune HD , including 6 new games, the most striking is the new 3 3D games, it uses multimedia devices of NVIDIA Tegra processors and has finally begun to show its powerful function.

Microsoft’s latest offer of the 6 games were “PGR: Ferrari Edition (Project Gotham Racing: Ferrari)”, “Lucky Lane Bowling (Lucky Bowling)”, “Vans Sk8: Pool Service (Tony Hawk)” “Piano (mini - Piano) “,” Checkers (Checkers) “and” Audiosurf: Tilt (music fighter) “, which PGR, lucky bowling and Tony Hawk are the 3D games.

The Amazon launch the Windows version of Kindle e-book software

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Today Amazon company announced to open Windows version of Kindle e-book reader software for free download. This further reduces the threshold of Kindle e-book platform, users do not need to buy  Kindle e-book readers which values hundreds of dollars, as long as an ordinary PC can be read into the Kindle electronic bookshop.

Amazon said that, Windows version of Kindle software client is like Kindle e-books or iPhone / iPod touch version of the client, it can browse the Kindle online bookstore to purchase, download, read the book. And in the absence of the E-Ink electronic ink monochrome screen restrictions, PC version can read a variety of full-color version of the book.

Based on Whispersync synchronization, Kindle the client will immediately remember your reading location, comments and other information and synchronize, the next time whether you open the Kindle, Kindle DX or PC, iPhone software, can be read directly from the last number of pages beginning.

In addition, Kindle for PC also optimizes Windows 7 and support Win7 system through multi-point touch-screen to zoom the text size, in the next upgrade it will also support to touch next page.

PC version of Kindle supports Windows XP/Vista/7 operating system, available for free download. Amazon also said that Mac OS X version will be released soon.

Optimize performance Paint.NET 3.5 is officially released

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Paint.NET was developed by Washington State University of United States for Microsoft’s official support of a senior graduate design project results. Paint.NET was first developed to provide users with a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft drawing board replacing software. With the continuous deepening of research and development, Paint.NET has received a lot of professional users of all ages. Although features of Paint.NET is not strong as Photoshop ,it provides more practical functions, and the volume is less than 5M.

Pain.NET was compiled by the C #-based.It runs in NET Framework 2.0 environment , the latest Paint.NET 3.5 supports Windows 7 DirectWrite.

Update Log:

- Significantly improve performance, optimize the memory footprint;

- Vista / Windows 7 to use the new icon on the user interface refresh;

- Upgrade using the latest performance improvements;

- Adding a new effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur;

- Add new effects: Distort -> Dents;

- Add new effects: Distort -> Crystalize;

- Text tool font manager has been completely rewritten to improve performance and reliability;

- Built-in upgrade program now supports background downloading updates;

- Added Russian support.

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