Update HP Touchpad webOS
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hp touchpad
The HP Touchpad has had a curious life in the terminal market and global tablets. A few months of being on sale, available to users worldwide, has become the workshop for a remodeled. Is that the OS updates are never expect too much. In this case, the update has more to do with the ecosystem of applications and software content than anything else.
This is an agreement that HP has done with RoxioNow, where the HP tablet will feature an interesting access to films from around the world, music from various record companies, etc.. This means that users of the tablet in question have the ability to access multimedia content, primarily movies, as I said, 'but you can also watch series that will be available for download or online viewing.
Keep in mind, however, that the last option is available only to U.S. users. For the rest, ie all of us will Viewster application, with which we can access movies or TV series but in this case the download is not available.
With this movement of rudder, HP significantly improves the user experience, showing that it is a company that cares about the constant improvement and progress of their products. Read more
More news from Windows 8
Desk Windows 8
It has long been talking about in this blog, we are not alone-that's obvious-launch promises to be the boom year: the new version of Microsoft's operating system. Is that Windows 8 is being desired, and much . Catch leaks and releasing of the desktop environment in different web sites, and allowing and legitimizing the rumors of millions of bloggers, things are getting interesting in what refers to Windows 8.
In this case we speak of a somewhat more detailed measurements of this new version, since it leaked a few images. The first point to note is that Microsoft has engaged with the Windows Live Windows 8. In this way all those users with a Windows Live can access the new OS. In the lower right on the desktop displays your avatar, where we set the image and audio data.
Another feature to note is that the new Windows will have enhanced backup functions. It turns out that Microsoft has greatly improved the current "ShadowCopies" to allow for greater usability and functionality for users as far as administration of deleted files and lost file recovery is concerned. Read more
Comments on Cairo, the new environment for Windows
Cairo Shell: for now, only in English
Perhaps to save us from a possible schizophrenia, desktop environments like the one we discuss in this article offer more than one reason to give them a chance. I refer to Cairo, an environment for Microsoft Windows that enables us to pretend that we Gnome 2.x users of GNU / Linux.
Many users have the two operating systems on one computer, or more than one computer in which they have installed different OSes, like myself. The truth is that at such a duality, the user may be confused by more than one case. That is why we can be very useful Cairo. Let us review some complications that have arisen in their use.
The desktop environment is a great product. In fact, is in its alpha stage, it is tested, and it shows in more than a detail. If we need to clarify briefly what are the major problems of this project, we could talk first of a large redundancy into aspects that are not worth it.
For example, Cairo offers, added to the bottom bar of Windows, a second bar that marks this new environment. To overlap with the original Windows user can not get to understand what kind of benefit is obtained.
It would also be appropriate to speak of the dimension of stability. For Cairo does not work very well on Windows versions available today. For Windows 7 things are going well. The problem is when we try in Windows XP.
Finally, another problem is found when installing applications. Read more
Plymouth and Wayland
Since KernelModeSetting is reality, first in Fedora and then Ubuntu graphical boot has sophisticated upstart / usplash responding to events and Plymouth (Red Hat contributing) showing the film in high definition of the burden of linux, and still carrying more graphics subsystem into the nucleus GNU outside we find him with the little switch ligerito Wayland Compiz3D and that after all the improvements in X would come to join this already written and just be missing the QT and GTK ports to be old again in the modern (though insist to send everything through the roof and other webservers). After Canonical, Fedora also announces that it will go behind wayland (multi-user remote server but not without X) and openGL accelerating on all fronts coming 3D.
If in two years (exceeded the Mayan prophecy of Ragnarok) BSD systems X.Org discarded and carry into the bowels of the display controller kernel for the sake of graphics open source is a mystery that neither the Vatican nor the City MediaLabs MIT can now respond, but in FreeBSD Foundation itself.
An unexpected and welcome support: PPC Linux Mint
Is forthcoming Linux Mint 10 Julia and while other distributions like Ubuntu or openSUSE come apart from the PowerPC architecture-as anachronistic and obsolete excepting understand all the architects of MorphOS - distribution commanded by Clement Lefebvre now splits into Ubuntu and Debian base base again push linux installation of more advanced and functional on those processors G3, G4, and so on. Read more
KDE SC 4.5 RC2
It is free and massive downloads version far more stable but unstable rc series of the desktop manager par excellence: K Desktop Environment.
Download, compile and then use KDE .
Magnatune donates $ 600 to Gnome
Magnatune has donated $ 614.20 to the Gnome Foundation in gratitude for the successful integration of its range of artists in the software Rhythmbox. Estimate that the portal through Rhythmbox have turnover of more than $ 6000 (the customer pays what you want from $ 5 per disc), so I have donated 10%.
Kde 4 on Maemo 5
A group of developers gathered about an event for Nokia Maemo 5 and N900 the new terminal have laid some groundwork for what could be an adaptation of KDE for Maemo .
The initial intention is to make the Linux platform Maemo on a platform officially supported.
KDE 4.3 RC3
It came alive the last release candidate ( 04/02/98 ) of the evolution of the desktop manager with more development in the history of Xwindows. The final version of KDE 4.3 will arrive (in Catalan) on Tuesday August 4 geoid around the globe. 12 days and shortening ...
GNOME Do 0.8.1.3
To customize your desktop is Gnome application launcher application par excellence, made in MONO and more configurable than a Slackware system provides us with Docky , the dock icons to Mac OS X which is an add-on theme with several plugins and records our preferences to launch applications or web services. If we are used to KBFX we have come to a rudimentary search / application launcher and maybe we can think of to try Katapult . GNOME Do is licensed (like GCC 4.4 0.0) under GPLv3.
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