Interesting Google Android apps
Google’s Android developer challenge has released its first 50 shortlisted applications. Which ones are interesting and why?
Fedora 9 coming down the line…
Fedora 9 is nearing completion. The final freeze of the code has taken place and the code is almost ready to ship. The 29th of April is the expected release date for this cutting edge Linux distribution.
There is even a preview of the release notes which lets us see what nice features the [...]
Nokia buys Trolltech and QT
A few days after I pointed out that there is a QT4 port for Nokia’s Maemo platform, Nokia has announced that it is buying Trolltech the makers of the QT framework.
The 150 million dollar buyout has taken some by surprise as Nokia’s Maemo platform itself is closely aligned with the QT alternative GTK+ and Gnome. [...]
VMWare Fusion features coming to VMWare Workstation
VMWare’s upcoming VMWare Workstation 6.5 will likely include one of the most demanded features from its Mac Fusion product. Specifically, it appears that VMWare Workstation 6.5 will allow virtualized applications within a VM to be “detached” from the VM showing up as a seperate window on the native host OS. You could therefore have [...]
Fedora 8 released and installed - bumps and bruises.
Fedora 8 was released a on November 8th. As previously mentioned, unlike Microsoft’s Vista, this looks to be a nice upgrade.
It took a while for me to get my primary system upgraded but I finally got around to it on Friday.
Installation issues
I performed an upgrade in place of my Fedora 7 Dell D620 laptop. [...]
Nokia N810 (IT OS2008) firmware on the N800
As detailed on CNet, the Nokia N810 firmware has been leaked and people have been trying it out on the N800.
Some of the major features of the new OS:
Upgrade the processor speed from 320 MHz to 400 MHz
Now uses Mozilla browser instead of Opera
Improved Flash (and hence YouTube)
Linux kernel upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.21
New mapping [...]
Skype for Linux - Now with video support
Quick on the release of Skype for Linux version 1.4, EBay / Skype has released their latest Linux beta, version 2.0.0.13.
The big news is that this beta version finally includes support for VIDEO!
I tested it out with a colleague of mine (my install was Fedora his Ubuntu) and it seemed to work quite well. The [...]
WindowBuilder Pro version 6.5.0 released
Instantiations have released version 6.5.0 of WindowBuilder Pro their Eclipse based Java GUI builder. The new & noteworthy page describes some of the improvements available in this new version.
WindowBuilder Pro supports not only standard Swing GUIs but Eclipse’s Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT).
One of my favourite features of WindowBuilder’s [...]
Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92) released
The last beta release of Fedora 8, Test 3 or version 7.92 was released on Thursday the 4th. This release includes a few new features to the Fedora 8 release including “Online Desktop” preview via BigBoard, inclusion of Codec Buddy which is intended to help people find audio and video codecs which cannot be [...]
Skype 1.4 for Linux is here!
Finally Skype 1.4 (1.4.0.118) for Linux has been released. There doesn’t appear to be many changes from the latest beta release (1.4.0.99) from early August.
Now that 1.4 has been released hopefully we can start seeing version 2.x beta releases that will hopefully introduce video chat into Skype. Hopefully……
It certainly would be nice to [...]
- Silver Wave Film Festival 2009
- Google Maps API introduces reverse geocoding
- Virtual presence / holographic interview on CNN
- Maemo 5 - Fremantle - New Features
- Android is now available as open source
- Does New Brunswick Need More VCs?
- Merging in Fredericton - Accreon acquires ISOMNI
- Mobile Firefox - Fennec
- Blip.fm - All those blipping DJs and their music….
- Instantiations releases WindowBuilder Pro 6.7
- Updating a N810 to Diablo (OS2008 aka maemo 4.1)
- Do you think that your data is private? Not if you travel across borders…
- The great Fredericton flood of 2008?
- Buying a Nokia N810 in Canada
- VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta - Unity on Linux
- Java and Erlang on the Maemo platform (Nokia N810-N800-770 Internet Tablets)
- Fredericton flood of 2008 - aerial video and photos
- WindowBuilder Pro version 6.5.0 released
- East Coast Music Awards (ECMA 2008) - Fredericton, NB
- Fredericton named as one of the top seven intelligent cities in the world
- Google's Android software stack running on Nokia's N810
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