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Ubuntu Core 16 Released

The parent company of Ubuntu, named Canonical, released Ubuntu Core 16. It’s a minimal edition for embedded devices, Internet of things and cloud deployments.  What is new in Ubuntu Core 16 The new version released with Update control. This allows publishers of software and also manufactures to make some validations to the updates before they actually apply them. A great Ubuntu Core feature is that its updates are transactional. This means that every failure is going to automatically be rolled back so there are no compromised devices.

Released: Lubuntu 16.10

A new version of Lubuntu16.10 was released. Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system. It’s core is based on Linux and Ubuntu. Lubuntu uses the LXDEdesktop, it is focused on speed and energy efficiency. Lubuntu has very low system requirements and it can be installed on older PCs. A fresh installed Lununtu 16.10 consumes 300Mb of memory , compered with Ubuntu 16.10 that is consuming 800 Mb. What’s improved since 16.

Manjaro Linux 16.10 Fringilla Released

In a previous post we announced the updates of the rolling distribution Manjaro Linux, but as it seems the update, upgrades the system in to the edition Manjaro Linux 16.10 Fringilla. The edition of Xfce remains the default desktop administrator and according to the post announcement of Manjaro Linux 16.10 not a few can claim to offer such an integrated and innovative experience Xfce.  So, the new distribution comes with Xfce 4.

Manjaro Linux: Update brings Linux Kernel 4.5.8-2

Manjaro Linux operating system updated yesterday, and the update was just announced. For those that don’t know about this OS, the Manjaro distribution is based on Arch Linux and it’s goal is to make things easier for the non-experienced Linux user. The Manjaro installation is simple and it can be done with 2 different ways, one via GUI and one via terminal.   In general Manjaro linux is good for your attention, and it brings a lot of promises for the future.

Skype Alpha 1.11 released with improvements in Video Call

Recently Skype released an update to the Skype for Linux Alpha client. It includes many new features and improvements compared to the previous version as they say, but that is not necessarily true or exact !   Now you can have support for setting an avatar in group chats and there are also some performance improvements during a video call. Some of the early users mentioned that they have already experienced issues, by receiving notifications when skype isn’t in focus.

Fedora 25(Beta) resets Linux performance bar

Fedora 25 beta version released this month by Red Hat. This release gives more to cloud and developer features which makes this Linux distribution more attractive to enterprise users. Fedora Linux is the version of Enterprise Linux(RHEL), and it includes a set of base packages that form the basic foundation of: Cloud, Server and Workstation. Each one of those targets a different group of users.   Fedora 25 Targeted Users So Fedora 25 release is most likely for enterprise users.

Released: Lumina Desktop 1.1

This weekend, a new version of Lumina got released, Lumina Desktop 1.1 . Lumina is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment. It uses an approach “plugin based” to the whole interface, and this is allowing the user to tune and tweak the desktop according to his personal needs and preferences. You can install it in almost any Linux distribution even though the developer says that it works best with TrueOS, including also Fedora, Arch and ofcourse Ubuntu.

Fedora 26 removes the synaptics driver

Jan Kurik , Red Hat’s Fedora program Manager informed us about a system-wide change on the fedora 26 release. His proposal is the retirement of synaptics X11 drivers , provided by xorg-x11-dvr-synaptics package. Ferora project’s dev team decided the removal to offer users a better touchpad experience from the default install on Fedora 26 Linux default install that is released in june 2017. For users who prefer synaptics instead of libinput can still install it.

Kdenlive 16.08.2 released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> This cycle saw the launch of the <a href="https://kdenlive.org/toolbox/">Toolbox</a> section of the website, a collection of posts covering in depth reviews of new and existing tools and features. </p> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;">Kdenlive 16.08.2 Changelog</span> </h3> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Fix MLT Playlist proxying after recent proxy profile changes </li> <li> Fix proxy profiles to keep aspect ratio </li> <li> <span class="commit_title">Fix broken keyframes on image/title clips</span> </li> <li> Fix automatic playback of file with space in name </li> <li> Fix simplekeyframe effects (eg.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) reaches End of Life on July 28 2016

The Ubuntu Release Team recently announced the End of Life of Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) which was released almost 9 months ago, on October 22, 2015. All security related updates wil no longer be made available after the scheduled date “July 28, 2016. According to the announcement posted by Adam Conrad (A member of the release team): As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS released

Martin Wimpress recently announced the release of Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS which has been in development for nearly 2 years. This latest release features the latest MATE desktop environment, and support for Ubuntu Snappy command-line package manager.  Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS Update: Added ubuntu-snappy-cli to the default install. Updated Ubuntu MATE Welcome to 16.04.9. Updated translations and assorted bugs fixes Updated to install Telegram from a PPA maintained by Martin Wimpress that has fixes Indicator icons.

Opera 38 Browser Integrates Free VPN for better online privacy

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Mac</strong> users just need to click the Opera menu, select “Preferences” and toggle the feature VPN on, while <strong>Windows and Linux</strong> users need to go to the “Privacy and Security” section in “Settings” and enable VPN there. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> A button will appear in the browser address field, from which the user can see and change location (more locations will appear later), check whether their IP is exposed and review statistics for their data used.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS unveiled today – featuring the new ‘snap’ package format

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Main highlights: Enable faster and simpler software delivery and operations Adds new “snap” application package format, enabling further convergence across IOT, mobile and desktop The introduction of LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka. Support for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing. Steps made towards converged Ubuntu across IoT, phone, desktop and server. The introduction of ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage. “The leading cloud-based operations and the most advanced robotics run largely on Ubuntu, and this new release is the basis for the next wave of their innovation” said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical.

[GAME]Bounce Upward

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[GAME] Jelly Clash Mania 2

Jelly Clash Mania 2 is a whole new match-3 gaming experience. Get ready to discover a new fresh and yummy Jelly Sugar Pops world with new candies, new story with challenging delightful levels. Swap and match 3 or more of the new Jelly Sugar Pops candies to create shiny explosions and get higher score to reach the new ice cream Sugar Pops land. Download it for Free now and unlock lots of sweet jellies.

Street Fighter V to support Linux with help from Valve

Capcom has just announced that the upcoming Street Fighter V game will also be adapted for SteamOS, with the help of Valve. Street Fighter V is an upcoming fighting video game produced by Capcom, which co-developed the game together with Dimps. It is the fifth main numbered entry in Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise. Following a recent post on capcomwebsite: “Hey everyone. I’m excited to announce that Street Fighter V will be officially supporting Steam OS!

ClearOS 6.7.0 released with upgrade to latest Dropbox CLI

ClearOS 6.7.0 recently released for both Community and Professional Editions, is an operating system for your Server, Network, and Gateway systems. It is designed for homes, small to medium businesses, and distributed environments. ClearOS is commonly known as the Next Generation Small Business Server, while including indispensable Gateway and Networking functionality. It delivers a powerful IT solution with an elegant user interface that is completely web-based. Simply put.. ClearOS is the new way of delivering IT.

KDE Frameworks 5.17.0 released

KDE team recently announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.17.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this VersionBaloo Fix date filter used by timeline:// BalooCtl: Return after commands Clean up and armour Baloo::Database::open(), handle more crash conditions Add check in Database::open(OpenDatabase) to fail if db doesn’t exist Breeze Icons Many icons added or improved use stylesheets in breeze icons (bug 126166) BUG: 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen (bug 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen) Add 24px dialog-information for GTK apps (bug 355204) Extra CMake Modules

Manjaro Drops KDE 4 for good, Switches to Plasma 5.5

This is one of the biggest updates we did so far. Mostly due the C++ 11 ABI change within gcc. It is recommended to rebuild your AUR packages for this ABI. With this we finally dropping KDE4 for good. All users of this desktop should either switch over to Plasma 5 or any other maintained desktop, like LXQt. So what changed? We have now Plasma 5.5 with all its goodies, updated Mesa and LibreOffice.

Sony Launches PlayStation Messages App for Android and iOS

We know that Messages is the most used feature of the PlayStation App, so we created the standalone PlayStation Messages app with a more streamlined design in order to get you into your Messages and communicating with your friends faster than ever before.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Mobile for Android 1.4 now available and free

We’re really excited to continue our focus on Android and pleased that Lightroom for mobile was recently listed by Google as one of the top apps of 2015. We’ve seen Android grow as a platform over the years, with billions of users around the world. As a photography platform, Android is making huge leaps and strides. New devices are being launched all the time with better and better cameras, and with the launch of Lollipop and the ability to shoot raw DNG files, Android provides one of the most powerful photography platforms available.

Destiny 2.1.0 Update released – Multiplayer Shooter Online Game

Destiny 2.1.0 Update recently released, is a shooter at heart and combines action and adventure gameplay to create a new evolution in storytelling, gaming and entertainment. Create and customise your character, and build your own legend with each deadly enemy you defeat in a variety of gameplay modes, a unique multiplayer experience, and new social features. Destiny 2.1.0 update will introduce a big set of changes for all the weapons, limiting the efficiency of pulse rifles and making sure that gamers have options for the other types, especially when they engage in Player versus Player combat.

Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.235 released

Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.235 security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Vulnerability Details These updates resolve heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution These updates resolve security bypass vulnerabilities These updates resolve a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution

Mozilla Stops Ads on Firefox, Now focused on Advancing Content

One of the many benefits of the Web is the ability to create unique, personalized experiences for individual users. We believe that this personalization needs to be done with respect for the user – with transparency, choice and control. When the user is at the center of product experiences everyone benefits. Our learnings show that users want content that is relevant, exciting and engaging. We want to deliver that type of content experience to our users, and we know that it will take focus and effort to do that right.

Apple’s Swift Programming Language Now Open Source

“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Swift’s power and ease of use will inspire a new generation to get into coding, and with today’s announcement they’ll be able to take their ideas anywhere, from mobile devices to the cloud.”

Windows 10 Mobile ROM for Xiaomi Mi4 released

Windows 10 Mobile ROM for Xiaomi Mi4 has just been made available for download. For Xiaomi Mi4 users wanting to give their Microsoft’s mobile operating system a try, can download the ROM from the MIUI forums and flash it on your device. Note that the ROM is only compatible with the LTE version of the Xiaomi Mi4. Alternatively you can get the ROM as well as the detailed tutorial for flashing it by registering yourself in the microsoft insider program.

Huawei Enjoy 5S with Octa-Core CPU, Finger Print Scanner Goes Life

The Huawei Enjoy 5S is powered by 1.5GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753T processor and it comes with 2GB of RAM. The phone packs 16GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card. As far as the cameras are concerned, the Huawei Enjoy 5S packs a 13-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel front shooter for selfies. The Huawei Enjoy 5S runs Android 5.1 and is powered by a 2200mAh non removable battery.

Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Daily Images now available

32-bit PC (i386) preinstalled touch image For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure. ARM EABI (Hard-Float) preinstalled touch image For ARMv7 processors and above (Hard-Float).

Mozilla Firefox 64-Bit Scheduled to Support Microsoft Silverlight

At least for a while as Mozilla still plans on deprecating Silverlight support sometime in the future (much as Google and Microsoft already have). Bug 1225293 which was made public today indicates Mozilla’s short term plans to support Silverlight in the Win64 builds. When exactly Silverlight will return to the Firefox 64-Bit builds is not exactly known. It could (but not likely) be with Firefox 43 already in Beta and due out December 15th, 2015 or (more likely) Firefox 44 still in Developer’s Edition (Aurora) and due out in late January 2016 or Firefox 45 currently in Nightly builds and due out early March 2016.

Star Wars Battlefront – New Features and Contents expected soon

“Star Wars Battlefront is the biggest launch of a Star Wars video game ever and is the largest digital launch in the history of EA”. In two weeks, The Battle of Jakku launches. Taking place 29 years before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Battle of Jakku is a free DLC pack* that adds two new maps (including one for popular modes like Walker Assault and Supremacy) and a new mode to the game.

Microsoft Welcomes Nokia 230 and Nokia 230 Dual SIM Smartphones

<td width="262"> Nokia 230 and Nokia 230 Dual SIM </td> <td width="262"> Nokia Series 30+ </td> <td width="262"> 2,8” QVGA (240*320) </td> <td width="262"> BL-4UL ,1200 mAh<a href="https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/11/25/welcome-the-new-nokia-230-and-nokia-230-dual-sim/#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a> </td> <td width="262"> Talk time: up to 23 hours<br /> Standby time: up to 27 days for Single SIM, and up to 22 days for Dual SIM variant </td> <td width="262"> Main camera: 2MP with LED flash<br /> Front camera: 2MP with LED flash </td> <td width="262"> 900/1800 MHz, micro USB, 3.

LG Ray SmartPhone with 5.5-Inch Display and Octa-Core SoC Launched

<div class="details_content"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr class="firstrow"> <td width="50%"> Release date </td> <td width="50%"> November 2015 </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> Form factor </td> <td width="50%"> Touchscreen </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> Dimensions (mm) </td> <td width="50%"> 152.50 x 76.40 x 9.30 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Weight (g) </td> <td> 158.00 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Battery capacity (mAh) </td> <td> 3000 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Removable battery </td> <td> Yes </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Colours </td> <td> Silver, Gold, Titan Black </td> </tr> <tr> <td> SAR value </td> <td> 0.

OxygenOS 2.1.3 update on OnePlus X will start to rollout soon

We generally start our OTA rollout with a small percent (~10%, randomly chosen) of our users to ensure that the OTA system is working correctly. The reason we do this is so that in case we find any serious issues, we can contain the problem quickly and find a solution before it impacts a wider audience. This also allows us the address the affected users quickly without too much of a queue.

Samsung W2016 Clamshell Smartphone released with a Flip Style

Samsung recently announced its Samsung W2016 Clamshell Smartphone now official in China. Samsung W2016 is a dual card dual standby single-pass terminal support dual card standby at the same time, does not support simultaneous calls, that is, when one of the cards in a call, another card can not access or dial out. Running on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system, the flip phone sports a 3.9 inch Super AMOLED dual displays offering 1280 x 768 pixels resolution.

Microsoft Launches AppComparison to Tell Which Apps Are Also on Windows Phone

Microsoft has just launched a new application for Android devices called AppComparison, but this time, it’s not an exclusive tool that could make Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile users angry. The company has decided to go for a tool that’s supposed to ease the transition from Android to Windows Phone, most likely because they expect more people to give a shot to their platform now that Windows 10 Mobile is just around the corner.

NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability update for Ubuntu OS

It was recently discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly sanitized user mode inputs. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges. What this means in summary is that NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator. This vulnerability affects the following drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Halo 5: Guardians Battle Of Shadow And Light Update released

Basin by the 343 Multiplayer team Deadlock by Nokyard & the 343 Multiplayer Team Guillotine by The Psycho Duck & the 343 Multiplayer Team Recurve by The Fated Fire & the 343 Multiplayer Team Fixed an aiming issue that could occur due to variance in controller hardware.

Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Beta features Cinnamon 2.8, MDM 2.0, Linux kernel 3.19 and Ubuntu 14.04 package base

<li> The Update Manager now also performs more checks than before. </li> <li> Drivers in Driver Manager are now sorted by status and the Driver Manager now indicates if drivers are Open Source or not </li> <li> The Driver Manager features both UI and under-the-hood improvements. </li> <li> The Driver Manager now also loads much faster and detects drivers in the background. </li> <li> When a Broadcom chipset is detected, along with the recommended Broadcom STA drivers, the Driver Manager now also lists B43 installers </li>

Xcode 7.2 beta 4 released includes support for building and debugging apps for tvOS 9.2

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Watch Framework and Static Library targets do not display a “General” tab. Workaround: Configure general settings manually in the target&#8217;s Info.plist file or in the Build Settings tab</em> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <em><strong>Xcode Server</strong></em> </p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Xcode Server may be unable to join new development teams with versions of OS X Server other than version 4.1.5. Existing team memberships will continue to work correctly</em> </li> </ul>

Linux Kernel 4.4 RC1 released

The driver changes are all over, although staging, networking and GPU drivers stand out (and those three areas account for over half of the driver changes – roughly 40% of the whole patch). On the architecture side, ARM (when counting both 32-bit and 64-bit) accounts for about half the changes, with x86, powerpc, mips, chris and s390 accounting for the other half.

Cumulative update for Windows 10 released

Microsoft had just release Cumulative update for Windows 10. This update for Windows 10 includes functionality improvements and resolves the vulnerabilities in Windows that are described in the following Microsoft security bulletins and advisory: Windows 10 updates are cumulative. Therefore, this package contains all previously released fixes. If you have previous updates installed, only the new fixes that are contained in this package will be downloaded and installed to your computer.

The ASUS ZenFone 2 Dulex Edition has been launched

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BlackBerry launched it’s “BlackBerry Priv” smartphone running Android OS

“Coming with a device that tries to address security on Android is a good idea, but may have been better three years ago,” said Francisco Jeronimo, research director for industry analysts IDC. “It will be difficult to regain clients who have already moved to other handsets, and it’s quite an expensive device.”

Google Maps upgraded to work offline

“Entry-level Android smartphones sometimes only have four gigabytes of onboard storage, making it a precious resource,” commented Ben Wood from CCS Insight. “Once you’ve downloaded a few applications, some music and perhaps a video, that memory quickly disappears.

Microsoft to acquire Secure Islands – a leader in data protection technology

Secure Islands’ technology enhances the data protection capabilities available today with Azure Rights Management Service, Microsoft’s cloud-based information protection solution. The company has long been a close Microsoft partner and built its solutions using our rights management technology. Secure Islands will continue to sell its existing solutions and support its customers. After completing this acquisition, we will integrate Secure Islands’ technology into Azure Rights Management Service to provide a flexible architecture able to meet the most rigorous protection and compliance requirements.

Microsoft Launches MyMoustache.net website to Calculate the Length of Your Facial Hair

Our aim? Show what a healthy imagination and a Project Oxford API can build. Our hope? Work with the Movember organization to raise money and awareness for men’s health while showcasing the possibilities of machine learning technology. We started with a simple question, “What if we could use machine learning technology to detect the length of facial hair?” Many hallway jokes, brainstorming sessions, and mockups later, our early ideas have been realized far beyond our initial expectations.

PlayStation 4 Firmware 3.11 released to enhance system performance

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> System software stability during use of some features has been improved. </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> New for 3.10 </p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> You can now follow verified accounts of games as well as verified accounts of people and companies that are associated with games. When you follow these accounts, you can keep track of their activities in [What’s New]. Select [Follow] in the profile screen of the verified account.

Diablo III Patch 2.4.0 PTR Preview – The next big patch, landing soon on the PTR

New Zone: Greyhollow Island Expanded Areas: The Eternal Woods and Royal Quarters Revamped Set Items New Feature: Set Dungeons New Feature: Empowered Rifts New Legendaries Revised Buff UI More Stash Space Season Journey Revisions Season Rebirth New to PC: Action Combat Note: Please note that this is only a preview. The above hightlights does not reflect all changes available in Patch 2.4.0 and is subject to further change

Apple’s iPad Pro will go on SALE from tomorrow – Wednesday

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Mozilla to discontinue support for Firefox Heavyweight Theme

As part of Firefox great-or-dead, we’ve decided to stop support for “heavyweight” themes which can do arbitrary styling and replace chrome packages. We may simply remove that support completely, or we may extend lightweight themes with some additional features such as changing colors or icons.

Google to introduce Smart Reply for your Gmail Inbox

Starting this week, your Gmail inbox will be able to do Smart Reply. So what is Smart Reply? If you regularly receive lots of emails and unable to respond on time to all as its time consuming and cumbersome while on the go, now with Smart Reply, your inbox guesses which emails can be answered with a short reply, prepare a few responses on your behalf and present them to you, one tap away.

Samsung Galaxy View now offers better Video and Media experience

<th id="456"> </th> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="1" headers="123"> Processor </th> <td headers="1"> 1.6 Ghz Octa-core </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="2" headers="456"> Display </th> <td headers="2"> 18.4-inch, Full HD 1920 x 1080 </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="3" headers="3"> OS </th> <td headers="3"> Android 5.1 (Lollipop) </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="4" headers="4"> Camera </th> <td headers="4"> 2.1 MP Front facing </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="5" headers="5"> Video </th> <td headers="5"> Video Streaming, Video Player<br /> Recording: Full HD (1920 x 1080)<br /> Playback: Full HD (1920 x 1080) </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="13" headers="13"> Audio </th> <td headers="13"> MP3, M4A, 3GA, AAC, OGG, OGA, WAV, WMA, AMR, AWB, FLAC, MID, MIDI, XMF </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="14" headers="14"> Google Mobile Service </th> <td headers="14"> Chrome, Gmail, Google Search, Maps, YouTube, Hangouts, Play Store, Play Movies & TV, Play Music, Drive, Photos </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="15" headers="15"> Connectivity </th> <td headers="15"> 802.

The new Apple TV now available – Buy now

Apple TV comes in 2 storage sizes: 32GB going for £129.00 64GB going for £169.00 Extras: Add AppleCare Protection Plan – £26.00 Add HDMI-to-HDMI Cable – £15.00 Add iTunes Gift Card – From £25 Buy yours NOW

[GAME]Play Jelly Clash Mania Sugar Pops – Game Free

Jelly Clash Mania: Sugar Pops is a whole new match-3 game experience. Get ready to discover a new fresh and yummy Jelly Sugar Pops world with new candies, new story with challenging delightful levels. Swap and match 3 or more of the new Jelly Sugar Pops candies to create shiny explosions and get higher score to reach the new ice cream Sugar Pops land. ☆☆☆☆☆ New Features of Jelly Clash Mania: Sugar Pops ☆☆☆☆☆

WordPress 4.4 Beta 2 now available for download

WordPress 4.4 Beta 2 which is slated for release on December 8 is now available for download and testing. This is software still in development, so it is recommend that you don’t run it on a production site. To get the beta, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge night-lies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip). WordPress 4.4 update: Twenty Sixteen — The newest default theme for WordPress.

Advanced Phone Cleaner & Optimizer

Advanced Phone Cleaner & Optimizeris the latest Android phone master optimizer & cleaner with new user interface. Amazing features had been added to this app to improve and boost your phone’s speed by over 80%. This had been tested and confirmed to work. So what makes Advanced Phone Optimizer different from others: Memory (RAM) Optimizer This features enables you to clean up your phone memory and optimize it’s speed by cleaning out redundant running tasks in background Application Manager With this feature, you can easily move apps to SD card, backup apps, install and uninstall multiple apps at the same time.

Unity 5.2 Game Development Tool released

Improvements 2D Improvements Allow sprites to be dragged into scene view in 3d mode. Add temp GO while dragging for visual feedback similar to when dragging prefabs/model into scene view Frame selected command (F) now works in the sprite editor window for the selected sprite rect Implement undo functionality for sprite editor window’s slice menu New grid slicing method that uses column and row count Pivot snapping on sprite frame rect in sprite editor window only happens when Ctrl is pressed while mouse dragging the pivot handle Provide a custom pivot field in the slicing menu for the sprite editor window Zooming on sprite editor window’s texture will zoom towards mouse cursor Editor Improvement

DB Browser for SQLite 3.7.0 released

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Linux Lite 2.6 Beta released with Systemback

As usual you still get the latest Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Wine (via Lite Software) and Gimp. Linux Lite 2.6 Beta Changelog: Features:The Linux Lite Control Center: This was built as one central central location for everything that you needed to configure your computer. Lite Control Center was built much like a web page, Lite Control Center has a menu on the left as categories, and within those categories buttons that launch whichever application you are wanting to use.

Play Jelly Clash Mania

Align or match 4 jellies and you will get a powerful jelly which clears all jellies in the same horizontal or vertical lines Align or match 5 jellies, this will create a special jelly which remove all jellies with same color When jellies are linked in a T or L shape, you get a special fire jelly that explodes twice and clears the surrounding 4×4 jellies Combine 2 special jellies and you get a super powerful blast Each levels comes with its own special jelly quest which you must complete ( achieve a set score, bring special items to the bottom, remove frozen jellies and many more…) Complete levels with stars to get bonus coins (3 Stars = 150 coins; 2 Stars = 100 coins; 1 Star = 50 coins) You can use special skills to support playing.

NativeScript 1.2 released – live sync, push notifications, native plugins

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://docs.nativescript.org/setup/ns-cli-setup/ns-setup-linux.html" target="_blank">Install on Linux OS</a> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://docs.nativescript.org/setup/ns-cli-setup/ns-setup-win.html" target="_blank">Install on Windows OS</a> </p>

GeForce GTX confirmed Game Ready For Windows 10 & DirectX 12

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> In addition to new and more realistic visual effects, DirectX 12 promises to improve performance through a number of API changes, software features, and hardware features. Of these improvements, draw call optimizations are likely to have the most immediate impact, relieving CPU bottlenecks in open world games, and in large-scale strategy titles. </li> <li> Under DirectX 11, NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs were the most efficient, with the lowest overheads and the best multi-threaded performance.

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (2013.5) CTP 2 released

Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 5Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP 2). This latest release now has added support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and made fixes in Team Foundation Server, Git support, and the IDE. This update is the latest in a cumulative series of technology improvements and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013. Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2

Android Studio 1.1 Preview 1 Released

<li> There is a new template for creating watch faces for Android Wear: <div> <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png?attredirects=0"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://tools.android.com/_/rsrc/1421370620201/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png" alt="" width="376" height="256" border="0" /></a> </div> </li>

Windows 7 mainstream support ended yesterday

With Microsoft Windows 10 anticipated launch currently circulating on air, the first phase of support for Microsoft Windows 7 SP1mainstream support for the OS ended yesterday 13th January 2015. According to report, Microsoft has pledged to continue to offer extended support for Windows 7 for another five years, until January 14, 2020.  By ending the “mainstream support,” the Windows 7 OS users will continue to on the “extended support” period under Microsoft.

WPS Office for Linux Alpha16 released

Remove Kingsoft WPS Office for Linux Alpha16[button href=”http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/08/install-kingsoft-office-linux-ubuntu-14-04/” style=”flat” size=”medium” color=”#1e73be” hovercolor=”#0066bf” icon=”info”]Install missing fonts[/button]

Sysstat 11.0.2 stable released

Sysstat 11.0.2package contains utilities to monitor system performance and usage activity. Sysstat contains various utilities, common to many commercial Unixes, and tools you can schedule via cron to collect and historize performance and activity data. Sysstat supports UP and SMP machines, including machines with hyperthreaded or multi-core processors, supports hotplug CPUs (it detects automagically processors that are disabled or enabled on the fly) and tickless CPUs. Sysstat’s features Can monitor a huge number of different metrics Average statistics values are calculated over the sampling period Most system statistics can be saved in a file for future inspection On the fly detection of new devices (disks, network interfaces, etc.

Automotive Grade Linux has arrived

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Ubuntu Touch Terminal in Action

The video shows Ubuntu Touch Terminal running on Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 for this demonstration, but the application is the same on an actual Ubuntu Touch Device

Second Release of KDE Frameworks 5 Out

Install KDE Frameworks 5 on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS– For Kubuntu 14.04LTS users, Project Neon is available as PPAs which offers regularly updated development snapshots of KDE Frameworks. Packages will be installed to /opt/project-neon5 and will not contaminate your normal environment. Feel free to try it out and comment.

Evolve OS Alpha 3 Released

All updates have been included in this release, bringing the main components of the stack up to date ALSA should now be correctly configured and integrated with PulseAudio – you can verify this by attempting to listen to a flash video in YouTube via headphones. The volume should also stay set now.

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

<li> Map changes <ul> <li> Fixed unbalanced ammo kits in Blu base near the vault </li> <li> Added flashing light in the vault that will activate when a player is stealing points </li> <li> Added larger one way glass windows to spawn exit doors </li> <li> Added small ammo pack to top of the stairs at the cave exit </li> <li> Shortened length of pipes in vents that require players to crouch </li> <li> Increased track length for A robots.

The New GeForce GTX TITAN Z: Ultimate Power

CUDA Cores 5760 Base Clock (MHz) 705 Boost Clock (MHz) 876 Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 338 Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps Standard Memory Config 12288 MB Memory Interface GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 768-bit (384-bit per GPU) Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 672

Security Vulnerabilities found in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS fixed

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.

Facebook now Offers Free Anti-Malware scanning

When an infected or suspicious traffic is detected on a device interacting with Facebook, infected users will see pop-up notification, along with a recommendation to use F-Secure’s malware scanning and cleanup technology or HouseCall from Trend Micro. When you click the download button, the software will download and install itself on your system. Then the scanner will run on your machine for cleanup. When the scan is complete, you’ll receive a notification through Facebook and you’ll be able to review the results of the scan

Microsoft announces Halo 5: Guardians for Xbox One

In the past, “Halo” games have pushed the Xbox forward, showcasing the console and its ecosystem in entertaining and innovative ways. Making a “Halo” game that runs at 60 frames per second, on dedicated servers, with the scope, features and scale we’ve been dreaming of for more than a decade, is non-trivial. It’s a task that we, at 343 Industries, are taking very seriously to ensure we deliver the “Halo” game that fans deserve, and a game that is built from the ground up for Xbox One.

Google Standalone Mobile Apps for Docs, Sheets and Slides

When you open the new apps, you’ll see your most recently edited files, which means less time searching and scrolling The apps also come with offline support built in, so you can easily view, edit and create files without an Internet connection Download from Google Play[Docs] [Sheets] Download from App Store[Docs] [Sheets]

Next Generation of Lightweight DE – LXQt 0.7.0

The inclusion of PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE’s desktop and file manager An all-new modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps Several improvements to the system settings along with the inclusion of screens management, keyboard settings and file associations Improvements to cursor and appearance settings Improved support for systemd-based setups Ongoing work on Qt 5 compatibility. Most of our components already build on Qt 5!

Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn” – What to expect

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Deprecate gnome-session and use upstart/systemd as the root process </li> <li> Deprecate gnome-screensaver (following upstream) and unify screensaver management into the shell </li> <li> Deprecate policykit-gnome and use the shell for PolicyKit handling in both Unity 7 and Unity 8 </li> <li> Deprecate unity-settings-daemon by decoupling the plugins and migrating to new services </li> <li> Add more desktop capabilities in Ubuntu System Settings to replace unity-control-center </li> <li> Enhance the core apps to replace current defaults e.

Canonical Releases A New Ubuntu Touch Version

Following the recent release of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS, Canonical had been busy preparing the launching of Ubuntu Touch Operating System which is based on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for both mobile phones and tablets. With the introduction of Ubuntu Touch into the Ubuntu 14.04 family, this is clear indication of how passionate Canonical are in ensuring that every Ubuntu enthusiasts and developers have great experience with this products.

NVIDIA GeForce R337.61 Hotfix BETA Display Driver Released

Half display or no display on Dell UltraSharp UP3214Q/UP2414Q LCD monitor Code 43 error message after installing driver 337.50 on a PC with Hyper-V enabled All performance optimizations, profile updates, 3D Vision enhancements and more introduced with GeForce R337.50 BETA Performance Driverare also part of this driver release.

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr now out

Ubuntu 14.04 LTScode named “Trusty Tahr”, finally released yesterday 17, April 2014. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the latest release of Ubuntu which is designed to work beautifully on the latest laptops, desktops and touch screen devices, it looks incredible on high resolution screens — and with touch screen enhancements and interface refinements including individual menu bars in each application window, it’s now even easier to useThis release includes the Linux kernel v3.

Prevent Google crawling using ZXTM traffic script

[code language=”powershell”]User-agent: * Disallow: /[/code] [code language=”powershell”] $host = http.getHostHeader(); $qs = http.getpath(); if (($host == “sysads.co.uk”) && ($qs =="/robots.txt")) { if (resource.exists( “robots.txt”)) { # robots.txt exists on ZXTM, return content of txt file to client http.sendResponse( 200, “text/plain”, resource.get(“robots.txt”), “ZXTMServed: True”); } } [/code]

Default Style CSS overides Custom CSS

<div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> padding: 0 0 28px;</span> </div> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> position: relative;</span> </div> </div> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> padding: 0 0 28px;</span> </div> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> position: relative;</span> </div> </div> <div role="group"> <div role="listbox"> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><del>padding: 0 0 28px;</del></span> </div> </div> </div> <div role="presentation"> } </div>

Mozilla prototype Firefox OS Simulator v1.0

Late last year the Mozilla crew introduced its Firefox OS simulator v1.0 as promised, allowing web developers to begin testing of their applications from within the comfort of their Windows/Mac/Linux computers hence allowing for more user testing. Currently its mobile phone Firefox OS is still under development, release date not yet announced. Click herefor more details on the simulator… Watch the screencast showing Firefox OS Simulator in action… What is the future like for this OS compared to the big players like the Android, Apple IOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Blackberry … ?

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory

[table id=1 /] When a server is promoted to a Domain Controller, the following event logs are created “DFS Replication, Directory Service, DNS Server and File Replication Service“. As best practice (but not compulsory), set the Maximum Log size for each of the above events to 20mb.