Articles Archive for February 2009
OSX86 »
Hara Taiki man behind iPC 10.5.6 and iPC X DL with PCWIZ announced his latest project iPC X 132 an alternative replacement of Boot 132 based retail install. Boot 132 hack can install retail version of Mac OS X Leopard on PC. Advantage of Boot 132 is its ability to install updates directly from software update. hands over to Hara Taiki Announcement of iPC X 132 “ I’m going to preview iPC X-132, our boot-132 solution. Please note that this is based on lifeboat13 which I posted about in an …
OSX »
Yesterday Mac OS X 10.5.7 was buzzed by AppleInsider, now it’s confirmed that Apple has seeded build 9J22 to a special group of developers. The build number for this beta of Leopard is 9J22. In the current form it is a 440 MB file.Apple has requested that developers test twenty areas of this particular build. People familiar with build number 9J22 say it has about 70 changes, mostly based on syncing issues related to Mail, Address Book etc. and networking improvements. Quite a few preferences and widgets have been …
Apple, OSX »
AppleInsider a leading Mac News Blog breaked the news that OS X update 10.5.7 is on the floor. Last update was 10.5.6 which was released on December 15′th 2008. According to AppleInsider Apple will seed OS X 10.5.7, a sizable maintenance and security update to the company’s Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements to developers. Apple asked developrs ” To be focusing on syncing issues that have plagued many of Leopard’s standard, forward-facing apps, such as as Mail, AddressBook, and system preferences. A problem with Safari …
Apple, Linux, OSX »
Jeremy White from CodeWeavers Annonced the latest build release of CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for both Mac OS X and Linux. CrossOver Games Based on the latest Wine Games development work. The difference with regular CrossOver is that CrossOver Games will have a shorter release cycle in order to update faster to the latest work on Wine than with regular CrossOver, which targets stability and reliability. CrossOver Games allows Mac and Linux users to run their favorite Windows games like EVE Online, Guild Wars, Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and …
Windows 7 »
Windows 7 Developement is on GOD speed, Microsoft is looking to release the stable version sometime before the end of 2009. Windows 7 is getting a huge response before releasing the first offiicial beta version. Near about 80,000 copies were downloaded before the Official Microsoft release. When Microsoft Released the public beta Redmond Server failed to satisfy the eagerly waited folks. Beta versions are over now and RC release is on the floor. E7 Engineering team Blog of windows 7 posts a very long post unveiling the feature added in …
Misc., Software »
The official Adobe AIR Team Blog Announced , the release of version 1.5.1 for their Adobe AIR runtime environment with several bug fixes and improvements.Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.As of February 2009, there have been over 100 Million installations of Adobe AIR across the globe.companies using AIR include AOL, NASDAQ, The New York Timesand Yahoo!.Over 180 applications are available on the Adobe AIR marketplace. To run in …
Linux »
The ext4 [ fourth extended filesystem ] is a journaled file system developed as the successor to ext3. Ext4 file system was released released on December 25, 2008 as a part of Kernel 2.6.28. at present Fedora, which is expected to arrive in late May, will use Ext4 as its standard file system. Ext4 will also be available optionally in Ubuntu 9.04, Red Hat 5.3, Mandriva 2009.1 and others.The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exabyte ( 1 exabyte = 1,048,576 terabytes ) and files with …
Misc., OSX »
Adobe released an update patch for Photoshop CS4. Version 11.0.1 for Mac version. The new update will resolve several issues that resulted in slow performance of the program, the pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets not working properly, and problems with the program crashing when either pasting formatted text or dealing with corrupt font.You can download the update patch at the link given below. the update is sized at 33.1 MB. Photoshop is most powerful photo editing software used by professionals around the world on both Mac and PC.
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Misc. »
Wait is Over for Indian Mobile and Internet users BSNL starts the 3G mobile service from Ambala on Feb,27 2009. Service will be expended shortly in all over India. BSNL offers both Prepaid and Postpaid Voice and Data plans option. At the moment Migration from existing BSNL number is not possible because BSNL 3G service runs on USIM [ Universal Subscriber Identification Module ] USIM is provided to access 3G services.In 3G broadband, the connectivity speed will be almost comparable to the wire line broadband. Data Transfer speed is promised …
Linux »
Mark Shuttleworth Named Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope because he plans on focusing on speed for the release. Take a Quick look at the upcoming release, Jaunty is optimized for Netbooks because Ext4 is able to detect SSD and do some various tweaks to maximize the life of the drive.The EXT4 provide file system checking while the drive is still in use which no other file system offers. EXT4 is capable of managing volume sizes of up to one exabyte. ( 1 exabyte = 1,048,576 terabytes ) yep it’s true …

