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22jan/100

Firefox 3.6 delivered !

Mozilla, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Web, today released Firefox® 3.6, an update to its popular, free and open source Web browser. The latest version of Firefox introduces cutting-edge features, support for a wide variety of Web standards, and access to more than 6,000 free add-ons that allow users to customize their browser to their liking.

What’s new in Firefox 3.6:

Below are some of the coolest features of Firefox 3.6:

  • Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart
  • Plugin Updater: To keep you safe from potential security vulnerabilities, Firefox will now detect out of date plugins
  • Stability improvements: Firefox 3.6 significantly decreased crashes caused by third party software – all without sacrificing our extensibility in any way
  • Form Complete: When filling out an online form, Firefox suggests information for fields based on your common answers in similar field
  • Performance: Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time
  • Open Video and Audio: With the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 audio and video support, now video can be displayed full screen and supports poster frames

Source : Firefox's blog
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17déc/090

2.9 Release Candidate 1

The WordPress's team has released the WP 2.9 RC1.

All features list
Download here
Full post here

1déc/090

Youtube new features

At Google we are also concerned about accessibility and continue to innovate and offer simple services that are actually useful.
This applies also in the offices of Google and YouTube in particular, which launched a few days ago two new features related to subtitling and translation of videos.

Auto-caps (for Automatic Captions, French subtitles automatic) is a new service that combines the ASR (automatic speech recognition) of Google and the system of sub-titles YouTube to automatically generate the transcription synchronized real-time text content in YouTube videos. Thus, those who suffer from hearing loss or deafness can they follow the example of a video conference by reading the subtitles generated on the fly, as here for example.

But the Auto-caps do not limit himself to make videos available to deaf people: it is a great assistance to those whose level of English is insufficient to attend a conference orally but enough to read and understand the transcript. Besides they can still be helped by automatic translation of transcripts in their language.

Another feature offered with these new features: the ability to combine its own transcript in text format (. Txt) to a video for YouTube that takes care of sync to turn it into captioning.

Sources :

30nov/090

TYPO3 Version 4.3 Released

BAAR, 2009-11-30Today the TYPO3 Association released the newest version of their outstandingly successful Open Source project TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.1 million times – making it one of the world’s leading Enterprise Open Source projects.

The latest TYPO3 version 4.3 comes packed with numerous brand new features and improvements. Highlights include the completely new Frontend editing module and the integration of Extbase and Fluid. Additionally, TYPO3’s already excellent security features have been improved even further.

Read the full announce

13oct/090

WordPress beta 2.9

The WordPress team has worked hard for a few months on the verison 2.9 of WordPress. The beta is now available for testing. They're requesting help for finding bugs and debuging the new features.

The wp-testers mailing list
WordPress Beta Tester (plugin)
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6oct/090

Gentoo 2010 available

Just a few days after the onset of a demo version of Gentoo 2010 (the date of the tenth anniversary of the Linux distribution), developers of the program made the final version available (which is very close to the incomplete milling submitted last week).

The main updates to this edition:
Système :

  • Kernel Linux 2.6.30
  • Support de l’accessibilité dans Speakup 3.1.3
  • BASH 4.0
  • GLIBC 2.9
  • GCC 4.3.2
  • Binutils 2.18
  • Python 2.6.2
  • Perl 5.8.8

Environnements de bureau :

  • KDE 4.3.1
  • GNOME 2.26.3
  • Xfce 4.6.1
  • Enlightment 0.16.8.15
  • OpenBox 3.4.7.2
  • Fluxbox 1.1.1
  • TWM 1.0.4

Navigateurs :

  • Firefox 3.5.3
  • Arora 0.7.11
  • Opera 10
  • Epiphany 2.26.3
  • Galeon 2.0.4
  • Seamonkey 1.1.17

Bureautique et graphique :

  • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
  • G/Vim 7.2.182
  • Abiword 2.6.4
  • GNUCash 2.2.9
  • Scribus 1.3.3.11
  • GIMP 2.6.4
  • Inkscape 0.46
  • Blender 2.49a
  • XSane 0.996

Communications :

  • Pidgin 2.5.9
  • Quassel 0.5
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.23
  • Claws Mail 3.7.2
  • Ekiga 2.0.1
  • Qtwitter 0.7.1
  • irssi 0.8.13

Multimédia :

  • Amarok 2.1.1
  • MPlayer 1.0_rc4
  • DvdAuthor 0.6.1
  • LAME 3.98.2
  • FFMPEG 0.5_p19928
  • GNOME-MPlayer 0.9.7
  • SMPlayer 0.6.6

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2oct/090

WP september Wrap-Up

The WordPress's september Wrap-Up review is out.

Read it full

2oct/090

WordPress.com – Publicize : Yahoo! Updates

A new feature has been added to all the wordpress.com's blogs. You can now send your blog's posts to your Yahoo! Profile via the Yahoo! Update service.
You just have to go to your dashboard-->My Blogs admin page. Once enabled, you've got to finish the authorization procedure then you're go !

Official blog post

2oct/090

TYPO3 4.3 Beta 1 released

The TYPO3 Core Team is proud to announce the first beta release of TYPO3 version 4.3. This version also serves as the "feature freeze" and locks down the development of new features. Get a short overview of the most important changes.

So, what's new ?

  • Integrated advanced Frontend Editing
  • Integrated System Scheduler
  • Integrated a new module for System Reports
  • Integrated Salted Passwords
  • Improved Extbase and Fluid
  • Optimized performance
  • Integrated Error and Exception Handling
  • Localization of hardcoded phrases
  • Third party libraries
  • Possibility to hide Versioning & Workspaces
  • Improved behavior in backend forms
  • Integrated new Media Content Element

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