12.12.13
Posted in News Roundup at 1:00 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Meanwhile, The Raspberry Pi User Guide, co-authored by project founder Eben Upton with Gareth Halfacree, is now out in a second edition and is a complete guide to the Raspberry Pi. It includes setup and installation information, instructions for using the Pi to power music and video, instructions for using the Pi in electronics projects, and there is a guide to networking Pi devices. Currently, it looks like the title is sold out, but there should be more copies available very shortly, as noted here.
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12.10.13
Posted in News Roundup at 6:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Bringing a game to Linux is always a tricky proposition. More than even Windows PCs, with their infinite permutations of hardware and the drivers that go with them, Linux can be a bitch to achieve any kind of standardization on. This is because now, in addition to considering the liquid hardware and the drivers, the core OS itself can vary from one unit to the next. No two Linux machines run the same variation of the OS and software, and this, alongside the variable hardware configurations, can make porting a game to it (which is by definition resource intensive) a complete mess.
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Email continues to be one of the most popular and useful functions of a Linux system. Being able to keep in touch with your friends, family, and colleagues is essential for any platform. As the scope of email threats keeps increasing, systems for email security and encryption have become more complex and more of a necessity. Protecting email from unauthorized access and inspection is important particularly because the protocols that govern email do not include encryption. Email was not designed with any privacy or security in mind. The consequence of the lack of security is that email can be compromised on the sender’s device, on a network, on a server, and on the recipient’s device.
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12.09.13
Posted in News Roundup at 4:27 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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12.08.13
Posted in News Roundup at 11:15 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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12.04.13
Posted in News Roundup at 7:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 has been officially released. It includes many new features and contribution from many new developers, making 0.8.1 the minor release with most bugfixes.
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Previously, we wrote about the Steam Machines beating the pants off the PS4 and Xbox One in the specs and pricing department, but it was all theoretical. Now we have actual confirmation from OEM provider iBuyPower, who has announced that their first Steam Machine will be available for only $499.
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While Linux gaming is quickly gaining ground, it seems not many are interested this year in speaking about open-source game development.
Nils Kneuper sent out a notice today that the game development room for FOSDEM 2014 is still seeking speakers. The “Call for Proposals” has been out for more than the past month, but to date they’ve only received two proposals for the two-day event taking place the first weekend of February in Brussels.
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With the start of a new month comes some new numbers out of Valve as part of their Steam hardware/software survey.
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The Linux experience, the breakthrough creativity of the gaming industry.
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Posted in News Roundup at 4:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Linux Deepin is one of those unique Linux distributions for the desktop whose developers crafted a special desktop environment for it. Called the Depth Desktop Environment (DE), Linux Deepin’s DE is built atop GNOME 3 technologies, but with an interface that’s customized to provide what the developers consider a more user-friendly interface for desktop computing.
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12.03.13
Posted in News Roundup at 6:03 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Ever come across a tutorial online that tells you to run a long terminal command, but want to know what each part of it actually means? ExplainShell does exactly that: paste in the command, and it’ll tell you what each portion of the code does.
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Marco Fioretti shows you how to download and get started with facedetect, free face detection and recognition software.
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12.01.13
Posted in News Roundup at 3:09 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Google has begun to roll out version 4.4 of its Android KitKat software to Google Play editions of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One.
These special editions of the phone use the same hardware as other versions, but do away with the extra proprietary tweaks added by manufacturers. Kitkat has also been made available for the Nexus 4, 7 and 10.
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Russian robot developer R.bot will soon launch a pair of low-cost telepresence robots in North America. The Synergy Mime and larger Synergy Swan use an attached BYOD Android smartphone or tablet for display, camera, microphone, and wireless communications and control functions, and are being offered for a limited time to Android developers for $250 and $500, respectively.
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In other words, F-Droid is like an app store for open-source. More importantly, there is not just one “store”. Anyone can deploy their own repositories of apps, or Repos, much like the way the Debian repo model works.
We’ve now begun creating our own hosted F-Droid compliant repo where we can easily provide the latest greatest versions of all our apps. As we update the apps, F-Droid should notify you and allow you to update quickly and without hassle.
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“Many of my iPhone friends are converting to Android,” he wrote. That sounds fine and dandy, but we might ask, how many of those iPhone owning friends have ever bothered to read a post on Google+?
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Android is approaching Windows-like domination of the smartphone industry…
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At its investor meeting yesterday, Intel exhibited its readiness to face the new realities of the “post-PC era.” Led by CEO Brian Krzanich, top executives outlined strategic efforts to speed its mobile Atom system-on-chips toward 14 and 10nm geometries, 64-bits, and integrated basebands, and to look beyond Windows on the client end, with increased focus on iOS and Linux-based OSes like Android and Chrome OS.
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Intermec unveiled a rugged, Android-ready handheld computer designed for field service applications. The CN51 is equipped with a 1.5GHz, dual-core TI OMAP4 SoC, a 4-inch, 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen, IP64-rated sealing, 12-hour plus battery, and options including 1D and 2D barcode scanners, keypads, GLONASS-ready GPS, cellular, and a 5-megapixel camera.
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The company recently updated its watch to improve notification support — a major issue for many reviewers — and says it plans to expand sales promotions for the holiday season in order to boost sales further. Samsung is also looking to expand the number of (Samsung) devices that can interface with the Gear; at launch, the smartwatch was limited to just one smartphone, the Galaxy Note III, but is now also compatible with the company’s bestselling Galaxy S 4.
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Qualcomm’s upcoming Toq smartwatch will be available from December 2nd. The company, better known for its processors that power most smartphones, will sell Toq directly from its own website, and no retail partners have been announced. The watch will interface with Android smartphones via Bluetooth and an app that will be made available from Google Play.
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There’s been several iterations of the smart watch idea. The Verge smartwatch roundup covers the state of play; The Independent has an interesting article on why a Google smartwatch makes sense, and the Samsung Galaxy Gear advert demonstrates nicely the desire for these “James Bond” gadget watches over the years.
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If we put our trust into the rapid progress of science, there will soon come a day when you won’t have to go to the doctor for a health checkup. You’ll have all the resources and devices that will actively monitor your health and keep giving you information. If, at all, something goes wrong, it will automatically inform your doctor that something is wrong. Thus, you won’t have to worry about your health as much as you have to right now.
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The top 20 search terms are as follows:
Android
iOS
Java
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The mobile processor giant also unveiled its fourth-generation 4G LTE processor with “significant” improvements in performance and power consumption.
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Google has unveiled what it’s calling a “sneak peek” at its Glass Developer Kit (GDK), a new way to write software for the Chocolate Factory’s privacy-stomping future-specs.
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Recon Instruments announced an Android-based $399 heads-up display (HUD) designed to fit inside ski goggles. The Snow2 is equipped with a 1GHz, dual-core processor, a 428 x 240 mini-display, plus WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and sensors, and it syncs to Android and iOS devices.
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Believe it or not, it wasn’t that long ago that Nokia and BlackBerry were the top two smartphone companies. Indeed, in 2006, in a preemptive move against the NTP patent troll, the Department of Justice asked that BlackBerry’s services be kept going even if NTP won their case. Seven years later most of us are just wondering how long the company can stay alive.
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Motorola announced today that the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Verizon version of the Moto X would begin its rollout. This deploy comes a mere three weeks since KitKat was officially launched with the Nexus 5, an impressive turnaround to say the least (it’s also beats Google to releasing the update for Google Play Experience smartphones and some Nexus devices). Motorola says the update includes many of the KitKat enhancements, such as the interface refresh and smart dialer.
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It’s not built into Android yet, but Google has been overhauling the OS’s camera interface to be more photography-friendly.
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Consumer Reports evaluated Google’s Nexus 5 phone this week, and said it was “marred by Android 4.4 quirks.” While we ourselves found some aspects of the new Android version, also known as KitKat, to be improvements, we agree with CR that some trumped-up features don’t work as well as many initially thought, and some so-called improvements actually make the interface more annoying.
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One of the aspects I enjoy most about developing software in the mobile space is getting to work extensively with animations. Animations help engage the user, unify the overall experience, and are just plain fun. Over the past few iterations, the animation framework inside the Android SDK has really grown; this includes the number of interpolators.
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