2009年5月30日星期六

Oven Ecl save a 8800GTX

OCforum a Forum User ID for the antipesto93 broke 8800GTX graphics card when used color screen (some red vertical stripes), set BIOS to no avail also. Later, he was the recommendation of friends, another piece of card and put under the oven, and finally repair their 8800GTX!

8800GTX repair, this process is the operation of users: first graphics card fan, the radiator and the tailgate can be removed, such as the demolition of the annex to all; and then in the oven in aluminum foil covered with a layer of pad, and oven preheat to 385 degrees Fahrenheit (196 degrees C) - 364 degrees Fahrenheit (184 degrees Celsius) will begin to melt solder around; the end GPU graphics cards under the Add oven face, and at this temperature for about 5 minutes under the heat that is removed can be.

If you are unsure about the temperature and holding time is appropriate, you can observe the graphics power of the solder joint interface back to see if more light than before baking.

Eclipse SDK 3.5RC3(Stable Build)

Eclipse is a well-known free cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). Java language was originally used primarily for development, but also make it through plug-ins for other computer languages such as C + + and Python development tools.
The Eclipse platform itself is only a framework, but the support of numerous plug-ins make Eclipse have other functions relatively fixed IDE hard to have the flexibility of software. Many software developers to Eclipse as a framework to develop their own IDE.

DOWNLOAD:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5RC3-200905282000/winPlatform.php#EclipseSDK

Build Notes:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5RC3-200905282000/buildNotes.php

7-Zip 9.04 Beta

7-Zip is a GNU / LPGL distributed under the free software, it can be said is the most promising as a zip, rar mainstream after a compressed format of the file compression format .7 Zip compression rate is his greatest competitive advantage , the choice of the general compression ratio has been the circumstances under which we can easily beat the WinRAR compression ratio of the maximum. 7zip but not perfect, the main software interface is still not excellent, the format itself for the support of sub-volume compression is not good, but it without prejudice has the potential to become one of the most 7zip compression format.

Download:7-Zip 9.04 Beta (858 KB)
Download:7-Zip 9.04 Beta x64 (1.22 MB)

What's new after 7-zip 4.65:
- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
- 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like .c:) from . folder.
- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives
stored without compression.
- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
- Some bugs were fixed.

Don't use this alpha version for important data. Call "Test" command after each compressing operation.

2009年5月29日星期五

VirtualBox 2.2.4

VirtualBox was originally a German software company developed a virtual InnoTek system software, Sun was later acquired and renamed Sun VirtualBox, greatly improved performance. Because he is open source, is different from the VM, and powerful, can Linux / Mac and run Windows host, and support in the installation of Windows (NT 4.0,2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS / Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), OpenBSD operating system, such as family clients. If you have used the experience of virtual machine software, I believe that not to mention the use of VirtualBox. Even if you are a novice, it does not matter. VirtualBox provides a detailed document, you can help your entry in the short term.

Download:VirtualBox 2.2.4 for Windows (62.9 MB)
Download:VirtualBox 2.2.4 其它系统

VirtualBox 2.2.4 (released 2009-05-29)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

FlashGot 1.1.9

Flashgot for Mozilla / Firefox extension of the free, you can Mozilla / Firefox browser to download software to manage, right-click to download connection can choose to download software to download. Friends are using Firefox not to be missed!

v 1.1.9
=====================================================
+ Uploading.com batch download support
+ Huge code refactoring for easier extensibility
x Removed bogus "Failed to load XPCOM... .autoreg" message shown in Error Console on startup
x Fixed portable support regression

Download:FlashGot 1.1.9

Xvid 1.2.2

Xvid is an open source MPEG-4 video codec, which is prepared based on the OpenDivX. Xvid is the original by a group of developers OpenDivX obligations OpenDivX in July 2001 after the cessation of the development of self-developed. Xvid support multiple encoding mode, Quantization methods and the scope of control, Motion Search and Curve, I-frame interval, the visual brightness of psychological amended his staff table option, since the definition of external control, speed up the motion vector (Hinted ME) encoding, optimized screen decoders, and many other coding technologies, the user is a very powerful feature.

Xvid's main rival is DivX. But Xvid is open source, and DivX only free version and commercial version.



Download:
xvidcore-1.2.2.tar.gz
xvidcore-1.2.2.tar.bz2
xvidcore-1.2.2.zip

This release is Xvid 1.2.2 bugfix release. It is API compatible with the previous 1.2.1 stable release. This release contains important, security-related fixes. Update is highly recommended.

Changes since 1.2.1: xvidcore library

  • Workaround for nasm bug with Mach-O/OSX target
  • Fix for missing resync marker range check (reported by IBM X-Force. Thanks go to John McDonald and Christopher Valasek)
  • Improved precision for RGB<->YUV conversions
  • Fix for potential RGB24 access violation
  • Updated compiler options for Apple PPC target
  • Fixed MSVC6 projects to work for path names with spaces
VFW frontend
  • Updated mingw makefile
DShow frontend
  • Bugfix for wrong handling of xvidcore XVID_ERR_MEMORY return code (reported by IBM X-Force. Thanks to John McDonald and Mark Dowd)

Changes:
A potential RGB24 access violation was fixed. A fix for a missing resync marker range check was made. A workaround for a nasm bug with the Mach-O/OS X targets was implemented. The precision for RGB<->YUV conversions was improved.

Opera 10.0 Build 1535 Alpha

Opera from Norway is a very good Web browser packages, speed, saving system resources, ability to customize, such as safety, as well as the characteristics of small size, is already popular browsers. Multiple Document Interface (MDI), a convenient zoom feature, integrated search engine, keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures to browse the history of memory to prevent malicious pop-ups, full-screen mode, support for HTML standards, integration of e-mail and newsgroups, as well as button to allow user-defined, skin, toolbar, etc., are so much like Opera over the years.

Download :Opera 10.0 Build 1535 Alpha

Some fixes to crash upload dialog
Use default search engine rather than a specific search engine when tying two or more words and pressing Enter
[DSK-180617] Links opened in external applications closes page if page is opened from a panel or mail
[DSK-239506] Can't correct spelling using only the keyboard
[DSK-251332] Changing the size of the searchfield when the addressbar is placed on the left causes it to disappear forever
[DSK-251349] Search box and address field are misaligned
[DSK-252737] No timeout when new spelling checker dictionaries can't be retrieved
[DSK-252992] "Other Application..." doesnt' work in the BitTorren Client Selection dialog
[DSK-253202] Replace 'Language' with 'Dictionary' in dictionary download wizard and spellcheck menu

Skinning improvements:
Made the splitter dividers separately skinable with the sections [Splitter Horizontal Divider Skin] and [Splitter Vertical Divider Skin]. Remember their height/width is always 3px
Text-shadow ability in the skin

Search UI updates:
Use "?" as a shortcut (instead of, e.g., "g") in the URL field to search with the default search engine
Show "Search the Web" and use the default search engine rather than Google specifically in the URL dropdown when typing in one or more words in the URL field

Core
Reverted [CORE-14999] Send DOMContentLoaded when the parsing is complete even if it's discovered a little later than usual
Partial fix: [CORE-20956] Wand does not submit if form includes two input fields and a password field
[CORE-466] vertical-align is not inherited in tables
[CORE-3587] Float not reset to none for absolutely positioned elements
[CORE-4589] designMode: Text entered after creating link turns into link
[CORE-8335] BiDi: Unable to reach end position of hilight text
[CORE-17018] WebFonts break when using the OpenType format
[CORE-19215] Deleted selected string incorrectly rolls back when composing using IME in editable document
[CORE-19836] non-visible WMP not initialized
[CORE-20012] Fastmail rich text editing breaks interface
[DSK-244367] Error page on unsupported HTTP authentication scheme instead of showing the response body

Stability
Mail: Crash fix for opening sent message that didn't have body
Spelling checker: Crash fix for dictionaries that seems installed, but do not get picked up by the spellcheck module for some reason.
Spelling checker: Fixed crash if the dictionary is downloaded but the check sum is not correct
Fixes based on automated crash reporting
[CORE-19581] Opera crash on searching text on a specific page
[CORE-20406] Opera crashes on positioning tasks in Gmail2
[CORE-20470] Calling referenced native function crashes opera
[CORE-20598] Blog feed freezes Opera/doesn't load when Delayed Script Execution is enabled
[CORE-20930] Inserting BODY element into existing BODY tag causes crash
[CORE-20950] Crash at Facebook because of NULL base url (most common crash for Opera Mini)
[CORE-21171] Freezes and eats all memory within seconds on certain pages (eztv.it, funfile.org)
[DSK-223018] BitTorrent: Unreproducible bittorrent crash when selecting items in transfers panel
[DSK-223722] Opera freeze for a long time when viewing transfers
[DSK-240287] BitTorrent: Crash after downloading a few torrents
[DSK-240724] Going to a fraud URL with a username crashes Opera
[DSK-242050] Crash while managing feed items
[DSK-249422] Crash when clicking certain mails
[DSK-252115] "Feeds > (Feed name) -> Click on Post -> From -> Follow Contact" crashes Opera
[DSK-252764] Setting feed update interval to 5 minutes for a lot of feeds makes Opera use too much memory over time
[DSK-253542] Check spelling doesn't work or crashes in upgrade installation

Mail
Fixed threading of reopened drafts
Better error handling to avoid duplicate mails
A new error message from m2 when a message fails to be indexed
Added format=flowed parameters to the content-type header
Fixes to "show sent" mail in threaded view
Enable "show sent" when setting Sent IMAP folder
Do the consistency check on exit after upgrade
Wrapping should depend on account settings
Show a bit more relevant context menu when using context menu button in compose window
[DSK-189699] Mails are not sorted on latest message in thread view
[DSK-199963] M2 doesn't add a name to e-mail address when composing the e-mail from existing address
[DSK-233440] Dragging message between IMAP accounts sometimes fails
[DSK-239836] Forwarding a feed in HTML will include the word "article" in a huge font
[DSK-224803] Cannot view email headers if text/plain not opened by Opera: Force viewer to be Opera when opening raw mail
[DSK-244169] Font used in body field doesn't reflect font in drop-down
[DSK-246522] The compose action opens webmail page instead of compose window
[DSK-247011] Automatic RTL detection on reply
[DSK-247788] M2 wrongly claims that there are no new messages when connection to server is interrupted
[DSK-248265] Hide HTML formatting in newsgroup compose window
[DSK-248267] Directionality detection missing when editing an existing email
[DSK-248543] The last part of Japanese Subject is not shown
[DSK-249350] Database consistency check should be periodic
[DSK-250841] Drafts appear in received folder when any characters was entered into the to field
[DSK-251008] Opening a mail copy from Sent, changing its To address and sending it, replaces the copy in Sent instead of creating a new sent email entry
[DSK-252156] Forced exporting mail option
[DSK-252235] Upgrading results in duplicate and blank messages
[DSK-252238] "Show read" gets unchecked for Received view when upgrading
[DSK-252495] Bottom border in mail compose area missing
[DSK-252658] Fetch all e-mails when switching from Low-bandwidth mode to "Make all messages available offline"
[DSK-253417] Mail folder not copied when upgrading from 9.64
[DSK-253425] To, CC, and BCC fields not shown when opening Mail in Sent view

Chat
Partial fix: [DSK-246177] Connnecting to a malevolent IRC server can render Opera usuable with too many modal dialog popups
[DSK-228014] Saving IRC/Chat window silently fails if MHT or "HTML with images" is chosen
[DSK-248365] IRC password not memorized when using /join command
[DSK-253327] Joining a password protected channel for the first time via a typed join command fails

Opera Link
[DSK-249571] Link queue not sent when exiting Opera

Opera Turbo
Context menu changes
Changes to the Turbo dialog
Adding Turbo icons for the turbo notification dialog
[DSK-247507] Turbo button not automatically added to status bar in upgrade installations
[DSK-248836] Turbo mode not keyboard accessible
[DSK-249981] Turbo: Text color for the turbo button is not changeable by skin
[DSK-252890] Turbo status icons should respect the text-only option
[TURBO-159] A placeholder is needed for plugins that are not loaded yet: Changing the icon
[TURBO-183] Turbo state not switched after clicking JavaScript links
[TURBO-220] Tabs opened from mail, chat etc. windows should use global setting to determine Turbo Mode state
[TURBO-224] Correct handling of history positions when reloading in new Turbo Mode state

Windows
Fixed a problem that would prevent the previous opera instance to be registered for uninstallation
Added registry value indicating whether installation was done by administrator
[DSK-226188] Extension lost when renaming a file in the save dialog to include a period
[DSK-231787] Unable to set default browser in the Start Menu
[DSK-245142] Removed spellcheck.dll, as it's no longer needed for new spelling checker
[DSK-245686] Silverlight crash when reloading quickly
[DSK-246447] Can't install Opera with a limited account
[DSK-246448] Fix for automatic updates with limited (non-admin) XP accounts
[DSK-251584] Hidden popup blocks installation process when Opera is still running
[DSK-252544] Information about installation directory missing must not be handled by browser
[DSK-253587] Ddouble file extensions added on download

Mac
[CORE-19054] Fix for showing print preview)
[DSK-248272] Possible to insert non-images using Insert > Image)
[DSK-248013] Sub-menu items replace menu items in the Opera menu)

Unix
Removed '-nosession' as a separate command line option. It is already handeled as an alias to '-nowin'
[DSK-230698] Serious drawing issues in the Qt4 build
[DSK-235281] Refresh causes Opera to go backwards in history after interaction with Flash
[DSK-251177] navigator.plugins.refresh() takes long time; cache the plugin information
[DSK-251573] Don't renice pluginwrapper to 19
[DSK-251805] Hang when doubleclicking text while flash is running

DOSBox 0.73

DOSBox 0.73 has been released!

Most noticeable changes:

Support for more graphics modes and cards.

Improved Vista support.

New OPL emulation cores.

Sound fixes and improvements for Mac OS X.

Lots of compatibility fixes.

Lots of cdrom detection improvements.

Lots of memory (EMS/XMS) improvements.

Various fixes and enhancements for the recompiling core.

Support for evdev.

Lots of DOS fixes.

Slightly faster!

More stable.

Download:http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
Download Win32 version:http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dosbox/DOSBox0.73-win32-installer.exe

Symantec reports that spam in Hong Kong amounted to 92.3%

Symantec released in May of the Intelligence Report, the report said Hong Kong spam rate "world first", reached a staggering 92.3 percent, while the mainland for the second 91.1%. All e-mail in the world, the proportion of spam has reached 90.4%. This means that 1.1 of every e-mail there is a spam. In April to May, between the percentage increase of 5.1 percentage points.

Symantec released the May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report also shows another disturbing trend, unlike the past, known only to those who hijacked the smaller sites, the network elements have now begun to use some of the old site profile to spread malicious software.

The report shows that 84.6 percent were attacked by malicious software to set up the Web site for more than a year. One of the most typical type of site often attacks the social networking site because the majority of social network by user-generated content.

The most popular is the CAPTCHA verification, require users to enter a series of random characters, but has been proven no longer valid. Many sites rely on the CAPTCHA validation to ensure that the sender is a subscriber. Some of the main Web site is trying to find other ways to stop spammers, including the use of photographic images.

Total Commander 7.50 Beta 4

Total Commander is a powerful all-round document management, and support arbitrary custom menus, toolbars, shortcut keys, give you the greatest freedom. General file operations, such as search, copy, move, rename, delete functions available, more content of the document comparison, folder synchronization, batch rename files, file merge partition, create / check the file checksums (MD5/SFV) and other practical features. built-in ZIP / TAR / GZ / TGZ format, compression / decompression functions , ZIP format also supported the creation of self-packet encryption and function. In addition, not only can directly open (unlock) ARJ/CAB/RAR/LZH/ACE/UC2 such as packet compression, coupled with the corresponding plug or compression process, but also to create packet compression of these formats, just to create and open folders as easy. and the search function, or whether the contents of the document, the same support for these compressed package.

28.05.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 4
28.05.09 Fixed: When a disconnected network drive was reconnected, the drive's icon wasn't refreshed in the drive dropdown list
27.05.09 Fixed: Shift+Cursor up/down in drive dropdown list selected file in file list
27.05.09 Fixed: Access violation in icon thread when closing TC with open separate tree (fix should also improve the general stability)
27.05.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, branch view: When sorting by name, keep sort order from main window (sort just by name, not by relative path+name)
27.05.09 Fixed: Function to save current selection could crash with file names longer than 511 characters (e.g. in branch view)
27.05.09 Fixed: Quick filter wasn't removed when user opened a new tab by Ctrl+clicking on a button (or Shift+Enter in Ctrl+D menu) when command "cd xyz" was pointing to a file
27.05.09 Fixed: Yes/No button in copy to dir warning dialog not translated

26.05.09 Fixed: Mouse wheel no longer worked in Lister

Total Commander 7.50 beta 4 is available at the following sites:

Microsoft Windows DirectX component of the serious flaws

Microsoft today issued a warning that a key to species of Windows operating system security vulnerabilities hackers has been used for remote execution of malicious code.

The vulnerability appears in the DirectX components of Windows, the browser automatically play QuickTime files will be activated, use the Vista system, people only need to visit a malicious Web site to provide the malicious file could be infected, and Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 will not be affected, and do not appear in the QuickTime vulnerability on (not Apple's fault).

Problem mainly in the treatment of DirectShow support QuickTime file that contains elevation of privilege vulnerability, more serious flaws, Microsoft has for the DirectX application programming interface of the flaw had been amended, although the use of the loopholes in the current very limited attacks, but Microsoft's adoption of its partners plan to announce initiatives to protect the problem.

2009年5月27日星期三

Symantec: 90% of global e-mail as spam

Computer security vendor Symantec (Symantec) report released Monday, show that in all e-mail, spam has reached the proportion of 90.4 percent. And April to 5 months, this proportion will rise by 5.1 percentage points.

Symantec released the May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence report also shows that several other trends: the past, only less well-known site hijacked different network elements is now more inclined to have some visibility through the old website to disseminate malicious software; as a result of social networks, the majority of user-generated content and, therefore, become one of the most vulnerable one of the sites.

The report also shows the most likely to receive spam time. For example, the United States of spam a day peak appears in the 9 o'clock to 10 points, followed by a sudden decline. Europe are relatively stable throughout the day. Asia-Pacific region spam was seen in the morning. The report said that the reason why this happens, mainly because of spammers in the United States, the most active working hours.

Microsoft lost the New Zealand government purchase orders

Microsoft failed to reach the New Zealand government orders to buy Windows operating system renewal agreement, the incident open-source operating system for other government agencies to open the way to the door. Since 2000 Microsoft has been provided by the Government of New Zealand in the software, but the contract between the end of 2008 has expired.

Microsoft had previously with the State Services Commission to negotiate a three-year renewal of orders, but the two sides could not reach consensus, the Commission said, "continue to work with Microsoft's contract is outdated."

New Zealand Government has organized a major government agency in charge of the Committee members to discuss a contractual matter with Microsoft, but Microsoft's products appear in terms of price, features, etc. and can not meet the needs of the Commission. New Zealand State Services Commission also called for major government departments "to play the most effective IT investments to better implement the principle of good value for money."

WinGate 6.6.0 Build 1277

The so-called proxy server is a machine so that all LAN users to access internet resources, WinGate is the originator of this type of software. It allows multiple LAN users can use their favorite WWW browser, Email, News , FTP, Telenet, etc., at the same time provide a strong firewall to prevent unauthorized users visit your internal network, strongly recommended by Internet cafe, small business use!

Download:WinGate 6.6.0 Build 1277

Version 6.6.0 Build 1277 (Released 27 May 2009)

1. New WWW proxy, including changes relating to auth, scanning, caching, pipelining, and HTTP/1.1 support

2. Fixed an issue relating to FIN/RST handling and timeout behaviour in Extended networking.

3. Resolved dialup issues on 2k3 server.

4. Fixed a bug in the IMAP server where it was case-sensitive to certain commands.

5. Fixed a problem with ARP cache timeouts and refreshing.

6. Reworked the VPN control connection mechanism to harden it against attack.

7. Added tunnel keep-alive packets to keep tunnels active through NAT devices.

8. Fixed a problem with editing schedule item actions in VPN-only UI.

9. Fixed a problem editing access rights on hosted VPNs from a remote GateKeeper in VPN-only UI.

10. Deprecated cache freshness overrides (number of days before checking...) in WWW cache.

11. Added schedule option to resynch NT user database

2009年5月26日星期二

Netbook access rate of the return of 30%

Intel normally does not show the weaknesses of their products. But earlier this month there is a exception, Intel invited investors to its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, demonstrated the move based on its Atom processors Ling computer products online can not be like the mainstream processor-based computer as to deal with the case of video streaming. Intel's aim is to tell people that when they purchase Internet access in the computer, they must know they are not multi-media computers to buy. Because in earlier times, the concept of comparing the purchase of consumer confusion, resulting in the Internet last year to return the computer to reach the 30 percent rate.

Therefore, if you want to buy this computer online, you need to know a price of 500 U.S. dollars less than the computer can not do. For example, do not want to use the Internet to play the latest computer games, do not want to use it to edit video, do not expect to see high-definition movies with it.

Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook at the recent investor conference call will have Internet access down the computer useless. Cook said: "The Internet is now available in the market of the computer, I can only see the narrow keyboard, bad software, shoddy hardware and a very, very small screen." He wanted to convey the meaning is: Although the price of 1300 U.S. dollars MacBook seems expensive than a lot of Internet access this computer, but it is also the computer than the Internet is much more capable.

Where does the problem lie then? If consumers continue to cut down expenditure and budget, and that no one will care about this. Gartner expects the low-cost online computer sales in 2009 will increase to 21 million units, 11.7 million more than last year, almost doubling sales to Taiwan. At the same time, the impact of an economic recession similar to the more lucrative sales of notebook computers. Investors have reason to believe that the Internet may not be on the computer a little profit. In fact, the computer industry do not like those cheap goods for sale.

However, if your budget is limited, you know what the Internet weaknesses of the computer, you will not be worried about. In essence, the Internet is a cheap computer, portable Internet devices, which range from smart phones and notebook computers. Even so, even if you lose or damage a computer online in this, it lost only a few hundred dollars only. You want to buy multi-media computer? You want it installed in the clothes pocket it? Do not try and multi-media computers can not satisfy your request. You want to buy cheap computer Taiwan? Perhaps the computer is online for you.

Microsoft App Store: The App is limited to one user

Microsoft detailed description of its application store "Windows Marketplace For Mobile" in the purchasing process, as well as customer competence such as the installation of the policy.
Windows Marketplace customers purchased application service will be at the same time in the five windows Mobile phone installed. But most likely as a result of the application will be installed in a family member or friend's mobile phone, so Microsoft issued a statement Friday, the program will limited to the owner to install their own.

They also said the statement, "Microsoft is aware of when a user is missing, or the purchase of mobile phone upgrades, if the loss of the original applications for mobile phones and personal information will be more than the agony, so if you buy Windows Marketplace for mobile application , then you will be able to phone for free in some re-installation of these procedures. "

Microsoft also reiterated its refund policy, customers within 24 hours can be refundable in full application.

2009年5月25日星期一

AMD lawyers: Intel-competitive conduct in breach of the law

AMD Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs Tom - McCoy (Tom McCoy) give two examples to illustrate AMD Intel engaged in a surprise attack on the breach of the law for all. McCoy said the first raid Intel took place in 1999, when AMD has just Published Athlon (Athlon) framework. He claimed: "Looking back to us breaking the law, Intel launched a surprise attack, it is easy to find, they are always in our next-generation technology to market when the trouble. We are in the market in 1999 when the introduction of Athlon They are doing so. "

McCoy said: "Intel's old tricks again in 2003. We launched in 2003, the server-oriented Opteron (Opteron) processor and Athlon 64 processors, they have the trouble or the class. We have put in place to integrate Memory controller HyperTransport, and are concerned about the energy consumption. This is the key to AMD's processor technology, Intel a few years behind us. "

Intel asked the European Union in the punishment at a fine of 1.45 billion U.S. dollars, McCoy said: "We do not care about fines, for us, it is important that the EU ban. Ruling required the immediate implementation of the ban Intel, Intel immediately request AMD technology hindered the termination of the illegal ban on entering the market. "

Intel did not specifically comment on this issue. Intel, a spokesman said: "AMD's remarks confirmed the consistent stand of our previous. Market returns and performance is always a good customer. If Intel has performed poorly, our products are not a strong road map, the user will naturally be looking for other manufacturers. "

2009年5月24日星期日

Google Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta

Google today released the Chrome browser, the latest Beta version 2.0.172.30, compared with a Beta version of Oh, 172.27 to improve the following points.
1, to improve the local language version of the translation;
2, experimental changes in some of the V8 engine algorithm, in loading pages have more when Javascript faster;
3, repair, use spell-checking dictionary French collapse when the problem;
4, repair, access links to more than 50 pages Feed collapse problem.

Download:Google Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta

Microsoft SharePoint to install SP2 will be a result of expired products

Friday, Microsoft warned that security personnel in the latest version of SharePoint discovered a major flaw. The vulnerability exists in SharePoint Server 2007's SP2 update, after installing the update, SharePoint will become the "beta" will be update to install SP expired after 180 days can not be used.


Microsoft says this vulnerability does not affect the security of SharePoint, as well as the areas of performance, customer information will not be affected, even if expired, will just not be able to access SharePoint.

According to Microsoft, said the installation of SP2 the following products will be affected: Office SharePoint Server 2007, Project Server 2007, Form Server 2007, Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express.

Microsoft has already developed, said a patch to resolve this issue, regarding the installation of the patch, please visit this link.

Windows 7 priced higher than the Vista, XP

We will know next month's mid-priced Windows 7 is the number will most certainly look forward to many people disappointed with Windows 7, the latest reports on the network are talking about Windows 7, Microsoft will develop a relatively Vista, XP higher prices.


First of all, before TechARP website (IE release has been accurately predict the time) that Microsoft will be announced in mid-June the new operating system Windows 7 prices, and Dell Inc. said the price of Windows 7 than Vista, XP higher, will be impede the promotion of Windows 7. A Dell company executives in an interview with CNET, said that if there is anything hindering the promotion of Windows 7, that is, the average selling prices (average selling price) is higher than Vista, XP. DELL and cooperative relationship with Microsoft is clearly aware of the selling price of Windows 7 in the end how much. (PC vendors usually a month or two months ahead of Windows 7 was the sales price)

According to the current inflation rate, the original prices of 239 U.S. dollars is now Vista Home Premium "appreciation" for 244 U.S. dollars, 200 U.S. dollars while the retail price of Windows XP Home now has "appreciation" for 239 U.S. dollars. From here you can be estimated that sales of Windows 7 is about how much the price. (DELL said that Windows 7 is higher than the average selling price of Vista, XP)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus & Internet Security 2010 9.0.0.446 Beta

Stand-alone version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus Based on the latest technology for your computer to provide the traditional anti-virus protection, you can rest assured that the use of computers to worry about work, communication, Internet surfing and online gaming.
A combination of traditional methods with the latest anti-virus defense technology initiative, more effective to protect your computer from viruses, Trojans, worms and a variety of malicious programs.

Download:Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 9.0.0.446 Beta (49.6 MB)
Download:Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 9.0.0.446 Beta (55.1 MB)

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 All Features:

Essential Protection:
* Protects from viruses, Trojans and worms
* Blocks spyware and adware
* Scans files in real time (on access) and on demand
* Scans email messages (regardless of email client)
* Scans Internet traffic (regardless of browser)
* Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN)
* Provides proactive protection from unknown threats
* Scans Java and Visual Basic scripts

Extended Protection:
* Two-way personal firewall
* Safe Wi-Fi and VPN connections
* Intrusion prevention system
* Intelligent application management and control
o automatically configured application rules
o security rating is assigned to unknown applications
o access to the user's resources and data is restricted for unknown applications

Preventive Protection:
* Scans operating system and installed applications for vulnerabilities
* Analyzes and closes Internet Explorer vulnerabilities
* Disables links to malware sites
* Detects viruses based on the packers used to compress code
* Global threat monitoring (Kaspersky Security Network)

Advanced Protection & Recovery:
* The program can be installed on infected computers
* Self-protection from being disabled or stopped
* Restores correct system settings after removing malicious software
* Tools for creating a rescue disk

Data & Identity Theft Protection:
* Disables links to fake (phishing) websites
* Blocks all types of keyloggers
* Virtual keyboard is provided for safely entering logins and passwords
* Prevents the theft of data exchanged via secure connections (HTTPS / SSL)
* Blocks unauthorized dial-up connections
* Cleans up any traces of user activity (deletes temporary files, cookies etc.)

Content Filtering:
* Parental control
* Improved antispam protection (plugins for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, The Bat!, Thunderbird)
* Blocks banners on web pages

Usability:
* Automatic configuration during installation
* Wizards for common tasks
* Visual reports with charts and diagrams
* Alerts provide all the information necessary for informed user decisions
* Automatic or interactive mode
* Round-the-clock technical support
* Automatic database updates

2009年5月23日星期六

uTorrent 1.8.3 Build 15520 Beta

uTorrent is a compact BT client program, with common features. within the network also has a good download performance, even outside the network not to mention. support multi-task while downloading, support for file downloads setting priorities, according to plan task of adjusting bandwidth, global / single task speed limit, fast HTTP mechanism to support UPnP, support the expansion of popular BT agreement, the source of support for users in exchange for support for DHT. the smallest memory footprint is only 6MB!

-- 2009-05-22: Version 1.8.3 (build 15520)
- Feature: New installer with EULA, file association
- Fix: uTP issue on low-latency high-throughput networks
- Fix: copying long filenames to the clipboard no longer results in garbage or crash
- Fix: create torrent layout
- Fix: fixed web seed support for multi-file torrents
- Change: torrent whose "Force Recheck" is greyed out will not recheck when asked through multi-torrent selections
- Fix: when adding torrents through URLs via commandline, we would always open the add torrent dialog
- Fix: handle multi file torrents with web seed urls that incorrectly don't end with a slash
- Fix: make sure web seed urls end with a slash for multifile torrents
- Fix: setup Vista firewall
- Fix: remove settings on Vista during un-installation

Download:
http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent-1.8.3-beta-15520.upx.exe

Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 9.1.1.1011

Intel released the rate of new hardware products is obvious to all the latest technology products while allowing customers to enjoy the technological advances brought about by the superiority, but also from a number of issues. This is the latest operating system, even if not to achieve full identification of the new chipset, Device Manager or the emergence of the existence of an unknown set of those annoying "yellow exclamation point", or to buy new hardware does not feel there is too much in terms of performance enhancement, etc., all each of these issues I would like to have a profound understanding of computer users.'d like to address these problems and play the best performance of new hardware, which requires the installation of Intel products Intel Chipset Device Software Driver, which can identify the chipset Intel products and automatically install the corresponding Inf file to reflect the functions of the chipset features such as PCI and ISAPNP of service support for the AGP, SATA, USB, IDE/ATA33/ATA66/ATA100 support for PCIe support and so on.

Download:Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 9.1.1.1011

Firefox is the most popular in Germany

From the last report of the browser market share, has not made such a long time the article. In fact, the report of this information comes from abroad, only to leave you with their own understanding of it. Skyessing readers to see the main message today that "Chrome will become the mainstream", it is also interested in what is now beginning to pay attention to the browser share report and see what changes in the data! Now bringing you up-to-date from early in November 2008 to April of this year's interesting analysis of the browser.
(Report from the statistical analysis of data from 23 countries in Europe only in November last year, in April of this year's data)

1. First of all, take a look at the overall report: IE dropped by four percentage points, Firefox increased by 2 percentage points, Chrome Although there are double the rise, but still less than 2%.
2. In the statistics in 23 countries more popular Firefox, chart lists the top 5 countries share:
3.IE more popular in the days, Firefox is popular on weekends. This report very interesting, it appears that many European families have installed two browsers!

Ironpython 2.6 beta1

IronPython is running on. Net on the DLR to give the Python programming language, CodePlex today released version 2.6 Beta1, and for additional. Net 4.0 Beta1 version of the support, IronPython is installed, you must confirm that you have installed. Net framework if You have installed Microsoft Visual Studio, you do not need to re-install. Net Framework.

GreenBrowser 5.1 Build 0523

GreenBrowser is a multi-window browser, which is based on IE, and to provide more features. Ad filter, mouse gestures, drag the mouse to automatically fill in a form, auto scroll, auto refresh, auto-save, auto-hide, the search field to expand the toolbar, collector, page manager, download manager, group, plug-ins , skin, agents, start mode at the initials, PoC, link analysis, the status bar display settings, classification preservation, removal of historical information, the page download control, page zoom, page background color settings ...

Increase: the largest number of withdrawal options to close
Increase: Select scaling options page IE7 IE8
Amendments: Since the definition of the problem Alt shortcuts
Fixed: script push the issue of open
Fixed: auto-fill in a form the issue of choice of form
Improvement: it removes the closure of the menu display
Improved: the web site contains judgment @
To improve: the issue of identity information to fill in a form

Download:GreenBrowser 5.1 Build 0523

2009年5月21日星期四

Apple's secret trump card in 2010: Tablet Mac

Although "the Internet, Apple" has been basically the suspect can not become a reality, but the investment firm Piper Jaffray researchers have claimed that there is conclusive evidence that Apple will be listed next year about 700 U.S. dollars the price of flat-panel computer products.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster and his research team reports in the study wrote: "The recent application of multi-point Apple patents touch is more complex for the preparation of computer equipment. And according to Apple COO Tim Cook in the April 22 conference call that, and Apple recently acquired PA Semi Inc., and employs a large number of technical personnel and other signs of the chip, it is clear that Apple is developing its own mobile computer products. "

More accurately the point that Apple may launch a touch-screen flat-panel computer, the screen size will be between 7-10 inches, and in 2010 organized an exhibition, they will release this product. This is why Apple on the Internet said they have no interest in the reasons for this, they use this product unique Tablet PC From the tight encirclement of the Internet.

So far, in accordance with the Munster information received, component suppliers have not yet seen this prototype Tablet PC, but Apple has already begun on the product parts and components required to negotiate with suppliers.

Analysts believe that this new product will be the retail price of 500-700 dollars, the price of just 399 U.S. dollars in the iPod and the Macbook between 999 U.S. dollars. Apple product design and the use of microprocessors, this processor will be the former PA Semi and Apple's technical staff has recently recruited several experts in the development of chip technology.

Software, Munster believes that Apple's new Tablet PC will use the iPhone and the advantages of Mac OS X operating system together, performance than the iPhone, but also improve the Mac OS X can not support multi-point touch technology shortcomings. This new equipment will work with the operating system very similar to iPhone OS, and can run the software on the APP Store, and Apple may also be at the iPhone OS Software Development Kit to add the second resolution mode, in order to support the new flat-panel equipment

However, Munster also taken into account for this equipment, the introduction of Apple's modified version of Mac OS X operating system, the possibility, but such a large-scale modification, time-consuming and more, even if we began to modify the work, we must wait until next year, will it be possible to introduce market .

Munster is also expected that this new equipment will integrate the wireless function, and the use of the same with the iPhone 3G and wireless carriers to provide discounts binding agreement of sale method. He also said that this product will also have the function of the electronic reader, Amazon Kindle with the family of products in the market.

China's Internet into a New Wave of Older Persons

After 80s, 90s after the Topsy network, China's elderly are not to be outdone, they spend their time online to become a new way to read news, chat, fat, E-mail, playing cards into a game of chess, etc. OurGame , joy.

According to statistics, the number of Internet users worldwide has exceeded one billion. Experts said that by 2050 the elderly over the age of 60 will reach 20 percent of the total population, "net" will be more and more elderly people.

In April this year, the world's largest Chinese search engine Baidu Baidu released "old search." Compared with the general search, it increases more for the elderly population and the demand characteristics of the design of human nature. It will keep the site the elderly, such as news, health, weather, folk art, flowers and birds, etc. are listed on the same page to simplify the old-age users to search information on procedures; do not typing after the login page, will be able to direct navigation through the site to find content; the use of large fonts, help more older people to enjoy the best of the Internet and convenience; Natural search results are not promoting any commercial information, for the elderly left behind a "pure land."

Google adjust its logo merchandise

Google recently said that the number of its Internet products to adjust the signs. The adjustment related to Google Maps, Google documents, Google, and other information products. Signs in these products, "Google" the style has not changed, and product names will be the use of a blue lowercase letters and placed in "Google" of the right side. Previous product names are placed in the "Google" logo below.

These products will be marked to adjust gradually to the next few weeks. Google said that regardless of where they occur, these will be the size of the sign are the same. Google's international web site will also be the same adjustments.

Recently, another source said, Google plan to remove some products in the near future sign next to "beta" word.

2009年5月20日星期三

University of IIS server encountered loopholes

IIS6 reported yesterday WebDAV vulnerability appeared today on the foreign media have reported that hackers will exploit this vulnerability the United States, Indiana Ball State University's server has been hacked. Hackers have not wasted a little bit of time, because the published and exploited loopholes in the time of Monday, only a difference of several hours. As of Tuesday, local time, the university still has not repaired the server successfully, Thursday or Friday is expected to be fully restored.


U.S. computer emergency response team recently revealed that last week, found loopholes in IIS6 WebDAV has been used in the attack, computer security experts by Nikolaos Rangos loopholes can be found a fake HTTP request, view and upload files to IIS6 servers, attacks Microsoft used the process of dealing with Unicode token loophole.

Microsoft said in a statement, have not yet heard of the occurrence of such attacks, but they are being observed, and provide security consultancy to provide users with help. Vulnerability affects only those in the IIS6 enabled system WebDAV protocol, WebDAV used to share documents on the Web.

Attacks will not be required to authorize, see the documents that the server and upload files to the server, Thierry Zoller of independent security experts confirmed the discovery of Rangos, but Zoller said he also did not find the server can be attacked in the run method of any malicious programs. Zoller said, IIS5 and IIS7 will not be affected at present, but Microsoft's other products using WebDAV may also be at risk. He suggested that the user prior to receipt of Microsoft's patch to disable WebDAV protocol.

Rangos said in the interview, the use of the WebDAV technology Exchange server and SharePoint server not under threat.

Cisco made a similar security warnings, they said in a published in the official website of their own security warning that those who use the IIS6 WebDAV technology, and site sensitive documents site administrator should take steps, because the attack code has been available to the public.

Yahoo provide voice search application for iPhone

Following Google in November last year for the Apple iPhone smartphone users to develop a speech recognition search application, Yahoo is also in three to iPhone users this week to provide a speech recognition search applications.
Yahoo said Yahoo Mobile 1.1 version of its voice search applications in the iPhone handset and iPod Touch music player to use, the user can be downloaded for free. The application of the working principle is: the phone made it clear that customers want at the problem of query, the application will query results back to the mobile phone screen.

Google announced in November last year, has been developed for the iPhone mobile phone users search out a speech recognition application, and commitment will be to Android, BlackBerry and other smartphone users with the product.

Google voice search applications, the working principle is: cell phone users made it clear that they need at the problem of query, the corresponding sound will be converted into a digital file, and sent to Google servers. First of all Google servers in the digital files analysis, and text into a query request, and then return to the search results corresponding to the user.

It is reported that similar products and compared to Google, Yahoo voice search applications become more complex, the reasons for the service to meet the requirements of the user's general search, but also integrates social networking site, log on, browse features such as Yahoo News.

People in the industry, said Yahoo's attempt to deal with voice search for more tasks, but also for Yahoo to consider its own development needs. And the main Google search business, Yahoo needs to take account of its portal and other content services. Previously has been reported that Yahoo Yahoo Mobile plans to support more mobile phone types, such as RIM's BlackBerry products.

Google Chrome 2.0.181.1 Beta

Google Chrome is a browser allows you to more quickly and easily and securely using a web browser, it is designed super-simple, more convenient to use. Google browser Chrome is characterized by simple and fast. Google Chrome to support multi-tabbed browsing, each tab page in a separate "sandbox" within the operation, in improving the security at the same time, a tag page and will not cause the collapse of the page was shut down other labels. In addition, Google Chrome based on a more powerful JavaScript V8 engine, this is the current Web browser can not be achieved. Google browser Chrome is still in beta stage, in many respects, also need further refinement. It is an open-source software, from Apple's WebKit (Safari engine used), Mozilla's Firefox and other related applications.

Download:Google Chrome 2.0.181.1 Beta

1/3 of people using laptops in bed

329 In a survey of staff in London, more than a quarter of respondents admitted that they often bring notebook computers and other mobile electronic devices to work in bed.

Another similar survey showed that 57% of the respondents believed that their partners in bed the use of these electronic devices is "very annoying." Credant Technologies, according to a survey launched in the habit of working in the bed of the respondents have more than half of the week working on in bed 2-4 hours. Of the respondents have admitted that they every night in the mobile electronic device than the amount of time spent and their exchange partners but also a long time.

When asked "do you go to bed before the final is one thing," when 96 percent of respondents say that they are in the family and each other good night kiss. The remaining 4% (of which 71% were men) admitted that they are busy to complete its work before going to bed and send and receive e-mail.

The results of the survey show that more than half of the respondents in bed staff often use their own electronic equipment upload or download of commercial confidentiality of enterprise data, and most are using the wireless network, although a fifth of people know this is unsafe.

Credant Technologies is the leading provider of end-product safety data protection company, said the survey found very much disagree with this phenomenon. Credant Technologies Corporation has put forward a five-point proposal, including the use of more complex encryption password. The last point is "in the bedroom so you should do. Even if you do not feel sleepy, but also in the bedroom, please do not use laptops."

The United States would launch an attack on China piracy

By more than 70 members of the United States, "Congressional International Anti-Piracy Working Group," May 20 published the "2009 International Piracy Watch List", China, Russia, Canada, Spain, Mexico, "the list." Directly the United States Congress Baidu name, and accused China of a number of sites to provide links to download pirated material profit model. The Congress Working Group claims that out of these countries is due to the piracy problem in these countries the breadth and depth, resulting in millions of U.S. workers in related industries in dozens of the loss of 100 million U.S. dollars, while the problem in these countries lack the political will of the anti-piracy.

The day of release of "international piracy report 2009" will be shown in China in the first place, the view that China's piracy problem has not changed significantly over the past year. Report directly named in China's largest search engine Baidu, Baidu said to exist in China a large number of illegal downloading of music is responsible for , and Baidu has as a means of obtaining advertising revenues. The report said that China is dependent on a number of sites providing access to infringing material model to operator services; there are some Chinese companies illegally obtained from the university library for scientific journals and the dissemination of copies. the report, the Chinese Government infringement activities on the network ineffective punishment.

The report affirmed China in the fight against computer software piracy has made some progress, but that 80% of the software piracy rate is still too high, the need for China to increase law enforcement. Reported that the United States of China's market access for content providers make the problem of copyright piracy restrictions deterioration.

Prior to the United States has on the intellectual property rights and access to cultural products brought to the WTO litigation against China. The WTO in March this year on the formal complaint made by the United States ruled that the United States a number of ideas were dismissed, but the Chinese also have a number of practices and "Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement" does not match. China and the United States continues to stick to their own views.

Co-Chair of the Working Group, one of the day, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said at a press conference held: "In economic hard times, the protection of intellectual property rights is more important than ever."

According to U.S. industry estimates, the United States, movies, music and video games industry output value of U.S. gross domestic product accounted for 6%, while the global piracy to the United States each year 25 billion U.S. dollars of lost sales.

Co-Chair of the Working Group, one of Senator Orrin G. Hatch, said: "This report of a serious reminder that piracy has become a common problem in the international community. Congressional International Anti-Piracy Working Group will take the lead in anti-piracy and anti-counterfeit legislation . "

Co-Chair of the Working Group of the House of Representatives Adam B. Schiff stressed the need to protect, like General Motors, Ford Motor, the protection of American movies, music and computer software copyright.

Analysts estimate that intellectual property will become the new U.S. administration, as well as the first US-China JCCT strategic economic dialogue with the focus of the topic.

2009年5月19日星期二

Pidgin 2.5.6

Pidgin (previously GAIM) is a powerful open-source support multiple protocol instant messaging software. IM agreement included AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime , XMPP, Yahoo! IM, Zephyr and so on, very comprehensive. It is worth mentioning that, QQ is no longer supported in the form of plug-ins, but can be used directly.

Download:Pidgin 2.5.6 for Windows (13.6 MB)
Download:Pidgin 2.5.6 for Linux (8.15 MB)

Intel is going to release 8-core server

Intel Corporation is expected next week for high-end server market with 8-core processor. The 8-core Xeon processors have been named as "Nehalem-EX", is designed to be used for more than two-processor server designed. At present, Intel Corporation is stepping up efforts to the delivery of dual-socket Xeon server processor.


"Nehalem-EX" is the same structure, the use of IntelCore ì7 desktop processor product line.

"Nehalem-EX" will become a matter of course to the top of Intel's Xeon processors. Prior to that, based on Intel's Penryn architecture than the old 6-core "Dunnington" processor is considered the highest performance Intel multi-processor server chips.

"Nehalem-EX" contains 23 million transistors and eight cores, can at the same time the implementation of 16 threads (or tasks). At the same time, the chip also has "Integrate Power Gates" features to reduce power consumption.

Initial release date was scheduled for May 26. Intel's Server Platforms Group Marketing said Boyd Davis, general manager, when they will launch a series of activities and "to discuss the server how to improve the standard of products can be cost-effective to replace the RISC solutions."

OpenSSH are loopholes in the form of a password can be explicitly

Royal Holloway College, University of London researchers recently found that a widely used encryption protocol OpenSSH security vulnerabilities, this flaw in OpenSSH 4.7 version for Debian / GNU Linux in the emergence of 32-bit encryption of the characters may be the form of an express.

Alleged hackers have the possibility of 262,144 to one success, the emergence of vulnerabilities in OpenSSH on alleged errors in a design. Security personnel that if the attacker in the network contains the encrypted text crawl packets can express the corresponding easy to break the first four bytes, an attacker can be forged after the data eventually lead to system errors, network connectivity disruption.

Symantec infringement lawsuit against operators of pirated software

Yesterday, the Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court of the Norton anti-virus software manufacturers - Symantec Corporation sued the United States manufacturers of pirated software MA Jing Yi three companies controlled by the case of infringement, the amount of claims up to 1,000 million yuan. The core MA Jing Yi figures currently in detention, the absence of a court hearing yesterday. MA Jing Yi is the case of the Ministry of Public Security and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uncovered a joint line of the large cross-border production and sale of pirated software in one of the two cases, involving 667,000 pirated optical discs , illegal sales of up to 10,480,000 U.S. dollars.

MA Jing Yi马克培original name, in February 2003 in the United States had been engaged in the sale of pirated software. After a U.S. court issued an arrest warrant name to return to China and MA Jing Yi. Returned a few months later, he opened in Shanghai Shanghai Yi-An Investment Management Limited , Leslie Shanghai Investment Management Limited , as well as e-commerce Shanghai Consulting Co., Ltd. , continue to Norton series of software pirated software-based production and sales.

Charged under the indictment, from July 2003 to February 2007, MA Jing Yi ordered the employees to the outside of pirated optical discs sold a total of 677,000, stamper 15, as well as films such as film, illegal operation of more than 10,480,000 U.S. dollars.

A few days ago, easily MA Jing, Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court of First Instance sentenced to imprisonment for 7 years, a fine of 8.6 million yuan. As a result of the case other defendants filed an appeal, the whole case has not yet become effective.

Google use mathematical algorithms to determine who is laid off

Google has begun to use mathematical algorithms to determine which employees should be dismissed. Google, through the staff evaluation, reward systems and pay records of the data through mathematical algorithms to calculate that more than 20,000 employees in most of the who is laid off. Of course Google will not disclose the algorithms, but such an approach is also tested. Google appears to want to all the data, and until there are reports that Google's designers employed even complained of Art and Design under the control algorithms have been unable to integrate into the feelings of individuals.

Keso also expressed their views:

Algorithm really solve the problem, is questionable, but Google's efforts to this end, it should be affirmed. Managing people always ask a university.

Algorithm can solve all this? The whole world to operate in strict accordance with the algorithm is a perfect world? My favorite movie "The Matrix" trilogy and the recent release of "Star Trek" are involved in the problem, but it seems the answer is no.

JEDEC published the first 1.8-inch solid-state hard drive standard

Microelectronics industry's standards body JEDEC Solid State Technology Association today announced the industry's first solid-state hard drive specification "MO-297", the main specifications for the 1.8-inch. MO-297 defines a 1.8-inch SATA interface SSD (54 × 39 mm) of physical size, layout and interface, the use of such a standard solid-state hard drive products to designers, manufacturers, consumers will benefit, but also conducive to the popularity of solid-state storage technology.

MO-297 also draw SFF Committee "SFF-8156" standards, as well as SATA-IO organization SATA interface standard 2.6 version, in the physical shape and size and their interface "compatible."

JEDEC Chairman Mian Quddus said, MO-297 standard is a very important first step, the next they will have the full development of solid-state hard drive specification.

Download MO-297 standard document:


http://www.jedec.org/download/search/DGuide4-21A.pdf

2009年5月18日星期一

Google CEO recommends that students turn off the computer to enhance interpersonal communication

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania in the United States Monday gave a speech, said the graduation ceremony, I hope not too many U.S. college students addicted to the computer in a virtual world, but should "turn off computer", and to strengthen the surrounding crowd with real life human interaction.
Schmidt said: "Please turn off your computer. I also suggest you turn off the phone, and to strengthen the lives of people around the contacts. When you grandson (granddaughter) and toddler, you can hold his (her ) small hands, the warmth of life than this. "

Schmidt I hold the University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Monday awarded him an honorary doctorate. Vice-Chancellor, University of Pennsylvania Amy Gutmann said, Schmidt has always been committed to making technology can maximize the service of humanity.

This is the most recent two days, Schmidt was awarded a second honorary doctorate. This week four, the United States Carnegie Mellon University also conferred an honorary doctorate Schmidt, he was in the school issued a similar argument with a speech Monday.

Schmidt said Monday that while the U.S. economy is still at a low ebb, but the United States college graduates to society, just be able to create a new technology start-ups. He also said that in the entrepreneurial process, students need not worry about failure, but should be "Where fall get up where" and from the failure of useful experience and lessons learned, and then will be a step by step to success.

Gmail for mobile version new features: Add / Remove Labels

Gmail increased following the end of last month after the Mute feature, Google also brought new things, Now you can manage the label (label) of the. The following chart, in the More drop-down menu to increase the Label as就是了, but you can only apply for the e-mail the existing labels, or cancellation of a label, not to create a new label.

Office 2010 will also contain 32 and 64-bit version

We know that as a result of differences in the larger system, Windows system is divided into 32-bit and two 64-bit CD-ROM, and to the Office, the Microsoft has chosen two versions of the calculation system package together.
Ars Technica has provided some valuable details of display, said Microsoft will most likely be included in Office 2010 with a DVD.

Ars Technica posted an error message which reads: "If you want to install 64-bit Office, need to uninstall all the Office products 32, and then run 64-bit folder Setup.exe."

This means that 32 and 64-bit version will be in the form of a folder with a separate CD-ROM and a CD-KEY Topsy on the two versions at the same time.

Firefox 4 has NO LABEL?

Web applications have become so far a lot of users to work and live every day the fact that, while the Web browser have also played a faithful Operating System role. This is also the performance of the browser now has become a very important reason for the topic. Now, the most important application is the turning point in its evolution, a point of history to repeat itself. Now doing business in the network will usually open a lot of one-time label, too many labels is becoming increasingly difficult to manage. Although the "user experience" is also the efforts of designers to give the labels to play better features, such as Firefox laboratory Aza Raskin, for example, we have recently seen the 3.5beta version of Firefox browser. Raskin and his colleagues are thinking in the end of the function to further improve the tab should be back in 2000 when the browser's appearance.

"Now most of our time is spent on network applications. We usually use them for some time longer, when we switch off these labels when we know that they will re-open," Raskin in his blog last month in so wrote. His words contain a lot of the future vision of Firefox browser, for example, labels are grouped by category should be stacked or arranged in a unified sidebar.

At the same time he also wrote: "In a number of labels during extra fingers, we need a better way to manage and not just in the horizontal tab bar are listed. In accordance with sub-domain seems to be a good way, but there a better way to do that? "
Some people in their comments after the article has provided some ideas, but did not provide new ideas. In order to stimulate innovation, Mozilla Labs has announced that it would label the re-development as this year's Summer Design Challenge.

Allow all participants to record through any media of their creativity, even the back is no paper napkin; but to submit their ideas, they must shoot a video uploaded to Youtube, Flickr, Vimeo or other video sites, can be marked mozconcept will be followed by video link sent to conceptseries@mozilla.com. Deadline June 21, the end result will be announced July 8. Of course, Mozilla has no obligation to adopt the idea of winning, contestants will be at the same time not limit the use of their creativity on other browsers.

Opera to break the monopoly of the Antarctic Firefox

According to Statcounter statistics, the Opera browser in April has finally broken in the Antarctic continent has been the monopoly of Firefox, 17.39 percent share, almost 20%. Antarctica broke Firefox has always been a dominate. According to the website data, in March in the Antarctic Firefox usage was 100%.

Take-Two prosecution 3D Realms

Development of the " Forever of the Duke Nukem" 3D Realms because studio Take-Two did not continue to provide funds under the no rice straw into the situation, and ultimately declared bankruptcy, and the termination of bouncing King "Forever of the Duke Nukem" of the development. But the problem is that Take-Two has been paid in advance before the 12 million U.S. dollars to the 3D Realms, the exclusive agent to obtain the right of the game. Take-Two now nothing has been, of course, will not let the matter rest, it formally charged 3D Realms, accused each other of not been issued to provide games for a violation of the agreement between them.

Take-Two has repeatedly complained that 3D Realms to delay the completion date of the game, but also repeatedly vowed to ensure that they completed the day of the game from getting closer and closer. Take-Two might eventually be able to get the unfinished version of "Duke Nukem Forever," Whether it is going to continue to develop or make use of the existing version, it's hard to say.

Paint.NET 3.50 Alpha 1

Paint.NET is image and photo processing software, which by the Washington State University students in the development and maintenance of the project by Microsoft to provide guidance, early positioning in the free alternative to MS Paint software, is now gradually developed into a powerful and easy-to-use image and photo processing software, support for layers, unlimited history, effects, and many practical tools, and open-source and completely free, the interface looks a bit like Photoshop. of the software development language is C #.

Download:Paint.NET 3.50 Alpha 1

* Now requires (and uses!) .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
* Significant improvements to the installer. Prerequisites are now handled in a much more user-friendly fashion (it's no longer "go to the Microsoft website and decipher geek talk and download stuff")
* The auto-updater can now download in the background, and then install the update after you've exited Paint.NET. Compare this to v3.36 and earlier that jump in your face and require the download and installation to happen right now, and block you from using the program until it's done!
* New effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur, by Ed Harvey
* New effect: Distort -> Dents, by Ed Harvey
* New effect: Distort -> Crystalize, by Ed Harvey
* The responsiveness of effect dialogs has been greatly improved.
* When zoomed-in, the rendering quality has been substantially improved. http://blog.getpaint.net/2008/12/07/pai ... zoomed-in/
* When zoomed in, it is now much easier to correctly resize or move a selection.
* Improved performance when opening multiple images, especially for systems with only 1 processor. http://blog.getpaint.net/2008/09/11/pai ... humbnails/
* Memory usage has been greatly reduces when more than one image is open.
* The selection outline is no longer animated, which substantially reduces CPU usage. It also uses XOR blending.
* The middle mouse button can now be used to close an image tab
* Improved the Unfocus effect
* Fixed an issue with Gaussian Blur and its treatment of alpha values
* Fixed a crash with the "Units" selector in the toolbar area
* Added a "Utilities" menu, and moved the following menu items there: Check for Updates, Language chooser, and View Plugin Load Errors. For the alpha release, there are also menu items for "Force Crash" and "Perform Full GC" (you'll know what that means if you're a developer -- Otherwise it isn't interesting).
* Installer now has a "Start Paint.NET" checkbox at the end. (On Vista and Win7 with UAC enabled, it will correctly start Paint.NET at non-elevated privilege.)
* Renamed "Grid" to "Pixel Grid", to more accurately describe its functionality.
* The DirectDraw Surface (.DDS) file type now allows you to select the resampling algorithm for auto-generated mip-maps
* Effect plugins now have access to a "Services" property which allows them to properly access certain internal Paint.NET functionality.
* Fixed some very small memory leaks when opening many images
* Russian translation. http://blog.getpaint.net/2009/02/26/rus ... -paintnet/
* A processor that supports SSE is now required (almost all CPU's purchased this decade satisfy this)

SiSoft Sandra 15.99 SP3a

SiSoftware Sandra is a powerful tool for analysis and assessment, with more than 30 kinds of the above analysis and test modules, including the main CPU, Drives, CD-ROM/DVD, Memory, SCSI, APM / ACPI, mouse, keyboard, networks, motherboards, printers, as well as CPU, Drives, CD-ROM/DVD, Memory of the Benchmark tool, it can also save a list of the results of the analysis report.

ASUS Xonar Essence ST Edition PCI Sound Card

ASUS introduced a PCI version of the Xonar Essence ST sound card, Xonar Essence ST is the most eye-catching cast in electromagnetic shielding etching Ornithoctonus ancient stone musical instruments chime on the animal in order to demonstrate identity. Xonar Essence STX specifications and the basic agreement, the biggest difference is that the original has been replaced by PCIe X1 interface PCI interface. The sound card SNR (signal to noise ratio) is 124dB.

Headphone output is also part of its use of copper shield, and the use of stand-alone amplifier chip, and line completely separated from the output part, greatly reducing interference.

Xonar Essence ST, as well as the specific time-to-market price of the moment unknown. Also to mention, PCIe X1 version of the Xonar Essence STX current price of 1,499 yuan.

BitComet 1.12

BitComet is a completely free BitTorrent (BT) download management software, also known as BT download client, but also a set BT / HTTP / FTP download management into one device. BitComet have downloaded a number of leading BT technology side of download unique edge broadcast technology, but also to facilitate the use of natural interface. BT will be the latest technology to the common HTTP / FTP download through BT technology to accelerate your downloads general.

Download:BitComet 1.12

Clarkdale most low-end models selling price is estimated to be 84 U.S. dollars

,According to Intel's plans, the cheapest price of Clarkdale will be 84 U.S. dollars, the goal is to replace the Pentium dual-core E6300, the latter frequency 2.8GHz, FSB 1066MHz, built-in 2MB secondary cache.

Westmere core will support Hyper-Threading, so unless Intel intends to do, otherwise it should have Clarkdale theoretical support for Hyper-Threading Technology. Point of view from the launch date, AMD's 32nm products appear to have left behind once again. But the recent Intel's 32nm manufacturing process has delayed the progress of conversion, so the extent of backward time AMD will be smaller than 45nm when.

Single-card dual-core version of GTX295 is expected to formally release the end of this month

It is believed that single-card dual-core version of Geforce GTX 295 will be listed on the official launch later in May. But then a single GTX295 card will work with prior versions of the dual-card version of the frequency, performance, etc. will remain basically the same, as will be slightly different TDP power.

Single GTX295 card version of GT300 will be the end of the year prior to listing pillar to play the role of high-end Nvidia graphics cards, it is estimated that before the fourth quarter we will not see in the market, the new Nvidia graphics cards listed. Fortunately rival ATi's DX11 card is unlikely to be listed in the fourth quarter.

2009年5月16日星期六

Avant Browser 11.7 Build 28

Avant Browser is a small but very easy to use file browser software, it has IE and Opera browser functions and features. Such as: Bomb can block some ad windows can be configured not to display a number of functions such as picture, sound, ActiveX component images and the effects arising. built there the famous search engine Google to facilitate you to quickly find the information you have. refuse to allow you to remove some information such as the address bar on the web site information, Cookies, History and useless information TEMP data. software completely free of charge in support of the entire Chinese menu, does not contain any SpyWare, AdWare and so on.

* Added browser:home page
* Add another shortcut of hiding browser with CTRL+DEL
* Fixed a problem which caused Avant Browser to freeze
* Fixed the issue that forced new created pages to open in foreground with CTRL + ENTER
* Fixed the truncated bookmarks name error from Opera
* Fixed the context menu issue in Google Docs
* Some minor fixes

Download :Avant Browser 11.7 Build 28

iPhone os also mimic

All along, we see that firms are just like Apple does not like God, single-screen size on a large number of firms under the brush imitation, together with such interface, the image of imitation and even less. Even as speculation was hot earlier CIPHONE5 only use the shape and appearance of the iphone interface but still its operating system Windows Mobile. But today we received news that the introduction of a true cottage manufacturers of imitation iphone mobile phone, if this is the case, the iphone has not been officially listed in the Mainland under the circumstances, iphone is indeed an emergency.

iphone3G the shape, feel very good, large 3.5-inch external screen is also on the most basic of steps to keep up with the iphone.

Screen resolution of 320 * 480, is the same as the iphone. Showed very fine, very good color reduction. As the interface is imitation of the iphone.

Into the secondary menu is the interface iphone flavor. Here, the imitation of the iphone are very successful, but there are also other firms have to do the machine, so no surprise.

The cottage can also be the theme of iphone replacement, and has built-in IPOD, green fields, gray wizard three themes.

However, the operation point of view, whether they are fluent or degree of sensitivity, which can be termed cottage cottage in Apple's products, in addition to its appearance and operation of the interface very high similarity, the internal fluid, such as operation and function of the expansion of of all let us be surprised. The machine was allegedly copied Apple's OS X system, as a matter of time, we do not do in-depth testing. And how the truth, we are not yet known, but its operation from the processing speed and graphics, as well as the expansion of the functional point of view, at least this will not be a normal MTK machinery firms.

RedOffice 4.5 for Windows Beta

RedOffice contains text, tables, slides, graphics, formula and database of six components, the full support of the international standard (ODF), the national standard (UOF), Microsoft Office97/2000/2003/2007 format to the user as the core focus of the whole interaction design new re-interpretation of the idea of office software, on-demand work area, all necessary functions at your fingertips to make your work more simple and efficient. The new interactive design to lead a comprehensive office software changes to support Microsoft rich Office97/2000/2003/2007 online template format to enhance the quality of dual screening of creative, non-polar scalable to support new features such as more ... May 13, 2009, released RedOffice 4.5Beta, the stability of the software has made great improvement, in support of national standard format (UOF), support for PDF format document storage; text structure components increase documents, direct navigation document content; form components to provide document sharing, allowing multiple users to read and write permissions at the same time; slide components can directly select a picture slideshow set to the background.

download:RedOffice 4.5 for Windows Beta

WolframAlpha return the answer directly to the user

U.S. computer scientist Stephen Wolfram (Stephen Wolfram) Friday said that the new Internet search engine will WolframAlpha early evening of May 15 in 7:00 (local time the central United States, Beijing at 8 o'clock on May 16) on.

Google killer on-line today can be directly returned to the answer to the user (Figure)
WolframAlpha new search engine
In accordance with the original plan, was the outside world called "Google killers" WolframAlpha on-line time for May 18 this year. However, Wolfram said, has decided to line the search engines advanced to May 15.

Early in March this year, the first time revealed the Wolfram WolframAlpha the progress of the development and said that the search service will be held in May this year, during the on-line. At that time, he said, WolframAlpha working principle of the Google web search with a larger difference. In WolframAlpha services, users need to type in the search query box problem, the search engine will return the answer directly to the user, rather than return to a lot of Web links.

The end of last month's demonstration of Wolfram WolframAlpha works. Earlier this month, the U.S. science and technology blog ReadWriteWeb announced site of the new search engine interface for a number of shots. These screenshots show that while the outside world to WolframAlpha known as the "Google killer", but the return showed that indeed the same manner is very different from Google.

Has announced a screenshot shows that users WolframAlpha into the search box Kin "ISS" (ISS) after the words, get the return result is a picture. The picture shows the International Space Station's orbit, altitude, speed, track type and other relevant data.

In fact, Wolfram WolframAlpha presentation on the working principle of the end of the day, Google launched a tit-for-tat public data search and chart services. The industry that Google WolframAlpha election demonstration in the introduction of a public meeting the same day chart data search and services, its purpose is to suppress the formation of WolframAlpha trend, and the transfer of the outside world attention on the concerns of WolframAlpha.

WolframAlpha involved in project development, another computer scientist(Taylor Gray) said earlier that, WolframAlpha will use a large number of servers, of which 10,000 will be primarily responsible for dealing with the issue of the user's query.

United States expert on search engine10,000 grams (Nova Spivack) said, WolframAlpha is an "ambitious plans", if development goes well, the search engine will penetrate into every aspect of public life, at the same time on the Google search engine market challenge the dominant position.

That the majority of people in the industry, WolframAlpha provided for the majority of Internet users search for a new way so that users have more choices. WolframAlpha expected today after, will win the approval of many users. However, whether the service on Google constitutes a substantial threat, and ultimately the majority of Internet users also need to answer.

ATI Mobility Modder V1.2 release - supports Windows7

Driverheaven site could be a few days ago issued a generic driver for AMD graphics cards into a laptop-driven software tools available for ATI Mobility Modder latest version V1.2, this version will have support Windows7.

Has been available on the website in the AMD version of the generic ATI graphics driver is not used on notebook graphics cards, AMD's policy decisions can only be a notebook users where to get from the notebook manufacturers dedicated graphics card driver. This is for those who like to regularly update the driver of notebook users is a bad news. The ATI Mobility Modder generic version can be converted to ATI graphics card driver version available notebook graphics cards, the current software updates to the V1.2 version, and adding support for Windows7.

Most companies that do not want to use Windows 7

Amplitude Research survey for the remote access software vendors Van Dyke Software conducted a survey showed that only less than half of the enterprises is expected to test Microsoft's Windows 7. The survey also revealed that the enterprises to the level of budget cuts. Amplitude CEO Steve Birnkrant that have cut IT budgets for the enterprises, of testing is very different. In the survey less than a quarter of network and security administrators said they are currently being tested Windows 7. Microsoft released in January this year, beta and released a week ago, Windows 7 release candidate. Brinkrant said that plans to increase IT budgets this year, enterprises, 38% of companies are testing Windows 7. However, plans to reduce corporate IT budgets, only 18% of enterprises to test Windows 7. Overall, the enterprise For Windows 7's response is positive .39% of the respondents said their companies plan to deploy Windows 7. However, according to the budget situation, there is a lot of business distinction. Even wait for the final version contains the IT administrator's time is also true. Enterprises to reduce IT budgets is unlikely to test Windows 7. Although the increase in corporate IT budgets are 64% of IT professionals are currently plans to test Windows 7, or waiting for the formal launch of Microsoft Windows 7, when the test started again, but tensions in the budget of the enterprise, only 48% of administrators to be tested. Amplitude of the 38% of the above-mentioned companies are testing Windows 7 is a combined data of the data. 5% of the managers said their companies to test the deployment of Windows 7,14.4% in the final code after testing the deployment of Windows 7,10.3 % in the Microsoft service pack release after the first deployment of Windows 7,9.1% to purchase new hardware after the deployment of Windows 7. In spite of this, 59.1% of the respondents indicated that their agency is not in the PC use the Windows 7 plan. Those who are against the people that they avoid the use of Windows 7, there are two main reasons. One-third of the people that they can not prove that this is a reasonable return on investment of .45% of the respondents indicated that they are more willing to stick with the current version of Windows.

Red Hat will be acquired inevitable

U.S. investment firm Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert said that despite facing many problems - the competition from Oracle, the acquisition rumors and economic weakness, Linux software vendor Red Hat seems to be very "soft." However, the long term, Red Hat will be the acquisition of big companies - the most likely acquirer is IBM. According to foreign media reported that Egbert said in a report, an analysis of investment in Red Hat's short-term and long-term prospects. She pointed out that the short term, in the context of economic slowdown, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Jboss very strong demand, sales to government agencies will also stimulate the growth of sales of Red Hat. Market research firm Piper Jaffray analyst Mark Murphy also made a point of view the same report. Murphy of 70 Red Hat customers survey found that, Red Hat is increasing market share. Red Hat very good performance. Wall Street expected, as at the end of May of this year's first quarter, Red Hat earnings per share of 14 cents, revenues of 171.7 million U.S. dollars. Red Hat performance but there are also a number of variables, which is Oracle's largest acquisition of Sun, Oracle, Red Hat will continue to support the product? Although Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said publicly that the company will continue to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat-house filled with such a sentiment: Open Solaris Oracle to pay more attention instead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is inevitable, because Oracle will "protect" Solaris to maintain the business revenue. It is estimated that, Red Hat one-third of new business from Unix to Linux migration. Red Hat is facing the danger is that Oracle will provide customers with attractive terms to enable them to continue to use Solaris. Egbert said, "taking into account the Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the importance of data centers, we believe that Red Hat has been a major acquisition is inevitable - and may be IBM. Red Hat's main reason for success is that its software is relatively cheaper, Unix software, the ability to easily migrate to Linux class. Red Hat is not a large company, there is no ability to lock customers. the majority of customers will be regarded as Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to break the monopoly of the tools for large-scale manufacturers. Oracle after the Sun acquisition, Red Hat will have to face two Big Mac-style competitors, their pricing has infinite potential, we believe that Red Hat and Oracle will become more and more difficult competition. " Oracle can provide low-cost hardware / software combination, a high discount, so that customers continue to use or migrate to Open Solaris, and even paid to customers, not allow them to use RHEL to get Solaris to maintain a stable income. Red Hat has a great need for a price of capacity, good customer relations, a large number of data center business partners, against Oracle / Microsoft threat, IBM was appropriate. IBM to help Red Hat to resist the threat of Microsoft and Oracle. IBM to buy Red Hat is the importance of: IBM to bundle Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Jboss with Websphere complementary; IBM can benefit from Red Hat's development community; IBM can be applied to all levels of the operating system infrastructure and virtual tools; soft / hardware bundle is increasingly becoming a trend, Red Hat to IBM to provide more software tools.

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

WordPress is a focus on aesthetics, Web standards and ease of use of personal information publishing platform. WordPress although it is a free open source software, but its value can not be measured in monetary terms. Zhigong use WordPress to build a strong network of information dissemination platform, but applies to more personalized blog. Application for blog, WordPress allows you to provincial concerns about the technical background, to concentrate on the site's content.

New Features
User Features

* New Theme Installer routines
* Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
* Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors
* Use "Custom Header" for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change
* Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen
* Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen
* Don't ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
* Don't notify post author of own comments
* Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
* Make titles into links in Dashboard Right Now module (this was in 2.7.1)
* Improved Admin icons (grey-to-transparent shadows)
* Update Blue Admin Color Scheme
* Press This improvements UI, quoting fixes, plus ability for Contributors to use Press This
* Add column "Rating" in Administration > Links > Edit
* Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses
* Improved Widget user interface
* Allow editing of all plugin files (Ticket 6732)
* Improved Plugin search (this was in 2.7.1) on Administration > Plugins > Add New
* Per Page option for plugins
* Move "Install a plugin in .zip format" to new Upload tab under Administration > Plugins > Add New
* Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts
* Fix tags suggest for post quick edit and bulk edit
* Permalink editor changes and fix for pages
* Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
* Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader
* Support more than one gallery on the same page
* Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags
* Overhaul of LiveJournal importer (also add define WP_IMPORTING)
* Import category descriptions for Administration > Tools > Import > WordPress
* Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo
* Check for new version when visiting Administration > Tools > Upgrade
* Fix most popular link category list
* Add description field for tags
* WAI-ARIA landmark roles to added to WordPress Default theme
* "Choose a city in the same timezone as you" for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General
* Remove My Hacks option from Administration > Settings > Miscellaneous
* Hide email addresses from low privilege users on Administration > Comments
* In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message
* Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users
* Make user_nicenames unique during registration
* Add "Send this password to the new user by email" option to Administration > Users > Add New
* Don't set user's Website url to http:// in Administration > Users > Add New
* Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning
* Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends
* Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers

Development, Themes, Plugins

* Improved database performance
* Drop post_category column from wp_posts table, and link_category column from wp_links schemas
* Fix delete statements to ensure data integrity when innodb and foreign keys are used
* Enforce consistent ID types to allow for foreign keys to be defined between tables
* Add Sticky to list of post states
* Add a filter to the post states list
* Introduction and widespread use of transient and related fiters
* Add filters so AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber IM labels, in user profile, can be changed
* Add hook "after_db_upgrade"
* Add hooks for the Users, Categories, Link Categories, and Tags table columns
* HTTP API updates and fixes
* Add support for blocking all outbound HTTP requests
* Updated List of HTTP status codes (Ticket 9297)
* Use SimplePie for widget and dashboard feeds
* Switch to pomo lib. Support gettext contexts. Deprecate long form functions
* TinyMCE 3.2.3
* Use Jcrop 0.9.8 for cropping
* Update pclzip to 2.8
* Improved performance for script loading
* Improved archive and calendar queries
* Cron spawning improvements
* Timezone enhancements for PHP 5
* Add WP_Widget class and move native widgets into WP_Widget
* Allow other taxonomies (e.g. post categories) to be used with wp_tag_cloud (Changeset 10554)
* Add echo argument to wp_tag_cloud()
* Allow a plugin to control how many posts are displayed on edit pages
* Add "style" and "html" arguments to wp_list_authors (Ticket 4420)
* Add "exclude_tree" argument to wp_list_categories and make exclude behave like exclude_tree when hierarchical is specified--this was actually a 2.7.1 change (Ticket 8614)
* New Template Tag, the_modified_author (Ticket 9154)
* Enhanced support for custom taxonomies
* Put page title before blog name in admin title (Ticket 9028)
* Use https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ for the WordPress.org secret-key service
* Various phpDoc updates
* Refactor filters to avoid potential XSS attacks
* XMLRPC improvements
* Improved mysql2date coding
* Make authentication more pluggable
* Switch to using the ID when calling get_avatar internally to support caching plugins
* Allow plugins to provide a canonical redirect_url even if WordPress does not provide its own
* Drafts have post_date populated now, so look for a zeroed out post_date_gmt to determine non-scheduled nature
* Fixes to query_posts (obey post_type, drop orderby=category, use group by for meta key queries, remove meta_value from selected fields)
* Allow a plugin to filter the classes applied in wp_list_pages()
* Functions (get_adjacent_post_rel_link() and adjacent_post_rel_link()) to display relational links for adjacent posts in the head (Ticket 8703)
* Add the sticky post grey background to the default theme
* Proxy support
* Let a plugin filter the expanded capabilities returned by map_meta_cap
* Allow the update period to be filtered in RSS/RDF feeds
* Store field types in wpdb object
* Add tag description functions tag_description and term_description
* Add page class to get_body_class()
* Deprecate get_catname()
* Use comments_open() and pings_open() in WordPress Default and Classic themes
* Add wp_trim_excerpt() filter
* Consolidate plugin/theme/core upgrade/install functions
* Add page-id-x class to body for pages
* Return empty list in wp_list_bookmarks() if requested bookmark category does not exist
* Allow menu reordering via plugin
* Add hook for updating user profile
* Add redirect argument to wp_loginout
* Add get_the_author_meta() and the_author_meta() functions
* Let plugins use screen layout columns
* Add labels to titles and text inputs
* Add hook for adding info to plugin update message
* Don't do core version check from front page loads
* Allow a plugin to vary the comment cookie lifetime (or even remove the cookies altogether)
* Allow plugin to replace just the default help while preserving the contextual help
* New escaping naming convention Ticket 9650
* Add number/offset arguments to get_pages() (same parameters can be used for wp_list_pages()
* Make login more pluggable
* Add a function to output a generic widget anywhere in a template
* Allow plugins to override tz support enable/disable
* Updated Trac

Advanced Features
JS script loader Improvements

* jQuery 1.3.2
* Improvements to the script loader: allows plugins to queue scripts for the front end head and footer, adds hooks for server side caching of compressed scripts, adds support for ENFORCE_GZIP constant (deflate is used by default since it's faster)
* Load the minified versions of the scripts by default, define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true); can be used to load the development versions
* Remove events from categories chechboxes in quick edit to speed up page unload
* Make simple form validation and ajax-add new categories compatible with jQuery 1.3.1
* Load farbtastic.js has to be loaded in the head
* Note: see Lester Chan's Loading Javascript in Footer blog and Andrew Ozz's Script Loader Updates blog

New Widgets API

WP_Widget is a class that abstracts away much of the complexity involved in writing a widget, especially multi-widgets.

* Basically, you extend WP_Widget with your own class that provides a constructor and three methods -- widget(), form(), and update().
o widget() - outputs the actual content of the widget.
o update() - processes options to be saved.
o form() - outputs the options form.
* A widget is registered by passing the name of the widget class to register_widget().
* All widgets written with WP_Widget are multiple instance capable.
* Options
o Options for old single-instance widgets ported to WP_Widget will be upgraded to the new multi-option storage format, which is simply a multi-dimensional array keyed by instance ID.
o Options for widgets using the old multi-instance pattern should work as is.
o If your widget has custom option storage needs, you can provide your own get_settings() and save_settings() methods.
* The WP_Widget source can be viewed here (read the phpdoc for moreinfo on usage): http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/widgets.php
* You can see examples of how to use it here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
* If you author any widgets, try porting them to WP_Widget and give your feedback on what can be improved an Trac Ticket 8441.
* Props to the MultiWidget class, on which WP_Widget is based: http://blog.firetree.net/2008/11/30/wordpress-multi-widget/
* The above extracted from Ryan Boren's wp-hackers post.

Menu reordering via plugin

* Example plugin demonstrates menus with Dashboard, Posts, and Comments in the first menu group. The remaining menus follow in their usual order.
* When filtering the order array, any menus that are not mentioned in the array will be sorted after ones that are mentioned.
* Unmentioned menus are sorted in their usual order, relative to other unmentioned menus.
* Information extracted from Ryan Boren's comments on Trac Ticket 9652

Features That Didn't Make it into Version 2.8

These features didn't make it into Version 2.8 (nor Version 2.7).

* Some default shortcodes, maybe the most popular 10 from WordPress.com
* oEmbed support, tied in with shortcodes
* Better UI for post revisions, maybe an optional field to say what changed in a version
* OAuth support
* GeoData for posts, comments, attachments, etc.
* Template tags to do everything the custom gallery on ma.tt does
* Menu editor
* Unbalanced tags across more and nextpage tags (Ticket 6297)
* Sitemaps by default
* Refresh of the importers (LiveJournal was refresed)
* Gallery post_type
* Versioning of template edits
* Documentation links for functions used in currently edited template
* MPTT for hierarchies
* Add support for blocking all outbound HTTP requests