Every Linux user that has used the GNOME desktop environment must have had at least an encounter with its default text editor, Gedit. You start it up, and it looks like a simple notepad type application with a toolbar added on top. However, don’t let yourself fooled by that simple appearance. If you know how to customize this application, it can be modified to serve almost any text exiting purpose, and you can even create an IDE-like environment.
With Gedit, it’s not the general appearance that counts, it’s all the little details that make a great application. As a programmer, I know that simple things like auto indentation and syntax highlighting can make your job much more easier. Gedit’s can do syntax highlighting for quite a large number of programming languages or file formats, over 70 in fact. Also, the customizable tab width makes it easy to structure your texts, and the option to fill tabs with spaces makes it so much friendly to many environments in which your files could… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
English researchers have recently announced that they managed to discover the oldest spiderweb ever to be included in the fossil record. University of Oxford paleontologist Martin Brasier was the lead researcher of a new investigations team that analyzed the pieces of amber found in Sussex, England. The investigators determined that liquid resin trapped inside a spiderweb was laid some 140 million years ago, alongside ancient microbes, plant matter and other artifacts, LiveScience reports.
“These turn out to be the earliest webs that have ever been incorporated in the fossil record to our knowledge,” Brasier says. According to botanists, the viscous tree sap must have oozed from the tree’s bark, and then flow over the spider web, before hardening for millions of years. The structure of the web was thus very well preserved, and contributes to advancing scientists’ knowledge about the ancestors of the modern arthropods. In order to do that, the English team resorted to some pretty… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Finding the best things to integrate into a personal or business-related project is what most of us look for and, if text is involved, then choosing the most appropriate fonts is a must. This task, however, can prove daunting if your library contains hundreds of typefaces. To meet the challenge, you will have to enroll the service of a dedicated viewer that can help you pick out the fonts you consider befitting for the job. Sure enough, the application you’re after has to work fast and efficiently, while allowing you an effortless operation. As there are enough such tools for you to select from, it’s mainly a matter of personal taste in deciding for a piece of software or another.
An interesting and very likely candidate that meets all the requirements for this kind of utility is sFont, a freeware app designed exactly for this purpose: that of assisting you in making the right choice with no fuss and with a little bit of style. The package is lightweight, under 1 MB, and the… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
The PlayStation 3 Slim and the Xbox 360 Elite versions have the same price, selling for 299 dollars or the equivalent on most markets and barring any special offer. The two companies seem determined from now on to match each other’s price cuts as the battle for sales heats up with second place behind Nintendo Wii being the prize for the winner. And with equal prices, the services offered appear to be among the elements that drive up sales.
This is the probable reasoning related to Sony and Netflix finally entering into an agreement to bring the service to the PlayStation 3 beginning with November. They are now offering players the possibility of getting a disk to enable the service, with XMB integration coming in 2010. Sony has quickly pressed the point that those owning a PS3 only need to pay the 8.99 dollars of the Netflix subscription to get the service, as opposed to the extra price that Xbox Live Gold requires on the Microsoft console.
The software giant quickly hit back by… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Every Linux user that has used the GNOME desktop environment must have had at least an encounter with its default text editor, Gedit. You start it up, and it looks like a simple notepad type application with a toolbar added on top. However, don’t let yourself fooled by that simple appearance. If you know how to customize this application, it can be modified to serve almost any text exiting purpose, and you can even create an IDE-like environment.
With Gedit, it’s not the general appearance that counts, it’s all the little details that make a great application. As a programmer, I know that simple things like auto indentation and syntax highlighting can make your job much more easier. Gedit’s can do syntax highlighting for quite a large number of programming languages or file formats, over 70 in fact. Also, the customizable tab width makes it easy to structure your texts, and the option to fill tabs with spaces makes it so much friendly to many environments in which your files could… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Twitter has now officially launched and announced one of its most eagerly awaited features, Twitter Lists. The feature has been in beta for a while now and it has been rolled out to all users during the past couple of days allowing them to group the people they follow and to easily share them with their friends.
“We’re putting the finishing touches on our new Lists feature and we’re really excited about the folks who have already taken a lot of time creating awesome lists. From the @time list of funny people to your own list of people who make you laugh - it’s easy to see how this feature increases discovery and adds value in lots of ways,” Twitter cofounder Biz Stone wrote announcing the launch.
The feature is already becoming popular as people start creating and sharing their lists and searching to see what others have come up with. With the full-blown roll out, Twitter also enabled users to see who has added them to one of their lists. Lists is interesting enough on its own, but… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
As someone who has had the chance of studying the world’s political systems and doctrine in detail, I am often surprised by just how many people put the “equal” mark between democracy and freedom. It’s absolutely true that there are higher chances of people being free within a democratic society than in a totalitarian one, but that should never be used as justification. I will concentrate in making my point on the case of the United States, a country whose residents are firmly convinced that they are free.
When looking at totalitarian regimes, or at dictatorships, it’s immediately apparent that people are free within the limits imposed either by the central, single-party government or by the dictator, whatever the case may be. In the case of fascist and communist states, this is most obvious. State security (read: the security of the party and its ruler) are the main concerns that authorities have. The economy almost always comes second, with the best interests of the citizens… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, and hit the shelves on October 22, generating obvious questions about what’s next for Microsoft’s proprietary operating system. And the answer is rather simple: Windows 8. This time around, the Redmond-based company made little efforts to hide the moniker associated with the next generation of the Windows client. Not that it could, given that the codename aspect of Windows development efforts is the only transparent aspect of the otherwise translucent communication strategy set in place by Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division.
Back in early 2007, after Windows Vista shipped to customers worldwide, Microsoft shifted its focus on what was at the time referred to as Windows codename Vienna, and which ended up as Windows 7. The company delivered a taste of early plans, noting that it was aiming for a release ahead of 2009, but nothing more after that. In fact, it wasn’t until August 2008 that Sinofsky started… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Developed by atPurpose Technologies, atPeek takes advantage of Mac OS X QuickLook plugin framework to display fully functional previews of assets found in iPhone applications, whose contents are otherwise inaccessible using Mac OS system tools. iPhone developers can even extend the core functionality of atPeek by creating and installing custom QuickLook plugins.
By default, atPeek is bundled with two custom QuickLook plugins developed by atPurpose Technologies, which can decode iPhone crushed PNG images and PVR textures. The plugins are also available as a separate download, for free.
Before downloading atPeek, readers should note that the program uses brand-new UI components that are available only in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), the latest version of Apple’s Mac OS. Unfortunately, Tiger and even Leopard users cannot make use of the application, something that will undoubtedly affect the sales of this rather cheap developer tool. However, those who are running Apple’s Snow Leopard… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Unsurprisingly, ICANN has approved the plan to introduce support for domain names in non-Latin characters. The move is billed as the biggest change to how the Internet works since its inception forty years ago but it is far from a done deal yet. The support will be rolled out in several stages and if everything goes to plan, ICANN believes it will make a big difference to users in Asia, the Middle East and other regions that use a non-Latin alphabet.
“The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the biggest technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades ago,” ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, said. “Right now Internet address endings are limited to Latin characters – A to Z. But the Fast Track Process is the first step in bringing the 100,000 characters of the languages of the world online for domain names.”
The plan has been in the works for years and the process has not been a straightforward one. Now, ICANN is finally ready to move forward… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
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Every Linux user that has used the GNOME desktop environment must have had at least an encounter with its default text editor, Gedit. You start it up, and it looks like a simple notepad type application with a toolbar added on top. However, don’t let yourself fooled by that simple appearance. If you know how to customize this application, it can be modified to serve almost any text exiting purpose, and you can even create an IDE-like environment.
English researchers have recently announced that they managed to discover the oldest spiderweb ever to be included in the fossil record. University of Oxford paleontologist Martin Brasier was the lead researcher of a new investigations team that analyzed the pieces of amber found in Sussex, England. The investigators determined that liquid resin trapped inside a spiderweb was laid some 140 million years ago, alongside ancient microbes, plant matter and other artifacts, LiveScience reports.
Finding the best things to integrate into a personal or business-related project is what most of us look for and, if text is involved, then choosing the most appropriate fonts is a must. This task, however, can prove daunting if your library contains hundreds of typefaces. To meet the challenge, you will have to enroll the service of a dedicated viewer that can help you pick out the fonts you consider befitting for the job. Sure enough, the application you’re after has to work fast and efficiently, while allowing you an effortless operation. As there are enough such tools for you to select from, it’s mainly a matter of personal taste in deciding for a piece of software or another.
The PlayStation 3 Slim and the Xbox 360 Elite versions have the same price, selling for 299 dollars or the equivalent on most markets and barring any special offer. The two companies seem determined from now on to match each other’s price cuts as the battle for sales heats up with second place behind Nintendo Wii being the prize for the winner. And with equal prices, the services offered appear to be among the elements that drive up sales.
Every Linux user that has used the GNOME desktop environment must have had at least an encounter with its default text editor, Gedit. You start it up, and it looks like a simple notepad type application with a toolbar added on top. However, don’t let yourself fooled by that simple appearance. If you know how to customize this application, it can be modified to serve almost any text exiting purpose, and you can even create an IDE-like environment.
Twitter has now officially launched and announced one of its most eagerly awaited features, Twitter Lists. The feature has been in beta for a while now and it has been rolled out to all users during the past couple of days allowing them to group the people they follow and to easily share them with their friends. 
As someone who has had the chance of studying the world’s political systems and doctrine in detail, I am often surprised by just how many people put the “equal” mark between democracy and freedom. It’s absolutely true that there are higher chances of people being free within a democratic society than in a totalitarian one, but that should never be used as justification. I will concentrate in making my point on the case of the United States, a country whose residents are firmly convinced that they are free.
Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, and hit the shelves on October 22, generating obvious questions about what’s next for Microsoft’s proprietary operating system. And the answer is rather simple: Windows 8. This time around, the Redmond-based company made little efforts to hide the moniker associated with the next generation of the Windows client. Not that it could, given that the codename aspect of Windows development efforts is the only transparent aspect of the otherwise translucent communication strategy set in place by Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division. 
Developed by atPurpose Technologies, atPeek takes advantage of Mac OS X QuickLook plugin framework to display fully functional previews of assets found in iPhone applications, whose contents are otherwise inaccessible using Mac OS system tools. iPhone developers can even extend the core functionality of atPeek by creating and installing custom QuickLook plugins.
Unsurprisingly, ICANN has approved the plan to introduce support for domain names in non-Latin characters. The move is billed as the biggest change to how the Internet works since its inception forty years ago but it is far from a done deal yet. The support will be rolled out in several stages and if everything goes to plan, ICANN believes it will make a big difference to users in Asia, the Middle East and other regions that use a non-Latin alphabet.