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At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your site's news section would be greatly appreciated. Title: Trying Out Ubuntu's Netbook Remix ( -at -) Phoronix Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12450 Summary: "Canonical's Netbook Remix won't be appearing on mobile devices until later this year -- and these software changes are still very much under development -- but interested parties can already check out the source-code and Debian packages for this work. Canonical is publishing this work under the GNU GPLv3 license. For now this work isn't available through any of the Ubuntu repositories, but the packages are hosted within a Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive)." Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may

Hello fellow editors! Tech ARP ( http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>'>http://www.techarp.com/> ) has just posted the Computex 2008 Booth Babes. Quote - Trade fairs like Computex Taipei are no longer merely about companies showing off the best and latest products in booths and hotel suites. They are becoming more like fashion shows, with companies employing models to show off their products. Some companies even have their models parade up and down catwalks with their latest products. Perhaps they are trying to equate their products with the beauty of the models. Whatever it is, it is a great opportunity for us, photographers, to capture the beauty of these models. So here we present the best of the models at Computex Taipei 2008! Direct URL - http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=552 Logo URL - http://www.techarp.com/article/Events/Computex_08_Hottest_Babes/icon_big .png We would appreciate your help in getting the word out. Rest assured that we will reciprocate and post your news with all due haste. If you have any news, please feel free to send it to our news mailbox at news ( -at -) techarp.com. Thanks! Tech ARP http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>

Hello Everyone, JonnyGURU.com has a new article online. A post in your news would be greatly appreciated. Title: NorthQ Black Magic Flex 850W PSU Review Summary: Greetings once more, my good readers. We're continuing our magic theme here at jonnyGURU.com by taking a look at the NorthQ Black Magic 850W unit. This is my second encounter with NorthQ after reviewing the Giant Connector 850W <http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=87> not long ago, which you may recall that I gave high marks to. Will the Black Magic be able to ensorcel me into giving it as good of a score? We shall see. Meantime, let's all look at the box. Articles URL: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews <http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=93> &op=Story&reid=93 Site URL: http://www.jonnyguru.com

Hi, XSReviews have posted a new review. Ap0llo has reviewed the *Kingwin Mach 1 1000w **Title:* Kingwin Mach 1 1000w Review ( -at -) XSReviews *Review Link**:* http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/games/kingwin-mach-1-1000w/ *Small Thumbnail:* http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/images/thumbs/kwin1000.jpg *Large Thumnail: *http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/images/thumbs/kwin1000-l.jpg *Quote:* "With the ever growing technologies such as quad SLI and quad core CPU's; the need for more power also grows. However, not only have PSU manufacturers got the task of creating a power supply which pumps out plenty of watts, they've also got the task of making their units silent and aesthetically pleasing -- to compete with similar models on the market. One such power supply that boasts to do all this is the 1000W Kingwin Mach 1; let's see how well this beefy unit performs." *A news post on your site would be very much appreciated. We would also love you to add us to your news list, so if you are interested in us posting your news on our site, then please send all news to the email below! If you like our site and would like to swap links and become a site affiliate then please email us as well. RSS Feed: * <http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews>http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews'>http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews>http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews <http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews>* <http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews> *Thanks Jon "Whoopty" Martindale www.xsreviews.co.uk <http://www.xsreviews.co.uk>

The Zeus ZM1200M is the pinnacle of what SilverStone currently has to offer. SilverStone markets the Zeus as a workstation unit, something quite strange for a fully modular PSU, but with four 1200W units among their ranks it is understandable that SilverStone is trying to categorize them. The Zeus ZM1200M is not a revamped version of the Decathlon DA1200 unit; its an entirely different design down to the core. It is also one of the very few PSUs which have six 12V lines, but it also has the ability to merge all six lines into one, manually. http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=577 DriverHeaven and GamingHeaven News Mailer

Hello, - Fishdom Released and Demo http://www.gamershell.com/news_52482.html - Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory - Ardennes Offensive Screens #10 http://www.gamershell.com/news_52480.html - Tenchu 4 Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_52476.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hello, - Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_52474.html - Mario Super Sluggers Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_52472.html - Hello Kitty Online Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_52470.html - Bubble Wrap Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_52468.html - Family Trainer Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_52466.html - Ship Simulator 2008 Sail The Open Sea Contest http://www.gamershell.com/news_52464.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

TechwareLabs has published a review of the LG Voyager Cell Phone. Here's a clip from the review: Quote: With the new age in technology, touch-screen items are becoming more and more mainstream. Couple that with a QWERTY keyboard, and you now have one of the best phone out there, the LG Voyager. Come along and check out what Jason Dumbaugh thinks about this new phone! LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/phones/LG_Voyager Title: LG Voyager Cell Phone ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/phones/LG_Voyager/images/LG_Voyager_Screenshot5.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your site's news section would be greatly appreciated. Title: Hiper Type-M 780W ( -at -) Phoronix Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12446 Summary: "Back in 2005 we had looked at the Hiper Type-R Modular 580W power supply. This was a unique power supply that had a modular cable design and had performed very well. Even the Type-R's packaging was unique, with the power supply arriving in a plastic toolbox. We haven't looked at a Hiper power supply now in almost three years, but today we are looking at the Type-M 780W from Hiper Group. This power supply is dual-GPU ready (including compatibility with PCI-E 8-pin connectors), utilizes active PFC, and has four +12V rails." Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may

Hello Everyone,Ninalane has just posted their coverage of our last 2 days of Computex 2008. It seem that every year we meet more people than before and just about everyone wants to do stuff after the show.This is great but really puts a damper on getting timely show reports posted. Subject: Computex 2008 Day 3 ( -at -) NinjalaneURL: http://www.ninjalane.com/display.aspx?docname=computex2k8-3 Subject:[/url] Computex 2008 Day 4 ( -at -) NinjalaneURL: http://www.ninjalane.com/display.aspx?docname=computex2k8-4btw the booth babe edition will be tomorrow. A news posting would be appreciated. Thanks Dennis Garcia

Dare to be Creative releases Dragoman 1.1 for Mac OS X - Published on 06/09/08 Dare to be Creative today announced the release of Dragoman 1.1, a universal batch file converter for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard. Designed to improve productivity and efficiency, Dragoman allows users to convert images, photos, music files and archive files with a drag and drop interface. On popular demand the new release adds support for raw digital camera formats of Canon, Kodak, Sony, Nikon, Olympus and Fuji cameras, as well as for Adobe's Digital Negative and Photo CD format. Vienna, Austria - Dare to be Creative today announced the release of Dragoman 1.1, a universal batch file conversion utility for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard. Dragoman is a utility application that batch converts images, photos, PDFs, music and archive files with a lightweight drag and drop interface. On popular demand the new release adds support for raw digital camera formats of Canon, Kodak, Sony, Nikon, Olympus and Fuji digital cameras, as well as for Adobe's Digital Negative and Photo CD format. Users can now convert these formats to popular image formats such as JPEG and PNG, as well Adobe's Photoshop format and PDF. "We received a wave of feedback from photographers and design studios to support conversion of digital camera formats" Philipp Mayerhofer, Chief Operations Officer at Dare to be Creative, explains why the release comes just one week after Dragoman's first production release. "Photographers have thousands of photos in these camera formats that they need to convert to JPEG or Adobe Photoshop's format, and this update will save them hours of work," the COO advertises the added value of the new version. Key features in a nutshell: * Batch converts image, photo, music, sound and archive files * Handles the popular image formats PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, PostScript, EPS, JPEG-2000 (JP2), GIF, PSD, ICNS, Windows Bitmap (BMP), PICT, SGI and TGA files * Handles raw digital camera formats: Adobe Digital Negative (dng), Photo CD (pcd), Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format (crw, cr2), Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File (dcr), Sony (Minolta) Raw Image File (mrw), Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File (nef), Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image File (orf), and Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File (raf) * Handles common archive and zip formats: Rar, StuffIt, 7zip, DMG, Gzip, Bzip2 and industry-standard, Winzip-compatible Zip * Handles widespread music, audio and sound file formats: AIFF, Microsoft WAVE, Macintosh SND, Sun Microsystems AU, Apple Core Audio (CAF), Creative Labs Audio Files (VOC), Raw Audio Data (RAW), Sound Designer II (SD2), and many more * Supports multi-page PDF and TIFF documents * Progress bar that reports on the current status of the file conversions * Universal file converter tool * Built-in, automatic self updates, with which users are automatically informed of the newest releases and given the option to download the latest release with a single button click. * Planned extensions to convert video, HTML and source code files Minimum Requirements: * Mac OS X Version 10.4 or higher * Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel Pricing and Availability: Dragoman is $39 USD, and available as a free download from the Dragoman website. It runs initially in a 10-day trial mode with all features active. This is a free update for registered Dragoman users. Dragoman - a batch file converter for images, photos, music and archive files: http://dragoman-mac.com/ Dragoman - screenshots of Dragoman in action: http://dragoman-mac.com/screenshots.html Renamer4Mac - a batch file renamer: http://renamer4mac.com/ iArchiver - an archiving and file compression/decompression utility: http://iarchiver.com/ iCombiner - a tool to combine multiple images and PDF documents into a single document: http://icombiner.com/ Located in Vienna, Austria, Dare to be Creative Ltd. is a software forgery founded in 2006 by a group of Mac enthusiasts. The Dare to be Creative team focuses exclusively on developing utility applications for Mac OS X designed to save valuable time while being enjoyable and easy to use. The current portfolio includes a) iArchiver, an archiving and file compression utility, iCombiner, a tool to combine images and PDF files into single PDF documents, c) Renamer4Mac, a batch file renamer, and d) Dragoman, a batch file converter for image, music and archive files. All Material and Software © 2006-2008 Dare to be Creative Ltd. / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, the iPod logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. ### Philipp Mayerhofer Chief Operational Officer +4319551750 philipp ( -at -) iarchiver.com *******

Hello Webmasters and News Posters, NEW CONTENT (Visual) - Inno3D GeForce 9600GT iChill Hurricane QUOTE: "The iChill is one series of cards that I’ve really liked from the word go. Inno3D’s attention to detail by using only the best quality coolers and a good line-up of cards make this series really stand out when compared to what’s on offer from other companies. Even so, the latest entry into the iChill series did carry with it a bit of a surprise upon opening up the box. What was that surprise? – Well, there’s only one way to figure that out." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1455/inno3d_geforce_9600gt_ichill_hurricane/index.html Best Regards, The TweakTown Team http://www.tweaktown.com

TechwareLabs has published a complete gallery of The Fabulous Computex 2008 Booth Babes. Here's a clip from the gallery: Quote: No Computex would be complete without a look at the booth babes of the show. This year we bring you an expansive gallery of all the booth babes we could fit into the camera lens. Be sure to check out our [censored]y gallery and then vote for your favorite booth babe and help her hit the front page. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/articles/events/computex-babes Title: The Fabulous Computex 2008 Booth Babes ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/articles/events/computex-babes/images/Booth-babe-37-tn.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Hello Again, Futurelooks continues scooping on all the stuff you shoudl care about at COMPUTEX 2008... COMPUTEX 2008 Spotlight - Asus Laptops Love Montevina and Gaming The biggest global brand in all of Taiwan is Asus. Manufacturing everything from motherboards to mobile phones, Asus has a rated brand value of over $1 billion. While a good portion of the North American public is only familiar with laptop brands like HP and Dell, Asus certainly has a lot to offer to the world in that segment of the market as well. Heading on over to the Asus booth at Computex, we were shown some of the latest and greatest notebooks that the company had to offer. It seems that they are focused on Montevina and the Eee PC. Direct Link: http://www.futurelooks.com/computex-2008-spotlight-asus-laptops-love-montevina-and-gaming/ A post to your news would be most appreciated! Regards, -The Futurelooks Team- www.futurelooks.com

Hello, - Call of Duty 5 Gets Subtitle and Details http://www.gamershell.com/news_52462.html - Turok for PC New Details http://www.gamershell.com/news_52458.html - Wild West Online: Gunfighter Open Beta Milestone http://www.gamershell.com/news_52456.html - The Witcher Released and Japan http://www.gamershell.com/news_52452.html - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Renders http://www.gamershell.com/news_52454.html - LucasArts Ceases Internal Development http://www.gamershell.com/news_52460.html - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Xbox 360 Demo Released http://www.gamershell.com/news_52450.html - Asterix Brain Trainer Announced and Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_52446.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hello, - Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice Demo http://www.gamershell.com/news_52448.html - Universe at War: Earth Assault Patch #3 http://www.gamershell.com/news_52444.html - IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Announced http://www.gamershell.com/news_52442.html - Interzone Futebol Announced http://www.gamershell.com/news_52440.html - X-Blades Ayumi Attacking Techniques Details http://www.gamershell.com/news_52438.html - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates Moogle Paint Contest 2008 Details http://www.gamershell.com/news_52436.html - Hearts and Backgammon Masters Announced for Mobile http://www.gamershell.com/news_52434.html - Alone in the Dark Goes Gold http://www.gamershell.com/news_52432.html - Art of Murder: FBI Confidential Screens #3 http://www.gamershell.com/news_52430.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hi all, We have just published an interview with the owner of Stardock, the developer behind Sins of a Solar Empire. In the interview, we discuss piracy, DRM, online distribution and more - if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated! *Link:* http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/06/06/sins-of-a-solar-empire-interview/1 *Picture:* http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/06/sins-of-a-solar-empire-interview/fp_img.jpg *Quote: */"BT: Piracy is pretty big topic right now and, with games like //Mass Effect and //Spore threatening increasingly draconian DRM 'protections', some gamers are worried about the state of PC gaming. Sins though came with no copy protection at all if I remember correctly, so what's your take on all this? Is there a way to stop the pirates without punishing the customers? CF: We're all stuck in an unfortunate vicious cycle. As pirating increases, DRM increases, which in turn forces people to pirate. From what I understand, //Mass Effect has since backed down a tad after listening carefully to their fans. SecuROM seemed a bit ridiculous in my opinion. At the same time you can't blame developers for retreating to the console if they can't receive the fruit of their labour. Until a real solution presents itself, Stardock and Ironclad will continue to reward legit gamers and make the purchasing process are smooth as possible. The last thing we want to do is treat our customers like criminals."/ * *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

Hi all, We have just published a review of *Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures*. If you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link:* http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/06/05/age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures/1 *Picture:* http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/06/age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures/fp_img.jpg *Quote: */"It's always a painful and futile experience to try reviewing an MMO. For instance, there are problems with credit cards and the inevitable fact that we forget to cancel the subscriptions after the review is done, therefore inadvertently charging a couple of hundred pounds to company credit card. Most of all though, the review very quickly runs out of date as the game is constantly up[censored] and how much anyone enjoys the game is massively dependent on the calibre of gamers they end up gaming alongside. That means you're going to have to take any conclusions we offer with a pinch of salt -- ok? Just so we're clear. That said, //Age of Conan is a lot of fun once you get into it -- the proviso mainly being that you do have to make an effort to get into and jump over the initial few hours of boredom. Game designers seem to be labouring under the impression at the moment that MMO games as a genre have only one aim; to topple //World of Warcraft as Lord of the Pings. To do this, they seem to think that you need a certain gimmick or hook -- PvR gameplay or genre blending MMOFPS action for instance. So far, that tactic doesn't seem to be doing to well -- so it's refreshing to see that //Age of Conan bucks the trend and instead focuses on creating just a solid and persistent world to play in. //Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures doesn't bring anything hugely new to the table and the only real gimmicks it has going for it are the franchise behind it all and the fact that you can't take two steps without faceplanting into the second biggest pair of boobs you're ever likely to see. It's a fun and accessible RPG though, and on that front it can't be faulted."/ * *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

Hyperbolic Software releases a maintenance release of Tidy Up! - Published on 06/09/08 Hyperbolic Software is delighted to announce Tidy Up! 1.4.2, the latest version of their highly acclaimed disk, file and folder processing utility for Mac OS X. Tidy Up! can easily find duplicate files and packages using any criteria. Search by content, type, creator, extension, date modified, date created, name, label, visibility, the owner application and more. Version 1.4.2 fixes a bug that did not move or trash images owned by iPhoto and sometimes caused a crash. Burolo, Italy - Hyperbolic Software is delighted to announce Tidy Up! 1.4.2, the latest version of their highly acclaimed disk, file and folder processing utility for Mac OS X. Tidy Up! can easily find duplicate files and packages using any criteria. Search by content, type, creator, extension, date modified, date created, name, label, visibility, the owner application and more. Trash, move, burn and export into html files all found items. For user convenience, Tidy Up! ships with a list of commonly used tasks, fully customizable and allows users to create their preferred workspace. However for quick and easy organization, one of the most useful features is the Strategy Wizard. Based on user defined choices, Strategy Wizard will create a customized workflow with the appropriate criteria to search for duplicates, and then separates found items via the new "Smart Baskets" that contain those items to be removed. An integrated security system assures at least one file of the duplicate group is on disk, with the ability to undo copied and moved items as well as restore trashed items (as long as the trash is not emptied), even after a restart of the computer. And by offering full-size previews of the most commonly used file types (audio, media, text, pdf, graphics, and fonts), Tidy Up! is also a perfect compliment to Apple's iLife suite. Users may search the contents of iPhoto, Aperture (new), iTunes, iPod databases or Mail mailboxes by tag, the duration and bit installments of MP3 and AAC sound files, as well as synchronize deletions with iPhoto, Mail and iTunes. Feature highlights include: * Compatibility with iTunes 7.6.2 * Compatibility with iPhoto 7.1.3 * Compatibility with Mail 3.2 * Compatibility with Aperture 2.x * Capability to automatically separate the found items, for quick and easy organization * Fully Customizable Workspace Tidy Up! is fast. With its multitasking capability, version 1.4.2 can perform more searches at a time and take advantage of the latest Macintosh computers and operating systems. Minimum Requirements: * Mac OS X Version 10.4.0 or higher * Full Tiger and Leopard compatibility * Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel * 12 MB Hard Drive space Language Support: English, French, German, Italian and Japanese Pricing and Availability: Tidy Up! 1.4.2 is available as a full-featured demo. A single user license is $30.00 USD. Registered 1.x customers may upgrade for free. Hyperbolic Software: http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/ Tidy Up! Overview: http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/TidyUp.html Download: http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/programs/TidyUp142.zip Purchase: https://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=V9B_live Screenshots: http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/Images/TidyUpHead.jpg Based in Burolo, Italy, Hyperbolic Software was established in 1996 by Giuseppe Giunto. With a focus on developing easy-to-use, timesaving applications for the Mac platform, Hyperbolic Software has produced acclaimed additions such as Tidy Up!, MacGizmo, iTunes Dupes Barrier, Doublet Scan, Maigret and Smart Trash. Copyright 1996-2008 Hyperbolic Software All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. ### Giuseppe Giunto CEO giuseppe ( -at -) hyperbolicsoftware.com *******

hi everyone; Clutter 0.6.4 is now available for download at: http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.6/ MD5 Checksums: d28dec49517475c2ea0de884d7b87268 clutter-0.6.4.tar.gz 2efc5eebae589a0fa8bddce7d6518bf5 clutter-0.6.4.tar.bz2 Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Clutter currently requires: * GLib >= 2.14.0 * GdkPixbuf * Pango 1.x * OpenGL >= 1.2 or OpenGL ES 1.1 * GLX, SDL (Unix and Win32), Cocoa or an EGL Implementation The official website is: http://www.clutter-project.org The Clutter blog is at: http://www.clutter-project.org/blog

Changes since 2.23.1.1 ---------------------- - Execute the correct action when there are multiple keyboard shortcuts with the same keycode but different keysyms (Bastien Nocera) (#530356) - Fix wallpaper handling for people running a session without nautilus (Matthias Clasen) (#531487) - Try to keep the keyboard layout from gdm (Matthias Clasen) (#531589) - Don't die when the user's home directory is read-only (Brian Cameron) (#530975) - Fix artifacts from the locate pointer animation in non-composited mode (Carlos Garnacho) (#531861) - Pass clicks to the media popup window through to the underlying window (Carlos Garnacho) (#531862) - Use new gnome-desktop background API and get rid of libbackground (William Jon McCann) - Don't eat keypresses for multimedia key events in the mouse plugin (Bastien Nocera) - Shutdown when receiving the "SessionOver" signal from gnome-session (Lucas Rocha, Jens Granseuer) (#522017) - Fix memory leaks in the font plugin (Jens Granseuer) - Move the locate pointer animation with the mouse cursor (Gerd Kohlberger) (#531665) - Fix build without GStreamer (Jens Granseuer) (#536177) - Updated translation: - ar (Djihed Afifi) - bg (Yavor Doganov) - es (Jorge Gonzalez) - gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - nb (Kjartan Maraas) - th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan) - vi (Clytie Siddall) Availability ------------ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/2.23/ Contact ------- * Bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org

We are pleased to announce version 0.3.3 of Vala, a compiler for the GObject type system. Vala 0.3.3 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.3/ Changes since 0.3.2 * Support overriding default method handlers of signals. * Support dynamic access to properties and signals of GObjects. * Experimental support for nullable value types. * Improve support for classes not deriving from GLib.Object. * Support """verbatim strings""". * Add parser for Genie (Jamie McCracken) * Experimental support for arrays of arrays. * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley) * Improvements to D-Bus support (Ali Sabil, Philip Van Hoof, Yu Feng) * Add libepc-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil) * Add libtiff bindings (Christian Meyer) * Updates to the GStreamer bindings (Ali Sabil and Jaap A. Haitsma) * Many bug fixes and performance improvements. Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code. It's also planned to generate GIDL files when gobject- introspection is ready. The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following: * Interfaces * Properties * Signals * Foreach * Lambda expressions * Type inference for local variables * Generics * Non-null types * Assisted memory management * Exception handling Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. Each to be used library requires a Vala API file at compile-time, containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with bindings for current versions of GLib, GTK+, and many more. Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject-based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as a library, so that all compile-time information is available when generating a binding. More information about Vala is available at http://live.gnome.org/Vala The Vala Team Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini _______________________________________________

Changes since 2.23.2 ==================== appearance: - Remove the last traces of gnome-vfs (Lincoln de Sousa) (#524401) - Fix theme deletion (Jens Granseuer) - Update to match API changes in gnome-desktop (Soeren Sandmann) - Fix "zoom" mode (Soeren Sandmann) - Use URIs instead of paths for drag and drop (Soeren Sandmann) - Delay creation of the wallaper file chooser for increased startup performance (Thomas Wood) default-applications: - Major refactoring to use GConfPropertyEditor and reduce code duplication (Thomas Wood) keybindings: - Don't use deprecated GTK+ symbol (William Jon McCann) - Add support for editing custom keybindings (create/delete not yet implemented) (Jens Granseuer) general: - Remove themus vfs-method (Thomas Wood) - Minor cleanup in capplet-util and gconf-property-editor (Thomas Wood, Jens Granseuer) updated translations: - ar (Djihed Afifi) - gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - vi (Clytie Siddall) Availability ------------ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-control-center/2.23/ Contact ------- * Bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org

At the request of Vincent, and with apologies to Christian, I released GVFS 0.99.1 just now. This release is in the unstable series, but it has received mostly bug fixes relative to the last stable release, so I predict few (if any) regressions. Download location ================= http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gvfs/0.99/ Changes since GVFS 0.2.2 split ============================== * Fix directory copy/delete problems. * Fuse daemon robustness fixes. * Allow mounting non-standard ISO images. * Better username/domain tests on mount spec. * Require gphoto >= 2.4.0. * Fix strdup()/g_free() confusion. * Use consistent translatable strings for mount and volume. * Plug some memory leaks. * Many smaller bug fixes. * Translation updates: ar (Djihed Afifi, Khaled Hosny), bg (Alexander Shopov), et (Ivar Smolin), he (Yair Hershkovitz), nb (Kjartan Maraas), tr (Baris Cicek), vi (Clytie Siddall) -- Hans Petter _______________________________________________

Hey Everyone! I am proud to announce that Conduit 0.3.11.2 is now available for download from: * http://download.gnome.org/sources/conduit/0.3/ This is a brown paper bag release, it fixes two critically stupid bugs in 0.3.11 [1] * Fixed #536400, new version drops old configuration (John Stowers) * Fixed #536485, Google Data Provider (Andreas Böttger) John [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2008-June/msg00007.html [2] Dont ask what happened to 0.3.11.1, you dont want to know... _______________________________________________