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Jul 12

Motorola Xoom sees Android 3.2 update, FCC-approved LTE module

Posted in: 4G, lte, motorola, motorola xoom, MotorolaXoom, Software, software update, SoftwareUpdate, tablet, Today's Chili, update, verizon, Verizon Wireless, VerizonWireless, vzw, xoom

Looks like a bona fide twofer when it comes to Xoom news this afternoon. Just as soon as we heard that Android 3.2 was rolling out to select Xoom WiFi tablets (as in, be patient if yours is still stuck on the current build), in flies an FCC approval for the long-awaited LTE module. As for the former, build number HTJ85B is bringing a new zoom feature to the world’s first Honeycomb slate, and as for the latter… well, that one’s pretty self-explanatory. We heard back in April that the update was delayed until an undisclosed time in the summer, and now it’s looking like early adopters won’t be waiting much longer. Do let us know in comments if you see either, won’t you?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Motorola Xoom sees Android 3.2 update, FCC-approved LTE module originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 12

Windows Vista 5365 To Be Released As April’s CTP On Monday

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on April 16, 2006 by CyberNet.

Windows Vista 5365 To Be Released As April's CTP On Monday

Windows Vista 5365 is going to be the build that beta testers are going to receive on Monday around 1:00 PM EST. A few days ago build 5361 images were leaked to the Internet and struck some as interesting when they saw that Internet Explorer was labeled as version “7+”. We still don’t know exactly what that means because there are no noticeable changes, other than the new color of the tab bar (as pictured above).

The new release of Vista is going to have some nice updates to it:

Sidebar Fixes/More Gadgets
Improved Driver Support
Welcome Center Changed (Updated)
Several Bug Fixes
Improved Install (Faster etc..)

It is normally less than a few hours before someone has posted a Torrent for a CTP release along with a working key. However, the activation has been a struggle to get around in previous releases and may continue to be a struggle.

This build, 5365, will probably take us up to the May CTP which will also be known as Beta 2 and RC0. The original Beta 2 was supposed to be released back in January 2006 but got pushed back when the CTP releases were becoming so successful. Eventually, the final release of Windows Vista also got pushed back and is now targeted for January 2007.

News Source: H|D News

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Jul 11

Microsoft Adds Auto-Hide To The Office 2007 Ribbon

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 25, 2006 by CyberNet.

Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon I love the new Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2007 which has now replaced the toolbars. The only bad part about it is the large amount of screen space that it occupies. Some people don’t realize that it can be minimized by pressing Ctrl+F1, right-clicking on the Ribbon and select “Minimize the Ribbon”, or double-clicking on the selected tab. That has sufficed for me up until they announced the clever concept of auto-hiding the Ribbon.

I never really thought of doing that but it is sheer genius! If you click on one of the tabs, make a selection, and move your mouse away it will retrieve that screen space that we never seem to have enough of.

This new feature will be available in the next Office 2007 update which I am really anxious to get now. Nice one Microsoft!

News Source: BetaNews

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Jul 11

Google introducing ‘zoom to fill screen’ option on a ‘near-future’ version of Honeycomb

Posted in: Android, app, apps, Google, honeycomb, Software, Today's Chili, update

Having a big, 1280 x 800 10.1-inch screen is just no good if your favorite old Android apps haven’t been updated to use it. Ideally all devs would tweak their products to properly light up those pixels, but that’s not always possible. Google’s stepping in, adding another display option on “a near-future release of Honeycomb” that will simply zoom the app to fit the screen. This is separate from the current stretching option, which sometimes look bad or doesn’t work. When this mode is enabled the app will be rendered at approximately 320 x 480 and that image blown up to fit. Pretty looking results? Unlikely, but a little Vaseline on the lens can only boost the confidence of these aging apps.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Google introducing ‘zoom to fill screen’ option on a ‘near-future’ version of Honeycomb originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 11

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer says ‘400 million Windows 7 licenses sold’

Posted in: Microsoft, operating system, OperatingSystem, os, Software, steve ballmer, Today's Chili, Windows, windows 7, windows 8, Windows7, Windows8

So much for not keeping pace, huh? We heard back in June of last year that Microsoft had blown through 150 million Windows 7 licenses, and just a few months later, it had surpassed 240 million. At this year’s Worldwide Partner Conference, head honcho Steve Ballmer took great pleasure in announcing that said figure has now swollen to beyond 400 million in under two years. Not surprisingly, that makes Win7 the fastest-selling operating system in history, and Tami Reller — corporate vice president and chief financial officer of Windows and Windows Live — made clear that it’s “the path to Windows 8.” The outfit also announced that 100 million copies of Office 2010 have flown off the shelves since launch, and while no one really came out and said it, we’re counting on seeing a Windows 8 build at the BUILD event this fall. Head on past the break for a whole heaping of (deserved) self-congratulations.

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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer says ‘400 million Windows 7 licenses sold’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 11

Opera Decides Not To Enable Anti-Phishing By Default?

Posted in: Freeware, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on November 10, 2006 by CyberNet.

Opera Anti-phishing

Opera has one of the best web browser development teams that I have ever seen. When they release products they are always intuitive, useful, and most importantly stable and secure. A few weeks ago Opera announced that the next release of their desktop browser, version 9.10, was going to have anti-phishing capabilities built-in to protect users from identity theft and fraud.

One thing that I don’t understand is why they have now decided to disable the feature by default when new users install the browser?

Fraud protection is not enabled by default anymore. We basically had to turn it on by default in the first weeklies to make sure we got as much feedback as possible in the limited time we had.
However, it’s a new feature and we think users may need some time to get used to this idea, so we’ve made it an opt-in feature for now. Opera is about giving users the choice, after all.

I agree that it is new and users will need to get used to it but this is a huge security feature and I think it should be enabled by default. Other browsers that have similar features, such as Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, enable it and if the user wants to disable it they are more than welcome to at anytime. As they say, “Opera is about giving users the choice,” but why not the choice to disable it?

I still love Opera and this isn’t going to change what I think about it, but for the security of the users who don’t know to look for that feature they should enable it. With that being said you can go download the latest weekly if you want to test out the anti-phishing feature but it looks like you’ll need to enable it after the installation.

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Jul 11

BlackBerry Internet Service 4.1 coming October 8th, priming inboxes for the greater good?

Posted in: Email, RIM, Software, Today's Chili

To some it’s just a point release, but to others it’s much, much more. If the leaked documentation gathered by N4BB.com is correct, the 4.1 release of BlackBerry Internet Service is coming down the pike, due abroad on September 10th and in the US October 8th. As any BB aficionado would expect it brings a suite of improvements, bumping the maximum attachment size to eight megabytes, enhancing some security measures, and adding a delicious-sounding new feature called inbox priming. With this, the first 20 messages of a newly added account will be downloaded immediately, “instantly providing users with the reassurance that their email is setup and working.” Suffering a bit of additional hypertension while waiting to see if those first few missives sync correctly? Your diuretic might just be inbound.

BlackBerry Internet Service 4.1 coming October 8th, priming inboxes for the greater good? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 11

GIMP 2.4 Features

Posted in: Freeware, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

Gimp 2.4 is on the verge of being released. Right now it is in the release candidate stage with all the new features being complete and the API is frozen. All that’s left is a few bugs and some minor changes and we’ll be seeing a whole new GIMP!

GIMP was in dire need of a makeover, and so is their current website. Don’t worry, there is a new site ready for the launch of GIMP 2.4! The release notes for version 2.4 is still being worked on, but here is an overview I put together of what’s new in the upcoming version:

Refreshed look with new default icons (pictured above). I must say that it looks a heck of a lot better!
Scalable brushes let you dynamically change the size of the brush.
Advanced selection tools let you select items even more precisely. You can now select using a rounded-corner rectangle and even have it be antialiased.
Improved color picker lets you choose colors from anywhere on your screen, and not just in the picture your viewing.
Fullscreen editing lets GIMP utilize the full size of your monitor.
Improved cropping tool makes cropping an image more natural.
Layer alignment tool makes it easier to specify the position of your layers.
Startup speed and applying filters is much faster.
and many more bug fixes and few other features!

Below is a screenshot of the new GIMP running on Vista, and in the left-most window you will see the new selection tools:

GIMP 2.4 Preview
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If you’re wanting to try out GIMP 2.4 RC1 you’ll need to compile the source code. Windows users can always download GIMP 2.3.19 if they want to get a taste of what it’s like, and this was the last preview version released before the number was rolled over to 2.4. As seen in the release notes there were only a few bug fixes in 2.3.19 before they jumped to 2.4, so you won’t be missing too much.

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Jul 11

Meebo for the iPhone – It’s Ready!

Posted in: iPhone, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the biggest complaints from iPhone owners is that there is no instant messenger built-in. Thankfully a few web-based solutions are available and have come to the rescue. As of today, one of the most popular online chat clients, Meebo, is now available in a new and improved version on the iPhone that’s easier to use than the previous version that they hurried to get out when the iPhone launched.

Webware wrote up a nice review of the new Meebo chat app and says that it’s very intuitive, and your buddy list is now “finger friendly, and easy on the eyes.” They also mentioned that your buddy list makes use of the entire screen, and all that needs to be done to begin chatting with someone is to click on their name. The image below on the left shows what a buddy list would look like on the iPhone, and the image on the right shows what a chat conversation would look like:

Meebo buddy list

Judging from the comments on the Meebo Blog, users are pretty happy with the results, and others are hoping that the team will optimize Meebo for Windows Mobile 6 users. If they’ve taken the time to optimize the service for the iPhone, I’d think they’d be able to easily optimize it for other mobile phone users as well.

While Meebo is one of the most popular online chat clients, there are others as well who also have iPhone support. One of them is called eBuddy which anybody can use (just go to http://www.ebuddy.com on your iPhone), and another option is Trillian. The only downside with Trillian is that you’ll need to be an alpha tester to try it out. They say that it could be the most “alpha” quality product delivered, meaning it could potentially have lots of bugs. Once they get all of the bugs ironed out and move it away from the alpha stage, I’m sure Trillian Astra for iPhone will be another great chat solution.

So I guess the problem that the iPhone shipped without a built-in instant messenger has been solved by some of the most popular online chat clients. They’ve got an awesome opportunity right now to recruit new users, all thanks to Apple and the iPhone. For those of you who have an iPhone, give Meebo a try and let us know what you think!

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Jul 10

Office 2008 for Mac Reaches Testing Phase

Posted in: Apple, Mac, Microsoft, Screenshots, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on April 02, 2007 by CyberNet.

Office 2008 for Macs is now in the private testing phase, and unfortunately it is still not known whether or not Microsoft will offer a public beta in the future. The plan as it stands, is that the Mac version will be released in the 2nd half of 2007 which would make it the newest addition since 2004.

Several big changes from the previous version: First, it will be a universal binary. This means that it will be able to run on both Intel and Power PC based Macs. It will also support the XML file just as with Office 2007.

There’s also a new program called “My Day” which will give users quick access to their calendar info like appointments, without needing to open up Entourage first. It’s a stand alone application and users will be able to color-code everything. They’ve also improved the layout in Word and Excel templates, and the Ledger Sheets will make it easier to integrate formulas for balancing your checkbook and other financial management tasks.

As far as looks go, the user interface will look quite a bit different. While it doesn’t look like Office 2007 with the ribbon, it does use what they’re calling an elements gallery. This gallery will provide context sensitive toolbars, and appears to make use of tabbing.You’ll also notice their Publishing layout which will allow users to create layout-rich documents.

The images below come from Apple Insider, and they got them from a projector screen. While they’re not the greatest quality, it will still give you an idea (click to enlarge):