Showing posts with label features. Show all posts
Showing posts with label features. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2009

New Open Office Reviews

Last week Computerworld featured an twist gallery of the twenty five universal activate birth releases of the road year, including OpenOffice.org 3.1. The slide notes, "OpenOffice.org 3.1 adds a bunch of new features that make it ever-more-similar to (maybe even better than) You-Know-Who's office suite, from notes in the margin (that you can comment on) to better drag-and-drop for graphics objects. You can download the developer build and decide for yourself."

Dmitri Popov from Linux Magazine expectant readers that they did not have to be an expert to work out modern with OpenOffice's Basic programming interface. "This is for OpenOffice.org comes with its take Basic-based programming language," he said. Dmitri augmented that although OpenOffice Basic was not the most difficult programming language, it still required some time and effort, especially for non-programmers. In his article, Dmitri aimed at providing a few pointers and code snippets to readers, so that they could put OpenOffice Basic to some practical use without learning the language from scratch.

In a E-Commerce Times career suggesting expense rimy measures around the office, Dana Gardner and a panel of experts recommended the account of OpenOffice as they believed MS Office to be a "big oversize cow that right-hand to be sacrificed." They propagated the assistance of open source solutions like OpenOffice and StarOffice that would "go a long, long way toward saving money."


Read More here


Friday, March 13, 2009

Innodb improvements with the latest google patch

Mysql is becoming stronger with the help of google (and oracle off course) :

http://www.innodb.com/innodb_plugin/plugin-performance/
http://www.innodb.com/innodb_plugin/plugin-performance/innodb-plugin-103-modified-sysbench-test/
http://www.innodb.com/innodb_plugin/plugin-performance/innodb-plugin-103-modified-sysbench-test-with-tcmalloc/
http://www.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/11/innodb-plugin-version-103-for-mysql-5130-32-33-released/


And the google mysql improvements page :http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/wiki/Mysql5Patches
http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/wiki/SmpPerformance

Another good resource is:
http://www.ducea.com/2009/03/13/innodb-plugin-version-103-released-enhances-concurrency-and-scalability-on-multi-core-systems/

New in this version of innodb

* Enhanced scalability: the Google SMP enhancement for synchronization
* More efficient memory allocation: ability to use platform allocator tuned for multi-core systems
* Improved out-of-the-box scalability: unlimited concurrent thread execution by default
* Dynamic tuning: at run-time, enable or disable insert buffering and adaptive hash indexing

And all this in a STABLE INNODB Storage for Mysql.

And I almost forgot ... You can download the sources from here http://www.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/11/innodb-plugin-version-103-for-mysql-5130-32-33-released/innodb_plugin/download/v103/


Thursday, December 11, 2008

Gmail: 2 new features



Gmail have 2 new features: Tasks and SMS, just look in top right of your Google Mail account.


1. Tasks is something like Google Calendar but integrated with Gmail.
2. SMS allows users to send text messages to mobile phone users ... but is limited to USA.

Useful? Not for everyone ... but if you use intense this Google service ... then will be useful !


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

3g iPhone Launched



Apple announced their new iPhone model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th.The second generation of iPhone will be available worldwide after launch. The good news is the price ... it will cost just 199$, but also the phone is superior in hardware and software. It have 2 hardware new "accessories" : 3G and GPS ... that means it will be a GPS manufacturer killer (in my opinion).

Steve Jobs give us some details about software what will run on iPhone 3G and the most important updates are: eBay and blogging application, BlackBerry-style push-email, security, parental control.

A nice feature in security will allows users to wipe the memory of their device remotely if it is lost or stolen.

Also the popular game Super Monkey Ball computer game from Sega will be available for iPhone 3G.

iPhone users will also be able to view Word documents or Keynote presentations, on their phone, but not edit them.

The new iPhone have an improved new battery / power source.
Standbay 300 hours
2G talk 10 hours
3G talk 5 hours
Internet Browsing 5-6 hours
Video 7 hours
Audio 24 hours

Can be recharged from computer USB and it have a Lithium-Ion battery
Steve Jobs says :


Great performance, great battery life






Technical spiecifications
Size and weight

Height: 4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
Width: 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
Depth: 0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
Weight: 4.7 ounces (133 grams)

Capacity

* 8GB or 16GB flash drive

Display

* 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
* 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
* Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Audio

* Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
* Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
* User-configurable maximum volume limit


Headphones

* Stereo earphones with built-in microphone
* Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
* Impedance: 32 ohms

Video

* Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.


Camera and photos

* 2.0 megapixels Camera located on back of iPhone.
* Photo geotagging
* iPhone and third-party application integration

Sensors

* Accelerometer
* Proximity sensor
* Ambient light sensor

GPS

* Assisted GPS

Read more tech specs here


Thursday, June 5, 2008

DoFollow Directory

I was strongly impressed by a new directory what I discovered this days: DoFollow Sites. Is not just a simple directory, but also have a lot of NEW (for me at least) features:

1. You can add tags to your site
2. Write comments
3. Add RSS or atom feeds
4. Boost your site displaying it on the first page (for 30 min at least but is more than nothing)
5. You can vote sites.

In other words is building a small community about DoFollow Sites. What is a dofollow site? Is a site what doesn't have "rel=nofollow" on it's anchor tags and are hunted sites by link building community.