Linux vs Windows vs Mac

In case you have lost your CD-keys and serials from your favorite game or software, here is a solution for you: "Game Key Revealer" and "Soft Key Revealer ".

Game Key Revealer can recover CD-keys and serials from over 500 games, installed on your 32-bit or 64-bit Windows XP. You can save your recovered data as plain text document (txt) or as Micorosoft Word document (doc). Also you can print your CD-keys and serials.

SoftKey Revealer can recover CD-keys and serials from over 700 softwares, installed on your 32-bit or 64-bit Windows XP. Also,  you can save your recovered data as plain text document (txt) or as Micorosoft Word document (doc), and  print your CD-keys and serials, just as Game Key Revealer

A beta version of Google Gears is available for Safari browser.

You can install Google Greas for Safari and test it, but since this is a beta version, don’t  be surprised if your browser crashes.

Minimum system requirements: Safari 3.1.1 on Tiger 10.4.11 or Leopard 10.5.3
 

About Google Gears:
 

Gears is a plug-in that extends your browser to create a richer platform for web applications. To install Gears, visit http://gears.google.com

Gears was designed to be used on both Google and non-Google sites. A number of web applications currently make use of Gears, including two Google products: Google Reader and Google Docs. Additionally, Zoho and Remember the Milk have been using Gears since its original launch. If you’re running Windows Mobile on your cellphone, Picasa Web Albums also makes use of Gears.

If you’re a developer interested in making your site available offline, we recommend visiting the Gears developer site for more information.
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A Mac version of FlatOut 2, the carnage-laden driving game originally developed by Bugbear Entertainment is expected out in September, for just $39.95.

If you’ve wanted a game that’s the spiritual successor to the legendary “Carmageddon” series, FlatOut 2 could be for you. You get behind the wheels of cars as you take to the streets in a series of progressively more difficult races against computer-controlled foes (there’s also online multiplayer support for up to eight players). You can try to take your biggest computer-controlled rivals out of the race — slamming them headfirst into a bridge, stealing the race by using a shortcut or using a nitro pack to get ahead.

You can smash into objects around the track — fences, walls, debris, other vehicles and much more — as you try to come in first in each race. You’ll also get rewarded for being the most destructive, performing stunts and more. there are also a series of “Stunt” minigames which will keep you entertained for hours.

As you win races, you can turn your race winnings over into new vehicles and customizations. The game features “ragdoll” physics that will throw your driver out of the car if slammed into a wall at high speeds; some of the minigames also emphasize this ragdoll physics capabilities, with objectives like using your driver to score a field goal through a series of upright pylons.

The game also features a soundtrack with offerings from Megadeth, Papa Roach, Audioslave, Rob Zombie, Wolfmother and others.

A new version of the popular and free unix/linux desktop environment KDE 3 is available.Curent version KDE 3.5.10 features translations in 65 languages, improvements to KPDF and Kicker, the KDE3 Panel. 

KDE 3.5.10 packages are available for Kubuntu 8.04, the Hardy Heron.
 

Update instructions:

The updated packages for Kubuntu 8.04 are located in the hardy-backports repository. To update to KDE 3.5.10, please follow these instructions:
 

1.  Launch Adept
2.  In Software Repositories enable Unsupported updates in Updates.
3.  Click on Full Upgrade.
4.  Commit changes.

About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4’s full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. 
 

Windows and Linux only: Amarok 2, the next version of the free, open-source media player, has just rolled out an official beta release, Nerrivik. The beta of the media manager we previewed back in June, improves memory management, overhauls the add-on scripting and metadata tracking, adds gapless playback, and streamlines the interface. Center-rail widgets still seem a little rough, but it’s a usable preview of what’s to come. Amarok 2 is a free download; Windows users can install it through the KDE on Windows Project, while Linux users can download the source or add the nightly build repository listed in our screenshot tour.

Some of the changes since alpha 2:

Features

• Inline editing of tracks in the Collection is now possible.
• Album moves can be undone
• Grouped albums can be moved in the playlist by draggin the album header
• Track moves in the playlist can now be undone
• Gapless playback.
• New "fuzzy" bias type, which matches values loosely.
• Collection Setup automatically expands to show selected directories. (BR 123637)
• Tag editing and file deletion for MTP devices
• Add toolbox to context view
• Allow selecting multiple playlist items.
• Implement "Move to collection" functionality in file browser.
• Saving/loading of biased playlists.
• Improved script console
• Set items in directory selector to partially checked when relevant. patch by Sebastian Trueg
• Album is now added to the playlist when clicked in Albums applet.
• Trigger play/pause when middle-clicking systray icon. (BR 167162)
• New start flag –multipleinstances allows to run multiple instances of Amarok.
• Full cover support for Nepomuk collection
• Search local collection for albums to show in the album applet when playing non local content
• Context view state is saved on exit and restored on start up.
• New functions available to the scripting interface, under Amarok.Info.

Changes

• New filename scheme widget in the Organize Collection dialog.
• New laylout of the main toolbar using the new graphics.
• Greatly reduced memory usage when using dynamic playlists.
• Reworked layout and more intuitive interface in the Guess Tags from Filenames dialog.
• New artwork by Nuno Pinheiro
• Better zooming animation in the context view
• Better usage of the available space in the context view.
• Show url in the playlist if track has no name. patch by Edward Hades

Bugfixes

• Fix crash when dragging media from an external source (or the file browser) to the playlist (BR 169035)
• Fix crash when opening the setting dialog (BR 169215)
• Many fixes to the behavior of the playlist when dragging things around.
• Don’t pop up multiple cover search dialogs when cancelling search in the Cover Manager (BR 167462)
• Amarok would not respect the user’s changes in the cover search dialog.
• Amarok would submit tracks to lastfm reguardless of whether the user chose to enable scrobbling.
• OSD translucency works now. (BR 166567)
• Use name based sorting of tracks without a track number (fixes sorting in shoutcast and cool streams services)
• Don’t try to scan the whole $HOME on first startup.
• Don’t pop up the OSD after changing Amarok settings. (BR: 168197)
• Fix crash when exiting while collection scan was running. (BR 167872)
• Automatically re-authenticate connection if the Ampache server has logged us out. (BR 166958)
• Status bar now allows shrinking main window beyond it’s width and does not enlarge main window by itself. Patch by Daniel Molkentin
• Submit tracks to Last.fm also when playing Last.fm Radio. (BR 164156)
• Check if the file is writable before allowing the tags to be edited in SqlMeta. ( BR 122797 )
• Properly insert items dragged from the collection view. (BR: 166609)
• Don’t remove all the tracks in the group when removing the first. (BR: 167251)
• Only increment playcount if we’ve played more than half of the song. (BR 121587)
• Added protection against endless looping when a playlist contains only unplayable tracks.
• Missing default playlist does not produce error message now. (BR 167385)
• Fixed playlist bias drop-down box showing multiple empty and duplicate entries. (BR 167153)
• Fixed the "Toggle Main Window" shortcut. (BR 167218)
• Script manager now could stop scripts which use qt bindings.
• Fix crash when calling GetCaps from the DBus Player interface
• Update album applet on track change. (BR 167256)

Nerrivik - Beta 1 of Amarok 2.0 released! [Amarok]

Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 KDE4 LiveDVD RC1 is now available. Featuring the young but beautiful KDE4.1 desktop, this release candidate of the Slackware based linux distro called Bluewhite64, brings you the Amarok 1.90 music player, Krusader 2.0.0 file manager, KTorrent 3.1.2 and other cool KDE apps on a live DVD.

The Bluewhite64 live DVD contains the KDE3 runtime libraries, so you can easily run KDE3 desktop instead of the default KDE4 desktop.

The official release announcement is posted on the Bluewhite64 linux website:

"I have the joy announcing a new version of the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 KDE4 LiveDVD release candidate one.

This release is built on a fresh install of the standard version of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 and includes all patches packages from the patches directory and the newly released KDE 4.1. Also, in addition to this release, we have added KDE4 applications like Amarok 1.90, Guidance Power Manager 4.1.0, Krusader 2.0.0, Ktorrent 3.1.2, KDE3 runtime libraries which allows you to run KDE3 applications, and many more. Take a look at the KDE4 LiveDVD ChangeLog to see more details about the added packages and see the Gallery with some nice captures.

To download, please select one mirror close to you form the Get Bluewhite64 page (the main mirror is down, consider this time the primary FTP and HTTP from ROEDU). The ISO is located at the bluewhite64-12.1-iso directory:

md5: 4f9d2e269cd0e9282e9732569cbaf909 Bluewhite64-12.1-KDE4-LiveDVD-RC1.iso

We like to be tested as much as you can in order to release the final and stable version, which is scheduled at September 1’st, and post your feedback at our forums or send email to info at bluewhite64 dot com.

I’d like to thanks to Kenjiro Tanaka for building the KDE 4.1 packages using Robby Workman’s SlackBuilds scripts, Virgil Moldoveanu for building the applications for KDE4 and all others who will test this release .

Enjoy and happy testing!"

Ubuntu Christian Edition, also known as UbuntuCE.

Current version 4.0 and features the Gnome Desktop Environment. OpenOffice has been replaced with GnomeOffice (AbiWord, Evince, Evolution, Gnumeric). BibleTime has been added in this release; also you have more resources for BibleTime and Gnomesword.

The official release announcement has been posted on UbuntuForums:

"We are excited to announce the release of Ubuntu CE 4.0! Ubuntu CE has been on hold for quite a while for various reasons, but we are back up and running. This is a "back to the basics" release. We have discontinued most of the Windows program installers that we had a previous releases due to the difficulty in maintaining them and changes in some of the Windows programs that made it very difficult to install them automatically. We have added BibleTime as well as a bunch more resources for BibleTime and Gnomesword. We have replaced OpenOffice with GnomeOffice to keep the iso size below the 700mb threshold. For a complete list of changes check out the ChangeLog. We have also updated the site with a cleaner Web 2.0 feelCheck it out at UbuntuCE.com."

If you try to install Microsoft Photosynth on a Mac or Linux based system you will be notified that Photosynth is not cool enough for your operating system.

"Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows." is the message from photosynth.net.

Although, accordind to their site, Photosynth can’t run in VM software, it seems that you can run it on a Mac PC using VMWare Fusion. Linux users will just have to wait.

About Microsoft Photosynth:

Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment.

Zenwalk Gnome is using the latest stable Gnome 2.22.3 Desktop, with a familiar Zenwalk Desktop layout and beautiful Zenwalk artwork. Included in this release, are Linux kernel 2.6.25.4, the latest X.Org 7.3 suite of X servers and the next generation of the Netpkg package manager.

Zenwalk Gnome follows the "one app per task" Zenwalk philosophy and the Gnome Desktop comes with all default applications known to Zenwalk users: iceweasel and icedove for all your browsing and email needs, wicd for easy connecting to wireless networks, brasero for burning CD/DVD discs, abiword and gnumeric for your office needs, the GIMP for editing graphics files and photos, gtkam for managing your digital camera and gmusicbrowser for handling huge collections of music. Totem (using the xine backend), with its clean interface, is the multimedia player of choice, you can even find, browse and view youtube videos with it, even if you don’t have flash installed! Of course a propriatery flash package which works with iceweasel is included in the installation if the user decides to accept the adobe flash licence.

As usual, Zenwalk Gnome provides a complete programming environment for coders. Geany provides a fast and light IDE for developing code in a great number of different languages.

The complete collection of Zenwalk system tools is present in Zenwalk Gnome. The Zenpanel provides a centralized place for all system administration, such as user creation/modification, network settings, localization, kernel module configuration etc. All user settings can be easily reached from the Gnome Control Center, only a click away in the main Gnome panel.

The update is recommended for all MacBook Air computers, and addresses issues with video playback and processor core idling.

Third-party software that modifies processor operating characteristics such as frequency and voltage is not supported and should be removed before installing this update.

Installation requires Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later.

About MacBook Air

Ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else, but you don’t lose inches and pounds overnight. It’s the result of rethinking conventions. Of multiple wireless innovations. And of breakthrough design. With MacBook Air, mobile computing suddenly has a new standard.