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Month: May 2015 (Page 5 of 6)

LibreOffice 5.0 announced. 4.4.3 is out for download

2015-05-10 / / 0 Comments

Hey there you guys, how are you today. I hope you are having a good day 🙂
I continue to bring the latest news about the stuff I built the site upon, one of the major points is LibreOffice.

LibreOffice released it’s minor update 4.4.3 for fresh branch on May 7th. And it brought 80 fixes according to document foundation blog. It’s immediately available for download from this link. And you are advised to update for security reasons?!

and it continues to push towards the 5.0 milestone. Expected in late July.
Back to version 5.0.0
It was first mentioned as version 4.5 is currently under testing for the purpose of “bug hunting”. You are welcome to join them and start debugging. Read all about it from here. And download V5.0 early from here.
I’m personally really excited. I think I’m going to download V5.0 today!!
How did you like this post? Please let me know in the comments below 🙂

Windows 10 the last Windows to be produced? My take on it inside

2015-05-09 / / 0 Comments
Hey there you guys. I hope you are having a good day
As I try to pace myself and post only once a day. But news like this make me break my rules. As I continue to bring the latest update about Windows 10

“Windows to stop producing Windows versions”!! Source
After we confirmed the bold statement. Let’s take a look at what it means?

If you thought that Windows XP overstayed it’s welcome.Think again!! after XP there was Vista, 7 and of course Windows 8. And it’s support finally ended in April of 2014. Windows 10 is here to stay apparently. With the company stating that There won’t be a Windows 11. According to the statement. Windows is pushing a new business model that has me feeling my pocket already! What do we know so far is that Windows 10 will be free for all as an update for one year. And that your license has to be genuine. And how the updates will be delivered. It’s supposed to come sometime this year.
Question is:  

How will Microsoft make it’s money if it doesn’t force us to upgrade every three years? (Opinion piece)

I have some speculations based on what Microsoft has released so far.

    1. Users who will install Windows 10 fresh will have to pay a full license fee.
    2. Users who have pirated versions of Windows will have to pay a full license fee to remove version restrictions.
    3. Users who want to have the free upgrade will have to buy a license (if not already genuine) of an older version: 7, 8 etc ..
    4. Upgrades will not be free (You will pay for updates and upgrades).
    5. I am sensing a none Microsoft block (As in Surface tablets) You have to run genuine Microsoft software, or you are stuck with an over priced child-pad!! (Confirmation needed on the Surface tablet bit).
    6. Perhaps do what Adobe does with the creative cloud and what Microsoft is already doing with Office356.
    7. I think Windows will be more Xbox Live! (Pay wise of course)!!

      I believe that Microsoft will gain a lot more than selling standalone versions of it’s software, things like:

        1. Limits Piracy.The new licensing system makes it more difficult for pirates to “crack” versions as it’s upgraded regularly.
        2. More money
          Some people like to pay 20$ a month rather than 300$ at once.
        3. More focused development.
          Instead of coming up with a marketing scheme every 2-3 years. They get to focus on one system. While still making money out of it.
        4. Easier support.
          When enough people migrate to Windows10. Support will be so much easier.
          As I said. These points are of my current perspective based on the information I have now! And my final verdict is to wait until Microsoft unveils it’s plans!
          Have a lovely day dear fans. Let me know what you have to say in the comments section below!

          Atom.io v1 Atom facts + 1 year of open source!

          2015-05-08 / / 0 Comments
          Hey there you guys. I hope you are doing well on this fine day

          Atom celebrated it’s first year as an open source on the 6th of May by releasing an info-graphic. It contains facts and numbers that are truly interesting!!

          Interesting facts

          I never would have guessed that most Atom users were Mac users! Or that it has been downloaded 750.000 times!! for full info click this post over here.

          Great read

          As I was browsing the Atom blog I came across this rather interesting announcement: That the support for deprecated API’s will end on June 1st.
          (Sounds really exciting huh? No! Not really!) but the other part of the announcement is what really matters. Announcing that V1.0 milestone will be released sometime later that month (June).
          Atom v1.0 will be released in June. That’s according to the official atom blog.

          Future hopes

          I’m hoping that update brings the removal of the file size restriction. Which has been a real drawback for Atom. I’m also expecting some under the hood improvements. I hope they work the Arabic language problem (it’s shown as scrabble). And maybe the icon. I don’t like it very much :p. Other than that I’m quite happy with the program’s features and performance (on Linux! Of course) Windows boot is almost as long as the Windows boot itself!!

          Promised bug fixes 

          They have published a list of bug fixes to include in the 1.0 milestone. Some of them as you might have guessed were boot time and file size restriction. The rest can be checked from here.
          Let’s see if the Atom team can pull it together. I wasn’t in favor of comparing them to industry titans as I kept saying it’s in Beta. But now the play time is over!

          Final words

          I really wish them the best. As they put together what could impact the coding world!
          What do you expect out of V1.0 of Atom? Are you excited as I am? Please let me know in the comments section below. Don’t forget to give Kudos. Share this post and help the blog grow! Have a lovely day 😀

          Tasque. The to-do list app you need

          2015-05-05 / / 0 Comments
          Hey there you guys!
          How are you today? I hope you are doing good!

          Today we are looking at an awesome task list app. Tasque.
          Tasque is a little to-do list that gets the job done. What I like about it is that it’s simple and minimalist. No unneeded features. Just the pure simple core of getting tasks done.

          According to Wikipedia the name was partially inspired by the French village by the same spelling. “Tasque” in French is pronounced the same as the word “task” is in English

          It’s available from the Ubuntu software center, or via this link as a tar archive. And it can be downloaded for Windows too! Latest stable version is 0.1.12

          Reception

          It has the rating of 3.5 stars on the Ubuntu software center. True shame. I believe it deserves a 5 star rating. Please up vote it.
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