Parted Magic 4.11: Download Available

Patrick Verner announced on June 14th the immediate availability of a new version of his popular Parted Magic operating system. Parted Magic 4.11 comes now with Linux kernel 2.6.32.15, Partclone 2.3, and many other updated packages, as well as some bug fixes and improvements. Parted Magic is an operating system created to help users easily partition their hard drives or perform various recovery tasks.

Intel® Many Integrated Core: New Way of High-Performance Computing

During the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Intel Corporation announced plans to deliver new products based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while also retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.

NetBeans IDE 6.9, Available for Download

The NetBeans team is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.9!

NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for building JavaFX GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications. With the JavaFX Composer, developers can quickly build, visually edit, and debug Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and bind components to various data sources, including Web services.

Kernel v2.6.35-rc3 Release

A good news came from Linux.org. June 11st, Linux Headquaters released Linux Kernel v2.6.35-rc3 with some changes.

Watch FIFA World Cup Soccer Streaming Live

The 2010 World Cup starts on June 11^th, and one of the best ways to keep up on the soccer will be to watch it streaming live. Here's where you can find the World Cup soccer matches streaming online:

Apache Maven 3 Release, Soon

The open source Apache Maven project has been helping software developers for over six years with their project build and reporting management needs. For most of that time, the project has been offering incremental updates to the Apache Maven 2.x product line, but in the next few months, Maven 3 is set to emerge.


Maven 3 will be the first major release for the Apache project since the Maven 2 release in 2005. It also comes at time when the project's lead sponsor, Sonatype, is gearing up new commercially support applications to enhance the Maven ecosystem.

Hacking Lesson from Google, It's Free

Google has created a Web application full of exploitable bugs to help webmasters better understand the most common type of Web attacks and learn how to prevent them. Codenamed Jarlsberg, the project is part of the Google Code University's "Web Application Exploits and Defenses" codelab.

The Jarlsberg application, named after the eponymous cheese brand famous for its holes, is vulnerable to several types of cross-site attack conditions, including cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (XSRF) and cross-site script inclusion (XSSI). The are also bugs that facilitate client-state manipulation, path traversal, information disclosure, denial of service or remote code execution.

Zenwalk Linux 6.4 GNOME is Released

Zenwalk.org announced the release of Zenwalk 6.4 Gnome Edition. Zenwalk features the latest Linux technology, featuring Linux kernel 2.6.33.4 and the Gnome 2.28.2 Desktop Environment.

Apple Store Down on 15.06.2010

The Apple Online store is down, likely to be brought back up in just a few hours with iPhone 4 pre-order availability. Hopefully, for Apple fanatics, the Mac maker will also confirm a number of rumored Mac upgrades, such as a beefed-up MacBook Air, new Mac minis, and more powerful Mac Pro workstations.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising Trailer from E3 Expo 2010

One of the high points of Microsoft’s presentation today was Metal Gear Solid: Rising. Series creator Hideo Kojima himself came onstage to introduce the trailer, which featured several minutes of gameplay.

New Xbox 360 250GB from Microsoft

One day prior to the E3 Expo 2010, Microsoft announced the updated version of the Xbox 360 console. Simply called the Xbox 360 250GB, the new console features a number of changes, including smaller design, larger internal hard drive and Wi-Fi 802.11n support, among others.

Google Search by Voice in French, German, Italian and Spanish

Here’s a test for the German speakers out there: which is faster...saying Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkung (German for speed limit), or typing the same query character-by-character?

Voice has always been the most natural way to interact with a phone -- speaking is typically faster and easier than typing. We first developed Search by voice for English, and then for Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. Today we’re excited to welcome speakers of French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Lenovo's New Products: Something Different on the Desk

Lenovo has announced five new PC products for large businesses, led by an all-in-one desktop with a 23-inch touch-screen display. Starting at $899, the ThinkCentre M90z features an Intel Core i3 or i5 CPU, convenient toolless access to memory and hard and optical drives, and a 2-megapixel webcam with on-off switch. Options range from a height-adjustable stand or arm or wall mount to an SSD and Intel VPro technology.

What You Should Know Before Buying iPhone 4

News Analysis: The iPhone 4 is scheduled to hit store shelves on June 24. But before that happens, customers will need to evaluate if Apple's new device is really for them. Take a look at 10 things worth considering before deciding if the iPhone 4 is really the right purchase.

With Apple's iPhone 4 just a few weeks away, it's time for consumers and enterprise customers to decide if the device is worth buying. Making that decision is getting more difficult. Years ago, the iPhone was the only "next-gen" smartphone on the market.

If consumers wanted to be able to use their fingers to control the device and have access to an App Store to extend its functionality, the iPhone was the way to go. But today, with stiff competition from Google, HTC, RIM and so many other major players in the mobile market, consumers have many more alternatives to choose from.

A Paper Test for Liver Damage

Diagnostics for All, a nonprofit startup in Cambridge, MA, has designed a cheap, disposable blood test for liver damage. The device uses a stack of paper the size of a postage stamp for a test of toxicity for drugs to treat HIV and tuberculosis.

Some antiretroviral therapies and many TB drugs are toxic to the liver. Patients on HIV and TB medication in rich countries are typically monitored every month for liver damage and taken off the treatment if liver damage becomes imminent. "In the U.S., [testing] is routine. It's expected, it's standard," says Nira Pollock, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and infectious diseases expert at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Twitter Acquires Smallthought System, An Analytics

Twitter has bought Smallthought Systems, a Website analytics company whose technology will likely complement the micro-blogging site's moves into online advertising.

Twitter announced the acquisition Thursday, about two months after launching an advertising program called Promoted Tweets. The Smallthought staff will join Twitter's analytics team, which will work on integrating Smallthought's Trendly technology into the site's current tools.

Tivoli Audio 10th Anniversary Design Challenge

TIVOLI AUDIO is a world leader in the design and manufacture of table radios. The company was founded in 2000 with the goal of bringing beautifully designed, simple-to-use, high quality audio products to the consumer. for the past 10 years, TIVOLI AUDIO has become world renowned by introducing some of the finest and highly acclaimed audio products ever made.

iida 2010: Incheon International Design Award 2010 - Green Heart

Incheon Metropolitan City, KOREA, together with designboom promotes an international design competition called iida 2010: Incheon International Design Award 2010. Organized by Incheon Business Agency, this event sponsored are: Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea,Korea Institute of Design Promotion, designflux, Incheon Industrial Design Association and Incheon Design Company Association.

Face In Space, Put Your Face In Space

Want to fly aboard the space shuttle? You can get some face time in orbit, digitally speaking, through the space agency's "Face in Space" Web project.

The concept is simple enough: Choose which shuttle mission you want your data to fly on, type your name into the online form, upload a digital image if you wish, size the picture to fit inside a virtual shuttle's window, and click the button. Your name and picture will be added to a computerized file that will be transferred to the shuttle of your choice during the mission.

5 Windows Live Hidden Gems

Microsoft's Web services are so often overlooked that they're just about the software giant's best kept secret. But Microsoft is no Web-service slouch. In recent months the company has beefed up its Internet-based offerings with Office Web Apps, cool mapping tools, and desktop productivity software for making your data and core applications available anywhere on multiple devices, such as netbooks, smartphones, or PCs at an Internet café.

Get Office Web Apps Right Now
(Editor's Note: This hidden gem is no longer so hidden. Microsoft has now officially launched its Office Web Apps for general availability. You can try out the Web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote by going to office.live.com and signing in with your Windows Live ID. - updated 6/8/10)

Indexing Web Faster with Google Caffeine

Google announced at June 9 2010, that new indexing system called Caffeine is live. The goal is to find fresh content faster, to index web pages faster and to update the index in real-time.

"Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you. With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index," explains Google.

24 Hours Google's Wallpaper Feature

Google's wallpaper feature is now available internationally and Google tries to convince people to change the background using a trick. Google's homepages in France, UK, Canada and many other countries have a default background image. The only option displayed is "Change background image", which requires to login using a Google account and lets you pick a background image. If you don't like the wallpaper chosen by Google, you'll use the option to customize it.

Corel Asia-Pacific Digital Art Competition 2010

Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, announced the Corel Asia-Pacific Digital Art Competition 2010. Running through August 31, 2010, Corel Asia Pacific Digital Art Competition is one of the largest in Asia with over 150 prizes totaling over $40,000 USD with a Grand Prize valued at over US$10,000 it is also one of the richest.

Next: Restore Applications and Settings With Ubuntu

The following is not a rumor, it's something that will (finally) become reality in future releases of the Ubuntu operating system. First of all, let me offer you a simple example: I want to reinstall my Ubuntu system and I have to back up a part of the settings from various applications (such as Firefox's bookmarks, passwords and settings; Filezilla's site manager list; some Pidgin files; Thunderbird's RSS feeds; VirtualBox settings and virtual hard drives; and some other files), not to mention that I have to remember and reinstall most of the applications I use, how I arranged the shortcuts on the AWN dock, and many other desktop settings. How long will this take? A lot of my precious time!

Ubuntu Advantage for Businesses from Canonical

Canonical, the company behind the popular and free Ubuntu operating system, introduced today a new service, called Ubuntu Advantage. Designed for businesses, Ubuntu Advantage brings together all the useful services and tools, such as: Landscape (systems management and monitoring), legal assurance, enterprise technical support and direct access to knowledge base.