Google recently unveiled that they are currently developing a eventually open-source operating system to run on netbooks to regular PCs. The OS will first be implemented with netbooks then expanded to PCs and possibly other devices in the near future. Google as also stated that this project has no affiliation with the Google Android project. Not many details about Chrome OS have been release except that it runs off a Linux kernel it incorporates custom window manager system and a “security layer” built into the OS. Google has partnered up with several different companies throughout the industry including Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments. Which means Chrome OS will not only run on x86 but ARM processors as well. Since it is believed to be a Web OS because of the mention of developing new applications with Web technologies. So it its believed to basically be a sort of Cloud Computing OS. But we will wait to see what the future has to unfold for the future of this project in the second half of 2010.

Firefox 3.5 is now released to the public and available for download. Get or Upgrade Firefox.

Awesome new features…

• Firefox 3.5 is available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
• Tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode, and the ability to go back in time and Clear Recent History.
• Firefox 3.5 has support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
• The browser features faster performance on complex websites thanks to the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• Users can enjoy Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
• Web developers can make use of native JSON parsing, and web worker threads.
• This release includes improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Firefox 3.5 supports new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

This is my submission to Chris Pirillo’s Community Green Screen Challenge.

I know its not that creative but hay… Its A Mudkip!

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The IT Lounge
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We go around shop asking everyone why they joined The IT Lounge.

The iPod Touch jailbreaking tool “RedTool” is one of the easiest ways to jailbreak an iPodtouch 1g/2g. Its current version is 1.02 an is in active development by developer chris stroud. It incorporates a LogoManager to change the boot and recovery logos. It also includes the option to do a Verbose boot. Not only can you generate a jailbroken iPod firmware you can flash the nor on your current iPod firmware to jailbreak without the need to restore. RedTool also allows for the booting of tethered jailbroken iPods. It allows you to boot your ipod if you jailbroke it with  or without run rs and into and out of recovery mode an reset auto-boot. RedTool also features an updater and is available in several different languages.

[RedTool Website]

This week I got to play around with FPS Creator X10. This is pretty much a program that allows you to make your own FPS. Everything in this program when you are creating your game is all drag and drop and after watching the tutorials it is an extremely simple program to use. There are plenty of mods and added model packs for you to keep everything updated. One of the best parts of this program is that you can use your maps as multilayer maps so you can lan. Now despite the simplicity of the drag and drop in the level creation you do have to set and assign actions to the NPC’s(non-playable characters), and environmentals such as doors and keys, confusing at first but easy once you work at it for a few hours. Other than that its an awesome program that’s simple and fun to play around with. Oh and if the standard T ESRB rating for the in-game content is not good enough for you there is a patch that will boost the rating up to M. So i recommend checking this out if you get a chance and enjoy the first directx 10 game creator for vista. www.fpscreatorx10.com

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Tomorrow Microsoft will be releasing their release canidate on may 5th which happen to be tomorrow. Microsoft will offer the windows 7 release canidate for free to all until june 1st 2010. Which is much longer than previous operating systems. The time period being a little over a year..The release canidate will feature updates to all even pirates which i wouldnt understand why if its free.

Personally I think its microsofts way of getting people and businesses more interested and back into windows. Becauyse more and more people are making switches to Macs and are downloading Linux.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Release Candidate will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers April 30, and will be publicly available on May 5.

The latest release of Ubuntu is 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope available in the normal desktop and server 32-bit and 64-bit editions. But Canonical has something  new this time around is the Netbook Remix edition designed especially around of course netbooks.

Download

*Download Page*

Change log:

• GNOME 2.26
• X.Org server 1.4
• Wacom tablet hotplugging
• New style for notifications and notification preferences (Notification Preview)
  
• Boot performance
• Linux kernel 2.6.28
• Ext4 filesystem support
• Cloud computing
• Turn-Key mail servers

System Requirements:

• Desktop & Laptop

  • Required

    • 300MHz x86 Processor
    • 256MB Ram
    • 4GB HDD Space
    • VGA @ 640×480

  • Recommended

    • 700MHz x86 Processor
    • 384MB Ram (With Compositing)
    • 8GB HDD Space
    • VGA @ 1024×768

• Server

  • 300MHz x86 Processor
  • 64MB Ram
  • 500MB HDD Space
  • VGA @ 640×480