Firefox 15 Released With Support For SPDY 3

The stable firefox 15 has been released yesterday on August 28 with several enhancements and changes on user interface, plugins and performance.

Among the changes, Firefox 15 provides a support for version 3 of SPDY, an open networking protocol developed at google labs with the aim of reducing the latency of web pages. Other notable changes are WebGL enhancements, including compressed textures for better performance and Optimized memory usage for add-ons.

Several other changes have been added to make firefox more superior choice for general users and developers. Few more supports for HTML5 has been also added. You can read the Firefox release notes and complete list of changes.

You can download firefox 15 for your appropriate device from HERE.


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Ubuntu "Precise Pangolin" 12.04.1 LTS Released

After few months of release of Precise Pangolin, the Canonical and ubuntu developers have finally released the version 12.04.1 of Long Term Support (LTS) of Ubuntu for desktop, server, cloud and core products.

For your information, each new LTS version is released every 2 years. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, both desktop and server versions will receive 5 years support. Earlier versions received 3 years support for desktop version and 5 years support for server version.

Among all the changes, the most notable one is the support for Calxeda ECX-1000 SoC family for supporting low-energy hyper-scale data centre servers.

The Ubuntu Cloud Archive also makes its debut - essentially an online software repository from which administrators can download the latest versions of OpenStack for use with the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu.

Certified 12.04.1 Ubuntu Cloud images are now available on Amazon Web Services and will soon be posted to Windows Azure as well.

You can follow the detailed Release Announcement and Change Summary for Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.

You can download Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from HERE.


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Gimp 2.8 Updated With More Features

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP, has been released with several new features and fixes. GIMP 2.8 features is equipped with several useful features including single-window mode which is probably one of the highly requested features and the latest v. 2.8.2 provides few more bug fixes and updates.

GIMP developers had released the stable release of GIMP back in May and GIMP release note states that the new release is a result of 3 years of collaborative inputs from the people all around the world.

Among all the improvements, the single window mode feature is one of the most awaited features. You can now toggle between the default multi-window mode and the new single-window mode through the Single-window mode checkbox in the Windows menu. In single-window mode, GIMP will put dockable dialogs and images in a single, tabbed image window.

There are several additions and improvements in user interface, tools and plugins. Likewise, several API has been refactored to ease the script development easier and better. Also, the GIMP license has been changed to (L)GPLv3+ from now onwards.

Similarly, several bugs have been fixed including the most notable ones such as not being able to remember JPEG saving options, slow canvas redraw and not showing page setup options on Windows.

GIMP is available for download from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/. You can also choose any other mirror suitable for you.

The release note provides a information on installation of GIMP 2.8.

You can also install GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 using PPA. Fire up the terminal and just type the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

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PhalconPHP - A PHP Framework Available As An Extension

Phalcon framework, a new approach on PHP frameworks. PhalconPHP is an interesting PHP framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption.

What is Phalcon

Phalcon is an open source, full stack framework for PHP 5 written as a C-extension, optimized for high performance. You don’t need learn or use the C language, since the functionality is exposed as PHP classes ready for you to use. Phalcon is loosely coupled, allowing you to use its objects as glue components based on the needs of your application.

For compilation, follow the following steps:

# git clone git://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git
# cd cphalcon/release
# export CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks"
# phpize
# ./configure --enable-phalcon
# make
# sudo make install

Then, add extension to your php.ini

extension=phalcon.so

And finally restart the webserver.

Useful Links

PhalconPHP on GitHub

Interesting review on PhalconPHP

PhalconPHP Documentation

PHP MVC framework benchmark at ruilog.com

PHP MVC framework benchmark at laruence.com


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Russian Hacker Bypasses Apple's App Store

A Russian hacker known as ZonD80 has discovered a method to retrieve apps from in-app for iOS apps free of cost. The best thing about this bypassing method is that this method does not require the i-device to be jailbroken. This method works on most of the major iOS versions from 3.0 to 6.0.

The step by step guide on using this method is available at the russian website HERE. The Russian guy has also setup a website called www.in-appstore.com.

Original Link

Watch Video About This Method

HERE is the copy of the instructions to follow.

*Take care while using this trick. I've not tested it and don't know if there are any security implications as the side effect of this bypass method.


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NCell Introduces Ncell Sapati For Credit Based Recharge

Everytime ncell introduces a new service, it understands what its customer are looking for. Sometimes Recharging your phone becomes imposslible due to outreach of shop , sometime it may be late night or too early , reaching for the card sounds tough. But now ncell has extended it service by introducing Ncell sapati.

To get Ncell sapati of Rs. 20 as main balance, you will have to dial *9988#. You will be charged an extra amount of Rs. 2(Exclusive of VAT and additional taxes) while using this service.

More information is available through IVR by dialing 9980 or play the audio below to hear the full instruction.





This service will come handy lots of time to lots of customers so I welcome this service introduced by Ncell. :)


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Now NTC Hosts Ubuntu Repository For Nepal

As most of the ubuntu users know that the previous nepali repository hosted by Mitra Network Pvt. Ltd. had lots of problem in packages and later went down for a long time. This time, it is NTC who has taken a good initiative and has started providing local ubuntu repository for us.

As seen on foss nepal's mailing list, everybody seems to be happy with the effort of NTC to promote linux and open source software tools in Nepal.

The np.archive.ubuntu.com is now resolving to ubuntu.ntc.net.np now. You can edit your sources.list and choose the nepali repository now. :)

Also, lots of ubuntu distros are available for download. See THIS. Now I can download ubuntu ISO's in around one or two minutes(Thanks NPIX for keeping local traffic local)

In case anyone wants my copy of sources.list file, here it is: sources.list or get it from HERE in case you hate registering on 4shared.

Once you copy the sources.list to /etc/apt/sources.list, make sure to run sudo apt-get update to update the package database.


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One of the Largest Bittorrent Search Engine BTJunkie Shuts Down

BTJunkie.org, one of the largest bittorrent index and search engine, has been shut down by the site operators today. The major reason for shutdown is the legal actions taken on other file sharing websites such as thepiratebay and megaupload.

BTJunkie has been one of the biggest bittorrent search engine which came in the torrent scene since 2005. Personally, BTJunkie was #1 source of torrent stuffs for me and I'll definitely miss BTJunkie and I think so will many internet and torrent users.

The official website of BTJunkie is now showing a goodbye message which writes:

This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on. It's been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!

R.I.P. BTJunkie

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