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Google Updates Chrome New Tab Page & Web App Store [News]

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<img alt="" class="aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://www.new-technology-news.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/c8bf8073b400x300.jpg.jpg" src="http://www.new-technology-news.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/c8bf8073b400x300.jpg.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" />The guys and girls at Google have been busy. Just recently they updated many of their Docs programs, and now they have pushed out a new stable release of their popular web browser, Google Chrome. This release of Chrome completely redesigns the screen that launches when you click on the new tab button. This new change makes it easier to manage your most visited websites and all your installed apps. It is much cleaner looking than the older version and is much more functional. 
The next big change is to the Chrome App Store. Google pretty much rebuilt the web store from the ground up. Now it is much easier to get more information about an application right from the main page. Simply mouse over the application in the store to see the rating and a brief description of the app. You can also install the app right from this little hover-over window. This way, if you know what application you want you can get access to it much more quickly. 
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When you see an app you like and click it, it now opens in a little window pop up. This makes it quicker to get back to your search results. 
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In addition to updating Chrome itself, they have also launched a lot of new apps, so if something you were looking for was not in the store, you may want to check again, because it may have been added with this update. 
Source: Official Google Blog 
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Google Updates Chrome New Tab Page & Web App Store [News]

The guys and girls at Google have been busy. Just recently they updated many of their Docs programs, and now they have pushed out a new st...

NVIDIA roadmap leaks, Kal-El and more coming soon

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<img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="175" mce_src="http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5850/nvidiaroadmap1540x292.jpg" src="http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5850/nvidiaroadmap1540x292.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="nvidia_roadmap_1" width="324" />NVIDIA and their Tegra 2 superchip for phones and tablets has been on a roll lately, with all the recent talk about quad-cores and Kal-El things are about to get even better this holiday season. Over the weekend a leaked roadmap showing a few us NVIDIA’s upcoming plans and chips may have leaked and it shows us plans up to 2013. One interesting thing I noticed is Kal-El+ on the chart for 2012.</div>
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Just last week we heard quad-core Kal-El chips were slightly delayed but we would still see tablets this year with the powerhouse CPU inside. Like recent names of NVIDIA desktop CPU’s Kal-El+ will probably be a more refined and efficient version of their first quad-core chips, but more efficient and aimed for android phones sometime in 2012.</div>
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Next on the list we are already seeing possible successors to Kal-El coming late 2012 and early 2013 with support for not only Android but also Linux, Windows 8, and WP7. Interesting to note if we are reading it right NVIDIA doesn’t plan to support Windows until 2013. That can’t be right can it? According to the roadmap it also appears that Kal-El+ will power both smartphones and tablets and then mid to late 2012 NVIDIA plans to split up into different divisions for their CPU’s.</div>
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Showing project “Wayne” for tablets and superphones, then project “Grey” will be for mass consumption and a more standard mid-range smartphone market rather than the high end. Grey will take use of NVIDIA’s recent acquisition of the 3G/4G wireless modem company Icera and will be an all in one SOC (system on chip) solution for most smartphones by the end of 2012 and into 2013 to compete with the likes of Qualcomm.</div>
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Hopefully we will learn more on Kal-El+ in the comings months and what NVIDIA has planned for the future with Wayne and Grey. The map is a bit confusing and lumps those last two together in the middle so it seems they are still a bit unsure as to what the future holds. Then again aren’t we all?</div>
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NVIDIA roadmap leaks, Kal-El and more coming soon

NVIDIA and their Tegra 2 superchip for phones and tablets has been on a roll lately, with all the recent talk about quad-cores and Kal-E...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Moom

<img alt="Moom for Mac" class="aligncenter" height="184" src="http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/1429/moom1309374370.jpg" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 465px; height: 306px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" width="279" /> Window managers are numerous on the Mac, with most relying on keyboard shortcuts or edge snapping. Moom is different. Moom integrates into the existing Apple UI by providing a pop-up menu when you hover your mouse over the green "maximize" button in the top left-hand corner of your window. Clicking on one of the Moom menu options moves and zooms (mooms) your window to the desired sector of the screen. By default you've got horizontal and vertical half-screen configurations as well as full screen. If you want a quarter screen window, you can click and drag on the default Moom buttons to define the desired quarter. Sending the window to another monitor is as easy as dragging one of the buttons in the desired direction of the monitor. A grid below the buttons allows you to quickly define a new size and position by selecting the squares required. If all your Mooming gets a bit crazy, you can move the window back to its original position with the revert arrow. You can also define custom mooms in the settings, which are then accessible via a drop-down menu from the Moom pop-up or menu bar. Moom also includes robust support for keyboard shortcuts, including binding of window sizes and positions to individual shortcut keys. Moom takes keyboard usage one stage further with a keyboard control mode in which you can move the window around with the arrow keys, moom a window to any of the half-screen configurations, send it full screen or centered and even send it to the next monitor. Moom is also able to run as a menu bar icon, a standard OS X program or even "faceless" (hidden). We've covered a few other window management utilities on TUAW, but it's safe to say Moom is one of the best. For US$4.99 it's going to be one of the first apps I install on a Mac from here on in. If you're not convinced, give the free trial a go from the Many Tricks website.

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Moom

Window managers are numerous on the Mac, with most relying on keyboard shortcuts or edge snapping. Moom is different. Moom integrates into t...

10 of the best Linux window managers

<img src="http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5750/pcp300make2art200200.jpg"> The window manager is the most important part of the Linux desktop environment. It defines how your windows look, how they behave, how applications are launched, and how they're closed. In many cases, window managers have evolved into complete desktop environments, helping with file management, configuration editing and computer management. They're at the very heart of your interaction with the system, but their best feature is that they're swappable, which sets Linux apart from both Windows and OS X. With Windows you're stuck with, well, Windows. With Linux, you have a choice. And whether you have a preference for a 'do everything' approach, or a 'do nothing at all' one, there's a window manager made for you. 1. Gnome <img alt="Gnome" src="http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8631/pcp300make2gnome42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> Gnome is the first example of a window manager that's grown into a complete desktop environment. There's also a very good reason why Gnome has become the default desktop environment for the most popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and Fedora – it's because it's simple, concise and starting to look rather beautiful. Taking many cues from OS X, most functions can be reached in one or two clicks, and its designers have reduced screen clutter and superfluous options. There's an excellent network manager that can help you navigate even the most wayward wireless networks and inconsistent wired ones, while the new on-screen notification system – along with Empathy's support for Twitter, IM and Facebook – mean you have a full screen to fill with your own applications. Thanks to applications such as Firefox, Chrome and Gimp using the same graphics toolkit as Gnome, many of the most popular Linux applications will feel better integrated with the desktop. 2. KDE <img alt="KDE" src="http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4269/pcp300make2kde42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> Gnome's great adversary is KDE, a feature behemoth. It's easy to use, but its many and varied options can drown the unwary. That's not to say it's unapproachable, though. The new window-snapping feature of the latest versions can emulate all the new snapping functions from Windows, and there's integrated support for desktop and panel widgets, nicknamed Plasmoids. These can be dragged and dropped from a small cashew symbol that sits on the top right of your desktop window. Many of KDE's community-developed features can be downloaded in-line using the 'Get New Stuff' feature of many configuration panels. This means KDE users are always experimenting, and always changing the appearance of their desktops. This can create problems, and recent versions of KDE are somewhat unstable. KDE is the desktop to choose if you like eye candy, though. It integrates many of the visual effects that have made Linux famous, including the desktop cube, sliding spaces, wobbly windows, drop shadows and hardware zoom. The new 'Activity' feature means you can restrict visual elements to a specific task, such as 'Office' or 'Downtime', shifting between them as you would a virtual desktop. 3. XFCE <img alt="XFCE" src="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6100/pcp300make2xfce42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> Despite being marketed as a lightweight alternative to the likes of Gnome and KDE, you won't find any obvious functionality missing from XFCE: its configuration panels are comprehensive, and the flexibility in the window decoration design is also impressive. You can ape the look of many other popular window managers, as well as creating a custom layout. There's an integrated file manager called Thunar, a text editor called Mousepad and a custom CD/DVD burning tool, calendar and image viewer. But the key reason to run XFCE is for its speed. For a fully featured window manager, it still has a low set of requirements, and is ideal for older hardware and netbooks. 4. Enlightenment (E17) <img alt="Enlightenment" src="http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7996/pcp300make2enlightenmen.jpg" width="420"></IMG> Enlightenment is more than a simple window manager, and less than a full-blown desktop environment. It calls itself a 'desktop shell' and attempts to make all your desktop tasks easily and quickly achievable. It's also the first of these environments that you're unlikely to find pre-packaged for your distribution. As a result, the easiest way to try it out is to download and run Elive, a Debian-based distribution built specifically to showcase Enlightenment's capabilities. Elive's Enlightenment looks fantastic. There are deep drop shadows and a dynamically scaling toolbar. Everything opens and moves very quickly. Elive has also pulled applications in from other desktops, such as the file manager from XFCE and Debian's older version of the Firefox web browser. However, there's a problem – if you want to install Elive, you have to make a donation of at least $15, which we feel is just too much. 5. LXDE <img alt="LXDE" src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1051/pcp300make2lxde42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> The 'Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment' is aimed at older hardware, netbooks and low-powered thin clients. It manages this trick while remaining easy to use because a lot of effort has been spent creating the kind of configuration panels you'd expect to see in Gnome and KDE. There's an Appearances panel, for example, where you can change the look and feel of the desktop, and a Session Settings window that can be used to define what is and isn't launched at startup. Like many of the smaller desktops, LXDE is usually augmented with various tools and applications from other environments, including both Gnome and XFCE. The easiest way to get hold of LXDE is to either install Knoppix, or grab the latest LXDE-themed Ubuntu release, called 'Lubuntu'. The latter provides many more user-installable packages and several mainstream applications. 6. Window Maker <img alt="Window maker" src="http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/228/pcp300make2wmaker42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> Window Maker is an old-school window manager. It hasn't seen a stable release in over five years, but that doesn't mean you should write it off just yet. It's design was based on NeXT, the desktop that went on to be the foundation to OS X. The desktop panel, for example, is a low-resource alternative to the ones offered by Gnome and KDE, and you can find plenty of tiny panel applications that can make it a very functional part of your screen. These applets may even be compatible with your current panel. Window Maker's age gives it another advantage – it runs well on hardware from five years ago. 7. Fluxbox <img alt="Fluxbox" src="http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/197/pcp300make2fluxbox42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> Based on Blackbox, Fluxbox can normally be installed from your distribution's package manager, and the three packages that come by default shed some light on its philosophy – the window manager, a configuration panel and the pager. The window manager is lighter than most. You won't find many icons in the launch menu, for instance, and the default toolbar at the bottom of the screen is filled with text. This makes it quick, but it will take a while to learn where your applications are hidden. Despite the graphical brevity, you'll still find many modern window management features. Applications will snap to a screen's borders, for instance, and the left/right cursor keys in the toolbar will quickly skip between the four virtual desktops. If you need something with a little more shine than simple X11, but don't need any guidance, Fluxbox is the window manager for you. 8. AmiWM <img alt="AmiWM" src="http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5171/pcp300make2amiwm42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> If you're of a certain age, this is pure nostalgia. AmiWM is a window manager that's designed to look and feel like the old Commodore Amiga WorkBench. It apes version 3.x, rather than the earlier 1.x and 2.x releases, and this means the default background colour is slate grey, while the window borders are blue. You can even slide down the main window to reveal the default X server that's running in the background. Despite looking just like an Amiga, it's actually a very fast and well-behaved window manager. You can launch all your favourite Linux applications, and even use the 'Execute Command' functions, just like the old Amiga. Any normal Linux application you might be used to will automatically look like it's been transported back to 1988 – except this time, there's memory protection for the multitasking, and hard drives are affordable. 9. Sawfish <img alt="Sawfish" src="http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/912/pcp300make2sawfish42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> The unique selling point for Sawfish is that it's built using a Lisp-based programming language. If that doesn't scare you off then Sawfish might be for you. It's one of the most user-configurable and quick window managers you can try. Almost every function has a user-defined keyboard shortcut, and you can change the way it reacts to events within the window manager. Sawfish was Gnome's window manager before Metacity, and as a result, it doesn't have some fundamental features, like a desktop panel. This means you'll get your hands dirty, both to install and configure it. It doesn't look too bad, in a Matrix-style, mid-90s kind of way, but if you don't like the look, it's easy to change. Other users have come up with dozens of better examples and the whole project is still being actively developed. 10. IceWM <img alt="IceWM" src="http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/2271/pcp300make2icewm42090.jpg" width="420"></IMG> IceWm is based on Motif, the ageing native toolkit for the X Windows system. This is brave when you consider that Motif is part of the reason why many developers have tried so hard to create an improved desktop experience! However, Motif does have its good points – it features a very clear and concise design, and IceWM borrows from this, adding lots of improvements. You can control everything from the keyboard, there's a taskbar with launch menu, virtual desktops and both Gnome and KDE compatibility. The theming engine is impressive, and most default installations include so many that IceWM needs an A-Z menu to list them all. IceWM is still being actively developed, it's a great modern equivalent to the usual suspects, and about as hard to use as Windows 98.

10 of the best Linux window managers

The window manager is the most important part of the Linux desktop environment. It defines how your windows look, how they behave, how appl...

How to Get an Original Window Sticker

Use photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. Design your original window sticker; you can either use photos that have been digitally scanned or pictures that you have downloaded from your <a class="StrongLink" href="http://www.ehow.com/computers/">computer</A>. Incorporate the text using font that will be easy to read from the window that you choose to place your sticker. You will need to save your image as a jpeg file for <a class="StrongLink" href="http://www.ehow.com/internet/">Internet</A> compatibility.Go to the Vistaprint.com website, select the "Gifts and Fun" option which is on the left hand column under the "home and family" section. Hover over it and select "stickers."Choose a large or small sticker as well as the shape and click on the "Get started" option. You can either upload your own design or select a ready made design. Once you have selected the design you are then prompted to customize it. Click on the "Advanced editing tab" to add text change fonts etc, you will then need to click on the "Online proof approval" tab.Click on the "Next" tab and select the number of sheets you wish to purchase. Each sheet will give you 24 stickers. You can purchase up to 200 sheets.Click on the "Next " tab and choose the type of paper you wish to use, you can choose between a matt or a glossy sticker. You are then taken to a matching documents page; you can choose products such as mugs, and notepads to go with your sticker. Keep clicking the "Next" button until you get to the checkout page.Choose a delivery time and then input your name, address and card details for payment.

How to Get an Original Window Sticker

Use photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. Design your original window sticker; you can either use photos that have been digitally...

Colossus adds new Venom and Window chassis

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/computing/upgrades-and-peripherals/cases-and-cooling/cases/images/venom-case-200-200.jpg"> PC tower chassis maker BitFenix is introducing two new variants to its Colossus line of PC towers, Colossus Venom and Colossus Window. It's a response to the emails they received after demoing a Colossus with green lighting at Gamescon 2010. "After releasing Colossus, BitFenix fans from around the world offered their own personal suggestions on some new and interesting modifications for the full tower, and Colossus Venom and Colossus Window are the results of that feedback," says David Jarlestedt, BitFenix Product Manager. The Venom lets users switch between red and evil green lighting for the tower, while keeping all the traditional Colossus features, including a pair of SuperSpeed 3.0 USB ports, a storage compartment, and the company's proprietary SofTouch coating. Watch It Work The other new tower is the Colossus Window. This doesn't have the LEDs on the side, replacing it instead with a window panel that lets users see their hardware in the chassis glowing red, blue or green – the last being the Venom Window edition – thanks to a pair of colour-matched LED fans. There's a simplified control panel and four USB 2.0 ports, audio jacks and an eSATA port. The Venom retails for 139 Euros, the Windows for 159 Euros (c.£133). Although there's no guarantee that the new styling will increase your score, you will intimidate and impress your opponents.

Colossus adds new Venom and Window chassis

PC tower chassis maker BitFenix is introducing two new variants to its Colossus line of PC towers, Colossus Venom and Colossus Window. It...