Adobe PhotoShop CS5 12.0.4
Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation:
· Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. And use the revolutionary new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.
Auto-blending of images enhanced:
· Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point - with options to preserve tones and colors - into a single color-corrected image.
Masks panel:
· Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
Better raw image processing enhanced:
· Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
Extended depth of field:
· Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
Industry-leading color correction:
· Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.
Auto-alignment of layers:
· Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
File display options:
· Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views.
Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7.5 in India
Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) in India that has new Metro UI, Live Tiles and Hubs. The application icons have been replaced by Live Tiles on the Windows Phone start screen that offers real-time updates from the Web such as news, applications, appointments or the status of friends. There are hubs that offer integrated experience by offering related content such as images, games, office etc. into a single view.
Groups – Create Groups, pin your top Groups to Start to see everyone’s latest status updates and to send quick texts, emails, or IMs to the whole Group.
Threads - Start with a text, and finish in Facebook or Messenger chat (or vice versa). The whole conversation stays in one thread
Internet Explorer Mobile - It features hardware acceleration for faster, smoother web browsing
Multitasking – Switch between open apps easily
Custom ringtones – Create your own ringtones using MP3 and WMA files
Pictures Hub and Camera – Use the camera button to snap a quick pic, even when your phone is locked. Then share, tweet, text, or email it, all from one place
Music and Video Hub – Wirelessly Synchronize music and stream or download new tunes from Marketplace
Office Hub – It has mobile versions of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint for working on the go. These can synchronised back to SkyDrive, Office 365 or SharePoint sites.
Market Hub – Easily discover and load the phone with certified applications and games
Games Hub – Get Xbox LIVE experience on a phone, including Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight feed and the ability to see a gamer’s avatar, Achievements and gamer profile
Outlook Mobile - Create multiple inboxes and then pin them to Start to keep tabs on the incoming mail
Visual voicemail – See your voicemails in a list, then listen to them on your phone
Once Click Search - Press the Search button to search anything in Bing, or use Bing Maps to find an address or get direction
Every Windows Phone device is powered by the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile processor and comes with a dedicated hardware button for Bing Search. Microsoft has revealed a range of Windows Phone devices in India with HTC Radar being the first to launch followed by the devices from Samsung, Acer and Nokia coming soon.
Safari 5.1
Safari 5.1More browsing space: Safari is designed to emphasize the browsing, not the browser. The browser frame is a single pixel wide. You see a scroll bar only when needed. By default, there's no status bar. Instead, a progress indicator turns as your page loads. You'll find tabs at the very top of the browser, opening an even wider window for viewing websites. A great browser, Safari lets you simply enjoy the web.
Find the sites you need: Looking for a site you visited in the past but can't quite remember? Use Full History Search to quickly find sites using even the sketchiest search terms. And when you click a web page in Cover Flow, it's because you've already recognized it as the site you were looking for. No more guessing. Innovative features like these show you how good browsing can be.
Satisfy your need for speed: The world's fastest browser, Safari has speed to burn. Why should you wait for pages to load? You want to see those search results, get the latest news, check current stock prices, right now.
Opera-Next-12 (Opera “Wahoo”)
Don’t Use Expired Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 M3 - After March 8, 2012
As is the case with all pre-release software, and Windows 8 Build 8102 M3 is as pre-release as it gets, Windows Developer Preview is time-bombed.
This means that Microsoft has slapped an expiration date onto the first public test Build of Windows 8.
According to the information offered via the “About Windows” dialog box in one of the test copies of Windows 8 Developer Preview deployed here at Softpedia, the expiration deadline is March 12, 2012.
However, the EULA, or end user license agreement tells a story that’s a tad different, offering another expiration date, a few days ahead of the one revealed by “About Windows.”
“The term of this agreement will expire on March 8, 2012 (“the expiration date”),” reads an excerpt of the Windows 8 Developer Preview license terms.
But the additional details that the Windows 8 Build 8102 M3 EULA contains are very interesting. It appears that the rights of early adopters testing the Windows Developer Preview will be drastically limited after the Build expires, namely after March 8, 2012.
As readers will be able to read below, the EULA covers not only Windows 8 Build 8102 M3 but also the applications that ship with it.
“You have no right to use the software after the expiration date. Starting from the expiration date, you may not be able to access any unsaved data used with the software. Any applications you receive through the Windows Store will also cease to be available to you in future versions, unless they are made available for re-download and you re-acquire them. You may not receive any other notice,” the software giant reveals.
As far as I’m concerned, testers have little to worry about. I’m more than sure that Microsoft will have already provided Windows 8 Beta before Windows Developer Preview expires, so testers will have a new toy to play with.
Windows 8 Is Windows 6.2
Don’t be surprised if Microsoft ends up making the successor of Windows 8, Windows 6.3, because most likely, this is the plan.
The Windows OS version increment can be a source of incompatibilities with existing applications, especially if they’re designed to check for upper bound OS version.
Microsoft is simply doing away with some potential compatibility issues by keeping versioning changes as small as possible.
Remember how well Vista apps ran on Windows 7? Well, the promise from Microsoft is that Windows 7 applications will play just as nice on Windows 8.
“The internal version number for Windows Developer Preview and Windows Server Developer Preview is 6.2. All of the versioning APIs will return this version number (GetVersion, GetVersionEx),” the company said.
This is an important piece of information for app developers that can easily tweak their projects in order to make sure that users will have no problems running them on Windows 8.
It’s also good practice for the Windows client that will succeed Windows 8, let’s call it Windows 9 since they’re all codenames after all, and for which Microsoft will use a similar versioning strategy.
Here’s what devs need to keep in mind when it comes to ensuring that their apps deal with the version change in Windows 8:
“Generally, apps should not perform operating system version checks. If an app needs a specific feature, it is preferable to try to find the feature, and fail only if the needed feature is missing.
“At a minimum, apps should always accept version numbers greater than or equal to the lowest supported version of the operating system. Exceptions should occur only if there is a specific legal, business, or system-component requirement.
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