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It’s not news that Linux became a very popular OS among the average computer users and with several good Linux distributions available, Linux has also become a preferred operating system. A such Linux distribution is Mandriva and I’m sure many of you are familiar with it as it combines the Linux power with stability and ease of use.

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Microsoft released 2 days ago the Touchless SDK multi-touch technology. This basically means that developers will have the possibility of building multi-touch applications using a webcam and a color marker. Utilizing the webcam, applications can track the location and size of the color marker to enable multi-touch functionality without touching a surface, as stated by Microsoft.

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Developers will be thrilled, Microsoft announced recently the pre-beta launch of the anticipated WIndows 7 operating system. Windows 7 attempts to “wash” the fiasco generated by Windows Vista at its release, but some are still very skeptical regarding this new WIndows version.

Developers will have the chance to see the new Windows 7 Alpha in action at the Professional Developers Conference in October. With his pre-beta launch, Microsoft clearly wants to stay on track with the final release, scheduled in 2010.

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Today, Adobe announced the launch of the new CS4 application suite, which contains the following:

- Photoshop CS4

- Illustrator CS4

- Flash CS4

- Dreamweaver CS4

- Indesign CS4

- After Effects CS4

- Premiere CS4

- Fireworks CS4

- Encore CS4

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If you were wondering when will the Beta testing for Yahoo Messenger 9.0 will end, well, it did. The long expected Yahoo Messenger 9.0 entered the stable release phase and it’s available for download.

Yahoo Messenger 9 has a more stylish interface, more spaced, better bolded and with bigger avatars. You have also the possibility to change the theme of Yahoo Messenger, changing its skin easyly with just 1 button. YM now also updates your status with your recent activity on your Yahoo services such as: MyBlogLog, Yahoo 360 etc.

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Scott Fahlman - The "Smiley" fatherThis started in 1982, September 19, when Scott Fahlman posts the folloing messages to Carnegie Mellon University’s BBS board:
“From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

: -)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:
: -( ”

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Hello, I’m a PC, is the start of the new Microsoft ad campaign. After dumping the not-so-funny Jerry Seinfeld-Bill Gates duo, Microsoft launched their next level Microsoft ad. In this new commercial, Microsoft underlines (bolded) the PC and its worldwide use.

I must say that the new campaign, while going more corporate, is far more better than the previous Gates-Seinfeld ads.

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Google intends to buy game maker Valve Software, according to The Inquirer. Analysts report that Google wants to aquire Valve only for their Steam Powered Techology, which has alone thousands of online users. Valve’s Steam, is a content distribution platform, which sells..alot!

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