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The release of Speed Dreams 1.4 is very close, most bugs are fixed, artwork is done. New the project is on Twitter too and will bring you fresh news and links about the game:
http://twitter.com/speed_dreams
The commercial and fast RAW convertor Bible 5 is available for purchase or as a trial. Bible 5 ships with a bunch of new features. Soon a light version of Bible 5 will be available too.
A first alpha of RawTherapee 3.0 is available too and is now official anounced as GPLed software
May some people noticed that there are not much posts these times. I'm (and of cource others too) working hard on the final release of Speed Dreams (formaly known as TORCS-NG). Speed Dreams is a much improved fork of the racing game TORCS.
At Xmas 2009 we released 1.4.0 beta, which is available at PlayDeb.net as a binary for Ubuntu gamers too. Until that i started a lot of texture improvements. So you can be looking forward to a very nice final release of Speed Dreams on mid of January 2010.
Seperate+ for Gimp, a plugin that sepeartes color channels to layers and allows you to attach color profiles, is now available as version 0.5.5. This release adds again interesting color features:
* separate
- Change Embedded profile priority configuration in Separate and Proof functions to the default
- Support file export of JPEG and Photoshop PSD formats
- Allow to specify whether the file is compressed or not when the file is exported
- Allow to designate a profile of the destination color space as null
when a devicelink profile is used in Separate dialog
- Fix a rendering bug when color separation under the condition that Preserve pure black
is enabled for layers containing alpha channel
- Fix crash when an image whose height is less than 64 pixels is exported in TIFF format
* IccButton
- Change priorities of locations from which profiles are searched (Windows, Mac OS X)
- Enable to acquire the path of the system profile folder using API of ICM (Windows)
- Fix a bug which characters contained a path of a selected profile make a record of
history occasionally unsuccessful
* Update message catalogs in Japanese and Russian
With the release of the development snapshot of version 2.29.3 gEdit is moving forward to 2.30 which will be released in April 2010.
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote a interesting post about auto completion features that will come. Jesse van den Kieboom shows in a screencast amazing features of multiediting too.
Besides that two really nice plugins, that will improve your workflow with many files, are available at the gEdit Plugins Page: Tabs Enhanced and TabSwitch. Both allowing you to configure the behavior of the file tabs like:
* using Ctrl+Tabulator key to switch through files
* Middle click on tabs for closing files
* Closing gEdit when any file tab is closed
* Do not show file tab bar when only one file is opened
After a longer break a maintance release of Gogh 0.12.3 is available. Besides that the Gogh Project has moved to Google Code.
Gogh is a an bitmap graphics editor for artists. It is designed to work with pressure-sensitive input devices, like a Wacom tablet. An alternative to Gogh is MyPaint.
Today TYPO3 4.3 hit the streets with a lot of new nice features:
* Mass uploader
* AJAX Frontend Editing
* Optimized performance
* Improved security
* Integrated System Scheduler
* Improved caching framework
* Improved recycling of deleted records
* New templating engine
...and much, much more!
Besides that fantastic release the important tt_news extensions is released as version 3.0 which brings a lot of improvements too.
But that's not all: Templa Voila 1.4.0, another very important extension, hit the streets.
So the TYPO3 development is very active this time
This year again the german Ubucon took place in October in Göttingen. I didn't have have time to be there but now various image galleries are online.
On one picture i saw the Ubuntu flyer Germany first time in real life! Now i know that it really exists
At the beginning of that week i wrote a post about the upcoming Xmind 3.1, now it is available for download at the Xmind-Website. Xmind 3.1. shipped with:
* Presentation Mode
* Better theme behavior and default themes
* Brainstorm mode
* Improved search capabilities
* Improved Sorting
* Gant-Chart and Tasks
A bad detail is that half of the new features are only available in the commercial Pro version.
A month ago i wrote a post about the interesting interface idea of 10/GUI. Today i found an interesting Touch Interface concept for Mobiles: Emblaze's First Else
After a longer developing step and 4 prereleases, Inkscape 0.47 is now available as final. This version ships with huge improvements, to much to describe them here so check out the screens and release notes.
Hopefully this final will be available for ubuntu Karmic soon
May many Blender heads know that there is always a dev build of Blender at Graphicall.org, but now a first official alpha of the new Blender 2.5 is released.
3D artists that hate the old interface of Blender should definetly check out the new version! I tested the Alpha0 myself and it was running fast and very stable. The new Blender 2.5 interface looks quite amazing.
By studing the timeline and documentation you will see this is just a beginning and we get a lot but we will get much more
The first TYPO3 User eXperience Week is over. A lot of interesting projects that will improve the usability of TYPO3 will come. I wish i could be there A short summery can be found at the TYPO3 news website.
At the beginning of the year i wrote a post about the brilliant mindmapping software Xmind. A lot of the new features of the upcoming XMind 3.1 are illustrated at the developer blog.
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The accepted Google Summer of Code 2010 (GSOC) projects are out. My favorites are at the list 
May some people noticed that there are not much posts these times. I'm (and of cource others too) working hard on the final release of Speed Dreams (formaly known as TORCS-NG). Speed Dreams is a much improved fork of the racing game TORCS.
Seperate+ for Gimp, a plugin that sepeartes color channels to layers and allows you to attach color profiles, is now available as version 0.5.5. This release adds again interesting color features:
Today TYPO3 4.3 hit the streets with a lot of new nice features:
At the beginning of that week i wrote a post about the upcoming Xmind 3.1, now it is available for download at the Xmind-Website. Xmind 3.1. shipped with:
After a longer developing step and 4 prereleases, Inkscape 0.47 is now available as final. This version ships with huge improvements, to much to describe them here so check out the screens and release notes.
May many Blender heads know that there is always a dev build of Blender at Graphicall.org, but now a first official alpha of the new Blender 2.5 is released.
If you like the Gnome Desktop (which ships by Ubuntu) and you buy often books online then buy your books next time at the Gnome Amazon Store to support the Gnome Desktop!
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