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A blog for designer, artists and developers programming websites, painting icons, creating multimedia content, doing dtp or constructing in 3D space using (Ubuntu) Linux.
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.
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! PS: Available in many languages!
At familie redlich :systeme we do not care only about SEO and a perfect Typo3-based website, we care much about the customers needs and business workflow too. So developed an in-house standard that features anything needed for TYPO3 editors. Besides the typical features like versioning, workspaces, groups, workflows and a perfect rich text editor - our websites ships now with a cool, clean, easy to use backend skin: Compared with the admin standard TYPO3 interface this is a big step forward for editors using TYPO3 CMS. These screens illustrates again that TYPO3 can be very user friendly when it is setted up by pros
The Gnome Color Management project has now it's own website. GNOME Color Manager is a session framework for the GNOME desktop environment that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles. They integrated ArgyllCMS for calibrating devices. A lot of the progress and the details can be found on Richard Hughes blog too.
This year seems to be a year of operating systems. There was Ubuntu Jaunty, Moblin 2, the announcement of Chrome OS, Snow Leopard from Apple, WebOS for the Palm Pre and Windows 7. Besides the release of Jaunty all these releases has no real impact to me but today i switched to Ubuntu Karmic Koala which is another fine Ubuntu release - and that rocks me
Blender 2.5 will render up to two times faster then 2.49. This render optimizations is done by Jaguarandi and his Google summer of code 2009 project. Thanks! Take a look at this video:
The Blender Foundation have received sponsorship and will hire Matt Ebb as a full-time Blender developer for 9 months and may longer to work on Blender 2.5. The sponsor is unknown.
UFRaw is released as version 0.16 as a standalone programm and as a GIMP plugin including more OpenMP (multiprocessor) support, updated translations and mor commandline options.
Bibble 5 Preview 2 Bibble Labs has released a 2nd preview of their upcoming RAW software Bible 5. Bibble is a commercial RAW converter.
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At the GIMPusers community you will find a brief summery about the features that will ship with GIMP 2.8. At all GIMP 2.8 looks promising. I hope we will get some other yet undocumented surprisings too 
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!
Since my post "Pixel 1.0 final next year" and "Pixel 1.0: Release soon or Vaporware again?" a lot of time goes by without a final release of the image editor Pixel. Now Pawel Kanzelsberger wrote "...Pixel Studio Pro is still not ready for market release (and we’re working hard to prepare it for the market)".
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