This video is the best-look yet at the slick OpenGL-accelerated OS from Else (formerly Emblaze) and Access (who developed a next-gen Palm OS before Palm ditched it for their own). The big news: The First Else phone arrives next-year. Confusingly, the name of Else's first phone is actually "First Else". As we mentioned in October, the phone has a 3.5-inch (480 x 854-pixel) touchscreen display, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 5-megapixel camera (capable of 480p video at 30fps). It's also very likely to have a TI OMAP 3430 processor, a 1450mAh battery, up to 32GB internal memory, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Apparently, it may only support HSDPA 3G and EDGE (no Verizon). As for the Linux-based OS, it uses a one-thumb wheel that avoids digging through menus, has GPS aware reminders, can record voice calls/messages and store them along with when the call was made, and straight-up looks sci-fi. It seems that Linux-based mobile operating systems like Android and webOS will soon have a new competitor.
Arlen Kantarian was paid more than $9 million by the United States Tennis Association in his last year as its chief executive of professional tennis, according to tax documents filed by the organization and confirmed by the U.S.T.A. Kantarian’s salary had long been a point of discussion in tennis. His base salary was $1.6 million in 2008, and he earned $2.3 million in bonuses. The remainder was $5.2 million in deferred performance-based incentives. According to the U.S.T.A. spokesman Chris Widmaier, when Kantarian resigned at the end of 2008, the association had to pay those contract obligations. The amount of Kantarian’s compensation was first reported by The Associated Press. Kantarian, now an adviser to the Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, did not respond to a request for comment.
Power manager status icon in the Notification Applet does not switch from AC power to Battery when unplugged, although the screen dims. Since it still shows as AC power, it does not show an estimate of battery time left. If it is unplugged at login, it will switch to AC power status when plugged in, but not back if unplugged again. A work around for this is to add the add the following line in /etc/rc.local before the exit 0 line
/etc/init.d/laptop-mode start service laptop-mode status
ついでに、 Video (.AVI, etc) aspect ratio is way off. Much narrower horizontally than should be. This is because Xorg incorrectly detects the physical display size as 451mm x 113mm. A workaround for this is to force it with xrandr --fbmm 195x113. This can be made persistent by creating a script /etc/gdm/Init/:0 containing:
#!/bin/sh xrandr --fbm 195x113 Make it executable with chmod 755 /etc/gdm/Init/:0.
Opera 10.10 main Features Opera Unite Use applications to share content with others in a quick and easy way. Opera Turbo Boost your speed with our powerful servers to compress Web pages, so you get them faster. Visual tabs Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your open Web pages. Customizable Speed Dial Get easy access to your favorite sites every time you open a new tab. Choose the layout and the background you prefer. Opera Link Synchronize your Speed Dial, bookmarks, notes and other useful data.