LibreOffice 4.3 bèta 2

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LibreOffice logo (60 pix)De Document Foundation heeft de tweede bètarelease van versie 4.3 van LibreOffice uitgebracht. Dit opensource-officepakket is ontstaan als een afsplitsing van OpenOffice en wordt geleverd met tekstverwerker Writer, spreadsheetprogramma Calc, presentatieprogramma Impress, tekenprogramma Draw, databaseprogramma Base en Formula, een applicatie om wetenschappelijke notaties mee te maken. Een overzicht van de veranderingen en verbeteringen die we in versie 4.3, die als alles goed gaat eind juli beschikbaar komt, tegemoet kunnen zien is op deze pagina te vinden. Dit is een klein stuk daaruit:

Writer

  • Raise limit of characters in paragraphs
    Raise the 16bit (65,535) characters limitation of Writer paragraphs to 32bit (2,147,483,647). Especially useful in locales where there is a requirement to record minutes of meetings in a single paragraph. fdo#30668, i#17171
  • Moved Navigation buttons
    The Navigation buttons have been moved from below the scrollbar to the Find bar
  • Drawing objects increase/decrease font size
    Add Increase/Decrease font functionality to drawing objects. commit
  • DrawingML import/export
    Brand new drawingML-based DOCX import/export filter for shapes and TextFrames. For more details, see this blog entry.
  • Import/Export nested comments
    Import and export of nested comments in the ODF, DOC, DOCX and RTF filters i#123792
  • Proportion image scaling
    Images are now scaled proportionally by default, free resizing is available holding ? Shift. fdo#71669
  • Light Blue for Non-printing characters
    Use “light blue” color for Non-printing Characters fdo#68071
  • Progress bar for DOCX import
    DOCX import now has a progressbar fdo#58044
  • Relative text frame anchoring improvements
    Multiple relations are now supported for relative text frames. For more details, see this blog entry.
  • Printing comments in margins
    Comments can now be printed next to the text in the right margin as they appear on screen. Each page is scaled down in order to make space for the comments to fit on the underlying paper size. fdo#36815
  • Format all comments
    The character properties of all comments can be set at the same time now in order to reformat all comments in a document at the same time.

Calc

  • Border highlight on multiple instances of the same cell, when selecting a formula, now get same color. After calculating a long formula, the cells can be easily referenced with the formula, as they get the same color i.e., the highlight of the cell and the name of the cell in the formula. fdo#52461
  • When selecting cells, the number of selected rows and columns is shown in the status bar. fdo#64290
  • Sheet tab area: when expanding the space available for sheet tabs make better use of that.
  • Allow starting of cell edit with the content of the cell above it as its initial content. It is bound to the Ctrl+' (single quote) key by default.

Formula engine

  • Added GAMMA.DIST, GAMMA.INV and GAMMALN.PRECISE spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#71936
  • Added LOGNORM.DIST, LOGNORM.INV, NORM.DIST, NORM.INV, NORM.S.DIST and NORM.S.INV spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#72158
  • Added T.DIST, T.DIST.2T, T.DIST.RT, T.INV, T.INV.2T and T.TEST spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#72793
  • Added PERCENTILE.EXC, PERCENTILE.INC, PERCENTRANK.EXC, PERCENTRANK.INC, QUARTILE.EXC, QUARTILE.INC, RANK.EQ and RANK.AVG spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#73146
  • Added MODE.SNGL, MODE.MULT, NEGBINOM.DIST and Z.TEST spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#72197
  • Added FLOOR.PRECISE, CEILING.PRECISE and ISO.CEILING spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#71720
  • Added NETWORKDAYS.INTL and WORKDAY.INTL spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#73147
  • Added ERF.PRECISE and ERFC.PRECISE spreadsheet functions for Excel interoperability. fdo#73149

Impress and Draw

  • Number of Pages
    Hidden slides are no longer included in the “Number of pages” counting field, to avoid confusion. fdo#74383
  • Fit slide to window
    Add an icon to the statusbar to allow fitting the current slide to window with a single click
  • Slide Pane selected/unselected slides with mouse over
    It is now possible to distinguish between selected and unselected slides when the mouse over highlight activates rhbz#1096295

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XBMC 13.0 Gotham rises

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The dark night of waiting is finally over. Because here it is. The stable release of XBMC 13.0 Gotham edition. It has been months of hard work, improvements and testing since the 12.x releases. There have been around 530 commits (chunks of code change) done by 51 developers during this time. Also a large group of translators who aided in making the user interface available in your local language. So we would like to thank every one, inside and outside of Team XBMC for their hard work and effort to make this possible. Not to forget all users who have been using the monthly and nightly builds, helping us test this upcoming release, and all third-party software libraries we use.

The past year we have kept you informed with our monthly blog posts of all the exciting new features added to this final release. Now, let’s review a few of those features we’re particularly excited about.

 

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XBMC Media Center 13.0 bèta 4

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De ontwikkeling van XBMC Media Center versie 13.0 is bij de vierde bètarelease aangeland. Deze crossplatform-mediacentersoftware wordt ontwikkeld voor Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, AppleTV en de Raspberry Pi. Versie 13.0, die codenaam Gotham heeft gekregen, bevat een groot aantal veranderingen. Zo is er onder meer hardware-decoding in Android en ondersteuning voor 3d-materiaal, en zijn er flinke verbeteringen aan de audio-engine doorgevoerd. Ondersteuning voor Windows XP is komen te vervallen. De release notes voor bèta 4 zien er als volgt uit:

XBMC 13.0 Gotham – Beta 4

With Beta 4 we are only looking at bug fixing rather than features. Further down we will list several of the more important fixes that have been added since last beta. Hopefully Beta 4 will be the last one, before we will enter Release Candidate stage. This means final release is nearing.

For a full run down of the major features of XBMC 13, as well as a review of the hazards of switching to XBMC 13, see our Beta 1 post. The list of all Gotham related news can be found here listing all past blog posts.

Fixes

  • Fix unwanted volume restore on Airplay volume
  • Fix occasional crashing on GUI language changing
  • Don’t drain Wii battery by disabling motion sensing
  • Fix various problems when using NFS as media source
  • Restore the music background playback ability for iOS
  • Improved support for Amazon Fire-TV
  • Fix various playback issues on Android
  • Fix double application of 16-235 correction on DXVA-HD.
  • Other fixes

XBMC Media Center 13.0 bèta

Novell GroupWise 2014

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Features

Home View

As the information age rolls forward, even the most productive users struggle to keep up. With business-critical data housed in so many systems and places, the simplest task requires switching between a multitude of applications. We think there’s a better solution than Alt-Tab to this digital-age challenge. Novell GroupWise gives you a Home View—a personal productivity dashboard that consolidates the tools and web applications you interact with most for any given aspect of your work. From emails to your boss and daily appointments to RSS feeds and team workspaces, you can grab what matters most and put it front and center.

Messaging

Send and receive email messages, phone messages and reminder notes. And if this sounds passé, remember that email is still king when it comes to enabling personal productivity. In fact, a recent Osterman Research study found that the typical corporate user spends nearly 30% of an eight-hour workday doing email-related tasks. And this figure dwarfs the time spent using other communication tools. The bottom line is that messaging is the linchpin of personal productivity, and no one does it better than GroupWise.
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Horizon View 5.3.1 Is Here and Supports VMware Virtual SAN

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By Narasimha Krishnakumar, Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware

On behalf of everyone in the End-User-Computing (EUC) team at VMware, I’m proud to bring to you an exciting product announcement from EUC, just in time for the other Virtual-SAN-related announcements from VMware!

Today, VMware announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 and I’d like to take a moment to also introduce Horizon View 5.3.1. With this release, we are continuing the tradition of rapidly introducing innovations to market. And, now, the details:

 

  • Horizon View 5.3.1 supports VMware Virtual SAN 5.5. VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 is a component of VMware vSphere 5.5U1.
  • Horizon View 5.3.1 when used with VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 has been shown to reduce the total CAPEX cost of storage by up to 50%.
  • Horizon View 5.3.1 GA is intended for use with Virtual SAN 5.5 datastores only. There are no other new features in Horizon View 5.3.1 besides support for Virtual SAN 5.5.
  • Customers can purchase a Virtual SAN 5.5 license to deploy Horizon View 5.3.1.

Using Horizon View 5.3.1 with Virtual SAN 5.5

Using Horizon View 5.3.1 with Virtual SAN 5.5 is a simple three-step process:

1. Set up a cluster of vSphere 5.5U1 nodes (minimum 3) with at-least one SSD and one hard disk in each of the nodes. It is best to use the same number of drives on each ESXi node and keep the environment homogeneous.

2. Enable Virtual SAN using the vSphere Web Client interface as shown in Figure 2. Select Turn ON Virtual SAN.

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Figure 2: vSphere Web Client Interface Showing Cluster Settings

3. Create a Horizon View desktop pool using the standard workflow. When presented with the option to select a datastore for virtual machines, select the datastore with type vsan as shown in Figure 3.

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Figure 3: Selecting a Virtual SAN Datastore

After these steps are performed, Horizon View 5.3.1 will start using the vsanDatastore to store the VMDKs of the virtual desktops, delivering an ultra-low desktop TCO and great end-user experience.

For more details on deploying and using Virtual SAN 5.5 with Horizon View 5.3.1, refer to the Knowledge Base article Horizon View 5.3.1 on VMware Virtual SAN – Quick Start Guide.

For the latest performance results on Horizon View 5.3.1 with VMware Virtual SAN, see VDI Performance Benchmarking on VMware Virtual SAN 5.5.

XBMC Media Center 13.0 bèta 2

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XBMC logo (27 pix)Hij zweefde al een paar dagen op internet, maar de tweede bètarelease van XBMC Media Center versie 13.0 is nu ook officieel op de website van XBMC beschikbaar gekomen. Deze crossplatform-mediacentersoftware wordt ontwikkeld voor Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, AppleTV en de Raspberry Pi. Versie 13.0, die codenaam Gotham heeft gekregen, bevat een groot aantal veranderingen. Zo is er onder meer hardware decoding in Android en ondersteuning voor 3d-materiaal, en zijn er flinke verbeteringen aan de audio-engine doorgevoerd. De release notes voor bèta 2 zien er als volgt uit:

Fixes

  • Subtitles for videos over http should now support the same subtitle functions supported by local media (Note: Certain subtitle issues will only be fixed when non-default skins provide updates. Other fixes are in the works.)
  • Rockchip devices on Android will no longer cause XBMC to crash occasionally during playback
  • PVR Programming Guide cleanups
  • AudioEngine improvements to handling AC3 and DTS, as well as smarter handling in Android and intelligent EAC3 recognition
  • Crash on exit should be fixed on various platforms
  • JSON-RPC file listing fixes
  • DXVA fixes in Windows for older Intel GPUs
  • Wording and grammar fixes throughout the UI

Additional Features Not Mentioned in Beta 1 Announcement

As some users have rightly noted, while almost every major feature has been highlighted in some form or other in the various monthly blog posts, not all of them were discussed in the Beta 1 blog. The following is a list of a few of those that probably deserve a second round of attention. (Additionally. there are a few XBMC 13 features that are not quite working now, due to changes such as the iOS 7 update. We will hold off discussing those until the bugs have all been worked out.) For now, however:

  • When initiating a library cleaning, XBMC will send a wake-on-lan request to any sleeping servers first, before cleaning the library, to ensure that content isn’t unnecessarily cleaned
  • Numerous PVR fixes and updates with additional new features updated on a per-platform basis. For more info, check out our PVR wiki page
  • Copy/paste support on Windows, OSX, and iOS to match copy/paste support elsewhere
  • Movie sets are now user editable
  • Episodic bookmarks – If episodes are not broken into individual parts (e.g. Adventure episode 1 and 2 are in the same video file), a bookmark can be set that will cause launching episode 2 from the UI to go directly to the bookmark in the video file

XBMC Media Center 13.0 bèta