Huawei Honor 3X, smartphone octa-core Rp 3 jutaan

Merdeka.com - Huawei baru saja merilis smartphone high-end terbaru yang bakal beredar di pasaran dengan harga terjangkau.

Dilansir VR-Zone (16/12), smartphone Huawei Honor 3X ini sendiri dikabarkan akan beredar di pasarkan ke pasaran dengan mengusung prosesor quad-core dan dibanderol kurang dari Rp 4 juta.

Untuk spesifikasi lengkapnya, Huawei Honor 3X akan dibekali layar 5,5 inci, prosesor octa-core Cortex A7, RAM 3GB, kamera belakang 13MP, kamera depan 5MP, fitur dual SIM, dan baterai dengan kapasitas daya 3.000 mAh.

Berdasarkan lansiran tersebut, Huawei Honor 3X ini akan beredar di pasaran nantinya dengan harga USD 280 atau setara Rp 3,3 juta.

http://www.merdeka.com/teknologi/huawei-honor-3x-smartphone-octa-core-rp-3-jutaan.html

tampilan layar Nokia 'Android' Normandy

Merdeka.com - Nokia Normandy yang akan menjadi smartphone Android pertama dari perusahaan asal Finlandia ini semakin nyata kehadirannya dengan beberapa foto terbaru dari handset tersebut.

Jika sebelumnya Evleaks telah menguak tampilan antar muka atau user interface pada bagian layar utama Normandy. Kini VR-Zone (13/1) juga mengunggah foto tampilan menu Nokia Normandy pengusung OS Android 4.4 KitKat ini.

Dari tampilan tersebut, terlihat jika Nokia Normandy akan mengusung ikon menu warna-warni yang dikemas dalam tampilan yang sederhana. Tampilan Nokia Normandy ini juga sangat berbeda dengan tampilan antar muka smartphone Android buatan produsen smartphone lain (gambar atas).

Selain itu, dikutip dari tweet akun Evleaks (13/1), nantinya smartphone Android Nokia ini dikabarkan juga akan tetap mengusung tampilan khas Metro UI pada perangkat Windows Phone di smartphone Normandy ini (gambar bawah).

Untuk spesifikasinya, Nokia Normandy akan mengusung prosesor Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 SoC, layar berukuran 4 inci FWVGA, kamera 5MP dan operating system Android 4.4.1 KitKat.

Bahkan rumornya, smartphone ini akan diperkenalkan ke publik bersamaan dengan dihelatnya Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 di Barcelona bulan depan.

http://www.merdeka.com/teknologi/mengintip-tampilan-layar-nokia-android-normandy.html

Simple Screen Recorder Makes Screencasting on Linux Easy

Whether you’re wanting to make a video tutorial, capture an interface quirk for a bug report, or looking to show off your gaming prowess, there are a bunch of screen-recording tools available for Ubuntu.

While apps like GTK Record My Desktop and Kazam are popular they are not necessarily the best. Results can vary.

The Qt-based SimpleScreenRecorder isn’t as well known as those above, and while it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, or redefine usability, what it does do it does well. Very well, in fact.

It can be used to record the whole of your desktop to a set size, or just a specific section using a fixed-size rectangle or ‘follow mouse’. Even better, it can be used to capture directly from OpenGL applications – a feature that game-casters will be excited to toy with.

Other notable features of the app include:

• Record whole screen or OpenGL apps directly 
• Keeps audio and video in sync
• Automatically reduces frame rate on slow computers
• Multi-threaded app
• Pause/Resume recording
• Optional audio recording 
• Video scaling

The main app window lets you can keep an eye on burgeoning file-size, frame rate, time, etc. during recording.

SimpleScreenRecorder‘s developer claims that his app is faster and easier to use than other solutions, like VLC and libav/ffmpeg (of which it uses the latter for encoding). Whether you agree with him will depend on your own personal preference.

As screencasting apps for Ubuntu go this app certainly ranks as one of the best.

Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu 12.04 & Up

Want it? The app is free and can be installed on Ubuntu 12.04 and up by adding its dedicated PPA to your Software Sources.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorde

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/simple-screen-recorder-linux

Did the NSA Ask Linus Torvalds To Include Backdoors In Linux? His Father Says Yes

The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) are alleged to have to asked the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, to create ‘backdoors’ into GNU/Linux through which they could access.  

Far from being a rumour, word of the approach comes via Linus’ father, Nils Torvalds.

As a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Nils was present at recent committee inquiry held on the “Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens”. Here, representatives from a number of companies named in documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden were questioned about their own (alleged) involvement.

Following a question put to a Microsoft spokeswoman by Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström on whether the company willingly include “backdoors” for the NSA in their system, Nils Torvalds MEP said:

When my oldest son [Linus Torvalds] was asked the same question: “Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?” he said “No”, but at the same time he nodded. Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer …everybody understood that the NSA had approached him.

Shocked? Angry? Unsurprised?

Following on from allegations that Google, Yahoo! Facebook and, indeed, Microsoft are among the many companies wilfully cooperating with the agency to provide “backdoor” access to their systems, this revelation is far from earth-shattering. In fact, is makes sense in the grand scheme of things. After all, why wouldn’t the NSA ask Linus to do this?

While Nils doesn’t explain how Linus responded – I’d like to think it involved two fingers – we can be sure that it, at the very least, involved an explanation of how open source prevents something like that being possible.

If any holes were left around for the NSA’s overly-long tentacles to creep into, you can bet your bottom dollar that they’d have been found, exposed and rooted out long before now.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/nsa-ask-linus-torvalds-include-backdoors-linux-father-says-yes

SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 Release Candidate Revved Up And Ready for Testing

Hands up if you don’t like open-source racing game SuperTuxKart? You, folks, are strange.

As kart-racers go, it’s one of the most popular freely available. And for good reason: it’s fun, easy to play and has a dedicated team of developers who are continually adding to and improving what is already a really polished game.

But it’s getting even better. The first release candidate of build 0.8.1 – the first update since last year’s 0.8 build – has been made available for testing (for ‘testing’ see ‘excuse to play it for hours and not feel guilty’).

SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 adds a number of improvements, including:

• A new Star Trek themed track “STK Enterprise”
• Three tracks updated (‘Old Mines’, ‘Lighthouse’ & ‘Zen Garden’)
• New ‘Egg Hunt’ and ‘Soccer’ modes
• New and updated karts
• New difficulty level
• Bubblegum shield weapon
• Option to save and resume Grand Prix mode 
• WiiMote Support

Geting SuperTuxKart 0.8.1

No release date has been given on when to expect the final, stable release of 0.8.1 but I’d expect it to land sometime in December – marking one year from the previous release in the 0.8.x series.

In the meantime, if you’re okay with “Release Candidate”-quality software, you’ll find a pre-compiled binary for Linux over on the project’s Sourceforge Page.

Download SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 Release Candidate

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/supertux-kart-0-8-1-release-candidate

How to create desktop shortcut or launcher on Linux

If you have a program you use regularly on Linux desktop, you may want to create a "desktop shortcut", so you can launch the program by simply clicking on the shortcut. While most GUI programs automatically create their desktop shortcut during installation, GUI programs built from their source or terminal applications may require you to set up associated shortcuts manually.
In this tutorial, I will describe how to create a desktop shortcut or launcher on various Linux desktops.
A desktop shortcut is represented by a corresponding .desktop file which contains meta information of a given app (e.g., name of the app, launch command, location of icon file, etc.). Desktop shortcut files are placed in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications. The former directory stores desktop shortcuts that are available for every user, while the latter folder contains shortcuts created for a particular user only.

Create a Desktop Shortcut From the Command Line

To manually create a desktop shortcut for a particular program or command, you can create a .desktop file using any text editor, and place it in either /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications. A typical .desktop file looks like the following.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0                                     # version of an app.
Name[en_US]=yEd                                 # name of an app.
GenericName=GUI Port Scanner                    # longer name of an app.
Exec=java -jar /opt/yed-3.11.1/yed.jar          # command used to launch an app.
Terminal=false                                  # whether an app requires to be run in a terminal.
Icon[en_US]=/opt/yed-3.11.1/icons/yicon32.png   # location of icon file.
Type=Application                                # type.
Categories=Application;Network;Security;        # categories in which this app should be listed.
Comment[en_US]=yEd Graph Editor                 # comment which appears as a tooltip.

Besides manually create .desktop file, there are various desktop-specific ways to create an application shortcut, which I am going to cover in the rest of the tutorial.

Create a Desktop Shortcut on GNOME Desktop

In GNOME desktop, you can use gnome-desktop-item-edit to configure a desktop shortcut easily.

$ gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/.local/share/applications --create-new

In this example, gnome-desktop-item-edit will automatically create a desktop launcher file in ~/.local/share/applications. To customize icon location and other info, you may have to edit the .desktop file manually afterward.
If gnome-desktop-item-edit is not available (e.g., on Ubuntu), you can install it as follows.

$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

Create a Desktop Shortcut on KDE Desktop

kickoff is the default application launcher in KDE desktop. Adding a new application shortcut to kickoff is straightforward.
First right-click on kickoff icon located at the left bottom corner of your desktop, and then choose "Edit Applications" menu.

Click on an appropriate category (e.g., "Utilities") under which you want to create a shortcut, and click on "New Item" button on the top. Type in the name of the app.

Finally, fill in the meta information of the app being launched by the shortcut.

Create a Desktop Shortcut on Xfce Desktop

If you are on Xfce desktop, right-click on the desktop background, and then select "Create Launcher" menu. Then fill out the details of the shortcut.

Create a Desktop Shortcut on Cinnamon Desktop

If you are on Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop, you can create an application launcher by right-clicking on the desktop background, and selecting "Create Launcher" menu.

Create a Desktop Shortcut on LXDE Desktop

On LXDE desktop, simply right click on the desktop background, and choose "Create New Shortcut".




 


http://xmodulo.com/2013/11/create-desktop-shortcut-launcher-linux.html