Ubuntu: the new Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft - Final Release is out!

Ubuntu 6.10 finally is out in its Final Release, you can download it from the official website:

Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop
Ubuntu 6.10 Alternate
Ubuntu 6.10 Server

You can downlaoad it also using the Torrent files:

Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop Torrent
Ubuntu 6.10 Alternate Torrent
Ubuntu 6.10 Server Torrent

Download it and enjoy.

Firefox 2.0 Final Release: the final release of Firefox version 2.0 is out!

You can download the new version of Firefox 2.0 !!! Final Release!!

Main Directory
UK English Firefox 2.0 Version
US English Firefox 2.0 Version
German Firefox 2.0 Version
French Firefox 2.0 Version
Spanish Firefox 2.0 Version
Brasilian Firefox 2.0 Version
Italian Firefox 2.0 Version
Hungarian Firefox 2.0 Version
Argentina Spanish Firefox 2.0 Version
Finnish Firefox 2.0 Version

Download it and...
Have Fun!

Canon A710 IS: Digital Camera Review and Sample Pictures - Zoom 6x Test #3

Hello guys.
Today i was in Milan (Italy) the weather was very good and I did some tests with the 6x zoom of the Canon A710 IS.

Exif Data:

• Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot A710 IS
• Shooting Mode Auto
• My Colors Mode Off
• Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/250
• Av (Aperture Value) 4.8
• Light Metering Evaluative
• Exposure Compensation 0
• ISO Speed Auto
• Lens 5.8 - 34.8 mm
• Focal Length 34.8 mm
• Digital Zoom None
• IS Mode Shoot Only
• Image Size 3072x2304
• Image Quality Superfine
• Flash Off
• White Balance Auto
• AF Mode Single AF
• Parameters
• Contrast Normal
• Sharpness Normal
• Saturation Normal
• Color Space sRGB
• File Size 4947 KB
• Drive Mode Single-frame shooting

Full Image, 6x Zoom, resampled at 12,5%:



First detail (no resampled):



Second detail (no resampled):

Canon A710 IS: Digital Camera Review and Sample Pictures - Zoom 6x Test #2

Hello guys.
Today i was in Milan (Italy) the weather was very good and I did some tests with the 6x zoom of the Canon A710 IS.

Exif Data:

• Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot A710 IS
• Shooting Mode Auto
• My Colors Mode Off
• Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/400
• Av (Aperture Value) 4.8
• Light Metering Evaluative
• Exposure Compensation 0
• ISO Speed Auto
• Lens 5.8 - 34.8 mm
• Focal Length 34.8 mm
• Digital Zoom None
• IS Mode Shoot Only
• Image Size 3072x2304
• Image Quality Superfine
• Flash Off
• White Balance Auto
• AF Mode Single AF
• Parameters
• Contrast Normal
• Sharpness Normal
• Saturation Normal
• Color Space sRGB
• File Size 2299 KB
• Drive Mode Single-frame shooting

Full Image, 6x Zoom, resampled at 12,5%:



First detail (no resampled):

Canon A710 IS: Digital Camera Review and Sample Pictures - Zoom 6x Test #1

Hello guys.
Today i was in Milan (Italy) the weather was very good and I did some tests with the 6x zoom of the Canon A710 IS.

Exif Data:

• Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot A710 IS
• Shooting Mode Auto
• My Colors Mode Off
• Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/500
• Av (Aperture Value) 4.8
• Light Metering Evaluative
• Exposure Compensation 0
• ISO Speed Auto
• Lens 5.8 - 34.8 mm
• Focal Length 34.8 mm
• Digital Zoom None
• IS Mode Shoot Only
• Image Size 3072x2304
• Image Quality Superfine
• Flash Off
• White Balance Auto
• AF Mode Single AF
• Parameters
  
• Contrast Normal
• Sharpness Normal
• Saturation Normal
• Color Space sRGB
• File Size 3599 KB
• Drive Mode Single-frame shooting

Full Image, 6x Zoom, resampled at 12,5%:



First detail (no resampled):



Second detail (no resampled):



Second detail (no resampled):

Flash Media Server: Adobe released the free 2.0.3 update!

Finally Adobe released a new update for the Flash Media Server, the new version is 2.0.3
Many bugs has been fixed in this release. You can find in the following list the release notes provided by Adobe with the complete list of the updated stuff:

[174668] Server proxy streams stopped playing when a failing remote call was made on the corresponding server-side NetConnection.

[1317845] Edge and Origin remote connections were not being closed and accumulated when clients connected to unknown instances. This could lead to exhaustion of socket handles.

[152256] Edge process was leaking memory when handling tunneling connections.

[172936] Calling "load" method with a null argument in server-side ActionScript could cause FMSCore process to crash.

[172765] When repeatedly seeking to the same position in an FLV file, the NetStream.time property was not consistent and reported slightly varying values.

[1326095] When publishing a stream to Flash Media Server, the client would get disconnected intermittently.

[1334360] Certain .mp3 files failed to play beyond a short segment at the beginning. This was due to an incorrect calculation of mp3 segments.

[1343854] Admin server crashed intermittently on shutdown when the core processes were shutting down at the same time.

[1343992] FMSCore crashed under heavy load due to a race condition in message queue handling.

[1371770] Seeking into constant bitrate mp3 files was inaccurate.

Release notes found on the Adobe website.

Flash Media Server is a great product that allows you to easily create audio/video conferences, multiplayer online games using the shared objects features and record and play different kind of multimedia files and streams.

Have fun.

Canon A710 IS: Digital Camera Review and Sample Pictures - Macro Tests

Hello guys,
i did two Macro shots.
You can see here the results.. as you can see my skills are really poor!

(50% crop to reduce file size)



(50% crop to reduce file size)

Canon A710 IS: Digital Camera Review and Sample Pictures

I've just bought the new camera Canon A710 IS, i have taken some sample picture with and without the Image Stabilizer settings.

The Original Picture:

No Zoom (and 50% crop to reduce file size)



















6x Zoom and active Image Stabilizer (and 50% crop to reduce file size):



6x Zoom and NON active Image Stabilizer (and 50% crop to reduce file size):

Mailfriends: Penpals, Postcards, Chat, Find friends for Free !

I would like to suggest you a very interesting site to find penpals and friends from all around the world. The name of that website is Mailfriends, it exists since 1998 and actually there are about 15000 active profiles!

It is absolutely FREE to create your own profile, and when you get a username, you can watch all the other people profile, send them private messages, and vote for their pictures and maybe one day you will be the hottest user of the website.

There is also a channel section in which every country of the world has its own discussion point!
and.. finally the main feature of the site is the chance to start a penpal friendship with a person from a far country! And well.. you can also find someone from your area for a dating day.

Of course to create your profile on that site, it's absolutely free.

Have fun.

Xampp: PHP + MySQL + Apache + Perl (and other stuff...) for Free!

If you are a beginner, experienced or advanced coder you can find XAMPP really useful for your development job related to PHP or Perl scripting.

XAMPP offers a very easy to install environment in which you can create quickly your next web site.

Here you can find the list of the FREE software packages included in XAMPP: Apache HTTPD, MySQL, PHP, Perl, FileZilla FTP Server, phpMyAdmin OpenSSL, Freetype, Webalizer, mod_perl, eAccelerator, mcrypt, SQLite, Mercury Mail Transport System, fake sendmail for windows, FPDF Class



After the installation of XAMPP you can load all the service with the "xampp_start.exe" command and in few seconds all the services will be up.

When the services are started, you can browse on "http://localhost/xampp/index.php" to access the control panel of XAMPP.



On the Status page you can watch the status of every service and see what is actually de-activated.



If you click on the PhpMyAdmin link in the menu, a new windows opens with the great PhpMyAdmin database development tools.
With PhpMyAdmin it is possible to generate automatically all the SQL scripts to operate in an easy way on the MySQL database: you can create a new database, define new tables and references between primary keys and foreign keys.

Another great feature of XAMPP is the chance to quickly switch from a PHP5 installation to a PHP4 installation. This is really useful when you need to test your script on both version to identify eventual problems that may occur.

You can get XAMPP for Windows through this link, for the Linux version you can choose this second link, but really on Linux there are many other chances to get a full installation of the "LAMP" package, so you can usually use the ready package in your distribution.

Have fun.
Fabio