After 3 months of waiting and 3 times of delay.

Finally, Smashing book has just shipped

Smashing Book has just shipped

Smashing Book has just shipped

[updated]

And the book has arrived…

Smashing Book + wrapping

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Inkscape 0.47 is out

inkscape047-released

After over a year of intensive development and refactoring, Inkscape 0.47 is out. This version of the SVG-based vector graphics editor brings improved performance and tons of new features, some of which are as follows: timed autosave, Spiro splines, auto-smooth nodes, Eraser tool, new modes in Tweak tool, snapping options toolbar & greater snapping abilities, new live path effects (including Envelope), over 200 preset SVG filters, new Cairo-based PS and EPS export, spell checker, many new extensions, optimized SVG code options, and much more.

Full release notes for more information about what has changed, enjoy the screenshots, or just jump right to downloading your package for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

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.blender magz cover

Hiza Ro of Blender Indonesia has launched the first Indonesian Blender e-magazine, .Blend Magz! Check out the first issue here!

The magazine is available in both PDF and a freeware-viewable version.

PDF file size: 22.1MB

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Google’s Chrome OS

screenshots of Google's Chrome OS 0.4.206:

Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser.

The project aim is to provide a lightweight Linux distribution for the best web browsing experience.

Featured software in Chrome OS:

  • GNOME 2.24 desktop environment
  • Google Chrome 4.0.207 web browser
  • OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite
  • Flash Player 10.0 plugin
  • and much more!

System requirements of Chrome OS:

  • Processor: Intel Pentium, Xeon or newer; AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer
  • RAM: min. 256 MB
  • Hard disk: min. 1 GB
  • Graphics card: supports most modern graphics cards

source: About Chrome OS

There you if go. So if you want to have a taste on early development stage just head on to dowload page

They provided free virtual image appliance but You need a free VMware Player or VirtualBox in order to run this appliance.

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