ARCHAEOLOGY - Turkey demands return of artifacts

ARCHAEOLOGY - Turkey demands return of artifacts

I've been to the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology twice! It's a really nice place to walk around if ever you get the chance.


Here is a link to my album (Any excuse to share them!):
https://plus.google.com/photos/107188872326328135600/albums/5754594970753881025

Skype drops its BETA, Goes straight to version 4

Highlights from the Skype blog post released yesterday:

• Four major changes in this release:
• We have a new Conversations View where users can easily track all of their chats in a unified window.
• Those users who prefer the old view can disable this in the Chat options;
• We have a brand new Call View.
• Call quality has never been better thanks to several investments we made in improving audio quality.
• We've worked on improving video call quality and have also extended support for more cameras.

• Improved chat synchronization.
• New presence and emoticon icons.
• The ability to store and view phone numbers in a Skype contact's profile.
• Much lower chance Skype for Linux will crash or freeze.
• Chat history loading is now much faster.
• Support for two new languages: Czech (flag:cz) and Norwegian (flag:no).

 

http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2012/06/skype_40_for_linux.html

Ubuntu Alpha1 - Quantal Quetzal is out! 12.10

What a crazy name!

Well it's out for the curious and experimental, I've started waiting for the beta's more recently and I think with this, that'll be no different as I don't really contribute.

The big changes are:
Linux kernel 3.4
GCC 4.7
Python 3.0
Link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Alpha1

Sophos - Revealed! The top five Android malware detected in the wild

With mobile devices rivalling desktop PC's from only a few years gone by it's a wonder that they haven't started shipping with 30 day AV trials like desktops often do!

With that said, Sophos has a great blog article over at the link below regarding malware on the Android platform.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/14/top-five-android-malware/

Apple MacBook Pro - opinion

I really like the look of the new Mac book pro, especially the cooling system, the display and the SSD design.

Although an optical drive is not included I'm still baffled that Apple refuse to throw in some major Blu-ray support anywhere, it'd be a dream in conjunction with the Thunderbold I/O

I would actually spend that amount on one as well (see pricing, expect it to be over £2k) because the design is truly intuitive and the specs are impressive. I would love to give the battery a run for it's money as well, 7 hours seems quite optimistic even with a lot of power saving involved at those specs. The graphics core would be working hard at those 'retina' resolutions!

See below for the video:

http://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-pro/#macbookpro

New improvements for Kindle on Android tablets today.

Now able to view two pages side by side with a few other tweaks.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.kindle

Ripe link added to my broadband support page.

Bit surprised I left this one out to be honest!

Link: https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db

Now on my support page: http://www.alpagot.co.uk/p/broadband-support.html

Buffalo launches next generation of 802.11ac WiFi routers - The Inquirer

Buffalo launches next generation of 802.11ac WiFi routers - The Inquirer

Bit-Tech : Custom PC project - D33P Thought by A Souter

These sort of projects were the reason I started visiting Bit-Tech over 6+ years ago. Totally geeky, over the top but at the same time pretty damn cool and unique. I wish I could justify a new PC build at the moment!


D33P Thought by A Souter

Facebook joins Google in warning DNSChanger victims

Warnings follow decision to withdraw safety net on 9 July The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/10/dnschanger/

Microsoft revives free Windows desktop development tools, didn't mean to make you cry

Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/11/visual-studio-express-desktop/

World IPv6 day.

So some major sites are going IPv6 operational on a permanent basis from today.

Check out the video:

DayZ - This game mod is causing a bit of a wave at the moment.

I posted about ARMA 2: Combined Operations being dirt cheap a while back. Well there is an awesome game mod you should check out for it as well:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/dayz/news/dayz-v1601-released

E3: Xbox SmartGlass links Microsoft's console to tablets

I must admit I do sometime sit there with the tablet viewing achievement guides while playing games such as Dragon Age 2. One game i'm starting to hate for how many missable achievements there are!

Source, BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18325815

Samsung open sources Galaxy S3 source code - The Inquirer

Samsung open sources Galaxy S3 source code - The Inquirer