The new Blender 2.67 release will come with ...

The new Blender 2.67 release note can be used now with this new features:

Compositing Nodes

Cycles Rendering

Motion Tracker

Paint System Refactoring

Changes for Usability, tools, interface

FreeStyle - NPR Render

3D Printing Toolset

You can download a release candidate build for testing here .

Linux binaries for Synfig version 0.64.0 the latest candidate 3

The team of Synfig told us about the latest candidate:

For those who impatient about the upcoming release, we providing a testing linux binaries with the most features inside!
Please check out this forum thread, install and test.
Note: Yes, the version in package number still says 0.63.05, but it doesn't really matter, believe us.
I got this error with my old fedora distro:
synfigstudio: symbol lookup error: /opt/synfig/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: pixman_image_composite32

The new AMD Catalyst - Linux x86 and x86_64

AMD has released a new graphics proprietary driver for Linux.

The new feature of Catalyst 13.4 for Linux supports all Radeon HD 5000/6000/7000 videocards.

You can download Catalyst 13.4 for Linux from here.

The new Catalyst 13.4 for Linux is an OpenGL 4.2 - GL_VERSION: 4.0.12217 Core Profile Context 12.104 driver.

New Intel HTML5 Development Environment on my Fedora.

Intel has launched a developer platform to make it super-easy to create apps based on HTML5.

You can use the Intel XDK to build HTML5 web applications or for all of the major App Stores.

The new environment is available free of licensing fees and other costs.

Also you need to install Google Chrome first if you it's not already on your laptop or desktop.

I test it on my Fedora linux distro and it's working well.

Use SpiderGL to test your shaders ...

SpiderGL is a JavaScript 3D Graphics library which relies on WebGL for realtime rendering.

You can test it online using your browser using this website.

The website allow you to write shaders and also rendering the output.

Read more about shaders tutorial here.

NAO control with LEAP MOTION

The NAO sur Seine monthly meetings are usually an opportunity to see cool innovations. After controlling NAO with a Neurosky headset, our Paris user group met in March for a crazy demo that we had to keep secret until it was publicly released at Devoxx France, where it has been a tremendous success.

LibreOffice 4.0.2 without SFTP .

The SSH File Transfer Protocol (also Secure File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP) is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionalities see wikipedia.
The LibreOffice 4.0.2 has same problem with SFTP.
If you want to upload over internet using Web Wizzard the only way is FTP.
And just the FTP without SFTP.
This can be one of the problem, because many admins working with SFTP.