The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available. What’s new in this release: A new DirectSound resampler. A Negotiate authentication provider. OpenGL support in the DIB engine. Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies. Support routines for Internationalized Domain Names. Various bug fixes. The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. [...]

    Here are some thoughts shared by Lars on the Timeline for Qt 5 Beta and the Final release. We are now looking at the mid / end of August for a stable product with plenty of polish: Hi everybody, While I think it’s very important to get Qt 5.0 out of the door as soon as possible, we should not release it without [...]

  Ubuntu One developer Stuart Langridge has published initial work on his unofficial port of the Ubuntu One Files app to the Nokia N9.     I plan to, at some point, get this into the Nokia Store. I also plan to implement other features as and when I need them,” he writes on his blog. “That will likely include uploading of files, caching, automatic upload of [...]

    The Wine development release 1.5.3 is now available. What’s new in this release: Support for graphics bounds tracking. A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer. Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger. Various DirectMusic improvements. Better namespace support in MSXML. Various bug fixes. The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon [...]

    In order to have easy access to speech recognition with Qt Commercial we have embarked on a research project leveraging the Nuance VoCon Hybrid speech recognition engine. To demonstrate the potential, speech recognition is integrated to our concept Car HMI system built with Qt Commercial. Using the Nuance VoCon Hybrid speech recognition together with Qt Commercial allows the user to easily control the [...]

  One of the most requested new features for Qt Commercial has been a charting component. We have listened and now we have reached a point where we can now release the Qt Commercial Charts 1.0 Tech Preview. We expect that the first official version will be available during June 2012. If you are a Qt Commercial customer, you can easily grab the charts from [...]

    Here is a quick Video Demo of the Wazapp Client for Nokia N9 (N950). Wazapp is a community port of the famous Whatsapp client. This is still in development so please ignore any glitches you see in the demoed version     So it is being worked on and it does exist, but still no news with regards to a public release. Official [...]

    Many have noticed an Update for Developer Tools on the Nokia N9 but what many didn’t know at that point is that it closes the security hole that enables Inception to work. Inception allows you to open up the security framework of the Nokia N9 or Root or Jailbreak it which are other loose terms that can be used to describe this. There [...]

    The Wine development release 1.5.2 is now available. What’s new in this release: Improved naming scheme for audio devices. Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X. Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding. Several printing fixes. Improvements to the URL cache. Various bug fixes. The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear [...]

    The Qt SDK 1.2.1, is now available for download. It  brings increased stability to the Qt SDK 1.2. The updated SDK includes: Qt 4.8.1 desktop installers for Mac and Windows in addition to Qt source packages. Qt 4.8.1 is the first patch release to the 4.8 series with over 200 functional improvements to the desktop and embedded platforms. The focus of the error [...]

    The following article appeared on the Raspberry PI website: Good news! We just received confirmation that the Raspberry Pi has passed EMC testingwithout requiring any hardware modifications. As you may know, we’ve had periods booked in a testing chamber at Panasonic’s facility in South Wales for the whole week. Jimmy, Craig and Gareth from Gainspeed, our EMC consultants (with assistance from Phil the EMC lab manager, occasional [...]

    The Wine development release 1.5.1 is now available. What’s new in this release: Built-in JavaScript now preferred over Gecko in most cases. Support for scalable font resources. Fixes for audio and video playback. Support for script decoding in JScript. Various bug fixes.   The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

    The next version of Qt is out now, Qt5 Alpha: The main purpose of the Qt 5 Alpha release is to get feedback that helps us make the coming releases better. For the Alpha we focus on the delivering the Qt Essential modules, which forms the foundation of the functionality Qt 5 will offer. Download is available from http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Alpha. (source-only), Build instructions http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Alpha-building-instructions [...]

  Like many of us you have possibly ordered a Raspberry PI and waiting patiently for it to get dispatched (well it has to be made first). Of all the use cases of it I would not of thought that someone would manage to port a ZX Spectrum emulator onto it !!!     Andy Taylor currently volunteers at the UK Computer Museum, an organization [...]

    Here is an update to the Progress of the much awaited Community port of WhatsApp and here is where the Project currently stands:   Message delivery indicators – Almost Chat logging – Done Editing Status – Not yet Only 1 to 1 Conversations – Done Contacts sync – Done Integration with Accounts manager – Done Integration with Meego’s notifications – Almost Running the [...]