Snapheal Pro, the editing software on the Mac easy on offer in 24 … – Macity (Blog)

Snapheal Pro, one of the best low-cost applications for photo editing and visual effects on the Mac is on offer at $ 24.99 on StackSocial

Snapheal Pro discount in half price. The offer is interesting for those looking for a Mac for editing and visual effects, simple to use, was launched by StackSocial.

Reviewed by Macitynet, is one of the strongest alternatives to most popular applications in the field of digital imaging. You can create visual effects without losing too much time that the user often does not have time to learn advanced features of specialized applications. Among the various choices: the ability to remove unwanted objects, to disappear blemishes, eliminate texts (eg. Watermarks), enhance images with the tools and the Clone Stamp, brighten dark areas, combat and to blur the images, adjust the most common fixes like saturation, gamma, light levels (to remove unwanted color casts or to correct oversaturated or undersaturated colors), shadows (to adequately redistribute the midtone pixels.), etc.

One of the coolest things is the possibility to remove objects from images, using an automatic function that clones the surrounding part. In this way it makes it easy to create photo more pleasing and without any need to resort to manual instruments. A second function of large utilities is improved automatic photo in some specific areas. This becomes useful, for example, balance light in a photo that has underexposed areas. Just use the brush tool and “paint” the area to lighten or that improve contrast.

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Anticipation Samsung Galaxy S7, but similar design software and … – Blasting News

The new Samsung Galaxy S7 will be presented on February 21 before the start of Mobile World Congress, the trade show on technology that will be held Feb. 22 to 25 in Barcelona. About the design and the aesthetic seems that the new device will be very similar to Samsung Galaxy S6 and the news still seems to please the company’s Asian fans as the predecessor of the S7 was appreciated by them. Let’s look closely at the features techniques of the new smartphone.

Design similar to the Samsung Galaxy S6

A rumor that comes from an authoritative source close to Samsung seems to emphasize as models Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are very close in the design to previous models, but of course with respect to the latter will present the features truly innovative, especially with regard to the hardware. One of the most interesting introductions, which seems to come after a specific request of a fan of Samsung, is certainly the use of external slots for the microSD that will ensure a remarkable memory to the new smartphone. Another important feature is the waterproof device that will present a bigger battery. Finally, we will see the introduction of the touch panel that draws the 3D touch from Apple, with the new software that will present the new technology Vivid Photo , similar to Live Photo used by the American company.

12 megapixel rear camera

Another interesting feature is the inclusion of a sensor for camera with fewer pixels from the sensor installed in the Samsung Galaxy S6, the news It might seem strange since usually smaller pixels means less quality of the photos, but we know that the resolution is not everything and in spite of the new sensor is 12 megapixels (compared to 16 megapixel S6) should take some good photos, especially in situations of low light. And what do you think of the characteristics of the range of Samsung Galaxy S7? If you want, comment below.

The software anti-mafia Expo has died at New Year – Radio Popolare (Satire) (press release) (blog)

Since 31 December 2015 the computer systems Si.G.Expo and Siprex have stopped working. The contract management and maintenance of the platforms which have enabled the Prefecture of Milan of combining data of the companies that have worked in the exhibition site is expired and there has been no extension to the end of the work in the Expo site. Now we are at the stage of dismantling, one of the most delicate to the mafia controls because the ground handling and waste disposal are among the sectors most infiltrated by organized crime. To date no other systems we have been activated.

Yet the risk was known for some time, had denounced the president’s anti-Mafia commission of the City of Milan David Gentili November 30 during a session of the city council: “the two platforms of the Expo, and Si.G.Expo Siprex, stop working at the end of December because the management contract expires on that date. Expo Why not least extension of another six months this contract? “Asked the Gentiles.

A few days earlier, on Nov. 24, 2015, the Commissioner of Expo Joseph Hall had written a letter to the Prefecture of Milan with the subject “closure of platforms and Si.G.Expo Siprex”. Hall informed the Prefecture that the contract management and maintenance was due to expire on 31 December 2015, that was not going to renew it and Expo that from 1 January 2016 platforms would have been inaccessible to the Prefecture. “Expo Spa holds the intellectual property of software,” he wrote still room “and supports the annual costs of maintenance and support.” costs that Expo will no longer support , a savings of a voice as delicate as that of the controls, in a construction site that will remain under the jurisdiction of Expo Spa until June 2016. In that letter the room proposes Prefecture buy the two systems. The Prefecture have had to buy an outlay of public money and Spa Expo could collect them and put them in the budget, but the operation was not completed.

Siprex and Si.G.Expo are the two software that allowed the Milan Prefecture of combining data from all companies that have worked inside the exhibition site and Si.G.Expo has read simultaneously, all the data of the companies present in the works related to Expo, as the Brebemi the Teem, the new metropolitan 4 (still under construction) and 5 of Milan, channeling thousands of data in a single platform. All easily accessible by men of the Prefecture and the DIA, the Anti-Mafia Investigation. They will now have to cross them manually those data, when available. Because there is a another piece in this affair: from December 1, 2015 Expo Spa has stopped adding companies and data to the system. The system in the last month of 2015 went on standby and has off forever New Year’s Day.

each other troubled from the beginning that Software mafia Expo. To win the first contract was the company Opera 21 , works for 41,000 euro no-bid average direct award. Opera 21 then failed and the business unit that dealt Expo was acquired by the Top Network Spa . In that time frame the Prefecture made use, at no additional cost, the computer system of the company Pegaso, already working on the construction sites of Teem. Top Network sued and won, Expo made a new call by invitation and the contract went to the Top Network. The notice on invitation remained outside the Pegasus, which Expo not invited to participate in the race. The story of this tormented contract Commissioner of Expo Hall was heard from the anti-Mafia parliamentary commission May 12, 2014. The anti-Mafia committee of the municipality of Milan chaired by Nando Dalla Chiesa ne spoke in relations five six published in 2014 and in April 2015, defining “insufficient” the answers and clarifications arrived from Sala Expo and society.

Computer and software. So we sell our products using your … – Linkiesta.it

“No one ever got fired for buying an IBM product.” This is considered, by many, the advertising formula more effective than ever. Too bad it’s also an example of bad marketing , that is, what Gene Amdahl, founder of Amdahl Corporation and, above all, former engineer of the same IBM, called FUD, ie ” fear, uncertainity and doubt “(fear, uncertainty and doubt). Method unfair to hit the competitors by leveraging on the uncertainty of the information and, above all, fear. If you buy IBM, you do not get fired. If you buy products made by another manufacturer, who knows .

Gene Amdhal was not the first to be attacked based FUD. However, it was he who coined the term . He had worked for years at IBM (where, by developing a new generation of mainframe computers, had revolutionized the industry) when, in 1970, he decided to leave to start his own business. He was not happy about the development prospects of the company. He decided to create new machines (in those days computers were full-bodied and complex appliances) faster and less costosti. He founded the Amdahl Corporation, and invented new systems, more efficient and competitive and, at the same time compatible with versions of existing software and hardware. With Amdahl, IBM for the first time he found himself a competitor in the field, and he was brave. In response, in addition to developing new models, he resorted to marketing .

Each representative of IBM had the task of keeping loyal customers. To do this, the easiest solution was to confuse and scare. Before promising the release of new generations of computers IBM, more reliable and secure, so there was no reason to change supplier. And then, using the classic concerns of corporate hierarchies in the face of novelty offering the subject, sguainavano the perfect phrase: “No one ever got fired for buying an IBM product,” . Subtext too clear: IBM is a guarantee, no other suppliers. Would you risk your job?

The Dark Arts of FUD spread almost everywhere. Spread doubts and fears in customers to harm competition (which offers better deals) becomes a weapon available to various companies. case history is that of Microsoft , which in the ’80s and’ 90s turns the techniques of “fear, uncertainty and doubt” against its competitors, such as Digital Research.

These were the years of Win3.1, and Redmond had a beautiful thought: AARD code. It was a code segment, present in the beta version of Windows 3.1, which allowed the program to see if Windows was run on MS-DOS (owned by Microsoft) or alternative operating systems such as DR-DOS (the fact of Digital Research ). In the second case, the program had to bring up an error screen . Objective: to intimidate users.

If you had but chose to press “C”, Windows 3.1 would work smoothly even on DR-DOS . So, it was not a boycott. It was something more subtle: the alarm had been launched, the suspicion remained together to concerns. A subtle form of manipulation, using the weapon of fear. The consequences that top Microsoft hoped were clear: users would have had to leave DR-DOS . This is confirmed by a note of Brad Silverberg, vice president of the company, which emerged during the Microsoft antitrust case that pitted the United States of America: “ What the user is supposed to do is to feel uncomfortable, and when to he has bugs, That suspect the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS “(” What you should do is feel uncomfortable and, I if there are bugs, think that the problem is DR-DOS and go buy MS-DOS “).

That the use of these dark arts by Microsoft is well aware, it can be seen in so-called “Halloween documents”, a series of internal memos of the company Bill Gates announced with the internal leak and published by activist Eric S. Raymond. Several top Microsoft were discussing the best strategies to use to counter the advance on the market of open source software , trying to discredit the validity. In this case, were not spared efforts to FUD: first confusing users, that is, by providing a platform with an open source Microsoft for those who want to intervene and correct any problems. An alternative preferred products created licensed OSS (Open Source Software), that they have no control and risk their virality. Then attacking: the free software are illegal because they violate at least 235 patents Microsoft. And finally, creating fear, “if an open source software breaks down, who fixes it?”, He explained in a movie. And who had more desire to leave Microsoft Office?

With the FUD all fear, doubt becomes a weapon . Small alarms that cause common reactions, choices manipulated for commercial purposes. The computer scare those who use it and not even realize there. Then, of course, there is also the opposite phenomenon: Apple which claims victim of operations FUD . In this way it relies on the fact that, now, the techniques of FUD are more and more known also by non-specialists. In this way it does not hurt others, but defends his reputation.

It has been labeled as the case of the so-called FUD “bendgate”, ie the fact that the iPhone 6, if carried in your pocket, could bend (but then it has solved). They are to consider operation of fear, uncertainity and doubt also read some news about financial difficulties of Apple and those who talk about cutting production of the iPhone. Is it true? It will be false? Controsmentita in denial and you lose sight of the truth. Lack reference points, the player who is stronger. And when in doubt, you begin to shake.

Siemens acquires supplier of simulation software CD-Adapco – Data Manager Online

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Apple acquires startup software educational LearnSprout – HDblog (Blog)

According to reports from Bloomberg , Apple would bring another term acquisition corporate, to LearnSprout, startup software development for schools and teachers .

LearnSprout specializes in solutions for monitoring student performance and other instruments, related analysis, Apple could point to the use of this software in order to encourage schools to adopt the iPad as a teaching professional. Apple confirmed the acquisition, but as usual does not comment on future plans or goals.

The software LearnSprout are currently used in over 2,500 schools in the US, helping teachers to know the trend of the votes, frequency , student health and more.

To combat the drop in sales, Apple continues to work tirelessly in making the iPad more and more attractive to use the school, the next update to iOS 9.3, introduces new instruments oriented education.

Fencing, “Seeing with sound”: “Soundsight Training” software … – La Gazzetta dello Sport

A sword driven by instinct and heard is ” See the Sound ”, the initiative organized by the Cultural Circle Grazia Deledda Parma Campus Sports Center. Match regular, where athletes Fencing Club La Farnesiana you are blindfolded and have faced the team of blind Accademia Fiorentina.

SOFTWARE FOR THE BLIND A challenge not competitive, with no winners or losers, to promote the fencing lessons for the blind Club La Farnesina, which will start in February, and to give visibility to the extraordinary project “Soundsight Training ‘, software that allows people who are blind can train the ear through the relationship between the sounds and put and the echo that results. The software was created at CERN in Geneva by the creative genius of the engineer Irene Lanza and the doctor Marco Manca. “The importance of the project lies in the fact that people who are blind can work in a protected environment, a virtual gym where making mistakes and learning – said Paola Macioni Circle of Grace Deledda Parma -. Currently the project is under crowfounding, the goal is 250 thousand euro. If we reach the figure by the year the software, which is free and open source, will be available from 2017. “

Also present at the event Andrea Grossi, CEO of the Italian Paralympic Committee, and John Marani, councilor the sport of the City of Parma. “Lately the sport parmesan, expanded area of ​​Paralympic sports, saw the birth of new positive experiences, such as the Disabled Sports – said Marani -. Events like this are important because they approach new people to the sport. “

Eurotech Everyware Software Framework wins the Internet of Things … – Reuters

Eurotech Everyware Software Framework wins the Internet of Things Award 2015/2016 in the category of IoT Software and Tools

          

Eurotech, a leading supplier of platforms M2M (Machine- to-Machine) solutions IoT (Internet of Things), announces that Everyware Software Framework – the device application frameworks Eurotech for M2M and IoT – was voted by the public as “People’s choice winner” in the category “IoT Software and Tools” the Internet of Things Awards competition organized by Postscapes. Now in their fifth year, the Internet of Things Awards recognize the best products of the year, the best organizations and ideas that are shaping the IoT. A showcase of excellence in all areas of the Internet of Things since 2011, the IoT Awards celebrate the richness of this emerging industry and the potential of its actors. By Do-It-Yourself projects and commitments pro-bono to Fortune 500, this competition embraces the diversity of the landscape IoT, presenting the best innovations and best innovators of the year.

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Digi-Capital: 90 billion dollars for the software gaming in 2016 – GAMEmag

The company analyzes Digi-Capital has published a new report in which it is expected that the long-term growth of the gaming industry is intended to settle at around 7%. Whereas, in terms of software, expected earnings for 2016 totaled more than $ 90 billion , the market seems to be destined to evolve to more than 115 billion by 2020. Of course, this growth It will not occur evenly, but there will be markets more likely than others to be the driving force .

Digi-Capital points out that the video game market has changed substantially over the last five years and that the growth of the mobile industry is literally cannibalizing all the others. Hence for the next five years mobile games will grow from 35 billion in revenue in 2016 up to 48 billion in 2020, with growth exceeding 8%.

It also made some estimates for the nascent market of virtual reality , for which we assume a growth of software beyond the $ 10 billion by 2020. Moreover, other sectors look set to rise, particularly that of the MMO and MOBA, while the market console will experience a slight decline.

The analysis continues going to fathom the main geographical areas concerned. L ‘ Asia is playing a key role thanks to the push of countries like China, Japan and South Korea. By 2020 the United States could remain the single reality of reference in the game market, although China’s growth is seen as a possible factor of change in the balance. From the perspective of the mainland market in 2020 will see Asia firmly in the lead, followed by Europe and then North America.

As for the mobile software China seems destined to remain a market leader . Estimates Digi-Capital Asia could end up with more than half of all revenue from mobile products before the end of this decade.

The segment of virtual reality is considered rich in potential, but it may be exceeded by the viewers for augmented reality, among which HoloLens Microsoft. At the same time is the fact that it will take time to have stable results and high profile.

The consumer versions of viewers for augmented reality could be launched on the market as early as this year, although the majority of devices remains planned for 2017. The forecast of Digi-Capital for this market expect to reach a total of $ 90 billion by 2020, compared to just 30 billion assumed for virtual reality in the same period.

PlayStation VR and viewers as mobile as those produced by Samsung will be the main catalysts of this market segment . Virtual reality is seen as an integral entertainment industry, led by hardware, games and theme parks. According to Digi-Capital applications not related to this market will have an impact on minority gains, or at least the effects are those by 2020. Oculus, Valve HTC, Sony and other competitors remain focused on minor VR PC and consoles, although Facebook is also interested in exploring the potential of augmented reality. Samsung will drive the segment instead of the mobile virtual reality. The VR Mobile will also see the prices down considerably thanks to the presence of Chinese competitors as LeTV.

The illegal software of VW? There were many who know him – AlVolante

DISCLAIMER – About the scandal Dieselgate , the leaders of Volkswagen have repeatedly asserted that the decision to adopt a software irregular, indeed illegal, had been very few technical , as very few people were aware of its existence. The thesis has now been blatantly contradicted by a survey conducted by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, that the reality is totally different from the view taken by leaders of the automaker. And as reported by the German newspaper in practice is what would have established the internal investigation launched by Volkswagen itself and whose results the automaker promised to communicate. In fact, the reporter from the Süddeutsche Zeitung did not do their own investigation on the incident, but largely on the results obtained from the investigation work of the same Volkswagen.

FROM 2006 – In this framework, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the investigation established that the offending software was adopted the first time in November 2006. The initiative to use a “device” that can reduce emissions in testing on roller benches with respect to the actual use of the road – developed is produced by Bosch – was taken within the Volkswagen. The basis of the decision there was the belief that the authorities would not be in conditions to detect the existence of software manipulator. Also according to reports from the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

SILENCE WITH DIRIGENT – The investigation would also have found that the idea was born in the face of difficulties to reach the desired objectives (compliance with the emission limits for NOx, but also maintaining performance and fuel interesting, not in test approvals but when driving on the road). All this without communicating anything to top managers. This is because a distorted corporate culture did not foresee that there were things impossible, and no one felt that instead of saying something impossible there. In practice, the men’s technical department have bowed to pressure from top management to be a solution to the needs of the American market.

IN MANY ADVISED – recalling that until 30 November the last Volkswagen has guaranteed impunity to those who had provided information to reconstruct the story, from the investigation of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , would be finally knew that many of the software. Even one of the technical research and development department have commented saying that the story was “an open secret”. It should, however, also said that the article in the German newspaper refers to a witness who said that he went to talk to a top manager, but the latter even he bring himself to say no.

Free software arrives State Institute for the Deaf – Corcom

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 Friday, January 29 will be signed by Professor Ivano Spano , Director of the State Institute for the Deaf in Rome, and Sonia Montegiove, president of the LibreItalia Onlus , a collaboration agreement aimed at supporting the migration project of the Institute to “open source LibreOffice”.

 The Institute, a reference point for the deaf population and the different operators can interact with it, begins the path towards the implementation and use of free software in teaching and administrative structure that will lead to the adoption of open formats and free for the production of documents. This in order to understand the importance of shared knowledge and collaboration that are the basis of free software as well as to promote interoperability in the exchange of documents. The project will also enable the Institute considerable savings in terms of licenses that can be reinvested in training (and professional development) of their employees.

 “LibreItalia, which last September signed an important agreement with the Ministry of Defense aimed at supporting the activities of migration to the ” open source LibreOffice “ of about 150 thousand positions, will support the project through information seminars and free training courses for trainers Ente “says Spano.

 “The collaboration with the Institute -says Montegiove – is valuable because we will learn more about this reality and to develop, together with the operators of the Body, guides on how to develop educational content adapted to deaf people.”

 The implementation of LibreOffice will be managed in close collaboration between the two organizations, based on the protocol of reference drawn up by The Document Foundation and according to the best practices of the most important national and international projects.

 Immediately after the signing of the agreement will take place the first meeting organized by LibreItalia for the operators of the State Institute for the Deaf, which aims to explain the opportunities of free software and the migration project to LibreOffice.

 And ‘this, a pilot experience that opens the door to an extension to those affected, as also by people with disabilities.

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Veertu, a free virtualization software on the Mac App Store – Macity (Blog)

A new competitor to Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox, a virtualization software on the Mac App Store. Basic functionality free, others pay to unlock.

Windows XP in a virtual machine running on OS X

Veertu is a virtualizer software along the lines of the best known Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion and Virtual Box. How could such a product has been approved by Apple on the Mac App Store is obvious: developers have exploited a little-known feature integrated in OS X from version 10.10 on, the ‘ Hypervisor.framework, a framework that allows developers to leverage virtualization layer on top of OS X, including virtualization without having to resort to extensions for the kernel (KEXT) third party. Because it does not exploit KEXT, the system can be used safely in combination with the new security mechanisms rootless or SIP ( System Integrity Protection ) integrated with OS X 10.11.x.

Technically HyperV native hypervisor allows multiple operating systems on one physical computer to isolate the operating systems from each other. This technology according to developers can create faster virtual machines with Windows and leverage capabilities inherent in the system such as access to the date and time functions and native of suspending or resuming from sleep

The application is very small (a 18.4MB file), does not offer the speed or level of sophistication built into commercial applications such as Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion but is free, supports Macs with Retina display, copy and paste between operating systems and for the exchange of files you can use a shared folder.

The guest operating systems are supported: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 , Windows 10 and Linux CentOS / RHEL 6 and higher, Ubuntu 12.04 and following. On the website of the developers explained that support for OS X (as guest system) is coming, as well as that for ChromeOS and CoreOS.

Installing Linux VMs can be completed for free: just download a VM than supported as standard, advise client to indicate the ISO file with the disk image; for the installation of their VM or operating system on media such as DVD (Windows or Linux versions not covered) you are required to pay € 39.99 for unlocking (one-off) with the purchase of the advanced features in the app.

Veertu requires OS X or 10:10, and following the basic version is free to download from the Mac App Store.