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Game Center Gets In Mac OS X Mountain Lion Released by Apple

Mac OS X Mountain Lion was released on July 25, 2012. It is the ninth major release of OS X. There are many words about this new operating system for Macintosh computers, some good while some bad.

Mountain Lion brings a lot of great things from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to the Mac. With iCloud, users can connect all Apple devices together and work better. Reminders will let nothing slip your mind. Messages with iMessage takes your conversations even further. Receive notifications. Get your Mac in on Game Center.

Game Center is finally shown on Mac. Game Center is actually an online multiplayer social gaming network. It allows users to send friends requests to gamers around the world, start a multiplayer game through matchmaking, track their achievements, and compare their high scores on a leader board. First, Game Center on iOS is only supported on iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. After Mountain Lion, it is on the Mac, also.

The features offered by Game Center on Mountain Lion are Notification Center, Notes, Reminders, Messages, Dictation and AirPlay Mirroring, leaderboards, friend info, game matching, and more, just like in iPad. Compared with early versions, it seems still only has basic features, but is starkly different compared with earlier versions of Windows. Though youll have to wait for some features, the collective changes in Mountain Lion are worth the relatively modest $19.99 price to upgrade. eg. Address Book, the ability to display and keep your Facebook friends data fresh in the newly renamed Contacts app, is coming as part of another software update this fall. Gatekeeper keeps you from downloading unsafe programs. You need to connect with Internet, so that your voice will be send to be translated at Apple servers by Dictation.

For developers, is able to create multiplayer games across multiple devices with Game Kit APIs. For example you can play a game on your Mac against a friend on an iPhone or iPad -- a multiplatform approach that mimics what were seeing in the Windows 8 preview, Windows phones, and the Xbox 360.


With iCloud, we are expecting better social-networking interface. If it is able to to log in and see what youre friends are currently playing, so you can join in, suggest something else, or just see whos shirking work on a Friday afternoon, that will be great. This type of capability seems like such an obvious fit for iCloud.

Apple says Mac apps capable of taking advantage of Game Center are coming at launch but only a handful at the start. So, lets wait for Apples next steps on Game Center!

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Gentoo Linux 11 2 is Released! DVD Edition

GNU/Linux is all about variety or a hell lot of choices :D. Unlike with MS Windows or Mac OSX in that sense, if you dont like your current GNU/Linux desktop or the distribution in general for some reason, then just ditch it and find something amazing that meets your requirements (even if you have special needs!).

I came across Gentoo few years ago and in a way, its actually "one of a kind" GNU/Linux distribution. One of the main reasons for its popularity is its ability to let you compile (creating executable out of the original programming codes) the whole OS, almost all the packages, from scratch thus giving you an optimized operating system for the hardware installed on your system which means enhanced performance and stability in general. Although most of the time youre better off with the pre-compiled packages because...

... To be honest Im not sure how easy it is these days but while I was using it, yep it wasnt that hard but if youre a newbie, then it may not be that easy to perform. But thats a bit of a long time ago + if you dont like to use the command-line a lot to setup and optimize the OS then even back then and nowadays, you can still  use this amazing GNU/Linux distribution by using the "usual methods" of installing it using a LiveCD/DVD or using the pre-compiled packages as with almost all other GNU/Linux distributions.

A recent version of Gentoo Linux (not the latest 11.2 version of course...)

Anyhow the latest news is that, like 2 days ago theyve released a new DVD Edition which makes it the version 11.2, as a way of celebrating the collaboration between her users and the developers. Here are some of the main features of this latest DVD Edition.

*. Comes with the Kernel 3.0 (including patches from Gentoo developers).

*. GLIBC 2.13-r2, GCC 4.5.2 (the GNU C/C++ compiler).

*. Gnome 3.0.

*. KDE 4.7.0.

*. Proprietary ATI driver 11.6 version. 

*. Xfce 4.8 (another excellent alternative for those of you who has lower-end PC hardware).

*. Openbox 3.5.0 (a "lightweight" window manager and a desktop environment).

*. LibreOffice 3.3.3 (interesting that they havent picked the 3.4 version, which makes sense in a way since its more likely a "test" version rather than the 3.3 long-term version).

*. AbiWord 2.8.6 (another fast word processor that uses the GTK toolkit).

*. GIMP 2.6.11.

*. Inkscape 0.48.2 (an advanced vector graphics editor/creator).

*. XEmacs 21.5.31 (a derivative of the original, super powerful source code and text editor GNU/Emacs).

*. Amarok 2.4.3 (this version in fact was actually introduced very recently and Gentoo was also one of the first distributions to provide precompiled packages within hours of its release!).

*. Mozilla Firefox 5.0, Chromium 13 and Opera 11.50.1074, Epiphany, Seamonkey and few others are included as web browsers (man thats a huge list!).

These are just a fraction of the new packages included in this latest Gentoo Linux DVD release and other applications such as MPLayer (Gentoo is know to included all the proprietary codecs installed by default!), ffmpeg 0.6.9 (a collection multi-media playing libraries), Gnome-Mplayer 1.0.4, SMPlayer 0.6.9, etc again just a few to mention.

Its available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and if you want to give Gentoo Linux a try, then please consult this download page (look at the end of the page and you should find your links below a sub-heading called "3. Other Media"). Usually these newly released Linux ISO files on the servers could give you slow downloading speeds, in that case its advised that you try out the Torrent section. Good luck and enjoy the Gentoo 11.2 "ride!" :).

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