Erster Release Candidate des VLC Media Player 2.0

The developers of VLC multimedia player stands before the jump to version 2.0 of its software. Interested users can submit published thanks to the first Release Candidate (RC) is already at it.

The first release candidate of the VLC Player 2.0, code name Twoflower. In view of the upcoming version of the multimedia player is basically a change before the licensing when it comes to libraries and libvlc libVLCcore goes. The VLC developers want to turn away from the GPL and rely on the Lesser GNU Public License v2.1 (LGPL).

In addition to this licensing agreement will bring the change VLC Media Player 2.0, some improvements and new features. Developers are increasingly including the core of this application and have developed parts of which are new. For the first time with the next version of the player also supports Blu-ray discs. The Release Candidate provides a more experimental support for it.

Moreover, the developer various filters and codecs have improved. Supports, for example, HTTP Live Streaming, Lagarith Lossless and MediaMVP. All other changes were the team around the VLC Media Player summarized in the official changelog. An official announcement of the availability of the first release candidates have not yet made the developers.

Basically, the VLC media player to appear in versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. When it comes to operating systems from Microsoft, all versions from Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) officially supported.

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NVIDIA Launches India's First GPU Computing Social Networking Group

NVIDIA has announced the launch of an online platform dedicated to GPU computing and High Performance Computing (HPC) users in India. The informal special interest group will bring together GPU users from all fields and experience levels in India, including academicians, researchers, scientists, device manufacturers, system integrators, service providers and all early adopters of HPC and GPU computing. The group, hosted on Meetup.com – the world's largest network of local groups will provide HPC and GPU computing enthusiasts in India with a comprehensive platform to track industry trends and engage with each other, discussing the latest developments in the field.


The group, supported by NVIDIA, will have a core group of key academicians to lead and moderate discussions. The site will feature a bank of research papers, case studies and posts on the latest technological developments, not only at NVIDIA, but also in the global industry. The platform will also encourage users to engage in group chats and web conferences to interact with each other. NVIDIA will periodically host live talks with industry experts to elucidate on pertinent industry updates.

Speaking about the initiative, Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA, said, “GPU computing is becoming increasingly relevant in our lives today. Everyone from gaming enthusiasts, to college students, working professionals to researchers and scientists can apply the GPU to enable better graphics and faster computing. NVIDIA will lead and facilitate the pioneering HPC and GPU Computing Group with an aim to establish a strong connect among GPU computing users and spread GPU computing awareness in India. We hope to make the GPU synonymous with computing and build a strong interconnected community of GPU users in India.”

HPC and GPU computing has come into sharp focus in India with the Indian government’s focus on setting-up of Petaflop-class systems in the upcoming five-year plan. NVIDIA will facilitate the virtual informal special interest group as an extension of its University and Academic programs. NVIDIA in India has four different programs to engage with academia, through which 18 CUDA Teaching Centers, 1 CUDA Research Centre and 66 Academic partnership programs have been established in association with universities and professors. The GPU Computing group can be accessed here.

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Codecademy New Site to Learn Coding (Programming) Online

How did we learn languages ? i meant the literal ones like English or German. In general we have three medium to support the learning process. You can read, write and speak the language. Similarly in the programming languages we have read, code, and compile. But most of the times when it comes to learning programming languages we just read the language either in the text or watch them through really long tiring video lectures. There is something always missing in the learning process. Codecademy tries to bridge this gap through their unique integrated learning schema where you can learn the coding stuffs in a play way method. In short codecademy is a kinder garden for newbie programmer.

All they require from you is just the interest to learn programming.

What is Codecademy?

Codecademy is an online web application which allows you to code with the inbuilt editor and the compiler that comes with it gives you the results for what you have coded. Codecademy gives you a step by step instruction on How to code and achieve results.

Who is behind Codecademy ?

As their website claims ‘Codecademy was created out of the frustrations Zach and Ryan felt with learning how to program. Tired with less effective text and video resources, Ryan and Zach teamed up to create Codecademy’

Few interesting things from codecademy:

1. Codecademy provides foursquare type badges for every course you complete
2. Codecademy allows you to track and share your progress in each course
3. Moreover codecademy provides all this for FREE.

At present the following courses are being taught at codecademy:

• Getting Started with Programming
• JavaScript Quick Start Guide
• Review of Functions in Javascript
• Hello, New York
• Functions in JavaScript
• FizzBuzz

You can try out their experimental courses in Codecademy Labs

The best part is that codecademy takes you inside coding right from its signup form ! If you have tried W3Schools, then this web app is more suitable to you to hands on and train yourself to become good in programming. Just give it a try today. 

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How to Root Android Mobile Phone

Android phones by default has a user privilege which has certain limitations in accessing system directories. As you can see in Linux operating systems, security is the primary concern and by default users will not have root privilege as there is a possibility of security issue becomes ease. You have to login as a root user in order to access system directories and files in Android mobile.

How to Root Android  Mobile Phone:

1. Z4root is an .apk file which is used in rooting your android phone. You can download Z4root here and keep the downloaded .apk file in your desktop.

2. Connect your phone with the computer and enable use storage to copy the downloaded file into your mobile.

3. Make sure you done these things before rooting your mobile phone.

• Enable USB Debugging in your mobile phone (Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging)
• You must have SD card in your device.
• Also you must install Z4Root in your device not in SD card.

4. Now copy the app from your desktop to mobile.

5. Check for the app using file manager in your mobile (Astr0 file manager is preferable)

6. After you locate the file tap on the app to start the rooting process

7. Once the rooting process is finished your phone reboots with root privilege.

Note: This is an Universal procedure to Root your android mobile.

 

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