Android 4.1 Jelly Bean available mid-July, what's new?

At the Google I/O conference, the search giant officially launched the big update of its OS mobile Android 4.1 aka Jelly Bean. What is new?

Google has as planned unveiled the new version of its mobile OS Android, including the name of code Jelly Bean is now official and number in version 4.1.

This update of Ice Cream Sandwich, available by mid-July, will be first proposed in OTA (Over The Air automatically via Wi - Fi or 3 G update) on smartphones Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and the Motorola Xoom tablet.

Jelly Bean does not merely to be that a minor update, it has many new features that we will present to you below.

The graphic interface, first, has undergone many changes and optimizations under the code name "Project Butter" so that fluidity felt in the navigation between screens is the 60 frames per second. The reactivity of Android was flawless thanks to the setting up of a triple buffering and Vsync which allow a better synchronization of the CPU and the GPU for display smoothly. More no lag or slowdown should then come and ruin the user experience.

    

Widgets are now able automatically size elements that are already and remaining on the screen instead.The bar of notifications becomes bigger and becomes even more interactive with available actions directly without having to open the dedicated application. For example, when a call is missed, notification system to directly recall the correspondent or send him a text message without the need to open the call log or the sms application. Fast and effective! It is the same to read and respond to a mail or interact with Google + among other possibilities.Update applications has also been improved, so in some cases, it will be more essential to download all of the APK but just the files needed for the new version. Gain time and data transfer!The virtual keyboard has been reworked for a seizure again improved with a prediction of the words typed even better but also a voice input (typing Voice) more effective which requires no Internet connection for access to the Google servers because carried out directly by the terminal. Available initially in English and then in French a little later.

    

Voice Search brings voice search to the Apple's Siri with operation that allows to ask questions in natural language, Jelly Bean can propose responses via the Google search engine to questions such as "Who is the Prime Minister of the Japan?", or even "Show me images of marmoset".Is Google Now a little figure of "Big brother is watching you" because this technology allows all personal data collected by smartphone or Tablet (geolocation, history of navigation, agenda, contacts, addresses etc.) offer targeted information until it is needed to apply them. For example you go to an evening with a friend in Paris, if your appointment was noted in your agenda, Google Now you remember of course but also give you the information to visit the place where you are with schedules of trains, buses and metro the closest or road traffic. A little intrusive but this may be convenient for some people a little head in the air.

Many other new features and improvements were also incorporated as the function camera that allows for picture-taking to view taken photos and remove a finger gesture, or even enhancement of the native web browser both in performance HTML5, CSS 3 but also Javascript.

For developers, the SDK of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is now available on the dedicated website.

Users to other terminals to be the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and Motorola Xoom they expect announcements of different manufacturers and operators in order to know the dates of any updated official planned or expected that customs Roma see the day where applicable.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is available at Free Mobile

The fourth mobile operator, Free Mobile, now offers the Samsung Galaxy S3 in his catalogue of phones.

The last flagship of Android, Galaxy S3 of Samsung smartphones, is officially its entry in the catalogue of phones available for sale on the Free Mobile web site.

The tariff proposed by the troublemaker of telecoms is significantly lower than that requested by other operators or 595 euros naked (it is 597 euros in B & You and 599 euros in Sosh for example). The proposed version is equipped with 16 GB of internal memory available in the colours white and blue.

The Subscriber can pay at one time cash by paying the sum of 595 euros so or choose a formula to credit spread over 23 to 35 months which brings back the tariff respectively to 655 and 685,60 euros still. Nu is therefore particularly interesting for who can release the 595 euros at once, by contrast credit offers are less attractive than in the competition.

The Kernel Linux 3.4 is available

Linus Torvalds announced the availability for download of the new version of the Linux kernel now happening in 3.4.

3.4 Kernel is output. In the menu, improved performance, better management of cases of errors to avoid the "Kernel Panic" and new analysis tools when it occurs. But it is not everything, since he is add support for graphics cards NVIDIA GeForce 600 Series under architecture Kepler, the latest AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series under architecture Tahiti, but also the last APU as Trinity and the CPU for smartphones, the famous Intel Medfield.

More security and bug fixes, this new version 3.4 improves the performance of GTK2, a system of automatic discovery of CPU used to load the appropriate driver, or a new module called "Yama" input to improve the kernel security by limiting access to the ptrace command.

Another novelty for this version 3.4 of the Linux kernel, the management of the pointers in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit environment. This management can reduce the memory consumption, because registers of 32-bit pointers consume much less than 64-bit, so with this new mode of operation hybrid, Programs Manager little memory space can use lighter pointers registers with the possibility to allocate more memory in 64-bit.

We also note the possibility of launching a kernel without module by adding the parameter "nomodule" or the hardware acceleration support for encryption of data in AES on NVIDIA Tegra chips. The famous KernelNewbies site lists all of the changes and they are many, to go even further, the Linus Torvalds Advertisement message itself is readable here.

GitHub: a client Windows now available

GitHub on Windows developers finally have a client for their operating system.

Founded in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, GitHub has become one of the most important platforms for hosting source code to the world. Based on the famous code Git Manager developed by Linus Torvalds himself, GitHub proposes to centralize the source code for a project to one or more persons, with the possibility to share it or not with all of the users of the service.

          

Even yesterday, only Linux and Mac environments had a heavy client code between local and remote file management. Now, GitHub provides a client for Windows from XP to 8. Like its counterparts, it is possible to follow the history of "commit" codes, find and recover a development branch, or to create and publish its own branch as well as the delete or merge it with another already available branch.

Finally, this new application for Windows will automatically update without intervention on the part of the user, as the most popular Internet browsers. GitHub for Windows also supports GitHub business accounts with provision of a direct button called "Clone in Windows" for rapid synchronization of a project.

> Download Github for Windows

Firefox available in Aurora 14

Firefox Aurora is at number 14. Small point on the improvements expected...

The final version of Firefox 12 is available recently, and version 13 is of course in beta, but the Mozilla Foundation continues on a paced and informs us that Firefox 14 which will arrive in 12 weeks is available in Aurora.

Finally, Firefox 14 rajoutera support for full screen for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Also, it will mark a support for the HTTPS protocol for the Internet search in the address bar, on the home or menu page shortcut if Google is chosen as the default search engine. It is also question of the support of the Mouse Lock API that allows to know the position in real time of the mouse in the browser to to trigger animations his movement or position, which can be interesting for the game online for example.

The CSS will be also better managed with the support of the States based on the mouse. For example, the visited page may display correctly the selected CSS style when the mouse is moved over a link, click on it, or if it has already been visited. Now in the configuration panel of the browser, it will be possible by default block loading all plugins installed with a click System on each zone enabling shipment as required.

Optimizations are also part with a better support the WebGL and SVG animations. The fonts are also better managed and their use will have less impact on memory consumption. There is still a lot of things to correct or to develop for the Mozilla Foundation, but this new version will bring these outlets a few interesting developments, such as the new manager of downloads or the new GStreamer framework.

> Download Firefox 14 Aurora

Firefox already available in Beta version 13

Milling 12-exit penalty, Mozilla already offers its 13 Firefox browser in Beta version download.

Notice to fans and non-superstitious people, the Mozilla Foundation is lagging and already offers the download milling 13 in beta version of its browser web and this just a few days after the official release of the number 12.

This new edition of the browser to the red panda offers several new features in the GUI with all major first a default homepage that gives quick access to the main features through icons at the bottom of the screen (downloads, bookmarks, history, add-ons, browser settings), and then open a new blank tab is now appear a mosaic of nine vignettes sites most popular that it is possible to rearrange envy by movingpinning or removing very simply.

    

Firefox is therefore a Visual facelift and ergonomic welcome that was poor especially compared to what offer already Chrome and Opera since a little while. Other changes such as the activation of the Protocol SPDY sites the supporting and soft scrolling are enabled by default and, during a restore of session, the loading of the content of all the tabs previously open is automatically but upon request in the selection of one of them, this result a much faster browser startup.

The complete list of changes can be found on the Mozilla site page dedicated to this version and you can download the software by clicking below.