Apple News: Apple Could Soon Release iOS 7 Beta 5 And OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5
It’s entirely possible that Apple will release iOS 7 beta 5 later today. Yes, just one week after Cupertino dropped the fourth beta to developers. Since June 10, Apple had been releasing iOS 7 betas every other Monday. This schedule was disrupted in late July when a security breach forced Apple to shutdown its developer site for eight days. As a result, the fourth iOS 7 beta 4 arrived on July 29, rather than a week earlier. Going back to iPhone OS 2.0, Apple has released at least five beta versions. The last time a sixth beta was needed was in 2011 with iOS 5. That update ultimately required seven betas before Apple released a final version to the public.
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Technology News: Technology will be everything and nothing in this election
If you bought tickets to the “Great NBN election policy showdown of 2013”, I’m sorry to say that you should head back to the box office and get a refund. This election will be fought on other matters, and barring any major stuff-ups, broadband will be a side issue in the 2013 campaign. As far as points of difference are concerned, the policies of the major parties are not far apart. This is not the 2010 election, where the Coalition was proposing to scrap the NBN and sell off its assets. At the time, Labor could go to the electorate and quite rightly claim that it was the only party with a plan for broadband. This time around, the electorate has to decide on what sort of NBN they want.
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Programming News: Acquiring and releasing cloud servers in Java using JClouds
In this post, we will look at an example of how to programmatically acquire and release cloud servers using the JClouds API. The JClouds API works with a large number of cloud providers including Amazon EC2 and Rackspace and allows you to perform a large number of operations using Java Code as opposed to interacting with individual APIs of these providers. In this example, we are using rackspace as our cloud provider.
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Photography News: Tips for Great Travel Photos Reloaded
Tips for great travel photos is the continuation of our previous article to give focus on the little things, here are the points where to give importance. In the last paragraph of that article, we said that in the next article, we will discuss about what are the elements which are taken as guide to discover. The photographer should always be attentive to the details and adept to catch them. Your eyes must always be trained to find what the other escapes and focus your mind to turn it into a beautiful picture. Accustomed to do it on the go. A person, who never could create only one photo with good composition with a mobile phone camera or a point or shoot, it is unlikely that there will be a huge improvement after purchasing the DSLR within a month. In fact, DSLR will complicate the learning process. If you are new, fully new to learn photography, we will rather suggest you to use the current one you have, give importance to the theories of the Photography first. These theories are evergreen and constant. DSLR is the technical instrument, when you really feel the hindrance, the limitations of your existing camera; then think of a DSLR. It is possibly difficult to change the habit of looking on the LCD screen versus looking through the viewfinder. If the camera is foreign to me, the foreign country will remain foreign to my camera.
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