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iOS5 – Top 10 Features

iOS5 – Top 10 Features Apple has closed the gap between android and iOS with hell a lot of features being added to iOS5. We’ve now put together the full list of highlights from the WWDC presentation, which you’ll find after the break. iOS 5 will be made available this fall, with compatibility promised for the iPhone 4 and 3GS, iPad 1 and 2, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th generation. iOS 5 gets 200 new features, here are the Top 10 Features of iOS5 or take the video preview : 1. Non-obstructive Notifications Finally. A new Notification Center aggregates all your notifications into one and is accessible by pulling down a menu from the top of the screen. Yes, its just like Android. Notifications are also making their way onto the lockscreen, where swiping across a text message takes you right into it. A lot like Samsung’s touchwiz UI. 2. Newsstand : A new place to house all your magazine and newspaper subscriptions. 3. Deep Twitter Integration: Now you can use Twitter ...

Yum in Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.1

Download Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.1   Time to look at a few features of yum in RHEL-6.1 now that it's released Search is more userfriendly As we maintain yum we are always looking for the "minor" changes that can make a big difference to the user, and this is probably one of the biggest minor changes. As of late RHEL-5 and RHEL-6.0 "yum search" was great for finding obscure things that you knew something about but with 6.1 we've hopefully made it useful for finding the "everyday" packages you can't remember the exact name of. We did this by excluding a lot of the "extra" hits, when you get a large search result. For instance "yum search kvm manager" is pretty useless in RHEL-6.0, but in RHEL-6.1 you should find what you want very quickly. Example commands: yum search kvm manager yum search python url The updateinfo command The "yum-security" or "yum-plugin-security" package...

How To Delete a VHD in Windows 7

How To Delete a VHD in Windows 7 Windows 7 has a neat feature where you can create Virtual Hard Drives and even encrypt them. Today we show you how to delete it if you no longer need the drive and regain local hard drive space. Virtual Hard Drive In a previous post we showed you the steps for creating a VHD. Remember when creating a VHD it’s using the space on the volume where you create it. When you no longer have a use for it, you can go into Computer Management by right-clicking Computer then Manage. In Computer Management go under Disk Management, right-click on the VHD you want to get rid of and select Delete Volume. Agree to the warning message that appears. You probably want to make sure and head its advice and make sure there is no data you need on it. However, the drive is not completely gone, you’ll need to go in and manually delete it. That’s it! Now it’s gone and you have regained some hard drive space for whatever you need.