New features for Calibre 4.16

• Viewer/Edit book fuzzy search: Ignore soft hyphens and zero-width joiner characters when searching for text.
• Tag browser: Allow adding/removing tags/authors/etc. to the currently selected book by right clicking on that tag and choosing “Apply to selected books”.
• Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware
• Manage categories dialog: When editing a value with multiple values selected, change them all
• Book list column header context menu: Add an entry to resize the column to fit its current contents.
• Show completions when editing tags/authors/series etc in the Tag browser and Manage tags dialog.
• Quickview: Double clicking an item now searches for it
• Comments editor: Add an action to the context menu to smarten punctuation.
• FB2 metadata: Add support for setting publisher and publish year

New features for Calibre 4.15

• Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes
• Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+b) for adding a bookmark

New features for Calibre 4.14

• Viewer: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior
• Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window.
• Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents
• Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the calibre library
• Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list

New features for Calibre 4.13

• Edit book: When searching in normal mode, have spaces in the search expression match multiple spaces and line breaks in the text.
• When running calibre-portable.exe popup a more useful error message if it is placed in a location with a too long path.
• Edit book: Allow skipping confirmation dialog when marking non-first file as cover page
• Add a shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+p] to switch to the previously opened library.

New features for Calibre 4.12

• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware with the series list on the device
• Automatically extract the source DOCX file from Kindle Create KPF files when adding them to calibre. If you prefer to preserve the KPF file you can disable the KPF Extract plugin in Preferences->Plugins
• Content server: Add a button to delete all locally cached books.
• Edit Book: Allow selecting the contents of a tag with Ctrl+Alt+t
• Viewer: Save current position after 3 seconds of last position change. Useful if the viewer crashes on resume from sleep.
• Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+w) to toggle the scrollbar.
• Viewer: Keyboard shortcuts to change number of columns (Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+])

New features for Calibre 4.11.2

• Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts
• Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them
• Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu
• Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size
• Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens.
• Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (Ctrl+n)

New features for Calibre 4.10

• Viewer: When searching have single and double quotes match their curly variants as well.

New features for Calibre 4.9.1

• Viewer: Much improved search functionality

  Now all matches are displayed when searching in a side bar with a few words of context. Also supports searching using regular expressions.

• Edit book: The Check book function has a new, improved CSS checker with support for CSS 3
• Edit book: Add an “Open with” action to the context menu of the files browser to easily open files with external programs.
• Viewer toolbar: Add button to easily change color schemes

New features for Calibre 4.8

• Viewer in flow mode: Add auto-scrolling which can be triggered from the viewer controls and also make smooth scrolling by pressing down the arrow keys configurable
• Viewer: Allow showing data in left and right margins in addition to headers/footers.
• Viewer: Allow right clicking in the lookup panel to zoom in/out.
• Viewer: Allow setting colors for the margins when creating new color schemes in Preferences->Colors
• Viewer: Ctrl+, to show preferences

New features for Calibre 4.7

• macOS: Use transient scrollbars unless they are disabled in system preferences
• Viewer toolbar: Add actions for next and previous section. They are not added to the toolbar by default, customize it to add them.
• Viewer: Add an option to keep the toolbar visible in full screen mode (Viewer Preferences->Miscellaneous)
• Viewer: Allow modifying the current selection using Ctrl+Shift+Arrow.
• Book details: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Book details to show a heading for the comments in the book details panel
• Edit book: Spell check: Ignore soft hyphens in words
• Viewer: In multiple pages per screen mode, When paging back to a chapter we have just paged forward from return to the exact position we left from in terms of number of blank trailing pages displayed.
• Viewer: Add a setting under Preferences->Colors to control when the viewer will override all book colors or not.

New features for Calibre 4.6

• Windows 10: Add support for dark mode.

  If you turn on dark mode under the Windows Settings->Personalisation->Colors and restart calibre it will use dark colors. Can also be enabled by setting the CALIBRE_USE_DARK_PALETTE environment variable.

• Polish books tool: Add a setting to add or remove soft hyphens from the book text
• Viewer: Re-enable the old reference mode from calibre 3.x
• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware

New features for Calibre 4.5

• Driver for the new PocketBook Inkpad X
• Driver for the new Bookeen Diva HD
• PDF Output: Add an option to shift text horizontally on odd/even pages.
• Image viewing popup dialog: Add a checkbox to fit image to window.
• Edit book: Create @font-face rules when importing multiple font files into book automatically, similar to how it is done when importing a single font file.

New features for Calibre 4.4

• Viewer: Allow customizing what actions appear on the toolbar (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Customize toolbar).
• Viewer: The –open-at command line argument now allows matching on ToC hrefs as well as titles
• Book details window: Show path to book in cover tooltip.
• Book details popup window: Add Open with actions to context menu when right clicking the cover image.
• Edit book: Check book: Mark empty id attributes in the OPF as errors.
• Viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to toggle the toolbar
• Bulk metadata download review dialog: When clicking cancel ask for confirmation if some books have already been reviewed

New features for Calibre 4.3

• Viewer: Halve the time taken to prepare large EPUB files for first open
• Viewer: Add an optional toolbar with common actions turn it on under Preferences->Miscellaneous
• Viewer: Change the default color scheme to “System” which matches the colors used by the rest of calibre/the operating system. Also means the colors change automatically when the system color theme changes.
• Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut ; to go to a book location or position
• Viewer: Add a control to easily reset the interface to defaults
• Viewer: Allow also using –open-at with book positions
• Viewer: Add command line option to force reloading of books

New features for Calibre 4.2

• macOS: Various improvements to dark mode support
• Viewer: Dont generate covers for books that dont have a cover. Note that because of this all previously opened books will again be prepared for first time reading.
• Viewer: Restore print to PDF functionality
• Viewer: Allow also jumping to book positions in Goto->Location
• Content server: When adding books and a duplicate is suspected provide more information about what books match the duplicate
• FB2 Output: Speed up conversion of images and handle external links
• Viewer: If the book has no ToC try to generate one from headings, if any.
• Viewer: Improve rendering of comics. No blank pages after large images or after every image in multi-page mode.
• Viewer: Make it easier to use the bookmarks panel with only keyboard.
• Viewer: Set the classes calibre-viewer-paginated and calibre-viewer-scrolling on the <body> tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed.
• Viewer: Use the same loading spinner as is used by the rest of calibre

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New features for Calibre 4.1

• Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences)
  Viewer: Allow showing the ‘position in book’, as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in calibre 3, in the header or footer of the viewer.
• Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode.
• Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them.
• Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer
  Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit
  Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates.
• Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes.
• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware

It is a kinds of rush for this new release. more bug fixes on it.

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A lot of people said that Apache OpenOffice Project Could End. The main reasons are no enough developer, security vulnerabilities can not be fixed in reasonable time frame.

During past three years, Apache OpenOffice Project released only three maintenance version. The main competitor, LibreOffice has 14 releases in 2015.  Based on the requirement from ASF, at least one release per month is minimum.

I used Apache OpenOffice many years. I can not remember when I switch to LibreOffice. Maybe 2014.

Even I use  LibreOffice for two years. I still hope Apache OpenOffice can continue developing its new version. I believe competition makes a better world, including software we use.

New Apache OpenOffice can be download here. Release notes here.

PS. LibreOffice can be reached at https://www.libreoffice.org/

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Ubuntu 14.10 server is not a LTS edition. It will be supported in 9 months. Actually it will be upgrade to new version in 6 months.

Download Ubuntu 14.10 server here.

There is also a web forum programe has a new release. It is phpBB 3.1.0. The previous version of phpBB is 3.0.12, released on Sep 28, 2013, more than one year ago.

So I will take a trial installation on the new Ubuntu 14.10 Server. It is cool to have a test run on both new software.

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Much more API features are now available. We worked hard so that we could give a positive answer to your most frequent questions:

“Can I create / edit / delete a CDN resource through API?”

YES! You can manage your CDN resources (incl. Live Streaming) easily with API.

“Can I integrate the reports to my internal tools using API?”

YES! All the data we provide you with in the Reports section + Logs are now reachable through API.

“Can I make changes to my account via API?”

YES! You can edit all the account details including the billing and invoicing section.

More details of API 2.0, check the Documents.

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New Features of 1.37

• Edit Book: Live spell checking in the code view. Now spelling errors are highlighted in the code view for convenient correction as you type. This can be turned off via Preferences->Editor.
• E-book viewer: When using the tap and hold gesture on a touchscreen, allow lookup of the word currently under the finger in the dictionary or online.
• Edit Book: Allow putting the editor into replace mode by pressing the Insert key
• Content server: Add more descriptive titles to the OPDS feeds, where possible.
• Edit Book: Update the Table of Contents view automatically when the ncx file is edited.
• Edit book: Insert tag button: Allow entering attributes along with the tag name to make it easy to repeatedly insert, for example, <span class=’special’></span>.
• Windows driver for Woxter Scriba 190.
• Edit Book: Add an entry to the context menu of the preview panel to open external URLs when a link is right clicked on

New Features of 1.36

• Edit Book: A new tool to filter style information (Tools->Filter style information). Useful to easily remove some CSS properties from the entire book.
• DOCX Input: Add support for cross references. Cross references that are used to insert hyperlinks are now converted into hyperlinks in the output document. Features to insert paragraph/page numbers are not supported.
• Add support for viewing kepub files in the calibre viewer, by treating them as plain epub files
• Edit book: In the Insert Link tool show a few words of text alongside the location anchor name, to make it easier to know what a location is
• Manage user dictionaries: Allow copying all selected words by right clicking them and choosing ‘Copy to clipboard’.
• Content server: Make .ibook format files available in OPDS feeds
• Edit book: Allow copying the list of errors from the Check Book tool to the clipboard by right clicking on the list of errors
• Book polishing: If the books being polished have an ORIGINAL_EPUB/AZW3 format, warn the user that polishing will use it as the source and ask for confirmation.

New Features of 1.35

• Edit Book: Redesign the syntax highlighter to improve performance for large documents and extended editing sessions.
• Edit book: Make cursor movement smooth by not highlighting matching tags while the cursor is moving. Only match highlighting tags if the cursor stays still for a time.
• Spellcheck dialog: Indicate whether a word is ignored in the Misspelled column
• Spellcheck dialog: Pressing Ctrl+C on the words list copies only selected words, regardless of current cell
• Add a copy to clipboard action to the context menu for the spell check dialog
• Edit book: Fix save button incorrectly disabled after a failed save

New Features of 1.34

• E-book viewer: When in flow mode, handle swiping on the touchscreen differently. Swiping now scrolls line by line in flow mode instead of page by page. If you wish to scroll page by page in flow mode, tap instead of swiping.
• Conversion: Preserve all guide entries that are of a type present in the EPUB 2.0 specification. These entries are used by newer Kindle readers to populate the Go To jump list
• When adding MOBI files if the author name is in LN, FN format, auto change it to FN LN format, as the MOBI format has no author sort field. This behavior can be disabled by setting Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to copy.
• Spellcheck: When checking French text list all words that have the same stem as a single word. So j’aime and aime are listed as a single word.
• Spell check: Add a context (right click) menu that allows for quick operations on all selected words
• Manage user dictionaries: Add a button to import a list of words in bulk into the user dictionary
• Spell check dialog: Allow sorting words case sensitively

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• VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686, #12770)
• VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)
• VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is not available
• GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)
• GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which doesn’t work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway
• GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts: fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default; bug #12758)
• GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu (bug #12862)
• OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest export (bug #12586)
• 3D support: several fixes
• HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state
• Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots under certain conditions
• VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path exists under /dev (bug #12760)
• API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage medium was attached or removed at VM runtime
• Windows installer: make the –silent parameter work again (bug #12764)
• Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from leaking to wire (bug #12750)
• Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes (4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)
• Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with multiple guest screens under certain conditions
• Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed crashes with 2D video acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745)
• Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513)
• X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time

Click here to get the latest installation package at official site.

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I have already switch my tracking code from the original old code to Universal Analytics code. Nothing need be changed on my sites. The only benefit form the official release is, more features come out.

Feature parity with Classic Analytics, new reports, better user-centric analysis

When Google first introduced Universal Analytics and ran the beta trial, the number one request from users was for full access to all Google Analytics features and tools. Bringing Universal Analytics out of beta means that all the features, reports, and tools of Classic Analytics are now available in the product, including Remarketing and Audience reporting.

Yes, Audience reporting is back.

Time Zone Based Processing: Fresher, more timely data

Updates to the Measurement Protocol: User Agent / IP Override

I will keep using Google Analytics for web site logging and analysis. It is a great tool for free.

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Click here to see the full list of the changes of new release.

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The release notes for 1.10 are:

¤ Fix the issue with DS-Lite
¤ Fix the security issue with Samba
¤ Fix the issue with the mail server
¤ Fix the issue with DLNA
¤ Support the latest hidden page
¤ Support PPPoE Passthrough

I just don’t know what is latest hidden page.

My device info page of DIR-850L

The hardware version is A1, Firmware version shown as 1.10WW.

Anyone knows why it is not 1.10B08, but 1.10WW?

You can find the up time is 3days. It means I update this router 3 days ago. It is no problem with my network.

Here is the link to download the new firmware.  Canadian site link here.

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New Features of 1.15

• A new book editor, capable of editing files in the EPUB and AZW3 (Kindle) formatsRight click on any book in calibre and choose ‘Edit Book’, to edit e-books in the EPUB and AZW3 formats. The new editor allows you to edit the HTML/CSS and images inside the ebooks in a seamless fashion, with live preview of your changes and many helpful automated tools for checking the book for errors, editing the table of contents, merging, splitting, bulk renaming and so on. See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html for more details and help using the new editor. Note that the editor is a completely new codebase and is still being actively developed, so expect a few bugs and many new features in the near future. However, the editor as it stands is extremely useable and useful today. Note that it replaces the old ‘Tweak Book’ feature in calibre. If you want the old Tweak Book back, it has been renamed to ‘Unpack Book’, you can go to Preferences->Toolbars and add it back. Happy holidays!
• Edit metadata dialog: In the tag editor, allow easy filtering of the lists of available and applied tags.
• Driver for Onyx Boox C65. 

New Features of 1.14

• Edit metadata dialog: Add the ability to trim covers manually, if automatic trimming is not satisfactory.
• You can now show any metadata field below the covers in the cover grid view, not just title. To change the displayed field go to Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover Grid.
• Allow searching for plugins by name in the install new plugins dialog
• Kobo driver: Allow sending kepubs to older kobo devices as well, also add support for firmware 3.1
• Allow viewer plugins to customize the viewer’s user interface

New Features of 1.13

• Edit metadata dialog: Facilitate editing the authors for books that have a large number of authors, by using a dedicated ‘Edit authors’ tool, which you can launch by right clicking the authors in the edit metadata dialog and selecting ‘Edit authors’.
• Conversion: Fix specifying shorthand properties in filter css not working. Now all shorthand properties automatically filter out all the properties they are shorthand for.
• Kobo driver: support new firmware version 3.0.1
• Wireless device driver: Cache metadata on a per device basis.Allows for using different cover thumbnail sizes on different devices. Will force device to resend all metadata the first time it is connected after this upgrade.

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New Features

• Auto adding: Option to add files of all types, not just ebooks. You can now tell calibre to auto add all file types, instead of just known ebooks via Preferences->Adding books->Automatic adding.
• Quick view: Show the title/author/series columns in the same order as in the main book list.
• Update Kobo driver to allow sending kepubs
• Allow right clicking on covers to copy them in the metadata cover download dialog.

I just realized that Calibre release its new version or edition almost every week, if it is not more than once.

So, I think it is better to keep my log here less often. Maybe once a month. Or, post here for a big change of it.

Download the Calibre 64bit for Windows here.

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• Drivers for the new Nook Glowlight, Lenovo IdeaPad and Kindle Fire HDX (linux)
• Add an option to check for duplicates (books with the same title/author) when copying between libraries. Option is under Preferences->Adding books.
• Content server: Display book title on details page. Also put the most important fields (authors/series/tags) at the top.
• When developing recipes using the command line, allow specifying the number of feeds and articles when using the –test parameter.
• PDF Output: Option to control title of generated Table of Contents
• PDF metadata: If one of the keywords in the PDF is a valid ISBN, use it as the ISBN for the book

Download the 64bit Calibre here.

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New features here:

• Background Updates
  • Automatic updates for maintenance and security updates.
  • Daily updates for developers using nightly builds.
• Stronger Password Meter
  • New password meter to encourage users to choose stronger passwords.
• Improved Search
  • More relevant search results.
• Better Global Support
  • Localized versions will receive faster and more complete translations.
  • Background updates will include translations

   

There are more information at WP official site: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7

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I wrote one post before about HDMI 1.3 vs HDMI 1.4

So, what about HDMI2.0. What’s new?
HDMI 2.0 vs HDMI1.4

• Max Clock Rate: 600Mhz vs 340Mhz
• Maximum TMDS throughput per channel (Gbit/s) including 8b/10b overhead: 6 vs 3.4
• Maximum total TMDS throughput (Gbit/s) including 8b/10b overhead: 18 vs 10.2
• Maximum throughput (Gbit/s) with 8b/10b overhead removed:14.4 vs 8.16
• Maximum color depth (bit/px): 48 vs 48
• Maximum consumer resolution over single link at 24-bit/px:  3840×2160p60 vs 3840×2160p30

HDMI 2.0 has following five new features:

1. 4K resolution support at 60 fps
2. Support for up to 32 channel audio
3. Support for up to 1536 kHz audio
4. Support for up to 4 audio streams
5. Support for 21:9 aspect ratio

It will be soon, the new HDMI 2.0 cable will be on markete.

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