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Just found out that new ".CO" domains (Columbia) are coming soon. Some domain registrars such as 123-Reg are already offering pre-orders for £29.99 per year.

Source: 123-Reg

It's here! After many months of work, the Django developers are proud to announce the release this week of Django 1.2. There's so much cool stuff packed into it that even a summary can't do it justice!

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The latest incarnation of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx (10.04) is due to be released this week on Thursday 29th April. I've been using the alpha, beta and now the release candidate versions and it is definitely the best version yet. Combine the new look and feel with some excellent additions to Gnome, it is well worth checking out. Download and install the release candidate now and then perform a simple upgrade on or after the release date to experience it now.

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Just a quick post to say that the second alpha of the forthcoming Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx (10.4) is now available. The final release is scheduled for April 2010.

Some of the new features and changes include:

I've recently been installing and using the new Google Chrome OS operating system on my Dell Mini 10v netbook.

On the evening of the announcement video, I built my own image from the source code and ran it from a USB stick. This first version had very little wireless hardware support, so I was limited to using a cabled connection at first.

I recently purchased a T-Mobile Pulse (or Huawei U8220) in October last year, and have been playing around with rooting the device, installing custom firmware and generally hacking the phone into submission.

I started a wiki page for the phone over at MoDaCo forums covering all the skills and tricks I picked up along the way. Other MoDaCo users have also contributed to the guide, so I can't take all the credit.

Take a look at the MoDaCo wiki...

The latest Ubuntu incarnation "Karmic" has now been released into the wild. Demand for this new version was so high that Canonical's servers struggled to keep up with demand. This new release brings a new Gnome release as well as excellent support for cloud computing.

After using my web hosts "one click" installer on a few different content management systems, I found Drupal, and after a few hours was able to migrate my existing portfolio website to it.

So far, I've found it very configurable and extendible, with a large collection of modules and themes.

This may be a bit premature, but I am currently working on a Python development framework that can be used to create and operate (via Google App Engine) multiple simple Google Wave Robots.

Currently, it doesn't talk to Google Wave yet, and only works inside a terminal. Hopefully, Wave integration will be added soon.

View the source, and feel free to leave any feedback.