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There is a new gnome-keyring-sharp available for download.

The only changes from 1.0.1 are related to a breaking change in gnome-keyring: the socket interface is no longer there as of GNOME 2.30+.

Thanks a lot to Chris Halse Rogers at Canonical for doing all the work.

The INVENTION THROUGH MOVEMENT in goes them of Joux, the term invention transports especially the strong importance.

The part one of the program outside-season of goaltending of the fins of filatoio is now on the relative place and an expert part to that one.

You read so much about the dire state of amphibians in today's world. They're delicate -- they can absorb toxins through their porous skins, making them prey to all the pollution the human world dumps at their doorstep, as well as being prey for a wide assortment of larger animals and prone to infection by parasites. I remember seeing lots of frogs around ponds in the woods when I was growing up, and these days it's rare to see a frog in the wild at all.

But sometimes you get lucky and get an indication that maybe the state of amphibians isn't as dire as all that. Mark Wagner gave me a tip (thanks, Mark!) that the pond at Picchetti Ranch was literally hopping with frogs. I thought he must be exaggerating -- but he wasn't.

They're tiny, thumbtip-sized creatures and they're everywhere around the margin of the lake, hopping away as you approach. It's tough to get photos because they move so fast and like to hide under grass stems, but like anything else, take a lot of pictures and you'll get lucky on a few.

The scene is absolutely amazing. If you're at all a frog fan in the south bay area, get yourself to Picchetti and take a look -- but be very, very careful where you step, because they're everywhere and they're hard to spot between jumps.

I unfortunately lack a good amphibian field guide, and couldn't find much on the web either, but some people seem to think these Picchetti frogs are Sierran tree frogs -- which apparently are sometimes are green, sometimes brown and have a wide range of markings, so identifying them isn't straightforward.

Photos: Tiny frogs at Piccheti Ranch.

Dubbed ceilidh, KDE SC 4.4.5 brings fixes to applications such as Konsole, KMouseTool, KHangMan, KolourPaint, Okular, JuK, KGet, Comic applet, KAlarm, Ark and KFloppy.

The SmallLuxGPU is an experiment to use GPU power to render in real-time using OpenCL and LuxRender. This is an amazing option to work with advanced rendering techniques in Blender, using GPU power to reduce the time to have a clean and noise free image in LuxRender. This week David Bucciarelli author of the project, [...] Related posts:

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O uso de renderizadores externos no Blender 2.50 pode demorar vários meses até que uma versão estável esteja disponível para ambientes de produção, pois como o software está em desenvolvimento e a nova previsão de lançamento para o 2.60, que será a versão estável oriunda do 2.50, é Outubro desse ano, podemos ter que esperar [...]

Cisco Systems today unveiled the Cius, a 7 inch touchscreen tablet computer that runs the Android OS, and is sure to be compared to the Apple iPad.

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 1, 2010 is available.