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The Hungarian Developer Roger has just announced the first release of his SpeedStep Centrino Driver at the Hungarian Community Site BeOS.hu, and released v0.1 of the driver on BeBits. As the driver is still in an early stage of development, you must configure it manually for your CPU before compiling it.

The Intel SpeedStep? technology allows the clock speed of a CPU to be dynamically changed by software. Running the processor on full clock speed will allow you the best performance, but once in a while you are rather in the need of having the CPU run at a lower speed, to reduce power consumption and by doing that conserve battery power on your notebook. The great thing with Intel's SpeedStep technology is that it allows users to select the balance of power conservation and performance that best suits them, or change the clock speed dynamically as processor burden changes.

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Thom Holwerda of OSNews, has posted his review of ZETA R1, in which he says, despite some glitches, that this is "by far the best 'distribution' of BeOS currently available".

Among others, he was particularly pleased with the new printing funcionality and notes that one of the areas that needs looking into (and rightfully so) is the IM area, though he (and once more rightfully so) mentions the IMKit, which is available to everyone out there and is indeed a very good piece of software. So head over there and start reading the 3 page long review.

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Before I went to Holland, a poll was started here at ICO, with several ideas concerning what I should bring from Amsterdam. Several options were available, some material from a Coffee Shop, a girl (with window mind you) and others. Not surprisingly, the pot won over the girl, this is a computer-related site afterall...

Well, I must confess I disregarded the poll results. I ended up not going to a coffee shop, though that would have been easy enough, not so easy would have been coming through the airport security... but that wasn't the main reason why I brought what I brought... You see, once I saw this, and those of you who know ICO and know me will understand, my decision was made, there was no going back... and of course, it's only fair and natural that I share my choice with all of you.

[Parental Advisory]: The image you'll see when you click below may be shocking to some more sensible readers, so beware. You have been warned.

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yellowTAB has posted two new openings at their Jobs Centre page. The first is for Graphics Designer, which requires among others "Proven expertise with Adobe ImageReady, PhotoShop and Illustrator in both print and computer design. Knowledge of Software Usability principles and PDF development preferred. Previous experience with ZETA is highly desirable but not required.".

The second opening is for Graphics Driver Developer, for which the responsabilities are, for example, to develop and maintain graphics drivers in ZETA.

The location for both jobs is, as usual, Mannheim, Germany, where the yellowTAB offices are located. If you think one of these openings has your name written all over it, go for it and apply.

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The previous posting was about having fun in Amsterdam, well... if you want to visit another country and have fun, you have to pay for your expenses, and to pay, you must work, hence today's picture. For these past few days since I got here, the mornings have been filled with cleaning the deck (and below) of a ship situated in one of Amsterdam's many canals. It's a nice ship, old but sturdy, just like its captain.

Speaking of the captain, I appear to be quite pleased to be working there, but actually, the captain was behind the camera holding quite the mean looking pistol, so...


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I've been in Holland since last Tuesday, visiting a friend (and Friday evening we were joined by one more) and I must say, we've been having a blast. We've been to Germany as well, to Amsterdam, walking around, visiting museums (the Anne Frank is a MUST if you come here), etc. And for those of you wondering (also because of the poll), no Coffee Shops... yet.

We went to a street market today and took this picture, that shows what true geeks are like (*cough cough*), I'm sure many of you can relate to it. I hope you enjoy it.

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The developer of WonderBrush, Stephan A?mus from YellowBites, has confirmed that WonderBrush 1.6.1 works fine on ZETA 1.0. The problem with the stroke based tools under ZETA has been fixed by yellowTAB.

A new version of WonderBrush is being worked on, and it will be much better integrated with the additional features in ZETA. Among the new features that you can expect is that WonderBrush will support ZETA's integrated locale kit. The new version will also feature support for gradients and basic SVG loading.

WonderBrush is sold under two licenses. The single user license for non-commercial and commercial projects (digital delivery) is only costing a modest € 17.50 (US $ 21.35), and a site license for non-commercial and commercial projects (digital delivery) is available for € 43.05 (US $ 50.00). There is no longer any reason for not buying this cool piece of software!

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As I'm sure many of you have noticed (the mails we've been receiving are proof of that), ICO Shop was still announcing RC3 as a product for sale. And it has been decided that we'll not be carrying R1 for sale, along with the taking down of the shop. This move is purely based on a personal level, has nothing to do with yellowTAB, over the last months there has been many changes in my life on a personal level (those who know me well, know about this), so it didn't make sense to keep ICO Shop up and running.

Our customers need not to worry though, everything's been arranged with BMT Micro (who are offering R1), so that they can get from them R1 at the upgrade rate (plus shipping of course) without problems whatsoever. That was our main concern and the reason why only now are we announcing this.

We would like to thank our customers for their support (and their e-mails asking us to carry R1), you guys have been great, BMT Micro (and Mensys) for so readily "taking care" of our customers and also yellowTAB, for being understandable throughout all these months of hiatus. Back to our regular programming now.

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Begasus of BeBug and Jixt (of PhotoGrabber fame) drove up to Mannheim on the 28th of June to visit yellowTAB's headquarters. There they met and talked with Bernd Korz, Alan Westbrook, Ithamar Adema and others, were given a tour of the facilities etc.

And being nice guys as they are (to which I can testify), they shared their experience with everyone, in an article over at BeBug. So head over there and enjoy the reading and the pictures they took.

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R?mi Grumeau from BeOSFrance shot me an e-mail, to share with us all the interview he did with Cedric Vincent (aka CKJ), about his game SG1 (based of course on the TV show Stargate SG1.

The interview, naturally, is in French, but you can read the translated version right here. Thanks R?mi and enjoy the interview everyone.