Apple's new applications will reach Windows

It was almost expected that after the abandonment of iTunes, the new applications with which Apple has replaced the old glory would end up appearing on Windows sooner rather than later, and although the news has not been officially confirmed, those who understand the world of The apple is taken for granted.

Namely, the arrival of macOS Catalina meant the farewell of iTunes, whose functionality was distributed in new independent applications such as Music, Podcasts and those aimed at its television service; however, Windows users were left without any news. But as they have discovered in MacRumors, the company is looking for developers specialized in multimedia applications for Windows, which translates into a very clear hint.

When the new Apple content applications will be available on Windows is another song, because if they have to start their development from scratch it will cost them.

They mention in MacRumors that "Windows 10 users currently need access to services such as Apple TV and Apple Music on the web, which is not ideal," but the truth is that while Apple Music does have a limited, accessible web interface, In the case of Apple TV, it is yet to be launched, at least as far as the video on demand service is concerned, which will undoubtedly be one of the company's most interested in promoting outside the walls.

In this regard there is a striking fact in the job offer that they have published, and it will be considered a “big plus” to have knowledge about UWP (Universal Windows Platform), the universal applications of Windows 10 that precisely in Windows 10 are not having much success, rather the opposite, but still have a gap to fill the most interesting in adjacent platforms such as Xbox One. Which would, of course, be the best possible move in order to open to a wider market.

Do not impede, seen as seen, another doubt arises when less curious: will they also extend Apple Arcade beyond their domains? And if they did, could they take it to Xbox One? This seems more complicated because the games in the catalog are developed by professors for iOS and macOS, but by power. Now, would an external gaming service on Xbox One be feasible? These are just caballas, it should be added.

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'Tetris Royale', a new version of the classic in 'Battle Royale' format of 100 players prepares its arrival to smartphones

We are in full celebration of the 35 years of Tetris and the game is more alive than ever. After the success of 'Tetris 99', the exclusive title for Nintendo Switch Online, a new version of the classic is already being prepared taking advantage of the 'Battle Royale' fever that will be known as 'Tetris Royale'.

This new version will come hand in hand with The Tetris Company and N3TWORK, who have just signed a collaboration agreement to develop new Tetris games for mobile devices. 'Tetris Royale' will be the first of them and aims to become a phenomenon.

A classic that is more alive than ever

'Tetris Royale' will be an exclusive game for iOS and Android devices, which will consist of battles of 100 players, who will compete for the first places of the leaderboard each season. If it sounds familiar to you, it is because it is the same format as the addictive 'Tetris 99', which today is already in its fourth tournament with incredible success.

In addition to the 'Battle Royale' mode, 'Tetris Royale' will feature an individual "marathon" mode and daily challenges where we can win prizes such as customization options, weapons and power-ups for use during battles.

'Tetris Royale' está actualmente en desarrollo, pero sus responsables ya adelantaron que lanzarán una versión beta este 2019 para iPhone, iPad y Android, mientras que la fecha de lanzamiento será anunciada más adelante.

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Chrome OS 75: launched with major improvements

Google has recently released the new version of its operating system. Chrome OS 75 is here and has important improvements. Now it has better support for the new Chromebook devices, and quite a few new features have been added, it contains the latest security patches and many other improvements. Now this version has been promoted to the stable channel, specifically it is 75.0.3770.102 (Plataform version: 12105.75.0) ...

In Chrome OS 75 cares about families, you will find a new parental control implemented so that parents can put some rules and limits to make the system a safer place for the little ones in the house without worrying. In addition, it is a friendly system with Google Assistant. On the other hand, the support for Linux and Android apps has been improved, which was previously introduced. Therefore, you will have plenty of software at your disposal, native apps and Android apps that integrate well with Chrome OS now have a great complement to the native software for GNU / Linux.

In terms of security, some things have been updated, with patches to mitigate critical vulnerabilities such as Intel MDS, among others. MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) affected Chromebooks with Intel company chips, which are the vast majority. There are also improvements to the authentication system, and other changes that will make Chrome OS a much safer operating system than it already is. You already know that it stands out for being safe, robust, stable, lightness and its strong ties with cloud services.

Chrome OS 75.0.3770.102 is now available so you can update on all compatible Chromebooks products. To be able to update it, you know it's pretty simple. You start your Chromebook, go to the Settings of your desktop, then access to About Chrome OS and there you can see the current version, and even download and install the new version automatically. What are you waiting for to have the latest news?

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The new version of Shotcut 19.06 comes and these are your changes

The new version of the video editor Shotcut 19.06 has just been released, which is developed by the MLT project author and uses this framework to organize video editing.

For those who still do not know about Shotcut, they should know that this is an excellent, open-source multiplatform video editor, which has a lot of features, including support for 4K Ultra HD TV.

In addition to all this, the program can work with a large number of audio and video formats and codecs such as AVI, M4A, MXF, VOB, FLV, MP4, M2T, MPG, MOV, OGG, WEBM, and others.

In addition, it also supports many image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF, as well as image sequences.

Support for video and audio formats is implemented through FFmpeg. You can use add-ons with the implementation of video and audio effects that are compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA.

From the characteristics of Shotcut, it is possible to observe the possibility of multitrack editing with the video composition of fragments in various original formats, without the need to import or re-encode them previously.

There are built-in tools to create screenshots, image processing from a webcam and receive video streaming.

The most incredible thing is that the program is easy to use and offers tons of functions and features to edit and manage your videos with just a few clicks.

Qt5 is used to build the interface. The code is written in C ++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license.

Main novelties of Shotcut 19.06

With the release of this new version of the video editor Shotcut 19.06, we can find in the addition of new menu items to display text below the icons (See> Show text below the icons) and use compact icons (See> Show small icons).

As for the program interface, we can now find that the "Ripple All" button is added to the panel with the timeline, while the Add Keyframe button has been added to the keyframes panel.

In Shotcut 19.06 the hotkeys Ctrl + 0-9 are added to quickly switch panels, and Alt 0 / + / - to scale keyframes.

The offset of the time offset is set to 5 seconds. And Panel buttons are rearranged to match the "view" menu.

On the part of the filters we can find that a filter was added to trim the video "Crop: Rectangle" with support for alpha channel (transparency). Alpha channel support has also been added to the circular cropping tool (Crop: Circle).

Also added were new filters for vertical flip ((Vertical Flip), defocus (Blur: Exponential, Low Pass and Gaussian), noise reduction (Reduce Noise: HQDN3D) and add noise (Noise: Fast and Keyframes).

While other filters were renamed: "Circular Frame" to "Crop: Circle", "Crop" to "Crop: Source", "Text" to "Text: Simple", "3D Text" to "Text: 3D", " Overlay HTML "a" Text: HTML "," Blur "to" Blur: Box "," Reduce Noise "to" Reduce Noise: Smart Blur ".

How to install Shotcut in Linux?

For those who are interested in being able to install this video editor in their system, they should follow the following instructions.

The first method to obtain this video editor in the system (only valid until Ubuntu 18.04 lts), is adding the repository of the application to our system. For this we must open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we will execute the following.

First we are going to add the repository with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: haraldhv / shotcut

Then we update the list of packages and repositories with this command:

sudo apt-get update

Finally we proceed to install the application with

sudo apt-get install shotcut

And ready with it will have been installed in the system.

Another method that we have to obtain this editor, is downloading the application in its AppImage format, which gives us the ease of being able to use this application without installing or adding things to the system.

To do this, just open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and in it execute the following command:

wget https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/download/v19.06.15/Shotcut-190615.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage -O shotcut.appimage

Done this now we must give execution permissions to the file downloaded with:

sudo chmod + x shotcut.appimage

And finally we can run the application with the following command:

./shotcut.appimage

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Linux App Store, new "store" of applications for Linux

Linux App Store

It is not the first nor will it be the last one, but here is the Linux App Store, a new "store" of applications for Linux whose objective is to facilitate the installation of applications in Linux by gathering them all in one place.

According to its developers on the project page on GitHub, «Linux App Store does not favor one distribution over another. The Linux App Store does not favor one packet format over another. Our goal is simply to make the software you use more accessible to you. " The problem, they explain, is that Flatpak, Snap and AppImage already have their application stores, FlatHub, Snap Store and AppImageHub, in which, as is evident, they only maintain applications in their respective formats. Thus, the purpose of the Linux App Store is to function as an intermediary of these with a single interface.

They also mention GNOME Software, which highlights defects such as being built in GTK, putting applications before GNOME, being slow and with errors, with an equally slow development and an outdated interface. On the contrary, the Linux App Store "is not based on GTK, but on modern web technologies". And is that Linux App Store is exactly that, at least for now: a web portal where they collect applications in all three formats, but without allowing their installation (hence the quotes in "store"). That will be the next thing they implement, just as they are developing a desktop application that smells like Electron before they start, which is not a bad thing per se.

In the short FAQ they have published they also indicate the intention to promote only free and free applications, only for desktop and, perhaps in the future, also add applications in Deb and RPM format. When asked "Why another App Store?", They reply: "We want to make an App Store that has no bias towards a specific distribution, a desktop environment or a package format. We also want to make an application store that simply works ".

Loables objectives and ideals those of the developers of Linux App Store, but much I am afraid that they are not going to take in coming face to face with reality: the interface of your shop is anything but modern and accessible, which you can polish with time; and most importantly: there is a world of resources to discover and get applications for Linux; but they are that, resources. Most users have almost everything they need in the software managers of their distribution, be it GNOME Software, Plasma Discover or others, where Flatpak and Snap are already integrated.

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