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Oracle to give OpenOffice.org back to the community

Database giant Oracle has announced its intention to move OpenOffice.org to a purely community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of OpenOffice. Oracle became OpenOffice's principal contributor when it acquired Sun Microsystems last year.

Oracle says it will continue to make large investments in open source technologies that are strategic to its customers, including Linux and MySQL, which it specifically focuses on because they have won broad based adoption among commercial and government customers. The company will support OpenOffice, but its commitment does not appear to include the same level of investment as for Linux and MySQL.

"Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the OpenOffice.org project would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis," Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect, said in a statement. "We intend to begin working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office. Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF)."

Back in September 2010, the OpenOffice.org project separated itself from Oracle, christened itself The Document Foundation, and renamed the actual OpenOffice.org suite of programs as LibreOffice. The new foundation then invited Oracle to rejoin their new community by applying for membership, and also asked it to donate the OpenOffice.org brand. It appears that the OpenOffice community has won this little bout.

OpenOffice was once called StarOffice, but is now called LibreOffice. We have to wait and see if it will rebrand once again, back to OpenOffice.

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 3.3, a fork of Oracle's Open Office open source office suite, in January 2011. The LibreOffice 3.3 release followed Oracle's Open Office 3.3, which came out in December 2010. It has since received minor updates (we're at version 3.3.2 now) but 3.4 is still on the horizon; it would be quite the headache if the LibreOffice name was only used for one version.

Download LibreOffice for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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The Budget Debate, Revealed

The battle ahead ?is the big one, and goes to the very major questions about the role of government,? said G. William Hoagland, a former Republican staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. ?This is going to be a very fundamental clash of ideologies.?

The Democratic and Republican Parties have their own internal tensions to address as the debate goes forward in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail. But in its early stages at least, it is liberals who are on the defensive.

The aging of the baby boom generation and the costs of maintaining Medicare and Social Security have put the two pillars of the social welfare system on the table for re-examination. The growing weight of the national debt has given urgency to the question of whether the government has become too big and expensive.

The tepid nature of the current economic recovery, following big stimulus packages, has provided an opening to challenge the effectiveness of Keynesianism as the default policy option for government. And the revived energy of grass-roots conservatives has given electoral clout to the movement?s intellectual and constitutional arguments.

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative research organization, said, ?The optimistic view is that we have a confluence of the business cycle, of the demography and of the politics that makes it not just possible to achieve real change, but impossible that we not deal with these things if we want this country to continue on the path envisioned by the founders.? So just two and a half years after a presidential election that was in part a repudiation of conservative governance, and with the nation still smarting from the aftereffects of a financial crisis that grew out of failures of markets and regulation, President Obama finds himself in a somewhat surprising position: forced to articulate and sell a vision of how liberalism and the institutions it built in the 20th century can be updated for the constraints of the 21st. 

The speech he delivered Wednesday at George Washington University in Washington was his most ambitious effort so far to do so. In it, he harnessed the language of both left and right to argue against the extremes on both sides while suggesting that many of their core principles were not mutually exclusive ? in other words, that Great Society values can endure in a Tea Party moment.

He defined ?patriotism? as a shared sense of responsibility for the vulnerable and less fortunate. Basic standards of security for the elderly and poor and government investment in a more prosperous future, he said, can not only coexist with a tradition of ?rugged individualists with a healthy skepticism of too much government,? but are also a vital part of what makes America exceptional.

?We are a better country because of these commitments,? he said. ?I?ll go further ? we would not be a great country without those commitments.?

Republicans in Congress, he suggested, would shred that tradition under cover of a debate that is only nominally about the budget. ?The fact is,? he said, ?their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America.?

Conservatives would and did object to his implication of heartlessness, but not necessarily to his assessment of their ambition.

The Republican plan put forward by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Budget Committee, and adopted by the House on Friday as its policy blueprint for the next decade contains a substantial dose of deficit reduction but is really a manifesto for limited government.

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The Top 30 Best Photography Apps for iPhone

iPhone photography has come a long way in the last three years since the advent of the App Store. Every once in a while we like to make our way through the ranks of the photography category to see what kind of cool apps are out there for iPhone shooters these days.

This is a carefully compiled list of camera replacement, editing studio and single-effect apps that will help enhance and enable your iPhone photography. There?s something in here for everyone from basic to advanced users and the choices range the gamut from perennial favorites to joyful new discoveries. If you feel that we?ve missed any must-have tools for photography with your iPhone, please let us know in the comments below.

Remember that your iPhone is the camera that?s always with you, so make sure that your camera bag is full of the right tools!

Camera Apps

Camera apps are designed to work with your images on capture. They may also provide you with extensive image adjustment features, but their primary purpose is to become the way that you shoot pictures on your iPhone.

Instagram, Free

You can?t have a list of photography apps and not include Instagram. It?s fairly limited in the creative department  as there is no exposure adjustment or tweaking of the creative filters it applies. That doesn?t mean it can?t turn out very pleasing images with a minimum of fuss though. It?s my go-to app when I?m interested in sharing a quick moment with a bit of visual flair.

The photo sharing network that it?s a part of is the biggest standout feature of Instagram and we haven?t seen how big it can really be just yet. Stay tuned, Instagram isn?t going anywhere.

Camera+, $0.99

Another big name in camera replacement apps, Camera+ offers a widely varied set of enhancements to the feature set of the basic Camera app. Developer TapTapTap makes great products and they?re committed to delivering new features. A recent update brought the Clarity filter, a contrast and levels adjustment that greatly improves many casual iPhone pictures with a simple tap. Anti-shake features and the ability to set exposure and focus independently are also reasons to add this one to your kit.

Procamera, $2.99

Procamera is a nice alternative to Camera+. It?s a bit pricier but I like the immediacy of its interface a bit more than Camera+, which makes you wade through some attractive but unnecessary screens to get to some features. If you?re looking for an app to use when you?re whipping your phone out of your pocket to grab a shot quickly, Procamera has the edge. It also offers an unlinked focus/exposure system and White Balance locking to help you set your color tone.

Hipstamatic, $1.99

Inconvenient, awkward and slow, Hipstamatic should never be your ?quick-shot? app. But those characteristics are really just reflections of the Russian toy cameras that Hipstamatic was based on. Thankfully the ability to choose many types of film, lenses and flashes to create a unique and warm look for your images more than makes up for the inconvenience.

Hipstamatic comes with a few films and lenses and offers you the ability to purchase more in packs. It also has rudimentary online sharing and publisher Synthetic holds regular photo contests for users of the app. Think of it as Instagram with more control over your filters.

Magic Shutter, $2.99

In dark situations the iPhone?s camera becomes fairly useless, especially if you?d like to take pictures of anything that is not easily illuminated with flash. Magic shutter allows you to leave the sensor of your iPhone turned on to record light for a longer period than normal. This exposure builds up and reveals dim subjects more fully. You can also use this to create light trails with flashlights or other bright lights.

While it has limited capability and takes some practice to master, Magic Shutter will allow you to capture images in situations that you absolutely would not have been able to otherwise with your iPhone. This makes it a worthy addition to your arsenal. Note that the images shot with Magic Shutter are relatively low res as it uses the video camera to perform this light trickery.

I?ve used Magic Shutter extensively and while I do wish the resolution was higher I couldn?t imagine being without it now.

ShakeItPhoto, $0.99

Very simple camera app that allows you to shoot Polaroid style photos that then appear to develop themselves live on your screen complete with sound effects and slowly revealed image. The faster you shake the phone, the faster your image is processed. The finished product is a near exact replica of a classic Polaroid 600 photo.

This is an incredibly single purpose app and hasn?t changed much since it?s introduction to the App Store in 2009 but it continues to find its place in my iPhone camera bag. Photo nerd note, Polaroid always recommended that you not shake your pictures as they would develop evenly regardless of your gyrations.

Pro HDR, $1.99

Apple?s built-in HDR mode in the Camera app is, by design, fairly subtle. For a more aggressive HDR look grab Pro HDR. This app allows you to shoot an auto HDR just like the Apple version but also allows you to take 3 or more images individually by tapping on the light and dark areas that you would like to capture manually.

This normally leads to being able to capture a very large range of tones without having to fuss with it much. The closest you?re going to get to ?real? HDR photography on the iPhone. You?d have to pry this app off of my phone with a crowbar.

Editing Suites

Editing suites are apps that are a collection of adjustments and filters all in one. These are the equivalent of photo editing apps like iPhoto or Photoshop for your iPhone. If you?re looking to use one app for all of your photo editing, these would be a good place to start.

Filterstorm, $3.99

A very full-featured suite, I would liken Filterstorm to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for your iPhone. It?s got all of the basic adjustments but goes no further than necessary. You can?t do any funky texturing or anything and there is a surprising lack of crazy filters for an app called Filterstorm.

What it does provide you is cloning tools, selective adjustment via gradients or brushes and fairly effective noise reduction. Just like Lightroom, it does the basics and does them well. Just to state this one last time, this is not a filtration app, it?s an adjustment app. As it?s a universal app, it works on your iPad as well.

Iris Photo Suite, $1.99

Don?t be fooled by the far-too-busy icon and the fussy looking interface, Iris is an essential editing app for the serious iPhone photographer.

Some of its powerful features include texture layering, color replacement and blending multiple images together to create double exposures. In addition it has all of the normal stuff that you?d expect such as brightness, contrast, saturation and color temperature. I wish that the image itself was displayed larger while you adjusted exposure and whatnot but other than that this one is a must.

Photogene, $1.99

The granddaddy of ?photoshop? style apps on the App Store, Photogene is ugly and unintuitive but it gets the job done for basic editing. All of the basic adjustments I mentioned above in the Iris section are here, including a nice interactive histogram that allows you to adjust your levels.

One big plus to Photogene is that it does display your image full screen while you?re editing it which makes it much easier to see the effects of your adjustments. If Photogene ever got a nice graphical overhaul it would become far more popular than it already is. Available for iPad as well as a separate purchase.

Photoshop Express, Free

It?s decent, but it should be great. The Photoshop name conveys industry standard on the Mac or PC platforms but this is a fairly weak showing at least initially on iOS. Adobe has recently demonstrated a ?full? version of Photoshop on the iPad and when that comes all bets are off.

Until then Photoshop Express remains a solid option for those who only need simple image editing only and don?t want to have to pay for an app they only use lightly. It does earn high marks for its interface, which is easily the best looking one of this bunch.

Perfect Photo, $0.99

An image editing suite focused on basic iPhone photographers, Perfect Photo can remove redeye, fix acne and do a decent amount of basic adjustments. All of your standard features are represented and, aside from Photoshop, is one of the cheapest editing suites in this list. A little over 20 basic tools make this a solid option for casual users but it?s definitely not as slick as Filterstorm or as feature rich as Iris Photo Suite.

MonoPhix, $0.99

Think of this one like Filterstorm for black and white images only. It?s a sort of traditional black and white lab that has vignetting, channel adjustment, grain reduction or enhancement and Infrared options. It?s a must have for any photographers that want more precise control while converting their color images to monochrome. Far better than most apps? ?b&w? 1-button conversion method.

Effects Apps

Effects apps may have a set of options or even a pack of different effects to apply, but they?re usually single-purpose apps rather than full-on editing suites.

TiltShift Generator, $0.99

A very simple app that allows you to create fake depth-of-field blur that can create miniature effects or just help to isolate the focal point of an image. You can set your blur in a straight line or circular pattern. The effect can be applied to images shot in other apps and the resulting images can be exported in high-resolution. I often use this in combination with images processed in some of the other apps below. Instagram recently added a similar filter to their app though it cannot do a circular blur.

Pano, $1.99

Hands down the best traditional panoramic shooting app on the App Store. This app allows you to shoot up to 16 photos in horizontal or vertical sets and automatically stitches them together for you. Initially lower res, an update brought the final resolution up to 800×6800. That means that you could easily print a fairly large image of an image shot with Pano.

If you?re looking around for a solid option to shoot panoramic images, look no further. Julian, Adam and Eric of Debacle Software have put a lot of love into Pano and they have some cool updates on the way to make it even better.

Dynamic Light, $0.99

This is a very cool tool. If you want to give the HDR treatment to an image after it?s already been shot, just pass it through Dynamic Light and crank the dial for the desired amount of punch. It works far better than it has any right to from a single image. The images look very manipulated but if you don?t mind that it can deliver a super cool effect.

360 Panorama, $1.99

This app lets you shoot panoramic shots extremely quickly, as quick as 20-30 seconds for a full 360. You have the ability to export them as still images or send them to people in very cool 360 degree VR galleries. Note that as interesting as this app is, it should not be used as a standard panoramic shooting app. You can?t really get a nicely straightened and cropped image for output and the image isn?t suitable for printing. Despite that, it is a fantastic way to share your immediate surroundings quickly to friends and family via Twitter or email.
Montage, $1.99

Really more of a collaging app that lets you combine as many images as you want with any amount of text, color swatches and even clipart downloaded from a web library. You can cut and slice your images using different shaped tools and add them into your montage. Once you?re done you can email them out or save them. There?s even the ability to save layered, editable versions to come back and arrange. A good tool to use as quick poster creator for a band or school project.

Juxtaposer, $2.99

Originally intended as a goof-off app that will allow you to cut out heads and faces and place them into other images, Juxtaposer has taken on a second life among pro photographers as a masking tool. It?s a great way to isolate the subject of an image with a poor background and drop in one that?s cleaner or more interesting. It?s not going to be all that great blown up in print but it?s solid enough for Facebook or profile pictures. The uses for this one are only limited by your experimentation.

pic Grunger $0.99

This one was created to give your pictures that grungy rock club look. It?s got a solid if not extremely extensive set of textures and styles for you to apply. Thankfully all of the textures it uses are high res so you can export your images full size if you?d like to print them out. There is a strength option to help you choose the intensity of the effect but for the most part this is a one-shot ?add me some grit? app. This is a great app to use in conjunction with Instagram or one of the other vintage cameras.

Grungetastic $0.99

With an extensive array of grunge effect sets and sliders that can be adjusted manually to combine them, Grungetastic is an expanded grungifying app that will give you far more options than something like the aforementioned pic Grunger. The sheer array of options can make it a bit tougher to decide on a particular effect but if you?re interested in wrecking your pictures with more control then Grungetastic is a good option.

PhotoArtista Oil, $2.99

One of the best if not the most popular of the apps I?ve found to convert your photos to a painted look. You?ve got your choice of 7 different painting styles, like impressionism and realism. These are complimented by 7 different fine tuning controls that will help you tweak the look of your painted image. Very solid effects app with full resolution output. You can purchase other effects in-app but the oil effect is by far the best and most subtle.
Impression, $1.99

Impression watermarks your images with a signature or message that declares your copyright. A good way to ensure image credit if you upload your image to Flickr or another photo sharing site. Even though this is a free app I?ve marked it at $1.99 because you don?t get font and color options without an in-app purchase of $2 and you really need those for this app to be really useful.
Image Blender, $1.99

This app just blends images together. You can layer images in any registration and then choose how they blend with most of the standard layer effects that you?d find in Photoshop. These include modes like multiply, screen, overlay, hard and soft light  and more. A good way to get two images blended to then use in another editing app.

TouchRetouch, $0.99

Highlight unwanted picture elements with your finger and hit go to make them disappear. Perfect for removing unwanted people, buildings, birds and more from your images. It functions sort of like Juxtaposer but instead of saving elements for use in other images you?re making them go poof. It pretty much does what most people ask for when they say ?can?t you just Photoshop it out??

AutoStitch Panorama, $1.99

I?m going to include one more pano app in this list because as great as Pano is, it won?t do two things that AutoStitch does. First, it can?t create pano?s from pre-shot images. With AutoStitch you can whip out your favorite camera app, snap off a bunch of shots and then throw them into the app later for stitching. Sometimes speed is of the essence.

Second, Pano only stitches end-to-end. Autostitch simply stitches all of your images together to create one big image. That means that you can stitch together a double-wide, double-height image if you wish. Enough extra pano goodness to include another one here.

SketchMee, $1.99

I?m not a huge fan of sketch effects for photos, but if you are and you want the best one on the App Store, check out SketchMee. You get plenty of options in pencil color and texture and the ability to sketch in vector format. This means that you can start with even a tiny resolution image and output a huge, full res file that you can print fairly large if you?d like. If you?re interested in making sketches of your photos, check this one out.

FX Photo Studio, $0.99

Basically a giant pack of filters, 187 in all, that you can apply to your images solo or by stacking them one on top of another. A good app for people who are a bit more hands-off with their images but still want something cool looking to throw on Facebook or Twitter.

There are a ton of filters here though and many are decent so you can apply them to your photo then save it and work on it in another app that allows for more control. The interface to FX Photo Studio is top-notch, with an easy and clean design. Surprisingly more rare than you?d think in the photo app genre.

Tiny Planet Photos, Free

If you?re unfamiliar with stereographic projections you can learn more about them here. Basically they?re panoramic images that are stitched together to make what looks like a tiny planet. Tiny Planet Photos will do that for you using just one of your images. It?s a striking effect but unfortunately due to the process it outputs low resolution images that are only good for sharing online. Great for Twitter or Facebook though and very unique. It?s free, just get it.

picfx $1.99

This is a slick little effects app that lets you apply about 25 different textures and frames to your image in a square format. You can choose from 13 additional styles to layer your effects. The square format makes it easy to share these images via Instagram and either layer it?s effects on top or send it through natively. This will help set it apart from the stream of photos that look eerily similar to one another.

Diptic, $1.99

Sometimes sharing just one image alone doesn?t tell the whole tale. Diptic fixes this by letting you splice together two or three images into a simple collage and then share those out to social sites like Flickr or Facebook. The collages are varied in composition and allow you to pull images from your camera roll as well as download them from your Facebook or Flickr accounts, this is a super cool feature that more apps should integrate. I?m not too fond of the fact that it?s $2 and they still make you purchase the extended layouts for another $1 but it?s still a nice single purpose app.

That?s a Wrap

Thank you for checking out the list of apps. If you end up using one of them or have any feedback about our selections please do let us know in the comments below. If there are any apps that you think that we?ve missed in this roundup don?t hesitate to tell me as well. We?re always looking for great new photo apps for the iPhone!

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iPad Review: Sword and Sworcery EP

iPad Review: Sword and Sworcery EP

Posted on 11th Apr 2011 at 10:50 by David Hing with 12 comments

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP for the iPad is like nothing else you have ever played. Described as ?a 21st century interpretation of the archetypical old school videogame adventure? it uses beautifully crafted pixel-scapes to do for video gaming what the impressionist painters did for art.

A collaborative project from indie studio Capybara, rock musicians and art from the Superbrothers themselves, Sword and Sworcery EP is a essentially a point and click adventure game that sees you cast as a warrior out to destroy an ancient evil. To do that you?ll need to solve puzzles, fight bears and collect an artefact called the Megatome ? so far, so adventure-game. What sets is apart from the likes of Kings Quest however are the lashings of surrealism, abstraction and poetry that somehow never slips into infuriating pretentiousness.


The real star isn?t the music or the mysticism, however, but the visual style. It?s absolutely perfect, causing us to frequently stop playing for a moment or two just to admire the scenery ? no mean feat considering the outstanding visual quality of most modern games. The landscapes are rich and detailed and invoke a near painterly quality. There?s a rare sense of artistry to Sword and Sworcery that we?ve not seen in a long, long time.

Sword and Sworcery?s music is still exemplary, however. The sound design has been meticulously crafted, fitting perfectly with the gameplay and creating an absorbing atmosphere that genuinely hooks you in to the moment. The sounds and music towards the end of our first session built a huge amount of tension and it was only after the threat ? which we won?t name to avoid spoiling it ? passed that we realised that our eyes were stinging due to lack of blinking.

A major drawback of most iPad and iPhone games is that they fail to make the most of the touchscreen interface or try to shoe horn in an ineffective d-pad. Point and click games seem like an assured win for touch-screens however, so Sword and Sworcery is a natural fit. It doesn?t limit itself to the conventions of the genre though, using screen-tilting mechanics regular switches from landscape to portrait to keep things interesting. In landscape mode you?re able to move around with your sword and shield equipped, while turning to portrait position opens your Megatome ? a combination spell book and help guide.


Sword and Sworcery isn?t all hard-core art-game, however ? there are points of genuine humour and awesome subtlety. At one point, for example, you have to travel into your dreams to find a lost key, which involves following a bear which dances like Ricky Gervais in the Office. It?s a moment which, like the game as a whole, feels beautifully surreal and yet oddly poignant.

Verdict: Sword and Sworcery could be a landmark in history of mobile gaming, proving to be the first title we?ve seen on the iPad platform which so wonderfully blurs the line between gaming and ambient art. Pensive, intelligent and wonderfully rich, you can feel the deep love and adoration for gaming that has gone into this project and it shines from its every pixel.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP is developed by a whole host of talented artist and is available for the iPad via the AppStore.

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Making Bacteria into Drug Blimps

Coaxing bacteria into producing medicines for humans' benefit has been a common quest. But the goal of getting those bacteria to drop loads of medicine at a specific target inside the body is more unusual.

According to research presented Tuesday at the American Chemical Society meeting in Anaheim, California, that goal is now within sight. The researchers, led by William Bentley of the University of Maryland, say their engineered bacteria could serve as on-the-go nanofactories inside the body, both to produce illness-fighting agents and to deliver them to the correct spots.

They developed a prototype using a strain of the E. coli bacterium specially engineered with a targeting molecule attached to its outer surface. The bacterium cruises around, finds its target, attaches to it, and begins producing preprogrammed drugs. In the laboratory, in vitro, the prototype was able both to find targeted intestinal cells and to produce chemical signals that triggered nearby bacteria to produce proteins they typically don't make.

"We envision a cell that seeks out a cancer tumor and locks on to it, then starts to create its own antitumor drug and deliver it on the spot," said Bentley. He said this method could also treat conditions such as other gastrointestinal illnesses or vitamin deficiency. "One thing that is different from other treatments is that this is site-specific," he said. "Most medicines kill all the cells or tissue, while this system only delivers drugs to one spot."

The bacterial drug factories could also produce signaling molecules to communicate with natural bacteria and keep them from starting an infection. They could, Bentley said, be injected or swallowed as probiotics?beneficial live organisms?though clinical applications of the technology are years away. 

Other researchers say that transferring the process from the lab to a person can be difficult. "Getting a lab strain of E. coli to survive the stomach is going to be tricky," says J. Christopher Anderson, a bioengineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "There are issues to the genetic stability of the organisms, and depending on the specific goal, the ability to get enough bacteria into the intestines to do something could be tricky." Anderson says that the intestine is a good place to start for engineered bacteria therapy because E. coli last longer in the intestines than in other parts of the body.

Getting bacterial dirigibles past regulatory hurdles could also be problematic, Anderson says. "Treating chronic diseases with gastrointestinal engineered bacteria will necessarily result in environmental release. Since these bacteria produce biologically active chemicals or proteins to be functional, there are likely to be significant safety concerns and thereby barriers to getting them approved."

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Leaked: Windows 8's logon screen

There have been rumors for quite a while that Windows 8 will have a second, tile-based shell for tablets. More recently, Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have revealed the logon screen for this shell, over at Within Windows.

They posted it on April 1, 2011. Given their history and level of credibility, however, I'm inclined to believe it when they say that it is not an April Fools' day prank, especially given that Microsoft has started pushing Windows 8 builds on Microsoft Connect.

The screenshot clearly shows a Metro-inspired logon screen. For those not in the loop, Metro refers to the design style used on Zune and Windows Phone. The screen shows the time, day of the week, the date, icons for power management, and an ease of access icon. The logon screen will be of course at least partially configurable, including being able to change the background image (this is probably pulled from the current Windows theme).

Microsoft will reportedly build on this logon screen, allowing for a "pattern unlock" for tablet users (you've probably seen this on Android devices), as well as audio controls for music so you can easily control music playback even while your tablet device is locked.

We'll be sure to keep an eye on what else Rivera and Thurrott reveal in the coming months. The Windows 8 leaks are coming, we promise.

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Duke Law Students Give Musical Nod to Nixon

But last week, the Duke community took a small, uncharacteristic step toward embracing its most infamous graduate ? by performing a play about him. ?Tricky Dick,? a musical written by Duke Law School students and starring a 50-person ensemble of professors, administrators and students, was performed Friday at a sold-out arts center in downtown Durham.

And now organizers want to make the zany, cabaret-style show an annual tradition.

?In the past, you couldn?t touch Nixon with a 10-foot pole at Duke,? said Slavik Gabinsky, a recent Duke law graduate who helped create the play. ?But this is as much about poking fun at Nixon as celebrating him.?

The play ? in which Mr. Nixon is imagined as a young, ethically challenged Duke law student running for student body president ? was first performed last year, but with a smaller cast, different script and little acknowledgment from the Duke administration. After rave reviews from attendees, the organizers won a campus award for best student group.

This year, the play received a $5,000 donation from the Allen & Overy law firm, where Mr. Gabinsky works. And the cast now includes a prominent legal ethics professor and a law school dean.

Duke students these days seem less embarrassed by the disgraced former president than amused by him. While historians and Nixon contemporaries may debate the lingering toll of the Watergate scandal, current Duke students seem simply proud to have had an alumnus elected president ? even one who was forced to resign.

?Being born after Nixon?s presidency, we don?t have any hard feelings toward him,? said Justin Becker, the president of the Duke Law School student body.

?Maybe, secretly, we?re all proud he went here,? said Mr. Becker, who directed the play and stars as Nixon.

That was not always the case. On political, ethical and general grounds, Duke refused to grant Mr. Nixon an honorary degree for speaking at graduation in 1954, though most speakers get one. Then in 1981, faculty members vocally opposed a proposal to house his presidential library and papers, fearing it would tarnish the school?s reputation. And for years, Duke has not displayed its only painting of Nixon, out of concern it would be vandalized or stolen.

But on Friday, in anticipation of the play, Duke officials moved the painting into the law library, where students posed with it and flashed Nixon?s trademark V sign. The law school is even considering creating a permanent display about Nixon to accompany the portrait, with a plaque emphasizing the successes of his career, like opening relations with China.

?He looks good,? said Mr. Gabinsky, staring at the painting. ?They should let him out more often.?

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