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Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Apollo allows web developers to work with the development tools of their choice and the approaches they find most comfortable to build web content and Apollo applications.

Apollo allows web developers to extend their web-based applications to the desktop without learning traditional desktop development technologies or the complexity of native code. Applications developed for Apollo will run across multiple operating systems without any additional work, and Apollo applications can be built quickly because developers will leverage their existing web development skills and design patterns.

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MaxMind World Cities with Population
Product Summary: Includes city, region, country, latitude and longitude. This product doesn’t contain any IP addresses. It’s simply a listing of all the cities in the world. For IP to city mappings, see our MaxMind City product.

InnoTek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Some of the features of VirtualBox are:

• Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don’t have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.

• Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.

• Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).

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Ésta es la primera parte de una serie sobre las novedades en el núcleo de Windows Vista. En este artículo analizaré los cambios producidos en las áreas de procesos y subprocesos y en E/S. Las siguientes entregas incluirán la administración de la memoria, inicio y apagado, confiabilidad y recuperación y seguridad.
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