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Andrés Ambrois has been adding [[Features/Journal_Sort | new filtering options]] to the Journal. You can order now by size, creation date and modification date. The Feature originally implemented for [[Dextrose]] and sponsored by [http://activitycentral.org activity central] has been found it's way successfully into 0.90, too.
 
Andrés Ambrois has been adding [[Features/Journal_Sort | new filtering options]] to the Journal. You can order now by size, creation date and modification date. The Feature originally implemented for [[Dextrose]] and sponsored by [http://activitycentral.org activity central] has been found it's way successfully into 0.90, too.
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=== New Keybindings for the Frame and Journal ===
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=== New Keybindings for the Frame and the Journal ===
 
Daniel Drake has been adding keybindings for the Journal (F5) and the Frame (F6). This will help to access those important views quicker on hardware where there is no designated key.
 
Daniel Drake has been adding keybindings for the Journal (F5) and the Frame (F6). This will help to access those important views quicker on hardware where there is no designated key.
    
=== Turtle Art ===
 
=== Turtle Art ===
   
The most visible changes are the incorporation of some new blocks, such as the 'Fill' block for created filled polygons, Gray, Black, and White blocks, and the 'Turtle Sees' block, that enables the turtle to directly interact with its canvas. There is also a [http://turtleartsite.appspot.com/ new site] for uploading and downloading Turtle Art projects.
 
The most visible changes are the incorporation of some new blocks, such as the 'Fill' block for created filled polygons, Gray, Black, and White blocks, and the 'Turtle Sees' block, that enables the turtle to directly interact with its canvas. There is also a [http://turtleartsite.appspot.com/ new site] for uploading and downloading Turtle Art projects.
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==== Recent additions ====
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[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/browse/type:1/cat:all?sort=newest Recent additions] include:
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Find out more in the [[0.90/Notes_Activities#Recent_additions | recent additions]] and the [[0.90/Notes_Activities#New_experimental_activities | new experimental activities]].
File:DrGeo.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4323 Dr. Geo]
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File:Pukallanapac.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4320 Pukllanapac]
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File:ConstellationsFlashCards.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4318 Constellations Flash Cards]
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File:Gtranslator.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4317 gtranslator]
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File:Words.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4315 Words]
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File:VNClauncher.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4311 VNC Launcher]
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File:SunMoonMusicMC.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4308 Sun Moon Music]
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File:GetBooks.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4304 Get Books]
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File:StarChart.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4300 Star Chart]
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File:XaoS.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4299 XaoS]
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File:TurtleArtMini.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4298 Turtle Art Mini]
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File:SuperTux.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4297 Super Tux]
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File:Nepohualtzintzin.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4293 Abacus]
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File:SlideruleA.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4222 Slide rule]
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4323 Dr. Geo]||Dr. Geo is an interactive geometry activity. Dr. Geo allows one to create geometric figure plus the interactive manipulation of such figure in respect with their geometric constraints. It is usable in teaching situation with students from primary or secondary level. It is simple and effective with some unique features as scripting and Smalltalk programming.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4320 Pukllanapac]||A puzzle: Move the pieces until the circles are all solid circles.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4318 Constellations Flash Cards]||This program teaches the constellations by means of a flash-card-like interface. The program draws a constellation and the student has to pick the correct name from a list of five possible choices.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4317 gtranslator]||A Sugarized version of the translation file editor "Gtranslator" The GTranslator activity allows to translate the po files locally. This should allow users without a permanent Internet access to translate off-line the localization files downloaded from the Pootle translation server and to contribute to the localization of Sugar to their own language.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4315 Words]||A multi-lingual dictionary with speech synthesis.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4311 VNC Launcher]||This activity helps you broadcast your screen to another computer. It will automatically launch a VNC server (X11vnc) and display your IP address. You can then connect and view the screen of Sugar on another conmputer using any VNC client (e.g. TigerVNC, UltraVNC Viewer, RealVNC, etc).
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4308 Sun Moon Music]||Sun-Moon Music MC - Realtime Sonic Environments for Children, Multiple MIDI Controller version. Collaborative exploration and performance encouraged. Requires 1 or more MIDI controllers.  This version of Sun-Moon Music is especially designed for collaborative exploration and performance. All MIDI control devices must be set to the same channel.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4304 Get Books]||The Get Books activity lets users search and retrieve books from a variety of sources (Internet Archive, Feedbooks, etc). It supports the OPDS protocol for book discovery.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4300 Star Chart]||This activity will display a map of the sky showing the position of the visible stars, some of the larger and brighter deep-sky objects (DSOs), the "classical" planets, the sun and the moon.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4299 XaoS]||XaoS is an interactive fractal zoomer. It allows the user to continuously to zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. This capability makes XaoS great for exploring fractals, and it’s just plain fun!
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4298 Turtle Art Mini]||Turtle Art Mini is a simple graphical programming environment. It is modeled on the Logo programming language and it emphasized graphical expression by learners new to programming. (Turtle Art Mimi is a subset of the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4027 Turtle Art] activity – AKA Turtle Blocks)
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4297 Super Tux]||A Sugar clone of the Super Tux game.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4293 Abacus]||Abacus is a simple, customizable abacus activity for Sugar.
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||[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4222 Slide rule]||Sliderule is a simple, customizable slide rule activity for Sugar.
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These are activities under development that may be of interest to Sugar users:
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File:ProducePuzzle.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4322 Produce Puzzle (experimental)]
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File:Lemonade.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4321 Lemonade (experimental)]
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File:GComprisAdministration.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4314 GCompris Administration (experimental)]
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File:TVRadio.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4310 TV and Radio (experimental)]
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File:FreeFromMalaria.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4309 FreeFromMalaria (experimental)]
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File:OpenVideoChat.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4305 Open Video Chat (experimental)]
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File:MathGraph32.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4303 MathGraph32 (experimental)]
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File:SonataMediaPlayer.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4301 Sonata Media Player (experimental)]
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File:Wine.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4296 Wine (experimental)]
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File:TetrisMat-icon.png|[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4292 TetrisMat (experimental)]
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== What is new for distributors and deployers ==
 
== What is new for distributors and deployers ==
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