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Oscar de la Renta

maira — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:05:52 +0000

Oscar de la Renta (born Oscar Aristides Renta Fiallo) was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father. At the age of 18 he left the Dominican Republic to study in Spain, where he studied painting at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. He quickly changed his focus to fashion. While living in Spain, he became interested in the world of design and began sketching for leading Spanish fashion houses, which soon led to an apprenticeship with Spain’s most renowned couturier, Cristóbal Balenciaga. Later, de la Renta left Spain to join Antonio Castillo as a couture assistant at Lanvin in Paris. (More on Wikipedia)

Windows Live Mobile

maira — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:41:28 +0000

Windows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also applications that need to be installed. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.

Window Live for mobile are a set of customised Windows Live services specifically created for mobile devices. It is offered via three channels – through Client-based (for Windows Mobile and other supported mobile devices such as Nokia phones), Web-based (for WAP or GPRS-enabled mobile web browsers), or SMS-based services.

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Kubuntu

maira — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:37:31 +0000

Kubuntu is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system using the KDE graphical environment instead of GNOME. It is part of the Ubuntu project and uses the same underlying system. It is possible to run both the KDE desktop (kubuntu-desktop) as well as the Gnome desktop (ubuntu-desktop) interchangeably on the same machine. Every package in Kubuntu shares the same repositories as Ubuntu. Kubuntu CDs can be ordered through the Shipit service. It is released regularly and predictably on the same schedule as Ubuntu. (More on Wikipedia)

Ubuntu

maira — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:27:49 +0000

Ubuntu (pronounced /uːˈbuːntuː/^[3] oo-BOON-too), is a computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. It is distributed as free software. Ubuntu’s goals include providing an up-to-date, stable operating system for the average user, with a strong focus on usability and ease-of-installation. Ubuntu has been selected by readers of desktoplinux.com as the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop, claiming approximately 30% of their desktop installations in both 2006 and 2007. (More on Wikipedia)

Windows Live Gallery

maira — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:53:37 +0000

Windows Live Gallery (codenamed Customise) is a part of Microsoft’s Windows Live range of services. It is a center for gadgets, extensions and add-ons for various Windows Live services and products including:

Gadgets
- for Windows Sidebar
- for Windows SideShow
- for Live.com
- for Windows Live Spaces and Windows Live Even

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Junta de Castilla y León

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:35:26 +0000

La Junta de Castilla y León, según el Estatuto de Autonomía de Castilla y León, es el órgano de gobierno y administración de la Comunidad de Castilla y León y ejerce la función ejecutiva y la potestad reglamentaria. Está compuesta por el Presidente de la Junta, los Vicepresidentes y los Consejeros. La función de la Junta es la de ejercer el gobierno y la administración de la Comunidad. (more on Wikipedia)

Yves Saint Laurent

maira — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:25:22 +0000

Yves Saint Laurent was founded by designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, in 1962.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the firm popularized fashion trends such as the beatnik look, safari jackets for men and women, tight pants and tall, thigh-high boots, including the creation of arguably the most famous classic tuxedo suit for women in 1966, Le Smoking suit. Some of his most memorable collections include the Pop Art, Ballet Russes, Picasso and Chinese ones. He also started mainstreaming the idea of wearing silhouettes from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. He was the first, in 1966, to popularize ready-to-wear in an attempt to democratize fashion, with Rive Gauche and the boutique of the same name. (More on Wikipedia)

Windows Live Messenger

maira — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:41:19 +0000

Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger, and colloquially referred to as simply MSN) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft that is currently designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Mobile. The client has been part of Microsoft’s Windows Live set of online services since 2005. It connects to Microsoft’s .NET Messenger Service. The client was first released as MSN Messenger on July 22, 1999,[1] and as Windows Live Messenger on December 13, 2005. (More on Wikipedia)