Firefox OS 1.1 released

Firefox OS 1.1 is now available for current users and on developer phones.

New features:

MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) support.
Push Notifications API.
Adaptive app search.
Contact – Gmail and Hotmail contact import,Add to contacts.
Dialer suggestions.
faster application load times and smoother scrolling.
Firefox browser downloads.
Auto correction fixes words that you accidentally misspell.
Email – Draft Mode,Download audio and video attachments and Send image attachments.
Music Search.
Calendar – Direct event creation,Calendar event reminders.
Now More than 15 languages supported.

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Opera 17 stable released

Opera 17 stable is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Pinned tabs – Right click on a tab to pin it.
Startup options – “Continue where I left off”, “Open the Start Page”, “Open a specific page or set of pages”.
Custom search engines.
Opera Desktop 17 is based on Chromium/Blink 30.
New Extension APIs for bookmarks, commands, omnibox, webNavigation.
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Yahoo Mail 16 birthday and new features

Yahoo Mail is celebrating its 16th birthday with new Mail features across the desktop, Android and iOS.

New features:

introducing new conversations – emails grouped in threads.
search, starring, and deleting are now one-click actions.
collapse the left-hand toolbar.
Now disposable email addresses, enhanced filters and automatic message forwarding for free users also.
1TB Free mail storage.
introducing themes, including curated Flickr photos, for your browser, smartphone and tablet.
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WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 released

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this release?

Automatic, background updates.
If you’re running WordPress in another language, wordpress automatically download any available translations for official WordPress importers and the default themes.
Password meter got a whole lot better.
subtle.
Search results are now ordered by relevance, rather than just by date.
When your keywords match post titles and not just content, they’ll be pushed to the top.
Developers should check out the new advanced date queries in WP_Query.
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Notepad++ 6.5 released

Notepad++ 6.5 is now available for download. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. What’s new in this version?

Update Scintilla to 3.3.4
Add CoffeeScript support.
Add multi-paste support for multi-selection/column mode.
Add new feature: auto-close parentheses, quotes, bracket and matched xml/html tag.
Add php, perl, xml, batch, ini and nsis for the build-in function list.
Add User Defined Languages support for the build-in function list.
Add reload feature in function list.
Fix a minor problem of file extension support for the build-in function list.
Fix a tag matching bug by disabling tag matching inside PHP code blocks.
Fix right-to-left text after closing document map bug.
Fix cancelling shutdown make Notepad++ quit w/o saving files bug.
Enhance “Begin/End select” feature: Check “Begin/End select” menu item when active.
Enhance Mark all feature: 2 options “Match case” and “Match whole word only” in Find/Replace dialog.
Fix a Replace dialog status bar display problem by clearing status bar before processing any action.
Add new feature: if Notepad++ is running as administrator, display this info on the title bar.
Rename “block comment” to “Single line comment” and “stream comment” to “block comment”.
Remove invalid command “Online Documentation”.
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Google 15th birthday google doodle

Today (27th September) the search engine giant google celebrates its 15th birthday with a new interactive google doodle on its homepage.The doodle is a game that asks you to get as many candies as you can from a piñata.The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.

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Microsoft announces Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2

Microsoft has announced the ARM based Surface 2 and inter haswell based Surface Pro 2.

Surface 2:

10.6-inch 1080p screen.
NVIDIA’s 1.7GHz quad-core Tegra 4 chip.
single USB 3.0 port.
Battery lasts 10 to 12 hours on a single charge.
3.5 megapixels front camera and 5 megapixels back camera.
improved kickstand.

Price:
32GB Version – $449.
64GB version – $549.

Free 200GB of SkyDrive storage for two years.
free international Skype calling and hotspot access for one year.

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