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Google chrome 23.0.1271.91 stable released

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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Google just released chrome stable update 23.0.1271.91 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. What’s new in this chrome update ?

Fixes:

No audio from Flash content when speaker configuration is set to Quadraphonic.
Aw, Snap renderer crash on Windows Server 2003.
Corrupt rendering in the Apple OSX driver for Intel GPUs.
Out-of-bounds read in Skia.
Browser crash with chunked encoding.
Buffer underflow in libxml.
Use-after-free with printing.
Bad cast in input element handling.
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40 Million Windows 8 Licenses Sold -Microsoft

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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According to the official Windows blog, Windows business head Tami Reller stated that Microsoft has now sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the launch and Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades.
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25 million Outlook.com users

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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Microsoft announced that more than 25 million people have signed up and started using Outlook.com.Outlook.com users will start to see some new features over the next few weeks.The features are One-click Archive, New keyboard shortcuts,More customization,Outlook.com was recently named one…

Fedora 18 beta released

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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Fedora 18 beta code-named “Spherical Cow” is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this beta?

MATE desktop is available for the first time in Fedora.
Gnome desktop 3.6
new installer user interface
Perl 5.16
Python 3.3
Rails 3.2
updated D and Haskell programming environments
Samba 4
Eucalyptus 3.1
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Google use humans to rank search results manually

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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The Register reveals that Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually. It has taken a look into Google’s 160-page guidebook which is a reference manual for human raters.
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Malicious code added to open-source Piwik

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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Piwik web server compromised and hackers inserted malicious code into the open-source Piwik analytics software. According to Piwik, those who installed Piwik 1.9.2 during an eight-hour window on Monday Nov 26th from 15:43 UTC to 23:59 UTC that their Web servers may be running malicious code. Please click the the source link to get the complete details.
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Doom 3 BFG Edition source code released

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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id Software has released Doom 3: BFG Edition’s source code to GitHub under the GNU General Public License. Doom 3 is a first-person science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An expanded and improved BFG Edition was released in the fourth quarter of 2012.The source release does not contain any game data.
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Mozilla Firefox 18 beta released

Post last modified:November 27, 2012
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Mozilla Firefox 18 beta is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this beta?

Support for Retina Display on OS X 10.7 and up
Preliminary support for WebRTC
Experience better image quality with our new HTML scaling algorithm
Performance improvements around tab switching
CSS3 Flexbox implemented
Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio
Support for (@)supports added
Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates
Support for W3C touch events impemented, taking the place of MozTouch events
IonMonkey -new JavaScript JIT compiler
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 released

Post last modified:November 27, 2012
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download.What’s new in this update?

enable C++ applications to target Windows XP from Visual Studio 2012.
support for both mixed-mode managed/native debugging and for native ARM dump debugging.
improved diagnostics and testing support for Windows Store apps, such as with a JavaScript memory analysis tool, support for data-driven unit tests, and C++ unit testing enhancements.
enabled code analysis to help improve the quality of their phone apps.
IntelliTrace improvements.
code coverage is now supported for manual testing of ASP.NET applications.
Cross-browser testing is now supported.
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LiLi USB Creator 2.8.18 released

Post last modified:October 1, 2019
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Lili USB creator is a free linux live usb creator for Windows system. Using this you can create live USB of your favorite distribution. LiLi USB Creator 2.8.18 is now available for download.what’s new in this release?

New Linux Distributions supported :

Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.4
Chakra 2012.10
Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” (MATE/CINNAMON) DVD
BackBox 3.0
Bodhi Linux 2.1.0
Open Xange 2012.10
Finnix 106
SystemRescueCD 3.1.1
UberStudent 2.0.4 “Aristotle”
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