Microsoft has announced in a blog post that it has added a 215 terabytes of new satellite and Global Ortho images to the Bing Maps database. United States and features certain areas in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Tokyo. The total area covered in this data release is nearly 230,004 square kilometers and consists of over 1.1 million files.
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Wine 1.5.9 is now available for download. Wine is a free software that allows users to install and run Windows software on other operating systems.
What’s new in this version?
Support for GPOS font tables in Uniscribe.
Support for XRandr 1.2 and 1.3.
Parser improvements for the HLSL compiler.
More key exchange algorithms supported on Mac OS.
Relay tracing on ARM.
Various bug fixes.
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Microsoft announced Windows 8 release date and it will be available to users starting October 26, 2012.And the Release to Manufacturing version (RT)of Win 8 is set to hit the first week of August.
PayPal has announced that they have acquired mobile payment facilitator card.io. card.io is a San Francisco based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone.Employees from card.io will join PayPal’s global production team.
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Free Download Manager 3.9.1 Beta build 1263 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in Free Download Manager 3.9.1 Beta build 1263 release?
Fixed:Bug in Bittorrent downloads properties window.
Fixed:Bug in Firefox extension.
Known bugs:FDM does not process macros when changing destination folder after group change.
Note:Please notice that this version uses newer format of its service files which is incompatible with the previous versions of FDM.
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Thunderbird 14 is now available for download. Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation. what’s new in this version of thunderbird?
Security fixes:
Code execution through javascript: URLs
Content Security Policy 1.0 implementation errors cause data leakage
JSDependentString::undepend string conversion results in memory corruption
X-Frame-Options header ignored when duplicated
Out of bounds read in QCMS
Same-compartment Security Wrappers can be bypassed
use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden
Improper filtering of javascript in HTML feed-view
Spoofing issue with location
Gecko memory corruption
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6)
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TweetDeck 1.5.2 is now available for download.What’s new in this new TweetDeck release?
columns are arranged in one continuous horizontal row
scroll several columns at a time
now easier to arrange your columns with new Columns button
menu icon on every Tweet gives you instant access to “Create link”, “Block”
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Mozilla firefox 14.0.1 final is now available for download from Mozilla’s FTP site. It is currently not available on the firefox official homepage. Why 14.0.1 and not 14.0?. Mozilla decided to skip Firefox 14.0 to synchronize versions between the desktop and mobile versions.
what’s new in this firefox 14.0.1?
Google searches now utilize HTTPS
Full screen support for Mac OS X Lion implemented
Plugins can now be configured to only load on click (requires an about:config change)
The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
Improved site identity manager, to prevent spoofing of an SSL connection with favicons
Pointer Lock API implemented
New API to prevent your display from sleeping
New text-transform and font-variant CSS improvements for Turkic languages and Greek
FIXED: OS X: nsCocoaWindow::ConstrainPosition uses wrong screen in multi-display setup
FIXED:CSS :hover regression when an element’s class name is set by Javascript
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Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.0 is now available for download.It is available in free and Pro version.
Main features:
New cloud-based disinfection engine.
New behavioral analysis engine in the free edition.
Improved offline protection.
Process monitor allows seeing Internet connections on a per process basis.
Improved performance and 50% faster scans.
New advanced configuration options such as asking for confirmation before neutralizing.
Compatibility with Windows 8.
New interface.
Ability to manage different licenses.
Community-based firewall (pro edition only).
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Microsoft has announced Microsoft Office 2013 Customer Preview and also announcing that the Office 2013 preview is available for download.
System Requirements:
Computer and processor: 1 Ghz or greater x86/x64 Processor with SSE2 instruction set
Memory: 1 GB RAM (32 Bit) /2 GB RAM (64 Bit)
Hard disk: 3.5 GB free disk space
Operating System: Windows 7 or newer, either 32-bit or 64-bit; Windows 2008R2 or newer with .Net 3.5 or greater.
Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX10 graphics card and 1024 x 576 resolution
Note :To use with Windows 8 you must be running the Release Preview version or higher.
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