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WordPress Donate Ribbon

Post last modified:April 23, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

Donate Ribbon is a free wordpress plugin and it adds a black Donate ribbon in the upper right corner of your wordpress site .

Main features:

set the link to any URL you choose via the settings page.
vertical offset options.
set the link title hover message

To install

Login to wordpress (wp-admin).
In your admin dashboard click plugins and select Add New.
Type Donate Ribbon in the search field and click Search Plugins button.
Install Donate Ribbon.
After the successfully Installation click the activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.
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Mozilla firefox 12 final released

Post last modified:April 23, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 12 is now available for download.

what’s new in this firefox 12?

Firefox is now easier to update with one less prompt in widows (User Account Control)
Page Source now has line numbers
Line breaks are now supported in the title attribute
Improvements to “Find in Page” to center search result
URLs pasted into the download manager window are now automatically downloaded
The column-fill CSS property has been implemented
Support for the text-align-last CSS property has been added
Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented
WebGL performance may be degraded on some hardware in OS X (fixed)
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Thunderbird 12 released

Post last modified:April 23, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Thunderbird 12 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?

Global Search results now include message extracts in the results
Fixed Various improvements to RSS feed subscription and general feed handling
Thunderbird now supports add-ons that provide different types of local mail storage
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Earth Day 2012 google doodle

Post last modified:April 22, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Earth Day with a new animated flowers google doodle on its homepage. Earth Day was first observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.The genesis of Earth Day is credited to Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
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WordPress 3.3.2 released

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.3.2 is now available for download.This is a security update.

Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates:

Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media.
SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins.
SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash content, and may still be in use by plugins and themes.

Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances.
Cross-site scripting vulnerability when making URLs clickable.
Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in redirects after posting comments in older browsers, and when filtering URLs.
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Flexible Posts Widget – display posts in sidebar

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

Flexible Posts Widget is a free wordpress plugin to display posts in sidebar based on selectable taxonomy & term or by selecting any available post type.

Customizable widget title
Get posts using either a selectable taxonomy & term OR by selecting any available post type.
Control the number of posts displayed.
Option to display the feature image.
Select the post thumbnail size to display from available image sizes.
Select the sort orderby: Date, ID, Title, Menu Order, Random and sort order: ascending or descending.
The widget’s HTML output can be customized by user-defined templates.
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Google Spring cleaning

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is shutting down some of its services. The Shut down product list:

One Pass.
Picasa for Linux.
Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web Albums Plugin for iPhoto.
mobile web app for Google Talk.
Google Sync for BlackBerry.
Google Related.
Google Flu Vaccine Finder.
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WordPress 3.4 Beta 3 released

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.4 Beta 3 is now available for download.what’s new in this beta?

Nearly 90 changes.
all of the fixes included in version 3.3.2.

Some new features in 3.4

Theme Customizer with Previewer
Flexible Custom Header Sizes
Selecting Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library
Better experience searching for and choosing a theme
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WordPress for Android 2.1 beta released

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress for Android 2.1 beta is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this beta?

Autosave timer while editing posts.
Every 60 seconds the post will be autosaved.
edit comments while on the go now.
now set the width for linked images.
new WordPress.com reader. Navigating posts is much faster and you can add comments to posts that you are reading. You can also share the post to other Android apps.
Small improvements to the UI, most notably that the delete post button has been moved to a less prominent spot to prevent accidental taps on it.
Reliability improvements
Translation updates
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Spotflux – private and safe internet

Post last modified:April 20, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Spotflux is a free traffic monitoring application for windows and mac. It encrypts and protects the internet connection for inbound threats such as malware and viruses.

Main features:

Access is always open and unrestricted.
ad-free browsing without tracking or targeted advertisements.
It saves bandwidth.
hides IP address
keeps user location private.

Download,Install and click enable.
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