Manikandan

WordPress 3.4 Beta 1 released

Post last modified:April 6, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.4 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing.

What’s new in this beta?

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

New XML-RPC API for external and mobile applications
New API for registering theme support for custom headers and backgrounds
Performance improvements to WP_Query by splitting the query
Internationalization improvements
Performance and API improvements when working with lists of installed themes
Support for installing child themes from the WordPress Themes Directory
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Choose Your Own Pinterest Board Covers

Post last modified:April 6, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Pinterest released a feature that allow you to choose the pin that appears on the cover of your boards.

To edit a board cover,just hover over it with your mouse. An “Edit Board Cover” button will appear.click on it and select your pin to set a cover image.adjust the position of the thumbnail and click “Set Cover” to finish.

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Screen Video Recorder – free screencast software

Post last modified:January 8, 2016
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Screen Video Recorder is a free software to create screencasts with audio and visual effects.

Main features:

Select region type – full screen,free hand mode,set values by user,moving by mouse
Video Priority
Color Mode
Recording Type
include cursor in recording,
preview on/ off,
add filter effects
Timer Capture option
details about Video Codec, Elapsed Time, Real Capturing Frame rate, Current Captured Frame rate, Captured Frames and Dropped Frame.
add Brightness, Contrast, Darkness, Saturation, Color Noise
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Document.Editor – word processor

Post last modified:April 6, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Document.Editor is a free open source multitab VB.Net/WPF Ribbon UI based word processor for windows.

Main features:

support for opening FlowDocument, Html and plain/rich text formats
support for saving FlowDocument and plain/rich text formats
Multiple tab interface
Tab Rearranging
Insert objects, images, links, text files, tables, videos, horizontal lines, date, time, headers and footers into your documents.
supports Spell Check, Text to Speech, Translate and Definitions
export documents to WordPress, Xps, email, ftp server, zip archive, image or sound

Supported OS:Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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Now add images to Blogger using webcam

Post last modified:April 6, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google’s blogger rolled out a feature that allows users to add images to Blogger using webcam.

To add images from your webcam, select “Insert Image”, and then select “from your webcam” and take a few images. And it will keep the last three images and allow you to pick the best one to add in your post.

Source
https://plus.google.com/u/1/110587955497525318489/posts

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Dropbox – Free members get extra 16 GB

Post last modified:April 5, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Dropbox now doubled the referral incentives. Now free account members get 500 MB of free space per referal up to 32 people for a total of 16 GB of extra space. Pro accounts members now earn 1 GB per referral, for a total of 32 GB of extra space.

If you already invited a bunch of people, you’ll also get full credit for every referral that’s already been completed.
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Name.com Promo codes April 2012

Post last modified:April 5, 2012
Post category:Promo Codes
Post author:Manikandan

Name.com April Promotions

Use the promotional code,

UNICORN

and get

$9.99 COM/NET first year registrations and renewals

25% off on all hosting plans

*offer valid through 4-30-2012 midnight MST.

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New Google Search Changes in March

Post last modified:April 5, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

what’s new?

Improvements to processing for detection of site quality
Autocomplete with math symbols
Improvements to handling of symbols for indexing
Better scoring of news groupings
Sitelinks data refresh
Better indexing of profile pages
High-quality sites algorithm data update and freshness improvements
Tennis search feature
Fresher image predictions in all languages
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Netcraft April 2012 Web Server Survey results

Post last modified:April 5, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Web Server Survey market share:

Apache – 65.46% (443,102,561 sites)
Microsoft – 13.66% (92,488,751 sites)
nginx – 10.32% (69,869,916 sites )
Google – 3.26% (22,039,901 sites)

Received responses from 676,919,707 sites.
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RedNotebook – journal software

Post last modified:April 5, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

RedNotebook is a free journal software with many useful functions.

Main features:

Tagging
Format your text bold, italic or underlined
Insert Images, files and links to websites
Links and mail addresses are recognized automatically
Spell Check on Linux
Live-Search
Automatic saving
Backup to zip archive
Word Clouds with most often used words and tags
Templates
Export the journal to PDF, HTML, Latex or plain text
The data is stored in plain text files, no database is needed
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