Bitdefender safego – Anti-scam protection for twitter and facebook

Bitdefender Safego scans for and detects fake profiles set up to flood your Twitter and facebook account with spam, malware and private data exposure and it filters the malicious links to phishing or malware pages. It also keeps your online friends safe.
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5 New languages – twitter

Twitter now available in five new languages. The new languages are Hindi, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Malay, Tagalog. Twitter now supports total of 17 languages. And also said “We will continue to add more languages to the Translation Center for crowdsourced translation. Coming soon to the Translation Center: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish and Hungarian”

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Google Flight Search

Google has released a new search service called Google Flight Search. This new service will help you find and book flights. Included airlines are  Delta, JetBlue, Continental and American and the cities New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and Minneapolis. Just typed from city and to city in the Google search window to get flight details.
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Scribes – ultra minimalist text editor

  • Post last modified:September 13, 2011
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Scribes is an ultra minimalist text editor with remote editing,automatic word completion and many more.

Main features:

Extensible via Python plugins.
Remote editing (ftp, sftp, ssh, samba, webdav, webdavs).
Snippets.
Automatic word completion,correction and replacement,pair character completion and smart insertion,indentation.
Powerful text processing and manipulation functions.
Bookmarks and smart navigation.
Document Switcher.
Syntax colors for over 30 languages.
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security breach in Linux.com

Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org are down now and the reason for this downtime from their homepage,

“Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. The Linux Foundation made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best practices. We believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.

We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.”

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