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All about the new Twitter

Post last modified:December 9, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Twitter rolling out a brand new look and some of new features.
what’s new?

New four-column design (Home,Connect,Discover,Me)

Home:
IT is where you view Tweets from the people you have chosen to follow.
Photos, videos and conversations are embedded directly in Tweets.

Connect:
new Connect section is where you see who has followed or mentioned you, retweeted or favorited one of your Tweets.

Discover:
see results reflecting your interests—based on your current location, what you follow and what’s happening in the world.
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Diego Rivera’s 125th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:December 8, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

The search giant Google is celebrating the 125th birthday of Diego Rivera with an google doodle on its homepage. Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929–1939 and 1940–1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953.
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Nokia maps new features

Post last modified:December 8, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Nokia updates its Maps 3D web service with navigation, sharing, new search options. To enable nokia maps 3D, choose the view and select 3D view.And then install the browser extension. After the successful installation restart your browser. what’s new?

now offer 3D imagery of 25 cities around the world.
enter addresses as well as names of businesses and points of interests.
The new search results will show details such as pictures, reviews, business hours, specials and ratings.
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Opera 11.60 released

Post last modified:December 7, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Opera 11.60 is now available to download. what’s new in this version?

Opera Presto 2.10 rendering engine (Presto/2.10.229).
security and stability enhancements.
star menu in the address field.
New user interface for Opera Mail.
HTML5 Parser.
HTML5 <audio> and <video> :preload,buffered,seekable,muted.
Implemented the DOM API for HTML5 Microdata.
Implemented support for registerProtocolHandler() and registerContentHandler() methods.
full support for ECMAScript 5.1
support for “Khronos Typed Arrays” and XMLHttpRequest Level 2 support for receiving ArrayBuffers.
CSS3:full support for for radial-gradient and repeated-radial-gradient.
font-relative length rem in CSS and SVG
Added support for applying the image-rendering property to HTML content, including: <img>, <canvas>, <video poster>, background-image, and (-o-)border-image.
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Browser Market Share November 2011

Post last modified:December 4, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Browser Market Share:

According to Net Applications,in November Total market share of

microsoft internet explore is 52.64% (up 0.01%) ,
firefox 22.14% (Down 0.37%),
chrome 18.18% (up 0.56%),
Safari 5.00% (down 0.43%) and
opera 1.55% (down 0.01%).

Mobile/Tablet Browser Market Share:

According to Net Applications,in November Total market share of

Safari is 55.03% (down 7.14%),
opera mini 20.09% (up 6.97%),
Android browser 16.36% (down 2.29%),
symbian 3.03% (up 0.88%),
blackberry 2.76% (up 0.72%) and
opera mobile 0.41% (down 0.08%).

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Operating System Market Share in November 2011

Post last modified:December 4, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Operating System Market Share:

According to Net Applications, the total market share of

microsoft windows is 92.23%(up 0.38%),
mac 6.46% (down 0.48%),
linux 1.31% (up 0.12%).

Mobile/Tablet Operating System Market Share:

The total market share of

iOS is 54.04% (down 7.60%),
java ME 19.69% (up 6.86%),
Android 16.72% ( down 2.18% ),
symbian 5.27% (up 1.79%),
blackberry 3.18% (up 0.70%) and
windows mobile 0.29% (up 0.09%).

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.8 released

Post last modified:December 4, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

phpMyAdmin 3.4.8 is now available to download. What’s new in this version?

[interface] enum data split at space char (more space to edit)
[interface] ENUM/SET editor can’t handle commas in values
[interface] no links to browse/empty views and tables
[interface] Deleted search results remain visible
[import] ODS import ignores memory limits
[interface] Visual column separation
[parser] TRUE not recognized by parser + patch #3433770 [config] Make location of php-gettext
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Google added flight information on google.com

Post last modified:December 3, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Google has rolled out a new feature in google search. The new feature shows flight information right in your Google search results on certain flight related searches. For example, if you search for [flights from San Francisco to Las Vegas] you’ll see a table that shows available flights, including duration and prices. You can adjust dates on the page, or click any flight to be taken to Flight Search to further research and book your trip.

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Mozilla Firefox 9 beta 4 released

Post last modified:January 12, 2016
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla Firefox 9 beta 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this beta?

Fixed several stability issues.
Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
Added support for font-stretch
Improved support for text-overflow
Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
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Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Released

Post last modified:February 18, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1?

Linux Kernel 3.2.0-2.
Software Centre adds support for multiple screenshots.
Banshee, Tomboy and Gbrainy have been removed.
Banshee has been removed as the default media player and replaced by Rhythmbox.
Vala rewritten Zeitgeist 0.9 alpha 1 has replaced the “old” Zeitgeist.
Nautilus has received tags that can be applied to any file or folder.
Firefox 9 Beta and Thunderbird 9 Beta are included.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is scheduled for release in April 26th 2012.
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