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Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions

Post last modified:October 20, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Google announced a new Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions.With the new API,users just need to add “tts” to your permissions and it is easy to change the rate, pitch, and volume. In addition to the main API, Google also introduced the TTS Engine API which allows developers to implement a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine.Users that have Chrome on Mac OS X or Windows, or those using Chrome OS, should be able to use the native client voices immediately. Linux users will have to download a voice from the Chrome Web Store.

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Google Docs Presentations – New features

Post last modified:October 20, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

New and improved animations.
Revision history stores edits
New themes.
Character-by-character collaboration.
Chat with collaborators directly within the presentation.
Draw organizational charts, flowcharts, design diagrams and much more.
Transition between slides to add more effects.
Shape linking turn shapes within your presentation into hyperlinks that link to other slides, presentations, or webpages.
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Google Analytics Flow Visualizations

Post last modified:October 20, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Google announced a new feature for Google Analytics called Flow Visualization. It is a dynamic way to view Google Analytics data and instantly understand how visitors flow across pages on site.It utilizes the lens of a Sankey diagram, a specific type of flow diagram. Visitors Flow and Goal Flow.The Visitors Flow view provides a graphical representation of visitors’ flow through the site by traffic source.Goal Flow provides a graphical representation for how visitors flow through your goal steps.

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Google SSL-encrypted search

Post last modified:October 19, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Google announced that SSL-encrypted search will be the default for signed-in users. https://www.google.com This change encrypts the search queries and Google’s results page. This is especially important when you’re using an unsecured Internet connection, such as a WiFi hotspot in an Internet cafe.When someone search from https://www.google.com and websites you visit from google organic search listings will still know that they came from Google, but won’t receive information about each individual query.
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Angry Birds 30 million daily active users

Post last modified:October 19, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

According to Andrew Stalbow Rovio‘s GM of North America,various version of Angry Birds have been downloaded 400 million times. 30 million users play the game on a daily basis.130 million people play Angry Birds monthly basis.Gamers spend 300 million minutes playing Angry Birds daily. That’s 109.5 billion minutes per year, or 1.825 billion hours.

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Adobe Reader For iOS

Post last modified:October 18, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Adobe has launched Adobe Reader for iOS devices. It will enable users to view, access, interact with, share and print PDF files from their iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.

Main features:

search for text in the document
share via email
bookmarks support
thumbnails navigation
single page or continuous scroll modes
zoom
copy and paste,
wireless printing via iOS AirPrint
Password-protect files
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phpMyAdmin 3.4.6 released

Post last modified:October 18, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

phpMyAdmin 3.4.6 is now available for download. phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web.

Supported MySQL features:
browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes
create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes
maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server configuration
execute, edit and bookmark any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
manage MySQL users and privileges
manage stored procedures and triggers
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Apache Subversion 1.7 released

Post last modified:October 17, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Apache Subversion 1.7 is now available for download.What’s New in Apache Subversion 1.7

Working Copy Metadata Storage Improvements
New remote dumpfile tool: svnrdump
Improved HTTP protocol usage
New feature: svn patch
Many enhancements and bug fixes
Known issues in the release
Dependency, license and distribution changes
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Mozilla firefox 8 beta 3 released

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

Mozilla firefox 8 beta 3 is now available for download and testing on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. what’s new in this firefox 8 beta 3 ?

Fixed several stability issues
Added support for HTML5 context menus,insertAdjacentHTML,cross-domain textures in WebGL and Twitter to the search bar
Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored
Improved tab animations when moving, reordering, or detaching tabs
Improved performance and memory handling when using <audio> and <video> elements
Improved WebSocket support and CSS hyphen
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Google is shutting down Google buzz, code search, jaiku and some other

Post last modified:October 15, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

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

Code Search along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
Google Buzz and the Buzz API in few weeks.
Jaiku will shut down on January 15, 2012.
iGoogle’s social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.
The University Research Program for Google Search will close on January 15, 2012.

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