Adobe is shutting down Adobe InMarket and the Adobe AIR Marketplace, dedicated to mobile and desktop application distribution. Adobe’s InMarket was an application distribution service targeted towards developers and Adobe AIR Marketplace was an application distribution service targeted towards consumers.
The Adobe AIR Marketplace will be shut down on August 31, 2011.
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Notepad++ is a free text editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is written in c++ and it supports tabbed editing, syntax highlighting, code folding and limited auto completion for programming, scripting, and markup languages..Notepad++ 5.9.3 is now available for download. What’s new in Notepad++ 5.9.3?
Google has acquires PittPatt (Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition). PittPatt is facial recognition Software Company. It develops a facial recognition technology that can match people across photos, videos. And also created a some algorithms in face detection, face tracking .
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Today, the search giant google celebrates Alexander Calder’s 113th birthday with a interactive kinetic art Google Doodle on it’s home page.Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American artist and sculptor most famous for inventing the mobile sculpture.Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.
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Google has acquires social network company Fridge to boost Google+ Project. Fridge is simple personal networks that anyone can instantly create to share photos, messages, and events with specific friends and groups and more according to Fridge. Fridge is closing its service but user will still be able to download and save the data until Saturday August 20, 2011 at 6pm ET.
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Oracle’s VirtualBox 4.1.0 is now available for download and this is a major update version.what’s new in VirtualBox 4.1.0?
Support for cloning of VMs
Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts
Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero and providing Direct3D support using a Guest
Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManagestatus of modules and
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Today google celebrates Gregor Mendel’s 189th birthday with a new Google Doodle the peas arranged in the shape of the Google logo on it’s home page..Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian Augustinian friar and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants.
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In gmail, with the help of google docs viewer you can easily view over 15 different file types without downloading the file. Now google added the support for ZIP and RAR. Now you will able to view the zip and rar archive file types without downloading them.
The Google Docs Viewer supports 15 file types:
Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
Google has announced a new url shortener g.co for google websites.This will only link to official Google products and services.Google already owns goo.gl,a public URL shortener and it can be used for any link on the web.There is no change in goo.gl service.
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Mozilla firefox 6 beta 2 is now available for download and testing. what’s new in this firefox 6 beta 2 ?
The address bar now highlights the domain of the website
Streamlined the look of the site identity block
Added support for WebSockets with a prefixed API,EventSource / server-sent events,window.matchMedi and Scratchpad
interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
new Web Developer menu item
Improved Web Console and Firefox Sync
Reduced startup time
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