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VirtualBox 4.0.10 released

Post last modified:June 28, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Oracle’s VirtualBox 4.0.10 is now available for download. This is just a maintenance release. It improves stability and fixes regressions. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

Some fixes are

Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles
Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version of the Guest Additions
USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests
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phpMyAdmin 3.4.3 released

Post last modified:June 28, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

phpMyAdmin 3.4.3 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. What’s new in phpMyAdmin 3.4.3?

phpMyAdmin 3.4.3 is a bugfix release
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WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 2 released

Post last modified:June 25, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 2?

Additional Twenty Eleven tweaks
A new theme support option for defaulting to randomized headers
Various RTL fixes
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Google Translate – New 5 indian languages

Post last modified:June 22, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Starting today,google supports new five experimental alpha languages: Tamil ,Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada and Telugu.Current number of languages supported by Google Translate is 63. Google also enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word “nandri,” it will generate the Tamil word ?????.

Supported languages

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Mozilla firefox 5 final officially released

Post last modified:October 1, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 5 final now available for download. Firefox 5 visually looks very similar to firefox 4. Firefox 5 is the first Web Browser to Support Do Not Track on Multiple Platforms. Firefox 5 includes more than 1000 improvements and support for modern web technologies.

To update to the latest Firefox version, just open the about firefox box and click on the check for updates button.
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First day of Summer 2011 google doodle

Post last modified:June 21, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Today google celebrates First day of Summer with a new Google Doodle by Takashi Murakami on it’s home page. The summer solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s and the moon’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun, at its maximum of 23° 26′. It occurs in June in the Northern Hemisphere(June 21 2011, 17:16) UTC time.
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Total lunar eclipse 15 june 2011 google doodle

Post last modified:June 16, 2011
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Post author:Manikandan

Today google celebrates Total lunar eclipse 15 june 2011 with a new Google Doodle various stages of the eclipse on it’s home page. This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse, in which the center point of Earth’s shadow passes across the Moon. The next central total lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018.
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Mozilla firefox 5 beta 7 released

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

Mozilla firefox 5 beta 7 is now available for download and testing. Mozilla firefox 5 beta 7 includes some stability enhancements and performance. What’s new in Mozilla firefox 5 beta 7

support for CSS animations
Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
Improved spell checking for some locales
Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
The Firefox development channel switcher introduced in previous Firefox Beta updates has been removed
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Mozilla firefox 5 beta 5 released

Post last modified:January 12, 2016
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Mozilla firefox 5 beta 5 is now available for download and testing. Mozilla firefox 5 beta 5 includes some stability enhancements and performance.To see the complete list of bugs fixed in this version click here.

Aurora: Newest innovations in an unstable environment
Beta: Aurora features but with more stability
Release: Tried and tested final release
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Les Paul’s 96th birthday google doodle

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

Today google celebrates Les Paul’s 96th birthday with a new Google Doodle on it’s home page. Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009) was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible.

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