John James Audubon’s 226th birthday google doodle

Today google celebrates John James Audubon’s 226th birthday with a new Google Doodle on it’s home page. John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter.  He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a manner far superior to what had gone before.
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Mozilla firefox 5 aurora 2

Mozilla firefox 5 aurora 2 is now available for download and testing.But Aurora releases may not be as stable as beta or final releases.To know more about new development channels and repositories for rapid releases  Click Here .

Aurora – builds created out of the mozilla-aurora repository, which is synced from mozilla-central every 6 weeks. There is a small amount of QA at the start of the 6 week period before the updates are offered.
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Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday google doodle

Today google celebrates Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday. Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era.He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of the First World War.
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VLC 1.1.9 released

VLC 1.1.9 is now available for download.VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
What’s new in VLC 1.1.9? Some new features are

Fixing important bugs and security issues
Security update regarding a heap-based buffer overflow in mp4 demuxer
Update of libmodplug for security reasons in Windows and Mac versions
Major updates in most language translations
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Opera 11.10 released

Opera Software released the new Opera 11.10. Some of its new features are Tab stacking, Extensions, visual mouse gestures, Safer address field and unveiled the most expensive ad ever created by opera to promote this launch to showcase a major overhaul of the Opera Turbo feature, the crowning achievement in the new version.
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Flock’s End of Support Notice

Flock announced that the support for the browser will be discontinued on April 26.From Flock site “Support for Flock browsers will be discontinued as of April 26th, 2011. We would like to thank our loyal users around the world for their support, and we encourage the Flock community to migrate in the coming weeks to one of the recommended web browsers listed below.”
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