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WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 2 released

Post last modified:July 25, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this release?

Improved revisions.
Improved autosave.
Improved media player.
and fixed some bugs.

Other wordpress 3.6 features:

Own Post Formats UI.
New Twenty Thirteen default theme.
embed audio and video files into your posts without relying on a plugin or a third party media hosting service.
Posts are now autosaved locally.
New Post Locking.
Nav menus with an accordion-based UI, and a separate tab for bulk-assigning menus to locations.
new revisions UI features avatars an a slider.
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Apache OpenOffice 4.0

Post last modified:July 24, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

New Sidebar feature.
Fidelity and interoperability improvement.
New Color Palette.
New Gradients.
New Gallery Themes and Gallery enhancements.
Refined the Selection Handles User Interface.
Refined Selection Visualization.
Better Print Preview.
Enhanced conversion to Bitmap Graphics.
Enhanced FillType ‘Bitmap’
Enhanced Copy/Paste.
Enhanced Drag&Drop.
Adapt LineStart/End to LineWidth
SVG Export enhancements.
SVG/Metafile Break improvements
SVG Import improvements
Picture Crop mode offers preview
Calc and Chart Improvements/Enhancements.
Extensions Improvements/Enhancements.
3 new languages support.
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Opera 16 Next releaed

Post last modified:July 20, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Opera 16 Next is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this beta release?

support for W3C Geolocation API.
form auto-filler.
support for jump-lists on Windows 7/8.
presentation mode is now available also on Mac.
opera:flags – Now play with experimental features there.
Opera 16 is based on Chromium 29.
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PHP 5.5.1 released

Post last modified:July 20, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

PHP 5.5.1 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Fixes:
Exception not catchable when exception thrown in autoload with a namespace.
Generated configure script is malformed on OpenBSD.
is_callable triggers Fatal Error.
yield / exit segfault.
Generator + autoload + syntax error = segfault.
chroot does not get enabled.
hex2bin raises E_WARNING for invalid hex string.
Segfault in zval_mark_grey (zend_gc.c).
OPcache is now compatible with LiteSpeed SAPI.
Missing php-cgi man page.
Cli server not responsive when responding with 422 http status code.
strftime returns insufficient-length string under multibyte locales.
bgcolor does not use the same format as the input image with imagerotate.
imagecreatefrom… crashes with user streams.

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Blender 2.68 Released

Post last modified:July 19, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Blender 2.68 is now available for download. What’s new in this release?

Many different mesh modelling tools were added and improved.
Cycles render performance was improved.
The motion tracker can now automate placement and choice of markers more with new tools.
Improved Smoke rendering quality to reduce blockiness.
Python scripts and drivers are now disabled by default when loading files.
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Yahoo Q2 2013 earnings

Post last modified:October 1, 2019
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Yahoo has released its Q2 2013 earnings . And its not good for all . Below are short summary of its earning report.

year-to-year

GAAP income $137 million (up 150%)
GAAP revenue $1.13 billion (down 7%)
GAAP net earnings $331 million (Up 46%
non-GAAP $386 million (up 6%) (more…)

Rembrandt van Rijn’s 407th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:July 15, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Rembrandt van Rijn’s 407th birthday with a The self portrait or ‘Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar’ google doodle on its homepage.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ( 15 July 1606[1] – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher.RembrandtHarmenszoon van Rijn was born on 15 July 1606 in Leiden,in the Dutch Republic, nowadays the Netherlands. He was the ninth child born to Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn and Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history.
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Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest

Post last modified:July 13, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Wallpaper Contest for Ubuntu 13.10 is open for submissions.

Rules:

Use PNG format for bitmap files and Use JPGs for photos.
No version numbers.
Avoid text.
careful with small patterns.
Consider how the wallpaper will interact with the panels, icons and windows.
Show restraint in your use of color tone and contrast.
desired image format is 2560 x 1600 pixels.
Submissions must adhere to the Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Attribution must be declared if the submission is based on another design.
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Google chrome 28 stable released

Post last modified:July 11, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google chrome 28 stable is now available download for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

What’s new in this release?

New rendering engine Blink.
richer notifications.

Fixes:
Block pop-unders in various scenarios.
Confusion setting up sign-in and sync.
Incorrect sync of NPAPI extension component.
Out-of-bounds read in JPEG2000 handling.
Use-after-free with network sockets.
Man-in-the-middle attack against HTTP in SSL.
Use-after-free in input handling.
Possible lack of entropy in renderers.
Use-after-free in resource loading.
Screen data leak with GL textures.
Out-of-bounds-read in SVG.
Extensions permissions confusion with interstitials.
Out-of-bounds read in XML parsing.
Remove the “viewsource” attribute on iframes.
Out-of-bounds read in text handling.
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VirtualBox 4.2.16 released

Post last modified:July 6, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

VirtualBox 4.2.16 is now available for download. What’s new in this release?

OVF/OVA: don’t crash on import if no manifest is used
GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off after a Guru Mediation
Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to the VM
Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances
EFI: don’t fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X
Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls
Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32
Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions
Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool, remove it from the pkgutil –pkgs list as well
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