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Google’s new rendering engine Blink

Post last modified:April 4, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google announced that it is forking the WebKit rendering engine and moving on from WebKit in future versions

of Chrome.The forked new rendering engine is Blink.

From blink developer faq
“There are two main reasons why we’re making this change.

The main reason is that Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers. So, over the years, supporting multiple architectures has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium communities, slowing down the collective pace of innovation.
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Yahoo Mail and Dropbox integration

Post last modified:January 13, 2016
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Post author:Manikandan

Yahoo announced a new partnership with Dropbox that allows Yahoo Mail customers to use Dropbox within webmail.

New features:

Set up a new Dropbox account within yahoo mail
Save one or more files to Dropbox in yahoomail
create and name a new Dropbox folder in yahoomail
Share from Dropbox
send large file (>25MB) through Dropbox
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Mozilla firefox 20 released

Post last modified:October 30, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 20 stable is now available for download.

What’s new in this firefox 20?

Per-window Private Browsing. Learn more.
New download experience. Learn more.
Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging
Continued performance improvements around common browser tasks (page loads, downloads, shutdown, etc.)
Continued implementation of draft ECMAScript 6 – clear and Math.imul
New JavaScript Profiler tool
getUserMedia implemented for web access to the user’s camera and microphone (with user permission)
canvas now supports blend modes
Various audio and video improvements
Fixes:
Details button on Crash Reporter
Unity plugin doesn’t display in HiDPI mode

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Maria Sibylla Merian’s 366th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:April 2, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Maria Sibylla Merian’s 366th birthday with a new google doodle on its homepage.

Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and painted them in great detail. Her careful observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly makes her a significant, albeit not well-known, contributor to entomology.Maria Sibylla Merian was born on 2 April 1647 in Frankfurt, then a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, into the family of the Swiss engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian the Elder.

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Browser Market Share March 2013

Post last modified:April 2, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Browser Market Share:

According to Net Applications,in March Total market share of

microsoft internet explore is 55.83%,
firefox 20.21%,
chrome 16.45%
Safari 5.31% and
opera 1.74%.

Mobile/Tablet Browser Market Share:

According to Net Applications,in March Total market share of
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Operating System Market share March 2013

Post last modified:April 2, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Operating System Market Share:

According to Net Applications, in March the total market share of

microsoft windows is 91.89%,
mac 6.94%,
linux 1.17%.

Mobile/Tablet Operating System Market Share in March:

The total market share of
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Maxthon Cloud Browser 4.0.5.2000 released

Post last modified:March 29, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Maxthon Cloud Browser 4.0.5.2000 is now available download.What’s new in this release?

New Maxthon Dock – It supporting pin the independent SideBar to your desktop for quick visiting favorite sites and extensions.
Improved the page load speed
Optimized the memory usage
Improved the user experience
Improved the interaction and UI of Maxthon Download Manager

Fixes:
Crash problem if uploaded images to Google+
Some other crash problems
No response of drag&drop during downloading files
The upload status problem in Maxthon Downloader
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New ‘From others’ tab – Dropbox

Post last modified:March 29, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Dropbox has released a new small feature on its web-based version that allows you check all the shared links.You can also turn the entire thing off from the account settings page, if you prefer not to revisit the past.

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GNOME 3.8 Released

Post last modified:March 28, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

GNOME 3.8 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

new application launching view
revamped new search results view
new privacy and sharing settings
new core application called Clocks
Improved Animation Rendering
New classic mode
new Region & Language

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Google chrome 26 stable released

Post last modified:March 27, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Google chrome 26 stable is now available download for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. What’s new in this release?

“Ask Google for suggestions” spell checking feature improvements (e.g. grammar and homonym checking)
Desktop shortcuts for multiple users (profiles) on Windows
Asynchronous DNS resolver on Mac and Linux

Security fixes:
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