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Mozilla Firefox 18 beta released

Post last modified:November 27, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla Firefox 18 beta is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this beta?

Support for Retina Display on OS X 10.7 and up
Preliminary support for WebRTC
Experience better image quality with our new HTML scaling algorithm
Performance improvements around tab switching
CSS3 Flexbox implemented
Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio
Support for (@)supports added
Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates
Support for W3C touch events impemented, taking the place of MozTouch events
IonMonkey -new JavaScript JIT compiler
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 released

Post last modified:November 27, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download.What’s new in this update?

enable C++ applications to target Windows XP from Visual Studio 2012.
support for both mixed-mode managed/native debugging and for native ARM dump debugging.
improved diagnostics and testing support for Windows Store apps, such as with a JavaScript memory analysis tool, support for data-driven unit tests, and C++ unit testing enhancements.
enabled code analysis to help improve the quality of their phone apps.
IntelliTrace improvements.
code coverage is now supported for manual testing of ASP.NET applications.
Cross-browser testing is now supported.
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LiLi USB Creator 2.8.18 released

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

Lili USB creator is a free linux live usb creator for Windows system. Using this you can create live USB of your favorite distribution. LiLi USB Creator 2.8.18 is now available for download.what’s new in this release?

New Linux Distributions supported :

Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.4
Chakra 2012.10
Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” (MATE/CINNAMON) DVD
BackBox 3.0
Bodhi Linux 2.1.0
Open Xange 2012.10
Finnix 106
SystemRescueCD 3.1.1
UberStudent 2.0.4 “Aristotle”
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PHP 5.4.9 released

Post last modified:November 24, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

PHP 5.4.9 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Fixes:
zend_mm_heap corrupted with traits
((un)serialize leaves dangling pointers, causes crashes
PHP fails to open Windows deduplicated files
Handle leak in is_readable on windows
Curl silently accepts boolean true for SSL_VERIFYHOST
Load multiple magic files from a directory under Windows
Missing context check on libxml_set_streams_context causes memleak
max_input_vars doesn’t filter variables when mbstring.encoding_translation = On
Add ORA-00028 to the PHP_OCI_HANDLE_ERROR macro
Corruption of hash tables
Segfault in zend_gc with SF2 testsuite
Upgrade PCRE to 8.31
buffer overflow in use of SQLGetDiagRec
Emulate prepares behave strangely with PARAM_BOOL
Phar fails to write an openssl based signature
stream_get_line return contains delimiter string
ReflectionClass::getTraitAliases incorrectly resolves traitnames
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WordPress 3.5 Release Candidate 1 released

Post last modified:November 23, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download and testing.This is a bug fix release.Wordpress 3.5 will be available in two weeks.

Some new features in WordPress 3.5

A simplified welcome screen.
A new color picker.
new all-HiDPI (retina) dashboard.
Keyboard navigation and screen reader support have both been improved.
Now browse and install plugins you’ve marked as favorites on WordPress.org, directly from your dashboard.
Link up your WordPress install with wordpress mobile apps, as XML-RPC is now enabled by default.
hidden Link Manager for new installs.
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Linux Mint 14 Nadia released

Post last modified:November 22, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Linux Mint 14 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

MATE 1.4
Cinnamon 1.6
MDM now supports legacy GDM 2 themes and 30 of them are installed by default.
Software Manager
System Improvements
Artwork Improvements
Upstream Components
MintStick replaces USB-ImageWriter
Gedit 3
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Mozilla firefox 17 released

Post last modified:November 21, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 17 final is now available for download.

what’s new in this firefox 17?

First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger.
Click-to-play blocklisting implemented to prevent vulnerable plugin versions from running without the user’s permission.
Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons.
Mac OS X 10.5 is no longer supported.
JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable.
SVG FillPaint and StrokePaint implemented.
Improvements that make the Web Console, Debugger and Developer Toolbar faster and easier to use
New Markup panel in the Page Inspector allows easy editing of the DOM
Sandbox attribute for iframes implemented, enabling increased security
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Opera 12.11 released

Post last modified:November 21, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Opera 12.11 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
Opera 12.11 is a recommended upgrade offering security and stability enhancements.

Several general fixes and stability improvements.
Fixed a crash related to updating the state of some extensions’ toolbar icons (mac only).
Fixed several issues related to SPDY.
Gmail: Fixed an issue that could cause Gmail not to load.
Fixed an issue where HTTP response heap buffer overflow could allow execution of arbitrary code.
Fixed an issue where error pages could be used to guess local file paths.
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Thunderbird 17 released

Post last modified:November 21, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Thunderbird 17 is now available for download. Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

What’s new in this version of thunderbird?

A Menu Button is now shown to new users by default
Tabs are now drawn in the title bar on Windows
Mac OS X 10.5 is no longer supported

Fixed:
An issue causing spell-checking only parts of words in Thunderbird 16
An issue causing Thunderbird 16 to repeatedly download emails
RSS feeds can now be viewed in the Wide View Layout
Various fixes and performance improvements
Various security fixes
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Firefox For Android Now Supports ARMv6 Processor phones

Post last modified:November 20, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla announced that Firefox for Android 17 is now available on phones using ARM’s older v6 architecture with at least 800MHZ processor and minimum 512MB RAM.This includes the HTC Status, HTC ChaCha, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Motorola Fire XT and LG Optimus Q mobile phones. Firefox for Android also supports hardware and software decoder for h.264 video and Explore by Touch.
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