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London 2012 Diving google doodle

Post last modified:July 29, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a female diver in position for the plunge on the diving board over a pool doodle on its homepage.
Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place from 29 July to 11 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre in London, UK.It is one of 4 Aquatics disciplines at the Games, along with Swimming, Water Polo and Synchronized Swimming.The 2012 Olympics will feature competition in 8 events (Men and Women events each of): 3 metre springboard, synchronized 3 metre springboard, 10 metre platform, and synchronized 10 metre platform.All divers must be at least 14 years-old on or by 31 December 2012.
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London 2012 archery google doodle

Post last modified:July 28, 2012
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Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a new archery doodle on its homepage.
Archery had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 14 Olympiads. 83 different nations have appeared in the Olympic archery competitions, with France appearing the most often at 11 times. It is governed by the International Archery Federation (FITA).
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Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3 Released

Post last modified:February 16, 2013
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Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3 is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this alpha.

Linux kernel 3.5
Python 3.0
Update Manager has been streamlined and renamed Software Updater
unity 6
Libreoffice got updated to 3.6.0rc2.
GNOME has been updated to 3.5.4 for most of the components.
Firefox 15 Beta

Ubuntu 12.10 final is scheduled for release on October 18th 2012.
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Opening ceremony london 2012 google doodle

Post last modified:July 27, 2012
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Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a new doodle and it shows 5 athletes and the number of rings in the Olympic logo on its homepage.

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, also known informally as London 2012, is scheduled to take place in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July (when the opening ceremony is held) until 12 August 2012.
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955 million Facebook users

Post last modified:July 27, 2012
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Facebook has announced that now it has 955 million users worldwide who sign on at least once a month. Facebook also says that 552 million of its users worldwide sign onto the service on a daily basis and 543 million people that use the service via mobile devices.
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NetBeans IDE 7.2 Released

Post last modified:July 27, 2012
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NetBeans IDE 7.2 is now available for download.what’s new in this release?

Significant performance increase on remote filesystems
improved project scanning speed and background project scanning
Java Editor enhancements
JavaTM SE Development Kit 7 Update 4 support
Full support of JavaFX 2.1.1 SDK on Windows and OS X 10.7
Redesigned search history in supported version control systems and support for Mercurial Queues
Ant 1.8.3 is supported and bundled with the IDE
Bundled version of Maven is upgraded to 3.0.4
Debugger improvements
PHP 5.4 support
Debugging and code assistance improvements in C++ projects and C++11 support
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Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:July 24, 2012
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Google is celebrating Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday with Amelia Earhart and Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on its homepage.

Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
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Linux 3.5 released

Post last modified:July 23, 2012
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What’s new in this version?

ext4 metadata checksums
Uprobes: userspace probes
Seccomp-based system call filtering
Bufferbloat fighting: CoDel queue management
TCP connection repair
TCP Early Retransmit
Android-style opportunistic suspend
Btrfs: I/O failure statistics, latency improvements
SCSI over FireWire and USB
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Mozilla Firefox 16 Aurora released

Post last modified:July 22, 2012
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Mozilla Firefox 16 Aurora is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this release?

Firefox for the Mac now has VoiceOver support turned on by default
Web App Support (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Improved our experimental support for reading pdf files in the browser using PDF.js
CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms and Gradients unprefixed in Firefox 16
New Developer Toolbar with buttons for quick access to tools, error count for the Web Console, and a new command line for quick keyboard access
Recently opened files list in Scratchpad implemented
FIXED:No longer supporting MD5 as a hash algorithm in digital signatures
FIXED:Opus support by default
FIXED:Reverse animation direction has been implemented
FIXED:Per tab reporting in about:memory
FIXED:User Agent strings for pre-release Firefox versions now show only major version
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VLC Media Player 2.0.3 released

Post last modified:July 21, 2012
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VLC Media Player 2.0.3 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Adds support for OS X Mountain Lion.
Mac-specific bug fixes – hotkey handling, fullscreen toggling when using a remote app on a phone,some Flash Video (flv), APE files and a small number of radio streams broadcasted through the HTTP protocol.

VLC’s interface will be drawn correctly On Windows 8.
includes updates for 18 translations.
added support for Uzbek and Marathi.
Fixed:Bugs preventing the activation of the Gaelic and Thai translations.
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