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VLC Media Player 2.0.2 released

Post last modified:July 2, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

VLC Media Player 2.0.2 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Rework of the Mac OS X interface
Fix video output for old graphic cards on Windows XP, which are using DirectX
Fix video output on old Macs, notably PowerPC and GMA950 intel Macs.
Support for HiDPI, aka Retina Display
Support for H264 v4l2 devices on Linux
Translations updates and new Scottish Gaelic translation
Fixes for splitted RAR, MKV segmented, mp4 and Real media files playback.
Rewrite of the Digital TV module on Windows
Enhancements in HLS, Blu-Ray and various codecs support
Fixes for subtitles auto-detection
Fixes on Qt, skins2 and web interfaces
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No Adobe Flash support for Android 4.1 and no new flash installs from August 15

Post last modified:October 2, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Adobe has revealed that Android 4.1 will not support Flash Player and it has no plans to bring a compatible version for this operating system.Adobe will stop the fresh installs of Flash Player from Google Play Store for uncertified devices starting August 15 and it will provide Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed.
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Google Chrome for iOS released

Post last modified:June 29, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google Chrome for iOS is now available for download from apple app store.

Main features:

Incognito
Search and navigate directly from the same box
Choose from results that appear as you type
Open and quickly switch between an unlimited number of tabs
flip through tabs
swipe from edge to edge to switch tabs
Sign in to Chrome to sync your open tabs,bookmarks,passwords,omnibox data from your computer to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
Send pages from Chrome on your computer to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
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Google Drive iOS app released

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

Google Drive iOS app is now available for download from apple app store.

Main features:

Quickly and easily access and view your documents, photos and videos anywhere
Make files available offline so you can view them even when you don’t have Internet connection
Easily share files with collaborators on the go
Sync files across your desktop and all your devices
Open files from Drive with other apps installed on your device
Star your most important files to easily find them later
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Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 Released

Post last modified:October 3, 2016
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Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this alpha version?

3.5.0-2.2 Ubuntu kernel which was based on the v3.5-rc4 upstream Linux kernel
Python 3.0
e2fsprogs updated to 1.42.4
mdadm updated to 3.2.5
autofs updated to 2012-06-01 from 5.0.6 release tag
btrfs-tools update to 2012-03-28
current Firefox beta version
Thunderbird upated to the the current beta channel version
GTK updated to 3.5 series
Xorg stack updated
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310 million active Google Chrome users

Post last modified:October 2, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Google announced in San Francisco today, at his annual Google I/O developer conference that the four year old browser google chrome now has 310 million active users worldwide. Google’s Sundar Pichai said that Chrome is now the most popular browser…

WordPress 3.4.1 released

Post last modified:June 28, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.4.1 is now available for download.This is a maintenance release and addresses 18 bugs.

Fixes an issue where a theme’s page templates were sometimes not detected.
Addresses problems with some category permalink structures.
Better handling for plugins or themes loading JavaScript incorrectly.
Adds early support for uploading images on iOS 6 devices.
Allows for a technique commonly used by plugins to detect a network-wide activation.
Better compatibility with servers running certain versions of PHP (5.2.4, 5.4) or with uncommon setups (safe mode, open_basedir), which had caused warnings or in some cases prevented emails from being sent.

And security fixes.
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Google announced Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)

Post last modified:June 28, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Google has announced Android 4.1 at Google I/O.Google will make Jelly Bean available for the Motorola Xoom, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S in mid-July.

Some new features of the Jelly Bean:

Project Butter- to improve the overall speed and performance of the mobile operating system.
offline speech recognition
camera app improvements
search cards
enhanced Widget organization -automatic repositioning and resizing
new keyboard
Notifications can now be interactive
Google Now

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1 million Android device activations per day

Post last modified:October 3, 2016
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Post author:Manikandan

Google revealed that 400 million Android devices have been activated since it launched and now up to 1 million Android hardware activations per day.Note that just 100 million Android devices and 500,000 activations per day a year ago. Some other notes

There have been 20 billion app installs across Google Play.
There are now 600,000 games and apps available on Google Play.
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250 million Google+ accounts

Post last modified:October 3, 2016
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Post author:Manikandan

Google revealed in the Google I/O developer conference that Google+ now has over 250 million accounts and only about 150 million of those accounts are currently active.More users access Google+ on their mobile device than through a desktop computer and the average Google+ user spends 12 minutes a day “in stream”, up from 9 minutes just a few months ago.
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