Microsoft officially announced Officer 365 for education and it is now available for K-12 and college students and faculty members for free.Office 365 for education offers Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — and combines it with Microsoft Lync, SharePoint.
Main features:
shared workspaces
synchronized notebooks
instant messaging
audio- and videoconferencing
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Apple added a new automated security update tool in the latest update to its OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview operating system.This new security Update tool automatically check for updates daily to ensure the operating system has the latest security patches and it will do all of this without any user interaction.
Mozilla has released a major update of the Firefox web browser for Android.What’s new in this release?
Faster start-up and page load times
Support for Adobe Flash
The user interface has been completely re-designed with a new Awesome Screen
New personalized Start Page with top sites and tabs from last time
Better text readability through font size inflation
Tap-to-play is default for plugins
Google searches now utilize HTTPS
New panning/zooming architecture implemented for better touch responsiveness
Top Sites, Bookmarks, and History are now even more accessible from the Awesome Bar
Pointer Lock API implemented
New API to prevent your display from sleeping
New text-transform and font-variant CSS improvements for Turkic languages and Greek
FIXED:Reloading a page increases the zoom level
FIXED:Blinking characters in form fields
FIXED:Your previous tab session may not be re-opened on launch in some instances
FIXED:Some text may appear too large
FIXED:Opening links from external apps may not open properly
FIXED:Full screen does not work correctly on Flash video
FIXED:Holding the Galaxy Note’s stylus close to the phone dismisses the virtual keyboard on the Awesome Screen
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Microsoft has announced in a blog post that it has added a165 terabytes of new satellite and Global Ortho images to the Bing Maps database.It covers imagery over North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia. The total area covered in this data release is nearly 38 million square kilometers.
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CCleaner 3.20 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
Added Windows Explorer Context Menu management to Startup tool.
Added Windows 8 Release Preview compatibility.
Added Opera 12 support.
Updated History cleaning for Aurora.
Updated History cleaning for Chrome Canary.
Improved UAC bypass code.
Improved accuracy for uninstall items installation date and size.
Improved Scheduled Tasks detection.
Improved cleaning algorithm duplication detection.
Improved file and setting removal when uninstalling.
Minor bug fixes.
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Tomahawk 0.5 is now available for download.Tomahawk is a free music player for linux,windows and max. What’a new in this version?
SOCKS5 proxy support improvements for resolvers and more.
Initial Access Control support, allowing users to define who is able to
access and stream from their collection.
Priortize resolution of a track on double-click.
Spotify Resolver can now be easily installed on-demand from the settings.
You can now sync selected playlists (and updates) with Spotify.
Support .aiff (AIFF mimetype) files.
Cleaned up Diagnostics window.
Facebook now changed the displayed default email address of all users to its own @facebook.com email addresses without any warning.
Advantage:
may reduce the email spam.
Disadvantage:
mails do not land in the inbox of your connected email account.
Fix:
visit your Facebook’s profile page.
click on the update info button.
locate Contact Info module and click on the edit button.
click the button and select hidden from timeline.
to show original email address select the shown on timeline option.
click on the save button at the bottom of the menu to save the changes.
Notepad++ 6.1.4 is now available for download. What’s new in this version?
Fix a crash issue of Windows 8’s Computer Manager due to Notepad++’s Shell Extension (Explorer’s context menu).
Work around for a right click issue (crashing on right click) in Windows Explorer in all versions of Win 7 and Vista. Issue was caused by a conflict among Shell Extension (Explorer’s context menu) of Symantec Antivirus, Net iD component and Notepad++.
Fix a regression in clickable link feature.
Add “reload from disk” command entry in tab context menu.
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Microsoft has announced the $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer, enterprise users the social network. It has more than five million users.The deal closed for $1.2 billion in cash.
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Google is celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th birthday with a an interactive HTML5 codebreaking game google doodle on its homepage that simulates the Turing Machine.
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of “algorithm” and “computation” with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
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