Google is celebrating Peter Carl Fabergé’s 166th birthday google with a set of six gold and precious metals google doodle on its homepage.
Peter Carl Fabergé also known as “Karl Gustavovich Fabergé” ( May 30 1846 – September 24, 1920) was a Russian jeweller, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials.
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Notepad++ 6.1.3 is now available for download.What’s new in this version?
Enhance the performance issue for xml matching tags highlighting and for displaying clickable links.
While the amount of file to open is larger than 200, a dialog will be shown to warn user.
Fix Notepad++ close bug while move one cloned new empty document into another view, in the destination contained only this new empty document.
Fix hanging problem while double-click on a project folder then (immediately) drag it.
Fix a bug while command argument contain an empty string (“”).
Fix mouse cursor disappearing bug on right click while a project item is dragging.
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Free Download Manager 3.9 is now available for download.
What’s new in this version?
Updated torrents core library
Firefox 10-14 support added
A pack of general bug fixes
Help-file updated.
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Wine 1.5.5 is now available for download. Wine is a free software that allows users to install and run Windows software on other operating systems.
What’s new in this version?
Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package.
Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime.
DDS files supported in D3DX9.
Various bug fixes.
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Nokia announced that Bing Maps now uses Nokia Maps traffic information and geocoding algorithms. That means Bing Maps is now using Nokia Maps geocoding in several countries to offer better routes and directions and offer the same traffic information that is already available at Nokia Maps in 24 countries
Google SketchUp 8 Maintenance 3 is now available for download.
what’s new in this maintenance release?
now only uses one network license seat when launching multiple instances of SketchUp on the same Windows machine.
More secure image libraries, better protected from potential security vulnerabilities.
Added a link displaying Open Source Credits in the About Google SketchUp dialog.
fixed some more crashes folks reported in Ruby Observers.
Improved messaging and workflow for users without a nickname
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LinuxMint 13 (Maya) is now available for download in two editions, MATE and Cinnamon. This is an Long Term Support release and it will be supported until April 2017.
What’s new in this version?
MATE 1.2
Cinnamon 1.4
MDM – new Display Manager
Artwork improvements
Yahoo as the default search engine for the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
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Yahoo announced its own new browser,yahoo axis.Yahoo Axis is a search oriented add-on with instant answers and visual search previews.
Versions:
New browser app for iPad and iPhone,
plug-ins for the desktop browsers Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari.
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VirtualBox 4.1.16 is now available for download.This is a maintenance release.
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs
VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some legacy guests to work properly
VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP guests in rare cases
3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash
NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some circumstances
Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts
EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation
Google is celebrating Robert Moog’s 78th birthday with a interactive synthesizer google doodle on its homepage. Now compose, record and play back your own tracks.
Robert Arthur “Bob” Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
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