Facebook announced the free AV Marketplace. Now facebook Users can download a six-month license for a full version of anti-virus software from one of Facebook’s new partners, free of charge.
Trend Micro internet security for PCs and Macs
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition
Norton AntiVirus
Microsoft Security Essentials
McAfee Internet Security
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Flickr released a new Flickr Uploadr.
What’s new?
HTML 5 browser technology.
drag and drop interface.
show preview thumbnails.
Faster upload speeds between 20-30% on average, and up to 50-60% faster for some of our international users.
increased file size limits for Pro users up to 50MB and for free users up to 30MB.
Flickr will roll out the new Flickr Uploadr to all users over the next couple of weeks.
Google announced the new search algorithm update to combat webspam.This update will decrease rankings for sites that promote webspam. The new update affects about 3.1% of queries in English to a degree that a regular user might notice. The change affects roughly 3% of queries in languages such as German, Chinese, and Arabic, but the impact is higher in more heavily-spammed languages. For example, 5% of Polish queries change to a degree.
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“Starting with Opera 12, both Opera Unite and Opera Widgets will be turned off by default for new users. The two Add-on platforms will be completely removed in a later release expected before the end of this year.”
Huib Kleinhout on behalf of the Opera Desktop said on his blog post.
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Google introduced new Google+ share button for website owners. The new Google+ Share button is available to all publishers. The share button switches from red font on a light background to light font on a red background after being clicked.
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A Mozilla developer Jared Wein posted that favicons will be removed from Firefox’s address bar in a future release.The reason for the removal of the favicon is due to a security issue and there are no plans to remove favicons from tabs, bookmarks, or Awesomebar suggestions.
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Google Drive offers 5GB of storage for free and 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB.
Google Drive features:
Works on Mac or PC and can download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet.
Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner.
Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.
image recognition.
attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+
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Ubuntu 12.10 gets a codename Quantal Quetzal,Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed on his personal blog post. Ubuntu 12.10 is scheduled for release in 18th October 2012.
In his blog he said that “I give you the Quantal Quetzal, soon to be dressed in tessellated technicolour, now open for toolchains, kernels and other pressing preparatory packages.”
This is release Colonical mainly focus on the quality of the Ubuntu . This means you can except small amount of new features. According to wikipedia Quetzals are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family, found in forests, especially in humid highlands.
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Google is celebrating Gideon Sundback’s 132nd birthday with a new interactive big zipper google doodle on its homepage.Gideon Sundback (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer. Gideon Sundback is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper. Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundback was born on Sonarp farm in Ödestugu Parish, in Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden.
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Microsoft announced an update to its SkyDrive with new cool features.SkyDrive now available for Windows,Mac OS X ,Windows Phone and iOS.
What’s new?
7GB free for all new SkyDrive users.
Ability to upload large files – up to 2GB.
Paid storage plans (+20GB, +50GB, +100GB) and prices (US$10/year, US$25/year, US$50/year).
SkyDrive for the Windows desktop:
View and manage your personal SkyDrive directly from Windows Explorer on Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista with this new preview app available in 106 languages worldwide.
Fetching files through SkyDrive.com:
Easily access, browse, and stream files from a remote PC running the preview app to just about anywhere by simply fetching them via SkyDrive.com.
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