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Apple sold 3 million “The New iPad”

Post last modified:March 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Apple announced that it has sold 3 million “The New iPad”s since the device launch on March 16 and this is the strongest iPad launch yet.

From Apple press release

“The new iPad is already available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, UK and the US Virgin Islands and will be available in 24 more countries starting at 8:00 a.m. local time on Friday, March 23 through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com) including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.”

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Mozilla Firefox 13 Aurora 2 released

Post last modified:March 20, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Firefox 13 Aurora 2 is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this aurora?

When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages
The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
SPDY protocol now enabled by default for faster browsing on supported sites
Restored background tabs are not loaded by default for faster startup
Smooth scrolling is now enabled by default
The default home page now has quicker access to bookmarks, history, settings, and more
72 total improvements to Page Inspector, HTML panel, Style Inspector, Scratchpad and Style Editor
Support for the CSS3 background-position property extended syntax has been added
The :invalid pseudo-class can now be applied to theelement
The CSS turn angle unit is now supported
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VLC Media Player 2.0.1 released

Post last modified:March 20, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

VLC Media Player 2.0.1 is now available for download.what’s new in this release?

Support for MxPEG files and streams
New features in the Mac OS X interface for more customization.
Numerous fixes in the Qt, the Mac OS and the skins interfaces.
Fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support.
Limited support for Bluray discs menus.
Numerous fixes for MKV support.
Fix for splitted RAR files playback.
Numerous fixes for more than 120 bugs.
Codec and 3rd party libraries security updates.
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Linux 3.3 released

Post last modified:March 20, 2012
Post category:Linux Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Linux 3.3 is now available.what’s new in this release?

Android merge
Btrfs: restriping between different RAID levels, improved balancing, improved debugging tools
Open vSwitch
Better bonding of network interfaces: teaming
Bufferbloat fighting: Byte queue limits
Per-cgroup TCP buffer limits
Network priority control group
Better ext4 online resizing
New architecture: TI C6X
EFI boot support
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Mozilla Firefox 12 beta 1 released

Post last modified:March 17, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla Firefox 12 beta 1 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this beta version?

Windows: Firefox is now easier to update with one less prompt (User Account Control)
Page Source now has line numbers
Line breaks are now supported in the title attribute
Improvements to “Find in Page” to center search result
URLs pasted into the download manager window are now automatically downloaded
The column-fill CSS property has been implemented
Support for the text-align-last CSS property has been added
Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented
OS X: WebGL performance may be degraded on some hardware (713305)
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PayPal Here – small business mobile payment system

Post last modified:March 16, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

PayPal Announced its new PayPal Here, a small business mobile payment system. Now its onlt at select

merchants in the United States, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong.

Features:

Free card reader and app.
Works with Apple iOS and Android products.
All card swipes and PayPal transactions have the same 2.7% rate with no hidden fees or commitments.
Taking checks and issuing invoices are free of charge.
Accept credit and debit cards,PayPal,checks, invoice from the app.
track cash payments.
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Audacity 2.0 released

Post last modified:March 16, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Audacity 2.0 is now available for download.Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.what’s new in this release?

Many effects significantly improved, especially Equalization, Noise Removal and Normalize. Vocal Remover now included plus GVerb on Windows and Mac.
VAMP analysis plug-ins now supported.
Improved label tracks with Sync-Lock Tracks feature in the Tracks Menu.
Multiple clips per track.
Tracks and selections can be fully manipulated using the keyboard.
Many more keyboard shortcuts.
New Device Toolbar to manage inputs and outputs.
Timer Record feature.
New Mixer Board view with per-track VU meters.
Automatic Crash Recovery in the event of abnormal program termination.
Fast “On-Demand” import of WAV/AIFF files if read directly from source.
FLAC now fully supported.
Added support for optional FFmpeg library for import/export of AC3/M4A/WMA and import of audio from video files.
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A New Look for the +1 Button

Post last modified:March 15, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

A New Look for the +1 Button

Google rolling out new +1 button to all users. This new update also increase the numbers in your +1 buttons,to better reflect social activity around your content.

The +1 buttons will automatically update and there’s nothing to do.

Add +1 to your pages

Note:Most people don’t like the new design
Source Eric Steinlauf, Software Engineer, Google+

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Thunderbird 11 released

Post last modified:March 15, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Thunderbird 11 is now available for download.Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation.what’s new in this version of thunderbird?

New user interface with Tabs above the main menu bar to facilitate navigation and make it more contextual
Fixed:Thunderbird notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later
Fixes a crash seen during importing of Microsoft Outlook profiles

security fixes:
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:11.0/ rv:10.0.3 / rv:1.9.2.28)
window.fullScreen writeable by untrusted content
Crash when accessing keyframe cssText after dynamic modification
Escalation of privilege with Javascript: URL as home page
XSS with multiple Content Security Policy headers
SVG issues found with Address Sanitizer
XSS with Drag and Drop and Javascript: URL
Use-after-free in shlwapi.dll
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Mozilla firefox 11 final released

Post last modified:March 14, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 11 is now available for download. what’s new in this firefox 11?

Firefox can now migrate your bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome.
With Sync enabled, add-ons can now be synchronized across your computers.
The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported.
Redesigned media controls for HTML5 video.
The outerHTML property is now supported on HTML elements.
View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser.
The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers.
Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using the Page Inspector 3D View.
SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable.
XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing.
Files can now be stored in IndexedDB.
Websockets has now been unprefixed.
Fixed:Firefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later.
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