Windows, Linux, WordPress Tutorials & Useful Tech Tips

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 released

Post last modified:October 2, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this release?

Automatic, background updates.
If you’re running WordPress in another language, wordpress automatically download any available translations for official WordPress importers and the default themes.
Password meter got a whole lot better.
subtle.
Search results are now ordered by relevance, rather than just by date.
When your keywords match post titles and not just content, they’ll be pushed to the top.
Developers should check out the new advanced date queries in WP_Query.
(more…)

Notepad++ 6.5 released

Post last modified:October 2, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Notepad++ 6.5 is now available for download. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. What’s new in this version?

Update Scintilla to 3.3.4
Add CoffeeScript support.
Add multi-paste support for multi-selection/column mode.
Add new feature: auto-close parentheses, quotes, bracket and matched xml/html tag.
Add php, perl, xml, batch, ini and nsis for the build-in function list.
Add User Defined Languages support for the build-in function list.
Add reload feature in function list.
Fix a minor problem of file extension support for the build-in function list.
Fix a tag matching bug by disabling tag matching inside PHP code blocks.
Fix right-to-left text after closing document map bug.
Fix cancelling shutdown make Notepad++ quit w/o saving files bug.
Enhance “Begin/End select” feature: Check “Begin/End select” menu item when active.
Enhance Mark all feature: 2 options “Match case” and “Match whole word only” in Find/Replace dialog.
Fix a Replace dialog status bar display problem by clearing status bar before processing any action.
Add new feature: if Notepad++ is running as administrator, display this info on the title bar.
Rename “block comment” to “Single line comment” and “stream comment” to “block comment”.
Remove invalid command “Online Documentation”.
(more…)

Browser Market Share September 2013

Post last modified:October 2, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Browser Market Share: According to Net Applications,in September Total market share of microsoft internet explore is 57.73%, firefox 18.62%, chrome 16.01% Safari 5.78% and opera 1.47%. Mobile/Tablet Browser Market Share: According to Net Applications,in September Total market share of…

Operating System Market share September 2013

Post last modified:October 2, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Desktop Operating System Market Share: According to Net Applications, in September the total market share of microsoft windows is 90.80%, mac 7.55%, linux 1.65%. Mobile/Tablet Operating System Market Share in September: The total market share of iOS is 53.68%, Android…

Google 15th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:September 27, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Today (27th September) the search engine giant google celebrates its 15th birthday with a new interactive google doodle on its homepage.The doodle is a game that asks you to get as many candies as you can from a piñata.The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.

(more…)

Microsoft announces Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2

Post last modified:September 24, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft has announced the ARM based Surface 2 and inter haswell based Surface Pro 2.

Surface 2:

10.6-inch 1080p screen.
NVIDIA’s 1.7GHz quad-core Tegra 4 chip.
single USB 3.0 port.
Battery lasts 10 to 12 hours on a single charge.
3.5 megapixels front camera and 5 megapixels back camera.
improved kickstand.

Price:
32GB Version – $449.
64GB version – $549.

Free 200GB of SkyDrive storage for two years.
free international Skype calling and hotspot access for one year.

(more…)

Steam OS – Linux-based operating system

Post last modified:September 24, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Valve has announced the Steam OS, a Linux-based operating system for the TV and living room.

Main features:

In-home Streaming.
access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.
share Steam games with your family members.
Family option – control over what titles get seen by whom.
All the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS.

Note: SteamOS will be available soon as a free download.
(more…)

Bing for iOS 4.1 released

Post last modified:September 21, 2013
Post category:Apps
Post author:Manikandan

Bing for iOS 4.1 is now available for download.What’s new in this version?

Get to popular features from the homepage menu.
Popular Now – see the seven trending searches of the day.
Nearby – see a map of local businesses near your current location.
Images – see the twenty most popular image searches of the day.
Weather – get the current conditions in your location.
Share to Facebook and Twitter apps.
Save images to the camera roll.
Upload images and bookmarks to SkyDrive.
Sync bookmarks and images that you save with the latest version of the Bing Desktop app (PC) and Bing apps (iPad and Android).
Explore other iOS apps from Microsoft without leaving the app.
(more…)

Google Introduces new flat logo and a new search page

Post last modified:September 20, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google introduced a new flat logo and a new search page design for its homepage. Google will be rolling out this update across most Google products over the next few weeks. In this new update google also brings an updated Google bar that streamlines user experience across products and devices.

(more…)

Free Quickoffice [Android] [iOS]

Post last modified:January 8, 2016
Post category:Apps
Post author:Manikandan

The new free Quickoffice is now available for download.it allows you create and edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Main features:

Create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
Access files in Google Drive and on your device
Open and view PDF files
Share files through previously shared Google Drive folders
Attach files to emails
(more…)