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Operating System Market share June 2013

Post last modified:October 2, 2019
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

This month Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s iOS is still in top seat. Not much change in this month. But in the mobile space google’s Android is gaining new users rapidly. Just now Net Application released its market share data. First we will see the Desktop and the mobile.

Desktop Operating System Market Share:

According to Net Applications, in june 2013 the total market share of microsoft windows is 91.51%. It is still on top position. Apple’s Mac OS is 7.20% and Linux gains little high with 1.28%.

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Linux 3.10 released

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

Linux 3.10 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Timer free multitasking
Bcache, a block layer cache for SSD caching
Btrfs: smaller extents
XFS metadata checksums
SysV IPC scalability improvements
rwsem locking scalability improvements
mutex locking scalability improvements
TCP optimization: Tail loss probe
ARM big.LITTLE support
MIPS KVM support
tracing: tracing snapshots, stack tracing
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Notepad++ 6.4 released

Post last modified:July 1, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Notepad++ 6.4 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?

Add Function List Panel (customizable, support C++ and Javascript for the moment).
Display the error/result in the new added statusbar of Find/Replace dialog instead in popup dialogs.
Add delimiter select by ctrl+Double click feature.
Add set begin position feature for selection.
Fix fold all command bug (which folds partially).
Fix opening the same file twice due to its different path (for example symbol link).
Fix deleting macro from macro menu crash issue.
Fix the bug of Window position not saved/restored properly.
Fix small window size problem due to closing Notepad++ in icon state (reduced in the taskbar) on the last session.

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Yahoo is shutting down Yahoo! Axis, AltaVista and some more

Post last modified:June 29, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Yahoo is shutting down some of its services. Shut down product list:

Yahoo! Axis – June 28, 2013

Yahoo! Browser Plus – June 28, 2013

Citizen Sports – June 28, 2013

Yahoo! WebPlayer – June 30, 2013

FoxyTunes- July 1, 2013

Yahoo! RSS Alerts – July 1, 2013

Yahoo! Neighbors Beta – July 8, 2013

AltaVista – July 8, 2013

Yahoo! Stars India – July 25, 2013

Yahoo! Downloads Beta – July 31, 2013

Yahoo! Local API – September 28, 2013

Yahoo! Term Extraction API – September 28, 2013
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New Firefox Logo

Post last modified:October 30, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla has rolled out a newly design logo for its firefox browser with the desktop release of the Firefox 23 beta and will be rolled out across all other Firefox versions as well as websites and promotional materials in the coming weeks.
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Windows 8.1 Preview released

Post last modified:January 8, 2016
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Windows 8.1 Preview is now available for download and testing.

Main features:

Boot to desktop option.
Start button and it opens the start screen.
Single unified search engine.
improved multiple monitor support.
improved start screen personalization.
IE11.
Direct X 11.2.
revamped Store.
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Visual Studio 2013 preview released

Post last modified:October 1, 2019
Post category:Promo Codes
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft released the latest version of its developer tool Visual Studio . Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this version?

Its comes with more than 5000 new APIs for its users.
New power management feature to easily manage it.
developer now test their application in the newly added cloud-based load testing feature.
display of information such as unit test failures and recent changes directly within the code editor.
This is the first visual studio version to bring build in Git support to its users.
Included the preview version of .NET 4.5.1.
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Thunderbird 17.0.7 released

Post last modified:June 26, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Thunderbird 17.0.7 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?

Fixes:

XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context.
PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior.
SVG filters can lead to information disclosure.
Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks.
Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event.
Privileged content access and execution via XBL.
Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer.
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards.
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Mozilla firefox 22 released

Post last modified:October 30, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 22 stable is now available for download from Mozilla’s FTP site. It is currently not available on the firefox official homepage.

What’s new in this firefox 22?

Windows: Firefox now follows display scaling options to render text larger on high-res displays
WebRTC is now enabled by default!
Mac OS X: Download progress in Dock application icon
HTML5 audio/video playback rate can now be changed
Social services management implemented in Add-ons Manager
asm.js optimizations (OdinMonkey) enabled for major performance improvements
Improved WebGL rendering performance through asynchronous canvas updates
Plain text files displayed within Firefox will now word-wrap
For user security, the |Components| object is no longer accessible from web content
Improved memory usage and display time when rendering images
Pointer Lock API can now be used outside of fullscreen
CSS3 Flexbox implemented and enabled by default
New Web Notifications API implemented
Added clipboardData API for JavaScript access to a user’s clipboard
New built-in font inspector
New HTML5 data and time elements
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Antoni Gaudi’s 161st birthday google doodle

Post last modified:June 26, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Antoni Gaudi’s 161st birthday with a new google doodle on its homepage.

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect born in Reus, in the Catalonia region of Spain and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí’s works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.
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