Microsoft at a press event held at its campus in Redmond officially announced its next-generation video game console the Xbox One.
Xbox One hardware details:
8-core CPU,
8GB RAM,
500GB HDD,
a Blu-Ray Drive,
802.11 Wireless with Wi-Fi Direct,
HDMI and USB 3.0.
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HandBrake 0.9.9 is now available for download.HandBrake is a free multithreaded video transcoder for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
What’s new in this version?
Improved HandBrake pineapple icon
Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application
Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
Additional video framerates-30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
Double framerate (“bob”) mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
Better audio remix support
Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
All graphical interfaces: support for x264’s preset, tune and profile options
Updated built-in presets
Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
Updated libraries
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Yahoo announced some new features to its Flickr online photo service.
New features:
1TB of free storage.
No limited pixels, no cramped formats.
beautiful new design
new slideshow mode
new a new Activity Feed
full 3 minutes per video of 1080p HD quality
New updated Flickr android app
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Adobe has launched Adobe Photoshop Express for windows 8 and windows RT. Photoshop Express is a free app and it is now available from windows store.
Main features:
Crop, straighten, rotate, and flip ?your photos.
Remove red eye.
One-touch adjustment for brightness, exposure and shadows.
Slider controls for exposure, contrast, clarity, vibrance.
More than 15 effects.
Upload your photos to Adobe Revel to sync them across your devices.
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Facebook Pages Manager 1.4 for android is now available for download.
What’s new in this version?
Create an album
Save a draft of a post
Write posts on an Event
Use bookmark links to see full-page Messages, Insights, Photos, Events and Activity Log
To delete a comment or ban someone from your Page, just tap the comment
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Google+ rolled out its secound major redesign on wednesday.And According to Google, Google+ has now 190 million active Google+ stream users and 390 million active across Google (+1’ing apps in Google Play, making video calls in Gmail, sharing videos from YouTube) users.
What’s new?
A multi-column layout – one, two, or three columns of content depending on your screen size and orientation.
Photos and videos can fill the entire width of the stream.
The sharebox bounces, the menus slide, and the cards flip and fade.
Messaging is richer, and more responsive.
With conversation history, you can swipe back in time.
No more annoying notifications.
Google has announced a new version of its popular Maps application at its I/O conference.
New features:
A Whole New Look.
new user-contribution feature called Map Maker.
zoom in on maps and see 3D renderings of buildings while searching for locations.
Users will now be able to see whether their friends have rated places using a new five-point rating scale.
new Explore feature.
Google Offers will now be integrated within Maps.
live coverage of incidents from around the world.
Dynamic rerouting in traffic view.
includes a schedule viewer for train and bus arrival times.
Google Earth have also been integrated into Maps to see famous landmarks and dynamically view 3D renders of them.
phpMyAdmin 4.0.1 is now available for download.This is a bug fix release.What’s new in this version?
Fixes:
Import broken for CSV using LOAD DATA
When login fails and error display is active, login data is displayed
Web server upload directory import fails
Server upload folder import file name missing in success message
Add retry button on connection failure with config auth
Provide feedback if no columns selected for multi-submit
Incorrect select field change on ctrl key navigation in Firefox
display_binary_as_hex option causes unexpected behavior
Git commit links to Github missing
CSP WARN in Firefox console
Microsoft's Tami Reller has announced that upcoming major update for Windows 8 and RT will officially be called Windows 8.1 and Owners of current Windows 8 and RT devices will be able to download the public preview on June 26th…
Thunderbird 17.0.6 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:
Thunderbird now supports the Twitter API version 1.1 ahead of Twitter closing the 1.0 version.
Security fixes:
Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer
Uninitialized functions in DOMSVGZoomEvent
Use-after-free with video and onresize event
Privileged access for content level constructor
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:21.0 / rv:17.0.6)