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IrfanView 4.35 released

Post last modified:November 9, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

IrfanView 4.35 is now available for download.IrfanView is a free image viewer and image converter forWindows. What’s new in this version?

New Add Text dialog features: No selection needed, Preview, Effects etc.
Option to save profiles (Add-Text, JPG-Save and Color Correction dialog)
New capture dialog option: Capture fixed screen rectangle; Stop timer
New transparency save option: Use main window color (GIF, PNG, ICO)
New file handling option: Remove sidecar files (Properties->File Handling)
New options in Watermark dialog: Preview, Click to preview
New folder browsing options in: Properties->Browsing (stop on folder end)

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Bram Stoker’s 165th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:November 8, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Bram Stoker’s 165th birthday with a Dracula doodle on its homepage.
Abraham Bram Chootiya (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.
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Google Chrome 23 stable released

Post last modified:November 7, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google just released chrome 23 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame, a new stable version of its popular browser. What’s new in this chrome 23 stable ?

GPU-accelerated video decoding enabled for Chrome on Windows.
battery lasted 25% longer when GPU-accelerated video decoding was enabled.
Now easier to view and control any website’s permissions for capabilities such as geolocation, pop-ups, and camera/microphone access.
Includes an option to send a “do not track” request to websites and web services.
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Skype will replace Windows Live Messenger

Post last modified:October 3, 2016
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft announced that the Windows Live Messenger will be retired in the first quarter of 2013 and it wll be replaced by the Skype everywhere, except for China, which will retain the Messenger naming.
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Opera 12.10 released

Post last modified:November 7, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Opera 12.10 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
Opera 12.10 is a contains new and improved features, plus security and stability enhancements.

Operating system compatibility: Windows 8 and Mac OSX
touch support also works on Windows 7
New and improved APIs:

API for URL filtering
Context Menu API
Screenshots API
Resource Loader API
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Kaspersky Lab IT Threat Evolution: Q3 2012 report

Post last modified:November 4, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Some important results from the latest quarterly report of kaspersky lab’s IT Threat report:

Kaspersky Lab products detected and neutralized 1,347,231,728 threats in Q3 2012.
Java vulnerabilities are used in more than half of all attacks.
28% of all mobile devices attacked run Android OS version 2.3.6
56% of exploits blocked in Q3 use Java vulnerabilities.
TOP malicious program detected on the Internet is Trojan Script Generic and on user’s computer is Trojan Win32 Generic.
A total of 91.9 million URLs serving malicious code were detected, a 3% increase compared to Q2 2012.
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iOS 6.0.1 releases

Post last modified:November 4, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

iOS 6.0.1 is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. what’s new in this release?

Fixes:

prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air
horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard
issue that could cause camera flash to not go off
Improves reliability of iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation) when connected to encrypted WPA2 Wi-Fi networks
an issue that prevents iPhone from using the cellular network in some instances
Consolidated the Use Cellular Data switch for iTunes Match
a Passcode Lock bug which sometimes allowed access to Passbook pass details from lock screen
affecting Exchange meetings

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Windows Phone SDK 8.0 released

Post last modified:November 1, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is now available for download for everyone.It provides the tools that you need to develop apps and games for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.5.
It also provides a stand-alone Visual Studio Express 2012 edition for Windows Phone or works as an add-in to Visual Studio 2012 Professional, Premium or Ultimate editions.
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Giveaway – 10 free AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition licenses

Post last modified:November 7, 2012
Post category:Promo Codes
Post author:Manikandan

CONNECTwww.com is proud to announce our second giveaway of 10 free AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition licenses (Worth over US $36 x 10), thanks to AOMEI Technology.

We will end the give away when we have enough participants.
we will randomly pick 10 winners and send you the keys and product download link.
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Happy halloween! google doodle 2012

Post last modified:October 31, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating halloween with a interactive with music google doodle on its homepage.This doodle features a haunted mansion (numbered 13) with black alley cat, a crowing crow and a spider. Just click each door to reveal google logo.

Halloween or Hallowe’en (a contraction of “All Hallows’ Evening”),also known as All Hallows’ Eve is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows (or All Saints). According to many scholars, it was originally influenced by western European harvest festivals and festivals of the dead with possible pagan roots, particularly the Celtic Samhain. Others
maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has Christian roots.
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