Google is celebrating 161st anniversary of Moby-Dick with a new google doodle on its homepage. Moby-Dick or The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab.
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IE10 preview on Windows 7 available in November
Microsoft announced today that preview release of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 it will be available in mid-November.
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Google is celebrating 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland with a interactive google doodle on its homepage. Each slide featured a letter from the word Google.
Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst’s New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – July 23, 1911 and September 3, 1911 – July 26, 1914; respectively.The strip was first called Little Nemo in Slumberland and then In the Land of Wonderful Dreams when it changed papers. A brief revival of the original title occurred from 1924 to 1927.
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WordPress 3.5 beta 2 is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this release?
New workflow for working with image galleries, including drag-and-drop reordering and quick caption editing.
New user interface for setting static front pages for the Reading Settings screen.
New image editing API.
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Mozilla firefox 16.0.1 final is now available for download.This is a security fix release.
what’s new in this firefox 16.0.1?
Fixed Security Vulnerability in Firefox 16.
This vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters.
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Thunderbird 16 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?
Now added box.com to the list of online storage services that are available for use with Thunderbird Filelink.
Silent, background updates. Thunderbird will now download and apply updates in the background.
Fixed:
Various fixes and performance improvements
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Notepad++ 6.2 is now available for download.What’s new in this version.
new User Defined Languge (UDL2) system introduced in this version.
More keyword groups were added (more syntax highlighting can be defined).
Multipart keywords are supported now.
Whitespace is no longer mandatory as keyword separator.
Mozilla firefox 16 final is now available for download.
what’s new in this firefox 16?
Firefox on Mac OS X now has preliminary VoiceOver support turned on by default
Initial web app support (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Acholi and Kazakh localizations added
Improvements around JavaScript responsiveness through incremental garbage collection
New Developer Toolbar with buttons for quick access to tools, error count for the Web Console, and a new command line for quick keyboard access
CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms and Gradients unprefixed in Firefox 16
Recently opened files list in Scratchpad implemented
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Gmail adds new typing languages:
Google has added more than 100 virtual keyboards, transliteration and IMEs collectively called input tools in Gmail. Gmail now supports 75 typing languages.
To enable this new gmail tool,
Go to setting and check the box next to Enable input tools under Language and save changes.
phpMyAdmin 3.5.3 is now available for download. phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. The most frequently used operations are supported by the user interface (managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc), while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.
What’s new in this release?
This a bugfix release with minor security fixes.
phpMyAdmin no longer contains the Highcharts library (which caused a licensing problem).
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