According to Joey Hess, a developer of the Debian Installer Team, Xfce is now the default desktop choice for Debian Wheezy.And the main reason for this move is the size of GNOME.
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The popular Mac text editor TextMate developer Allan Odgaard announced that the code for TextMate 2.0 is being open sourced with version 3 of the GNU General Public License.The code is now available via the online GitHub repository.
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Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a new interactive London 2012 Slalom Canoe doodle on its homepage. Just click the blue play button and Use the left-right arrow keys to power up and navigate your canoe.
Whitewater slalom (canoe slalom since November 2008) is a competitive sport where the aim is to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of hanging gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible. It is one of the two kayak and canoeing disciplines at the Summer Olympics.
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LibreOffice 3.6 is now available download.What’s new in this release?
New CorelDRAW importer
integration with Alfresco via the CMIS protocol and limited SharePoint integration
color-scales and data-bars in spreadsheet cells
PDF export watermarking
improved auto-format function for tables in text documents
high quality image scaling
Microsoft SmartArt import for text documents
improved CSV handling
a cleaner look
new presentation master pages
new splash screen.
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According to Pinterest’s official blog,Users can now sign up for pinterest without waiting for an invitation.It drops invite only approach.
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Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a new interactive London 2012 Basketball doodle on its homepage. Just click the blue play button and shoot baskets using the space bar or by holding and releasing the left mouse key.
Basketball has been a Summer Olympics sport for men consistently since 1936. Prior to its inclusion as a medal sport, it was held as demonstration event in 1904. Women’s basketball was played in the Olympics only since 1976.
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Google is shutting down some of its services. Shut down product list:
Google Apps for Teams – From September 4,2012, google will start converting existing Google Apps for Teams accounts into personal Google Accounts.
Google Listen – after November 1, podcast search won’t function.
Google Video for Business- transfer all videos found in that service over to Google Drive.
Some number of Google created blogs
Wine 1.5.10 is now available for download. Wine is a free software that allows users to install and run Windows software on other operating systems.
What’s new in this version?
New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 14.
Support for OpenGL in the DIB engine using libOSMesa.
Off-screen rendering is now the default in Direct3D.
Some more WMI infrastructure.
Various bug fixes.
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Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a new London 2012 Pole Vault doodle on its homepage. This google doodle shows a female pole vaulter trying to take a leap over the bar using a pole and the logo of Google is seen behind the stadium.
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, Cretans and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympic Games since 1896 for men and 2000 for women.
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Opera 12.01 is now available for download.What’s new in this release? Opera 12.01 is a security and stability update.
Several general fixes and stability improvements
Website thumbnail memory usage improvements
Address bar inline auto-completion no longer prefers shortest domain
Corrected an error that could occur after removing the plugin wrapper
Resolved an issue where favicons were squeezed too much when many tabs were open