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London 2012 Hockey google doodle

Post last modified:August 1, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a new London 2012 Hockey doodle on its homepage. This google doodle shows a female player holding a hook-shaped stick playing on a hockey pitch.
The London 2012 Hockey sports event started on the 29th of July 2012 and will be played until the 11th of August 2012. Men’s Hockey made its debut at the London 1908 Games and first women’s Olympic hockey competition was held at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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Google Acquires Wildfire

Post last modified:August 1, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google announced that it has acquired social media management platform Wildfire Interactive for an undisclosed Sum.

Note: Mark Zuckerberg‘s sister, Arielle is now a google employee.
(Arielle Zuckerberg -Junior Product Manager at Wildfire Interactive, Inc)
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VidCoder – free DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding

Post last modified:July 31, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

VidCoder is a free DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding software for Windows.

Main features:

uses HandBrake as encoding engine.
Pause, resume encoding
Multi-threaded
MP4, MKV containers
H.264 encoding with x264
MPEG-4, MPEG-2, Theora video
AAC, MP3, Vorbis, AC3, FLAC audio encoding and AAC/AC3/MP3/DTS/DTS-HD passthrough
Target bitrate, size or quality for video
2-pass encoding
Decomb, detelecine, deinterlace filters
Batch encoding
Instant source previews
Creates small encoded preview clips
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MakeMKV – Video transcoder

Post last modified:July 31, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

MakeMKV is a free video transcoder that converts the video clips from proprietary disc into a set of MKV files.

Main features:

Reads DVD and Blu-ray discs
Reads Blu-ray discs protected with latest versions of AACS and BD+
Preserves all video and audio tracks, including HD audio
Preserves chapters information
Preserves all meta-information (track language, audio type)
Fast conversion
No additional software is required for conversion or decryption.
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
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London 2012 Artistic Gymnastics Men’s Rings google doodle

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

Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a male gymnast displaying his craft on rings doodle on its homepage. This is the fifth London Olympics doodle.
The rings, also known as steady rings (in contrast to flying rings), is an artistic gymnastics apparatus and the event that uses it. It is traditionally used only by male gymnasts, due to its extreme upper-body strength requirements. Gymnasts typically wear ring grips while performing on the rings.
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3 million Mac OS X Mountain Lion downloads in 4 days

Post last modified:July 30, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Apple announced that Mac OS X Mountain Lion had been downloaded more than 3 million times in 4 days. According to Apple, this is the most successful Mac OS X release in apple’s history. Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of mac os is now available for $19.99.
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London 2012 Fencing google doodle

Post last modified:July 30, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with two fencers competing against each other doodle on its homepage.
Fencing competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London are scheduled to be held from 28 July to 5 August at ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Ten events (6 individual, 4 team) are scheduled to be contested. Qualification will be primarily based on the FIE Official Ranking as at 2 April 2012, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments.
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Maxthon 3.4.2.3000 released

Post last modified:July 30, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Maxthon 3.4.2.3000 is now available for download.This is a small bug fix release.What’s new in this release?

Webkit Core Fixes:

Website Certificate error
The sound was still there even after closed the popup video
It would open a new tab when saving images by shortcuts
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Android Jelly Bean Skin Pack for windows 7

Post last modified:February 7, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

If you like Android Jelly Bean’s look and feel but you still using windows 7 then this is for you. Just download and install Android Jelly Bean Skin Pack.

It Supports:
Windows 7
Windows 7 SP1
X86(32Bit) and X64(64Bit)
Best Work in X86(32Bit)
All Language Versions

Note : Please unistall old or other version of skin packs before install new version. Before install close all runnig program , after finish restart your system.
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London 2012 Diving google doodle

Post last modified:July 29, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating 2012 london olympic with a female diver in position for the plunge on the diving board over a pool doodle on its homepage.
Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place from 29 July to 11 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre in London, UK.It is one of 4 Aquatics disciplines at the Games, along with Swimming, Water Polo and Synchronized Swimming.The 2012 Olympics will feature competition in 8 events (Men and Women events each of): 3 metre springboard, synchronized 3 metre springboard, 10 metre platform, and synchronized 10 metre platform.All divers must be at least 14 years-old on or by 31 December 2012.
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