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WordPress FAQs Manager

Post last modified:July 25, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

FAQs Manager is a free wordpress plugin to easily manage the frequently asked questions for your website.

Main features:

Add, Edit, Delete and Order Question
Filter and search Faqs Group Admin Side
Manage your Faqs Question
Filter and search Faqs Question Admin Side
Bulk Action with Move Quetion to Another Group
Custom CSS and Java Script for FAQs Listing Page.
Fully Customizable FAQs Search, Ask Question Form and Listing.
Ask Question Form with Captcha.
get an email notification when the user/member has been asked question.
Send an email notification to the user/member when the question has been answered.
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Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:July 24, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday with Amelia Earhart and Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on its homepage.

Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
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ocenaudio – free audio editor

Post last modified:July 23, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Ocenaudio is a free cross-platform audio editor. It is based on Ocen Framework.

Main feature:

Supports VST (Virtual Studio Technology) plugins.
Real-time preview of effects.
Cross-platform support
Multi-selection for delicate editions
no limit to the length or the quantity of the audio files.
powerful and complete spectrogram view
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How to install Download Monitor on ubuntu

Post last modified:July 23, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Download Monitor Monitors the amount of data uploaded and downloaded over a network.

Main features:

Network usage in graphs.
Set the limit and it warns when it is exceeded.

To install Download Monitor on ubuntu 12.04

1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field. And click Terminal.

2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
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Linux 3.5 released

Post last modified:July 23, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

What’s new in this version?

ext4 metadata checksums
Uprobes: userspace probes
Seccomp-based system call filtering
Bufferbloat fighting: CoDel queue management
TCP connection repair
TCP Early Retransmit
Android-style opportunistic suspend
Btrfs: I/O failure statistics, latency improvements
SCSI over FireWire and USB
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How to install Komodo Edit on ubuntu 12.04

Post last modified:July 22, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Komodo Edit is free and open-source code editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

To install Komodo Edit on ubuntu 12.04

1.Go to Komodo Edit download page and download the latest Linux version AS Package. (like Komodo-Edit-7.1.0-10496-linux-x86.tar.gz ).

Copy your downloaded Komodo Edit .tar.gz file to your Desktop.

Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field.And click Terminal.

Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
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Mozilla Firefox 16 Aurora released

Post last modified:July 22, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla Firefox 16 Aurora is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this release?

Firefox for the Mac now has VoiceOver support turned on by default
Web App Support (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Improved our experimental support for reading pdf files in the browser using PDF.js
CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms and Gradients unprefixed in Firefox 16
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
Recently opened files list in Scratchpad implemented
FIXED:No longer supporting MD5 as a hash algorithm in digital signatures
FIXED:Opus support by default
FIXED:Reverse animation direction has been implemented
FIXED:Per tab reporting in about:memory
FIXED:User Agent strings for pre-release Firefox versions now show only major version
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VLC Media Player 2.0.3 released

Post last modified:July 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

VLC Media Player 2.0.3 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Adds support for OS X Mountain Lion.
Mac-specific bug fixes – hotkey handling, fullscreen toggling when using a remote app on a phone,some Flash Video (flv), APE files and a small number of radio streams broadcasted through the HTTP protocol.

VLC’s interface will be drawn correctly On Windows 8.
includes updates for 18 translations.
added support for Uzbek and Marathi.
Fixed:Bugs preventing the activation of the Gaelic and Thai translations.
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PHP 5.4.5 released

Post last modified:July 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

PHP 5.4.5 is now available for download.This release fixes over 30 bugs.What’s new in this release?

Fixes:

Crypt SHA256/512 Segfaults With Malformed Salt
ReflectionMethod random corrupt memory on high concurrent
serialize() generates wrong reference to the object
compile failure: (S) Arguments missing for built-in function __memcmp
Using traits with method aliases appears to result in crash during execution
parse_ini_file() with INI_SCANNER_RAW cuts a value that includes a semi-colon
potential overflow in _php_stream_scandir
information leak in ext exi
php-fpm segfaults (null passed to strstr)
Add process.priority to set nice(2) priorities
when using unix sockets, multiples FPM instances
php-fpm exits with status 0 on some failures to start
Unable to cross-compile PHP with –enable-fpm
php-fpm is not allowed to run as root
php-fpm should not fail with commented ‘user’
FPM drops connection while receiving some binary values in FastCGI requests
fpm don’t send error log to fastcgi clients). (fat) for non-root start
FPM pools can listen on the same address). (fat) can be launched without errors
Erealloc in iconv.c unsafe
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Google acquires Sparrow

Post last modified:July 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google has acquired iOS and Mac email client Sparrow.according to Sparrow, Sparrow’s developers will now be joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision.Sparrow mail client would continue to be supported and critical bugs and security issues would be patched but but no new features will be added.
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