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Alan Turing’s 100th birthday Google doodle

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

Google is celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th birthday with a an interactive HTML5 codebreaking game google doodle on its homepage that simulates the Turing Machine.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of “algorithm” and “computation” with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Free Download Manager 3.9.1 Beta build 1261 released

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

Free Download Manager 3.9.1 Beta build 1261 is now available for download and testing.
What’s new in Free Download Manager 3.9.1 Beta build 1261 release?

Fixed:Bug in saving list of deleted downloads.
Fixed:Firefox crashed when entering URL to a file in the address bar.

Note:Please notice that this version uses newer format of its service files which is incompatible with the previous versions of FDM.
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Twitter introduces ‘no replies’ for verified accounts

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

Twitter introduces a new feature called ‘no replies’ for verified accounts.Now you won’t see Tweets that begin with an @username (replies). To see all Tweets including replies select “All” above the Tweets timeline on these profile pages.
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New look for Bing image searches

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

Bing launched a new look for users to search for images on bing.

What’s new in this update?

New Bigger image thumbnails
trimmed empty whitespace
Revamped Magnifying glass
Filter bar (type,people,color,layout)
Revamped Search suggestions
New Related Topics
Trending Image Searches
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Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.262 released

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

Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.262 is now available for download.This is a bug fix release for firefox and flash issues. What’s new in this release?

Fixed Issues:

Users experience crashes while viewing Flash content in Firefox on Windows

Known Issues:

Audio distortion issues when streaming Flash content(3212648)
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VirtualBox 4.1.18 released

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

VirtualBox 4.1.18 is now available for download.This is a maintenance release.What’s new in this release?

VMM: fixed VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR under rare conditions after the guest has been reset
VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux hosts
VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly updating the screen size when minimized
AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption after the guest storage controler has been reset
NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes
Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly updated
Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12
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How to install Skype 4.0 on ubuntu 12.04

Post last modified:June 20, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

What’s new in skype 4.0

1.Go to skype for linux download page and download the deb package file for ubuntu (32-bit or 64-bit).

2.Double click the downloaded .deb package file or open with ubuntu software center and click the install button.

3.Type your ubuntu password if needed and wait until the installation is complete.

4.After the successful installation,click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type skype in the search field.And click Skype to open.

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Qreator – create your own QR codes

Post last modified:June 20, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Qreator is a free ubuntu software to create your own QR codes to encode different types of information.

Main features:

It supports:

Text
URL
Geolocation
wifi network
Ubuntu software center app

To install Qreator just download .deb package file from below link and double click.Then install via software center.
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Google detect 9500 new malicious websites every day

Post last modified:June 20, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google announced that it finds an average of 9500 new malicious sites every day.

Some important points from google blog:

Google protect 600 million users through built-in protection for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Find about 9,500 new malicious websites every day.
12-14 million Google Search queries per day show the google security warning.
Google provide malware warnings for about 300 thousand downloads per day.
send thousands of notifications daily to webmasters.
also send thousands of notifications daily to Internet Service Providers.
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New custom themes in Gmail

Post last modified:June 20, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Google announced in a new post on the official Gmail blog that soon users will be able to put in their own background themes.This new feature will allow users to select image from your Google+ photos or simply paste any image URL or browse google’s searchable featured Photos section to find a image.
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