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Thunderbird 13.0.1 released

Post last modified:June 16, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Thunderbird 13.0.1 is now available for download. Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation.This is a bug fix release.

what’s new in this version of thunderbird?

Fixed:
YouSendIt no longer expires Filelinks after 1 week.
The prompt given when a password had changed sometimes referred to a network error rather than a change of password.
Some Linux users may have been unable to start Thunderbird from outside the installation directory.
Miscellaneous other stability and display updates.
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WordPress Login Screen Manager

Post last modified:June 16, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

Login Screen Manager is a free wordpress plugin to make change on login screen of your WordPress site.

Main features:

Change Login Logo
Change Login Logo Title
Change Login Logo Link
Add Favicon of login page
Change Background Color
Change Login Form Background Color
Change Label Color
Change Input Text Color
Change Input Background Color
Add Custom CSS

To install Login Screen Manager
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WordPress Mobile Client Detection Plugin

Post last modified:June 16, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

Mobile Client Detection Plugin is a free wordpress plugin to overload template files by the detected platform and it also provide query_vars ‘platform’ & ‘browser’ for creating multi-device templates. It detects Android Phones (Android 1.x & 2.x), Android Tablets (Android 3.x & 4.x), Blackberry, iPad, iPhone, iPod, IE mobile, Kindle, SymbianOS, PalmOS, webOS, GoogleBot mobile.

To install Mobile Client Detection Plugin

Login to wordpress (wp-admin).
In your admin dashboard click plugins and select Add New.
Type Mobile Client Detection Plugin in the search field and click Search Plugins button.
Install Mobile Client Detection Plugin.
After the successfully Installation click the activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.
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Mobile Domain wordpress plugin

Post last modified:June 16, 2012
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

Mobile Domain is a free wordpress plugin to redirect WordPress blog from desktop domain to mobile subdomain and it also create Mobile XML Sitemap.

To install Mobile Domain

Login to wordpress (wp-admin).
In your admin dashboard click plugins and select Add New.
Type Mobile Domain in the search field and click Search Plugins button.
Install Mobile Domain.
After the successfully Installation click the activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.
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New YouTube design and how to enable it

Post last modified:June 15, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Once again google is changing the look and feel of the video hosting site youtube.

follow the below steps to enable it.

Open your browser’s development tools (only firefox and chrome)

In Firefox: Ctrl + Shift + K (Win) | Cmd + Shift + K (Mac)

In Chrome: Ctrl + Shift + J (Win) | or Cmd + Alt + J (Mac)

Then add below code to the console and hit enter.

document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=nH7tBenIlCs;path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();

close the browser development tool and reload the youtube page.

To go back to the old design just clear all cookies that YouTube has set on your computer.

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Opera 12 released

Post last modified:June 15, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Opera 12 final is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Faster startup with many tabs
Experimental Hardware Acceleration and WebGL
Out-of-Process Plug-ins
Improved loading performance
Improved performance on secure connections
support Right-To-Left languages
Improved HTML5 support
opera:cpu
64 bit Windows and Mac
Improved extensions support
Do Not Track
Improved address field suggestions
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Skype 4.0 for Linux released

Post last modified:June 15, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Skype 4.0 for Linux is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

New Conversations View where users can easily track all of their chats in a unified window.
brand new Call View.
investments in audio quality
investments in video call quality
extended support for more cameras
improved chat synchronization
new presence and emoticon icons
the ability to store and view phone numbers in a Skype contact’s profile
much lower chance Skype for Linux will crash or freeze
chat history loading is now much faster
support for two new languages: Czech (flag:cz) and Norwegian (flag:no)
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WordPress 3.4 released

Post last modified:June 14, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.4 (Green) is now available for download. what’s new in this release?

Theme Customizer with Previewer
Flexible Custom Header Sizes
Selecting Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library
Better experience searching for and choosing a theme
Twitter embeds
image captions

improvements in XML-RPC, themes,
custom header APIs,
performance improvements in WP_Query
the translation system
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Conversation Ads in Skype launched

Post last modified:October 3, 2016
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Skype announced that it will be display new ad units within the skype calling window of users who do not have Skype Credit or subscriptions when they’re making 1:1 Skype-to-Skype audio calls using Skype for Windows os.
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Mozilla Marketplace launched

Post last modified:January 13, 2016
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla has launched Mozilla Marketplace,an early version of an app store for web-based apps which can be installed on a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. You will need to install the latest Firefox 16 Nightly build in order to try the Marketplace. There are fewer than 200 apps now.
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