Peter Carl Fabergé’s 166th birthday google doodle

Google is celebrating Peter Carl Fabergé’s 166th birthday google with a set of six gold and precious metals google doodle on its homepage.

Peter Carl Fabergé also known as “Karl Gustavovich Fabergé” ( May 30 1846 – September 24, 1920) was a Russian jeweller, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials.
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Notepad++ 6.1.3 released

Notepad++ 6.1.3 is now available for download.What’s new in this version?

Enhance the performance issue for xml matching tags highlighting and for displaying clickable links.
While the amount of file to open is larger than 200, a dialog will be shown to warn user.
Fix Notepad++ close bug while move one cloned new empty document into another view, in the destination contained only this new empty document.
Fix hanging problem while double-click on a project folder then (immediately) drag it.
Fix a bug while command argument contain an empty string (“”).
Fix mouse cursor disappearing bug on right click while a project item is dragging.
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Wine 1.5.5 released

Wine 1.5.5 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?

Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package.
Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime.
DDS files supported in D3DX9.
Various bug fixes.
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Best free wordpress themes from wordpress themes directory 26 may 2012

Responsive

Responsive is a free wordpress theme with 9 page Templates.

Main features:

Responsive Web Design
Fluid Stackable Grid System
9 Widget areas
Custom Templates (9 Templates, different layouts)
Custom Background
Custom Header
Custom Menus (4 Menus)
Threaded Comments
Theme Options
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How to install Gnome schedule on ubuntu

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Gnome schedule is a graphical user interface tool to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future.

Main features:

Supports custom titles and icons for your tasks.
Templates support.
If run as root, you can edit any user’s crontab and “at” tasks.
Human-readable strings like “Every hour” instead of “0 * * * *”
Advanced mode for crontab experts
Provides a “panel applet”
A calendar allows you to choose the day you want a task executed.
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Bing Maps using Nokia Maps traffic information and geocoding algorithms

Nokia announced that Bing Maps now uses Nokia Maps traffic information and geocoding algorithms. That means Bing Maps is now using Nokia Maps geocoding in several countries to offer better routes and directions and offer the same traffic information that is already available at Nokia Maps in 24 countries

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SketchUp 8 Maintenance 3 released

Google SketchUp 8 Maintenance 3 is now available for download.

what’s new in this maintenance release?

now only uses one network license seat when launching multiple instances of SketchUp on the same Windows machine.
More secure image libraries, better protected from potential security vulnerabilities.
Added a link displaying Open Source Credits in the About Google SketchUp dialog.
fixed some more crashes folks reported in Ruby Observers.
Improved messaging and workflow for users without a nickname
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