LinuxMint 13 (Maya) is now available for download in two editions, MATE and Cinnamon. This is an Long Term Support release and it will be supported until April 2017.
What’s new in this version?
MATE 1.2
Cinnamon 1.4
MDM – new Display Manager
Artwork improvements
Yahoo as the default search engine for the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
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Yahoo announced its own new browser,yahoo axis.Yahoo Axis is a search oriented add-on with instant answers and visual search previews.
Versions:
New browser app for iPad and iPhone,
plug-ins for the desktop browsers Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari.
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VirtualBox 4.1.16 is now available for download.This is a maintenance release.
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs
VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some legacy guests to work properly
VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP guests in rare cases
3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash
NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some circumstances
Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts
EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation
Google is celebrating Robert Moog’s 78th birthday with a interactive synthesizer google doodle on its homepage. Now compose, record and play back your own tracks.
Robert Arthur “Bob” Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
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Note:On April 20, 2012 Google announced that they were deprecating Picasa for Linux and will no longer maintain it on that operating system.
To install picasa 3.0 on ubuntu 12.04
1.Go to picasa download page and download the deb package file (32-bit).
2.Double click the .deb package file or open with ubuntu software center and click the install button.
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What’s new in 3.4?
Btrfs updates
GPU drivers
New X32 ABI: 64-bit mode with 32-bit pointers
x86 CPU driver autoprobing
Verifiable boot path with the device mapper “verity” target
Support a external read-only device as origin source of a thin provisioned LVM volume
perf: GTK2 report GUI, better assembly visualization, branch profiling, filtering of users and threads
Yama’ security module
QNX6 filesystem
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MediaHuman Audio Converter is a free audio converter for windows and mac.
Main Features:
100% free
Supports MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, etc.
add converted files direct to your iTunes library
Convert multiple files simultaneously, depends on quantity of your processor cores
Keeps folder structure
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FET is open source free software for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university.
Main feature:
Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation
Flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing with an XML editor or by hand
Import/export from CSV format
resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV formats
Flexible students structure, organized into sets.
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tSwitch is a free wordpress plugin and it allows theme developers to switch theme from anywhere within a wordpress installation.
Main features:
The switch doesn’t affect the theme shown to non-administrator users.
The root menu item displays the name of the currently active theme.
Children themes are displayed as submenu items of their own parents.
The plugin can be temporarily disabled with one click, without the need to completely deactivate it.
To install tSwitch
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iSell is a free wordpress plugin to sell Digital Downloads in wordpress site.
Main features:
upload very large files.
Create unlimited products and can also create custom orders
Manage products and orders through standard WordPress UI.
extendable.
secure file downloads
To install iSell
Login to wordpress (wp-admin).
In your admin dashboard click plugins and select Add New.
Type iSell in the search field and click Search Plugins button.
Install iSell.
After the successfully Installation click the activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.
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