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Project’Or RIA – free Project Management

Post last modified:January 12, 2016
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Project’Or RIA is an open source Project Management Software.

Main features:

Multi-browser compatible
Using AJAX, page refresh is always limited to the target area, avoiding blank pages and flickering.
Possibility to access to history of changes is offered on every item.
Notes management enables to attach comments to any item.
File attachement is proposed for most important items.
Many reports, some with graphical facility.
ickets follow-up, for short activity follow-up such as support or bug fixing.
Activities follow-up, for work needing to be planned such as development or evolution.
Milestones follow-up, to define key dates of the planning.
Hierarchic level management via links of Activities, Tickets or Milestones to parent Activity.
Dependencies management between Activities, Milestones and Projects for accurate planning.
Assignment of resources to activities.
Workload management.
Cost management.
Workflow definition for status change.
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Twitter Now Available in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu

Post last modified:March 7, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

According to Twitter blog,Twitter is now Available in four new languages:Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter is now available in right-to-left languages.

Twitter added these four languages to the Twitter Translation Center on January 25 and more than 13,000 volunteers are contributed in this work worldwide. Now twitter is available in 28 different languages.

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How to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Oracle virtualbox

Post last modified:February 6, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

Softwares used

Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Download Windows 8 Consumer Preview)
Virtualbox 4.1.8. (Download virtualbox from here)
Windows 7

Windows 8 System requirement:

1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution
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bcTester – Read and test barcodes

Post last modified:January 12, 2016
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

bcTester is a free barcode tester that reads barcodes from images or PDF files. It supports Linear barcodes and modern 2D-(two dimensional) barcodes.

Main features:

It supports tif, jpg, pdf.
It supports Linear and 2D barcodes.
It recognizes barcode types such asAztec, QR Code, Data Matrix,PDF417,EAN13, Code39, Code128

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Convert .NET – multipurpose conversion and developer tool

Post last modified:March 6, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Convert .NET is free multipurpose conversion and developer tool for windows.

Main features:

Full-Text Translation
Convert C# and VB.NET Project Converter
Regular Expression Tester
XML and JSON Browser
Base64/HTML/URL/URL-js/ESCAPE-js
Base64 -> File
Encryption and Decryption

It requires .NET 4.0
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ffDiaporama -create video sequences

Post last modified:October 1, 2019
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

ffDiaporama is a free software to create video sequences easily in your system .Supported video sequences by ffDiaporama are titles, fixed or animated,images or photos, fixed or animated,movie clips and music. For its main features please view the below section.

Main features:

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Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 Released

Post last modified:March 5, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 is now available for download. what’s new in this beta?

Beta-1 includes the 3.2.0-17.27 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the v3.2.6 upstream stable kernel.
default music player Rhythmbox.
LibreOffice 3.5
Added Nautilus quicklist support to Unity launcher
New HUD.
ClickPad support.
resolvconf is now used to manage /etc/resolv.conf on all Ubuntu systems.
default Automatic Apport crash reporting.
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How to install HandBrake on linux mint

Post last modified:March 5, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

HandBrake is a free multithreaded video transcoder for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
To know more about HandBrake click here

To install HandBrake on linux mint

1.Open terminal.To open terminal in linux mint, click Menu button and select terminal or type terminal in the search field and click terminal.

2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
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PHP 5.4.0 released

Post last modified:March 4, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

PHP 5.4.0 is now available for download.what’s new in this version?

New language syntax including Traits, shortened array syntax
Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
Support for multibyte languages now available in all builds of PHP at the flip of a runtime switch
Built-in webserver in CLI mode to simplify development workflows and testing
Cleaner code base thanks to the removal of multiple deprecated language features
Many more improvements and fixes

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MadAppLauncher

Post last modified:March 4, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

MadAppLauncher is a free application launcher for windows.

Main features:

Assign 30 programs for each of the 10 tab pages. A total of 300 per configuration
Press a key to find a program
Option to keep the application launcher window on top of all other windows
Option to auto-hide the application launcher window when an application, file, or folder is opened
Option to always center the application launcher on screen
Option to change the hotkey used to activate the application launcher
Drag and Drop applications, files, and folders
Option to change an application’s initial window size and location
Save multiple sets of applications
Run programs as administrator
and more
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