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International Women’s Day 2012 google doodle

Post last modified:March 8, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating 101th International Women’s Day with a new google doodle on its homepage with symbols of women replacing its familiar logo.International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year.In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political and social achievements.
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Apple announced the new iPad

Post last modified:March 8, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Apple announced the new iPad on stage at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.The new iPad featuring a 9.7-inch retina display and it will be available in 10 countries on March 16 beginning at $499.
(U.S., UK, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia).

Features:

Name:”The new iPad”
9.7-inch, 2048 x 1536-pixel “retina” display powered by an A5X quad-core graphics chip.
camera – 5 megapixels
record HD (1080p) video
9.4mm wide and weighs 1.44 lbs.
battery:9 hours on 4G LTE and 10 hours on Wi-Fi.
color:black and white
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
Bluetooth 4.0 technology
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NeatMouse – keyboard mouse emulator

Post last modified:March 8, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

NeatMouse is a free keyboard mouse emulator software for Windows that allows controlling your mouse cursor via keyboard.

Main features:

activated by: Num Lock, Scroll Lock, Caps Lock.
Select one of the Ctrl, Alt or Shift buttons for alternate speed modifiers.
Specify regular and alternate mouse speed.
Bind keys for moving mouse left, right, up and down,left mouse button click, right mouse button click, middle mouse button click,scrolling up and down.
Manage custom user settings
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medit – text editor

Post last modified:March 8, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

medit is a free text editor for windows and unix.

Main features:

Configurable syntax highlighting.
Configurable keyboard accelerators.
Multiplatform – works on unix and windows.
Plugins: can be written in C, Python, or Lua.
Configurable tools available from the main and context menus. They can be written in Python or Lua, or it can be a shell script.
Regular expression search/replace, grep frontend, builtin file selector.
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MarkdownPad – text to HTML conversion tool

Post last modified:March 7, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Markdown is a free text-to-HTML conversion tool for windows.

Main features:

convert plain text to valid XHTML (or HTML).
Instant view.
keyboard shortcuts.
customizable Color schemes, fonts, and sizes.
Distraction-free mode.

Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
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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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