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MyBB 1.6.6 Released

Post last modified:February 18, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

MyBB 1.6.6 is now available for download.This is a security release.

MyBB 1.6.6 fixes:

Import a non-CSS stylesheet (Theme)
CSRF vulnerability on Admin CP logout
CSRF vulnerability when clearing a stored password
CSRF vulnerability when removing a buddy
CSRF vulnerability with Admin CP join requests
CSRF vulnerability in Group Promotions Enable/Disable
CSRF vulnerability in ACP Edit User (Avatar)
CSRF vulnerability with activating a user
XSS vulnerability when moving an event (Calendar)
XSS vulnerabilities in Akismet plugin
XSS vulnerabilities in Forum Subscriptions (User CP)
XSS vulnerability in Moderator Logs
XSS vulnerability in Edit Post
XSS vulnerability when editing Announcements
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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer preview released

Post last modified:February 17, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Apple released a developer preview of their new operating system, Mountain Lion. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will be available in summer 2012.

what’s new in Mountain Lion?

New Messages app which replaces iChat.
Messages will continue to support AIM, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger, and Google Talk.
AirPlay Mirroring -stream what’s on your Mac to your HDTV via Apple TV.
Share Sheets -share and tweet links, photos, and videos from any app that supports them.
Gatekeeper -prevent you from unknowingly downloading and installing malicious software.
Notification Center –
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Google Chrome 18 beta released

Post last modified:February 17, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google Chrome 18 (18.0.1025.33) beta is now available for download.What’s new in this beta?

Updated V8 – 3.8.9.6
Fixed several crashes
Sync: Conflicting sync entries should not be committed
Back button frequently hangs
Fixed Speech input bubble borders don’t closing
Improved the quality of the omnibox
Fixed Gap between download shelf and vertical scrollbar in Mac
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Blender 2.62 released

Post last modified:February 18, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Blender 2.62 is now available for download.what’s new in this version?

new UV editing tools were added
New render layers and passes
multi GPU rendering and selection of GPU device
improved sampling for complex environment maps
border rendering
BVH caching for faster rendering of camera fly-throughs
new shading nodes for color correction and a checkerboard texture node
Remesh modifier
boolean modifier now uses the Carve library
Added Object tracking support
Second Life compatibility option was added for exporting armatures
fixed 205 bugs.
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AMPPS 1.6 released

Post last modified:February 17, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

AMPPS 1.6 is now available for download.AMPPS is an Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Python and Softaculous STACK for desktops and office servers (localhost).what’s new in this version?

The current version of AMPPS for Windows include:

Softaculous AMPPS 1.6(Softaculous 4.0.5),Apache 2.2.22,PHP 5.3.10 and 5.2.17,PERL 5.10.1,Python 2.7.2 with mod_wsgi 3.3 module,MySQL 5.5.20,phpMyAdmin 3.4.9,SQLite Manager 1.2.4,MongoDB 2.0.2(Only 64-bit),RockMongo 1.1.0 .

The current version of AMPPS for Mac include:

Softaculous AMPPS 1.6(Softaculous 4.0.5),Apache 2.2.22,PHP 5.3.10 and 5.2.17,PERL 5.14.1,Python 2.7.2 with mod_wsgi 3.3 module,MySQL 5.5.20,phpMyAdmin 3.4.9,SQLite Manager 1.2.4,MongoDB 2.0.2(Only 64-bit),RockMongo 1.1.0 .
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SmartCam – Smart Phone Web Camera

Post last modified:February 16, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

SmartCam is a free open source software and it turns a camera phone with bluetooth or WiFi into a handy webcam ready to use with your PC.
Supported phone OS: S60(Symbian Series 60), Windows Mobile 6.x, Android, Samsung Bada

How to use SmartCam?

Install the program in Windows or Linux and
install the client to your smartphone.
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SharpDevelop – IDE for the .NET platform

Post last modified:February 16, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

SharpDevelop is the open-source IDE for the .NET platform.
Supported Programming Languages:C#,VB.NET,Boo,IronPython,IronRuby,F#.

Main features:

Windows Forms,WPF,Entity Framework
Refactoring and Parallel build support for multi-core machines
NuGet and T4 support
Multi-framework targetting (.NET 4.0, as well as 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5)
Code Autoinsert
Integrated Debugger
Unit Testing
Setup projects
SharpDevelop Reports .NET open-source reporting solution
XML code completion
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HandBrake – multithreaded video transcoder

Post last modified:February 16, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

HandBrake is a free multithreaded video transcoder for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Main features:

Chapter selection, Chapter Markers
Subtitles
Vobsub and Closed Captions
SRT import and passthru
SSA passthru or burn-in
Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
Video: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Cropping and scaling
Live Video Preivew
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FreeCol – turn based strategy game

Post last modified:February 15, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization and similar to Civilization.The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.The main aim of the freecol team is to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL).The gameplay and the rules are exactly the same as the original game.

Supports:
All platforms
A minimum screen resolution of 1024×768
Java Virtual Machine version 1.5.0 or above
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LibreOffice 3.5 Released

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

LibreOffice 3.5 is now available for download.what’s new in this version?

Better UI for header/footer handling.
New faster built-in grammar checker for English and several other languages.
New multi-line input bar in Calc.
Import filter for Microsoft Visio documents.
Custom Shapes import was greatly enhanced.
checks for updates automatically at user defined intervals, and allows manual download of the newest version.
The word count dialog is modeless and updates as you type.
New native driver for PostgreSQL databases.
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