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google shuts down picnik and some other

Post last modified:January 21, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is shutting down some of its services. Shut down product list:

Picnik: on April 19, 2012
download a zip file of your creations through Picnik Takeout or copy them to Google+.

Social Graph API: on April 20, 2012.

Urchin: New Urchin Software licenses will no longer be available after March 2012.

Needlebase: on June 1, 2012.

Google Sky Map: will be open source

Google Message Continuity (GMC): Current GMC customers will be able to use GMC for the duration of their contract.

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NetTraffic : Network Data Rate Monitoring

Post last modified:November 27, 2023
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

NetTraffic is a free Windows software designed to monitor data rates and track the count of downloaded and uploaded data through both charts and text displays. The Statistics module provides prognoses, average rates, and real-time information about the current state…

JS Studio – JavaScript IDE

Post last modified:January 20, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

JS Studio is a Qt-based cross-platform IDE for developing JavaScript-based web applications.

Syntax highlighting
Code completion
Project management
Build system
Integration with common VCSs
Interface can be fully extended / modified by JavaScript addons

To install JS Studio on ubuntu 11.10

1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field. And click Terminal.

2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.

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Google+ Now Has 90 Million Users

Post last modified:January 20, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

According to CEO Larry Page, Google’s social network google+ Now Has 90 Million Users.Page also says that 60% of Google+ users engage daily, and 80% are active weekly. That either means Google+ has 54 million daily active users.”Google had a really strong quarter ending a great year. Full year revenue was up 29%, and our quarterly revenue blew past the $10 billion mark for the first time,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.

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Twitter Buys Summify

Post last modified:January 20, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Twitter has acquired Summify, a social aggregation service that digests the links in one’s Twitter feed and puts them into a daily summary.

And what’s now:

disabled new account registrations.
removed the ability to make your summaries public (i.e. all summaries will be private)
removed profile pages and influence pages
removed the auto-publish feature
disabled user registration from the website, iPhone and Hootsuite apps.
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Volume2 advanced Windows volume control

Post last modified:February 18, 2013
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Volume2 is free and a complete replacement for the windows standard Volume Control.

Main features:

easily change the sound volume just by rotating the mouse wheel or by using keyboard hot keys or just mouse move on screen border.
audio mixer with advanced volume controls support
a scheduler, an on-screen display, command line support,
store and recall different unlimited presets via one mouse click or system-wide hot keys.
Supportedlanguages: English, Russian, Greek, Chines, Armenian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, German, Serbian, Portuguese, Armenian.
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Converseen

Post last modified:January 19, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Converseen is an open source software to convert and resize an unlimited number of images to any of the most popular formats: DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.

Main features:

process more than one image with one mouse click.
very simple user interface without strange options.
Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
Resize one or multiple images.
Compress images for your web pages.
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Pretty Run

Post last modified:January 19, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Pretty Run helps to searche start menu, desktop or any other folder for the shortcuts or files that meet your query.

Main features:

Search Internet Explorer favorites
Search Firefox bookmarks
Search Chrome bookmarks
Search printers and start printer properties
Search Control panel items
Setup internet search engines and you can search internet with selected engine
Remember last items copied to clipboard and bring them back in case you need them
Search mp3 files (not file names but tags)
Run a group of programs with one click
Setup your magic words and start favorite programs really quickly
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UNetbootin create bootable Live USB

Post last modified:January 18, 2012
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

UNetbootin is free software to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Main features:

create a bootable Live USB drive.
frugal install.
built-in support for automatically downloading the distro.
USB drives are bootable only on PCs.
load pre-downloaded ISO file

Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, or Linux, or Mac OS X 10.5+.
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Pogo Music Player Minimalist Linux Audio Player

Post last modified:January 24, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Pogo is a free and open source light-weight audio player for Linux. It is a fork of popular Decibel Audio Player. It supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, Wavpack, and MPEG-4 AAC file formats. It is best player for people who organize their music by albums on the hard drive. It is simple and minimalist Media Player. You can quickly search for music on local drives and in the playlist. It also comes with an equalizer and displays covers and desktop notifications support. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ and GStreamer.

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