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How to install XBMC on ubuntu 11.10

Post last modified:November 15, 2011
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

XBMC is a free and open source (GPL) media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows and in more than 30 languages.

To install XBMC 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.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable

Type your ubuntu password if needed and press enter.

3.Then press enter to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding the ppa.
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Mozilla Firefox 10 Aurora 2 released

Post last modified:November 14, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla Firefox 10 Aurora 2 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this firefox Aurora?

Windows only – the forward button is now hidden until you navigate back
Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented
Inspect tool with content highlighting, includes new CSS Style Inspector
Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen
View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser
CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported
added IdexedDB APIs to more closely match the specification
New <bdi> element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties
FIXED:crash when moving bookmarks
FIXED:visiting Google+ will cause the back and forward buttons to no longer work
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Mozilla Firefox 9 beta 1 released

Post last modified:November 14, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla Firefox 9 beta 1 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this beta?

Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
Added support for font-stretch
Improved support for text-overflow
Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
Fixed several stability issues
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Children’s Day Doodle 4 Google 2011 india winner google doodle

Post last modified:January 12, 2016
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Today google is celebrating the Children’s Day (India) with a google doodle on its homepage. This doodle was sketched by a 7 year old Varsha Gupta (Doodle 4 Google 2011 india winner) from Noida, India. The doodle artfully represents many musical instruments that India has introduced to the to the world. In india Children’s Day is celebrated on November 14, the birthday of India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Softaculous 3.7 released

Post last modified:November 13, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Softaculous 3.7 released and this version of Softaculous adds some cool new features and fixes some bugs.

A complete list of changes:

Added the Progress Bar to show the current status of the install and upgrade process of scripts.

New Category Slider has been added in Softaculous.

Added stylized tables to show the list of Installations in Softaculous.

faster JavaScript Libraries.

Softaculous Apps Category in cPanel has now been improved and is more stylish and user friendly. Also this is now available in Direct Admin as well.
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Perfect365 – One-Touch Photo Makeovers For Free

Post last modified:November 13, 2011
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Perfect365 is free photo enhance tool. It improves your beauty with touch-up, make-up, and face enhancing tools.

Main features:

One-click portrait makeover
Detects multiple faces in one photo
Custom makeup and enhancing tools
Share on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr

EASY,SIMPLE & GREAT TOOL – Thanks
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Opera 11.60 (Tunny) beta released

Post last modified:January 8, 2016
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Opera 11.60 beta is now available for download and testing. what’s new in this beta?

new HTML5 parser (Ragnarök), which improves compatibility
new version of our Carakan JavaScript engine with improved memory management on complex web applications
Full ECMAScript 5.1 support
CSS3 radial gradients
Support for HTML5 custom scheme and content handlers
Fixes and tweaks to the Featherweight skin, including a new Featherweight address field
A star to the right in the address field lets you quickly add or remove pages from your bookmarks or Speed Dial. It lights up when the current page already exist as a bookmark or Speed Dial
Changed the layout to work well with wide screens in Opera’s built-in e-mail client
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WordPress 300 million unique visitors and 60 million blogs

Post last modified:November 12, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

According to wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg,the blogging software is now powering more than 60 million blogs and half of the 60 million WordPress powered blogs are hosted by WordPress.com. And these blogs generates more than 300 million unique visitors per month. He also says that 92 percent of clients are using WordPress as a content management system in addition to a blog.

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FileZilla Client 3.5.2 released

Post last modified:November 11, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

What;s new in this version?

Updated translations
Added option to open site manager on startup to the settings dialog
The “Don’t save passwords” option was not being saved
The queue was not saved correctly if having items from multiple servers
Queue items with the lowest priority setting are now being restored again
Drag & Drop did not work with all saved sites if saving of passwords had been disabled
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FDM 3.8 Release Candidate 2 released

Post last modified:November 11, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

FDM 3.8 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download and testing.what’s new in FDM 3.8 Release Candidate 2?

This version of FDM has a lot of changes and it was built using the updated version of developing environment.
Fixed: Torrents may not seed.
Fixed: FDM could crash at shutdown.
Fixed: General bug fixes.
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