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Google chrome beta 15.0.874.24 and 15.0.874.21 released

Post last modified:September 23, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

The Google Chrome team released a new beta version of chrome 15.0.874.24 for Windows, Mac, and Chrome Frame and 15.0.874.21 for Linux.what’s new in this new chrome beta?

A new Reredesigned New Tab Page.
Javascript Fullscreen API is now enabled by default.
Chrome Web Store items can now be installed inline by their verified site .
Omnibox History is now an additional sync data type.

Reredesigned New Tab Page features:
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New facebook features

Post last modified:September 23, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at the f8 conference in San Francisco Thursday introduced some of facebook changes.

1.New Timeline feature

2.Facebook apps need only ask permission once to share stories on your behalf.

3.Now do all within Facebook- TV,movies,music,news.

4.Ticker-Status updates,list of things your friends are posting now that scrolls down the side of your screen.

5.Facebook Gestures

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Facebook hits 800 million users

Post last modified:September 23, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at the f8 conference in San Francisco Thursday announced some facebook stats “Now the social king Facebook has passed 800 million active users (users logged in during the past 30 days). That means Facebook has added about 50 million users since July and it set a new record for the most visitors in one day: 500 million.

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Name.com END OF SUMMER promo codes

Post last modified:September 23, 2011
Post category:Promo Codes
Post author:Manikandan

Name.com celebrates ‘END OF SUMMER’ with a sad face but with a great deals:

END OF SUMMER SALES! promo codes

Use the promotional code

ANEWLEAF

and get

$7.99 .COM registrations and

$6.99 .NET registrations

*Offer valid through 9/30/11 midnight MST on first year registrations
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XAMPP 1.7.7 released

Post last modified:September 22, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

XAMPP 1.7.7 is now available for download on Windows, Mac Os x, Linux and Solaris.
what’s new in this XAMPP 1.7.7?

Apache- 2.2.21,
MySQL- 5.5.16,
PHP- 5.3.8,
phpMyAdmin- 3.4.5,
minor updates of libraries or system-specific components,
New Solaris version for x86 processors
both Solaris versions now support the PHP Oracle extension out-of-the-box.
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Banshee 2.2 released

Post last modified:September 22, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Banshee 2.2 is now available for download. what’s new in this Banshee 2.2 stable?

New eMusic Store
New custom support for the Barnes & Noble Nook
Support default internet radio stations
Add “Stop when finished” option in the notification popup menu
Add “Smiley Face Curve” default equalizer
Support .spc files
MiniMode: Reduce height of window
New Devices Supported: Motorola Atrix,Notion Ink Adam, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy S2, Xperia X12
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GitHub over 1 Million Users

Post last modified:September 22, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Three year old GitHub hits over 1 million Users and over 2,830,081 git repositories. GitHub is a web- based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects.
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Softaculous 3.5 released

Post last modified:September 21, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Softaculous is an auto installer for cPanel and DirectAdmin.

A complete list of changes:

install PERL scripts by the click of a button.
Added the ACL for control panel plans
Added Softaculous Category in the cPanel User Interface showing the TOP 14 scripts that the user can access directly from cPanel.
added a new Softaculous favicon
Added API to get the list of Installed Scripts of a user.
Added API to uninstall an installation of a user.
Added API to get the Demos and Screenshots of a script.
Categorized the scripts in the Add and Edit ACL / Plan pages for easy selection of scripts.

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