Today Google celebrates 118th birthday of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi with a pair of oranges and some fruits on it’s home page. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrápolt (September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle.
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Bitdefender Safego scans for and detects fake profiles set up to flood your Twitter and facebook account with spam, malware and private data exposure and it filters the malicious links to phishing or malware pages. It also keeps your online friends safe.
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Carbyn is HTML5 based online app operating system running on your browser.
Main features:
Nothing to install or update, just launch your browser
Instantly get all your apps and games in a fluid touch OS
App Marketplace
Keep enjoying Carbyn offline and auto-sync when connected
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Twitter now available in five new languages. The new languages are Hindi, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Malay, Tagalog. Twitter now supports total of 17 languages. And also said “We will continue to add more languages to the Translation Center for crowdsourced translation. Coming soon to the Translation Center: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish and Hungarian”
Google has released a new search service called Google Flight Search. This new service will help you find and book flights. Included airlines are Delta, JetBlue, Continental and American and the cities New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and Minneapolis. Just typed from city and to city in the Google search window to get flight details.
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Windows 8 Developer Preview is now available for download and testing. Microsoft just unveiled Windows 8 at its Build conference in Anaheim, California.This Windows 8 Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. It is 100% free and available in 32 and 64 bit.
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Scribes is an ultra minimalist text editor with remote editing,automatic word completion and many more.
Main features:
Extensible via Python plugins.
Remote editing (ftp, sftp, ssh, samba, webdav, webdavs).
Snippets.
Automatic word completion,correction and replacement,pair character completion and smart insertion,indentation.
Powerful text processing and manipulation functions.
Bookmarks and smart navigation.
Document Switcher.
Syntax colors for over 30 languages.
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when did you join twitter:
whendidyoujointwitter is a web service to find your twitter joining date.
1.Go to whendidyoujointwitter.com
2.Type your twitter username and click Find out! button.
how often do you tweet:
howoftendoyoutweet is a web service to find your average tweets per day.
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Mozilla firefox 7 beta 5 is now available for download and testing on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.
what’s new in this firefox 7 beta 5 ?
Fixed several stability issues.
improved memory use.
improved a new rendering backend.
improved Canvas operations.
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Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org are down now and the reason for this downtime from their homepage,
“Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. The Linux Foundation made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best practices. We believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.
We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.”