Google celebrates 65th birthday of Freddie Mercury with a 1.38 minute long annimated Google Doodle on it’s home page. Freddie Mercury (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. He died of bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS, only one day after publicly acknowledging he had the disease.
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What is Eyes on the Solar System? According to nasa,”Eyes on the Solar System is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It’s up to you. You control space and time.”
This web application requires Unity web player.Download the unity web player from nasa site and explore the solar system.
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It’s more important than ever for Twitter users to create unique backgrounds for their profiles. Particularly if you have a Twitter account for the purpose of marketing a blog or a business, it’s pivotal that you distinguish your account so…
Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) beta 1 is now available for download and testing. what’s new in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) beta 1?
New login screen-LightDM
Revamped Ubuntu Software Centre
GNOME 3 and associated packages
New Dash look
new Music lens
Device Menu
New User Menu with Avatars and Guest user switching
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Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications.
1. Go to chrome OS download page and download the latest version of chrome OS.
2.There are three download options are available to download chrome OS (VMware,VirtualBos and USB).
VMware option allows you to run Chrome Os in VMware Player or VMware Workstation as a virtual machine.
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K9 Web Protection is a free Internet filtering and parental control software to protect your kids.
Main features
Web site blocking
Easy pre-set levels to choose from depending on the age of your children
SafeSearch enabled on all search engines
Time restrictions, including NightGuard(tm)
Ability to override a block with the parent password
Tamper resistant for more savvy kids
Reports showing activity
Real-time categorization of new web sites
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AVG Antivirus Free 2012 is now available for download. AVG has released its new 2012 product line.
what’s new in AVG Antivirus Free 2012?
Virus definations size reduced by 40%.
Running processes reduced from 16 to 11.
20% less memory than its previous versions.
AVG Advisor-new monitoring tool.
improved Link Scanner tool
New UI.
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Desktop Browser Market Share:
According to Net Applications,in August Total market share of microsoft internet explore is 55.31% , firefox 22.57%,chrome 15.51%, Safari 4.64% and opera 1.68%.
Mobile/Tablet Browser Market Share:
According to Net Applications,in August Total market share of Safari is 52.99% , opera mini 20.77, Android browser 15.73, symbian 5.83, blackberry 2.90 and opera mini 0.58.
Desktop Operating System Market Share
According to Net Applications, the total market share of microsoft windows is 92.90%, mac 6.03%, linux 1.07%.For the first time, Mac OS share has topped 6% on the desktop worldwide and is now at 13.42% in the United States.
Mobile/Tablet Operating System Market Share
The total market share of iOS is 53.04%, java ME 20.57%, Android 15.98%, symbian 6.21%, blackberry 3.33% and windows mobile 0.34%.
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 is now available for download. What’s new in Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20.
Fix handling of byte-range requests to use less memory, to avoid denial of service. If the sum of all ranges in a request is larger than the original file, ignore the ranges and send the complete file. This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.4.5 and APR Utility Library (APR-util) version 1.3.12, bundled with the tar and zip distributions.
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