The recent stable release of Google Chrome which has come in the last two days has upped the version number to 6 . There are a few noticeable changes in this release. 1. The open/close buttons are now on the left hand side of the page to match the default button placements of open windows …
Yes that’s right! Ubuntu and all debian based distributions now support google video and audio chat from gmail. In course of time, Google will add support for Red Hat and SUSE users. Previously, this feature was exclusive for Windows and Mac users. However, popular chat clients, Empathy and Pidgin, served as drop-in replacements. The plugin …
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Moonlight 3.0 , which is aiming to bring Silverlight 3.0 functionalities to the opensource world, has just released its 7th preview version. The site warns the product to be treated as alpha quality. For the bold,experiemental and restless open-source fans, does it really matter? The good news for the testers is that, this plugin is …
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All of you who have been hoping to get Microsoft Office Live workspace working on you Linux machines to do away with formatting issues on OpenOffice or Google Docs, may have to install MS Office through wine as Microsoft Office Live workspace does not work on any browser on Linux. This is what I got …
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Generally when a stable version of a software is released , it is assumed that the product will be stable and will have less crashes. My Google Chrome stable v5 on Ubuntu 10.04 seemed to behave otherwise. Eversince I installed the stable package, the flash plugin kept crashing without any warning. It would crash on …
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Google is all set to catch up with Internet Explorer as far as version number is concerned. Today’s update of the google-chrome-unstable from the Google Chrome repositories, catapulted the version from 5.0.396 to 6.0.401. Cannot tell yet if there are any new changes, have to play around with it. However, the Natwest Personal Banking has …
This is the most bizarre thing I have seen on my system. I was exploring my Lucid Lynx today and I was shocked to see my system was running out of memory. I couldn’t believe it as I have 4GB of RAM running core2duo. So, I fired up my system and was dumbstruck to see …
Novell released the second version of opensource implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight 2.0, today for linux users. Although Moonlight is lagging way behind the Silverlight version which is at 3.0 stable and 4.0 beta, this release will give users compatibility with SIlverlight 2.0 applications and some 3.0 ones as well. Moonlight is opensource, however, the codecs …
Since Adobe released a new version of its x64 bit flash player , I am going to install it replacing my existing 32 bit flash player. First, download the file from this link http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html. Now go to the download directory and right click on the file and select ‘Extract here’. Go into the folder to …
Adobe has just made available the second prerelease of x64bit flash player for all platforms. The version is 10,0,42,34. You can download the file from. http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
