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Opera 21 advanced settings address filed option

Opera 21 arrives with Aura technology and Offers Option to see the complete URL in Address field

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Opera 21 advanced settings address filed option

Opera software has released Opera 21 stable for Windows and Mac and is available to download. This Opera version for Windows has switched to Aura which results in “smoother, snappier animations with a more responsive feel”, while Mac doesn’t need […]

Posted in: News, Opera
Freeware

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 Released (Offline Installer link inside)

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 has been released and available for download from Microsoft Download Center. You can download and install this highly compatible .NET version over .NET Framework 4, .NET Framework 4.5 and .NET Framework 4.5.1. FYI, Windows 8 already […]

Posted in: Freeware, News
News
Opera 22 Next

Opera 22 Enters Next Stream, brings Silent, Smaller Updates and New Themes

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Opera 22 Next

Opera 22 has moved from Developer to Next stream and now available to download for Windows and Mac. This version brings silent update, means Opera browser will be updated to the latest version automatically without showing the UAC dialog which […]

Posted in: News, Opera
News

Dropbox now offering the option to disable ‘Move to Dropbox’ Context Menu Item

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

We’ve already covered how to remove ‘Move to Dropbox’ entry on the Windows Context menu (quite a long tutorial though), now Cloud backup provider Dropbox, itself providing that option in testing build 2.9.44. New Dropbox Experimental Build Available with Streaming […]

Posted in: News, Tips and Tricks
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Tabs delay option on startup Opera Settings

Opera 23 Developer lets you delay loading of background tabs on Startup

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Tabs delay option on startup Opera Settings

Chromium fork Opera developer has got load tabs on demand feature like in Firefox, when Chrome will get it?. The Opera desktop team has released Opera 23 Developer version with new features for Windows and Mac and is available to […]

Posted in: News, Opera
Firefox
Firefox Media Source Extensions HTML5 video player

Enable Media Source Extensions in Firefox for a better YouTube Player

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox Media Source Extensions HTML5 video player

While Google Chrome browser uses HTML5 player on the YouTube site for playing videos whenever possible, but that’s not the case with Firefox, the  default player currently supports HTMLVideoElement, H.264, WebM VP8 and good news for Firefox users using Nightly […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Panda Cloud Antivirus Free 3.0 gets Schedule Scanning and Automatic USB Vaccine features

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Panda Cloud Antivirus new version released with metro UI, new features and improvements. Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.9 is out of beta and Panda Cloud Antivirus 3.0 has been released for Windows and available for download with modern look and features. […]

Posted in: News, Security
Google Chrome
Experimental Chrome App Launcher

Experimental Chrome App Launcher in making Looks similar to Current New Tab Page

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Experimental Chrome App Launcher

Chrome App Launcher, which lets you access your favorite Apps from the desktop quickly is getting some testing by Chromium team, you can test that too by enabling Enable the experimental App Launcher flag in latest Chromium build. As recently, […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Firefox

Soon, Firefox Nightly lets You Make Audio & Video Calls to Anyone With A WebRTC-enabled browser

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has already made its Firefox browser awesome with new design, in-content preferences and context menu with icons on top, now it has started testing WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) in Nightly, which lets you make audio & video calls to […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Fix for Ad-Aware Definition Files Update Issue

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Currently Ad-Aware users not able to update Definition files, here is the way to fix that manually until Lavasoft finds the solution for it. Navigate to the folder – C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-Aware AntivirusAntimalware Engine2.6.0.0Plugins – in your computer, select all files […]

Posted in: News, Troubleshooting
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TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8.4

TechSmith adds Cross-Platform Screen Recording to Camtasia 8.4 & Camtasia for Mac 2.8

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8.4

Camtasia, Professional screen recording and Video editor from TechSmith got an update, Camtasia 8.4 (Windows) and Camtasia for Mac 2.8 are released with cross-platform screen recording feature. The new screen recording file format, .trec -makes recording made by TechSmith product […]

Posted in: News
Google Chrome
Chrome is this the search page you were expecting notification

Google Chrome: ‘ Is this the Search page you were expecting?’

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome is this the search page you were expecting notification

Chrome beta now showing ‘disable extension’ button the for the extension on Settings page that has taken control of Search Provider or start up pages Settings. If an extension you install from Chrome Web Store changes browser settings such as […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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