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VirusTotal Adds Kaspersky URL Scanner As New Scan Engine

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

VirusTotal, popular online file and URL scanning service for malware which has been recently acquired by Google has added Kaspersky URL Scanning engine to its antivirus scan engines list. As a result URLs scanned in VirusTotal.com now being checked against

Posted in: News, Security
Firefox
Bookmark star button moved out of address bar

Bookmark Icon in Firefox 23 Nightly moved

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Bookmark star button moved out of address bar

Yet another minor UI change which may annoy users has been landed on Firefox 23 nightly, the bookmark star button that appears in address bar which we use to bookmark pages to read later  has been moved and added next

Posted in: Firefox, News
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Foxit Reader Version 6 with ribbon toolbar mode

Foxit Reader 6.0 Adds Ribbon and PDF Creation Features

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Foxit Reader Version 6 with ribbon toolbar mode

To match with features offered by Nitro PDF Reader Foxit software has released their Foxit Reader v6 with addition of new features. To offer more easy to use and familiar experience for Office users Foxit Reader v6 has got Office

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VLC Media Player 2.0.6 Improves Overall Stability and Fixes ASF Files Crashing Bug

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

VideoLan has released 2.0.6 version of their VLC player for Windows, Linux and Mac is available for download from their website with stability bug fixes and improvements. This version has improved the stability, adds support for Matroska v4 files and

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Ccleaner version 4.01

CCleaner 4.01 improves Browser Support

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Ccleaner version 4.01

4.01 version of CCleaner has been released and available for download. This version improves comprehensive support for browser, optimizes registry cleaning of Windows 8 and File Finder tool which they introduced with Version 4 has been improved as well. Here

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Google’s April Fools Day Jokes for 2013: Gmail Blue & Nose and Could be more Coming?

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’ve reading Google blog post and found Google gone all Blue for Gmail and saw “Nose” as one of Google property/service in Beta in search results before getting excited about these  two and start reading about them if you’ve

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Yahoo Mail Classic Is Going Away and and More Yahoo Products to be Closed

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Yahoo started cleaning their house again, this time Yahoo Mail Classic got the axe, and other notable services to go away are older versions of Yahoo mail and Messenger apps for feature phones. Back in December 2012 Yahoo has discontinued

Posted in: News
Google Chrome

Blink Lands on Chrome 28 Dev. Channel

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Blink rendering engine for Chromium, fork of WebKit has been landed on Chrome 28 dev./canary channels and available for testing. At present you can’t really spot/see any difference the way Chrome works with Blink as Google developers working on it

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Google Drive 1.9

Google Drive 1.9 for Windows Brings Offline Access for Google Documents

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Google Drive 1.9

Version 1.9 for Google Drive has been released for Windows and Mac and is available for download with new features and improvements. This version allows offline access to Google Documents from Google Drive website and files download speed has been

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Yahoo Mail adds Dropbox for attachments

Yahoo Mail gets Dropbox Integration for Sending and Saving Attachments

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Yahoo Mail adds Dropbox for attachments

Yahoo has partnered with Dropbox which now makes it easy for their Mail users to attach and save files to Dropbox accounts. Yahoo Mail has now Dropbox built-in, first you need to link your Dropbox account to Yahoo once, from

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Google Chrome

Chrome Office Viewer Extension: View Microsoft Office Files in Browser

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Chromebook already supports viewing of Microsoft Office files like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint directly in the browser, Google has now ported this functionality in form of an extension to Google Chrome (Beta) users on Windows and Mac. Office Viewer Extension

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Google Earth 7.1 Beta with Leap Motion Support has been Released

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

7.1 Beta version of Google Earth has added Leap Motion device support. Google Feedback tool has been integrated into Google Earth. Below you can find full release notes of it and video of Google Earth with Leap Motion in action.

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