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The latest technology news from Techdows: browser releases, Windows updates, new software versions, and notable changes across the tools you use every day. We focus on practical, verified updates that genuinely affect how you use your PC, without the hype.

Freeware

VLC Player 2.0.5 Stability Update Released

December 15, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

 VLC Media Player version 2.0.5 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux and is available for download from the Videolan website. This release … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News Tagged: vlc player
News

Maxthon Cloud Browser Released

December 10, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Version 4.0 of Maxthon browser developed in China has been released with cloud integration for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS platform with Cloud Sync, … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: Maxthon, Maxthon 4.0, Maxthon Cloud Browser
Google Chrome

Google Chrome lets you View Extensions Interacting with the Page

December 7, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Google is testing new experimental toolbar UI feature, Script Bubble for Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS which shows extensions interacting with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News Tagged: extensions, Google Chrome.Script Bubble
News

Great Online Shopping Festival in India to be Hosted by Google on Dec 12, 2012

December 3, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

This is interesting! Google to host Great Online Shopping Festival in India on 12th December 2012 at gosf.in where some big shopping sites participating … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: Google, GOSF, Great Online Shopping Festival, India
News

Avast Setup Includes Google Toolbar, Don’t forget to Uncheck it on Welcome Screen

November 1, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Avast installer now coming with pre-selected Google toolbar by default, if you’ve not noticed this on welcome screen Google Toolbar will sneak through and … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Security Tagged: Avast, Google Toolbar
Firefox

Security Vulnerability Found in Firefox 16, Mozilla Promises The Patch

October 11, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

One day back Mozilla has released Firefox 16 with new developer toolbar, memory improvements and it comes with fixing 14 security vulnerabilities found in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News Tagged: Firefox 16, mozilla, Secuirty, vulnerability
Firefox

Test Firefox OS from Desktop Firefox via r2d2b2g Add-on

October 3, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Two months back for developers to test B2G apps on desktop Mozilla made available B2G nightly build for Firefox OS formerly known as Boot … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News Tagged: Boot2Gecko Desktop, Firefox OS, mozilla
Internet Explorer
Missing DLL, Visual C++, DirectX and .NET errors: source code on a computer screen

Fix It Tool Available for IE Runtime Errors

October 2, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu
Missing DLL, Visual C++, DirectX and .NET errors: source code on a computer screen

Old days gone where you tend to get run time errors in internet explorer for certain websites in Windows XP, you still bound to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Internet Explorer, News Tagged: Microsoft
Firefox

Firefox 18: PDF.js gets Printing Support

September 29, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Do you remember PDF.js? Firefox built in PDF reader based on JavaScript and HTML5 progressing well so far, to the latest PDF.JS got Printing … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News Tagged: PDf.js
Firefox
Firefox settings, about:config and browser fixes on a laptop

Firefox Health Report Coming Soon

September 22, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu
Firefox settings, about:config and browser fixes on a laptop

Mozilla announced in their blog about new feature called Firefox Health Report which soon to be introduced in nightly build of Firefox. FHR will … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News Tagged: mozilla
Firefox

Firefox 18 Gets IonMonkey, A New JIT Compiler for SpiderMonkey

September 12, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Mozilla always looks to improve JavaScript performance in Firefox browser, you could’ve heard Tracemonkey, JagerMonkey JavaScript engines for Firefox in the past, Mozilla today … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News Tagged: JavaScript, JavaScript engine
News

Enable Two-Step Verification for Your Dropbox Account Now

August 26, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Here is good news for Dropbox users Dropbox started offering Two-step verification to its forum users through experimental build for Mac, Linux and Windows … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Security Tagged: Dropbox, enable, two-step verification
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