Mozilla has decided to drop the support of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) in future Firefox releases. This change will be introduced later this year when Firefox changes its rendering engine from Gecko 1.9.2 to Gecko 1.9.3. Mozilla had already stop supporting Tiger in mozilla-central in September 2009. However, most of the code was left…

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A system-wide PulseAudio equalizer was developed by Ubuntu Forums memeber, psyke83. The equalizer is now available in his PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu. In this article we will tell you who you can install it from the PPA in Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04.

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This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.

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Update: Abiword and Gnumeric are now most likely to replace OpenOffice. According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs. (After this…

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Last week, Google announced that they will stop the supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps. Now according to a Ars Technica report, Google is also ending support of the Internet Explorer 6 in GMail and Google Calendar as well later in 2010. Google did not reveal this last bit of news in the emails…

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The Symbian Foundation announced today that the Symbian platform is now completely open source. The Symbian Foundation has just finalized the open source release of the source code for the most popular mobile operating system in the world. It is hoped that this will will open the platform to innovations generally associated with open-source. The…

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Nokia Beta Labs has introduced a diagnostic and trouble-shooting software called Nokia Diagnostics. The developers believe that it will become a solution for helping millions of Nokia users diagnose, troubleshoot, and configure their devices with ease on their own.

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A few days back we wrote about Apple unlocking VoIP over 3G in its new iPhone Developer SDK and hoped that Skype VoIP over 3G will be available soon. Well, now Skype has announced that they are planning to enable VoIP to work over 3G, on the iPad and iPhone.

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VLC is all set to get new a new feature – extension support, from VLC 1.1. The extensions will be written in Lua, a simple a lightweight scripting language, embbeded inside VLC media player. The VLC extensions are scripts that will popup windows and fetch information on the web for you.

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