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EasyWords: Learn A New Language Daily With Ease!


EasyWords: Learn A New Language Daily With Ease!

EasyWords is an indispensable tool for language translators as well as normal users alike. EasyWords helps you learn a new language very easily by letting you memorize words and some other easy to go with activities.

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By Debjit
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Did Internet Explorer 9 Cheat In The SunSpider Benchmark?


Did Internet Explorer 9 Cheat In The SunSpider Benchmark?

A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers.

 Microsoft   News   Software   Web  

By Ricky

Firefox 4 Beta 7 Benchmarked – Fastest In Sunspider Benchmark


Firefox 4 Beta 7 Benchmarked – Fastest In Sunspider Benchmark

Mozilla has released the seventh beta of its upcoming browser, Firefox 4.0. The Firefox 4.0 development has hit a slightly rough patch recently resulting in the release date for the final build pushed back to 2011. However, there is good news with the new beta – it has finally overtaken both Chrome and Opera, both…

 General   Google   Reviews   Software   Web  

By Ricky

$2000 Bounty For Open Source Drivers For Kinect


$2000 Bounty For Open Source Drivers For Kinect

Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware developer, has announced an X prize style $2000 bounty to the whoever can first develop open source drivers for Kinetic.

 Linux   News   Software   Windows  

By Ricky
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And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org


And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org

After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way.

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By Ricky

New Skype 5.0 Integrates Facebook – Is Social Video Here?


New Skype 5.0 Integrates Facebook – Is Social Video Here?

Skype now fully integrates Facebook into it’s new client – Skype 5.0. This new version of Skype has an option of signing in via Facebook. And after you sign into the new Skype with Facebook you open yourself to a new world of social Video!

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By Debjit

OpenOffice Forked As LibreOffice


Today the OpenOffice community made a big decision to break away from Oracle and have formed The Document Foundation. Development for OpenOffice has been going on form about a decade now under Sun Microsystem. However, after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystem, the community have decided to fulfill the promise of independence mentioned in the original…

 General   Linux   News   Software  

By Ricky

Install Adobe Flash Player 10.2 “Square” 64-bit In Ubuntu


Earlier, Adobe Flash 10.2 Player “Square” was released for Windows, Mac and Linux – with 64-bit support. If you want t install it in Ubuntu (9.10, 10.04 & 10.10), there is already a PPA just for that. Simply follow these steps:

 How-To   Linux   Software  

By Ricky

Mozilla Releases “Kraken” – Firefox Is The Fastest Browser Now!


Mozilla Releases “Kraken” – Firefox Is The Fastest Browser Now!

There are a lot of JavaScript benchmarking tools. Google has the V8 benchmark suite, Apple has SunSpider and Mozilla had (and still has) Dromaeo. Of course there are independent ones like Peacekeeper as well. Today, Mozilla has released a new JavaScript Benchmarking tool called Kraken. Kraken is largely based on the SunSpider test; with Mozilla…

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By Ricky

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