Monthly Archive:: June 2011

Google has revealed its much awaited social project Google+ directly aimed at competing Facebook.Google today announced the new features of Google+ that define Google is not just for search. Since yesterday google.com started showing the new brown navigation bar at the top .The Google+ is assessable straight from the homepage when you click you+ button at first. Vic gundotra- Senior vice president of Google social said “since it was social extension of Google it was named as Google+” Five Features of Google+ which is a combination of Facebook+twitter+skype+qwiki+groupme.   1.Circles Google+ can able to create your social circle through drag and drop feature.     2.Spark Spark collects information on your favourite topic like news,images and videos [like qwiki]   This one was similar to [&hellip

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Google translate now supports five new Indian languages like Tamil,Telugu,Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada.These new language now brings the total count to 63 languages that Google translate support. Indic languages are difficult to translate as it has different structure when compared to English Google blog: Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering.       These language are spoken by about 500 million people which is the reason why Google have added these language to translate engine.   Also read: How google translate works

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Lernid is a tool that makes connecting to online learning events such as UbuntuOpenWeek and UbuntuDeveloperWeek simple, easy and fun. Lernid gets you immersed in the content quickly and hassle free. Features : Lernid features a variety of features: Easy To Get Involved – connecting to events is simple as running Lernid and entering a nickname. No more trying to figure out the complexities of IRC and how to enter a session. View Slides In Real Time – sessions delivered that are optimized for Lernid can display presentation slides that change as the session leader delivers his/her session. View Web Pages In Real Time – if a session leaders wants to show learners a website, the site can be shown automatically in the in-built web [&hellip

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Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. How to Install : Open the terminal and run the following commands : sudo apt-add-repository ppa:scribus/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install scribus-trunk Download Link : Link1 Screenshot : Image Link : http://scribus.sourceforge.net/gallery/images/aqua1.jpg References : http://docs.scribus.net

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Today Apple has released a new TV commercial for iPad2 which was featured as "Now". Tech companies are involving in TV advert war these days.It was since a week now Samsung has teased Apple iPad2 in its commercial. The new apple iPad2 commercial says Now, we can watch a newspaper , listen to a magazine, curl up with a movie and see a phone call. Now, we can take a classroom anywhere, hold an entire bookstore, and touch the stars. Because now, there’s this Watch it on Youtube

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