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Pidgin 2.2.0
| Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
Pidgin integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1’s system tray, as well as Windows’ own system tray. This allows you to work with Pidgin without requiring the buddy list window to be open at all times. |
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Apple’s iPhone touches the 1 millionth mark!
Apple today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ yesterday, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. iPhone combines three devices into one—a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod®, and the best mobile Internet device ever—all based on Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface and pioneering software that allows users to control iPhone with just a tap, flick or pinch of their fingers.
“One million iPhones in 74 days—it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season.”
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
Congrats iPhone!Great start 
Source Apple press release via Technoworld
Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 2
A very good news for all Mac OS lovers.Yahoo has released the much awaited Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 2 .The new version has got many new features,although voice calling is still unavailable in this version but we can still hope that it will soon be in the coming versions. This new version includes:
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Microsoft Ultimately Launches Silverlight 1.0
Today, Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 1.0 which may prove a big rival for Flash.
For those who dont know ,Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.
Microsoft today also officially partnered with novell to deliver moonlight as the silverlight implementation for linux.
Till the date,Microsoft has also released various Silverlight powered applications that include Live Station, Popfly and Tafiti.
Microsoft will also be launching other products which include Omnicom’s Media Preview TV,Major League Baseball,Halo 3 Videos on MSN ,AOL Social Mail Gadget for Vista Sidebar,World Wrestling Entertainment Player etc.For a complete list visit Silverlight Showcase.
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S0urce- Technoworld
Firefox 3 has improved Password Saving
Opera 9.5 has got a new feature that it does not holds back the website from loading when prompted for “Save Password”.This gives the site oppurunity to continue log in and give the user the power to change the login credentials if unfortunately posted wrong.A simillar feature can be seen in the latest version of Firefox 3 - Nightlies ,but it is implented a bit better than that of Opera in the sense that Opera 9.5 uses a pop up dialog box to prompt for password saving whereas Firefox 3 uses a slim bar along the top of the site just like the Internet Explorer as shown in the image above it is small ,user friendly but cant be said pretty.
This feature is a good alternative to not still found feature of determining whether the login was successful, and if the login wasn’t correct prevent the password-saving option from even appearing.
Another Update that firefox has got is that now a bar appears asking for permission if the site asks you to install an extension whereas earlier one had to save the site in whitelist.But now one can temproraily allow it just like IE.
Source Technoworld
Pownce gets useful updates!
The Pownce got some very useful updates early yesterday.These Updates were announced in the Pownce Blog.The following changes have been made in the site:-
In the right column of your pownce homepage, you’ll now see the next five upcoming events you’ve been sent. It’s a handy way to make sure you don’t miss something.
The Pownce now has the feature to embed videos in the notes from some famous sites like youtube,metacafe,Revver, Vimeo and others.You need to just link to the video’s page in the notes and it will appear.
Like the videos,image thumbnails are also been automatically displayed when you link to images from services that are supported. Right now, Zooomr images are displayed in your notes, but we can hope for to support more services (such as Photobucket and Flickr) in the future.
| At lot of people have social networks online other than Pownce. Now, you can display them on your profile, so people can find you elsewhere too.Most of the major networks (Facebook, Myspace, Last.fm, and others) are supported, so go show your friends where to find you. You can also show your instant messaging IDs and link to your blog or website. |  |
Now you can better customize your Pownce. Some big feature requests have been addressed. You can now open links in a new window by default! You can also set your default note view to something other than ‘notes & replies’, and you can select whom you’re note Tired of seeing all replies displayed inline? No worries, you can set it to just ‘notes’. And finally, you can specify whom notes should go to by default (such as your ‘best friends’ or ‘coworkers’ set).
Enjoy 
Security flaw hits MSN Messenger
A newly reported vulnerability could put the security of MSN Messenger users at risk.
The flaw lies in MSN Messenger’s video chat component and could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a user’s system. The vulnerability does not affect the latest version of the application, now known as Windows Live Messenger 8.1.
An attacker could exploit the flaw by injecting specially-crafted code into a video chat invitation.
On accepting the invitation, the user would experience a buffer overflow, which could in turn cause an application crash and allow the attacker to execute malicious code.
Discovery of the vulnerability is credited to a researcher known as ‘Wushi’.
Security firm Secunia rated the vulnerability as ‘highly critical’, the second highest of its five alert levels.
A Microsoft spokesperson said that the company is investigating the flaw. Microsoft and Secunia recommend that users upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8.1.
Secunia also recommended that users who have not upgraded should avoid unsolicited video chat invites.
A similar flaw was reported two weeks ago in Yahoo Messenger which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code through a specially crafted chat invite.
Source Technoworld
Google Desktop For Mac adds Nine More Language
Google Desktop For Macintosh has been updated with Nine more languages for google desktop and update announce Google on its Offical Google Mac Blog. Now the google desktop for Mac also supports Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Dutch, UK English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
For all those who dont know,Google Desktop is a desktop search application that gives you easy access to information on your Mac and from the web. Desktop makes searching your own email, files, music, photos, and more as easy as searching the web with Google.All the users will be automatically updated with this release This update will most likely require a reboot and will create a new index of the information on your computer, to improve the quality of searches across all languages
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Google Desktop For Mac home!
Visit Google Mac blog!Source Technoworld
