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Firefox 13 Beta available

Another Firefox release Firefox 13 beta  is available for download.The last Firefox beta release introduced enhancements in Developer tools,Tilt which help to view the web pages in 3D.Tilt was very useful to web designers and easy editing to CSS.

This release of Firefox beta yet brings some additional features in it.

• Navigate to next page faster and easier with the new tab page.
• Smooth scrolling SPDY (on by default)
• Developer tool improvements

Have a look on the new Firefox 13 Beta

Manage and reorder websites by dragging thumbnails and locking them.
A new redesign of the about:home page which provide easy access to content like bookmark,history and downloads acting like a central location of access.
Download the new Firefox 13 beta  from here and tell us your experience with new release.

ubuntu 12.04 LTS released officially

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS codename Precise Pangolin is officially here,ready to download for all the Ubuntu community fans.LTS(Long Term Support) releases are made more stable and introduce some new features so does Ubuntu 12.04.There is rev Linux kernel version with some other notable tweaks.

Some tweaks are

• New Login screen with ability to change wallpaper according to user choice.
• A new sound theme.
• Unity interface advances to version 5.10
• The Linux 3.2 kernel.
• HUD (Head-Up Display)
• The stability and ease-of use of Unity’s multi-monitor mode has been improved.
• Reveal signalling for the Launcher has been added.
• A new lens, the Video lens, has been added to Dash that brings together access to both online video.
• Improved Power Management .

Downlaod Ubuntu 12.04 from here.

Eadweard j muybridge in google doodle

Google honors Eadweard j muybridge with its Google Doodle celebrating  182nd birth anniversary of genius photographer.

Born in April 9,1830 in kingston upon Thames in England and moved to United states at the age of 25 spent his major part of life.He started his career as a publishers agent  agent and bookseller.While recuperating in England, he took up photography seriously sometime between 1861 and 1866,

Known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877  and 1878 which used multiple motion cameras to capture motion.
Eadweard j muybridge  invented  zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.

The image used in Google Doodle is Sallie Gardner at a Gallop or The Horse in Motion;  was an answer to “the galloping question” a popular debate started by Mayor Leland Stanford in 1872.

Here is the original  motion used by Eadweard j muybridge in his zoopraxiscope.

The original motion images

What do you think of the Google Doodle?