About Twitter –

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

There are two accounts on Twitter related to Pune.

1: pune_pulse – Information and news about Pune fetched from various sources. A short title and a link to original source.

2: pune_marathi – पुण्याबद्दल ताज़ी माहिती. Information and news about Pune in Marathi.

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As Lok Sabha Election 2009 are around the corner, Google has made available its own portal.

As Pune is listed in the “Search Voter Rolls”, you can check if your name is part of Voters List. You can even get the polling booth details.

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Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has released the source code to its widely used Java programming language.The company will post the source code to various pieces of Java over the nextfew months, according to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who announced the releasetoday. Available immediately, on the Java.net site, is the code for the JavaPlatform Standard Edition-which has over 6 million lines of code-and the JavaPlatform Micro Edition for embedded systems.
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• The Java programming-language compiler (javac),with complete NetBeans project
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Apple delivered a new build of Mac OS X 1.5 Leopard to developers this week, the objective of build 9A303 is too solve “performance related bugs”.

The following are listed as changes since build 9A283;

• Finder hangs due to network connectivity issues have been reduced
• As a precaution, please backup your Portable Home Directory before using FileSync
• Many peformance related bugs have been fixed across the system
• Timbuktu and Eudora no longer crash on launch
• Safari’s bug reporting is now fixed
• Performance improvements in the initial Time Machine backup

The following are known issues present in build 9A303;

• Upgrades from previous seeds are not supported
• Upgrades from previous releases are not recommended
• Configurations with ATI Radeon or Radeon 7500 graphics cards will not be able to use this seed
• Airport cards not recognized on some of the newst Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros
• 32/64 bit universal apps built with 10.5 deployment target will now run as 32-bit on Tiger.
• Can’t print to HP raster printers
• Can’t login initially after enabling FileVault protection for an account. Wait several minutes and try again to workaround.
• System Trash still shows deleted items until a reboot
• Volumes in the Time Machine Pref pane are all named Volume. Quitting and relaunching System Preferences should workaround this.
• Image Capture fails to recognize USB devices on PPC
• Memory leaks when using CoreData’s NSManagedObject. This can been seen when sycing files.

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• Automatic iDisk syncing is not currently working. Please sync manually.
• PHD syncing may generate false conflicts

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• File transfers result in an error
• QuickTime not working with iChat Theater

  Quick Look

• Album art downloaded by iTunes 7 is not displayed in the music preview
• Slideshow (aka Fullscreen from the Quick Look preview panel) doesn’t work for most types

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is due for release in Spring 2007.

Screenshots:

Leapard now features a more functional Firewall preference tab

Calculations can be performed in Spotlight

Dictionary searches can be performed in Spotlight

File Recovery is now included with Disk Utility

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Reply on top No more scrolling to the bottom of a long message to find the “Reply” link. Now there’s a Reply button right on top, along with a lot of other options under the little dropdown arrow.

Embarassment-reducing new message notifications
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