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OpenOffice.org has continuously pumped out new features in the "minor" releases since 2.0, but 3.0 is exciting from a lot of perspectives. Everyone will have their own view on what's important in the OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta release, but here's my list of favourites:

• Native MacOS X support - a fast, stable, accessible free productivity suite on the platform that "thinks different" - what's not to like?
• Vista support - that's one less reason to hate Microsoft's flashy but slow and incompatible downgrade to Windows XP
• Even More Microsoft Compatibility - Microsoft Office 2007 (and 2008 Mac) Document Filters - keep sharing docs with the folks who are still paying Microsoft for upgrades, limited VBA support (probably enough for a lot of useful documents to work flawlessly)
  
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Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.
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MITSloan/Wall Street Journal: "But does giving ideas away help--or hurt--the company's stock price? Will investors reward openness by driving up the company's shares--or punish it by knocking the stock down...?"

Webaroo 2 is an interesting application for the bandwidth starved. The application downloads pages from the websites you often browse into your hard disk storage.

It also allows you to download videos from Youtube, Google Videos and Metacafe. Another interesting feature is downloading of Flickr photos by user, group and photoset. Webaroo 2 also stores your Internet Explorer and Firefox web history automatically. The image lists the features provided by Webaroo 2.

You need to be running Windows XP SP1 and above or Windows Vista (32bit) operating system to use Webaroo 2.

One of the many perks of being a Linux user is that you have plenty of excellent software to choose from. This is especially true if you are in search for an essential application like a media player because there are definitely loads of options. However, this could sometimes be a disadvantage particularly to new-to-Linux users for the reason that they could get overwhelmed with the many choices they have.

To somehow guide those who are still looking for a media player that will suit their needs, I have put together a list that I hope will help. Take your pick from 12 of the best and certified quality media players for Linux.

Banshee

A Multimedia file format is a particular way to encode multimedia files such as audio, video, and images for storage in a computer file.

Some of the most known closed-source multimedia formats are MP3, WMV, and QuickTime. However, I prefer to utilize free and open-source multimedia file formats because their full specifications are freely available and for which there are no restrictions (e.g. legal or technical) on their use. They are also good for interoperability and to prevent vendor lock-in.

Here are some of the most widely-used free/open-source multimedia file formats.

Portable Network Graphics

Optical disc authoring software, most commonly known as CD/DVD burning application is computer software for authoring optical discs such as CD-ROMs and DVDs. An optical disc recorder is necessary to use such software.

Creating an optical disc typically involves first making an optical disc image with a full file system designed for the optical disc, and then actually burning the image to the disc. Many programs create the disk image and burn in one bundled application, such that end-users do not even know the distinction.

Though most Linux distributions have cdrtools (standard open source optical disc authoring software) installed, there are other excellent and easy-to-use CD/DVD burning programs that are available for Linux.

Here are some of the finest free/open-source optical disk authoring software:

Brasero

Watching live or recorded TV feeds using a desktop computer is made possible using television software. Most TV software applications nowadays are integrated into media center programs with playback support for almost all kinds of media contents such as audio, video, image files and even RSS feeds.

To those who are using Linux and are looking for some television software, then you are in luck because there are plenty to choose from. Here is a list of some of the best free/open-source television software that you may want to try out:

Freevo
Freevo is a full-featured personal video recorder application for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X similar to MythTV. It allows easy playback of videos, DVDs, pictures, music, and watching live TV. It also allows scheduling a TV program for recording with a TV tuner, and backup of DVDs.

Best Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts (both are Firefox extensions). How to modify the look of websites like gmail, google, google reader, last.fm, lyrics and other stuff to make youtube better and some other cool greasemonkey and stylish scripts.

Ubuntu users, Firefox 3 beta 5 (3b5) has reached Hardy’s repositories.
To be able to install the extensions that are not supported by this version of firefox, here’s what you must do to bypass it:

Imagine the next time you are trying reading a great list of Ubuntu programs. One of them catches your eye, and you want to try it. Instead of either using Add/Remove or opening a terminal to install the program, you simply click a link. A message box pops up asking you if you want to install the program, and then you enter your password.

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I have been using these utilities since sometime now and therefore thought of sharing them with my readers as well. In my coming posts, i shall also present to you some more utilities which i use. These utilities should help you enhance your System thereby making your experience better.

• X-Setup: X-Setup Pro is one of the most versatile tweaking tool i have used. It allows the user to change 1,900+ hidden functions. The program is also Extendible with additional plugins. X-Setup Pro warms the user before applying changes and even if accidentally a setting is changed, it can be restored back.

A computer application that replaced paper worksheets is called a spreadsheet. It shows multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, each cell containing either alphanumeric text or numeric values. A spreadsheet cell may otherwise hold a formula that classifies how the contents of that cell is to be calculated from the contents of any other cell (or combination of cells) each time any cell is updated. Spreadsheets are often used for financial information because of their capacity to re-calculate the entire sheet automatically after an alteration to a single cell.

If you think that the proprietary and expensive Microsoft Excel is the only available and capable spreadsheet software, then think again because you are wrong. There are quite a number of free/open-source spreadsheet programs that are almost as good or even at par with Excel.

Total Privacy provides the most advanced information removal solution for protection against today’s malicious online and offline threats.Total Privacy 5 makes use of the most advanced washing and shredding methods available today to make sure that your own private business and computer use remains exactly that - private.

Securely clean Internet tracks, system activities and program history information stored on your computer with this safe and easy-to-use Windows privacy protection tool. Also Wipes the free space to make sure that previously delete files cannot be recovered. Supports all major browsers in addition to over 450 popular third-party applications.

Total Privacy is available as a Giveaway of the day! You have 21 hours 54 minutes to download and install it.

Grab it now from here before the deal gets closed.

I’m no graphics professional, but like probably most of you, I do need to edit photos from time to time. I used Adobe Photoshop before since it is the most widely used image manipulating software. But when I started using Linux, things changed.

Since GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is included by default in most Linux distros, I had no other choice but to try it. I then became more and more comfortable using it that I completely forgot about Photoshop. I know that I can still install Photoshop in Linux through software virtualization, but no thanks.

Here are my reasons why I made the switch and why I think GIMP is better than Photoshop:

1. GIMP has a simple and easy to use Graphical User Interface compared to a more cluttered working environment in Photoshop.