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IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 Review - The office alternative.

If you’re looking for an alternative to Windows Office, OpenOffice or other software suites, you might want to give IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 a look. Although the name of the suite is derived from a similar software package that failed to make an impact in the 1990’s, this suite seems to have more potential and a wide range of features that might make it more appealing to consumers and computer users.

Author: John Doe

KDE 4.3.0 Release

Have no fear KDE 4.3 is here and it's shaping up to be a great release.

Here are some random stats that do justice to this project:

  • 10,000 bugs have been fixed.
  • close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors.
  • 2,000 feature requests were implemented in the past 6 months
Author: CoolGoose

Mac OS X bandwidth monitoring with Surplus Meter

In any operating system, it is possible for an internet user to monitor the bandwidth usage. This is useful to keep track of internet usage in case you have a maximum bandwidth cap or download limit. To begin you need to install a software called SurplusMeter on your OS X. SurplusMeter can be downloaded from here.

Author: John Doe

3 Dockbar like applications for Linux / Mac OS X / Windows

In the past, the dock bar has been just an appearance enhancer in operating systems. People have been led to believe that the dock is for those who are more conscious about appearance rather than performance and because of this, they quickly lost interest in it once they got used to it.

In truth, the dock bar can provide you more if you want it to. There are a lot of Dock bar applications available that do just that.

Here are a few Dock Bar applications that are available on the major Operating Systems.

Author: John Doe

Replacing iTunes: a Songbird Review

Over the years, iTunes has been accepted as a necessary evil between media players.

However, the open source project called Songbird, ever since its conception, has been providing some stiff competition for iTunes. In fact, most people believe that at this rate it won’t be long before it overtakes iTunes and becomes the most influential media player around.

Songbird was first released in 2006 by the creators of Mozilla Firefox, Winamp and Netscape Navigator, The Pioneers of the Inevitable. Lets a take a look at why Songbird is so highly rated by everyone.

Author: John Doe

Miro Internet TV 2.5 Released

Nicholas Reville announced the release of Miro 2.5

Yes! We have just released Miro 2.5, a major update with new features, faster performance, audio podcasts, and lots of polish.

Remember to read the Miro 2.5 Preview to learn a bit about Miro, new features and changes.

Resources
Website | Download

Author: CoolGoose

Firefox 3.5.1 Released

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5.1 that fixes the annoying bug of long load times on Windows, closes some security holes and makes it a bit more stable.

Resources:
Download | Changelog | Release Notes

Author: CoolGoose

4 + 1 Free Quake like First Person Shooter Games

Here's a quick list of some pretty nice gameplay wise First Person Shooters (FPS) games that you can play on Windows, Mac, Linux.
They won't be visually gorgeous but you'll have lots of fun and the community in general is fantastic :)

Author: CoolGoose

3 Alternative Chat Clients for Mac OS X

Did you search for a nice lightweight instant messaging application that can connect to multiple chat networks at once ? Here's my list of 3 best applications with one of them being a popular web client.

Author: John Doe

VLC media player 1.0.0 Release

VideoLAN project announced the release of VLC media player 1.0.0
VLC media player 1.0.0 Ubuntu Linux
For those of you that don't know

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Resources:

Announcement | Download

Author: CoolGoose
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