Technology Bites

The popular open source office suite OpenOffice 3.0 is released today. It’s a major release and introduces new features, it now runs natively on Mac OS X that means no need of Unix shell X11 to run on Mac systems.
OpenOffice 3 can open Microsoft Office 2007 formats like .docx, .xlsx etc, it can read [...]

Adobe will announce its Creative Suite 4 (CS4) versions of its popular applications. Adobe will webcast the announcement, if you are interested in viewing the web broadcast you can register here to receive a reminder message on the announcement day. The announcement is scheduled on September 23rd for North America and Europe, for Australia, Singapore [...]

While browsing Microsoft Windows site i saw a promotion where you can get most of the popular antivirus for 90 day as a free trial. The list includes Norton Antivirus, TrendMicro, CA, McAfee etc. With this promotion you will get all the below mentioned security software 90 days, usually if you go to Symantec site [...]

DVDSmith Movie backup is a freeware for windows that allows you to backup DVDs to your hard drive. It can remove all the copy protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying the DVD.
If you have a collection of DVDs and want to have a backup of these, DVDsmith is a [...]

Spyware Doctor is one of the best anti-spyware tools available and received many awards. Spyware doctor is also included in Google Pack. You can get the latest spyware doctor with antivirus for one year for free. Westpac bank is offering a promotion using which you can get free 12 months license key for spyware doctor [...]

Livestation is a Microsoft backed startup that provides streaming TV channels for free on the internet. Initially they stared their private beta focusing on news channels, at the time of the launch the listed channels are BBC World, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera (English), Bloomberg, Euro News (English & French), France 24 (English, France), i>Télé, [...]

Adobe released Acrobat 9 today and launched Acrobat.com, home for the online office applications. Buzzword, the online word processor is also shifted to acrobat.com, earlier it is available at getbuzzword.com when i covered it last time. Other apps you will find at Acrobat.com include Adobe connect now, create pdf, share and My files.

OpenOffice 3.0 Beta is released today, final version is expected to release in September. This is a beta version so may contain some bugs and some features may not work properly, but if you want to test the new features you can download from here.

Videoraptor is an interesting software for searching Music and Videos from your desktop. It is like your personal meta search engine to find interesting music and videos. Here we are giving away 500 licenses for Videoraptor, each license will cost $25 if you have to buy it.
How it works
Think of Videoraptor as your personal media [...]

Mahjong is one of my favorite game and i used to play for hours. If you don’t know about Mahjong here is a quick intro, it is a tile matching game like solitaire. It is a chinese game and quite addictive. There are not many free mahjong games available for download, atleast the decent ones.
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