OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 – Open Source Office Software Suite

OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 (Windows, Open Source, 136.32MB) [alt DL] is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Fix encoding of URIs of external references and chart data range loss.
• Java update
• single fix for possible data loss with graphics in impress/draw
• And some bugfixes.

Thanks to this great software suite, I no longer have to spend big bucks for a new office productivity software license whenever I build a new Windows or Linux machine.

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Notepad2 3.1.21 – Enhanced Notepad Replacement

Notepad2 3.1.21 (Windows, Open Source, 235KB) [alt DL] is another small, fast notepad replacement with some unusual features. It includes zoom, rectangular selection, regular expressions, and more.

Changes:

• No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
• "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
• Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
• "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
• "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
• "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
• "Pad With Spaces" block command (Alt+B)
• "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
• Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
• Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
• Simple XML detection for files without extensions
• Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
• Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
• Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
• Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
• Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
• Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
• Command line switch - to accept single file argument (no quotes)
• Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
• Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
• More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
• /r command line switch to reuse existing window
• /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
• Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
• /t command line switch to set window title
• Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
• Save relative pathnames for recent files (ini-option to disable)
• Save relative directories for "Open with..." and "Favorites"
• "Open with..." no longer sends short pathnames to external programs
• External commands use current file directory as working directory
• Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
• Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
• "Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
• Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
• "Find Wrap" notification dialogs provide "Cancel" button
• Option to suppress replace count notifications
• Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
• Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
• Patches to default styles, file types and auto-detection by Kai Liu
• Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
• Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
• Fixed some minor file variable problems
• Fixed some encoding detection issues
• Fixed some find and replace problems
• Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
• Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
• Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file

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OpenOffice.org 3.1 Final – Open Source Office Suite

OpenOffice.org 3.1 Final (Windows, Open Source, 134.3MB) [alt DL] is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Improved screen appearance
• Making ‘dragging’ easier with graphics
• Improved file locking
• Overlining
• And more enhancements for Writer, Calc, Chart, Impress, and others.

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OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 – Open Source Portable Office Suite

OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 (Windows, Open Source, 85MB) is a complete office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go.

Changes:

• updates OpenOffice.org to 3.0.1
• features an improved installer
• has a better support for the linguistic components and works better on systems without local installed MSVCRT runtime.
• Packages in Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish were also added.

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doPDF 6.1.286 – Create PDF Files Easily

doPDF 6.1.286 (Windows, Freeware, 1.6MB) [alt DL] installs itself as a virtual printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF pdf converter.

Changes:

• Update: Added silent cancel printing - in previous versions, when the Cancel button was pressed from the Save As dialog, it would reload it and return an error when cancelling again - now this behavior is corrected and the Save As dialog is shown once.
• Update: The character & is now allowed in the filename (was replaced in previous versions with underscore)
• Update: Minor language file changes for Romanian, Russian, Slovenian and Ukrainian

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Foxit Reader 3.0.1301 – Free PDF Document Viewer and Printer

Foxit Reader 3.0.1301 (Windows, Freeware, 3.7MB) [alt DL] is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only a few M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

Fixed: A dead loop error appears when printing pages or a range of pages by entering 1, 3, 7-10, etc. in the Pages text box within the Print dialog box. Symptoms: If you print pages or a range of pages by entering 1, 3, 7-10, etc. in the Pages text box within the Print dialog box with Foxit Reader 3.0 Build 1222, the printing doesn’t stop.

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Windows Live Writer 2009 Beta – Free Blog Client

Windows Live Writer 2009 Beta (Windows, Freeware) makes it easy to share your photos and videos on almost any blog service—Windows Live, Wordpress, Blogger, Live Journal, TypePad, and many more.

Changes:

• Search Local Drafts and Published Posts
• Include Multiple Pictures At Once
• Live Tag Suggestions

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Ecofont 2.00 – Font That Can Save Up to 20% Ink

Ecofont 2.00 (Windows, Freeware, 52KB) is based on an Open Source font. It lets you conserve ink by making the letters “lightweight”. After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink.

This font works best for OpenOffice, AppleWorks and MS Office 2007. Printing with a laser printer will give the best printing results.

To install in Windows XP:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. Type the following command, and then click OK:

   %windir%\fonts

3. On the File menu, click Install New Font.
4. In the Drives box, click the drive that contains the font that you want to add.
   Note The floppy disk drive is typically drive A or drive B. The CD drive is typically drive D.
5. In the Folders box, click the folder that contains the font that you want to add, and then click OK.
6. In the List of fonts box, click the font that you want to add. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold the CTRL key while you select each font.
7. Click to select the Copy Fonts To Fonts Folder check box. The new font is saved in the Windows\Fonts folder.
8. Click OK.

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Foxit Reader 3.0.1120 – Alternative PDF Document Viewer and Printer

Foxit Reader 3.0.1120 (Windows, Freeware, 3.7MB) [alt DL] is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only a few M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set.

Changes:

• Enticing Multimedia Design
• Attachment Panel
• Thumbnail Panel
• Layout Panel
• Metric Unit Support
• Auto-scrolling with Middle Mouse Button
• Awe-Inspiring Foxit OnDemand Content Management
• Firefox Support
• Improved Select Text Tool
• Enhanced Print Setup
• Better Annotation Control
• Advanced Toolbar Control
• Better Permission Control
• Improved Upgrade Mode
• Improved Popup Note
• Enhanced Shortcut Keys Input
• Transferrable preferences Settings
• Many Bug Fixes

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Go-oo 3.0.19 – Your Office Suite: Better, Faster, Freer

Go-oo 3.0.19 (Windows, Open Source, 167MB plus language pack) is a fork of OpenOffice.org, the Microsoft Office alternative. It focuses on improved speed and performance.

Also available for Linux.

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Top Picks: File/Document Applications

Below are the current top picks for freeware File and Document Applications for Windows. Choices were made based on features and usability.

. 7-zip File Manager is an open source file archiver predominantly for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It operates either as a command line program or with a graphical user interface. It also features integration with the Windows shell environment.

A portable version is also available.

. Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one small USB flash drive).

It features HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Other features include undo/redo, user tools, macros, spell checker and more.

. doPDF installs itself as a virtual printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF pdf converter.

. Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.6.

. GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

. Open Office is a free, Open Source alternative to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation software and drawing program and also allows to save to PDF file.

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OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final – Open Source Office Suite

OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final (Windows, Open Source, 128MB) [alt DL] is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.

Also available for Linux.

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o3find 0.8.2 – Search and Find Text in StarOffice and OpenOffice Documents

o3find 0.8.2 (Windows, Open Source, 144KB) [alt DL] can find text in many StarOffice / OpenOffice.org documents. You can look for a word or phrase in multiple files and directories. You can also search other types of documents (e.g. plain text, Microsoft Office, etc.).

Changes:

• Search already open documents (both console and GUI editions)
• Search ignoring styles and paragraphs (both console and GUI editions)
• Remember search "context" and options (GUI edition only)

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doPDF 6.1.274 - Create PDF Files via Virtual Printer Driver

doPDF 6.1.274 (Windows, Freeware, 1.4MB) [alt DL] installs itself as a virtual printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF pdf converter.

Changes:

• Fix: Corrected a paper margin conversion bug from Word to PDF (margins where not converted exactly with the same size in certain conditions)
• Fix: Corrected a conversion bug from Word to PDF, where if an Excel table was embedded in Word it would get replaced by a black rectangle
• Fix: There was a page layout bug when printing a word document from the free TextMaker Viewer program - if the document contained a succession of portrait and landscape pages, the PDF would contain only portrait pages - the new build converts them correctly.

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Foxit Reader 2.3.3309 - Small and Fast PDF Viewer and Printer

Foxit Reader 2.3.3309 (Windows, Freeware, 2.6MB) [alt DL] is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only a few M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set.

Changes:

• Compatibility issues with Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader after saving.
• Disappearing Toolbar after minimizing Foxit Reader to the system tray.

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Siginet's Office integrator 1.0 Build 057 - Slipstream Service Packs and Hotfixes for MS Office

Siginet's Office integrator 1.0 Build 057 (Windows, Freeware, 3.5MB) [alt DL] can easily slipstream Service Packs and Hotfixes for your Microsoft Office Suite. It ensures that every update is properly placed into the registry to make microsoft update happy.

Changes:

• Fixed - Bug in HotPack build where hotfixes were out of sequence
• Fixed - Logging issue where extra "Finished" was added. (war59312)
• Updated - HotPack build routine. HotPacks will need to be rebuilt
• Added - Support for Office 2003 Standard Student and Teacher Edition
• Added - Direct Integration method for Office XP (See help file for tested versions)
• Added - Pseudo progress bar for creating Admin Install Point, loops while creating AIP but stops after 60 seconds (You need a faster computer )

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Foxit Reader 2.3.3201 - Fast and Small Size PDF Reader

Foxit Reader 2.3.3201 (Windows, Freeware, 2.6MB) [alt DL] is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only a few M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

Changes:

• Several crash issues.
• Toolbars go out of place and rearrange themselves vertically.
• Some slow print issues.
• Font and Image rendering improved.
• Combo Box tool not working correctly.
• The menu item "FDF Document" needs to be removed from desktop context
  menu.
• Always remember the last printer you select.
• Foxit Reader (free version) may not be responding after you save a PDF
  document.
• Bookmark view cannot be disabled permanently in Internet Explorer.
• Print command needs to be updated.
• Certain bookmark displaying issues.
• Many other bug fixes.

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doPDF 6.1.269 - Create PDF Documents

doPDF 6.1.269 (Windows, 1.4MB) [alternate D/L] installs itself as a virtual printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF pdf converter.

Changes:

• Fix: Corrected a paper margin conversion bug from Word to PDF (margins where not converted exactly with the same size in certain conditions)
• Fix: Corrected a conversion bug from Word to PDF, where if an Excel table was embedded in Word it would get replaced by a black rectangle
• Fix: There was a page layout bug when printing a word document from the free TextMaker Viewer program - if the document contained a succession of portrait and landscape pages, the PDF would contain only portrait pages - the new build converts them correct

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AbiWord 2.6.4 - Open Source Word Processor

AbiWord 2.6.4 (Windows, Open Source, 5.9MB) [download via FileHippo] is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor. It has lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun.

Changes:

• Fixed a long-standing plug-in loading issue on Windows
• Updated the internal copy of itex2MML to 1.3.5
• And various bug fixes.

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Adobe Reader Lite 9.0 Revised - Bloat-Free Version of Adobe Reader

Adobe Reader Lite 9.0 Revised (Windows, Freeware, 16.6MB) [download via FileForum] is a bloat-free version of the PDF viewer, Adobe Reader.

Changes:

• Removed autorun and desktop shortcuts
• Converted the startmenu shortcut to non-advertised
• Removed several features and plugins that the average user has no need for
• Removed Beyond Adobe and Lic. Agreement popups
• Removed all (auto)update® features
• Removed AcroRd32Info.exe because it was a waste of good memory, and space

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