Opera 9.20 beta

by zzillezz on March 30, 2007

Opera is a free, light and above all good browser. Mozilla Firefox is slow compared to Opera, and the Opera pop-up blocker just works, where in Firefox that isn’t always the case. If you have a website, and if you (…)

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OpenOffice.org 2.2.0

by zzillezz on March 30, 2007

OpenOffice.org is a free and powerful office suite. The look and feel might be a bit less intuitive compared to Microsoft’s Office suite, but it suits my needs. And because it’s free, open source and most important: good, it deserves (…)

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Paint.NET 3.05

by zzillezz on March 30, 2007

Paint.NET is a free photo and image editing tool designed for Windows XP or Windows 2000.

Gnome Partition Editor Live CD 0.3.4-3

by zzillezz on March 17, 2007

GParted-livecd has been released to gparted-livecd-0.3.4-3. The most important change is that the media now boots off the powerful GRUB boot loader ! Some new boot options have been set. “Logout” is now available from shutdown-menu, to kill X, if (…)

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Miranda IM 0.6.8

by zzillezz on March 14, 2007

Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, (…)

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FrostWire 4.13.1.6

by zzillezz on March 11, 2007

FrostWire is a free Gnutella client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. It was created in September 2005 after LimeWire LLC received a cease and desist letter from the RIAA, threatening to sue them for millions of (…)

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Kubuntu

by zzillezz on March 4, 2007

I’ve been playing around with Kubuntu for the past few days. Kubuntu is a Ubuntu derived Linux distribution, based on KDE. I installed the Herd 4 test release at first, but kept getting debconfig errors during apt-get updates. So I (…)

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