OpenOffice.org 2.4.0

by zzillezz on March 26, 2008

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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XnView 1.93.1

by zzillezz on March 21, 2008

XnView is a multi-platform software used for viewing, converting and manipulating graphic files. It supports more than 400 image file formats, is free of charge for private usage, easy to use and can be made portable (like on a usb-stick). (…)

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Apple Safari 3.1

by zzillezz on March 19, 2008

If you’re on a Mac, you’re probably using the Safari browser to surf the web. But if you’re a webdesigner or web developer using Windows, it might be interesting to see how your work is displayed in Safari. Apple claims (…)

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WordPress 2.5 RC1

by zzillezz on March 18, 2008

Installed Wordpress 2.5 RC1 that was released this morning. The site seems to load faster, but most of the changes are under the hood. The admin panel has been completely redesigned, for the better I must say. There’s better handling of images and media files, you can generate (…)

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Winamp 5.53 build 1898 beta

by zzillezz on March 18, 2008

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x (…)

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Any Video Converter Free 2.5.8

by zzillezz on March 18, 2008

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, (…)

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FileZilla 3.0.8

by zzillezz on March 18, 2008

FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be (…)

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Guifications plugin for Pidgin

by zzillezz on March 18, 2008

Guifications is a Pidgin plugin that displays “toaster” popups in a user-defined corner of the screen, similar to features that have been added to the official MSN Messenger (now called Windows Live Messenger), Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger clients. (…)

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Solid Sounds

by zzillezz on March 9, 2008

I’ve been buying the Solid Sounds compilations by News since they first came out in 1996. Their motto was “music for the club generation”. I also followed their Serious Beats compilation up until volume 28. After that Serious Beats became (…)

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Pidgin 2.4.0

by zzillezz on March 1, 2008

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.