OpenOffice 3.2.0 Suite Final version has been released after series of beta version releases. There are lots of changes and enhancements in this latest version. One of the most important improvement of OpenOffice 3.2.0 is faster startup times for Open Office writer, calc and draw applications, enhanced support for proprietary formats like password protected Microsoft Office files, improved statistics functions and many more. You can get complete details of new added features and improvements from the official page here.

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RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility. RSSOwl is a cross platform software so it can be used on all major platforms like Windows, Linux and Apple Mac OS X. With Multiple Tab feature you can display multiple news feed side by side as similer in web browser.

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Microsoft has released first Beta of it’s upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 for the general public. The download of beta was available in advance for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The latest release some very interesting feature additions like :-

• Enhanced File Menu that enables user to manage their documents, set permissions and share their projects with colleagues.
• SkyDrive feature enable user to save their files online on a cloud-based storage systems with 25GB of free space allocated to user. The files stored can be retrieved anywhere.
• PowerPivot enables user to pull in data like streaming movie and large spreadsheet from a huge external source.
• Outlook Social connector helps you keep track of your friends and colleagues on cyber space. Performance and stability enhancement are also there.

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Based on Openoffice.com technology, IBM’s Office Suite can be a nice alternative for MS Office. Although it’s based on openoffice.com technology it’s not an open source but just a freeware, which never comes in way when trying this Office Suite. The latest version has many new features like support for Microsoft Office 2007 files,password protection for spreadsheets, and envelope printing. The toolbar and menu are more accessible and usable, too. Mail merge, drop and drag file access, and Arial default font seem like small changes but they dramatically increase the usability of the suite. Lotus Symphony uses Open Document format by default for saving files.

A major draw back is that it consumes a lot of memory and could slowdown your rest of running .programs.

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Sumatra PDF is and open source PDF viewer. Sumatra PDF has been trimmed of all non essentials features and functionality thus making it a slim PDF viewer. The software consists of only one executable file and can also be used as a portable version. continue reading…