Following my previous review on novaPDF Lite PDF Creator at Coolest-Gadgets website, I was informed of the next recent release of version 3.0, on March 28, 2006.

Offering as a cheap alternative to Adobe Acrobat, one of the most popular PDF file creator, novaPDF has improved on this release to match the dominance of the former. To repeat the same thing again, instead of resorting to illegal downloads, or purchasing pirated copies of Adobe Acrobat, novaPDF is available for download freely and yet does the job equally well in creating professional quality documents in industry-standard PDF file format.

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Following the release of the Microsoft Word alternative, ajaxWrite 0.9, ajax13 Inc. has went another step further by introducing ajaxSketch 0.9, an online web-based application for diagramming, creating flow charts, free hand drawing and even more. It is very much similar to the some of the popular brands of drawing softwares, but as usual, some of the complicated functions are simplified while keeping the fundamentals available to users. All the coding is based on Ajax programming, which makes the application completely web-based.

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One of the two most popular Linux Desktop Environment, KDE, has released the next version 3.5.2, since GNOME released its latest version of 2.14 two weeks ago, and its own last release of KDE 3.5.1 earlier in January.

This version of KDE is a maintenance release which provides corrections of bugs and problems reported via the KDE bug tracking system. In addition, there is an enhanced support for existing translations and new translations, now in 63 languages. If you want to know more, you can read the change log, over the previous KDE 3.5.1 version.

Linux users may install KDE by compiling the source codes directly. Alternatively, you can wait for your distribution to support this latest version, which incorporates several improvements, i.e. speed and stability.

Download the binary source code here.

Have you lost your Windows password? Or are trying to play a trick on your friends by finding out his or her password and logged onto their accounts? It was seemingly difficult especially Microsoft had made the Windows login quite secure, other than the fact that it is having some problem with Internet Explorer being buggy these few weeks.

Anyway, Ophcrack 2.2 is an open source Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. It was released recently just less than a week ago.

The software can be installed under Windows and Linux. See the latest change log below.

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What else can Google come up with? First, there is free 2.8GB GMail, then followed by Google Desktop, Google Earth, Goole Finance, and even application-based such as Google Talk (GTalk). Now, there is this Google Video.

However, there is not much of a difference between Google Video player and the player you already would have on your PC. Google Video player allows you to watch video downloaded from Google Video website.

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Filezilla is one of the best FTP client that I have come across. Besides supporting for FTP, it is also a SFTP client, allowing file transport via SSH, on port 22. In addition Filezilla Server allows user to set up a FTP server easily and quickly.

This is an open source project filed under SourceForge. Hence, it is available free for users to download.

Filezilla Project has also been nominated in the Best Overall and Networking categories of the 2006 Community Choice Awards, in which the winner will be announced at the Slashdot Lounge at LinuxWorld Expo, Boston on April 5, 2006.

Perhaps this is not for the “faint” hearted people. Essentially, this is especially for students. School Organizer is indeed a useful software that helps students to organise time-table and manage schedules so that they will not forget any dates with friends or classes.

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Most users nowadays use at least one of the popular IM (Instant Messaging) softwares, such as Skype, MSN Messenger, QQ, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger or ICQ. To make communication more beautiful, Free Bird Co. Ltd. has introduced vEmotion for users of these IMs.

vEmotion allows IM users to send voice and sound effects, and additional emotions to peers on the IM contact list. The added sound effects will make the IM call much more interesting and exciting than mere exchange of text messages.

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This post is going to capture a lot of users’ attention. If you are one who are always hogging onto the internet, enjoying taking up bandwidth as much as possible and also one who loves to write, this is going to be a lovely little toy. First of all, I have to claim that this is no software, instead this piece of “web-ware” or rather a web application. ajaxWrite 0.9 have introduced a complete streamlined word processor on a web-based AJAX platform (in contrast of our usual Operating System platform).

For those who are feeling hard to fork out cash to purchase Microsoft Word, ajaxWrite may be just for you. It is almost like a bare skeleton of Microsoft Word, yet sufficiently good enough for users to write any documents, and save in .doc format.

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If you had seen linux users accessing text console to send emails, either locally or via SSH, you might be wondering how cool it might have been to have such a feature implemented in Windows. Well, there may not be any specific Microsoft Sendmail tool, but there is a third party software from Digital Architects Software, introducing SendMailCMD 1.2 as a replacement for text-console sendmail feature.

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