Amaya 10.1

A complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface
Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

Work on Amaya started at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies in a fully-featured Web client. The main motivation for developing Amaya was to provide a framework that can integrate as many W3C technologies as possible. It is used to demonstrate these technologies in action while taking advantage of their combination in a single, consistent environment.

Amaya first started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editing software. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.

What's New in This Release:

· New features
· Redesign of the user interface: new toolbars, palettes, panels
· A contextual menu provides navigation and editing commands.
· Within a template instance, the contextual menu allows one to insert and append template components
· Tools can be displayed on the left, or on the right, or custumized tool by tool
· There are now two editing modes: tthe word processing mode (called Text mode) or the XML editing mode (called XML). A button allows one to switch the mode quickly.
· On/Off buttons or entries can be used to go in/out of an inline element.
· For example you click strong, enter the strong text, then click strong to close the element.
· Insert and Append commands must be used to insert before and after the selected structure element
· First implementation of Amaya themes
· Possibility to change tabs order or to display two documents side by side
· There is now an icon in each tab area to close it (not available on mac)
· The application now doesn't close when the last tab is closed
· New XHTML document allows one to create a simple document or a template instance
· Save As allows one to save without template when the document is a template instance
· The File menu gives now access to the list of recent open documents
· There is now a command Select All
· Amaya proposes new options when a table, an image or an object are created
· The links view display all elements with an id attribute as they are potential targets of a link
· Class attributes are now displayed in the status bar
· New management of the selection within tables
· Reconfiguration of menus
· Profiles for customization of the user interface
· Bug fixes
· Set the environment variable G_SLICE="always-malloc" to prevent a crash on new Linux platforms (the crash occurs as soon as a dialog is displayed)
· A reference to the current page now moves to the top of page
· Amaya generated an explicit lang="en" attribute when an element of an English document is copied and pasted into a French document
· "Preserve Lines When Pasting" didn't work correctly in MacOS X
· The Preferences dialog didn't display correctly
· In dialogs, buttons that clear an URI are now displayed close to the URI
· It's now possible to delete a link with the Link dialog
· Maps areas could be lost
· The CSS parser now detects the BOM character
· Large background images could crash the application on Windows
· When changing or deleting the same attribute for several contiguous elements, only the first element in the set has the change/deletion applied.
· Avoid several concurrent download of a document
· Dialogs are now displayed at the current cursor position
· Amaya didn't complain and could generate invalid markup for an Xhtml Strict or Basic document when an element was not inside a block element.
· On MacOS X, the menu items Copy/Cut/Paste were disabled after having double-clicked a file in the file browser.
· Fix a problem with CSS background images loading.

avast! 4 Home Edition 4.8.1296

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avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use. avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/4 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows.

avast! Home Edition includes the following components:

    * On Demand Scanner - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button.
    * On Access Scanner - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses.
    * E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
    * Network Shield - scans traffic for malicious content - lightweight Firewall.
    * Resident protection for IM programs (e.g. MSN Messenger, ICQ) and P2P programs (e.g. Kazaa, DirectConnect).
    * Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
    * Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it.
    * Screen Saver Scanner - scans PC during your coffee breaks.
    * Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.

True incremental updates of size under 100 KB are available at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of emergency of new virus. avast! automatically checks for new updates - downloads, installs and loads them without restart or logoff. Program upgrades are available time to time, they are incremental too (about 300 KB).

avast! 4 Home is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and other languages - check http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html to download avast! in your language.
You will download a 60 days fully functional demo. You will obtain the FREE license key by E-mail after the registration at http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG.

What's New in version 4.8.1296:

    * minor improvements in some unpackers
    * improvements in the false positive submission system
    * speed optimization in kernel-mode components
    * XML scan reports now generated in UTF-8 format (allow for non-Latin characters)

Ad-Aware 2007 Free 7.0.2.7

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Features:

    * Improved Code Sequence Identification (CSI) Technology – Boost your privacy protection with precise detection of embedded malware, including known and emerging threats.
    * Incremental Definition File Updates – Save precious time and resources with smaller update files resulting in faster download times.

     * Redesigned Engine – Benefit from superior program flexibility and more accurate scanning methods with all-new program architecture.

    * TrackSweep - Control privacy by erasing tracks left behind while surfing the Web on Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera, with one easy click.
    * Multiple Browser Support – Choose Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera with expanded browser support.
    * New Straightforward User Interface – Effortlessly maneuver the complexities of malware detection and removal with our new user-friendly interface.
    * User-Controlled Spyware Removal - Decide for yourself what to delete from your system and what to keep.
    * Extensive Detection Database – Stay protected with regular updates from the extensive library of identified and analyzed spyware.
    * System Restore Point – Easily revert back to your clean system to recover from a spyware attack.

RoamDrive

Nowadys, email accounts have huge storage space, which largely remains unutilized. For instance, my Gmail account has 3.5 GB storage space, but currently uses only 112MB. Why not put the remaining space for some productive use. There are many free web tools, with which you can use your email accounts to store your files.

This not only gives you additional storage space, but also lets you access your files from anywhere, from any computer connected to Internet.

RoamDrive, is one such utility, I specially like. It makes the process to store your files just a simple drag and drop activity. You don’t need to send the files as email attachments. You just have to store once your username and password for once, and then use this nice tool just like a virtual storage space on you PC.

This free web tool works with Gmail, MSN and Hotmail.

Media Commander 1.7.4.3

This tool is useful for anyone who has large media library in his PC. Media Commander is a special media - files manager, that has some great ability due to its lists concept. Media Commander is a tool designed to help you to find and organize music, pictures, video or any other files, to play and show many type of files.

Created especially for huge mp3/wav collection, this program can be very useful to find and remove unnecessary duplicate files, to index CD/DVD/HDD, to create MP3 playlist file (even without having the physical disks in drive), to search for files/folders on any drive, even in ZIP, RAR, ACE and other archives type, and, in conjunction with your mp3/wav player ( recommended Winamp or other player who use M3U playlist ), to offer a comfortable media experience.

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AVG AntiVirus Free 8.0.176a1400

 

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With this free distribution version of the popular AVG Anti-Virus system, you will get a reliable tool for your computer protection against computer viruses.

Features:

    * Automatic update functionality
    * The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
    * The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
    * The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
    * Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
    * AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
    * Great customer satisfaction!

Please note that any previous version of AVG Free will be un-installed automatically during the installation of the new AVG Free.

What's New in version 8.0:

    * 8.0 now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.

UnderCoverXP 1.20

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UndercoverXP is a small program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes. Other formats can be easily added via a graphical format editor.

UnderCoverXP is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries. And best of all... it's free!

UnderCoverXP is available in 25 languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Portugese, Polish, Macedonian, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian, Brazilian, Chzech, Latvian, Chinese, Japanese, Catalan and Arabic translations are included in the setup.

What's New in version 1.20:

    * Portability: Added a portable version to the Software section.
    * Translations: Updated the Russian translation.
    * Portability: Some (unneccessary) empty registry entries were still created.
    * Printing: Fixed a problem when "print on a single page" was checked but no second image was selected.
    * Skins: Added grayscale option for skins.
    * Skins: Added a "clean" skin, a Media skin and a Santa skin.
    * Skins: Added options to configure text, background and combobox colors for skins.
    * Online Help: Added (initial) Online Help.
    * User Interface: Added context menu to left and right preview windows for Load, Print, Rotate and New.
    * User Interface: Cosmetic changes for several dialogs.

Media Commander 1.7.4.3

This tool is useful for anyone who has large media library in his PC. Media Commander is a special media - files manager, that has some great ability due to its lists concept. Media Commander is a tool designed to help you to find and organize music, pictures, video or any other files, to play and show many type of files.

Created especially for huge mp3/wav collection, this program can be very useful to find and remove unnecessary duplicate files, to index CD/DVD/HDD, to create MP3 playlist file (even without having the physical disks in drive), to search for files/folders on any drive, even in ZIP, RAR, ACE and other archives type, and, in conjunction with your mp3/wav player ( recommended Winamp or other player who use M3U playlist ), to offer a comfortable media experience.

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Free Icon Editor - IcoFX 1.6.4

IcoFX is a freeware icon editor. Create easily icons with transparency for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

In the integrated workspace you can easily preview, save, change your icons. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images. With the help of many tools and more than 40 effects icon creation is made easy. It offers powerful tools like Brighten, Darken, Blur and Sharpen for retouching your icons in minutes.

Features:

    * Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
    * Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
    * Support for transparency (alpha channel)
    * More than 40 effects + custom filter
    * Resolutions up to 256x256
    * Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
    * Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
    * Import and export images
    * Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools
    * Built in resource editor for creating icon libraries or changing icons inside exe files
    * Zoom icons up to 10000% for increased precision
    * Import image dialog, for creating icons from images
    * Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa
    * Open, save, edit and convert Macintosh OS X icons
    * Extract Macintosh icons from resource files
    * Snapshot window for creating overviews of the icons

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How to create windows XP live CD in 15 mins

Microsoft Windows XP live CD is the best way to boot into the Operating System without installation into the computer. By using this XP Live CD you can use XP and its features without actually installing them. This sounds cool, right? Creating a Live CD is not a big problem. It just involves adding of some plugins. One of the easiest ways to do this is using a software called pebuilder. Using it, you can create an XP Live CD in just about 15 minutes!
Here’s all the software you’ll need:
pebuilder3110a1.exe, which can be downloaded from
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/nu2files/pebuilder3110a.exe
Plugins: xpe-1.0.7.cab (the GUI shell) from http://tinyurl.com/2ct72t and Other plugins from www.bootcd.us/BartPE_Plugins_Complete.php
Nero Burning ROM
A (bootable) XP CD
Thw XP live CD can be created by the following steps:
Step 1: Download pebuilder3110a1.exe and install it.
Step 2: For the wallpaper, replace C:\pebuilder3110a\bartpe.bmp with the image you want as your wallpaper. You can
find the default XP wallpaper at C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper\bliss.bmp.
(Both these, of course, assume the C drive as the installation location.)
Step 3: Download the plugins:
xpe-1.0.7.cab: This will create the XP start button and taskbar. It is the GUI shell of the XP Live CD.
Network Driver Plugin Pack: This provides many network card drivers
FreeAV Virus Scanner: This integrates FreeAV
diskexplorer_for_ntfs.cab: A very good file explorer And more you can choose what you want to download to add functionality. There are 537 plugins right now to choose from!
Step 4: Open pebuilder. Specify the source path to the Windows installation file. This should be your Windows XP installation bootable CD, where the i386 folder resides.
Step 5: Click Plugins and add the plugins you’ve downloaded. Since you’ve included xpe-1.0.7.cab, disable nu2shell and the startup group.
Step 6: Specify the ISO image file, and click Build.
Step 7: After that’s done, use Nero (or any other burning software) and burn the image file to a CD. You’re done!

Understanding PivotTables in Excel 2007

PivotTables enable you to extract meaning from large amounts of data. This description is deceptively simple because in fact PivotTables are powerful and  sophisticated tools that enable you to do things that would be impossible or difficult to do any other way. A PivotTable enables you to take what seems to be an  indecipherable mass of facts and extract any trends and patterns buried in the data. You can organize and summarize your data, perform comparisons, and extract meaningful information that can be
invaluable to you and your organization. A PivotTable can work with data that is located in an Excel workbook and also with data from an external database. This is an important factor because it enables you to analyze data sets that are much too large to be contained in a
workbook. Now that Excel 2007 is here, this point seems less important than in the past.
With a capability of one million rows, it seems probable that most data sets will fit into a workbook easily. A more compelling reason to work with an external database is that it ensures data integrity throughout an organization—not to mention that it is easier than
importing the data into Excel just to create a PivotTable.
Why the term pivot? It comes from an analogy between the way PivotTables work and the way you investigate a physical object. Imagine that you have been handed a complex device and asked to figure out what it does. You don’t just look at it from one angle; rather you turn it in your hands, examining it from all possible perspectives to be sure you do not miss any important clues. PivotTables work the same way, enabling you to turn or pivot the
raw data and examine it from various perspectives to extract the information you need.
Then you also have the option of creating a PivotChart, a graphical representation of the information in a PivotTable.

Suppose you work for a chain of sporting-goods stores. Every day you receive a report from each store that includes complete details on that day’s activities, such as number of customers each hour, sales in each of 30 categories, items returned for refund or exchange,
and number of employees on duty at different times of the day. It won’t be long before your Excel workbook is chock-full of this raw data, but what good does it do you? You could stare at this information for hours without gaining any useful insights from it. But with a PivotTable you can quickly and easily answer the following types of questions:
• Which days of the week show the highest sales?
• Which categories of merchandise sell best at different times of the year?
• Are more employees scheduled to work during periods of the highest customer load?
• Do certain categories of merchandise suffer from unusually high rates of return or exchange?
These are the kinds of questions that a business needs to answer in order to operate efficiently. These are also the kinds of questions that PivotTables are designed to answer. The same kinds of analysis are appropriate for almost any kind of data you can imagine, from
political surveys to weather patterns, from quality control in a manufacturing plant to test scores in a high school. That’s the beauty of PivotTables—they are powerful and flexible.

Usefull shortcut keys in MS Excel

To speed up my work I usualy use the shortcuts below. It works faster than you clik the ribbons in Excel 2007.

CTRL+SHIFT+ &  -> Applies the outline border to the selected cells.
CTRL+SHIFT+ _  -> Removes the outline border from the selected cells.

What is Draw?

Draw is well integrated with the other OpenOffice.org programs but stands completely on its own as well. It’s a great drawing program. Of course, it offers the basic drawing functions, such as the ability to automatically create lines, curves, circles, squares, 3-D spheres and more, but you can also use the following more advanced features with Draw:

· Customize your own glows, transparencies, gradients, bitmaps, or use ready-made gradients and import bitmaps.

· Use floating toolbars for easy access to create shapes, curves, lines,arrows, dimensional brackets, and more.

· Merge, subtract, intersect, rotate, and flip your graphics and otherwisemodify them in many ways.

· Edit points to fine-tune curves and polygons.

· Cross-fade images for animated dissolves and morphing.

What is Impress?

Impress creates presentations (also known as slide shows) that you display from your computer, often with a projector, so that people can see what is on your screen. Each page of a presentation is called a slide. You add slides to a presentation and then add text and graphics to each slide. You also have all you need to create a masterful presentation. Impress allows you to do the following:

· Create a presentation quickly with AutoPilot or a template

· Add notes to each slide that are just for the presenter

· View your presentation in several ways using the Drawing, Outline, Slide,Notes, Handout, and Slide Show views

· Save, print, and export and import in several formats (including yourfavorites)

· Format text characters and paragraphs

· Create bulleted and numbered lists

· Control the look of the presentation with a master slide

· Insert graphics and control them using layers

· Create your own graphics, including 3-D graphics

Add text animation and slide transitions

What is Calc?

Calc can calculate anything you hand it. It’s a full-featured spreadsheet program with all the great bells and whistles you’d expect from the best. While Calc is super at doing all the basic spreadsheet things, such as adding, sorting, manipulating rows and columns, and inserting graphics, Calc also lets you do the following:

· Link to external databases, such as dBase and MySQL (or even your email address book) and view, query, sort, filter, generate automatic reports and more, without affecting your original database.

· Use an intuitive graphical interface to organize your data from your spreadsheets or database.

· Filter your spreadsheet or database data to locate information quickly.

· Use automatic subtotaling with outlining capabilities to give you instant information of the big picture, whenever you need it.

· Use any and all of 364 built-in functions for financial, mathematical,statistical, database and other purposes. Or create your own formulas.

· Use extensive formatting capabilities, including autoformatting, style sheets, graphical backgrounds, fancy borders, as well as conditional formatting.

· Freeze headings, create multiple sheets for a 3-D spreadsheet, use split sheets, floating frames...

· Validate data (for example, require a specified format, such as a date)

· Save, print, and import and export a variety of formats (including your favorites)

Generate 3-D charts, try out goal seeking, protect your documents, create macros, and lots more.

What is Writer?

What do you use your word processor for? Jotting down notes to yourself? Writing letters? Or publishing an entire book with style sheets, automated indexing and table of contents generation, as well as bibliographies? Whether your needs are large or small, Writer is up to the job. Figure 1-1 is an example of a Writer document. Look familiar? This book was written in

OpenOffice.org. Of course, Writer does all the basic things that word processors do, but it

also allows you to do much more including:

· Design and create your own Web pages.

· Create forms for automatically inputting data into databases.

· Create personalized documents with Mail Merge, and link to your e-mail address book or external database.

· Use Text Frames and Linking to lay out such documents as newsletters and flyers.

· Automatically generate standard documents such as letters, faxes, agendas, minutes, or import or create your own templates.

· Create your own Style Sheets

· Import seventeen different types of text documents with ease, including “doc”, and “dot”; and export nineteen different file formats, including “pdf”, “html” and three kinds of “doc”s.

· Automatic indexing, tables of contents, bibliographical references; plus such details as custom headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes.

· Track changes; compare documents, Automatic outlining, Spellchecking, and Thesaurus.

· Automatically correct words, or automatically complete words as you type. (This is all completely customizable, of course.)

· Insert Dynamic fields (such as date and time) and hyperlinks.

· Connect to e-mail software.

Create and use macros.

Getting to Know OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is an exciting new Office suite program that is extremely powerful and completely free to everyone. It operates on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris, and it can easily read and write a plethora of file formats, including Microsoft Office. t is currently available in more than 30 languages, and people all over the world are migrating to OpenOffice.org for their entire office suite needs. Over sixteen million people currently use the program, and the total is increasing daily!

You don’t have to pay a single dime to use OpenOffice.org — either now or in the future! Sounds too good to be true? The more you learn about OpenOffice.org, the more fascinated you’ll become

What Is OpenOffice.org?

OpenOffice.org, the Office suite, includes the following four major applications:

• Writer: A full-featured word processor that also includes an HTML editor for designing Web pages
• Calc: An extremely capable spreadsheet program that also allows you to link to corporate databases
• Draw: An excellent drawing and graphics program for both 2-D and 3-D
• Impress: A very capable presentation program for creating electronic slide shows As its name suggests, OpenOffice.org is also a Web site. The Web site, at www.openoffice.org, is the home of the project that creates, markets, and distributes the applications.

AbiWord

AbiWord is a free word processor that is licensed under the GNU Public license. It provides most of the features that are normally found in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processor, including spell checking, the ability to have various fonts, as well as displaying on-screen what the document will look like when printed.
The way that AbiWord works is also very similar to most other word processing programs that are available on the market at the moment, and so skills in AbiWord will translate well into skills with most other word processing software.
AbiWord is a full-featured word processor originally developed by the SourceGear Corporation, and is now maintained by a open group of volunteers. The application code is quite mature and stable, and developers are adding new features to development branches daily.

Advantages
Some of the advantages of AbiWord are as follows:

1.     An open file format: many proprietary word processors use a file-format that is not disclosed.  This means that once you have created a lot of documents using that format it becomes very difficult to change to any other word processor since other programs are not able to read the documents that you have created.  Furthermore, by changing the document format every so often, the vendor is able to force you to purchase the next version - even if there are no useful new features to justify the upgrade cost.
2. Because it is free software (that is, the source code is freely available), bugs in the program can be fixed much faster because programmers from around the world have access to the code.  It may take much longer to have bugs fixed in proprietary word processors because you must wait for the company that owns the word processor to find the time to assign a programmer to fix it.  Also, the company will often require the users to pay for an upgrade containing fixes to the buggy program whereas bug fixes to free software such as AbiWord are available for no charge.
3. Another advantage of AbiWord is that, being free software, it is not only legal to share the program with your friends, but sharing the software is actually encouraged.
4. AbiWord runs on many different operating systems.  This means that if you use AbiWord as your main word processing program, rather than being tied to a particular operating system, you are free to use any other operating system at some point in the future with no problems with transition.  This allows for a great deal of choice when people are deciding what operating system they prefer to use on their computer.
5. It is easy to use.  AbiWord is designed to work in much the same way as most other easy to use word processors.  Using a combination of menus, icons and the graphical representation of the document on-screen as it will appear on the printed page, AbiWord is a very easy to use word-processing program.