Google Docs Viewer Now Handles ZIP and RAR Archive Files

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Google Docs Viewer just got a lot more useful. It now lets you view archive file types, ZIP and RAR contents online.

The Google Docs Viewer is an online service by Google which allows you to quickly view many file types. Using it, you can view PDFs, Microsoft Office files, and many image file types online and without leaving your browser. According to the official Google Docs Blog, now, if someone sends you a ZIP or RAR file in your Gmail, you’ll be able to view its contents from within your browser by clicking on View. This works for archives inside archive files too. Like, if you have a ZIP file inside a RAR file (or vice versa) you can simply click on that file to get access to the contents of the embedded archive.

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SpringPublisher: Design & Print Flyers, Business Cards, Letterheads [Freeware]

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SpringPublisher is a freeware desktop publishing application for Windows. The application lets you easily create business cards, flyers, postcards, letterheads and other artworks within a few minutes.

Quality free software for creating business cards, flyers, postcards and letterheads are very sparse. Professional desktop publishing applications are normally very costly. But SpringPublisher comes here to fill in the void. With its powerful multilayered editor and lots of templates, your desktop publishing task becomes easier. [Read more...]

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Vectorian Giotto: Create Flash Animation Without Adobe Flash [Freeware]

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Last year in August, we reviewed a powerful flash animation software titled “Vectorian Giotto.” Back then it was a premium software worth $89.95. Vectorian Inc., the developers of Vectorian Giotto has announced a great news for all. They have released the new and redesigned version of Vectorian Giotto 3.0 and made it completely free. The developers also said that the new version is exactly 4 and a half times easier to work with the earlier version.

Vectorian Giotto helps create professional quality Flash animations without coding and experience. The application features more than 50 customizable effects that can be applied to both shapes and text. With over a 100 effect presets in store, it can display your flash content in different ways which you can adjust easily. The developer’s website hosts a very handy help manual with many tutorials to guide you through. Although it features full ActionScript 2.0 support, designers won’t need to think about this as the animation is created without any coding required.

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If you are wondering what is the difference between Giotto and Adobe Flash Professional? Here’s what the developers are saying:

Vectorian Giotto is simpler, easier to use and much cheaper alternative software to Adobe Flash. Both applications use similar approach (with Giotto being easier to use) to produce SWF (“Small Web Format” or “Shockwave Flash”) files that can be embedded into websites to enrich them with animation and/or interactivity.

Using the free flash creator software you can create from simplest to complex vector illustrations, apply effects to them (blur, shadow, glow) and then animate them. You can create Movie Clips and Buttons, store them in the library and use them later. You can easily work with text elements and adjust things such as kerning and alignment. The animation can be executed using motion, shape tweens. Sounds can be included in your creations to make more advanced animations.

The built-in editor of the application’s color palettes is very intuitive. The editor uses special algorithms build upon human perception of colors instead of the old school mathematical models.

To conclude, Vectorian Giotto 3.0 is certainly a very remarkable tool for designers who don’t want to code but instead concentrate on their designing, plus the application is completely freeware for all. You can download Vectorian Giotto 3.0 freeware from the official webpage.

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LibreOffice 3.4.0 Released, TDF Clarifies Version Numbering

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Oracle’s decision to give OpenOffice.org (OOo) assets to the Apache Software Foundation and not The Document Foundation (TDF) has not stopped TDF to roll out a major release of LibreOffice (LO), a fork of OpenOffice. LibreOffice is widely adopted now and is becoming very popular. Major Linux distros including Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint has dropped OOo for LO.

LibreOffice 3.4.0 is the second major release of the suite since the announcement of TDF in September 2010. LO 3.4.0 is a major release of the open-source free office suite now incorporates the contributions of more than 120 developers (six times as many as the first beta released on the launch date).

LibreOffice was created as a fork of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite back in September, of course, due to uncertainty over the future of OOo after Oracle acquired the project. [Read more...]

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LibreOffice 3.3.2: Open-Source Alternative of Microsoft Office

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LibreOffice is a fork of the popular open-source office suite, OpenOffice. LibreOffice is a free power-packed Open Source personal office productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. It provides six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document Foundation. The Document Foundation maintains LibreOffice release schedule thanks to a growing and vibrant community of developers. Its developers’ goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements. The name is a hybrid word with the first part Libre, which means free (as in freedom) in both Spanish and French, and the English word Office.

The Document Foundation has recently announced the release of LibreOffice 3.3.2, the second micro release of the free office suite for personal productivity. The latest update improves the stability of the software and sets the platform for the next release 3.4, due in mid May. The community of developers has been able to maintain the tight schedule thanks to the increase in the number of contributors, and to the fact that those that have started with easy hacks in September 2010 are now working at substantial features. In addition, they have almost completed the code cleaning process, getting rid of German comments and obsolete functionalities. [Read more...]

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Google Docs Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office Now Available

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GoogleDocs official blog announced on Thursday that Google is releasing the final version of a new plug-in, named Cloud Connect, for Microsoft Office users that will automatically sync their documents to Google Docs. With Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office plug-in, Google brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft Office experience. Functionality of this plug-in is like that of Microsoft’s Office Web Apps functionality and sync to SkyDrive.

The plug-in is available today and will work on Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010. It will allow users to automatically backup a copy of their Word documents into Google Docs. Google says its plug-in will backup documents to Google Apps each time a user saves a document in Microsoft Office. [Read more...]

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JPG to PDF Converter: Free License Giveaway [Expired]

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JPG to PDF Converter is a software utility for Windows that can easily and quickly convert a set of images into a PDF document. It comes with an easy to use interface and supports most of the common image file formats including JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF, PNG, TGA, PBM, and PSD (Photoshop document format). You can further edit PDF title, create date, PDF subject, and PDF keywords, etc.

JPG to PDF Converter normally cost $29.95 for purchase. The developers of JPG to PDF Converter are now giving away a full licence for their product for anyone that wants it until 22nd March, 2011.  You can download JPG to PDF Converter along with your free giveaway product key from the giveaway page link given at the end of the article. [Read more...]

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novaPDF Professional Desktop [Exclusive 5 Licenses Giveaway Expired]

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novaPDF is a PDF creator that let users convert any type of documents that is printable into standard PDF files. There are three editions of novaPDF available: Lite, Standard, and Professional. Thanks to Softland, the developers of novaPDF for sponsoring the giveaway of novaPDF Professional Desktop edition. At the end of this article you will see how to take part in the giveaway and win one of the 5 Pro licenses each worth $49.95.

Using novaPDF, you can able to create PDF documents and easily share them. The resulted PDF files can be viewed on any computer with a PDF reader installed. novaPDF is actually a PDF printer driver which is compatible with 32/64-bit editions of Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, Windows 7 operating systems. It doesn’t require any third-party tools to be installed to generate the PDF file (like Adobe Acrobat Pro or GhostScript). [Read more...]

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