Vixta.org is a Fedora based Linux distribution to get a vista style look for the fedora linux. From the screenshots it looks like Windows vista style. I don't have access to a Fedora Linux machine to test this one. If you like what you see on the screenshots go and get your copy from ... Read More →
Google Presentation App Goes Live
Google finally launched the much awaited presentation tool in Google's online office suite. This tool is named Presently and has the basic functionality of powerpoint. The web interface is simple and and usable like other Google Apps, i like Google Apps because of their simplicity and ease of use. ... Read More →
Open Source FTP Client Filezilla 3.0 Released
The popular open source FTP client Filezilla version 3.0 released. This main feature of this version is now it runs on Windows Linux BSD, Mac OS X and other platforms. According to the author the internals of FileZIlla have been streamlined and modernized and he has spent 3 and half years to ... Read More →
Windows Live Translator Beta From Microsoft
Windows Live Translator is a new beta service from Microsoft for automatic machine translation of text and web pages. The tool lets you translate text from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, and vice versa for some ... Read More →
40+ Free Windows Software alternatives
This post is the part 2 of my earlier post 20 Open Source Windows Apps For You, i got lot of feedback for that post and my readers suggested some excellent programs to be included in that list. So here i am listing all those programs which i have missed in my earlier post. Do check the earlier post ... Read More →
Content-Aware Image Resizing
This image resizing and manipulation looks interesting, it resizes the image without losing the original features. Images can be shrunken or expanded with out distoring the image. Check the video for the demonstration. This unique algorithm developed by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan ... Read More →
Media Coder: Audio/Video Transcoder
MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which integrates th emost popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. Media Coder is a êrfect solution for converting videos to different formats. The best features of Media Coder is the conversion for audio/video ... Read More →
5 Useful Windows XP Powertoys
Powertoys are small add-ons from Microsoft to tweak or enhance your windows XP experience. If you are a serious windows user then you should be using these and these can be downloaded from Microsoft for free. Here is a list of my favorite power toys to increase productivity. Image Resizer: You ... Read More →
20 Open Source Windows Apps For You
Some of the commercial software like Photoshop are so expensive that an average user can not afford to buy it. Lately I am looking for some free or open source alternatives for windows programs and i was amazed with the range of programs available. Here i will list some of the open source or free ... Read More →
Inkscape: Open Source Vector Graphics Tool
From past few days i am playing with Inkscape, a open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape functionality is similar to Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand or Xara X, it uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. So far i am impressed with ... Read More →