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IBM Lotus Symphony – a Free office suite

April 15th, 2010 admin

The struggle against the monopoly of Microsoft on the desktop now has a new player. IBM has also joined the community of developers of OpenOffice. Org and launches his own sequel: IBM Lotus Symphony.

The initial suite of tools integrated with Lotus Notes collaboration suite, IBM Lotus Symphony incorporates the main features of Open Office, in which it has shared much of the source code. No surprise, the various elements that comprise the suite, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software, are very classic and will suit the majority of common tasks.

With the support of Open Document Format – validated as a standard by international organizations – it supports native export to PDF, and compatible with Microsoft Office documents and many other features.

If IBM Lotus Symphony inherits the qualities of openness of Open Office, it also draws a line under its faults. Forget the phrase "free = ugly". The interface is clear and colorful. The icons are readable and enjoyable. The interface is not left with a side panel, resizable and detachable, which allows you to change many settings (like the size of a font or alignment of a paragraph) without going through menus.

More original: the interface remains constant whatever the type of document. They appear in the tabs and nothing prevents us from having next to a text document and a spreadsheet. To easily navigate among your tabs, a feature to display a thumbnail of all open documents on one page and search their file names.

Still very young, IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite already very attractive. A new player to follow closely in the field of open office.

Recent changes IBM Lotus Symphony:

Supports Office 2007 files

OS compatible with IBM Lotus Symphony:

OS: WinXP / Vista

Minimum Req:

Memory: 1 GB

Space: 900 MB

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Pros:

  • Free
  • Complete office suite.
  • Interface with one window

Cons

  • Download and installation complicated
  • Templates is poor
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PDF Splitter Software Review

April 15th, 2010 admin

PDF Splitter is a useful application that allows dis-unite the pages of a PDF in order to treat them separately.

The software handles everything in the simplest way. The interface opens on the tree of your system. Simply pick up the documents you are interested in your records and check the box in front of their names. By clicking "Split", you land on a sort of tutorial where the entire process is explained. PDF Splitter offers of extracting each page of your document or just those that you specify. Better: set yourselves the cut points on the page!

Very helpful PDF Splitter is a valuable tool for office work.

Formats supported by PDF Splitter: PDF, PS, EPS, EPI, PRN

Limitations:

  • 30 days trial
  • A message reminds you that the software is not paid.
  • Commercial use prohibited.

OS compatible with PDF Splitter: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista

Pros:
Easy to use
Executable from command line
Rename each document
Cons
Cannot think of any as of now.

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Sumatra pdf Reader Review

April 15th, 2010 admin

"Powerful Open Source PDF Viewer "

Get rid of Acrobat Reader, the official Adobe Reader which takes years to load and choose a lightweight solution, free, fast and Open Source.
The application comes down to more basic. You associate the software to open PDF and the latter runs automatically to provide an overview of your files. Nothing could be easier. And that's all!
No options unnecessary. Here, what matters is the display. Sumatra PDF can see your documents in a flash and print. Let the PDF creation with others. Simple, Open Source, Sumatra merely the minimum but it does it well.

Recent changes Sumatra PDF: Stable Release

OS compatible with Sumatra PDF: Win2000/XP/Vista/7

Pros:
Easy
Fast
Open Source

Cons:
None as of now.

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PDF-xchange Viewer Download

April 15th, 2010 admin

Finally a serious alternative for reading PDF documents. PDF-XChange Viewer is lighter, faster and more feature rich than most of its competitors. You will be surprised by the speed with which it opens the large PDF files and the smooth scrolling of windows. Navigation is facilitated by tools like a magnifying glass and an optional navigation window, which displays a thumbnail preview of the current document.

It is possible to annotate documents, and draw geometric shapes or freehand to highlight a particular area. All this information added to a PDF can be saved with the document.

About the license:
The free version includes most features of the Pro version, except that you will see the emergence of a logo "demo" on each page of PDF document that you save.
To avoid this, we must acquire the Pro version on the publisher's website.
OS compatible with PDF-XChange Viewer: OS: Win2000/XP/Vista/7

Pros:

  • Very flexible
  • Add shapes and text

cons:
None as of now

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Microsoft Calculator Plus Review

April 15th, 2010 admin

This application allows for performing conversions between different units of measure or currency.
It also includes the calculation functions provided by the calculator that comes with Microsoft Windows.
Microsot has two skins, the traditional gray and blue!

A 439 KB download, why deprive yourself of these advanced features handy?

OS compatible with Microsoft Calculator Plus: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

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Review of MaCalculatrice

April 15th, 2010 admin

A very nice little calculator, which interface suits based on calculations that you intended to do!

This software allows, in addition to its basic function of converter (595 units divided into 28 sizes)
to obtain 7 different calculators:

Basic calculator
Scientific Calculator
Calculator tape
Unit Converter
Geometric Calculator
Calculator Hours (2h56'6''+''15h25'7) x2 =?
Graphing Calculator

OS compatible with MaCalculatrice: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

System Requirements:
. NET Framework 2.0

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CCCalc Review

April 15th, 2010 admin

CCCalc is a simple calculator which is distinguished by a unique interface like the old schoolbooks.

You can customize the background of the interface, the font and precision internal calculations or rounded.
Only basic arithmetic operations are available, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and percentages.
CCCalc keeps all your transactions in memory rather handy, especially with the way "split screen" to keep an
eye on previous calculations.

Finally, all controls are performed with the keypad as a normal calculator. No surprises, just the functions for
small items daily. Users looking for more advanced features can turn to SpeedCrunch.

CCCalc calculator is a simple and pleasant to use daily. An ideal replacement for Windows calculator.

OS compatible with CCCalc: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista

Pros:
Nice GUI
Options Customizations
Cons
No scientific functions

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GraphCalc Review

April 15th, 2010 admin

GraphCalc calculator is a powerful and free Open Source for Windows.

There are moments in the life of a student, a scientist, engineer or a Hawaiian surfer where a simple calculator

is not enough. GraphCalc addressed primarily to those expert users and offers all the mathematical functions which
they can dream.

Daily arithmetic to the statistical analysis through the calculation of derivatives or of integrals, GraphCalc
provides a wide variety of tools through a simple interface to take control.

The various functions, calculations, charts in 2D and 3D graphics, each with a tab and the menu of their own.
GraphCalc has a library of over 1500 constants covering the fields of mathematics, physics of the astronomy and
chemistry.

The program also offers a unit converter and a powerful scripting language to automate your calculations.
A library with calculations of areas and volumes is provided but you can also create your own customized and
integrated into the menu.

The graphical portion GraphCalc can draw 10 equations simultaneously in 2D and 6 in 3D. You can set the color
curves and their way of tracing. In 3D, you can use the mouse to move the "camera" view your curves and angles.
The curves can be exported to Bitmap format (image) or DXF (AutoCad). You can also directly print or copy them
to the clipboard.

Complete, powerful and free GraphCalc is a serious tool, suitable for demanding users.

OS compatible with GraphCalc: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP
Specifications:
OpenGL
compatible graphics card

Pros:
Many functions
2D and 3D
Library constants
Converting units
Cons
Not for general use.

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ZSGCalc Review

April 15th, 2010 admin

ZSGCalc is a computer scientist who not only offers the possibility to create, copy, print, save and edit in

2D graphics, but also to work in a "natural" with complex numbers (which does not exclude the real pure or
integers).

ZSGCalc has many functions (operators) predefined, special or otherwise, such as Bessel functions, orthogonal
polynomials (Chebychef, Legendre, …), the confluent hypergeometric functions, duties beta, gamma and .
and ofcourse all the basic functions, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions.

Integration, derivation, resolution of ordinary differential equations are also available and this in the
complex plane! With ZSGCalc you can also work on vectors, matrices or arrays of any size, create your own c
onstants, arrays and functions to one or more variables (complex course).

ZSGCalc can also create graphics or drawing away from academic considerations. To this end,
thirty predefined forms part is available, insert images or text is run, copy / paste also custom polygons and
Bezier curves are present.

In addition, ZSGCalc now has anti-aliasing and interpolation of images, ensuring excellent quality graphics
it produces and makes them quite worthy of inclusion in your documents.

OS compatible with ZSGCalc: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

Pros
Excellent graphics quality
Many functions supported
Indispensable

Cons
Not suitable for general users

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Microsoft Excel Viewer- a Free excel viewer

April 15th, 2010 admin

Microsoft Excel Viewer is a free viewer to read Excel files (XLS). Useful if you have not installed Microsoft Office Suite.  Microsoft Excel Viewer is compatible with all formats of Excel files but requires installation of Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Office 2007 file format (XLSX).  Once installed, Microsoft Excel Viewer does not cause any difficulty in use. You can read and print the selected files, but can not edit them.  If you want to go to the editing of documents you must acquire a license of Microsoft Office or go for a free alternative such as OpenOffice.org .   Formats supported by Microsoft Excel Viewer: XLS, XLT, XLM, XLC, xlw  Notes: To read the files in Excel 2007, you must install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack  OS compatible with Microsoft Excel Viewer: OS: Win2000/XP/2003 

Pros

  • Free
  • Easy to use
  • Lighter Excel 

Cons: Does not allow to modify files

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