The KOffice team has announced the release of KOffice 2.2, the free and open source office suite. KOffice 2.2 comes half a year after the release of KOffice 2.1 and brings many new features and bug fixes.
Top amongst these new features is the return of Kexi data management application with a new user interface and a new reporting framework, it was last released in KOffice 1.6. More»
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p7zip is the Unix port of 7-zip, the open source file archiver that archives with a very high compression ratio. p7zip provides 7z with LZMA high-compression format and 7za. More»
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Opera software has just released the first alpha of Opera 10.60 web browser for all platforms. Opera 10.6x brings speed, performance improvements for JavaScript, DOM and CSS, an improved user interface (UI), and lots of bug fixes. More»
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Desktop notifications are deployed to notify users that something important has happened in the “background”. Desktop notifications are now available to extensions in Chrome 5, which means developers can start using the notifications API in their extensions to deliver non-modal messages from web sites. Notifications from an extension have no permission prompts or infobar warnings. More»
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Mozilla has just released the first release candidate of Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. If you’re currently testing Thunderbird 3.1 then check for updates at Help -> Check for updates or download Thunderbird 3.1 RC 1 directly from the Mozilla web site. Thunderbird 3.1 RC 1 comes with improved performance to stability, memory usage, and password handling, web compatibility and sustainability. More»
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