The long waited open source email client Thunderbird 3 is now released! Upgrading from Thunderbird 2 to Thunderbird 3 is very easy and almost automatically.
Once you finished installing version 3, you’ll see Migration Assistant page with explanation of 3 new features worth knowing about. In my testing as I’m using IMAP, Thunderbird show its IMAP synchronize option and offer an alternative to not synchronize to save disk space and data traffic costs.
Thunderbird 3 Free Download is ON
The WooFunction Icon Set includes 178 amazing web-related icons in a sophisticated and glossy design style. All 178 icons are available as 32×32 pixel PNG files and we can assure you that they are indeed pixel-perfect. If you have an in-depth look at the individual icons, you’ll notice that Liam has spent a lot of time paying attention to the finer details, which means that this is a really classy icon set.
Download it here: http://www.woothemes.com/2009/09/woofunction/
Doing search and replace for a text in a file is easy, but it will become a tedious task to do if you have multiple files in several subdirectories. You’ll need a small program to do this and I have found one small program that works like charm.
ImBurn is a lightweight image burner for CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blue Ray disc. This free application support many format such as: BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
Using ImgBurn you can do these tasks:
ImgBurn
You can also use ImgBurn to create Audio CD from multiple audio format file supported via DirectShow / ACM – including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV. Making DVD video, HD DVD video or Blu-Ray video can be done easily.
To download ImgBurn you can go to: http://imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
Average computer user mostly do simple image or photo retouching such as cropping, rotate, resize, adding text, giving simple effects, etc. in this case Adobe Photoshop would be overkill and way too expensive to buy. A free software that I found is Paint.Net, which is surprisingly powerful for everyday image editing.
If you are looking for office software as an alternative to Microsoft Office, then IBM Lotus Symphony would be one of the best candidate. Lotus Symphony consist 3 applications: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. IBM Lotus Symphony can be downloaded for free at symphony.lotus.com
Lotus Symphony Home Screen
Google Picasa is the best image viewer that I ever use, and best of all is free. It’s very easy to manage photos and images using Picasa. When you install Picasa, it will do searching on your computer for images and photos then list and categorize it based on the folder name where your photos or images are stored.
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