IBM Lotus Symphony: Free Office from IBM

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Richly-featured productivity tools that are intuitive to use and compatible with your files.

Provided at no charge for your home, school or business.

Lotus Symphony Documents

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Lotus Symphony Presentations

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Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets

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Benefits for businesses, developers...and you

IBM® Lotus®Symphony™ offers something for everyone – a community-oriented site, a template gallery, and tips and support to help you succeed. Your business can get more control over spiraling upgrade costs while protecting and maintaining documents into the future. If you’re a developer, Lotus Symphony supports Microsoft® Windows® and Office applications, which means you get even more from your current investments. Read more... Users | Businesses | Developers

How is Lotus Symphony different?

You're in charge! Lotus Symphony is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard-which means you're not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades. Finally, free tools and freedom of choice!

Can Lotus Symphony handle my existing files?

With Lotus Symphony, you can import, edit and save a variety of file formats including Microsoft Office files. You can even export your documents to Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF). The tools work with computers running both Microsoft Windows and Linux- environments, with support for Apple Macintosh planned for the future.

Internet Download Manager v5.11

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 500 percent, resume and schedule downloads. IDM has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.

New in Version 5.11 (Jun/20/2007)

1. Completely redeveloped IDM scheduler. Added periodic synchronization of files and the possibility to create new queues for downloading or synchronization. Added new features on starting and stopping queue processing
2. Improved user interface. Added processing of context menu key, fixed tabbing order on all dialogs, added mnemonic keys to the main menu and the menu of IDM Grabber
Version 5.11 includes all latest bug fixes

Download : Internet Download Manager v5.11

BitDefender Total Security 2008 Beta 1

BitDefender Internet Security covers all the security needs of an Internet-connected family. It provides comprehensive protection against viruses, spyware, spam, scams, phishing attempts, intruders and objectionable web content. BitDefender Internet Security is designed to place as little burden as possible on its users and on the host system, while providing state-of-the-art defense against current Internet threats.

New features included in BitDefender Total Security 2008 - Beta 1:
- New User Interface
- Tune Up and Backup
- New on-demand antimalware scanner
- Game mode

As you will see, the product comes with a new user interface and we welcome any ideas and feedback regarding its usability. The next beta will add some other items on the new features list like Defrag and bugfixes, all intended to improve your interaction with the product.

Known issues:
- Antimalware > Move to quarantine action for on-demand and on-access scanning fails
- Antimalware > Contextual scan on folders fails
- Antimalware > Game mode disabled on-access scanning
- Parental control > Web control does not block/allow sites added in the list of sites unless the site is properly formatted (http://[site]/)
- Firewall > The Firewall module is not integrated with WSC
- Firewall > BlueTooth connections fail due to the Firewall module
- Antispam > Antispam toolbar fails to be displayed in Windows Mail and Outlook Express
- TuneUp > Registry Cleaner and Registry Recover do not work on Windows Vista with UAC enabled
- TuneUp > For a large number of files, Duplicate Finder might be unresponsive
- Backup > On Windows Vista, Backup and Restore Wizards fail to work
- Installation> Sometimes uninstall fails. Please contact on beta.bitdefender.com for an uninstall tool.

Download: BitDefender Total Security 2008 Beta 1 for Windows XP and Vista 32b
Download: BitDefender Total Security 2008 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and XP 64b

Link: HomePage

Nero 7 Lite 7.9.6.0

Nero 7 Lite is a full functional Burning Software Suite including:
· Nero Burning Rom
· Nero Express
· Nero CoverDesigner
· Nero WaveEditor
· Nero Toolkit
· MauSau Audio Plugins
· Complete Nero Help

However Nero 7 Lite is still a lite pack, so these programs are left out:
· Nero Home
· nero Scout
· Nero StartSmart
· Nero SoundTrax
· Nero Vision
· Nero Recode
· Nero Showtime
· Nero MediaHome
· Nero PhotoSnap
· Nero BackItUp
· Nero InCD
· Nero SoundBox
· Nero ImageDrive

A micro version only contains Nero Burning Rom with basic Audio/VideoCD support (English).

Changes in version 7.8.5.0:
- Added: the option to select to associate Nero witn the standard CD image files.
- Added: the shortcut to Nero Express.

Download: Nero 7 Lite 7.9.6.0 | Mirror

Vista Codec Package 4.4.5

Codecs have always been a big problem for the computer users. That's because there has never been a 100% viable working solution available for the average computer user. There are several good codec package solutions out there, but none of them did everything i wanted. I was always in need of a tweak, adjustment, or even a reinstallation just to get the codecs I needed/wanted and most of the time, the file still didn't play. I've never claimed to be a media guru. My media experience is to doubleclick a file i downloaded and hope that it plays. What I do know is how to package software. So I decided to package some codecs and share them with the rest of the world. With this package all possible conflicts are already dealt with. Many user suggested default settings are implemented,

If you have a suggestion of improvement, I'm listening.

It does not contain a media player and it doesn't associates filetypes. With this package installed you will be able to use any media player, limited only by the players' capabilities, to play DVD's, movies and video clips of almost any filetype. Streaming video is supported in all popular web browsers. By default you won't need to make any adjustments to enjoy a variety of media content immediately. Users have the ability to choose what is installed using the public redistributable or after an unattended install, you can select to remove specific portions without removing the entire package. Future releases will recognize previous releases and are capable of performing upgrade installations.

changelog
- improved flv1/4 support
- add new support for SVCD's
- improved MPEG2-TS playback
- moved all icons into a DLL
- improved M2P playback
- fix xvidcore.dll issues (Vista)
- update ffdshow components 1187
- AC3Filter is default AC3 decoder
- x64 users - get the v123 update

Download : Vista Codec Package 4.4.5