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Office Tools:
Open Office
OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Size: 149 MB Version:3.2.0 Licence:Open Source
7-Zip
7-Zip is designed for creating or unpacking archived and compressed files. The application can unpack 7zip, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB files, or create file archives in those formats. For the standard ZIP and GZIP formats, 7the application promises to deliver a compression ratio that is 2-10% better than that provided by PKZip or WinZip, and the native 7zip format can provide a 45% reduction in file size from the common zip format. Key features: High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL Supported formats: Packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR; Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10% better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip Self-extracting capability for 7z format Integration with Windows Shell Powerful File Manager Powerful command line version Plugin for FAR Manager Localizations for 59 languages
Size:1 MB Version: 4.65 Licence:Open Source
WinRAR
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
Size: 1.3 MB Version: 3.93 Licence:Trial
Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.
Size: 26.1 MB Version:9.3 Licence:Freeware
Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document.
Size: 6.69 MB Version:3.3.1 Licence:Freeware
Amazon Kindle
Read Kindle Books on Your Computer: * Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required * Access your Kindle books even if you don't have your Kindle with you * Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync * Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle Shop for Books in the Kindle Store: * Search and browse more than 390,000 books, including 101 of 112 New York Times Best Sellers. If you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary * Find New York Times Best Sellers and new releases for $9.99, unless marked otherwise * Get free book samples - read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy * Books you purchase can also be read on a Kindle * Kindle newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not currently available for Kindle for PC
Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
Size: 18 MB Version: 0.97.1 Licence:Open Source
Gnumeric
The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environment. The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets and we offer a customizable feel that attempts to minimize the costs of transition.
Size: 20.4 MB Version:1.10.5 Licence:Open Source
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