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• Microsoft Office Professional 2007
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft InfoPath
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft Word

• Mozilla Firefox

Unlike Firefox 3.5, which was more about keeping the browser current rather than blazing new trails, Firefox 3.6 is once again on the warpath. Upgrading is highly recommended.

• Sophos Anti-Virus

General Utilities:

• 7-zip

• CERN HPGL Viewer

- Minimal support for built-in fonts. The HP-GL/2 symbol sets supported are: US ASCII, Roman Extensions, Roman8, Latin1, Latin2, Latin5, and HP-GL Drafting. The only available typeface is the simple vector stick font. No other font characteristics are supported.

- No support for device output and control commands in the Technical Graphics Extension.

- No support for the commands in the Digitizing Extension.

- No support for configurable line attributes, i.e., different line ends and joins.

- Minimal support for advanced merge control and pixel placement commands in the Advanced Drawing Extension. The merge commands are propagated when saving the file in HP-GL/2 from the viewer but are not interpreted for screen display or for printing on non-HP-GL/2 printers.

Practice has shown that few plot files heavily utilize features outside of the set currently supported by the viewer. However, in the future most of the above items are expected to be supported with the exception of device control and digitizing commands, which make no sense in the viewer context.

• CutePDF

• Egress

• GhostScript

• GhostView

• ImgBurn

• Notepad++

• Open Text Exceed 14 x64

• OpenAFS

- Compatible with all OpenAFS and IBM/Transarc AFS Server versions

- Support for all editions of Windows Vista including SP1 and Windows Server 2008

- 2007 Daylight Savings Time corrected C Runtime Library DLLs

- AFS credentials module for MIT Kerberos for Windows Network Identity Manager

- Support for 64-bit File Sizes on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows

- Support for 64-bit Windows XP/2003/R2/Vista/2008

- Implements Windows Byte Range Locking backed by AFS File Server Locks

- Implements Inline Bulk Status RPCs which speeds up directory listings

- Uses GetCapabilities RPCs to probe the server status

- Logs fs crypt state to the Windows Event Log

- Supports OutputDebugString debugging of the RX Library

- New command: fs uuid [-generate]

- Improved CIFS protocol compatibility

- Hard Dead and Connection Timeout values restricted to the CIFS Session Timeout value.

- Improved handling of Windows Standby/Hibernate modes when network access is not available

- Significant performance improvements when searching directories containing hundreds or thousands of files and sub-directories

- Reduced time required for file open operations

• PFE

• PuTTY

• VLC Video LAN

The default interface is still a stripped down player that belies VLC's functionality and features. Skinning can fix that quickly, but behavior can still be a bit unpredictable depending on the quality of the skin. VLC's open-source foundation and community ensures that it evolves quickly and often, with new features and fixes released frequently. Overall, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.

List of software in Windows 7 image

• Microsoft Office Professional 2007
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft InfoPath
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft Word

Whether you want more time with your customers or to respond more quickly to their needs, Office Professional 2007 helps professionals work faster, stay organized, and manage contacts and customer information in one place. Visualize data more effectively; forecast, track, and manage projects and opportunities; and produce professional-quality marketing materials entirely in-house. Discover the quickest way to more easily find, organize, analyze, and use all the information you need to succeed. This suite also offers these two great programs: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager: Add complete contact management capabilities to Office Outlook 2007 so you can organize your accounts, centralize critical business information, and improve customer service across your organization.

The Microsoft Office Standard suite includes Microsoft Office Acceess 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007.

• Mozilla Firefox

No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox is the gold standard of alternatives to the still-dominant Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.6 is full-featured, lightning fast, and secure. Its killer selection of add-ons remains strong, with built-in support for the next generation of themes, called Personas, plus the latest update makes version 3.6 about 20 percent faster than version 3.5. However, competition is strong and it can no longer be said that Firefox is the fastest browser available.

Several notable improvements in the latest revamp keep Firefox abreast of current browsing tech. In addition to the aforementioned improvements made to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine so that it renders Web applications faster, there have also been other significant under-the-hood changes. These include: blocking third-party software from encroaching on Firefox's file system turf to increase stability; support for the Web Open Font Format, which means many non-English browser users should have a faster time loading Web pages with downloadable fonts; and support for the File interface, which can help with tasks such as uploading multiple photos and is part of the draft HTML5-standard effort. HTML5 support debuted in Firefox 3.5. Another deeper change to the browser is that it is now running scripts asynchronously, which can help to load a Web page faster by putting off some work until the high-priority chores are complete. Firefox 3.6 also isolates out-of-date plug-ins so they do not become a security risk.

Unlike Firefox 3.5, which was more about keeping the browser current rather than blazing new trails, Firefox 3.6 is once again on the warpath. Upgrading is highly recommended.

• Sophos Anti-Virus

Sophos Anti-Virus is virus detection and disinfection software, it checks local hard disks, floppy disks and networks, internet downloads, email attachments and groupware for the presence of viruses. It operates in on-access, scheduled and on-demand modes. Its unique architecture intelligently determines which files need to be virus checked, maximising user transparency and minimising performance overhead. Sophos Anti-Virus enables centralised installation, configuration, updating and reporting.

General Utilities:

• 7-zip

It's easy for Windows users to forget that WinZip isn't the only file-compression utility in the world. Like its better-known competitors, the free 7-Zip unpacks a host of archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZ, and its own 7z format. Unlike WinZip, though, it can create TAR and GZ archives, which are commonly used on Unix and Linux systems.

The program's ability to shrink files was stunning. In our tests, 7z archives were up to 40 percent smaller then their ZIP equivalents, although compression did take longer, and the highest compression settings can hog system resources. Advanced options include the ability to create solid and self-extracting archives, and to adjust the compression level and password protection. The program also has a command line module. Though the main interface is overly simple and looks like it was designed for Windows 95, it's not hard to use and fairly self-explanatory. The context menu options, which include "testing" an archive, indicate that 7-Zip should be taken seriously.

7-Zip is fine for casual users with a bit of computer savvy, but it's especially well-suited for developers and anyone else who moves between the Windows and Linux/Unix worlds.

• CERN HPGL Viewer

The CERN HP-GL viewer is designed to display legal HP-GL and HP-GL/2 files on screen and to allow printing them and converting them to other formats. The primary design criteria have been correctness, speed, and portability to various platforms. Versions of the viewer run on Microsoft Windows versions 95 and newer, Apple MacOS 8 and newer, and on various Unix variants including IBM AIX, Compaq/Digital OSF/1, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Apple MaxOS X / Darwin. The current version of the viewer understands most of the old HP-GL and the current HP-GL/2 standards and extensions with a few exceptions:

- No support for the Dual-Context Extension, i.e., using raster commands belonging to HP RTL (Raster Transfer Language) or HP PCL (Printer Control Language) command sets, or using the Scalable or Bitmap Fonts command sets. Such commands are syntactically parsed and skipped without interpreting them.

- HP PJL (Printer Job Language) headers are parsed and skipped. The only feature interpreted is the language mode (HPGL / HPGL2), which may, however, be overridden if the file is later found to contain commands belonging solely to the other mode.

- Minimal support for built-in fonts. The HP-GL/2 symbol sets supported are: US ASCII, Roman Extensions, Roman8, Latin1, Latin2, Latin5, and HP-GL Drafting. The only available typeface is the simple vector stick font. No other font characteristics are supported.

- No support for device output and control commands in the Technical Graphics Extension.

- No support for the commands in the Digitizing Extension.

- No support for configurable line attributes, i.e., different line ends and joins.

- Minimal support for advanced merge control and pixel placement commands in the Advanced Drawing Extension. The merge commands are propagated when saving the file in HP-GL/2 from the viewer but are not interpreted for screen display or for printing on non-HP-GL/2 printers.

Practice has shown that few plot files heavily utilize features outside of the set currently supported by the viewer. However, in the future most of the above items are expected to be supported with the exception of device control and digitizing commands, which make no sense in the viewer context.

• CutePDF

CutePDF Form Filler can be used to save interactive Portable Document Format (PDF) electronic forms to your computer to fill in and print at your convenience, send the completed forms via e-mail, and apply 128-bit encryption or password protection to your PDF documents.

• Egress

Egress Switch enables individuals and business entities to exchange/transfer information securely via existing business processes. All information is encrypted transparently using AES 256 bit encryption and can be sent via e-mail, CD/DVD, FTP, HTTP, or USB with a full audit trail. Egress Switch provides real-time access control and auditing of your data even after it has left your physical control. Users can be granted or denied access to remote data on the fly without the need to re-issue policies or new versions of information. Access can also be revoked instantly if a compromise is suspected.

• GhostScript

Ghostscript is a package of software that provides an interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in, an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities, the ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa, and a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics and filtering (data compression / decompression / conversion) capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language and in PDF.

• GhostView

Ghostview is a full function user interface for Ghostscript (versions 2.4 and later). Its features include:

- Ghostview parses any known version of Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions.

- Page size is automatically determined from the Document Structuring Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.

- Window size is set to the bounding box for Encapsulated PostScript figures.

- Default page size is Letter and can be changed via Xresources or application defaults file to A4 (or any other valid size).

- Scrollbars appear when necessary.

- Page orientation is automatically determined from the Document Structuring Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.

- Ability to view at 4 orientations: Portrait, Landscape, Upside-down, and Seascape (for those who rotate landscape the other direction).

- Ability to restrict rendering to grayscale or monochrome. (Requires Ghostscript 2.6.1 or later.)

- Ability to mark pages for printing, or saving. (Good for people that printed a 100 page document and lost page 59 due to a printer jam.)

- Can popup zoom windows at printer resolution (1 display dot = 1 printer dot).

• ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application that has several modes, each for performing a different task: Read - read a disc to an image file; Build - creates an image file from files on your computer or network (you also can write the files directly to a disc); Write - write an image file to a disc; Verify - ensure that a disc is 100% readable (you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct); and Discovery - used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing.

• Notepad++

Notepad Plus Plus is a Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad Plus Plus has some noticeable differences from WordPad. Support for tabs is key, letting users manage different documents simultaneously. Line-numbering is important, too, a feature that nobody mucking about in C should be without.

The interface is much simpler compared with some of its competitors. A familiar row of icons with their mouse-over labels sits at the top, and one row of tabs is just below that. The rest of the screen is made of nothing but pure white space. All the coding tools live in the menu bar, with some represented on the toolbar. Users can compile and run macros, convert text to Hex, submit directly to W3C for validation, launch in Firefox and IE, and more. There's also a built-in spell-checker.

Choosing between Notepad Plus Plus and NoteTab Light probably will depend as much on layout as anything else. Although, forgive the pun, notably Notepad Plus Plus can not autoreplace Notepad, it's still an excellent Notepad replacement.

• Open Text Exceed 14 x64

A market and technology leading PC X server that empowers Windows users with cost-effective access to X Window applications on UNIX and Linux hosts with unparalleled performance and strong security.

• OpenAFS

Secure Endpoints Inc. is the primary developer of OpenAFS.org's OpenAFS for Windows product. The Andrew File System (AFS) is a secure distributed file system which allow users of Microsoft Windows and Unix the world over to share information as easily as if the files were stored on their local disks. OpenAFS for Windows is an AFS client providing users of Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Server 2008 nearly seamless access to the data stored in locally managed and publicly available AFS cells the world over.

Features:

- Compatible with all OpenAFS and IBM/Transarc AFS Server versions

- Support for all editions of Windows Vista including SP1 and Windows Server 2008

- 2007 Daylight Savings Time corrected C Runtime Library DLLs

- AFS credentials module for MIT Kerberos for Windows Network Identity Manager

- Support for 64-bit File Sizes on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows

- Support for 64-bit Windows XP/2003/R2/Vista/2008

- Implements Windows Byte Range Locking backed by AFS File Server Locks

- Implements Inline Bulk Status RPCs which speeds up directory listings

- Uses GetCapabilities RPCs to probe the server status

- Logs fs crypt state to the Windows Event Log

- Supports OutputDebugString debugging of the RX Library

- New command: fs uuid [-generate]

- Improved CIFS protocol compatibility

- Hard Dead and Connection Timeout values restricted to the CIFS Session Timeout value.

- Improved handling of Windows Standby/Hibernate modes when network access is not available

- Significant performance improvements when searching directories containing hundreds or thousands of files and sub-directories

- Reduced time required for file open operations

• PFE

Programmer's File Editor is a 32-bit text editor primarily oriented toward program developers. Though it contains features such as the ability to run compilers and development applications, it also makes a good general-purpose editor for any other function. Features include multilevel undo, active buttons on a tear-off toolbar, automatic C-aware indenting, Unix file support, remappable keys, keyboard macros, and more.

While this file is still available, the developer is no longer updating or supporting this product.

• PuTTY

ExtraPuTTY is a free Addon of Putty, which allow win32 application to send, receive data on Telnet, SSH, RLogin and Raw protocols offers TestStand steps to send, receive data on Telnet, SSH, RLogin and Raw protocols.(installed by the windows installer) automatic sequencing of commands generate report of all exchanges (Command,reply) in HTML or Text format. Win32 API for Telnet, SSH, Rlogin and Raw protocols.

• Real Player

These days, a great number of people are not only finding the majority of their entertainment online but are also conducting a fair amount of their social lives there as well. In such times, it's great to have a quick and simple tool for downloading, editing, sharing, and transferring media. RealPlayer for Windows already had most of that down, offering a sweeping array of features, from one-click video downloading to automatic transcoding to social network sharing. The latest offering focuses mainly on improved device integration and an even smoother user experience.

RealPlayer has been around since 1995, which is practically the dawn of the Web. It started as a basic media player, becoming the preferred embedded app for streaming audio and video as sites started to offer that functionality, and eventually morphing into the easy-to-use, fully functioning beast we have today.

The previous version of RealPlayer already offered an easy, one-click solution for downloading unprotected videos for the Web. Another click transcodes those same videos to your portable device without a bit of extra effort on your part when it comes to fiddling with tricky digital format settings.

The program also incorporates a very simple-to-use video-trimming tool that allows you to select only certain bits of a video to transfer or share, and there are one-click buttons that let you share with a variety of social sites, such as Facebook and YouTube. In addition, you have the option to strip the audio out of the videos and save those as separate files.

The latest version of the software adds even more devices to the ever-expanding list of compatible handsets. Plus, RealPlayer now shows USB-connected smartphones and cameras inside the library in the main app window, allowing users to quickly and easily transfer content to the devices via drag-and-drop. Perhaps more compelling, though, is a new back-end feature that simplifies the process of getting photos and videos off of those devices and organized on your PC. In our testing, content was slow to load, but it's a welcome feature nonetheless.

Best of all, you can do all this for free. RealPlayer only requires a license fee if you want to upgrade to the Plus version in order to access additional features, such as H.264 conversion and DVD burning.

• VLC Video LAN

VLC Media Player is a long-time open-source favorite, and the latest version is also the first to be out of beta development. It's not the only option for free video playback, but it's one of the best, and the feature updates in version 1 make it well worth the upgrade.

Users can now get frame-by-frame advancement, granular speed controls allowing for on-the-fly slower or faster playback, and live recording of streaming video. The toolbars are fully customizable, so you can have only the buttons you need in the interface, there's AirTunes streaming, and there's better integration in Gtk environments. Along with the improvements, VLC continues to offer robust support for a wide range of video and audio formats, including OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, HD codecs like AES3, Raw Dirac, and even support for playing back zipped files.

The default interface is still a stripped down player that belies VLC's functionality and features. Skinning can fix that quickly, but behavior can still be a bit unpredictable depending on the quality of the skin. VLC's open-source foundation and community ensures that it evolves quickly and often, with new features and fixes released frequently. Overall, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.

The programs' descriptions are taken from http://www.cnet.com/ or from the publisher's website.

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• Microsoft Office Professional 2007
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft InfoPath
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft Word

Whether you want more time with your customers or to respond more quickly to their needs, Office Professional 2007 helps professionals work faster, stay organized, and manage contacts and customer information in one place. Visualize data more effectively; forecast, track, and manage projects and opportunities; and produce professional-quality marketing materials entirely in-house. Discover the quickest way to more easily find, organize, analyze, and use all the information you need to succeed. This suite also offers these two great programs: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager: Add complete contact management capabilities to Office Outlook 2007 so you can organize your accounts, centralize critical business information, and improve customer service across your organization.

The Microsoft Office Standard suite includes Microsoft Office Acceess 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007.

• Mozilla Firefox

No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox is the gold standard of alternatives to the still-dominant Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.6 is full-featured, lightning fast, and secure. Its killer selection of add-ons remains strong, with built-in support for the next generation of themes, called Personas, plus the latest update makes version 3.6 about 20 percent faster than version 3.5. However, competition is strong and it can no longer be said that Firefox is the fastest browser available.

Several notable improvements in the latest revamp keep Firefox abreast of current browsing tech. In addition to the aforementioned improvements made to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine so that it renders Web applications faster, there have also been other significant under-the-hood changes. These include: blocking third-party software from encroaching on Firefox's file system turf to increase stability; support for the Web Open Font Format, which means many non-English browser users should have a faster time loading Web pages with downloadable fonts; and support for the File interface, which can help with tasks such as uploading multiple photos and is part of the draft HTML5-standard effort. HTML5 support debuted in Firefox 3.5. Another deeper change to the browser is that it is now running scripts asynchronously, which can help to load a Web page faster by putting off some work until the high-priority chores are complete. Firefox 3.6 also isolates out-of-date plug-ins so they do not become a security risk.

Unlike Firefox 3.5, which was more about keeping the browser current rather than blazing new trails, Firefox 3.6 is once again on the warpath. Upgrading is highly recommended.

• Sophos Anti-Virus

Sophos Anti-Virus is virus detection and disinfection software, it checks local hard disks, floppy disks and networks, internet downloads, email attachments and groupware for the presence of viruses. It operates in on-access, scheduled and on-demand modes. Its unique architecture intelligently determines which files need to be virus checked, maximising user transparency and minimising performance overhead. Sophos Anti-Virus enables centralised installation, configuration, updating and reporting.

General Utilities:

• 7-zip

It's easy for Windows users to forget that WinZip isn't the only file-compression utility in the world. Like its better-known competitors, the free 7-Zip unpacks a host of archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZ, and its own 7z format. Unlike WinZip, though, it can create TAR and GZ archives, which are commonly used on Unix and Linux systems.

The program's ability to shrink files was stunning. In our tests, 7z archives were up to 40 percent smaller then their ZIP equivalents, although compression did take longer, and the highest compression settings can hog system resources. Advanced options include the ability to create solid and self-extracting archives, and to adjust the compression level and password protection. The program also has a command line module. Though the main interface is overly simple and looks like it was designed for Windows 95, it's not hard to use and fairly self-explanatory. The context menu options, which include "testing" an archive, indicate that 7-Zip should be taken seriously.

7-Zip is fine for casual users with a bit of computer savvy, but it's especially well-suited for developers and anyone else who moves between the Windows and Linux/Unix worlds.

• CERN HPGL Viewer

The CERN HP-GL viewer is designed to display legal HP-GL and HP-GL/2 files on screen and to allow printing them and converting them to other formats. The primary design criteria have been correctness, speed, and portability to various platforms. Versions of the viewer run on Microsoft Windows versions 95 and newer, Apple MacOS 8 and newer, and on various Unix variants including IBM AIX, Compaq/Digital OSF/1, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Apple MaxOS X / Darwin. The current version of the viewer understands most of the old HP-GL and the current HP-GL/2 standards and extensions with a few exceptions:

- No support for the Dual-Context Extension, i.e., using raster commands belonging to HP RTL (Raster Transfer Language) or HP PCL (Printer Control Language) command sets, or using the Scalable or Bitmap Fonts command sets. Such commands are syntactically parsed and skipped without interpreting them.

- HP PJL (Printer Job Language) headers are parsed and skipped. The only feature interpreted is the language mode (HPGL / HPGL2), which may, however, be overridden if the file is later found to contain commands belonging solely to the other mode.

- Minimal support for built-in fonts. The HP-GL/2 symbol sets supported are: US ASCII, Roman Extensions, Roman8, Latin1, Latin2, Latin5, and HP-GL Drafting. The only available typeface is the simple vector stick font. No other font characteristics are supported.

- No support for device output and control commands in the Technical Graphics Extension.

- No support for the commands in the Digitizing Extension.

- No support for configurable line attributes, i.e., different line ends and joins.

- Minimal support for advanced merge control and pixel placement commands in the Advanced Drawing Extension. The merge commands are propagated when saving the file in HP-GL/2 from the viewer but are not interpreted for screen display or for printing on non-HP-GL/2 printers.

Practice has shown that few plot files heavily utilize features outside of the set currently supported by the viewer. However, in the future most of the above items are expected to be supported with the exception of device control and digitizing commands, which make no sense in the viewer context.

• CutePDF

CutePDF Form Filler can be used to save interactive Portable Document Format (PDF) electronic forms to your computer to fill in and print at your convenience, send the completed forms via e-mail, and apply 128-bit encryption or password protection to your PDF documents.

• Egress

Egress Switch enables individuals and business entities to exchange/transfer information securely via existing business processes. All information is encrypted transparently using AES 256 bit encryption and can be sent via e-mail, CD/DVD, FTP, HTTP, or USB with a full audit trail. Egress Switch provides real-time access control and auditing of your data even after it has left your physical control. Users can be granted or denied access to remote data on the fly without the need to re-issue policies or new versions of information. Access can also be revoked instantly if a compromise is suspected.

• GhostScript

Ghostscript is a package of software that provides an interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in, an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities, the ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa, and a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics and filtering (data compression / decompression / conversion) capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language and in PDF.

• GhostView

Ghostview is a full function user interface for Ghostscript (versions 2.4 and later). Its features include:

- Ghostview parses any known version of Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions.

- Page size is automatically determined from the Document Structuring Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.

- Window size is set to the bounding box for Encapsulated PostScript figures.

- Default page size is Letter and can be changed via Xresources or application defaults file to A4 (or any other valid size).

- Scrollbars appear when necessary.

- Page orientation is automatically determined from the Document Structuring Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.

- Ability to view at 4 orientations: Portrait, Landscape, Upside-down, and Seascape (for those who rotate landscape the other direction).

- Ability to restrict rendering to grayscale or monochrome. (Requires Ghostscript 2.6.1 or later.)

- Ability to mark pages for printing, or saving. (Good for people that printed a 100 page document and lost page 59 due to a printer jam.)

- Can popup zoom windows at printer resolution (1 display dot = 1 printer dot).

• ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application that has several modes, each for performing a different task: Read - read a disc to an image file; Build - creates an image file from files on your computer or network (you also can write the files directly to a disc); Write - write an image file to a disc; Verify - ensure that a disc is 100% readable (you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct); and Discovery - used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing.

• Notepad++

Notepad Plus Plus is a Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad Plus Plus has some noticeable differences from WordPad. Support for tabs is key, letting users manage different documents simultaneously. Line-numbering is important, too, a feature that nobody mucking about in C should be without.

The interface is much simpler compared with some of its competitors. A familiar row of icons with their mouse-over labels sits at the top, and one row of tabs is just below that. The rest of the screen is made of nothing but pure white space. All the coding tools live in the menu bar, with some represented on the toolbar. Users can compile and run macros, convert text to Hex, submit directly to W3C for validation, launch in Firefox and IE, and more. There's also a built-in spell-checker.

Choosing between Notepad Plus Plus and NoteTab Light probably will depend as much on layout as anything else. Although, forgive the pun, notably Notepad Plus Plus can not autoreplace Notepad, it's still an excellent Notepad replacement.

• Open Text Exceed 14 x64

A market and technology leading PC X server that empowers Windows users with cost-effective access to X Window applications on UNIX and Linux hosts with unparalleled performance and strong security.

• OpenAFS

Secure Endpoints Inc. is the primary developer of OpenAFS.org's OpenAFS for Windows product. The Andrew File System (AFS) is a secure distributed file system which allow users of Microsoft Windows and Unix the world over to share information as easily as if the files were stored on their local disks. OpenAFS for Windows is an AFS client providing users of Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Server 2008 nearly seamless access to the data stored in locally managed and publicly available AFS cells the world over.

Features:

- Compatible with all OpenAFS and IBM/Transarc AFS Server versions

- Support for all editions of Windows Vista including SP1 and Windows Server 2008

- 2007 Daylight Savings Time corrected C Runtime Library DLLs

- AFS credentials module for MIT Kerberos for Windows Network Identity Manager

- Support for 64-bit File Sizes on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows

- Support for 64-bit Windows XP/2003/R2/Vista/2008

- Implements Windows Byte Range Locking backed by AFS File Server Locks

- Implements Inline Bulk Status RPCs which speeds up directory listings

- Uses GetCapabilities RPCs to probe the server status

- Logs fs crypt state to the Windows Event Log

- Supports OutputDebugString debugging of the RX Library

- New command: fs uuid [-generate]

- Improved CIFS protocol compatibility

- Hard Dead and Connection Timeout values restricted to the CIFS Session Timeout value.

- Improved handling of Windows Standby/Hibernate modes when network access is not available

- Significant performance improvements when searching directories containing hundreds or thousands of files and sub-directories

- Reduced time required for file open operations

• PFE

Programmer's File Editor is a 32-bit text editor primarily oriented toward program developers. Though it contains features such as the ability to run compilers and development applications, it also makes a good general-purpose editor for any other function. Features include multilevel undo, active buttons on a tear-off toolbar, automatic C-aware indenting, Unix file support, remappable keys, keyboard macros, and more.

While this file is still available, the developer is no longer updating or supporting this product.

• PuTTY

ExtraPuTTY is a free Addon of Putty, which allow win32 application to send, receive data on Telnet, SSH, RLogin and Raw protocols offers TestStand steps to send, receive data on Telnet, SSH, RLogin and Raw protocols.(installed by the windows installer) automatic sequencing of commands generate report of all exchanges (Command,reply) in HTML or Text format. Win32 API for Telnet, SSH, Rlogin and Raw protocols.

• Real Player

These days, a great number of people are not only finding the majority of their entertainment online but are also conducting a fair amount of their social lives there as well. In such times, it's great to have a quick and simple tool for downloading, editing, sharing, and transferring media. RealPlayer for Windows already had most of that down, offering a sweeping array of features, from one-click video downloading to automatic transcoding to social network sharing. The latest offering focuses mainly on improved device integration and an even smoother user experience.

RealPlayer has been around since 1995, which is practically the dawn of the Web. It started as a basic media player, becoming the preferred embedded app for streaming audio and video as sites started to offer that functionality, and eventually morphing into the easy-to-use, fully functioning beast we have today.

The previous version of RealPlayer already offered an easy, one-click solution for downloading unprotected videos for the Web. Another click transcodes those same videos to your portable device without a bit of extra effort on your part when it comes to fiddling with tricky digital format settings.

The program also incorporates a very simple-to-use video-trimming tool that allows you to select only certain bits of a video to transfer or share, and there are one-click buttons that let you share with a variety of social sites, such as Facebook and YouTube. In addition, you have the option to strip the audio out of the videos and save those as separate files.

The latest version of the software adds even more devices to the ever-expanding list of compatible handsets. Plus, RealPlayer now shows USB-connected smartphones and cameras inside the library in the main app window, allowing users to quickly and easily transfer content to the devices via drag-and-drop. Perhaps more compelling, though, is a new back-end feature that simplifies the process of getting photos and videos off of those devices and organized on your PC. In our testing, content was slow to load, but it's a welcome feature nonetheless.

Best of all, you can do all this for free. RealPlayer only requires a license fee if you want to upgrade to the Plus version in order to access additional features, such as H.264 conversion and DVD burning.

• VLC Video LAN

VLC Media Player is a long-time open-source favorite, and the latest version is also the first to be out of beta development. It's not the only option for free video playback, but it's one of the best, and the feature updates in version 1 make it well worth the upgrade.

Users can now get frame-by-frame advancement, granular speed controls allowing for on-the-fly slower or faster playback, and live recording of streaming video. The toolbars are fully customizable, so you can have only the buttons you need in the interface, there's AirTunes streaming, and there's better integration in Gtk environments. Along with the improvements, VLC continues to offer robust support for a wide range of video and audio formats, including OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, HD codecs like AES3, Raw Dirac, and even support for playing back zipped files.

The default interface is still a stripped down player that belies VLC's functionality and features. Skinning can fix that quickly, but behavior can still be a bit unpredictable depending on the quality of the skin. VLC's open-source foundation and community ensures that it evolves quickly and often, with new features and fixes released frequently. Overall, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.

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