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If you don’t want to use a full-featured but complicated graphics editor like GIMP or Photoshop, you like an instant photo editing application and you are in love with such application as Vignette, then surely you will love this one. It is called Photoscape, which is free to download (you can download it here)

I have just used this app recently and have already addicted to it. These are some of its great features which I think are the most useful:

• Instant editing with many filters. Some of the features are really great, such as Vignette, Cross process and Cinematic. Of course you still have Auto contrast, Auto color and the like. You can even add text and objects to your photos if you like
• Frame: There are many photo frames for you to choose. There are even frame for multiple photos.
• Batch editing for multiple files. You can apply filters for all selected photos. You can also use this feature to batch resize or batch rename
• Work with RAW file format

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Have you ever seen any open source system acquired by Oracle and then becomes something great? NO! Anything like that would pray for just being alive. Many great open source applications have been killed by Oracle, therefore after Oracle purchased Sun Microsystem, many great open source systems such as Java, MySQL and OpenOffice have been facing a grim omen ahead.

The reason for it is that Oracle has never had interest in open source. They want big money, and that’s all. Right after acquired Sun, Oracle have been dreaming about making OpenOffice into a commercial application along with Cloud Office service. However, it seems to be they have realized that their dream would never happen. And the result is… they dropped all the support for OpenOffice, including their commercial OpenOffice and Cloud Office, and they call that “OOo to become a purely community-based project”. Not all, anyway. They said “Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF)”. (Really, dunno what the hell they meant by supporting a file format ???)

Not that no one has predicted this to happen. In fact, many developer of OpenOffice has left Oracle to join The Document Foundation in order to develop LibreOffice, as I mentioned in my previous blog post. By the way, there is one good news: Only a few hours after the announcement of Oracle, the new LibreOffice 3.4 Beta 1 has been released.

It seems to be the future of Java and MySQL is really dark. Oh dear, Oracle, what have you done?

Source: http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/2011/04/openofficeorg_to_become_a_pure.html

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After quite a long wait, LibreOffice 3.3 Final has been released! You can download it for free at

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. You, too, can also get involved!

For those who don’t know, LibreOffice is developed by an open source organization called The Document Foundation (TDF). The reason is, since Oracle acquired Sun, OpenOffice has belonged to Oracle and therefore has a very dark future for the open source community. They slow down the development of OpenOffice, they didn’t accept contribution from community (Go-oo is a great example). In the past, they had acquired many great applications and most of them have come to extinction.

Aware of that, TDF has taken the development of OpenOffice and develope a new office suite called LibreOffice. Many of the developers of TDF were also the developers of OpenOffice before they were fired by Oracle. From Ubuntu 11.04, LibreOffice will officially replace OpenOffice in default installation. Compared to OpenOffice, LibreOffice uses the code from Go-oo, which means better integration with Microsoft format, and (claim to be) faster startup, too.

So, what about your opinion? Are you going to give LibreOffice a try?

Update: I have been using LibreOffice for a while and my first impression is more than expected. In fact, it’s great. It can display my documents really nicely and pretty much the indentical to Microsoft Office.

Update 2: I dunno but I got the feeling that LibreOffice works better in Ubuntu than in Microsoft Windows. Faster startup is an obvious evidence.

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You heard it. I’ve just bought an all-new Alienware m11x. As you may know, I already had the Asus G50VT-X5, which is still great with 15,6″ screen and good gaming capability. However, I really want a compact laptop that I will be able to throw into my bag easily, yet still offer a good gaming capability, or, at least be able to run Unreal Development Kit. Seems to be there is no better choice than the Alienware m11x. Therefore, I bought an Alienware m11x R1 with bare minimum specification, as I don’t need more.

And turns out it is amazing. Its design is unique and truly awesome. All the curves and corners of the laptop make me think of an alien spaceship. And the AlienFX (a lighting system on the keyboard and some parts of the laptop) is second-to-none. This laptop can be recognised from even ten meters away. And the best of it is that you can change the color to whatever you want

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Quick and Painful: There will be NO opensource application that happened to be an Microsoft Outlook killer
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There is no more to say T__T . Here is what they tell us:

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