Please Avoid Sending Me Word or Excel or PowerPoint Files Attachments

Please Avoid Sending Me Word or Excel or PowerPoint Files Attachments

The document thats you write in Excel, Access, and Power Point files, you have sent as email attachment in email, is not an Internet mail format. It is a proprietary format that is unreadable on several types of computers, including those used by visually-impaired readers and older computers used in foreign countries.

In most cases, the size of the file is substantially larger than a plain-text file containing the same information. (Even if it LOOKS like plain-text to you, chances are it is not, and contains a considerable amount of unnecessary formatting codes, printer information, etc.)

In addition, Word documents are often infected with viruses. Excel, Access, and Power Point files are also vulnerable to infection.

Please “Save As” DOS Text, HTML or Portable Document Format (PDF) and send the resulting file as an attachment. Another option is to simply type your message directly into mail then you won't need to use an attachment at all.

In the highly unlikely event that your document cannot be converted to an open, non-proprietary format, consider posting it on a web page, and sending e-mail with the URL which points to the file.

Thank you.

ps. Please forward to your friends.

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. A Response Letter to the Word Attachments In Email.

refer to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

LibreOffice

http://www.libreoffice.org/

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.

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http://networkedblogs.com/dy8wv

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Miro 3 Free And Open Source video Player

Miro 3 Free And Open Source video Player

What is Miro?

Miro is a free HD video player.

It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.

Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.

Download Miro here

http://www.getmiro.com/

Upload your video

http://www.mirocommunity.org/

Example

http://linuxmalaysia.mirocommunity.org/

LiVES Video Editing System

LiVES Video Editing System

LiVES began in 2002 as the Linux Video Editing System. Since it now runs on more operating systems: LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.

LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away.

For the more technically minded, the application is frame and sample accurate, and it can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards.

http://lives.sourceforge.net/

TestDisk A Powerful Free Data Recovery Software

TestDisk A Powerful Free Data Recovery Software

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

* Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
* Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
* Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
* Fix FAT tables
* Rebuild NTFS boot sector
* Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
* Fix MFT using MFT mirror
* Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
* Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
* Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

PhotoRec Digital Picture and File Recovery

PhotoRec, Digital Picture and File Recovery

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

PhotoRec is free, this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU Public License. PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of filesystems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. You can download them from this link.

For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory support you are about to recover lost data from. Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that even using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Flock Social Network Browser

Flock Social Network Browser

Flock is a social web browser that uniquely pulls together the people, photos, videos and websites I care about. Check it out, I think you're really going to like it.

You can download it for free at http://www.flock.com/invited/1222530410

Bos Wars a Futuristic Real Time Strategy Game

Bos Wars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). In a RTS game, the player has to combat his enemies while developing his war economy. Everything runs in real-time, as opposed to turn-based games where the player always has to wait for his turn. The trick is to balance the effort put into building his economy and building an army to defend and attack the enemies.

Bos Wars has a dynamic rate based economy. Energy is produced by power plants and magma gets pumped from hot spots. Buildings and mobile units are also built at a continuous rate. Control of larger parts of the map creates the potential to increase your economy throughput. Holding key points like roads and passages allow for different strategies.

It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or against the computer. Bos Wars successfully runs under Linux, MS Windows, BSD, and Mac OS X.

Bos Wars aims to create a completely original and fun open source RTS game.

Download for Windows and Linux

http://www.boswars.org/

MyMeeting Version 2.0 RC 1 Release

MyMeeting Version 2.0 RC 1 Release

MyMeeting is a web application specifically designed to help you to better manage your meetings decision and get more out of them. Initially developed at the Open Source Competency Center (OSCC) MAMPU Malaysia, it is the Malaysian governments' first fully open source software.

This release is for public review and feedback.

http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/solution-areas/application/mymeeting

Feedback, bugs reports, issues and comments

http://trac.oscc.org.my/mymeeting

Backup site

http://mymeeting.sourceforge.net/

Estimated cost for MyMeeting 2.0

$ 1,815,478

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/mymeeting

Amaya W3C's Editor Browser

Amaya W3C's Editor Browser

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment.

* Amaya lets users both browse and author Web pages
* Amaya maintains a consistent internal document model adhering to the DTD
* Amaya is able to work on several documents at a time
* Amaya helps authors create hypertext links
* Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application

More information about Amaya W3C's Editor Browser

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

VirtualDub Desktop Video Processing and Capture Application

VirtualDub Desktop Video Processing and Capture Application

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

CoolPlayer Audio Player

CoolPlayer Audio Player

CoolPlayer Is a blazing fast audio player. It's features that include Skins, Simple user interface, Playlist editor, Internet streaming, File Renamer, Fast mp3->wav converter, Smallest executable, Continuous play (no pause between tracks), programmed in C.

Features:

* GNU General Public License
* Freeform Skins
* Simple User Interface
* Advanced Playlist editor
* Internet streaming
* ID3 Multitagger
* File Renamer
* Fast mp3->wav converter
* MAD mpeg engine
* OGG Vorbis support
* Winamp input plugins support
* Smallest executable programmed in blazing fast 'C'
* Continuous play
* 8 band convolution equalizer
* Lot's more...

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

Apache, Mysql and PHP in Windows (WAMP)

Apache, Mysql and PHP in Windows (WAMP)

More information about Windows Apache Mysql PHP packages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAMP

List of WAMP Packages

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

WLMP is an acronym, which stands for the first letters of Windows / LightTPD / MySQL / PHP.
http://en.wlmp-project.net/

Portable Apps Your Digital Life Anywhere

Portable Apps Your Digital Life Anywhere

Pick A PC and PC and with Portable Apps you gets

Convenient

Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.

Open

PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It's open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use.

Free

The Portable Apps Suite™ is free. It contains no spyware. There are no advertisements. It isn't a limited or trial version. There is no additional hardware or software to buy. You don't even have to give out your email address. It's 100% free to use, free to copy and free to share.

http://portableapps.com/

InfraRecorder a free CD DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

InfraRecorder is released under GPL version 2.

Features

* Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
* Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
* Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
* Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
* Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
* Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
* Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
* Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
* Display disc information.
* Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).


http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Innotek VirtualBox a General-purpose Full Virtualizer

Innotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Some of the features of VirtualBox are:

* Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.

* Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.

* Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).

* Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Globulation 2 An innovative Real-Time Strategy

Globulation 2 An innovative Real-Time Strategy

Extract from Globulation 2 website

http://www.globulation2.org/

Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game which reduces micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units. Take a look at the screenshots or just download and try it right now. Globulation 2 is Free Software, licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Globulation 2 brings a new type of gameplay to RTS games. The player chooses the number of units to assign to various tasks, and the units do their best to satisfy the requests. This allows players to manage more units and focus on strategy rather than on micro-management. Globulation 2 also features AI, allowing single-player games or any possible combination of human-computer teams. The game also includes a scripting language for versatile gameplay or tutorials and an integrated map editor. You can play Globulation 2 in single player mode, through your local network, or over the Internet with Ysagoon Online Gaming (or YOG for short). -- Globulation 2 team

Eraser An Advanced Security Tool For Windows

Eraser

Extract from Eraser website

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.

The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

Why use Eraser?
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.

Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.

Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.

Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.

There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.

Top reviews from the most popular software sites and magazines confirm that Eraser is one of the best security tools available for Windows.

TALC a Powerful Didactical Tool for Teachers

I've involved with training Linux Desktop and Server to school teachers around Malaysia. This involved trained them how to control student computers from teacher computer. We need to buy that software until I read an articles at http://www.linux.com/

http://italc.sourceforge.net/

iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

Dia Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Visio

Dia is roughly 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.

Visio is drawing software package that helps you with all of your drawing and graphing needs, part of Microsoft Office suite.

Download for free
http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Pidgin Instant Messaging Application

Pidgin Instant Messaging Application

Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more.

Download for free
http://pidgin.im/