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2.03.2011

PDFZilla (PDF Converter) Time-limited Giveaway

PDFZilla is a full functional and easy-to-use PDF converter. It can quickly convert PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images, HTML Files, and Shockwave Flash SWF Files, etc.

PDFZilla is a shareware ($29.95 USD), but now you can get it for free. This Time-limited Giveaway Promotion will be CLOSED on Feb 5th, 2011.

One Day A Free Shareware

If you like sharewares, this post is for you ;) Today I recommend a software website to you. Every day this site offers for a free licensed Windows software.

It's Giveaway of the Day.

HomePage: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

A List Of Commercial Software's Open Source Equivalents

You purchased licenses for all the softwares you're using? If so, you're really great!

However, let's be honest, unauthorized copying of software is very common for most windows users. For example, WinRAR is a widely used software, you could try it before you buy, but after its free trial, it still could be used. How can that be legal? And you can download the copy of Adobe Photoshop from the Internet, but do you feel relieved? You can't be sure that you won't get trouble forever. So don't take software makers for fools, they'll find more and more ways to track down illegal owners all the time.

If you start to contact with linux, you can always find a free replacement for most commercial softwares, and most of them run on Windows and Mac OS too. Some of them might lack the advanced functionality, but they'll be more than enough for most people, some of them are as good as commercial softwares. Here is a list of some common commercial softwares and their open Source Equivalents.

Commercial	Open source	Support Windows?
3ds Max, Maya	Blender	Yes
Adobe Audition	Audacity	Yes
Adobe Dreamweaver	Bluefish	Yes
Adobe Illustrator	Inkscape	Yes
Adobe InDesign	Scribus	Yes
Adobe Photoshop	GIMP	Yes
Adobe Premiere	Kino, Cinelerra	No
Adobe Reader	Evince, Kpdf	Yes
iTunes, Winamp	Amarok, Rhythmbox, aTunes	No
Kazaa	aMule, MLDonkey	Yes
Microsoft Internet Explorer	Firefox, Chromium	Yes
Microsoft Office	OpenOffice, LibreOffice，KOffice	Yes
Microsoft Windows Mail	Thunderbird, Evolution	Yes
Microsoft Windows Media Player， QuickTime Player	Mplayer, VLC	Yes
Microsoft Windows Messenger	Pidgin, Kopete, aMSN	Yes
Nero Burning Rom	K3b, Brasero	No
Windows Movie Maker	PiTiVi, Open Movie Editor	Yes
winzip, winrar	7-zip	Yes

10.03.2010

Machinarium Like Flash Game - Samorost

Have your played Machinarium before? It's a famous point-and-click adventure/puzzle game by Amanita Design. You can play free demo online, it costs $20 to get the full version. Now it's weekend, let me share a similar game named Samorost, have a nice time ;)

The Samorost series is a series of two award-winning adventure/puzzle Flash games by Amanita Design, just the same as Machinarium. Samorost 1 is totally free while Samorost 2 full version is $5.

The Easiest Way To Create A Live Usb

Image via WikipediaThere are many live usb creators, like UNetbootin, Win32 Image Writer, etc. In this post, I am going to recommend the best one on windows for you, it's UltraISO.

UltraISO is an ISO CD/DVD image file creating/editing/converting tool and a bootable CD/DVD maker , it can directly edit the CD/DVD image file from it, as well as make ISO files from hard disk.

alien swarm - Valve's free game

You must have known Valve, It's a famous company by its first product, Half-Life and its distribution software, Steam. Several days ago, July 19, Valve released a free game - Alien Swarm.

Alien Swarm is a free top-down shoot-em-up by Valve Corporation. It is a remake of the Alien Swarm mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, and it was developed by the original team, which was hired by Valve during the course of the development process.