Archive for the 'Software - General' Category

What is .docx file and how to open it for free

.docx is the Office Open XML file format that was introduced in Microsoft Office 2007.  Microsoft uses this XML-based format to store all text, formulas, graphics, etc  for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The ultimate goal for this switchover is to facilitate extensibility and interoperability by allowing third-party vendors to read these files. So how to [...]

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Download & Read Kindle books for free on your PC – Part 2/2

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In Part 1 of this series, I showed you how to download a lightweight Windows application from Amazon.com that allows you to read Kindle books. In this article, I will show you how to download thousands of Kindle books absolutely free!
How to Download Thousands of Kindle Books for Free!
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Download & Read Kindle books for free on your PC – Part 1/2

Everyone by now knows about Amazon’s uber-popular Book reader, Kindle. This featherweight 10 ounce device allows you to wirelessly purchase books online without requiring an internet connection. Until now, books purchased for the Kindle could only be used on the device. However, Amazon.com just released a PC version of the Kindle book reader – and [...]

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Free Photoshop Alternative for Windows – Paint.NET

Paint.NET had a major release today of version 3.5 of their software. Until today, I had not heard of this application which surprised me quite a bit. I had thought that the best free photo editor for Windows was GIMP (although I am not a huge fan of it). This is not a GIMP vs [...]

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ACSLS 8.0 GUI Screenshots

Sun recently announced the release of ACSLS 8.0 last month. The major new feature in this release is the addition of a web-based GUI interface to monitor and manage your libraries. This includes the ability to:

View system alerts
View ACS, LSMs, Volumes, Drives
Perform operations such as mount and dismount
View historical usage graphs and charts
and more!

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