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Dictionary .Net 1.6 Download

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Dictionary .Net is a tiny (64 KB), easy (no install needed) multilingual dictionary.

There are up to 43 languages supported for translation including:

(Dictionary + Translation) Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,
Hindi, Italian, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Thai

(Translation only) Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

dictionary .net screenshot

The result is from Google Dictionary, Translate, Suggest and Wikipedia.

Download: Dictionary .Net 1.6

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Download CutePDF Writer 2.7

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

CutePDF Writer lets you convert any printable file into PDF format. Below is the introduction from the official website, you can get the general idea on how it works and the features it has. I previously introduced similar PDF tools, also some other tools you may need when dealing with PDF file, check the 17 Free PDF Tools You Should Know.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world.  CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents – with just a push of a button!

FREE for commercial and non-commercial use!  No watermarks!  No Popup Web Ads!

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Convert email to Google Doc in just one click

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

The newly added Gmail Labs gadget ‘Create a document’ makes it possible to turn an email into doc file in just one click.

Enable this feature in Settings – Labs – Create a Document ( Bonus: to avoid scrolling down to location this gadget, press Ctrl+F in your browser, and search for text ‘Create a Document‘ on Labs page ;D). Remember Save Changes, and a link used to create document will be added on top right next to your email body.

create_a_doc in Gmail

I tried to create a plain text email and a email with many images, the result is impressive – fast and well formatted.

The number of Gmail Labs’ gadgets gets grown very fast recently, you may want to check these gadgets as well:

Send SMS text messages right from Gmail
Tasks in Gmail
Calendar & Docs gadgets

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17 Free PDF Tools You Should Know

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Reading PDF files

Adobe Reader – Free PDF reader program from Adobe.

Foxit Reader – Lightweight, fast PDF reader with rich features.

PDFMeNot – An online service. You can reader PDF files without installing anything.

PDF-XChange Viewer – Free PDF reader with many features. Available in portable version.

PDFEscape – Free online PDF reader, editor. All you need is a web browser.

Gmail – Don’t forget Gmail! You can read attached PDF file as HTML.

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Download OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final Now

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

The next major release of OpenOffice.org is 3.0.0 which is scheduled to be announced next Monday. However, I’ve seen that the new version have shown up in many file servers.

If you can’t wait to download the new release, here you go:

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TinyEdit – a Notepad replacement

Friday, October 10th, 2008

tinyedit

TinyEdit is a free, lightweight text editor, a Notepad replacement with much more features for PC users even programmers.

The very first thing I need to say is that the whole program only contains one executable file. It’s very clean for your system, and you can take it with you in your U-drive.

Some features including:

    • Powerful and easy to use
      Syntax highlighting for more than 26 scripts
      Multiple document interface
      Unlimited undo/redo capability
      Text can be automatically word-wrapped
      Line number, Powerful search and replace
      Only one executable file (no need install)
      Freeware for both personal and commercial use

Also, it supports many programming languages, including:

    • PHP
      CSS
      HTML
      Java
      Java Script
      VB Script
      XML
      Perl
      Python
      Ruby
      C#
      SQL
      Tcl/Tk
      GW-TEL Scripts
      UNIX Shell Scripts
      Semanta DD
      Standard ML
      Vrml97/X3D
      AWK Scripts
      MS-DOS Batch
      C/C++
      COBOL
      Visual Basic
      Pascal
      Modula-3
      Fortran

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