In celebration of the new year, software cooperative DonationCoder.com has released more than a dozen free Windows applications that range from the useful to the whimsical.
The site, which has more than 42,000 registered members and about 1,800 software contributors, holds its New Apps for the New Year challenge every year. This year's event reaped 16 programs. While the software is free, donations to the author are encouraged.
A new, full-featured free software application pops its head into the VoIP world, and it nominates itself as the most serious competitor of Skype. Its name is Wengophone.
What is Wengophone?
In short: Wengophone is a communication-over-IP application. With Wengophone you can:
ChaCha joins the increasingly crowded market for mobile search offerings with a text-based, human-powered service.
The company envisions that users will ask questions about finding a nearby restaurant or the possibility of getting a massage while waiting for a flight in a specific airport terminal. Users don't have to pay ChaCha for the service for now, but they will incur costs from their mobile operators for using text messaging.
The beginning of the year is traditionally a time to look back, and, for the brave of heart, to make a few predictions looking forward. Lacking the requisite bravery, I'll just quote something that the Economist wrote recently:
Rejoice: the embrace of “openness” by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something we’ll see more of in 2008.
New Windows-based "downloader" malware known as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Diehard has surged to the top of Kaspersky Lab's "Virus Top Twenty" list a for December because of its "explosive propagation," the security firm said Wednesday.
A downloader is a type of malware, which loaded onto a victim's machine, can enable the attacker to download many other types of malicious code to exploit and control it for activities ranging from spam to information theft.
The Eclipse Foundation with its Swordfish project is developing an open source SOA framework intended for applications ranging from enterprise environments to embedded systems.
The Media Exchange offers free software which offers users the following features:
PPTmovie is a nice tool for converting your presentation to video files. With PPTmovie not only you can convert .ppt files to .avi, .mpeg, .mp4 files but also add narrations or music background while converting. So you can make your presentation available for everyone who can even doesn't have a computer.
Download Link: PPTmovie 2.2
One in five applications installed on Windows PCs are missing security patches, a Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker has reported.
According to Secunia APS, more than 20% of the applications scanned by its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility were open to attack because available fixes for security flaws had not been applied.
These tools will help you apply a Creative Commons Attribution license to your documents, photos and other files before you share them on the web:
CC PDF Converter - This is an open source PDF writer with an an inbuilt Creative Commons License generator. That means you can directly embed any Creative Commons license into your PDF documents at the time of conversion itself. [Demo Video]
