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The multiplatform office suite OpenOffice.org has announced the release of version 2.4. New features include 5 PDF export enhancements, text to columns in Calc, rectangular selection in Writer, bug fixes, performance improvements, and much more.

This software gives users the ability to perfect and transform digital photos like a pro. Make quick fixes when you need to or use advanced editing options for more control. Experiment with special effects and compositing tools to enhance your photos.

This is a general patch release with 67 issues addressed in the library. 2.5.1 improves support for developers running YUI in Adobe’s AIR environment and addresses an important security issue raised over the weekend regarding JSON parsing in FireFox.

The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 8.04 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features…

OverClocked ReMix today unveiled a new area of its website which allows artists to see who else uses a specific piece of music software, plays a particular instrument or possesses other musical skills such as singing, audio engineering and writing lyrics.

Changes:
- Support for Java 1.4 has been dropped
- JSSQL functionality is fairly complete. Supports JDBC 3.0
- JSSP now includes Dervish, a technology that allows you to execute code on the server by calling functions in the browser

Many improvements including:

- General startpage loading time improvements
- Prefetch feeds features
- Flash audio player improvements
- Mobile and iPhone versions improvements
-New Ginger thumbnails

… and more.

WinSCP is an SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

This is a bugfix release.

See also:
http://winscp.net/eng/docs/history#4.0.7

You can now explicitly exclude a task from the selection , using the "-n°" syntax, and a new "max=$int" selector allows you to limit absolutely the amount of tasks printed. The ability to print global reports about the stacks state was also added.

AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.