PDF documents are at present the most popular form of distributing documents throughout the Internet and a presentation tool at the same time. They owe their popularity not only to well defined standard embracing text, pictures and hyperlinks, but foremost to the fact that once created they can be read under nearly every operating system and its underlying platform. Of course, to open a PDF document one has to have an appropriate application.

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“It wasn’t very long ago that open-source developers struggled to make the market believe that open source was secure, ready for prime-time adoption, etc. Now the debate has shifted to demonstrating just how widespread adoption is and and pointing to case studies of how to get the most from open source.

“Enter the U.S. Department of Defense’s Open IT Conference (December 11-12 in Washington, D.C.). The conference is a bit different from others, in that so much of the United States’ security rides on open-source adoption, as Brigadier General Nickolas G. Justice notes…”

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Makagiga is a cross-platform do-it-all application I found today. The latest release 1.9.3 Beta was released Nov 11. Makagiga, written in Java will run on any system with Java Runtime Environment installed and promises to handle a multitude of everyday tasks.

• To-do Manager
• Rss feed reader
• Notepad
• Simple image viewer/editor
• Widgets (calendar, sticky notes etc.)
• Internet Search (Google,Wikipedia etc.)
• Document import/export
• Plugins
• Backup function
• Custom file labels (tags, rating etc.)

Versions available for download:

Ubuntu/Debian

RPM

Windows

Portable/Cross-Platform

I’m going to try out the Portable version, I’ll do up a review once I’ve had time to play a little.

Makagiga

~LC

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