If you're one of those mad scientists who don't have enough with the Windows calculator, then SpeedCrunch is for you.

This powerful advanced calculator lets you perform many mathematical tasks with an up to 50 decimal precision which I personally find impressive. Also, instead of a tiny rectangular screen like the one you find in real calculators, SpeedCrunch features a huge, blank space where all your operations are conveniently saved, so that you can review your calculations at any time.

SpeedCrunch supports on-the-fly calculations, includes more than 50 built-in math functions and can be easily customized. You can use it with its virtual keyboard or your own physical PC keyboard, though math functions can only be entered from the virtual one. It would have been a great idea to create shortcuts for those functions.

With SpeedCrunch you can easily perform many different maths calculations and functions with a high precision and the possibility to review results at any time.

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If you're on the open source side you'll probably be using Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. But did you know there is more than one version of Open Office?

Go-OO (that is, Go-Open Office) is a fork of Open Office, that is, a special version or development build that features some interesting improvements regarding the suite it's based on. Among these improvements you can find support for OpenXML and Microsoft Works files, an optimized Microsoft binary file support, and perfect import of Wordperfect graphics, among others. You can also work with Excel VBA macros and Visio diagrams.

Other than that, Go-OO is visually identical to the original Open Office suite and includes exactly the same apps, namely Writer, Calc, Math, Impress, Draw and Base.

If you need the specific improvements included in this special version of Open Office, give it a try; if not, you may as well download the official version because there's not that much difference.

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OpenOffice 3.0 is already here, at least in beta version. The most popular alternative to the almighty Microsoft suite has released its first public beta to allow users to provide feedback and help fine-tune the final product. So here's our two cents.

First, though the OpenOffice site displays a warning about possible instability issues in this beta, fear them not. The complete suite was perfectly stable during our tests, with all its applications running as smoothly as expected. This new OpenOffice is compatible with all file formats from Microsoft Office, including the latest docx, xlsx, pptx and so on from Office 2008.

All OpenOffice tools, along with your more recent documents, are easily accessible from a launcher ("Start Centre") with freshly designed icons, which is one of the main new features in this version. The launcher includes a handy template manager as well, though it's quite empty at the moment.

The suite's applications met our expectations in every aspect: they're easy to use (especially if you're used to working with Microsoft's suite) and feature all the necessary tools to create complete documents, spreadsheets, presentations and databases. I particularly liked the wizard-style interface in Impress (the "Power-Point" app) which enables you to create presentations in no time.

OpenOffice 3.0 left a very good test in our mouths. In spite of being labeled as Beta, the whole suite works perfectly fine and enables you to enjoy all of its new features right now.

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Loan Calc is an easy-to-use tool intended to calculate loans and mortgages repayments in a very simple way. Loan Calc calculates repayments amount, monthly and total interest, total repayments and generates a full repayment list from a start date. Loan Calc is currency-independent so it can be used with Dollars, Francs, Marks, Pounds,...or whatever you like. Just use a dot or a comma for decimals depending on your system settings.

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GOGO DVD Ripper is a powerful tool for DVD copying and ripping software which can copy DVD to DIVX AVI files or MPEG1 MPEG2 files.It's an idea to backup dvd movie or as a backup DVD copy software. Supports ripping DVD by custom file size; You can direct burning to CD which can be played in your DVD player! and which is easy to use with high ripping speed.

Main features:

• Rip DVD to VCD, convert DVD to DivX, convert DVD to MPEG, rip DVD to AVI format;
• Supports ripping DVD to custom file size;
• Output file size is adjustable. You can compress movies to any size you need;
• Allows you to select target subtitle and audio track;
• Supports preview. You can see the ripping progress in preview window;
• Optimized for P4,AMD - Encoding optimized for P4,AMD,AMD64
• Support different DVD type - Both NTSC, PAL are supported
• Great Quality - Got smaller file with almost the same quality
• Sub Titles Settings: Language, Text Offset, Original Colors
• AVI Settings: Audio and Video Codec settings
• Mpeg Settings: Video Bitrate, Audio Bitrate, Calc, Motion, DCT/iDCT
• Pading Settings, Mux Rate and VBV Buffer Size
• Export Settings: Resolution, Aspect, Resize Filter, Render, Frames

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SAM is a collection of many useful utilities SAM include modules that can help you in day to day life. SAM is easily accessible via the system tray or using keyboard shortcuts.

The modules include:

• Reminders - Helps you to remember tasks
• Jotter - A quick notes module
• ToDo - manage your tasks easily
• Units - Convert units (Distance, Mass, Speed and Temperature)
• World Times - Different time zone clocks
• Stop Watch - Count time
• Timer - Counts time backwards
• Anniversaries - Keep track of important dates
• Small Calc - A small sized calculator
• Calendar Utils - All sorts of date calculations
• Tables - Greek and Russian alphabets, International dialing codes

Download SAM 1.52 in Softonic