The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.5, which it modestly describes as “the best free office suite ever.”

We inherited a 15 years old code base, where features were not implemented and bugs were not solved in order to avoid creating problems, and this – with time – was the origin of a large technical debt,” says Caolán McNamara, a senior Red Hat developer who is one of TDF’s founders and directors.

“We had two options: a conservative strategy, which would immediately please all users, leaving the code basically unchanged, and our more aggressive feature development and code renovation path, which has created some stability problems in the short term but is rapidly leading to a completely new and substantially improved free office suite: LibreOffice 3.5, the best free office suite ever.”

Source: The Register – Software

Rumours – This year’s next-gen iPhone could be packing a wireless pay-by-wave chip, comments from a MasterCard chief and an iOS developer.

NFC gizmo would allow the iPhone 5 to make contact-less payments at the tills – a system that has been around on Android phones via Google Wallet for a while, but has yet to take off with customers. That could all change if Apple starts to push the tech.

Source: The Register – Software

SuperStamps Monsters is the first creation kit for Snagit and other graphic applications. It comes with transparent and re-sizable elements which you can easily paste on your photographs, and other files where you can insert images.

Add creativity and drama on your own photos and other images, create avatars, personal characters, emoticons, smileys, and mascots. Tell a story on your images/files just by adding these elements.

For more info, check out  SuperStamps Monsters- Snagit Stamps

It is perfect for presentations, blogs, schoolwork, training materials and webpages. It can be an effective teaching tool that can help convey your message to your viewers. It is also by the way, compatible with PC or Mac, so everyone will get to benefit from all its features.

You can easily use it by just dragging and dropping the elements into the Snagit Editor, resize and paste it directly to your image/ file, then create your unique professional looking images. The kit also includes an organized pdf document which has the license key and has a step by step process on how you can use it with Snagit.

With 19 Monsters, 3 shapes, 7 Emoticon/Smileys shapes, 26 Pair of eyes, 21 Mouths, 33 Special items, 23 Hats and hair items, 9 glasses/sunglasses, a total of 138 images that you can choose from, I’m sure you’ll be excited to use each of them!

Amaze your friends and family, impress your boss and officemates by experimenting with each image, say “hi” by sending them smileys, make a nice and attention grabber presentation , have fun with it by creating your own avatar and I’m sure you’ll get a lot of likes and comments posting it in your facebook or twitter account! ☺☺☺

For more info, check out: SuperStamps Monsters- Snagit Stamps

Until next time – Snag on

Peter – Your Snagit Guide