If you want to run a WebKit web browser with no strings attached (unlike Safari and Google Chrome), Arora is surely worth a try.

First plus is that it runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It is fast, has private browsing and looks like it has some plug-in support. Another good news is the announcement [...]

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For those who like ebooks, Calibre is a great program that was created to manage pretty much any aspect of your reading files.

The list of features is pretty extensive:

convert files from and to epub, mobi, LRF and supports input of several other formats including PDF, html, odt, rtf amongst others;
syncs to mobile reader devices (seems [...]

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For quite a while now OpenOffice has been promising the ability to import and edit PDF files. Although not released with the program itself, you can grab the Sun PDF Import extension to do just that.
This extension is in beta and is available multi-platform for Windows, Linux and MacOS X systems.
Tests that I ran were [...]

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On Linux a nice small but highly effective tool I use to work with SVN is RapidSVN. The program is pretty small but highly effective for commit, checkout, merge, and log info.
RapidSVN works on Windows, Linux and MacOS X.
From their site, the list of features include:

Simple -easy to use for SVN features;
Efficient – simple for [...]

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