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LibreOffice is a powerful full-of-features free open-source office suite used by millions of people from across the world.

Along with the development of LibreOffice, the LibreOffice developers (and the overall project's team) are currently involved in helping entities (governments, state departments, schools, etc) to shift from proprietary office suites to LibreOffice.

The adoption of LibreOffice allows organizations to use a heavily-and-constantly developed office bundle that comes with support for numerous file formats, preferences, requirements and demands.

gCAD3D is a handy powerful-yet-lightweight 3D CADCAM application that groups numerous functionalities under a filled-with-controls interface.

Among its features, there are:

• integrated 3D OpenGL viewer
• built-in NC-processor
• 3D program interpreter for geometry and NC commands
• import/export abilities for DXF, SVG, VRML, Step, Iges, etc

gCAD3D has been updated to version 2.10, introducing interesting features and improvements.

We are, are we not, surrounded by informations, informations used by televisions, schools, newspapers, research studies, etc, informations that sometimes must be encapsulated (into various media) for further usage.

Qreator is a handy useful utility that allows the user to create QR codes from various sources, thus imprinting informations into a fancy-and-useful QR code.

The Document Foundation has just released a new version of LibreOffice, 4.0.3, presenting itself as a bug-fixes release in the 4.0 series.

LibreOffice 4.0.3 further consolidates and strengthens the powerful LibreOffice 4.0 (released months ago with a significant amount of features).

Converters, games, mathematical tools, chat clients, task schedulers, reminders are among the shared in the open applications created with Ubuntu SDK.

Basically, Ubuntu SDK allows third-party developers to create a significant amount of app types with numerous features, functionalities and views, thus presenting itself (work in progress) as a capable rich app-creation environment.

Starting with 2013, the Ubuntu world has been immersed into UnityNext, Mir and Ubuntu Touch, bundle of software that is to take Ubuntu to a more powerful, polished and modern experience.

Indicator Remindor is a powerful reminder application that centers multiple features into a desktop-integrated easy-to-use interface.

Basically, Indicator Remindor exposes an appindicator on the Unity panel, from where the user is able to add both regular and quick reminders filtered through several tweakable options.

Blender is a powerful versatile 3D suite used for animation, modeling, rendering, interactive creation, post-production, etc, featuring a full-of-controls interface and support for widely-used file formats (including 3D Studio and Wavefront Obj).

Along with its massive amount of built-in features, Blender is characterized by a constant vigorous development, in the sense of seeing constant releases with constantly-added new features and optimizations.

The Humble Bundle team has released Humble Double Fine Bundle, a collaborative gaming project with Double Fine Productions.

The result: a pack of interesting DRM-free pay-what-you-want games, such as Costume Quest, Psychonauts, Stacking and, for gamers paying more than the average, Brutal Legend.

Heavy metal, RPG adventures, dolls with special abilities are among the attributes of the enjoyable games.

Days ago, the developers reported the successful evaluation of the now's Ubuntu Touch status, affirming (continuing the months ago's statements) that a 1.0 version of Ubuntu Touch is to be ready on October 2013.