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what is freeware

Freeware ( from “free” and “software” ) is a computer software which can be used by anyone for free of cost. A software classified as freeware works fully and it is available for unlimited time access with no cost. Freeware can be proprietary software available at zero price.

The software license may impose restrictions on the type of use including personal/individual use, commercial/non-commercial use, academic use, non-profit use or combination of all these. The license may be free for personal and non-commercial use.

Freeware may or may not be free and open source software. Free software foundation asks users to avoid calling “freeware” free software. Free software can be studied, used and modified without any restriction. Freeware is different from shareware.

Freeware provides users to access whole feature of the software without any limitation/cost, where shareware requests users to pay money after the trial period of the software or to provide full feature of the software.

Blu-ray Disc and its features

We all know about DVD and its features. But few people only know about Blu-ray Disc. Let us know about Blu-ray Disc. It is similar to DVD with some extra features. It has the same physical dimensions as standard DVD’s and CD’s.
Blu-ray Disc also known as BD which is the next-generation optical disc format. It is developed to enable rewriting, playback, recording of high definition (HD) video and also stores large amount of data in it. Storage capacity of BD is more than fives the capacity of normal DVD’s and it can hold data up to 25GB on a Single-layer disc and 50GB on a Dual-layer disc.
BD uses blue-violet laser to read and write data. The name is a Combination of “Blue” (blue-violet laser) and “Ray” (optical ray). The BD format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). BDA is a group of personal computer and media manufacturers, leading consumer electronics with more than 180 member companies from all over the world.

BD formats has classified into three types as

1) Rewritable (RE) formats,

2) Recordable (R) formats and

3) Read Only (ROM) format.

It can hold 9 hours of high-definition (HD) video on a 50GB disc. And 23 hours of standard-definition (SD) video on a 50 GB disc. Blu-ray Discs cannot play in normal players. It needs Blu-ray players. The solid rise in Blu-ray disc sales reduces in hardware prices. Blu-ray player is very cheap, which is range from $100 to $130. So we expect people to change from DVD’s to Blu-ray Disc in a future.

Microsoft Office 2010 retail prices

Microsoft Office 2010 Logo

Microsoft Office 2010 is a Microsoft product and they already released Microsoft Office 2007 for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office 2008 for MAC OS X. It can be used in Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 and MAC OS X.
Microsoft Corporation announced that four retail versions of Office 2010 software will be charge between $99 and $499, which is to be released later this year. The pricing of Office 2010 is generally in line with prices of its Office 2007 software.
Microsoft is to be sell retail boxed versions of the Office 2010,
Academic version = $99
Basic version for consumers = $149
Full-featured package for businesses = $499