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		<title>6 Free Alternatives to HP Upline Backup and Syncing Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Backups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP Upline is shutting down on March 31st. Create an account on one of these services and move your data now!
Dropbox
http://www.getdropbox.com/
2GB Free; Dropbox lets you synchronize and share 2GB of your files, photos and music for free. 

Syncplicity
http://www.syncplicity.com/
Start with 2GB and 2 computers for FREE; Keep your files up to date across all your computers; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 7 Cheap Flight Ticket Alternatives to FareChase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eConsultant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FareChase is closing. These 7 alternatives search multiple travel sites for cheap fares.
Farecast
http://farecast.live.com/
Search multiple travel sites; Microsoft site.

Kayak
http://www.kayak.com/
Search 140+ sites at once.

Mobissimo
http://www.mobissimo.com/
The world&#8217;s most comprehensive travel search engine. 

Momondo
http://www.momondo.com/
Compare fares from across the web in a single overview .

SideStep
http://www.sidestep.com/
We search over 200 travel websites to bring you the very best travel values on the web.

Yapta
http://www.yapta.com/
Yapta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Alternatives to Bloated Adobe Acrobat v9.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eConsultant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freeware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows XP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acrobat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Acrobat v9.1 is a 41.1 MB monster download which includes Adobe AIR  and Flash and takes 204 MB of installation disk space.
Use Foxit Reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm
Fast; popular freeware.

Use Sumatra PDF
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
Open source pdf viewer.

Use Xpdf
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
Open source pdf viewer.

PDF XChange Viewer
http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/
Freeware

Open in Firefox Browser PDF Download
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636
Firefox addon which opens pdf documents.

PdfMeNot.com
http://pdfmenot.com/tools/
Free online service to read pdf.

Use Adobe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Software to play manage mp3 music files : Songbird</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eConsultant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTunes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mp3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem: Open Source Software to play manage mp3 music files
Solution: Songbird &#8211; Open Source Music Player


Songbird &#8211; Open Source Music Player
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that&#8217;s under active development.
&#8230;
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		<title>15 Alternatives to Bloated iTunes v8</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eConsultant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[iTunes 8 is 64 MB monster, forces you to install Apple Quicktime and runs multiple background services all the time.

foobar2000

http://www.foobar2000.org/

Freeware // Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform.

Songbird Media Player

http://getsongbird.com/

Freeware // Songbird is a highly customizable alternative to traditional desktop media players.

Yet another iPod manager

http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/

Freeware for Mac/Windows/Linux

Winamp Media Player

http://www.winamp.com/

Winamp 5.5 includes iPod [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 14 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eConsultant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Images]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top free web-based sites/services to edit and manipulate images/photos.
Aviary
http://a.viary.com
Part of a suite of applications from image editing to typography to music to 3D to video.

DrPic
http://www.drpic.com/
Tools include Resize, crop, rotate, brightness, autofix, brush, text, blur, sharpen etc

flauntR
http://www.flauntr.com
Editor for 100s of effects; with storage; upload via Picasa desktop.

Fotoflexer
http://fotoflexer.com
Tools include effects, fonts, shapes, doodling, distortions, retouch, layers; get [...]]]></description>
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