One of the most anticipated feature of upcoming Adobe Photoshop CS5 release is it's content-aware PatchMatch fill feature, however the very same feature is available in free, multi-platform, open-source graphic editor GIMP right now via Resynthesizer plugin.

Adobe Photoshop is an amazing software and nothing comes near to it when we are talking about professional quality image editing, this amazing software is soon going to have more awesomeness with official launch of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Suite as a part of Adobe CS5 on 12th April 2010.

We have already blogged about how amazing this new version of Photoshop will be and here is a new video showing another great feature "Content Aware Fill".

Adobe PDF is a popular file format and I am pretty much sure you must have experienced the need to edit or modify a read-only PDF file sometime but found no expensive PDF editor installed on your PC ? Or you want to quote the useful content in PDF files and to complete your own documents by MS Office Word? Here I would like to share you with a free PDF to Word Converter provided by AnyBizSoft Studio, A booming company focused on PDF solutions. Now you can grab a fully functional free copy of it worth $29.95.

AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter 2.5.3 is an easy-to-use application, which is specially designed to convert read-only PDF file to fully editable word document. All the original text content, images, layouts and even hyperlinks can be well retained in the converted Word document. Batch, partial, right-click conversion modes make it more efficient and flexible. With it, you do not have to copy and paste from PDF to Word anymore.

In an interesting move which could severely hurt Rapidshare and benefit rival services like Hotfile and Megaupload the leading file-hoster is now pro-actively terminating accounts of illegal downloaders and uploaders engaging in copyright infringement activity. It is no secret that the only reason for Rapidshare's success is the vast amount of illegally distributed copyrighted software's, music and movies hosted on their servers and this move is definitely going to have it's consequences.

This extreme step could be due to two reasons first being the legal problems faced by the company and second that they are soon going to have their own legal movie sharing service - Rapid Movies, whatever the reason maybe this is surely going to have an major impact on website's user-base.

The biggest advantage of open-source software is that developers are free to make changes to existing code and create completely customized version of the software, benefiting from the same "Project Pale Moon" is making Firefox faster by upto 25% on Windows platform by removing unwanted code (for most users) and optimizing it to benefit from latest CPU features making full use of enhanced instruction sets of newer CPUs.

To achieve it's faster Firefox build goal "Pale Moon" disables features like ActiveX and ActiveX scripting, Accessibility features, Parental controls, Javascript debugging support, crashreporter and automatic updater by design. Also, do note that since "Pale Moon Browser" is specifically optimized for current processor generation that is 7th or later generation CPU with SSE2 support the browser will not run or will have problems on older hardware configurations.

McAfee would be the only commercial anti-virus vendor offering frequent 6 and 12 months free licenses giveaways for their products, the good news is that they are back with a new promotion for Facebook members giving away six month subscription for their "McAfee AntiVirus Plus" product.

A new version of popular iPhone jailbreaking utility for Windows Sn0wbreeze is now available for download, the update brings better reliability, faster speed, smaller package size and fix for 64-bit machine support. Latest version of Sn0wbreeze can be downloaded from the link provided at the end of this post.

Rumors of upcoming Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 are now officially confirmed as the company posted details of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, surprisingly Windows 7 SP1 will only include minor updates apart from an updated Remote Desktop client which now takes advantage of RemoteFX technology.

Microsoft however did not provided any release or beta timeline for SP1 and only said :

"Once SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is released, the service pack will be delivered through Windows Update and be available on Microsoft Download Center for download as well."

Motion magazines is an all new concept being worked by Alexx Henry Photography for Viv magazine, here is what it looks like :

Half Life 2 needs no introduction to any avid computer user as it is one of the most popular game title ever, the game holds the world record for "Highest Rated Shooter by PC Gamer Magazine" in the "Guinness World Records" with awards including two 'Game of the Decade' amongst many others.

The great news is that now any Nvidia or ATi graphic card owner can grab free full-version copies of "Half-Life 2: Deathmatch" and "Half-Life 2: Lost Coast" episodes.