Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2009
Music Player: Songbird
August 5, 2009
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development. It is a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. Some its features includes:
- GStreamer
- Media Importing / Exporting
- Library Files Organization
- Web Browser
- Watch Folders
- Smart Playlists
- Album Artwork
- Gapless Playback & Replay Gain
It is integrated with these Web 2.0 services: mashTape, SHOUTcast Radio, Last.fm Scrobbling, and Songkick concert tickets. You can enhance Songbird with community-contributed plugins like Media Flow.
Songbird is powered by Firefox.
LATEST VERSION: 1.2
LICENSE: Open Source
DOWNLOAD: http://getsongbird.com/download/
Clipboard Manager – ClipX
July 5, 2009
ClipX is a tiny clipboard manager. It is very
useful in cases where we need to use multiple copy and paste at one point of time. It is very easy to configure and supports various plugins that can be found on its home page.
It is sweet, it is free, use it.
LATEST VERSION: 1.0.3.8
LICENSE: Freeware
DOWNLOAD:http://bluemars.org/clipx/
System Cleaning – CCleaner
March 19, 2009
ABOUT
CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system 
optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less than a second to run) and Free.
Cleans the following:
- Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
- Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
- Recently opened URLs and files.
- Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more… - Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.
Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… Backup for registry clean. - Windows Startup tool.
If you like and use this software then it is polite to make a donation to the author.
LATEST VERSION: Ver. 2.17
LICENSE: Freeware (Piriform)
DOWNLOAD: www.ccleaner.com
Desktop Recording – CamStudio
August 6, 2008
ABOUT
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalize your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself “picture-in-picture” over your desktop.
Here are just a few ways you can use this software:
- You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program.
- Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
- You can create video tutorials for school or college class.
- You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people.
- You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
- You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favorite software program, before you forget them .
LATEST VERSION
Ver. 2.5
LICENSE
GNU General Public License
DOWNLOAD
camstudio.org
Web Browser – Firefox
August 3, 2008
ABOUT
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.
Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.
The latest version delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
LATEST VERSION
Ver. 3.01
LICENSE
MPL and Others
DOWNLOAD
www.mozilla.com
CD/DVD Tools – CDBurnerXP
July 9, 2008
ABOUT
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Key Features
* burn all kinds of discs
* audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
* burn and create ISO files
* data verification after burning process
* create bootable discs
* multi-language interface
* bin/nrg ? ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
* Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
LATEST VERSION
Ver. 4.1.2.678
LICENSE
Freeware
DOWNLOAD
http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download?latest
Source Code Editor – Notepad++
July 8, 2008
ABOUT
Notepad++ is a free (free as in “free speech”, but also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.
Some of the main features are:
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Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
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User Defined Syntax Highlighting
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Auto-completion
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Multi-Document
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Multi-View
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Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
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Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
LATEST VERSION
Ver. 5.0
LICENSE
GNU General Public License (GPL)
DOWNLOAD
Antivirus – ClamWin
July 4, 2008
ABOUT
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.
ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:
* High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
* Scanning Scheduler;
* Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
* Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
* Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.
Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
ClamWin Free Antivirus uses ClamAV Scanning Engine
LATEST VERSION
Ver. 0.93.1
LICENSE
Open Source (GNU General Public License)
DOWNLOAD
www.clamwin.com
Instant Messaging – Pidgin
July 3, 2008
ABOUT
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.
Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.
Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
LATEST VERSION:
Ver. 2.4.3 (ChangeLog)
LICENSE
GNU General Public License (GPL)
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