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/

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/

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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

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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

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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

DOWNLOAD
www.mozilla.com

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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.

    * 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

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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:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported

LATEST VERSION

Ver. 5.0

LICENSE

GNU General Public License (GPL)

DOWNLOAD

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

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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.

ClamWin Free Antivirus uses ClamAV Scanning Engine

LATEST VERSION
Ver. 0.93.1

LICENSE
Open Source (GNU General Public License)

DOWNLOAD
www.clamwin.com

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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)

DOWNLOAD

• Pidgin Website

OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

OpenOffice.org is very easy to learn and can be downloaded and used entirely free of any license fee. Even you may make copies and distribute to anyone.

You can download the software for free from here: http://download.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice.org has released the beta version for its release 3.0. It can be downloaded from the location: http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/

The feature of version 3.0 is listed in this link: http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html

Please note that the Beta version is for testing and not for the production use. For the most recent stable version go to this page: http://download.openoffice.org/