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Nero 8 - is a software solution that brings the digital world to your PC with features that make it fun and easy to create multimedia projects with high-quality, professional results. Create MP3 mixes and edit vacation videos in High Definition format. Share content around the world with simple Internet upload functions. Burn a disc with just one click, and then enjoy it in any room in your house with versatile streaming features. Rest easy knowing your data is safe in the event of a system crash or a damaged disc. Nero 8 lets you live the digital life with cutting-edge technology and world-class features.

Nero 8, the newest version of the world’s best-selling multimedia suite, brings the digital world to your PC. Now it’s easy to organize and manage all your multimedia files, as well as create and edit new digital content. Nero’s sleek design and user-friendly tools make completing projects fun and enjoyable.

Nero StartSmart 8 is the entry point for all functionality in Nero 8. With Nero StartSmart 8, all the powerful features of Nero8 are at your fingertips, making it easier than ever to complete your digital tasks.

Nero 8 comes loaded with a number of features that enhance Windows VistaTM. With the Nero DiscCopy Gadget, you can copy a disc of any format with just one click. With Rich Preview, you can view the contents of your files without having to open a separate application. With Nero MCE Plug-ins, you can burn and stream your content on a Windows Vista™ MCE powered machine.

New and Improved Features in Nero 8 :
* Direct access to all features from the project launcher
* High Definition format support
* Xbox 360™ and PlayStation® 3 streaming features
* Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burning support
* SecurDisc data protection support
* Copy a disc with just one click
* Graphics optimized for Windows Vista™
* Continual free updates

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Hi netizens,

It does this by augmenting the bookmarking functionality in Firefox with an enhanced experience that offers the following advantages:

• Search and browse your bookmarks
• Access your bookmarks from any computer at any time
• Keep your bookmarks organized with tags
• Share your bookmarks with friends or anyone on the Web
• Import your existing Firefox bookmarks

Click here for more details..

Works with:Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0.*

Download from here..

3)Tabmixplus(TMP)

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities.

• It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.

• It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

Official page..

Supports Firefox: 1.0 – 3.0a5

Download from here..

4)Groowe toolbar:


Groowe is an excellent all-in-one search toolbar that has stuffed inside with almost all search engiens and if you think anything is missing you can add your own by configuring a simple xml file!

Fig:Groowe Search Toolbar in Firefox with expanded list of search engines

Groowe Search Toolbar bundles toolbar functions for many search engines, shopping sites, download sites, including Google toolbar, Yahoo, Amazon, EBay, Ask, Msn, Download.com, Wikipedia, Digg, del.icio.us and others. The entire toolbar reconfigures when you select a different site and it includes many advanced features found in each engine or site. You can also easily repeat your search on all sites included in toolbar.

Fig:Some examples of toolbars included in the Groowe Search Toolbar

Groowe plugins can be downloaded for many other sites like YouTUBE, IMDb, Technorati, Exalead, Clusty, Torrent sites, dictionaries, etc. Groowe plugins are small XML files that define new Groowe toolbar so anyone can make Groowe addition.

Home page..

Supports Firefox: 1.0 – 2.0.0.*

Download here..

5)Foxytunes

Downlaod here..

6)Cooliris:

* Preview web links, images, and videos without even clicking.
* “Stack” previewed items into temporary bookmarks to quickly preview later.
* Instantly send links to friends and family with just a click.
* Automatically subsearch Google, Wikipedia, et. al. by right-clicking on any phrase
* Customize preferences to control preview window activation, time delay, and size & position.

Cooliris Previews is free to download and use, and does not contain any adware or spyware whatsoever.

More info and screens here..

Supports: Firefox: 1.0 – 3.0a1

Download here..

7)Sribefire:

Download here..

Other highly useful addons..

These addons are also very useful ,I differentiated them from above category just to make it less cluttered and in any means that doesn’t mean that they are less functional than the former ones!Infact every addon has its own functionality and it is your need which decides the most required and the least required ones…

• Clipmarks:With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.

Download Clipmarks here..

• Videodownloader:Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion, Pornotube… and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly …

Download videodownloader here..

• iMacros:

Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work!

• (1) Form Filler on Steroids and Password Manager
• (2) Web Automation
• (3) Data extraction/Web Scraping/Web mining/Enterprise Data Mash-ups
• (4) Web Testing
• (5) Social Scripting (Social Bookmarking)

Whatever you can do with Firefox, iMacros can automate it.

Download iMacros here..

• Zotero:Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources..

Download Zotero here..

• Stumbleupon:StumbleUpon lets you “channelsurf” the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for finding and sharing great sites. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn’t think to search for!

Download Stumbleupon here..

• Greasemonkey:Allows you to customize the way a web page displays using small bits of JavaScript.
  Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org.

Download Greasemonkey here..

• Noscript:It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, and guards the “trust boundaries” against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).
  Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality…

Download Noscript from here..

• Firebug:Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Download firebug here..

• Adblock Plus:Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them!

Download Adblock PLus here..

• IE Tab:This is a great tool for web developers,which allows users to easily see how a web page is displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

Download IE Tab from here..

• Google notebook:With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information
  from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from
  any computer. Planning a trip? Researching a product? Just add
  clippings to your notebook. You won’t ever have to leave your browser
  window.

Download Google notebook from Google/notebook site..

• Downthem All:DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all
  the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can
  refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what
  you really want!
• It features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time!

Download Downthem All here..

As always one can have official toolbars from Yahoo and Google

• Google toolbar(for accessing Gmail directly..)
• Yahoo toolbar(Can be used to translate a web-page!)

Miscellaneous:

Simple yet usefull addons:

• Fasterfox:

Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such
as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial
paint delay.

Download Fasterfox here…

• FoxyProxy:

FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s proxy configuration. It offers more features than SwitchProxy, ProxyButton, QuickProxy, xyzproxy, ProxyTex, TorButton, etc!

Click here for furthur details and donwload info..

• Datafox:Prefarably usefull for Dataone-broadband users..Allows you to check your online-account usage from firefox in single click and notifies you when the download limit exceeds!

Fig:Datafox in Firefox tray!

Fig:Context Menu of Datafox

Download Datafox here..

The mozilla Addons site does have a lot of featured addons,so do browse them by “popularity” to view some other popular Fx addons..!!

I hope you it was quite usefull And i wish this has definitely helped you in “Rediscovering the web!”

–brugu_baba!

ALL IN ONE FREEWARE LIST….

The below a selection of freewares…

Alternatives to Internet Explorer:

Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Crazy Browser - http://www.crazybrowser.com/
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
Opera - http://www.opera.com/
Avant Browser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/

Alternatives to Microsoft Office:

OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/

Firewalls:

Sygate Personal Firewall - http://www.sygate.com/
Agnitum Outpost - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html
Tiny Personal Firewall - http://www.tinysoftware.com

E-mail:

Mozilla Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Pegasusmail - http://www.pmail.com/
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english2.htm
Eudora Light/Eudora Sponsored - http://www.eudora.com/

Anti-spyware/Adware:

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot - Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpyWareGuard - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

Maintenance:

CleanUp! - http://cleanup.stevengould.org/
Easycleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

Backup:

Syncback - http://www.syncback.com/

Remote Control:

RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.com/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
TridiaVNC - http://www.tridiavnc.com/
DameWare Mini Remote Control - http://www.dameware.com/

Web Editing:

Topstyle Lite (CSS-Editor) - http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp/

Anti-Virus:

AVG Antivirus - http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
Antivir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast! - http://www.avast.com/

Programming:

#develop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx (C# & VB.net)
dev-c++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
PHPEdit - http://www.phpedit.com/
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/ (Java)
Mono - http://www.go-mono.org/ (.net, inkl *nix)

Codecs:

K-Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Ac3filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter/
FACC - http://faac.sourceforge.net/
Ogg Vorbis - http://www.vorbis.com/
ffdshow - http://free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm
Real Alternative - http://www.free-codecs.com (Alternativ till Real Player)
Quicktime Alternative - www.free-codecs.com (Alternativ till Quicktime)

Alternative to Adobe Acrobat (.PDF):

PDFCreator - http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm (Skapa PDF-filer)

Zipper/Unzipper:

IZArc - http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.net/

CD/DVD:

Exact Audio Copy - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ (CD-rippare)
burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ (Brännare)
Cdex- http://www.cdex.n3.net/ (CD-rippare)

3D:

Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/

Picture Editing:

The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/windows/

Styling of Windows:

Litestep - http://www.litestep.net/
BB4Win - http://www.bb4win.org/

Picture Viewing:

Slowview - http://www.slowview.at/
Irfan View - http://www.irfanview.com/
XnView - http://www.xnview.com/

Chat:

Miranda IM (Instant Messenger) - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Trillian (Instant Messenger) - http://www.trillian.cc/
gaim (Instant Messenger) - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Catax - http://www.catax.com/
irssi (IRC) - http://www.irssi.org/
XChat (IRC) - http://www.xchat.org/
amsn (MSN) - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/

Media:

VideoLAN - http://www.videolan.org/
Bsplayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show…ackage_id=84358
Zoom Player - http://www.inmatrix.com/
WinMplayer - http://www.christianroessler.net/mplayer/index.php

FTP:

UltraFXP - http://www.ultrafxp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ (Klient & Server)
LeechFTP - http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

Math:

Maxima - http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

Web Server:

Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/
Savant Web Server - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
OmniHTTPd - http://www.omnicron.ca/httpd/
24Link - http://www.softpile.com/Internet/Se…4698_index.html

Phone online:

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Music:

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (Ljudredigering)
mp3tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/ (Tag och namn-redigerare för mp3’s)
LAME - http://lame.sourceforge.net/ (Koding)

Internetradio:

Shoutcast - http://www.shoutcast.com/
SimpleServer:Shoutcast - http://www.analogx.com/
IceCast - http://www.icecast.org/

Converting:

VirtualDubMod - http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Music Players:

Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
WinAmp - http://www.winamp.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
jetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/

Games:

BauAir - Intense Dogfight Action - http://www.fader.nu/bauair/
America’s Army - http://www.americasarmy.com/ - Fragzone
Wolfenstein: Enemy Terrority - http://games.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/ - Fragzone
Grand Theft Auto - http://63.236.94.8/rockstar/classics/index.php - Fragzone
Starsiege: Tribes - http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/tribes/
Tribes 2 - http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/tribes2/
Gunbound - http://www.gunbound.net/
Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe - http://www.gathering.com/hd2/hddeluxe.html
The Ur-Quan Masters - http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Subspace/Continuum - http://www.subspacehq.com/
Soldat - http://www.soldat.pl/
NetKar - http://www.nkzone.com/
MU Online - http://www.muonline.com/
PristonTale - http://www.pristontale.com/
Tibia - http://www.tibia.com/
Blobby Volley - http://home.t-online.de/home/mummertathome/blobby.htm




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List of some freeware & usefull applications…

Audio/Video



Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
Version: 1.2.6
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Homepage: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Audacity (beta)
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
Version: 1.3 Beta
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Homepage: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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CDex (beta)
CDex a CD-Ripper, thus
extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application
supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.
Version: 1.70 beta 2
Download: [content suppressed] (2,3 MB)
Homepage: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
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Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows.
Version:
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MediaCoder
MediaCoder is a free universal
audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent
audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community.
Version:
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Homepage: http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
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VirtualDub
A free video capture and AVI/MPEG-1 processing utility.
Version:
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Homepage: http://www.virtualdub.org/
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VLC media player
VLC media player is a highly
portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1,
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various
streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in
unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Package contributed by Daniel
Version: 0.8.4a
Download: [content suppressed] (15,8 MB)
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Financial



Eclipse Trader
Eclipse Trader is an Eclipse
Rich Client Platform (RCP) application focused to the building of an
online stock trading system, featuring shares pricing watch, intraday
and history charts with technical analysis indicators, level II/market
depth view, news watching, and integrated trading. Requires Java
Runtime.
Version:
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Games



FreeCol
FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer the new world. Requires Java runtime
Version: 0.6.1
Download: [content suppressed] (10,4 MB)
Homepage: http://www.freecol.org
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Robocode
Robocode is a Java based
programming game, where the goal is to develop robot battle tank to
battle against competitor tanks. The moto of Robocode is: Build the
best, destroy the rest! Robocode requires a Java SE 5.0 Runtime
Environment (JRE) to run.
Version:
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Homepage: http://robocode.sourceforge.net/
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Graphics



Blender
Blender is the open source
software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production,
interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating
systems under the GNU General Public License.

Package contributed by Daniel
Version: 2.42
Download: [content suppressed] (8,2 MB)
Homepage: http://blender.org/
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GIMP 2 (self-contained)
GIMP is the GNU Image
Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for
such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Version: 2.2.17
Download: [content suppressed] (65 MB)
Homepage: http://www.gimp.org/
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GLIPS Graffiti Editor
The GLIPS Graffiti editor is a
cross-platform SVG graphics editor developed by ITRIS. It enables to
create regular SVG files and SCADA HMI applications that can connect to
any data provider. Requires Java Runtime.
Version:
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Inkscape
Inkscape is an Open Source
vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator,
Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) file format.
Version:
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Homepage: http://www.inkscape.org/
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Paint.NET
Paint.NET is free image editing
and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that
run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a
wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Requires .NET Framework 2.0.
Version: 3.08
Download: [content suppressed] (7,6 MB)
Homepage: http://www.getpaint.net/
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TuxPaint
Tux Paint is a free drawing
program designed for young children (kids ages 3 and up). It has a
simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging
cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program.
Version:
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Internet



Amaya
Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a
tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing
features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access
features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of
the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing
medium.
Version: 9.51
Download: [content suppressed] (8,6 MB)
Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
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Azureus
Azureus implements the
BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many
invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users.
Version: 2.5
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Homepage: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
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BitTorrent Client
BitTorrent is the global
standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet. Harness a
community of over 150 million users to deliver files to your PC faster
than anything else. BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own
content.
Version: 5.0.8
Download: [content suppressed] (8 MB)
Homepage: http://www.bittorrent.com/
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FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
Version: 2.2.32
Download: [content suppressed] (2,7 MB)
Homepage: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
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KompoZer
KompoZer is a wysiwyg HTML
editor (Nvu/Composer fork) aimed towards advanced users. Can be
considered as an unofficial bug-fix release for Nvu.
Version:
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Homepage: http://www.kompozer.net/
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Mobility Email client
The Mobility Email client is a
powerful Free (as in Freedom) Software email client that supports IMAP,
POP and SMTP email. It features OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption, webmail
support, and integrates seemlessly with the MobilityEmail.net service.

Package contributed by Daniel
Version:
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Homepage: http://www.mobilityemail.net/
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Mozilla Firefox 1.5
The award-winning, free 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.
Version:
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Homepage: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
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Mozilla Firefox 2.0
The award-winning Web browser from Mozilla is now faster, even more secure, and totally customizable to your online life.
Version: 2.0.0.6
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Homepage: http://www.mozilla.com/
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Mozilla Suite
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and
newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all
your Internet needs in one application.
Version: 1.7.3
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
Thunderbird is a free,
open-source and cross-platform mail client. It is based on the Mozilla
codebase. It is a robust and easy to use client, similar to competing
products like Outlook Express, but with some major advantages such as
junk mail classification.
Version:
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Homepage: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0
Enjoy safe, fast, and easy
email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and
customizable views. Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more
powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and
customize your mail.
Version: 2.0.0.5
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Nvu
A complete Web Authoring System.
Nvu makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages
and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
Version: 1.0
Download: [content suppressed] (8,2 MB)
Homepage: http://www.nvu.com/
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RSSOwl
RSSOwl lets you gather,
organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a
convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various
formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. Requires Java
Runtime.
Version: 1.2.3
Download: [content suppressed] (6,4 MB)
Homepage: http://www.rssowl.org/
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RSSOwl (with JRE)
RSSOwl lets you gather,
organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a
convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various
formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. Package
contains Java Runtime.
Version: 1.2.3
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Homepage: http://www.rssowl.org/
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Messaging



Gaim
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant
messaging (IM) client. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar
protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell
GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks.
Version: 1.5
Download: [content suppressed] (15 MB)
Homepage: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
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Miscellaneous



BOINC
BOINC is free, open-source software for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing.
Version: 5.8.15
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Homepage: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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Celestia
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Version:
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Homepage: http://celestia.sourceforge.net/
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NASA World Wind
NASA World Wind is a graphically
rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows. It
combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue
Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.

Requires local .NET 2.0 + DirectX 9.0c
Version: 1.4
Download: [content suppressed] (17,4 MB)
Homepage: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
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Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source
planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just
like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
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Networking



Ethereal
Ethereal is used by network
professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software
and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard
features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features
not seen in any other product.
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PuTTY
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Version: 0.85
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WinSCP
WinSCP is an open source
freeware SFTP client for Windows using SSH. Legacy SCP protocol is also
supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local
and a remote computer.
Version: 3.8.1
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Homepage: http://www.winscp.com/
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Productivity



AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
Version: 2.4
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Homepage: http://www.abisource.com/
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AbiWord (with extra dictionaries)
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
Version: 2.4
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Homepage: http://www.abisource.com/
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FreeMind (with JRE)
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.

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GanttProject
GanttProject is a tool for creating a project schedule by means of Gantt chart and resource load chart. Requires Java Runtime.
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Mozilla Sunbird
The Sunbird Project is a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla’s XUL user interface language.
Version: 0.3 alpha1
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Open Workbench
Open Workbench is an open source
desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and
management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than
100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and
powerful alternative to Microsoft Project.

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OpenOffice.org 2
OpenOffice.org the product is a
multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop
applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set
similar to other office suites.
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Scribus
Scribus is an open-source
program that brings award-winning professional page layout to
Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of
“press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Underneath
the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional
publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color
management and versatile PDF creation.
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TeXnicCenter
TeXnicCenter is a feature rich
integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents
on Microsoft Windows (Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000/XP) freely available under
GPL.
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XEmacs
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system.
Version: 21.4.19
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Homepage: http://www.xemacs.org/
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Programming



Eclipse
Eclipse is an open-source Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and platform for rich client applications.
Version: 3.1.2
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Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/
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Eclipse (with J2EE SDK)
Eclipse is an open-source Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and platform for rich client applications.
Version: 3.1.2
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Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/
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Eclipse (with JRE)
Eclipse is an open-source Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and platform for rich client applications.
Version: 3.1.2
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Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/
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NClass
NClass is a UML compliant class diagram editor specialized for C# and Java developers.
Version: 1.06
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Homepage: http://nclass.sourceforge.net/
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SharpDevelop
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform.
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Utilities



7-Zip
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.
Version: 4.42
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Homepage: http://www.7-zip.org/
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AutoIt v3
AutoIt v3 is a freeware
BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI
and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes,
mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate
tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g.
VBScript and SendKeys).

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DarkShot
Small screenshot creation tool.

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Homepage: http://www.darkleo.com/
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Extended Password Generator
Extended Password Generator is
the tool-at-hand of any system administrator to generate pronounceable
and random passwords, secured against brute-force dictionary attacks.

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Homepage: http://epg.sourceforge.net/
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IconsExtract
Extract icons and cursors from EXE, DLL, CPL, and OCX files and save them as ICO or CUR files.

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ImgBurn
ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD
images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype /
bitsetting on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor,
Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to erase / format your rewritable media!
Version: 2.1
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Homepage: http://www.imgburn.com/
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KeePass
KeePass is a free/open-source
password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a
secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is
locked with one master key or a key-disk.

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Launchy
Launchy is a free windows
utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on
your desktop, and even your file manager.

Package contributed by Emmanuel
Version: 1.25
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Homepage: http://launchy.net/
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NirSoft Password Tools
A suite of Password recovery tools.
The
utilities provided are for password recovery and educational purposes
only. They are not intended to be used for illegal purposes.

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Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free source code
editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming
languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
Version: 4.0.2
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PSPad
# PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor, useful for people who: work with various programming environments
# like highlighted syntax in code
# need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
# are looking for a tool to work with plain text
# want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products

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SFT Explorer
By using SFT Explorer you can
look into SoftGrid packages without using Sequencer; it will show all
that’s inside your SFT package. Files, folders, virtual registry,
virtual services … all! And you can optionally export selected
content out of the package, to examine files more closely or to migrate
virtual registry settings to another package by importing exported
reg-file.
Version: 1.0
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Taksi
Taksi is a utility that allows
you to take screenshots and record video clips of your favourite games
and other 3D-graphics applications. Inspired by Fraps (www.fraps.com),
Taksi aims to provide an open source alternative to that great tool.
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Virtual Magnifying Glass
Virtual Magnifying Glass is a
free, open source, screen magnification tool for Windows and Linux. It
is simple, customizable, and easy-to-use.
Version: 3.2
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Homepage: http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
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XML Copy Editor
A fast, no-frills XML editor
with DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation, XSLT, XPath, pretty-printing,
syntax highlighting, folding, tag completion/locking, lossless
import/export of Microsoft Word documents and a spelling and style
check.
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