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Online Support and FIle Transfer Works behind any FirewallDownload Teamviewer FreeMain WindowTeamViewer offers a clean and simple to use interface.When connecting, you decide if you want to remote control your partner, show your own desktop to a partner or if you only want to transfer files without sharing your desktop - all versions of TeamViewer include all modes!File Transfer WindowAll

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(www.agilerss.com) AgileRss is a desktop aggregator. It has the ability to display any RSS, ATOM, and XML news feed, and therefore, allows the user to remain updated with the preferred sources of information that support RSS. The RSS news Ticker is headline displayer. It stays at the top of the screen. The user can customize the news ticker from the preferences

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(http://gaim.sourceforge.net) Gaim is the real all-in-one pro. It is a multi-protocol IM client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. And, it enjoy compatibility with AIM, ICQ (Oscar protocol) MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, and many more. Gaim users are given the facility to log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. Therefore, a user may be

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(http://pgd.sourceforge.net) phphGmailDrive is also known as PGD. It is written in PHP to share Gmail file attachments on the Web, and therefore is a really useful online file sharing utility. It uses Gmail as a file hosting service and uses all of the 2.7 GB space file hosting. Once it has been installed, PGD automatically connects to the Gmail server. From there, it fetches a list

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(www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html) Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. The user interface and functionality are similar to that of Microsoft Outlook. However, the distinguishing features are really good. They include iCalendar

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(http://cyberduck.ch) This an FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X that supports FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS). It provides the user with the ability to upload and download via drag and drop. Cyber duck provides supports for multiple language.

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(www.daffodildb.com/daffodil-organizer.html) Daffodil Organizer is a cross-platform standalone e-mail client. The only requirement is to have JVM installed. The Organizer affords good accessibility and high flexibility to customize the application. It uses an RDBMS (a Relational Database Management System) to store all e-mail and user details. The use of the

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(http://www.egroupware.org/) Egroupware is a platform independent, enterprise ready group ware software/sever. Its features include the ability to manage contact, appointments and more for the whole business. It comes with a web interface which allows you to access your data from anywhere in the world. You also have the choice of using your own client, be it Evolution, Contact or Outlook and

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http://www.zimbra.com/ Zimbra Collaboration Suite is one the more popular Open Source Collaboration tools available on the Net, providing solutions for the Mac and Linux platforms. Developed around AjAX-based collaboration, it integrates a powerful web client, e-mail, contacts, calendar, VoIP as well as online document authoring and sharing.

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File Zilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net) File Zilla is a really powerful software. It is designed for Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (secure FTP i.e. FTP over SSL/TLS). Some of the standout features are the site manager and the message log. The site manager is like a database of FTP Web sites. It allows the user to create a list of FTP sites. For each Web site

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Mozilla Thunderbird (www.mozilla.com/thunderbir) Thunderbird is a cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It has been modelled after Mozilla Firefox. Thunderbird is not a personal information manager. Extensions allow additional functionality as and when required. Message Management Thunderbird manages multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts. And,

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Mouse Gestures (http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox//39/) This software is like a piece of art. It allows the user to execute common commands (like page forward / backward, close tab, new tab,) by mouse gestures drawn over the Web pages. Yes, all this without using the tool bar or the keyboard a single time. The user can also use click-only “rocker” gestures, which are even

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Stumble Upon (www.stumbleupon.com) Stumble Upon allows the user to surf through the best-reviewed sites on the Web. IT is a collaborating surfing tool for browsing, reviewing, and sharing information about Web sites with like minded people. This brings up some really interesting Web site surprises. Stumble Upon works like this: the first time it is launched, the user specifies his

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McAfee Site Adviser Plug-in for Firefox (www.siteadviser.com/download/ff_preinstall.html) The greatest hazard to information privacy is the ignorance of the user, especially in case of spyware. Inadvertently, any person may run across the privacy-compromising software. To help keep such online nuisances at bay, McAfee has come out with this tool. This tests the safety of different

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Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.com/firefox) Firefox was developed by the Mozilla Foundation and many developers around the world. It is in many ways the true pioneer of the open source browser movement. It has been responsible for bringing about some of the most radical design and feature changes. As a matter of fact, Firefox has been hailed as the best alternative to other

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Miranda Instance Messenger (www.miranda-im.org) Miranda is a multi protocol instance messaging application for Windows which score through its simplicity. It supports plug ins to enhance its functionality. In face, plug ins are responsible for supporting the IM protocols and additional features. There some plug ins that come bundled by default while the user can download the other from the

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Lyx (http://www.lyx.org/) Lyx is an interesting concept that distances itself from the more generic ‘word processors’ by calling itself a ‘document processor’. The subtle difference of course is because Lyx is a WYSIWYM word processor-What You See Is What You Mean. While the standard set of word processor features various text classes for articles, slides, books, etc., and also

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Abiword (http://www.abisource.com/) Abiword is one of the more well known word processors available on the Net. It has an impressive feature list that contains most tools and function that you would require from a word processor. Not only is the standard feature list impressive but some of the additional features like cross-plat-form support and multiple format support are

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Password Maker (http://passwordmaker.org) The makers of this tool have come up with an interesting take on The Lord of the Rings. They say,“ One password to rule them all”. This is a small, lightweight, free, extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Flock, and Yahoo! Widgets (a widget is an interface element that a computer user interacts with,

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KeePassX (http://keepassx.sourceforge.net) KeePassX is an application for people with extremely high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, and is cross platform. KeePassX saves many different information, for example, user names, passwords, URLs, attachments, and comments in one single database. The user can define titles and icons for each single

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Universal Password Manager (http://sourceforge.net/projects/upm) Universal Password Manager allows you to store usernames, passwords, URLs and generic notes in an encrypted database protected by one master password. It’s main features are simplicity and cross platform support (Java/SWING). Universal Password enforces uniform password policy across multiple

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KeePass Password Safe(http://keepass.sourceforge.net/)KeePass databases are encrypted using the much-respected AES and Two fish symmetric ciphers. Passwords are hashed using SHA256, and kept in an encrypted form in the KeePass process memory. The rationale is that even if Windows caches the KeePass process to Disk, the user’s passwords wouldn’t be revealed.The tool is the first password

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7-Zip (www.7-zip.org)7-Zip is a file archiver with a very high compression ratio. The compression ratio is claimed to be 2-10% better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip. It integrates fully with the Windows environment. Its 7z format files have self-extracting capability. 7-Zip works in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP. There is port of the command line version for Linux/Unix. 7-Zip (

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Burrrn (http://www.burrrn.net/)Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with the content from various audio files. The supported formats are wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls, and fpl play lists and cue sheets. Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats.Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning. The user needs to have the corresponding decoding

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Burnatonce (http://burnatonce.net/)Burn At Once claims to be the first freeware CD/DVD authoring tool on the Win32 platform. Actually, it’s is a front-end to various high quality components: cdrdao, ddump, mad (mpeg audio decoder), etc.Burn At Once has a slick interface and good basic features. The user can create audio and data discs, read discs to image files, burn image files (.bin/.cue., .iso

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BZip2(http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bzip2.htm)Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high-quality data compressor. It claims to compress files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), while being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.It compresses most files more effectively than the

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Zip Genius (http://www.zipgenius.it/)Zip Genius lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. It supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image file, RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents and 7-zip. It can also pre-compress executable files going to be added to a Zip archive.InstallationThe download is in the form of an .exe file. Click on the

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System Tap GUI (http://sourceware.org/systemtap)System Tap simplifies the gathering of information about the running Linux kernel, and therefore, assists in the diagnosis of performance or functional problems. It eliminates the otherwise tedious and detailed sequence of work to collect data.System Tap comes with a simple command line interface and scripting language. System Tap in its current

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Prime95 (www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm)Prime95 has been designed as a part of GIMPS, distributed computing project dedicated to finding new Mersenne prime numbers. As of September 2006, ten new Mersenne prime numbers have been found. The Linux-based version is called M Prime.Over the years, Prime95 has become extremely popular among PC enthusiasts and over lockers as a stability testing utility.

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GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)GParted translates to Gnome Partition Editor. It is used for manipulating filesystems, that is create, resize, etc. The stand-out feature is that it is used for creating space for new operating systems, and for disk imaging. The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization there in, while

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Partition Logic (http://partitionlogic.org.uk)Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can mirror entire hard disks to another as in Norton Ghost, and it can manipulate partitions-create, delete, format, etc.Partition Logic boots from a CD or floppy and runs as a stand-alone system, independent of the regular operating system. Therefore, it is very light (in

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Test Disk (www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html)Test Disk is a powerful data recovery software, and was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable. These may be caused by faulty software, viruses, or human error. With Test Disk, even partition Table (a file system table that contains information about how many and which types of partitions are on the

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Memtest86 (www.memtest86.com)Memtest86 is a RAM reliability tester. The underlying thesis is that a correctly-functioning computer should be able to store data in the RAM with 100 per cent accuracy. If it does not, then it will be unstable and prone to crashes. Memtest86 is designed to stress-test the computer’s RAM for errors. It is designed to run from a bootable floppy disk or CD-ROM, or

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1. LongevityOSS, since it allows modification by all, can survive in its current form for a long time. Users need not worry about the lack of vendor support or feel compelled to upgrade. PS is supported and maintained only by the vendor, so the life of a software is linked to that of its vendor. Commercial organization, while choosing a PS, cannot consider the performance of the program in

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By definition open source software is -Open-source software is computer software whose source code is available under a copyright license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is the most prominent example of open source development.Don't get confused between Open source and Free software, the difference between

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