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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, and Zephyr.
2.2.1 is out. It fixes a crash that can be triggered remotely on MSN in 2.2.0. If you are using 2.2.0, you should upgrade immediately.
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Continue reading ‘FileZilla 3.0.1′
Two releases in two weeks, very nice! Soulseek is a unique ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application. One of the things that makes Soulseek unique is the community-related features. Based on peer-to-peer technology, virtual rooms allow you to meet people with the same interests, share information, and chat freely using real-time messages in public or private. Soulseek, with its built-in people matching system, is a great way to make new friends and expand your mind! Soulseek does not endorse nor condone the sharing of copyrighted materials. You should only share and download files which you are legally allowed to or have otherwise received permission to share.
Please note: The test version connects to a smaller, faster server that is separate from the main server. although there are less people on the test server, the search functionality is much improved and search results often rival those on the main server. additionally, the test client offers numerous optimizations and bug fixes over the release client relating to almost every aspect of functionality. if for any reason you would like to connect to the main server, the release client is available for download below. both test and release clients may be installed and run side by side.
OpenOffice.org is a free and powerful office suite. The look and feel might be a bit less intuitive compared to Microsoft’s Office suite, but it suits my needs. And because it’s free, open source and most important: good, it deserves to at least try it out if you never did before. You can read about what’s new here. Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org 2.3.0′
XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter. It exists for Windows, MacOSX and Linux. A list of changes can be found on the XnView forum. This version was released on the 29th of August, but it must have slipped my attention …
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, 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. Continue reading ‘Pidgin 2.2.0′
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more.
New features:
* New application icon
Fixed bugs:
* Fix support for servers sending directory listing in yet another exotic format
* Fix prefix search in list controls on wxGTK
* Work around problem with wxSpinCtrl in site manager on wxGTK
* Fix assertion on wxGTK if listing extensionless files
After what seems like an eternity, there’s a new version of the SoulSeek file sharing client! Soulseek is a unique ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application. One of the things that makes Soulseek unique is the community-related features. Based on peer-to-peer technology, virtual rooms allow you to meet people with the same interests, share information, and chat freely using real-time messages in public or private. Soulseek, with its built-in people matching system, is a great way to make new friends and expand your mind! Soulseek does not endorse nor condone the sharing of copyrighted materials. You should only share and download files which you are legally allowed to or have otherwise received permission to share.
Please note: The test version connects to a smaller, faster server that is separate from the main server. although there are less people on the test server, the search functionality is much improved and search results often rival those on the main server. additionally, the test client offers numerous optimizations and bug fixes over the release client relating to almost every aspect of functionality. if for any reason you would like to connect to the main server, the release client is available for download below. both test and release clients may be installed and run side by side.
FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL.
* New Update Manager. Also allows delivery of special announcements to the community. And no, we won’t use this feature for spam, only for special announcements to the community, or special downloads.
* The Update Manager supports the delivery of torrent broadcasting to all the FrostWire community. This will allow us to lower bandwidth costs if we decide to distribute an upload using bittorrent trackers.
* FrostWire startup time back to normal, no more waiting for Chat window to load, the chat is now loaded on a background thread.
From the website: “We have to admit, it was delayed a few times, mostly because we always had some new feature we wanted to implement in mind, but now it’s finally here: we’re proud to announce the availability of Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5. This new version features a lot of improved detection mechanisms (which in parts were already made available through the regular 1.4 updates in the past months), improved Operating System support (Windows Vista integration, restored support for Windows 95, more compatibility with Wine, support for bootable Windows CDs), improved browser support (e.g. for immunization) and much more - you can find an overview of noticable changes and some screenshots here“.
>> Spybot Search & Destroy website
>> Download Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5.1.15