5.06.2008

ferramentas de produtividade II

5.05.2008

Ferramentas de produtividade


Exemplo de Página de arranque personalizada em Pageflakes



Os web widgets/gadgets são pequenas aplicações configuráveis baseados em AJAX. Permitem efectuar rapidamente tarefas - ler mail, ler RSS feeds, ver as horas/data, converter unidades, pesquisar torrents, tomar notas, consultar cotações de bolsa, procurar artigos cientificos por DOI, consulta de informação meteorológica, navegar mapas, ouvir internet radio/mp3, etc...
Um grande número destas pequenas aplicações está disponível online e é open source podendo ser usado e modificado livremente com meia dúzia de cliques de rato. Os mais habilidosos podem criar os seus próprios widgets.


Exemplo de Página de arranque personalizada em Netvibes


Actualmente existem 3 grandes serviços que disponibilizam paginas de rosto web onde se podem colocar widgets/gadgets ( isto quer dizer que podemos pôr o nosso browser a arrancar com uma página personalizada carregada de ferramentas úteis):
- igoogle (pertence ao grupo Google).
- netvibes (o primeiro serviço deste tipo a aparecer e o que tem mais widgets disponíveis e com maior portabilidade)
- pageflakes.
Existem outros serviços que considero piores (zoozio, eskobo, favoor, microsoft live, goowy, e protopage)

Onde procurar novos widgets para adicionar à página de arranque:
aqui, aqui e aqui.
Exemplo de Página de arranque personalizada em igoggle.

questões de segurança: já houve casos em que junto com os widgets era instalado malware. Sugere-se cautela na utilização destas aplicações. Por exemplo ler e-mail usando um widget não é aconselhável se você utiliza essa conta de e-mail para fazer transações bancárias ou enviar dados sensíveis.

nota: os widgets podem ser colocados em qualquer webpage (blogs, redes sociais, página pessoal). Existem ainda aplicações que permitem integrá-los e corrê-los no seu desktop.



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4.17.2008

Googles Scries

View of Googleplex- Google main office in the US



Google universe of products/companies:

- Writely- Bought by Google . Currently part of Google docs. Online document editor and share tool.
- Blogger - This crap where I am writing. Blogs!
- Android - Open source platform for mobile comunications. Already 6 patents in registration. Still to appear on the market in a mobile or handheld device. Google already has several products included in Blackberries in the US - Google Talk, Sync and Updater; Maps mobile. While Gmail mobile appear in some Palm models (Treo).
- YouTube - Do I need to talk about this one? It is very popular but seems to be going without direction just like Blogspot.... Is there something new and useful in these two? No.
- Jotspot- Bought by Google. A wiki hosting service. Currently "included" in Google sites, a service to create professional looking websites cooperatively.
- Loopt- Bought by Google. A GPS based social network for mobile devices. ( Interesting how Google recently bought a lot of things for mobile devices...). Unfortunately not available in Europe.
- Scribd- Publish and share documents online. Ideal for students and teachers. Saves paper!
- Google.org - Philanthropic organization owned by Google. Aid and green activities sponsored. Non profit.
- Double Click - Internet advertising company.
- Google Inc. - The mother company.
- Google earth and Google Maps- Virtual earth viewer. Developed by Keyhole Inc. a company bought by Google. Google later also Bought and integrated Panoramio (a Geolocation photo tool) in Google Earth. Currently includes integration with 3Dwarehouse and Google Sketchup products - These were also bought products/companies by Google. Other flavors in Maps: Sky, Moon and Mars. What we see today in Google Earth a dn in Maps is the result of Google buying several companies or products over the years. Acquired companies were working in several areas- Aerial photo, Geolocation, 3D, Mapping, computer vision, map analysis.
-Postini- Email security company bought by Google.
- Jaiku- A Finnish micro blogging company bought by Google this year.
-Google docs - Online cooperative word processor, spreadsheet , presentations etc... Includes Calendar management, creation and publishing. Another Google product Apps is an "integrator" of Google products targeted for business professionals- Can integrate Google docs with Gmail and Google sites in a custom domain site.
- Notebook - Application to save online clippings.
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Google search engine- in flavors like Scholar, Patent, Product, Code and Regular. All of them very useful!
-igoogle - costumizable start page in browser.
- Trends - a lot of products to analyse trends are been tested in Google labs. Including music trends.
- Urchin- Web analytics company bought by Google.
- Ride Finder- A product being tested in Google Labs after the acquisition of ZipDash, a company working in traffic analysis.
-AOL- giant of Broadband internet access in the US. Bought in 2005 by Google.
- Grand central - voice communications product.
- Marratech- e-conferences

Other products:
- Google News, Google Maps, Talk, SMS, Adsense, Adwords, Audio Ads, Click to call, TV ads, Google Groups, Gmail, Picasa, Google translate, Feed burner and Google reader (rss readers), Joga Bonito and Dodgeball and Orkut (social networks), Desktop, toolbar, Google books.

full list of Google
products.
full list of Google acquisitions as of 2007.


did I mention Google gadgets? An array of Knick-Knacks for your desktop !

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1.25.2008

Computers







Ah, beautiful, retro and nostalgic.

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1.03.2008

Comparar preços e lojas online

Finalmente ferramentas para comparar preços em Português. A má notícia é que o número de lojas representadas é diminuto e os produtos não saiem da electrónica de consumo e TIs . Esperemos que melhore!
Eis 3 ferramentas:

kuantokusta
Izideal
Preços

Também já é altura das Fnacs e afins se livrarem da porcaria de ferramentas de pesquisa e venda online que têm. E dos piores que já vi a nível internacional. Mas enfim, a FNAc porque não tem concorrência à altura no nosso país usa e abusa. Só assim se explica que DVDs e CDs custem 18 a 22 €. Os mesmos produtos 2 meses depois do lançamento descem para 5 a 10 €...

Uma breve visita pela Byblos, inaugurada com pompa e circunstância em Dezembro deu azo a mixed feelings. É um espaço fantástico com muita luz e bons locais para sentar a folhear livros. O espaço das crianças com o barco gigantesco e os jogos interactivos está particularmente bem concebido. E os preços são combativos, verifiquei que algumas coisas eram muito mais baratas que na FNAC.

Muito decepcionante foram os produtos à venda. Não interessam um caracol. As secções de livros técnicos e científicos e divulgação científica são ridiculas e a literatura estrangeira apresenta meia dúzia de grandes clássicos à mistura com Nobelizados. Não falemos da estante de arquitectura nem da banda desenhada (alguém ainda compra Tintim e Astérix? já todos devemos ter 2 colecções de cada em casa). Ou não quiseram arriscar ou faltou dinheiro para mais.

Os RFIDs e os ecrans tácteis funcionam bem e têm uma base de dados bem concebida. Infelizmente parece que ainda não meteram o catálogo na base de dados porque só lá há meia dúzia de títulos. O mesmo acontece online. E a organização por familias foi feita por alguém que não tem neurónios ...
Serão os "cadernos de direito" um livro infantil? talvez para uma pequena minoria de crianças....
Será o Carcassonne um puzzle? Talvez para Raymond Roger de Trencavel...


Um conselho amigo: livrem-se depressa da secção de cds/dvds musicais que aquilo é mais pobre que as Valentim de Carvalho quando estavam na fase de canto do cisne. Ou arranjem um empregado que saiba gerir bem o catálogo de música.

Não descobri qualquer relação entre esta livraria e a antiga e boa livraria online Byblos (com sede em Aveiro) que faliu há tempos...O nome pelo menos já tem má sina.



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12.20.2007

Web 2.0

Nobody knows what it is nor were it is going, but it for sure includes social networks like myspace and facebook for occidentals or Daum and cyworld for Asians. In itself an entire revolution in the way we relate with others in the particular case of Myspace it also changed the way musicians and public interact (who did not listen/buy music from a Myspace page yet?). The more serious LinkedIn is a professional social network and Glee is a popular gay/lesbian social network.

Never mind the hyped Youtube and Joost and go for the real thing: Whatever comes out of the Google labs: Try google Gears for an offline online experience and Google Grandcentral to manage your calls on multiple phones.
Encyclopedic Information and dictionaries in a click and for free, using Wikipedia and sites like answers.com and wikianswers.com. Wikis are open cooperative environments that changed the way we give/get information about a subject.

Web 2.0 also brings new models of business. Incredible how a global thing like the internet can act so locally... Using virtual communities like Etsy you can buy and sell your handmade goods. From art prints to jewels there is everything. This is not even an incentive to the local shop it is an incentive to the small creative entrepeneur. Or take Lulu, a self-publishing service for books that also promotes your book.

Thus, it seems that the web 2.0 is mostly about sharing, cooperating and networking on a global level. But there is also a strong component that is connected only with each individual, leaving no space for interaction with others: choice. You chose what to write on you Blog or Vlog, you choose your tags and you choose your RSS feeds.

I still don't know what web 2.0 is but i have used all of the above stuff and i can't wait for the 3.0 version!

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11.19.2006

K2

Quando é que eu migro para o K2? Quando tiver tempo.... Dia de são nunca provavelmente...


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7.18.2006

Compilar em Trânsito

Ferramenta online de compilação. Disponível para C, C#, Fortran e VB. Net. Útil para emergências!


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7.07.2006

Quem baptizou esta coisa?

Um novo engenho de busca apresentado com grandes parangonas como "melhor" que o Google surgiu na net. Já o experimentei e não achei melhor nem pior que o Google. Fiz 3 ou 4 pesquisas e comparei com o Google. Veridicto: dão resultados diferentes.

Para já tem uma grande desvantagem. Ainda não há extensões do Firefox para ele. Por isso algo como o Googlepreview que permite ver um thumbnail dos sites pesquisados não existe.
Por outro lado tem uma grande vantagem. É algo de que sempre senti a falta e me irrita no Google. Frequentemente, sobretudo quando pesquiso sites para comprar coisas quero ter resultados exclusivamente europeus. Com este novo engenho é possível restringir a pesquisa geograficamente ou a uma única lingua (na versão europeia. No .com não). Portanto para algumas coisas está aprovado.

Um pequeno senão: quem escolheu o nome para o dito engenho não era certamente muito dotado nestas coisas do marketing. O coiso, ou deverei dizer a coisa, dá pelo nome de Accona.

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6.08.2006

Captcha

captcha

Captcha é aquele teste muito chato com uns caracteres distorcidos que temos de ler e escrever num campo para poder ter permissão para fazer certas coisas na net, como por exemplo escrever comentários neste blog. O objectivo é saber se somos mesmo uma pessoa ou se somos uma máquina que está programada para enviar spam em grandes quantidades. A ideia subjacente é que uma máquina não pode reconhecer caracteres apresentados como imagem que têm uma distorção e uma variação cromática elevadas que os torna bem diferentes do conjunto de pixeis que o computador identificaria por OCR como letras e números. O computador não tem capacidades cognitivas visuais.

Captcha é um acrónimo de Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Trata-se portanto de um controle de acessos através de um teste de Turing inverso. Inverso porque no teste de Turing (descrito num artigo publicado por Turing em 1950 intitulado “computing machinery and intelligence” e disponível para download) era um humano que tentava distinguir se estava a dialogar com uma máquina ou outro humano. O teste de Turing levanta questões profundas do ponto de vista matemático, tecnológico, filosófico e até teológico (As máquinas pensam?)

Ironicamente as letrinhas distorcidas são geradas por computador, embora não possam depois ser reconhecidas por ele. Os algoritmos variam e as implementações também. Uma série de links para implementações em várias linguagens está na Wikipedia. A maior parte são de acesso livre. Ainda não existe é um algoritmo que consiga fazer o inverso. Isto é permitir que uma máquina interprete correctamente os caracteres distorcidos. Obviamente quem conseguir desenvolver um algoritmo destes tem garantido um futuro radioso e uma carteira cheia. As tentativas com mais sucesso até agora são feitas com redes neuronais (um tipo de algoritmo que “aprende” através de exemplos).

Quem não está pelos ajustes com o CAPTCHA são os invisuais e pessoas com daltonismo acentuado que em muitos casos não têm como alternativa um CAPTCHA de audio (o blogger tem-no, mas outros sites não).

Links:

Serviços de CAPTCHA grátis

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3.31.2006

Freeware

Não me chateiem durante os próximos 6 meses. Tomem lá tudo o que precisam.

3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar
RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVida Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html
Zonealarm Basic firewall -

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
WYSIWYG Web Builder -

http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
qip - http://www.qip.ru/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers:
Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html
WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

Video codecs:
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD - http://www.xvid.org/

Video players :
AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html
VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera - http://www.opera.com

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/
QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AdShield - http://www.lossepladsen.dk/all4you/TheLostWorld/AdShield.php
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/
BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
ClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/
Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
EssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/
Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/
File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/download...re_fte_105.html
Folder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Language Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/
Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
Money Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.asp
Multi Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Open Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.html
Peerguardian - http://www.methlabs.org/
Process Explorer (aka ProcessXP) -

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
RegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
Startup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.html
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
WeathAlert - http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermain
WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/free/
XP AntiSpy - http://www.xpantispy.org/
YourDir - http://www.primeoption.com.au/FreewareYourDir.htm

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