Anti-Virus
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| AVG Free [Windows & Linux] AVG Free Edition is a free anti-virus protection tool that combines real-time virus protection and e-mail scanning. Its features include automatic update functionality, AVG Resident Shield, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files. Download Page for Windows | Download Page for Linux | |
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| ClamXav [Mac] Though ClamXav is not the best anti-vrius for Mac, yet if you're looking for a free antivirus software for Mac, ClamXav is certainly an anti-virus worth trying. At the back end, ClamXav uses the vary popular ClamAV open souce anti-virus engine. Download Page for Mac | |
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BitTorrent Client
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| �Torrent [Windows & Mac] �Torrent is a very light weight BitTorrent client used by millions of internet user today. It It is so light on resources and memory that you can have a good number of torrents downloading and still be able to use your PC without suffering any lags. Its features include bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, protocol encryption, quick resumes, embedded tracker and many more. Download Page for Windows | Download Page for Mac | |
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| Transmission [Mac] Though ClamXav is not the best anti-vrius for Mac, yet if you're looking for a free antivirus software for Mac, ClamXav is certainly an anti-virus worth trying. At the back end, ClamXav uses the vary popular ClamAV open souce anti-virus engine. Download Page for Mac | |
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| qBittorrent [Linux - GNOME] qBittorrent is a free BitTorrent client, created with the idea of developping a new Bittorrent client for Linux that would be featureful and lightweight with a nice user interface. It has the ability to download/upload multiple torrents simultaneously and supports DHT (Decentralized BT / Trackerless), �Torrent Peer eXchange (PeX) and Azureus encryption. Download Page for Linux - GNOME | |
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| KTorrent [Linux - KDE] For KDE desktop, KTorrent is the most popular and versatile BitTorrent client. It is written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It has support for UDP trackers and the ability to import partially-downloaded files. Other features include upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling, internet searching with torrent search engines using KHTML part, IP address blocklist plugin port forwarding with UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), protocol encryption and more. Download Page for Linux - KDE | |
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Chat Client
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| Pidgin [Windows & Mac] Pidgin is a free easy to use open-source instant messaging client. It supports many chat networks like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and many more. With Pidgin, you can log in to multiple chat networks simultaneously! This makes it the best chat client out there. Download Page for Windows | Download Page for Mac | |
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| Trillian [Windows] Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging tool for Windows. It can connect to multiple instant messaging services, like AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, mIRC, ICQ, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Skype and more. It also has the feature to create multiple connections to the same service, and can also group connections under separate identities to prevent confusion. Download Page for Windows | |
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| Adium [Mac] Adium is a free IM software developed specifically for Mac OS X. Its supported services include AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MobileMe, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Talk, LiveJournal, Yahoo! Messenger(including Yahoo! Japan), Bonjour(compatible with iChat), MySpace IM, Facebook Chat, Lotus Sametime, Novell Groupwise, QQ and Gadu-Gadu. Download Page for Mac | |
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Download Manager
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| Download Accelerator Plus [Windows] With over 170 million users, its the world's most popular download manager. DAP splits the files in smaller pieces and continuously seeks faster mirrors, thus increasing download speed by almost 200 (in some cases upto 400 percent) percent. It also includes a media buffer that prevents streaming-video hiccups. Download Page for Windows | |
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| GetRight [Windows] The best thing about GetRight is that you never have to worry about the internet connection failure when downloading bigger files. This is a greate feature specially if you use a wireless or dial-up connection. The download resumes from right where it left off. Its other features include download acceleration, automatic downloading and server synchronization. Download Page for Windows | |
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| Downloader for X [Linux] Downloader For X or simply D4X is an open-source download manager/accelerator for Linux. It can download files from the Internet via both HTTP and FTP protocols. It has all the basic features like pause, continue, move in queue, add new downloads and remove downloads. Other features include ability to limit download speed, built-in Scheduller and a URL-manager. Download Page for Linux | |
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Disk Defragmenter
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| Smart Defrag [Windows] Smart Defrag is a free easy to use disk defragmenter that really optimizes disk performance to the best. It is fast and has a very clean interface to work with. When running in the background, the program uses only upto 14MB of RAM, thus it doesn't slow down the system. Download Page for Windows | |
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E-mail Client
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| Mozilla Thunderbird [Windows, Mac & Linux] Thunderbird is a freeware e-mail client with innovative features junk-mail filters, HTML support, multiple identities, digital signing, message encryption, phishing detector and more. Download Page for Windows, Mac & Linux | |
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File Compression Tool
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| 7-Zip [Windows] 7-Zip is the best file archiver designed out there. It works with most archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZ, RAR, and the 7z archive format. 7-Zip won the SourceForge.net 2007 community choice awards for "Technical Design" and for "Best Project". Download Page for Windows | |
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| The Unarchiver [Mac] So far the best free file compression tool for Mac is The Unarhiver. It supports ZIP, RAR, ,7z, LHA, StuffIt (.sit), BinHex (.hqx), MacBinary (.bin), Gzip (.gz), Bzip2 (.bz2, .tar.bz2, .tbz2, .tb2), Tar, GNU Tar (.gtar), Unix Compress (.z), Unix Compress Tar (.taz, .tar-z), Comic Book (.cbz, .cbr), Self-Extracting Archive (.sea), Windows Self-Extracting (.exe), Amiga Disk File, Amiga DMS Disk Archive (.dms), Amiga LZX (.lzx), Amiga DCS Disk Archive (.dcs), Amiga xMash Disk Archive (.xms), Amiga Zoom Disk Archive (.zom) and more. Download Page for Mac | |
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FTP Client
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| FileZilla [Windows, Mac & Linux] FileZilla is an open-source FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features. It includes features like IPv6 support, resume and transfer of large files (greater than 4GB), drag & drop support, filename filters, network configuration wizard, remote file editing and more. Download Page for Windows, Mac & Linux | |
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| Cyberduck [Mac] Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac. It has a very simple interface which makes it easier to use for first time users. Cyberduck is compatible with most of the external editors such as TextMate, BBEdit or TextWrangler. Download Page for Mac | |
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Image Editor
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| GIMP [Windows, Mac & Linux] GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is the best free open-source image editor. It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Though it is not powerful enough than Adobe Photoshop but still it can workout. GIMP has read/write support for popular image formats such as BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, PDF, ICO and many more. Download Page for Windows | Download Page for Mac Download Page for Linux | |
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| Paint.net [Windows] Paint.net is a free open-source raster graphics editing tool that works with Windows. Paint.net is best for quick image retouch. It supports all common image formats such as JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, etc. It lets you edit your pictures easily and has all the basic features like layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Paint.net requires Microsoft .Net Framework. Download Page for Windows | |
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| Seashore [Mac] qBittorrent is a free BitTorrent client, created with the idea of developping a new Bittorrent client for Linux that would be featureful and lightweight with a nice user interface. It has the ability to download/upload multiple torrents simultaneously and supports DHT (Decentralized BT / Trackerless), �Torrent Peer eXchange (PeX) and Azureus encryption. Download Page for Mac | |
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Media Player
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| VLC Media [Windows & Mac] VLC is an open-source media player that features support for various audio and video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc. as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also has a video streaming solution in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. It is a solutions for all your media file format problems. Download Page for Windows | Download Page for Mac | |
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Office Suite
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| OpenOffice.org [Windows, Mac & Linux] Don't pay hundreds of dollars for Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org is the best open source productivity suite that has all the features of Microsoft Office like word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation program (Impress), database management program (Base), vector graphics editor (Draw) and a tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae (Math). Download Page for Windows, Mac & Linux | |
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RSS Reader
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| RSSOwl [Windows, Mac & Linux] RSSOwl is a cross-platform RSS reader that lets you gather, organize and update newsfeeds. It is easy to use with a customizable internal panels. You can choose between a 2-column and a 3-column layout. It can also export newsfeeds into PDF, RTF or HTML formats. Download Page for Windows, Mac & Linux | |
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| FeedDemon [Windows] The best way to view and manage your RSS feeds from your desktop. FeedDemon is a free RSS reader for Windows. It automatically downloads the latest RSS feeds and shothem in different catagories. It also has a search function and supports tabs. Download Page for Windows | |
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| NetNewsWire [Mac] NetNewsWire is one of the most popular RSS reader for Mac. It is the winner of Mac OS X Innovators Award (2003) and Eddy Award (2005). NetNewsWire is easy to use, having a three-paned interface and including features like inline summaries and datelines, smart lists, deskto integration and more. Download Page for Mac | |
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| Liferea [Linux - GNOME] Linux Feed Reader (or Liferea for short) is a free open-source aggregator for GNOME desktop enviroment. It is very fast, clean and elegant as compared to other RSS reader and offers basic, yet some useful features for managing RSS feeds subscriptions. Download Page for Linux - GNOME | |
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| Akregator [Linux - KDE] Akregator is the best free and open-source feed aggregator for KDE desktop enviroment. It is fast, lightweight and has support for both RSS and Atom. It can also store feeds into categories. It supports feed icons and embeds KHTML as an internal, tabbed web browser. Any external browser can also be called. Download Page for Linux - KDE | |
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Web Browser
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| Mozilla Firefox [Windows, Mac & Linux] Firefox is a revolutionary web browser that has got so much in it. It is simply the finest web browser ever created with lightning fast speed and very secure enviroment. It is the easiest customizable browser with a huge plug-in database that makes it extremely powerful. With Firefox you can enjoy a safe browsing experience without infinite level of customization. Download Page for Windows, Mac & Linux | |
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| Camino [Mac] Camino is a free and open-source web browser for Mac OS X. Based on the same Mozilla foundations, it is powerful and secure with an elegant design. It has all the necessary features like tabbed browsing, feed detection, spell-checker, session saveing, built-in pop-up blocker and more. Download Page for Mac | |
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| Epiphany [Linux - GNOME] Epiphany is a simle and easy to use web browser for Linux. It is a GNOME desktop aplication which lets you focus more on the web content rather than focusing on the browser aplication. It has a simple user interface and has some basic security features like pop-up blocker and refuses cookies from untrusted sites. Epiphany also runs all the same popular plugins that run in Mozilla. Download Page for Linux - GNOME | |
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| Konqueror [Linux - KDE] Konqueror is an open-source web browser with HTML 4.01 compliance. It starts up really fast as it is part of the KDE GUI which is already running. It is compatible with the most relevant open standards like HTML, JavaScipt, CSS, SSL and more. Besides, it is also a file manager and a universal viewing application. Download Page for Linux - KDE | |
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