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Skype is a proprietary software application that offers free Skype-to-Skype calls and low-cost local, national and international calls to both traditional land-line telephones and mobile phones. Additional features inclu ...
Pandora Radio is a free (ad-supported) internet radio founded in 2000. Using the Music Genome Project, over 400 attributes of songs are analyzed in order to personalize radio stations from music you like. Pandora is only ...
Store your most valuable notes in a LockNote. Hide your everyday notes in a safe place. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is part of it. Secure, simple, independent. No installa ...
FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.
Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that also have Dropbox installed. Because copies of your files are stored on Dropbox's secure se ...
Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your do ...
FlashDevelop is a free and open source (MIT license) code editor for Actionscript (2 and 3), Flex (MXML) and HaXe.It offers:* syntax highlighting, bookmarks and tasks (TODO) handling* Comprehensive Find and Replace Dialo ...
Welcome to the school of rock. A Mac-sized practice space. Your own recording studio. If you want to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song, GarageBand can help — whether you’re a rookie or a rock sta ...
Visual C# Express Edition is a slimmed-down version of Visual Studio only supporting C#, but is better for beginners.
Netviewer for remote maintenance, desktop sharing and online conferences. The support session itself works very easily: Installation of the program is not required; instead, the user starts it directly from the Internet. ...
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Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured pl ...
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records, edit sound files, change the speed or pitch of a recording and much more.
FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable.The program offers support for ...
Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter and DVD ripper. It will convert (and compress):-Any video file or DVD to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.-Any audio file or CD to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.-Any image file to ...
PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, permittin ...
IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, ...
RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from th ...
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox. Advantages compared with the most popular web e-mail application:(a) Excellent Mail-Filte ...
A free web browser developed by Google with a focus on speed and minimalism. Chrome offers fast start-up and web page loading, sports a minimalist user interface, automatically updates in the background, and offers synci ...
Gmail is a free search-based web-mail service. It offers a full featured web-based email client with search capabilities, a mailbox with Pop and IMAP access, SPAM protection, display of email threads as conversations, a ...