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Best Freeware, Open Source Software
Best Freeware, Open Source Software
Jul 23rd
Moovida formerly known as Elisa Media Center – is an open source media center and it is far from ordinary.
Packed with dozens of features and plugins, this app has just become my favorite one.
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It’s beautiful and elegant.
You can watch movies and tv series, view your pictures, manage your music, and get connected through the through the available plugins as following:
Movies and TV series: YouTube, Balzac, Onion News Network, TED, Game Trailers, Powell Skateboard Video podcast, Discovery Channel News, Apple Movie Trailers, Qik Mobile Videos, RTBF, Flemish TV
Music: Shoutcast, Grooveshark, Yes.fm, Jamendo
Pictures: Flickr, Deviantart
All you need to do is install it and enjoy it.
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Available for Windows and Linux.
Jul 18th
Create Synchronicity is an open source application developed in VB.NET to synchronize files and folders across different locations.
You can use it to syncronize or backup files and folders from a location to another.
I tested the app this morning. It’s lightweight, really fast and easy to use.

For more information, examples and download, visit the web site.
via Create Synchronicity – Easy, fast, and lightweight solution to synchronize and backup files.
Jul 17th
WordWeb- This thesaurus/dictionary can be used to look up words from almost any program.
In addition to displaying sense definitions and synonyms, ….
Windows 98/2000/Me/XP/Vista
PasswordSafe 3.09- Password Safe is an Open Source (free) tool that allows you to have a different
password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without
actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords.
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Jul 6th
Jun 24th
Adobe Digital Editions - Read and manage your eBooks and other digital publications.
Fresh Feed Reader - Ajax rss reader running on Adobe AIR. There are lots of other .air apps on the Fresh reader download page.
Vispa – Tweak your Windows Vista for better privacy, security and performance.
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.5 beta- keep the spyware and adware off your system.
iQ-Notes – Sticky notes app for Windows XP and Vista
Vocabula – Improve your vocabulary skills .
A bit help for this software. After installing it, choose a user name to enter,then visit the web site to download the Definition files. Save the file to your disk. Open Vocabula and from File choose Import, and install your definition file.
You’re done!
Final Burner free – Burning software for Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
KompZer - A modified version of NVU html editor.Working on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
EssentialPIM Free 1.95 – Keep all your data in one place and stay organized. There is also a portable version of EssentialPim free to download.
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