DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for creation professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played on any DVD player, but also creation of own-designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free.

Features

· creation and burning DVD video with interactive menus
· support of AVI, MPEG and other file formats
· support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats
· using MPEG and VOB files without reencoding
· allows put files with different audio/video format on one DVD (support of titleset)
· user-friendly interface with support of drag & drop
· flexible menu creation on the basis of scalable vector graphic
· import of image file for background
· placing of buttons, text, images and other graphic objects anywhere on the menu screen
· changing the font/color and other parameters of buttons and graphic object
· scaling of buttons and graphic objects
· coping of any menu object or whole menu
· dvd scripting

Runs on Windows and Linux.

Download: DVDStyler 1.8.0.2

aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

Offline Messaging
Voice Clips
Display pictures
Custom emoticons
Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
Webcam support
Sign in to more than one account at once
Full-speed File transfers
Group support
Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
Chat logs
Timestamping
Event alarms
Conferencing support
Tabbed chat windows

aMSN is full of features, but you can extend its functionality even more now, getting extra features by installing Plugins, or completely change it’s look with different Skins.

Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD

Download: aMSN 0.98.3

The fastest P2P program on the planet!

LimeWire allows you to search for multiple files at the same time, available in several different languages, and is most famous for its ease-of-use and cross-platform compatibility. LimeWire will run on Windows, Macintosh (Intel 64-bit Only), Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems.

Features

Create And Share ListsThe fastest P2P program on the planet!

• Share groups of files with your contacts, or create a list of files just for your friends.

Facebook Integration

• Sign-in with your Facebook ID and share files with your Facebook friends.

Overhauled BitTorrent

• Our completely re-implemented BitTorrent features give you faster downloads.

Advanced Search Refinement

• Drill down to find exactly what you want in your search results. Avoid spam and unwanted files.

Virus Protection

• We’ve got you covered. If LimeWire identifies a virus in your search results, it won’t let you download the file.

No spyware. No adware. Guaranteed.

Download: LimeWire 5.5.7

The latest beta version of Firefox is now available as a preview release.

Firefox has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It delivers Web pages faster than ever. And it’s easy to install and import your favorites. Packed with useful features like tabbed browsing, Live Bookmarks, and an integrated Search bar, Firefox will change the way you experience the Web, for the better.

Download: Mozilla Firefox RCs

Download: Mozilla Firefox Beta

Download: Mozilla Firefox 3.7 Alpha 3

The goal of RText is to create a complete, fully-featured text editor (designed primarily for programmers, but can be used by anyone) that can run on any platform. Originally designed to be a Windows Notepad clone, RText has grown into much more than that.

RText is actively being developed, with new features constantly being added and old features improved. Its current feature set includes:

- Syntax Highlighting is actively being developed. Currently supported languages are Assembler, X86 assembler, C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Perl, HTML, SAS, SQL, Windows batch, UNIX shell, and XML. RText will support more languages in the not-too-distant future. RText is also capable of bracket matching, highlighting the current line, and displaying a margin line to help you with your programming.

- Macro support allows you to perform complex editing tasks quickly and in an automated fashion.
- Drag-and-drop files from your desktop directly into RText.

- Edit multiple documents simultaneously through a tabbed, list, or traditional MDI interface. No need to open multiple instances of the application to edit multiple documents.

- Code Templates allow you to associate short identifiers with longer phrases/code blocks you frequently type to speed up time spent banging at the keys.

- Find/Find Next/Replace/Replace Next dialogs make searching for text easy, and include such options as Match Case, Whole Word Only, Use Regular Expressions, and Mark All.

- Find in Files dialog allows you to search for a given string or regular expression in any group of files or directories on your computer.

- File encodings are supported. Open and edit files in any encoding supported by your JVM.

- Unlimited Undo/Redo actions ensure you will never make a mistake you can’t recover from.

- Print and Print Preview functionality allow you to create hard copies of your documents with ease.

- CTags support if you have Exhuberant CTags installed in your machine (regular UNIX ctags won’t cut it). With the “Source Browser” you can see a list of functions, variables, etc. in the current source, allowing you to quickly jump to a function definition, insert a method name at the caret position, and other handy stuff.

- Auto-Reload. RText will sense if a document you have open in RText is modified by another program, and ask you whether you want to reload the document.

- Customizable user interface allow you to have your editor look the way you want it to. Change such features as the Java Look and Feel, the view style, the icon set used in menus and on the toolbar, the font, the background (choose a color or a picture from your computer), the colors used for syntax highlighting, and more.

- Help documentation similar to HTML Help found in many Microsoft Windows applications provides you with assistance if you should need it.

- Cross-platform. Since RText is written in Java, it can be run on any platform supporting version 1.4 or greater of the Java Runtime Environment.

Download: RText 1.1.0

The fastest browser on Earth.

Experience powerful features with a minimalistic design, and speed like you’ve never seen.

Opera is the Web pioneer that delivered tabbed browsing in 2000, Opera adds Full Text History Search allowing you to access find pages you forgot to bookmark by simply typing just a few words into your toolbar! Opera also gives you the ability to Create Search shortcuts from any search field on the Web; and to Synchronize your Bookmarks, Speed Dial with any other Mac or PC computer, your cell phone, or the Opera-powered game consoles through My Opera.

The fastest ever
Our new JavaScript engine is 8x faster than before.

Beautiful design
A minimal design provides maximum browsing space.

Private browsing
Create tabs or windows that leave no trace.

Smart address field
Auto-complete addresses and search faster.

Download: Opera 10.51 for Windows Build 3313 RC2

Download: Opera 10.50 for Mac Build 8291 RC (Universal)

Download: Opera 10.51 for Linux Build 6248 Alpha

Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client (mailer, MUA).

Sylpheed has the following features:

· Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface
· Comfortable operationality which is built in detail
· Immediately available with minimal configuration
· Lightweight operation
· High reliability
· Internationalization and Multilingualization support
· High-level Japanese processing
· Various protocols support
· Security features (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1)
· Powerful filtering and search
· Junk mail control
· Flexible cooperation with external commands

Sylpheed is free and runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X.

Download: Sylpheed Beta | Sylpheed 3.0.1

Share your photos with style

Jalbum makes web albums of your digital images. Jalbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category – and free!

With Jalbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, -just your web browser. Unlike “server side” album scripts, Jalbum albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM.
Jalbum runs on Windows 32bit and 64bit , Mac OS X, Linux and others and speaks 31 languages.

Download: Jalbum 8.7.2

The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, openSUSE.org provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. The openSUSE project gives Linux developers and enthusiasts everything they need to get started with Linux.

The goals of the openSUSE project are:
Make openSUSE the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain and the most widely used open source platform.
Provide an environment for open source collaboration that makes openSUSE the world’s best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.
Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.

With the launch of the openSUSE project, openSUSE is now developed in an open model—public development builds, releases, and sources will be posted frequently here and you will have access to our Bugzilla database for defect reporting.

Download: openSUSE 11.2 | openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3

Azureus, now called Vuze, started life in 2003 and has been under development ever since. Now the most full-featured client out there, it has lots of features that make the downloading and playing of bittorrent files fast, efficient and reliable.

• Runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
• Open source
• Multiple, concurrent downloads
• Intelligent queue and bandwidth management
• Peer connection and download speed optimization
• Peer communication through firewalls (UPnP and NAT traversal)
• Trackerless support (Mainline and Azureus DHT)
• Multiple user interfaces (Simple, Advanced, Classic)
• Over 50 plugins to customize functionality
• Access to licensed content from Vuze
• Powerful torrent meta-search with login support for private trackers
• Discover high quality content on the Vuze HD network
• Download quickly and efficiently with intelligent bandwidth, queue and speed management
• Download or stream high-quality content from the Vuze HD Network
• Now on iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3

Download: Azureus Vuze 4.3.1.5 Beta 29

SQLyog Community Edition – MySQL GUI

SQLyog is an all-round Management Tool (/’GUI’/'Frontend’) for the MySQL database. The Community Edition is Free & Open Source under GPL license.

SQLyog is also available in 3 other editions.

Download: SQLyog Community Edition 8.3

Dropbox – Store, Sync, and Share your files online.

Have you ever wished that you could access your files from anywhere? We made Dropbox because we were tired of emailing files to ourselves or carrying around a USB key.

Once installed, any file you drop into your Dropbox folder will synchronize and be available on any other computer you’ve installed Dropbox on, as well as from the web. Also, any changes you make to files in your Dropbox will sync to your other computers, instantly.

Free for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Download: Dropbox 0.7.110

Download: Dropbox 0.8.20 Beta

Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn’t take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.

It is possible to use Rainlendar with other calendar applications too. Rainlendar uses the standard iCalendar format to store its events and tasks so you can easily transfer them between applications. You can also subscribe to online calendars and see your Outlook appointments directly in Rainlendar*.

Rainlendar is an unicode application and support localization so you can use it on your own language.

All the coming events are shown in a separate list where you can see the week’s events at one glance. You can decide how many days in advance you want to see in the list. Different events can have a different appearance in the list so you can easily spot the important events from the others. The icons in the calendar are also available in the event list and other windows to make it easier to separate the events.

You can also have a separate list for your long term tasks. The task list can be arranged several ways so that you can keep it better organized. You can also set a due date for the tasks to make sure you’ll remember to do them on time.

You’ll also get an alarm when an event or task is due so that you don’t miss it. The alarm can be defined to be set off any duration before the actual event so you have time to prepare for it.

And that’s not all. Check the list of features for better overview of all the things Rainlendar can do.

Rainlendar does not contain any spyware or adware

Rainlendar runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

Download: Rainlendar 2.6 | Rainlendar 2.7 Build 87 Beta

You can use HFS (Http File Server) to send and receive files.

HFS is different from classic file sharing because it uses web technology to be more compatible with today’s Internet. It also differs from classic web servers because it’s very easy to use and runs “right out-of-the box”. Access your remote files, over the network. It has been successfully tested with Wine under Linux.

Features

· Download and upload
· Virtual file system
· Highly customizable
· HTML template
· Bandwidth control
· Easy/Expert mode
· Log
· Full control over connections
· Accounts
· Dynamic DNS updater

Download: Http File Server 2.2f Build 155 | Http File Server 2.3 Build 259 Beta

WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives.

WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. This will save you disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working time as well.

WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).

WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.

WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example.

WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology will give you the peace of mind you have been looking for.

WinRAR is shareware, meaning you have the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can be used absolutely free of charge for 40 days!

Runs on: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Pocket PC

Download: WinRAR 3.93

KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs.

KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Download: KompoZer 0.7.10

Download: KompoZer 0.8b3

Watch your favorite videos on your favorite devices

Introducing RealPlayer SP

·It’s social. It’s portable. It’s the new RealPlayer SP.
·And it’s perfect for playing and sharing video with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter. ·You’ll also be happy to know it works easily with your favorite flavors of Blackberry, iPod, iPhone and game systems.

Download Video
Now you can download and organize your favorite videos from thousands of Websites. Then watch them anytime, anywhere you want.

Convert Video
Our new video converter makes it incredibly easy to copy online video to your iPod, cell phone, Xbox, PS3 or other favorite device.

Share Video
RealPlayer SP is the easiest way to share your favorite videos – with your favorite people – on your Facebook page or Twitter feed.

Requirements: Windows XP/Vista, Macintosh, Linux

Download: RealPlayer SP 1.1.2 Build 12.0.0.641 for Windows

Download: RealPlayer SP 1.0 Beta for Mac

Download: RealPlayer 11 for Linux

aTunes – GPL Audio Player and Manager.

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, …

Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

System Requirements: Java 6 Runtime Edition

For Linux and Mac users: mplayer or xine, cdda2wav. For ripping, lame, flac or oggenc must be installed.

Download: aTunes 1.13.6

Download: aTunes 2.0.0 RC

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone, iPod touch and latest iPod shuffle).

It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.3.9 or newer!) and Windows (98 or newer, including Windows 7).

Manage Music, Videos, Podcast and Photos all in one simple app, anywhere on any computer.

Floola supports almost all features offered by iPods including photos, artwork, podcasts and smart playlists!
It automatically converts any incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to it. It allows adding youtube and myspace videos with a single click. Now it even makes it possible to keep your Google calendars synched!

Floola is spyware, adware and virus free!

Download: Floola 5.5 | Floola Beta

BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

Download: BleachBit 0.7.3 for Windows

Download: BleachBit Portable 0.7.3

Download: BleachBit 0.7.3 for Linux

Mandriva Linux One 2009 is the best way to start using Linux. A full Linux operating system on a single CD for both new and experienced Linux users, it is fast to download and install, and also safe to try with a live mode. One is really the one CD you need!

One, an easily extensible desktop

One gives you easy and free access to the official Mandriva Linux 2009 software repositories, containing more than 20,000 packages.

The selection of applications provided by One meets all the most common desktop needs. Still, in case you find yourself in need of more software, with just a few clicks you can access the official Mandriva software repositories, containing over 20,000 packages. Almost any Linux application you might need can be found here. What’s more, the Mandriva backports system gives you the option of getting the very latest versions of certain applications, without waiting for the next Mandriva release.

One, the Linux desktop which adapts to your chosen environment

One is offered as a direct download with the KDE environment. You can also download it with the GNOME environment. For each environment, there are three versions of One with different languages available. You just have to pick the version that suits you!

Download: Mandriva Linux Free 2010

Download: Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 3