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Retroshare

May 15th, 2009

Retroshare is a cross-platform private P2P sharing program. It lets you share securely your friends, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages and channels.

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Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo)

Version – 0.4.13a

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TrueCrypt

May 13th, 2009

TrueCrypt can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk, or an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB memory stick, floppy disk, etc.

This software provides two levels of security: a hidden volume (more information may be found here), and a volume cannot be identified (no part of the volume can be distinguished from random data).

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Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac and Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu)

Version – 6.2

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Mixxx

April 20th, 2009

Mixxx is an open source DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike.

Mixxx allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix: Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.

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Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac and Linux (Ubuntu)

Version – 1.6.1

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Rainlendar

March 5th, 2009

Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month, events, and reminders. It is a very lightweight application that doesn´t use much system resources or take much space on your desktop.

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Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac, Linux (Ubuntu or Equivalent)

Version – 2.5

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AbiWord

February 26th, 2009

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.

AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.

Features:

* Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.
* AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
* Built-in spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.
* Supports right-to-left, left-to-right, and mixed-mode text.
* Mail Merge capabilities.
* A variety of plugins can be used to extend AbiWord´s functionality, ranging from Document Importers to a Thesaurus, Image Importers and a Text Summarizer.

abiword

Supported Operating Systems – Windows and Linux (Ubuntu)

Version – 2.6.6

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Elisa Media Center

February 12th, 2009

Elisa is an open source media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player.

The Elisa Media Center has many advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

Features:

* Movies – Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online.
* Music – Manage your music collection by artists or album covers.
* Peripheral Devices – Automatically detects iPods, cameras, hard drives, etc…
* Pictures – Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.
* Fully Networked – Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.
* Internet – Everything from Flickr to Youtube and other popular internet services.

elisamediacenter

Author – Fluendo Embedded

Supported Operating Systems – Windows and Linux (Ubuntu. Debian, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, ArchLinux, Foresight)

Version – 0.5.27

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Miro

February 11th, 2009

Miro makes video on the internet way less frustrating and way more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of internet video, download videos, and watch them fullscreen, one after the other, all in one application. A built-in channel guide brings you new content every day. It´s free and open for everyone to watch and to broadcast.

miro

Author – Participatory Culture Foundation

Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Pardus, Mandriva)

Version – 2.0

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Calculator++

February 10th, 2009

Calculator++ is a cross-platform, arbitrary-precision, customizable, multifunction, scientific calculator. Using Calculator++, you can perform any of the customary handheld or online calculator operations, and many more.

While it serves as an excellent replacement for your operating system´s built-in calculator, it also offers many powerful features that are not available together in any other handheld or computer-based calculator. Calculator++ supports over 25,000 units for conversion in an ever growing list of categories and units. Scientists, engineers, programmers, and students will find it a simple to use, yet powerful, tool.

Calculator++ is written entirely in Java, so you can use it on the platform of your choice.

calculator

Author – Robert J. Morris

Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac and Linux

Other Requirements – Java Runtime Environment

Version – 1.0.1

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MediaInfo

February 9th, 2009

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. This is a free software (free of charge and free for access to source code, GPL or LGPL licence).

What information can I get from MediaInfo?

* General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration…
* Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate…
* Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate…
* Text: language of subtitle
* Chapters: count of chapters, list of chapters

What format (container) does MediaInfo support?

* Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1,MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)…
(Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC…)
* Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF…
* Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI…

What can I do with it?

* Read many video and audio file formats
* Multiple means to view information (text, sheet, tree, HTML…)
* You can customize theses views
* Exporting possibilities: text, CSV, HTML…
* Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
* Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag´n´ drop, and Context menu)
* Internationnalization: any language diplay on any version of your Operating System
* Localization capacities (but volonteers needed)

mediainfo

Author – MediaInfo

Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac, Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuSe, Mandriva

Version – 0.7.11

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VLC Media Player

January 29th, 2009

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg…) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

  • It is a free cross-platform media player
  • It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
  • It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, …)

vlc

Author – VideoLAN

Operating Systems – Windows, MAC, Linux (BeOS, Syllable, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Zaurus, Red Hat, ALT, Arch, Slackware)

Version – 0.9.8a

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