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May 22, 2003 |
Miranda-IM 0.3 (Release Candidate) RC2 http://miranda-icq.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=56675#56675 (catagory: internet) Miranda-IM 0.2.1 Stable Release http://miranda-icq.sourceforge.net/ |
Miranda-IM is a freeware all-in-one clone of
the official ICQ, MSN, AIM, Jabber (and with plugins for Yahoo!, IRC, Netsend, EmLan, and Gadu Gadu and more).
Miranda-IM provides basic features present in
the official ICQ/MSN/AIM/Jabber/Y! (less the online-chatroom support except for AIM),
and uses much less memory and resources than the official ones. With suitable
plugins, skins and icons
installed, Miranda-IM is a better alternative to the official ICQ/MSN/Jabber/AIM/Y!/IRC/etc. for users
who have novice computer knowledge. (Please refer to the FAQ and the How-to document.) Miranda-IM 0.3 (Nightly Build) Alpha contains many useful features that are absent in release 0.2.1, and supports for many new plugins. Although the Nightly Build Alpha represents a software under development and may not be feature complete, Miranda-IM's nightly builds are proven to be stable on most systems. Thus, the 0.3 Nightly Builds are preferred over the older 0.2.1 Release. - Icons recommended - · Original Gangsta Icons 2.7 · · mugzLESS (ICQ-style) 0.3 · · High Color Mirabilis Style 1.0 · · Spiffy YAHOO by floink 0.2 · - Skins recommended - · Ridges Gradient Backgrounds 1.01 · (Please refer to the README file for details on how to set up the Miranda-IM interface correctly.) - Plugins recommended - · AIM Protocol 1.0.7.4 needs miranda 0.3 · Away System 0.2.8.2 · Contacts 1.2.0.0 · Conversation Style Messaging 0.99.8.0 · History+ 2.1.1.0 · IRC Protocol · Jabber Protocol · Last Seen 4.1.6.2 · Modified MSN Protocol 0.1.4.10 · nConvers 0.99.9.79 (with nHistory) · NewEventNotify 0.0.4.0 · NewStatusNotify 1.1.1.8 · PopUp 1.0.1.9 · ToolTip Info 2.1.0.0 · Wassup 0.1.3.5 · Weather Protocol 0.2.3.5 · WhoIsReadingMyStatus 0.0.1.0 · Yahoo! Protocol 0.0.5.3 · Note that there are many more useful add-ons in the offical plugin page. And also, many of the above plugins are under development, thus more features and/or bug fixes are coming up occasionally. So, check them out regularly (with the Wassup plugin, or directly with the official plugin page). And also, some of the above plugins requires the newest release or the Nightly Builds in order to run. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
Acrobat Reader 5.1 http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html (catagory: general) |
Acrobat Reader is a freeware PDF (portable document format) reader.
Able to preserve graphical and textual layouts under different computer platforms,
PDF is used widely as a standard electronic document format in the internet world, especially
for corporation documents. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
Anvil Studio 2003.04.02 http://www.anvilstudio.com/ (catagory: music) |
Anvil Studio is a freeware MIDI composer program
that let the users to record, play, compose, and edit standard multi-track MIDI music files.
A MIDI keyboard for PC and a good sound card is recommended. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
CDex 1.50 http://www.cdex.n3.net/ (catagory: music) |
CDex is a freeware music convertor that can
rip soundtracks from a music CD into .mp3 or .wav format. It can read
CD track information from local/remote CD-DB and/or from Windows CD Player.
(Note that some Windows 2000 systems may have trouble running this software.) | |
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May 17, 2003 |
Cygwin Setup 2.340.2.5 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ (catagory: developer tools) |
Cygwin is a freeware for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000
(or Win32 in short).
Cygwin is a UNIX-like API package including most of the GNU development tools and
utilities found in standard UNIX systems. It is a very good software for those who
wish to develop Win32 (console or GUI) applications using the included
development tools and utilities, or those who wish to port UNIX programs to Win32 platforms
without the need for extensive changes to the source codes.
The free utilities included in Cygwin are useful to average users, too,
especially those who are familiar with UNIX or Linux. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
GSview 4.4 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/ (catagory: general) |
GSview is a freeware graphical interface that work with
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00
(also a freeware) to display and print PostScript and PDF documents.
PostScript format is the page description language commonly used by laser printers.
For more information, here is
GSview Readme. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
Mozilla 1.3.1 http://www.mozilla.org/ (catagory: internet) |
Mozilla is a freeware internet browser.
It has integrated email-client, newsgroup-client, and instant-messaging-client. Mozilla is an open-source project, which produces a web browser that is standards-compliant, performance-oriented, and available for many major operating systems. The core rendering engine of Mozilla is a preview of the future of the Netscape internet browsers. Constantly improving in performance and versatility, Mozilla is a good internet browser choice. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
OpenOffice.org 1.0.3.1 http://www.openoffice.org/ (catagory: office) |
OpenOffice.org is a freeware, open-source
office suite which the upcoming Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 (and up)
will be based upon. Like the original StarOffice, OpenOffice.org supports many popular document formats, including those of Microsoft Office's. An advantage of using OpenOffice.org (over StarOffice) is that it should have less bugs than StarOffice since the core-engine of OpenOffice.org should be newer than that of StarOffice's, usually. And best of all, it is free of charge, whereas StarOffice 6 will jump into the commercial bandwagon. However, OpenOffice.org lacks a few useful features that will be included in StarOffice 6.0. Also, OpenOffice.org does not support those less popular document formats that will be supported by StarOffice 6.0. Please read the FAQ for more details. (Note: OpenOffice.org is a software under continual developments -- meaning that the software may not be feature complete, and there should be newer builds/updates available within months.) | |
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May 17, 2003 |
Opera 7.11 http://www.opera.com/ (catagory: internet) |
Opera 7 is an adware internet browser
featuring speed, compact size, and accessibility.
It has integrated email-client, newsgroup-client. Opera 7 features a big leap in functionality over the older Opera 6 versions. With the rewritten webpage rendering engine, improved browsing functionalities and supports, and the innovative M2 mail/news client, Opera 7 is a very good alternative internet browser. Please read the changelogs and the new features page for more details. You can customize the look of Opera 7 using skins. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
WinAMP 2.91 http://classic.winamp.com/ (catagory: music) |
WinAMP 2 is a powerful freeware media player. (WinAMP now supports some video formats, too.)
Featuring customizable skins, graphic equalizers, playlist supports, visualizations, plugin supports, internet CD-DB query... etc. Although WinAMP 3 is out, but WinAMP 2 is still a recommendable classic media player for most users. | |
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May 17, 2003 |
ZoneAlarm 3.7.143 http://www.zonelabs.com/ (catagory: internet) |
ZoneLabs' ZoneAlarm is a freeware, easy-to-use internet security utility and firewall software
that monitors internet and/or local network access to your computer and helps prevent unauthorized intrusions from the Net.
(Commercial users can use the enhanced version of ZoneAlarm Pro which contains more features than the freeware version.) | |
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January 24, 2003 |
IrfanView32 3.80 http://www.irfanview.com/ (catagory: graphics) |
IrfanView32 is a freeware graphic viewer for
home users (or shareware for commercial users).
Compact in size and supporting many graphic/video formats, IrfanView32 can also handle
simple manipulations to your pictures. With suitable plug-ins installed,
IrfanView32 is a good alternative multimedia suite. | |
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November 9, 2002 |
HTML-Kit 1.0 build 292 http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ (catagory: developer tools) |
HTML-Kit 1.0 (build 292) is a very powerful freeware
code-based, web page editor that provide many professional features to help web
page and script authors to edit, format, validate and publish their web pages.
Plug-ins are available to extend HTML-Kit with even more useful features. | |
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September 7, 2002 |
Crimson Editor V3.45 R2 http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ (catagory: developer tools) |
Crimson Editor is a freeware code editor
featuring syntax-highlighting supporting many computer languages. Also featuring
macro recorder, bookmarks, auto-indention, natural word wrapping, spell checker,
FTP remote editing, print and print preview, DOS-console command executions and
output capturing, etc.
Another very good feature is the built-in calculator that can perform many simple
scientific calculations.
Crimson Editor is a very good code editor for computer programmers.
A good complementary editor to ConTEXT Editor. | |
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August 15, 2002 |
ConTEXT Editor 0.97.2 http://www.fixedsys.com/context/ (catagory: developer tools) |
ConTEXT is a freeware code editor
featuring keyword-colouring supporting many computer languages. Also featuring unicode support,
project workspace, code templates, macro recorder, bookmarks, auto-indention, DOS-console
command executions and output capturing, etc., ConTEXT is a powerful code editor for computer
programmers. A good complementary editor to Crimson Editor. (Note: Please refer to the archived version 0.96.3 below.) | |
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August 15, 2002 |
ConTEXT Editor 0.96.3 http://www.kyuhome.com/KYHF/internet/archive/ConTEXTsetup_0963.zip (catagory: developer tools) |
Certain users (like me) have experienced bugs/problems with newer ConTEXT 0.97 versions.
So I've temporarily put up a more stable version 0.96.3 here, in hope that
those apparent bugs will be fixed soon. This file is provided on as-is basis without warranty of any kind. Download and install at your own risk. | |
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August 2001 |
WS_FTP LE 5.08 http://www.ftpplanet.com/download.htm (catagory: internet) |
WS_FTP LE is a shareware FTP client
(but it is free to educational users or
non-commercial home users), featuring multiple file transfers and the auto
re-get or resuming feature. The WS_FTP Pro is a more powerful shareware version
with many advanced features. | |
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January 2001 |
Call Center 3.9.3 http://www.v3inc.com/ (catagory: communication) |
V3 Inc's Call Center is a freeware multi-purpose communication software
featuring phone, fax and voice-mail managements through your PC. Upgrading to Call Center Pro
allows you to access the full abilities of the software at a price-tag. | |
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January 2001 |
Electronic Cosmo's MPEG Suite http://ec2000.xperiment.net/ (catagory: music) |
Electronic Cosmo's MPEG Suite is a freeware MP3-Wave converter,
featuring very fast MP3 encoding/decoding engines. (Release 1.5.5 supports 3 encoding engines, and up to 340 Kbit/s MP3 encoding.) | |
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January 2001 |
Utopia Live! http://www.utopiasd.com/ (catagory: music) |
Utopia Live! is a commercial GS/GM MIDI soundfont designed specifically for
Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Live! soundcards, replacing the not-so-good soundfonts that come with
the Live! soundcards. Although I have not tried the soundfont myself, the demos show that the acoustics of
UtopiaLive! to be very nice and balanced. This software is highly recommended to those who own a SBLive! soundcard, and love to listen to MIDI files
or are musicians using MIDI. Please note that the 32MB font requires your PC to have at least 64MB of RAM, more is better. Also note that Utopia Live! is, by far, availabled only through online purchase or by mail, I'm not sure about the risks involved. | |
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May 2000 |
MidiNotate http://www.notation.com/ (catagory: music) |
MidiNotate is a shareware MIDI-to-sheet converter that converts
the data in a MIDI file into a printable score of music. It also allows simple MIDI track renderings. | |
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April 2000 |
First Page 2000 HTML Editor http://www.evrsoft.com/ (catagory: developer tools) |
First Page 2000 is a powerful freeware HTML editor
that provides many professional features. Rated 5-cows by Tucows,
it provides 3 customizable user-levels, ranging from easy, expert, to hardcore users. | |
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April 2000 |
GetRight http://www.getright.com/ (catagory: internet) |
GetRight is a very good adware download utility
that can monitor and organize file downloads from your Netscape/IE browsers,
automatically continue half-way downloads upon dial-up reconnections,
allow you to set up download schedules,
etc. By purchasing, you can turn off the advertisement function. | |
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April 2000 |
NetLaunch http://www.blackcastlesoft.com/ (catagory: internet) |
NetLaunch is a freeware dial-up networking utility
that helps dial-up internet users to get connected to their ISPs quickly and easily.
NetLaunch can be scheduled to connect/disconnect automatically at any time.
It can be set up to launch any programs upon connection.
It can also be set up to redial or reconnect automatically upon disconnection. | |
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Sept 1999 |
FinePrint http://www.fineprint.com/ (catagory: general) |
FinePrint is an extremely useful shareware printing utility that can shrinks multiple pages into one page,
saving printing cost and paper. An environment-friendly goodie for your PC. | |
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Sept 1999 |
ICQ http://www.icq.com/ (catagory: internet) |
ICQ is a famous freeware instant messaging application
that makes online communication with friends and colleagues quick and easy. | |
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Sept 1999 |
QuickTime Plug-in http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ (catagory: multimedia) |
QuickTime is a free browser plugin that plays many multimedia formats.
There is a built-in Roland GS MIDI wavetable-simulator that
delivers better quality sounds to MIDIs under cheaper sound cards.
MIDI sound quality is quite good. | |
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Feb 1999 |
McAfee VirusScan http://www.mcafee.com/ (catagory: general) |
McAfee VirusScan is a famous shareware virus detecting utility that helps preventing
virus attacks on your PC. | |
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Feb 1999 |
Norton AntiVirus http://www.symantec.com/nav/ (catagory: general) |
NAV is another famous shareware virus detecting utility for your PC. | |
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Feb 1999 |
Programmer's File Editor http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ (catagory: developer tools) |
PFE is a highly customizable freeware file editor for Windows 3.1+ (16 bits) or Windows 95+ (32 bits)
featuring C/C++ and TeX syntax indentations, macros, easy calls to other programs (e.g. compilers),
DOS and UNIX file formats... etc. Explore yourself for other amusements. | |
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