flock

Introduction

Flock is built on the Mozilla Firefox open-source browser, so it has all the features you’ve come to expect in a high-quality web browser, like intuitive buttons and menus, personal customizability, reliable security, enhanced privacy protections, and automated updating. However, Flock is much more than that! The Flock Social Web Browser has been fully integrated with a wide range of social networking websites and popular blogging tools. So with Flock, you can now keep in touch and share text, links, pictures, video and more with friends, family and co-workers across the entire internet with unparalleled speed and seamless ease.

Download:

http://downloads.flock.com/index.php?os=win&product=flock-2.5.2

Open Office 3

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Download:

http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?&product=OpenOffice.org&os=winwjre&lang=en-US&version=3.1.1

Thunderbird

Get Organized

Thunderbird 2 includes several new features to help you manage your inbox. As you receive email, Thunderbird 2 will help you organize the most important messages to get you through your day.

Saved Searches

Do you find yourself searching for the same subject or message content over and over? Thunderbird 2 saves you time by allowing you to store this search as a folder. Rerunning the search is just a matter of clicking on the saved search folder in the folder pane.

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Phishing Protection

Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defense, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.

Automated Update

Thunderbird’s update system checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB – 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Thunderbird on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 30 different languages.

Pidgin

IM all your friends in one place

Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.

Supported chat networks:

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ
• IRC
• MSN
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.

Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Looking for Pidgin for OS X? Try Adium!

Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.

Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the standard features.

Pidgin integrates with the system tray on Windows, GNOME2, and KDE 3.1.

Pidgin is under constant development. Releases are usually frequent and driven by user contributions, such as bug reports and patches.

Pidgin is free and contains no ads. All our code is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means you can get Pidgin’s underlying code and modify it to suit your needs, as long as you publish the changes you make for everyone to benefit from as well.

Supported Languages

Pidgin is translated into many different languages, thanks to the generous contributions of our volunteer translators.

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• American English
• Arabic
• Australian English
• Belarusian Latin
• Bengali
• Bokmal Norwegian
• Bosnian
• British English
• Bulgarian
• Canadian English
• Catalan
• Chinese
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch, Flemish
• Dzongkha
• English
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• Euskera(Basque)
• Finnish
• French
• Galician
• Georgian
• German
• Greek
• Gujarati
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hong Kong Chinese
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Irish
• Italian
• Japanese
• Kannada
• Khmer
• Korean
• Kurdish
• Lao
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Mongolian
• Nepali
• Norwegian Nynorsk
• Occitan
• Pashto
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Portuguese-Brazil
• Punjabi
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Simplified Chinese
• Sinhala
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Traditional Chinese
• Turkish
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

If your native language is missing from this list or you’ve found that a translation contains errors, you can help us! Take a look at our tips for translators.

Download:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/pidgin-2.6.2.exe

Firefox

Top Features

Miro 2.5

What is Miro?

Miro is a free HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.

Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.

Unlike your browser, Miro’s built for HD.

The built-in Miro Guide connects you to thousands of free High Definition video shows. Miro downloads video fast and stores it on your local computer for a level of quality that is often impossible on streaming video websites (even the ones that call themselves ‘HD’).

Fullscreen, HD video on Miro is like nothing
you’ve ever seen online.

Can’t open a video? Now you can, with Miro.

Miro can play virtually any type of video file – Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more.

When it comes to video podcasts, Miro goes far beyond iTunes by letting you subscribe to BitTorrent RSS feeds, with one of the fastest torrent downloaders in the
world (it’s called ‘libtorrent’).

Instead of separate programs…

for downloading torrent files and then watching them, Miro is one integrated experience. And Miro makes BitTorrent RSS dead simple– when a new episode is available, it will download automatically and be ready to watch.

If you are trying to teach someone how to use BitTorrent, Miro is the easiest place to start. And Miro’s torrent performance is powered by the screamingly fast open-source libtorrent engine, which is why we’re also a favorite of hard-core torrenters.

Search, download, and save videos…

from YouTube, Google Video, Blip, and more. You can even save a search term and automatically get new videos as they are posted.

With YouTube’s new HD support, the video quality
can be incredible.

Download:

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/win/Miro_Installer.exe