Get a free photo album application, similar to that of ACDSee, to help you organise and view multimedia files (including images, audio and even video). That free software is Fresh View 7.15.

In addition, the application allows users to watch movies, listen to audio files and even view graphic images in a slide show. These image files can be displayed concurrently in a thumbnail view, displaying several images at the same time, without having to open them.

Fresh View also allows conversion of image file formats from one type to another, and supports creation of HTML album, to be hosted on websites.

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Plain Text Editor 3.0 is a free text editor that is able to open, edit and save plain text files. Some special features include the capability to modify foreground and background colours, text wrapping and unwrapping.

This application can also do spell check on your plain text.

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Video file conversion is getting easier with a lot of utilities and tools available on the Internet. One of them is Easy WMV, a program designed to resize or convert WMV, ASF, AVI, MP4, MPG, MPEG, MOV and VOB file formats to another format that can be played using QuickTime Player or an iPod.

This application has a very simple user interface, and it supports drag and drop as well as batch processing. It can export video to mpeg and mpeg4 formats and can optimize videos for playback on iPod.

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Similar to several SSH clients, e.g. Filezilla, or WS FTP, Tunnelier 4.23 almost does the same job as a SSH and SFTP client for Windows.

Features

• * one of the most advanced graphical SFTP clients;
• * state-of-the-art terminal emulation with support for the bvterm, xterm, and vt100 protocols;
• * support for corporation-wide single sign-on using SSPI (GSSAPI) Kerberos 5 and NTLM user authentication, as well as Kerberos 5 host authentication;
• * support for RSA and DSA public key authentication with comprehensive user keypair management;
• * powerful SSH port forwarding capabilities, including dynamic forwarding through integrated SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT proxy;
• * powerful command-line parameters which make Tunnelier highly costumizable and suitable for use in specific situations and controlled environments;
• * an advanced, scriptable command-line SFTP client (sftpc);
• * a scriptable command-line remote execution client (sexec) and a command-line terminal emulation client (stermc);
• * an FTP-to-SFTP bridge allowing you to connect to an SFTP server using legacy FTP applications;
• * WinSSHD remote administration features;
• * single-click Remote Desktop forwarding.

Tunnelier is free for individual use, as well as for limited use inside organisations. This is with effect from version 3.60.

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Tunnelier 4.23

After a few months of hard work, the Ubuntu team is now ready to roll out Ubuntu 7.04 next month. However, before that, a beta release is made available.

Ubuntu 7.04 is the most user-friendly Ubuntu operating system to date and includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.

In the Ubuntu 7.04 server edition, the operating system adds support for hardware facilities that speed up the use of virtual machines as well as other improved hardware support, making it an excellent choice as a web, database, file and print server, the fastest growing area of Linux server use.

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Is your MacBook or MacBook Pro computers getting too hot? Well, then you might want to consider CoolBook 2.0, a utility tool that lets you monitor the frequency, voltage and temperature of the CoreDuo or Core2Duo CPU.

Features

1. Reduce Heat
2. Reduce Fan Noise
3. Extend Battery Life

This application is available free for download. However, a license costs only $10. Nonetheless, this is what you get for having a license: Registered users can change the frequency and voltage of the processor.

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CoolBook 2.0

Playing video files is now easier with GOM Player. This application is a FREE media player, equipped with popular audio and video codecs built-in. Hence, there is no need for users to install codecs separately.

System Requirements

• - Microsoft Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista
• - Intel-compatible CPU P3 or greater
• - Minimum amount of RAM recommended by the operating system in use
• - 20MB Hard Drive Space
• - Some videos may require the newest version of DirectX or Windows Media Player.
• - Recommended settings may change according to different types of video files.

GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that users will not have to look for appropriate codecs everytime a certain video format cannot be played. For those codecs that require a license that cannot be distributed, GOM will automatically leads to an open-source codec web-site.

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GOM Player 2.1.3.3413

The next beta version of Skype version 3.1 is now available. There are a couple of changes in this beta release.

Change Log

• * Known Issue: API: cannot set default video device
• * Known Issue: API: app2app connection is not established if other party is not in your buddy list
• * bugfix: API: OPEN CHAT command was not working
• * bugfix: My pictures gave wrong error message when broken picture was used
• * bugfix: Adding a png image as a profile image caused repeated error message
• * bugfix: High CPU and an error message with double-byte languages when creating public chat

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According to tuxmachines.org, the next version of Mozilla Firefox is soon to be released. Although it is not yet officially announced, Firefox 2.0.0.3 is already available on FTP sites.

This release fixes several security issues including memory corruption issue making users vulnerable to phishing and spoofing. This release is also the first to have been tested through a newly executed beta testing program for security and update releases.

If you are currently running Firefox, you may upgrade to the latest version directly from the browser. Otherwise, the setup file is available for download from the website.

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Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3