For most of us, we should know what BitTorrent is, so I won’t go explicitly into explaining what is torrent and BitTorrent. Searching for files over the Internet can be really difficult, and more than often, files that you want may be available from one network but not the other. So, Torrent Radar is a software specifically design to help users search the web to find torrents file to download.

The interface has a search engine look, and hence users should be relatively comfortable using the application. Simply type in the keywords you wish to find and then search for the .torrent file over the Internet.

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Torrent Radar 1

There are several VoIP softwares today, i.e. Skype, MSN, and Google Talk,… Now, there is this new Zfone Project that develops Zfone, a new secure VoIP phone software product that allows users to make secure and encrypted Internet calls.

Using a highly encrypted protocol, that is AES-128 bit encryption, you can rest assure that your message or packets transferred over the Internet will be safe. Zfone software currently runs in the Internet Protocol stack on any Windows XP, Mac OS X, or Linux PC, and intercepts and filters all the VoIP packets as they go in and out of the machine, and secures the call on the fly. Furthermore, it has its own little separate GUI, telling the user if the call is secure.

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Released on April 25, 2007, Skype 3.2.0.115 for Windows beta has some new changes in this release.

• * known issue: Options – some incoming calls from people who haven’t been authorized
• * known issue: Options – Audio settings sliders and feedback indicators not working correctly
• * known issue: Options – Advanced settings sometimes return to Basic settings next time you go into options
• * known issue: Options – Start Skype when I start Windows doesn’t match with settings on Sign-In screen
• * feature: Call forwarding improvements
• * change: Options overhaul
• * change: New offline warning banners for 1:1 chats
• * change: New RichText based hint window
• * bugfix: Calls between Skype 3.2 beta versions had during silence strange background noise
• * bugfix: Myself capture buttons were misplaced
• * bugfix: Call duration was showed wrongly for very long calls
• * bugfix: Chat guidelines were messed up when using double quotes in them
• * bugfix: Importing Gmail contacts for non-English Gmail failed sometimes
• * bugfix: File size was not displayed before accepting File Transfer
• * bugfix: Skype changed IE6 text size to medium automatically
• * bugfix: Link in chat topic was not clickable sometimes
• * change: updated language files

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Magic Player 1.3 is a free Windows multimedia player, that plays audio and video files. Some of the supported formats are:

• - MP3,
• - MID,
• - AVI
• - and others.

The change log for the latest version can be found here. In addition, Magic Player 1.3 is available in multi-lingual package.

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Magic Player 1.3

For the young musicians, Simple Note Test 1.0 is an application that tests your ears against the C-major scale. Tester will have to identify the correct note of the random sound generated by the software.

It is a small yet simple to use musical tool, developed by Jack Kennedy.

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Simple Note Test 1.0

How much do you pay to go for a language class? And how often you need to know the pronunciation at that particular instant? What if you’re chatting with a hot girl from a different language background or trying to understand a foreign businessman’s message? Of course, the answer is to take an language class, but why not try do it by self-learning? That’s what Chuala is useful for.

The application is a free software that combines with audio feature (recording and playback) to improve language learning capability. Furthermore, there is a search engine function that helps to improve your search for certain words or phrases.

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Most of you would have heard of what FLV Player is about. Basically, it is a audio-video player to play flash-converted media that has been saved as .flv file.

Originally, Flash files exist as .swf format, and it is usually inefficient to play swf media with the way you would want to watch a movie from .avi or .mpg format.

With Any FLV Player 1.0.1, users can easily play FLV videos as it doesn’t require the complicated Flash authoring tool and Flash development tools.

This application also has the capability to help users post video files to websites or blogs, with a couple of clicks, thus making publishing easy. Adding FLV meta tag to FLV video files is also a breeze. Well, below are some key features:

Key Features

• * Drag and drop to play FLV files. No Flash development environment required.
• * Fully customized play control panel
• * Publish your FLV video to website with one click
• * Automatically inject FLV video meta information.

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FLV Player 1.0.1

Even before the official release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, there have been huge demand for Automatix package to be bundled in the repository. Unfortunately, during that time, Automatix only supports up to Ubuntu 6.10; support for version 7.xx has not been released. Finally, the wait is over, Automatix2, is now available for Ubuntu 7.04 users!

Other than supporting version 7.04, this latest release also comes with Crossover Office Standard and Professional on Ubuntu 7.04 amd64 (which basically means you can run a ton of 32 bit windows software on Ubuntu 7.04 amd64). I just happen to found out from the website that the CEO and Founder of Dell Inc. also uses Automatix2 on his home computer (no wonder Dell is switching to bundle their systems with Linux operating systems these days *joking*)

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Enjoy this open source, cross-platform Game of Life simulator, developed by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki, Golly 1.2. It is able to run in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The idea is to develop a world-class Life simulator for users.

Features

• * Unbounded universe (limited only by memory).
• * Fast, memory-efficient conventional algorithm.
• * Super fast hashlife algorithm for highly regular patterns.
• * Responsive even while generating or garbage collecting.
• * Reads RLE, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and macrocell formats.
• * Can also read common graphic formats: BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF.
• * Includes a state-of-the-art pattern collection.
• * Supports other Life-like rules and Wolfram’s 1D rules.
• * Can paste in patterns from the clipboard.
• * Auto fit option keeps patterns sized to the window.
• * Full screen option (no menu/status/tool/scroll bars).
• * Supports multiple layers, including cloned layers.
• * Includes HTML-based help with an integrated Life Lexicon.
• * Scriptable via Python.
• * Runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Universal) and Linux (GTK+/X11).

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