If you use torrents frequently, then you’ll remember December 7, 2006, as a day that will live on in infamy, a day that teh Interwebs broke in half–just a little. That was the day that BitTorrent, Bram Cohen’s torrent progenitor, announced it had bought µTorrent, the free-but-closed-source torrent client that showcased innovative features in a surprisingly lightweight app.

Now, two years since their last upgrade, BitTorrent has released its first version that combines µTorrent code with its own open-source base, and µTorrent has also come out with a minor-point upgrade. Confused? Read on.

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From Pidgin:
Pidin (formerly known as Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.

Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, and more.

Version 2.0 revamps the interface, adds a new account-management system, revises the status system, and adds a Tango-based icon theme.

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It is time to convert you DVDs to your favorite format and keep them with you. HandBrake is free software which convert DVD into several formats free.

“It grabs video from a variety of sources, including a DVD, and a DVD image, and grabs audio from sources as well, including MPEG audio tracks. You’ll then be able to output a digital file in a variety of formats, including MPEG-4, AVI, OGM for video, or AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis for audio.” PCWORLD

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How many file compression softwares you have installed on your PC. I always download softwares in order to decompress files others send me. If I tell you now you can do most of your compression and decompression from a one software what do you think even for free.

7-zip is free software which compress and decompress most of the formats.

“You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip. But you can make a donation to support further development of 7-Zip.”

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager

Unfortunately 7-zip does not support vista. 7-zip support Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

Download 7-zip free

source : http://www.7-zip.org/

What is windows SkyDrive ?

Windows skydrive is a free online storage service. SkyDrive still running on Beta2 and

gives users 500MB free space. SkyDrive allow users to access their files from any computer since it is totally runs on web browser.

What is actually we can do on SkyDrive is the imporatant question.

Store files on web for your use such as your personal documents and images. Users can even share files with friends. This featue really handy if you want to share your cooperate documents with your coleeges and allow them to modify as well. SkyDrive also allow users to share thier files to the world.

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Online TV and Radio

Can t imagine what s going on the web. Found this cool small software. Comes with 850 TV channels and many radio channels.

Saw this first on cnet download and did check it for cupple of days really cool player.

It s really free. Have a try guys.

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Virtual Earth screen server is not a simple screen saver you see. Virtual Earth screen saver show interesting Virtual Earth birdseye and satellite images from users with information about those images.

Virtual Earth screen saver use Microsoft Virtual Earth API to get images. I think this is really good one and something different.

Download virtual earth screen sarver

source : http://www.codeplex.com/vescreensaver

PrimoPDF totally free software where you can use to convert your printable documents to PDF.

What is PDF.

PDF standards for Portable Document Format with .pdf extention.

Why PDF.

If you convert your normal document to PDF it can ‘ t edit. Now you can convert your valuable documents

to pdf free from Primo PDF.

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