Windows Freeware

VideoLan, known as VLC, is a free and open source media player software. This free multi media player possibilities are endless: because it supports many audio and video codec, you can listen and watch all file formats currently available, watch DVDs and VCDs, enjoy various audio/video streaming channels available on internet. It is a great replacement for Windows Media Player.

VLC media player can also be used as a server to stream video and audio over networks, to transcode multimedia files and save them easily into various formats.

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Skype is a full-feature communications suite which allows users to make free internet phone and video calls with excellent quality.

Skype is the most popular VoIP communication client on internet, because it allows you to talk to friends, family and co-workers across the internet without long distance telephone charges. Indeed Skype-to-Skype instant message, audio conferencing and video phone calls are free !

Skype users can also call mobiles and landlines for cheap. It is also a great VoIP conference call software for large and small businesses.

Free features include Skype-to-Skype calls, calls transfer, chats, video calls, file transfer, desktop sharing and more…

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RSSOwl is a free newsreader program that collect data from any compliant RSS and Atom news feeds available on the web, like websites or RSS servers. You can gather, organize, update, and save your RSS feeds in a very easy and efficient way. This news aggregator has a lot of features and is really easy to configure.

RSSOwl is released under the Eclipse Public License, and is free software.

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Inkscape is an opensource vector graphics editor distributed under a free software license GNU GPL.

It is a very powerful graphics tool you can use in a lot of very different projects like icons, creative art, logo, web graphics, technical diagrams or maps. Inkscape is a great replacement for Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.

It use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format and is fully compliant with the XML, SVG, and CSS standards.

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Pidgin is a popular instant messaging client (IM software): the number of Pidgin users over the world was estimated to be over 3 million in 2007, and still growing today. Pidgin let you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously.

Like any instant messaging freeware, Pidgin features include support for themes, emoticons, spell checking, file transfer, contact list, chat logging, and notification area integration.You can also extend this freeware program capabilities through plugins.

This free chat client is really easy to use and allows you to connect over 17 chat networks simultaneously like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk etc… yes, all at once ! Here is the list of chat networks supported by Pidgin:

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

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