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Forums Free Script! SMF!
Publisher Description:
Simple Machines Forum - SMF in short - is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other. SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software, and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!

Review from CoolFreebies Blog:-
As you know everyone is making forums now. Recently I was also looking for a free forum script. As usual I visited phpbb.com as it is quite popular, but then I noticed the developers are extremely slow in developing new features in it plus security holes. One of my friend suggested me SMF. I’ve gone to thier site and was extremely impressed by the demo. I downloaded and installed it and the default skin is just awesome. It has cool SSI function so you can show posts topics etc on html pages through SSI fucntion. As usual requirements for forums, it needs php and apache to run. Plus it has option SEO-friendly urls which you can activate from admincp and your board urls will  be SEO friendly (you need mod rewrite support though). This is best for those who are lazy to install mods etc :p. Unlike other forum scripts you don’t have to manually edit files, but just upload the mod and it will modify the files itself. Simple machine’s support forums are quite active whenever I post there something, I get response within few minutes! Secondly if they find some security issue, they release its patch immediately, which you can install via admincp (you don’t even have to upload patch. It will download it from their site) and you can upgrade smf from admincp without uploading anything etc. So overall rating for smf forum script is A++

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Publisher Description:
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us.

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- Review from CoolFreebiesBlog:

After reinstalling windows i wanted an office package on my computer, but as now I was tired of all the problems caused by MS Office plus on my machine plus it’s not opensource so I decided to use something other than that. I found a very good open source alternative, in which i am currently writing this text. The 75MB Package that I downloaded proved to be worthwhile. Not only is OpenOffice fully compatible with MS Office documents, its user interface is also very similar to MS Office, which makes the transition very easy. One of the best features I liked is the ability to save the document as PDF. But sadly this package did not include Bluefish, the web designing tool like Frontpage in MS Office. The suite has six software, Base which is a database system like Access, I wasn’t able to test this because it requires Java, which is not installed on my newly installed OS. Calc is a spreadsheet like Excel. Draw is somewhat like Publisher, Impress is the powerpoint like thing for OpenOffice. Theres is Math, something MS Office lacks, this can be used to insert mathematical notations in your work. Writer is equal to Word, I found only one problem with this the default install does show synonyms when a word is right-clicked and so Ctrl+F7 has to be pressed. The spellchecker of OpenOffice is not as good as the one for MS Office, but still it does the work.Overall I would prefer this over MS Office, unless I face some compatibility issues, with databases for example.The Latest version of openoffice is 2.0.4

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Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks.

Gaim 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.

- Review from CoolFreebiesBlog:
I have been using this for 3 months now. I’ve used it on Windows and Linux both. When I installed it first time on my PC(Windows XP) the interface and Gui wasn’t good then I downloaded themes for it and customized it and it was looking awesome. The best thing about it is that it supports a lot of networks: ie msn aim icq etc. I added 3 yahoo ids and 2 msn emails and were online from all of them. The sounds are pretty good. Then after few days I installed linux on my pc, then I downloaded gaim for linux and I was amazed that I don’t have to compile it, but just run the setup, and it will be installed automattically I cuztomized it on linux as well, and have never seen such beautifull messneger on linux .The only problem in it is that the default theme is kinda poor. Well, you can also set away massage. When someone will im you, the auto massage thingy will automattically reply. You can also download its plugins .Moreover you can setup 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.So far my rating for Gaim is A

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FileZilla is a small but powerful FTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. It’s very easy to use.

The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer and more. A nice program for beginners and advanced user alike.

Features:

• Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads (if the server supports it)
• Custom Commands
• Site Manager with folders
• Keep Alive system
• Timeout detection
• Firewall support
• SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support
• SSL secured connections
• SFTP support
• Upload/Download Queue
• Drag&Drop
• Multi-language support
• GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos

- Review from CoolFreebiesBlog:
As I update my sites daily, I want a powerfull yet a light ftp client and ofcourse open source. Bassically I was recently checking free ftp clients. I’ve tested alot of them and found out that Filezilla is best opensource ftp client. It is very fast. I connected my server via filezilla on ftp protocol and I got connected in 2 seconds unlike other ftp programmes which takes minutes to connect. Morover it does support sftp protocol aswell so you can connect as a root to your server (unix) via ssh. It has integrated site manager in which you can save unlimited number of ftp connections so you dont have to put login info of ftp server again and again just select your desired connection and press connect. You can resume download and uploads but ofcourse the remote server should support it. The drag and drop system is pretty cool and fast. You can enter custom commands in ftp such as cd mv etc. It comes with 2 themes aswell so you can select the one you like. When you open it, filezilla automatically check for the update which is good feature though if you dont like it you can turn it off from settings. Also it supports a lot of lanugages. Just go to setting then language and select your desired language dont forget to restart filezilla client otherwise new language will not be applied. Enjoy!

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About Opera Mini:-

Opera Mini™ is a fast and tiny Web browser, that allows you to access the full Internet on your phone. Take all your favorite Web sites on the go with Opera Mini!

The new version further improves the browsing experience by enabling download of images, MP3s, etc directly to your phone.

Review from CoolFreebies!
A very good software is out for the J2ME mobile phones, Opera Mini. Although I in no way like the desktop Opera browser which I used a few years back, I found this to be the best web browser freely available for Java phones. Opera Mini outperforms others because it uses a gateway which processes the pages before serving them, it scales images to a suitable size for mobiles, compresses the text and removes ads. The result is fast web browsing over a slow GPRS connection.

The browser takes reasonable time to load, not instantly, but better than what most J2ME programs take. It has a user friendly interface. I particularly like the bookmarks feature where the favicon is also saved along with the URL, and links to several of the popular sites comes preset in the bookmarks, you can simply select the link instead of typing in the URL even when you use the browser for the first time.

However there also are some drawbacks, not everyone would like the reddish theme the browser has, and there is no option to change it. Sadly gmail cannot be checked using this. The browser uses a gateway which means if there is heavy load on the gateway, browsing may become very slow. And if at any point Opera want to shutdown the service it can do it very easily. For example they may want to make this a paid service. Otherwise the browser makes use of all technology available to make a breakthrough in providing a browser for Java phones.

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