Category: Software

” If you’ve gone to a big-box store and purchased a wireless card recently, you might have had some trouble getting it to work under Linux, or any non-Windows OS for that matter. One reason for this is that more and more manufacturers are producing hardware that are useless without proprietary firmware. While these new… Continue reading The problem with driver-loaded firmware

Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It requires no installation and can be fitted on a single floppy disc. Its powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM very flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently… Continue reading Miranda IM 0.6 final

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. It is designed as a user-friendly soluction for playing all your video files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare… Continue reading K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.62

OpenOffice.org is a free and powerful office suite. The look and feel might be a bit less intuitive compared to Microsoft’s Office suite, but it suits my needs. And because it’s free, open source and most important: good, it deserves to at least try it out if you never did before. OpenOffice.org 2.1 is a… Continue reading OpenOffice.org 2.1.0

FrostWire is a free and open source Gnutella P2P application, based on the LimeWire source. There’s no “pro” version of FrostWire, you get all the goodies for free. FrostWire can run on Windows XP, MacOSX, Linux. After a very long wait, there’s finally a new FrostWire version. This version includes torrent downloads and has a… Continue reading FrostWire 4.13.1.4

Paint.NET is a photo and image editing tool designed for computers running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000. It serves the digital imaging community as a free alternative to the standard paint application included with Windows. It brings powerful features to the desktop, a myriad of special effects, plug-in extensibility, and layer manipulation. It enhances… Continue reading Paint.NET 3.0 beta2

A mail client is an important tool in this online world. I tried the lot of them, and I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird exclusively for almost two years now. It’s free and open source, is available for a wide variety of operating systems, and has a built-in spam filter that simply works. Mozilla Thunderbird is… Continue reading Mozilla Thunderbird 2 beta1

foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. It’s very light on system resources, and can be adjusted to your personal needs and taste in many ways. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Changes in this version: * Updated Musepack… Continue reading foobar2000 0.9.4.2

aMSN Messenger is a multi protocol, free and open source messaging program. It’s available for a wide range of operating systems. Finally, the long-awaited 0.96 release is out! It contains several bugfixes to the release candidate, most important ones being: a) you can now send files to Windows Live Messenger users b) the connectivity checker… Continue reading aMSN Messenger 0.96

The most popular IRC client for Windows got a new release! mIRC is a shareware IRC client for Windows. It is developed and copyrighted by Khaled Mardam-Bey. mIRC is a highly configurable IRC client with all the goodies other clients on UNIX, Macintosh and even on windows offer, combined with a *nice* and clean user… Continue reading mIRC 6.21