
Email client Thunderbird is less known to the masses than Mozilla’s increasingly popular Firefox browser, but it’s still becoming a very popular tool. Thunderbird has a range of features that help you customize and organize your email. If you’ve been using a native client or indeed a web based service for a while, why not take a look at our Thunderbird review and see if you could benefit from the programs impressively large feature set.

AbiWord is part of a larger development project known as AbiSource, which aims to create an open source office suite that works across multiple different environments. Although AbiWord is the only practical piece of software to come from the project so far, it’s shaping up to be a very flexible and practical program which has versions that can run on just about Operating System available. We take a look at the program and see how its features stack up compared to those of Word and Writer.

No, it’s not a drinking game but rather an attachment for Mozilla’s Firefox browser that adds some advanced capabilities that light downloaders will find useful and heavy downloaders will find an absolute necessity. We take a look at the features that make DownThemAll a very useful addition to an already powerful browser.

Another browser? If you’re like us, you might getting a little disillusioned by all the recent browser releases and update that all essentially look the same and do the same things. Flock is different, however. It actually has a niche that won’t appeal to everyone, but if you one of the millions who enjoys using social networking to keep up with friends, family the world, it could be your new favourite browser.

If you’re tired of Windows Media Player, PowerDVD and all the other resource hungry players out there, you might want to take a look at this next review – VLC is hands down the best media player for Windows and Linux. Not only is it free and lightweight, it supports a much wider range of features and codec support than many of it’s peers. We take a look at everything the player offers.

FileZilla is a FTP program that allows you to do all of the usual uploading and downloading from FTP servers such as your own website or file archives. FileZilla is one of the most popular FTP programs on the net, and it’s easy to see why.

OpenOffice.org is an entirely free and impressively complete office suite which includes word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations and more. All the things you’re likely to find in Microsoft Office — but for free.

Opera is an internet browser designed by the Opera Software company. It’s been taking a backseat to IE and Firefox for years now, but has some great features of its own.

VirtualBox from Sun is ‘virtualization software’. It allows you to run different operating systems within the application without the need to mess around with the main system itself

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is a fancy way of saying it’s a freeware photo editor.


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