Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• and a whole lot more

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OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years’ software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software.

OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you’re already using another office software package, you’ll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language.

Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose - domestic, commercial, educational, public administration.

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Here are some of the SopCast features:

• State-of-the-art P2P technology. Share the data among all viewers, make the channel more available and stable.
• Improve the data transfering performance.
• Enhance channel recording feature.
• Enable “ESC” key when the play in full screen mode.
• Minimal delay in the P2P streaming market.
• Fast buffering. 10-30seconds.
• Streaming real time streams. Support for many streaming transport protocol. mms, http, etc.
• Streaming media files. Many file types: asf, wmv, rm, rmvb, mp3, etc.
• Freeware, not ad/spy ware.
• And a whole lot more

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In addition to this scan and remove capability HijackThis comes with several tools useful in manually removing malware from a computer.HijackThis also comes with a process manager, HOSTS file editor, and alternate data stream scanner.

IMPORTANT: HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.

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Spyware Terminator will scan your computer for known threats and report findings in a manner that is easy to read and interpret. Every entry is given a rating and a classification, which makes it very easy to decide if a detected item should be removed. Unlike some free software titles, Spyware Terminator will remove all threats for free.

Spyware Terminator includes:

• Fast spyware scanning
• 100% real-time protection
• HIPS protection
• Antivirus protection
• Multilanguage Support
• Free automatic updates
• Free scheduled scans
• Free support

Spyware Terminator is licensed for free for both home and business use. Download Spyware Terminator 2.6.5.111 now!

NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Being a user’s first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of successful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.

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UltraVNC would be very useful especially if your providing computer support as you can quickly access your customer’s computers from anywhere in the world and resolve helpdesk issues remotely!With SingleClick addons your customers don’t even have to pre-install software or execute complex procedures to get remote helpdesk support.

Other key features are: File transfer, Video driver, Optional Encryption Plugins, MS Logon, Text chat, Viewer Toolbar, Java Viewer with File Transfer , as well as Auto scaling and Server Side Scaling, Multiple-Monitors-support,Repeater/Proxy-support, Auto reconnection, good performances and tons of other functionalities.

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This new version of Thunderbird gives you many features to help you manage your inbox. It would then be easier to prioritize important emails with tags. It also has the new find bar which helps you find content within your email faster.

With this new version of Thunderbird you can save searched folders, manage multiple emails and newsgroup accounts. It also gives IMAP/POP support, has built-in RSS reader, smart address book LDAP address completion and a whole lot more.

Thunderbird 3 beta is a preview release for the next major version of Thunderbird. This is available for testing purposes only.

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The release of this new version of Audacity fixes the significant number of freeze problems and major bugs. It is still on its beta version because work is in progress and there is not complete documentation yet as of the moment.

Audacity is a multilingual audio editor and recorder. Here are some of its features:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

There are still a whole lot more features for Audacity. For more information about this software, you can visit their website Audacity Development Team.

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Main features include:

• Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components.
• Gapless playback.
• Full unicode support.
• Easily customizable user interface layout.
• Advanced tagging capabilities.
• Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
• Full ReplayGain support.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

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