Fire 1.5 is now available. Fire is a free instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports AIM, ICQ, irc, Jabber, Google Talk, Apple iChat Server, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and Apple Bonjour. Some of the features that Fire includes is Rendezvous chat, Tabbed Chat windows, and styled text chat.
Read more about Fire IM Client for Mac OS X

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IF you are a linux user and you are looking for a new instant messaging client then give Ayttm and try. Ayttm is an IM client that lets you use the major instant messaging services in its single application. Ayttm is simple, stable, intuitive, and flexible. It supports Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, AIM, and ICQ. It was developed to be used with Linux but can be run on BSD and Windows NT/2000.
Download- Ayttm instant messaging client
Website for Ayttm instant messaging client

If you want a site to find a lot of free software that is very useful then check out Shock Utility. The Shock Utility website offers many different pieces of software. Some of the programs that they have at this moment that grabbed my attention is Shock Dropper, Shock StartUp, Shock Calendar, and Shock Cleaner. There are many utilities on the Shock Utility web site that increases the computer users experience. The developers at Shock Utility are always coming out with new software and utilities so keep checking back with them for new programs.
Website: Shock Utility

Do you have any .iso images and you don't know how to burn them to a disc in Windows Vista. Check out ISO recorder. Iso recorder is a free tool that lets you burn .iso images to CD's and DVD's. One good thing about having Windows Vista is that ISO Recorders DVD support is only for Vista. This handy program also lets you copy disks, make images of CD's and DVD's and create .iso images from the content in a folder. If you download files from torrents or download programs from such companies like Microsoft you will probably need ISO Recorder.

Download: ISO Recorder
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If you want a free zip archive program then check out IZArc. IZArc is a free archive utility that supports a whole list of archive formats. I will list these formats at the bottom. IZArc is a fast archiving utility and supports archive encryption AES 128, 192, and 256 bit encoding. The user interface is very similar to that of WinZip and if this is your first archiving utility it is still easy to navigate through. IZArc is supported by Windows Vista now so if you have upgraded to Vista then your able to use the free zip utility.

The following formats are supported by IZArc:
7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.

Website:www.izarc.org
Download:IZArc

For all the Mac users out there, if you like Firefox then check out a browser that is made for Mac. Camino is an open source web browser for Mac OS X. Its style and user interface is Mac oriented and it is easy to switch from Firefox to Camino.

Camino Website
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If you are always using programs to capture an image or record a screencast then check out Jing. Jing is a free program to record images and screencast with the most simplistic controls. With Jing you can share content to your hard drive, an FTP server, network drive, Screencast.com, embedded on your blog, copy images to your clipboard, or upload to Flickr. Jing was made by the makers of SnagIt and Camtasia Studio. If you are in the IT department it can be a big help.

Jing Website
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Daily Free Software program of the day. If you want a free screen capturing program check out Screenshot Captor. It has many differences that set it apart from other screenshot programs such as it is optimized for taking lots of screenshots, smart autonaming of files, good multi-monitor support, it is highly configurable to work any way that you want it to, it sits in the system tray and stays out of your way. It also has lots of capture modes: Multimon (multiple monitors), desktop, active window, region, windows object. Each mode has a specific hotkey for the fastest access. There is much more to learn about this free screen capturing program at the Screenshot Captor website.

Encrypt your data with TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is a free open-source encryption program. It creates a virtual encrypted disk in a file and mounts it as a real disk. It encrypts partitions, USB drives, and external hard drives as well. The main thing I liked about it is that it has two levels of plausible deniability just in case you are forced to give up a password. TrueCrypt is supported on Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Download:TrueCrypt

Is Windows Explorer starting to look plain because it doesn't have a lot of features? Try QTTabBar. It is an add-in for Windows Explorer that gives it many features such as tabs, folder grouping, and histories. QTTabBar can be used with Windows Vista and Windows Xp + .Net Framework 2.0 or later.

Download: QTTabBar

Hey Mac users, do you need a free instant messaging client that supports almost all of the major instant messaging services? Check out Fire. Fire is a free instant messaging client for Mac that supports the following IM services: AIM, irc, Jabber, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and Apple Bonjour. Its Universal Binary supports both Intel and PowerPc Macs with full support of MacOS 10.1 through Tiger. When I was looking over the Fire website and came across a section in the About Fire page. It was how Fire got its name. What comes after "AIM"?
Fire. So go try out this free Mac IM client.


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