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Emesene MSN Client

Emesene is an open source MSN messenger client. The Emesene development team is trying to replicate the functions of the official Windows Live client in a simpler, cleaner and easier to use interface.

Emesene is a cross platform client which works well with Ubuntu and Windows. It is written using Python, GTK+, PyGTK and Pycairo.

Official Windows Live Messenger features supported by the client are:
*Offline messaging
*Personal messages
*’Now Playing’ personal messages
*Nudges
*Contact list retrieval from server
*Nickname retrieval from server
*Tabbed chat windows
*File transfer
*Webcam support (still in development)
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7Zip Archive Manager

7Zip is gaining much popularity even among enterprise users as perfect alternative for WinRar. It’s hurdle free licence and rich features attract more people.

7Zip is a wonderful archive manager which allow you to manage several type of archives with ease. It can support popular archive types such as zip, rar, gzip, tar and more.

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions.

Features :

*  High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
* Supported formats:
o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
o Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
* For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Powerful File Manager
* Powerful command line version
* Plugin for FAR Manager
* Localizations for 74 languages

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Bazaar

Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu offers commercial support for it’s popular version control system Bazaar. Canonical is supposed to provide support for developers to deploy an manage Bazaar. Moreover canonical’s support includes migrating from other version control systems.

Some sort of version control system is essential for any serious software development. Bazaar is a newcomer in version control systems and facing tight competition from rivals like Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) and Subversion (SVN). But canonical’s magic hands grabbed a fair amount of market share in this short time span.

Canonical claim that, Bazaar is used by 80,000 people around the world on over 9,000 software projects. Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system uses Bazaar from it’s Jaunty Jackalope release onwards. Read the rest of this entry →

Allmyapps.com is a web based software installation system that is available for both Windows and Ubuntu. It uses a repository based system for downloading and installing softwares.

Windows users are may not familiar with repository based software installation. Usually what people do is  find softwares from it’s official site or some software downloading sites (Usually in the form of .exe or .msi). Install the downloaded file by double clicking on it. But allmyapps.com brings absolutely a new way of software installation.

Allmyapps.com home page

Here you need not search for your favorite application. More than 25000 applications have been installed in a allmyapps.com system. You can select your favorite application and click install. The software is downloaded and installed. Read the rest of this entry →

Google Chrome Browser

Initial release of Google’s new browser was only for Windows. Later they introduced Linux and Mac versions. But Linux and Mac versions are yet to come out of development stage.

Recent Linux versions of Google Chrome has the ability to play flash. After installing the development version in Ubuntu, Chrome add its repositories to the source list of Ubuntu so that you can update to future versions through Ubuntu Update manager. You can download latest development version of Google Chrome for Ubuntu from here. Just double click on the downloaded deb file to install on Ubuntu

Requirements: Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 or later CPU; 32- or 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 or later, or 32-bit Debian 5. Support for other Linux distributions is planned; unpacking the .deb files by hand may work. Read the rest of this entry →