12/07/2006

VLC Media Player : the ultimate video player

You can't play a video file with a non-common codec on your usual media player ? VLC Media Player may resolve your problem. This multimedia player is compatible with a huge variety of audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...), or even DVDs and VCDs. It can also be used for streaming a video to your computer, or from it in server mode. This free software is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and almost all the Linux distributions.

12/06/2006

OpenOffice, a free competitor for MS Office

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform office suite which is compatible with all other major office suites, including Microsoft Office. It's multilingual, completely free to download and the first office suite to use the new OASIS OpenDocument format, the future international standard for office software.

New in OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 :

  • Enhanced PDF management
  • Direct export to LaTex
  • New functionality in Calc and Impress
  • Mac OS X (X11) now uses system fonts
OpenOffice is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux PPC and FreeBSD.

12/04/2006

FileZilla, a free and reliable FTP client

Need to transfer files via FTP from your hard disk to a remote server, or the other way? Don't bother to pay for such an application. FileZilla will allow you to upload and download files to and from your FTP site or server, easyly and securely. It can even manage multiple file transfers at the same time.

12/01/2006

HTML Kit, a free and complete script editor

HTML Kit is a free and complete editor that enables you to create code in HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS and many other scripting and programming languages. It has an incredible number of functions to help you in your tasks: preview, split view, tags suggestions, batch actions, etc. It can be updated with simple plug-ins, available on the editor's website. A total of more than 400 free plug-ins are also proposed to enhance the software. HTML Kit works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP and 2003.