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Related links
Winamp 5.01 - www.winamp.com
Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird - www.mozilla.org/products
7-Zip - www.7-zip.org
Skype - www.skype.com
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We list mostly Open Source or freeware software here, unless there's some commercial shareware which is worth a big mention.

Winamp 5.01
    Winamp is back with a bang! After the not-so-successful version 3, Nullsoft has moved directly to 5. With a number of enhancements and features, the new player looks *really* awesome. Winamp 5 integrates a complete suite for media handling. There's an MP3/AAC encoder and CD ripping. What more, there's even integrated CD burning to convert all your favorite songs to audio CDs. With a revved-up AVS, alpha translucency, support for older skins, colour themes, and a wonderful Media Library, Winamp tops the ratings for the best Audio Player. All these without too much load on the CPU and memory :)

+ Feature rich, loads of eye-candy, integrated ripping, encoding and burning, good media library
- Too many features might make a newbie fumble
 
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Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird

    Mozilla has been synonymous with their browser. After ruling Linux, Mozilla is invading the Windows desktop with two top-notch products: Firefox and Thunderbird. Firefox is a next generation browser which does a lot more than simply display hypertext. With support for tabbed browsing, ad blocking, popup blocking, themes, plugins and extensions, Firefox is all ready to give Microsoft's Internet Explorer a run for it's money and dominance in the Windows market. Thunderbird on the other hand is a complete, stand-alone e-mail and news client with advanced features such as spam control, multiple accounts, filters, HTML message support and the like. What makes Thunderbird better than other clients is it's support for a *huge* number of plugins and extensions such as Tagzilla, Enigmail, Offline support, etc, Thunderbird is, like Firefox, immensely flexible and extensible. What more, with a good theming support, Thunderbird is surely the next big client.

    Although both products are still in their technology previews (Firefox: 0.8 and Thunderbird: 0.5), they surely make a very promising package. Mozilla is sure to gain from this wonderful browser-email client combo. Watch out this page for the latest reviews when the stable 1.0 versions are realeased.

+ Tabbed browsing, ad and popup blocking, junk mail detection, theming, plugins and extensions
- As of now (Feb '04) both products are still in product reviews. So you might experience problems and crashes while running them.
 
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 7-Zip
    7-Zip is an open source archive manager, like PKZip. It supports a wide number of compression formats including 7z, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, BZIP2, RAR*, CAB*, ARJ*, CPIO*, RPM*, DEB* and SPLIT*. It also uses a new archive format, 7z. 7z archives produce the highest compression among all known compression formats. 7z also has support for solid compression and 256-bit AES encryption. It also includes a file manager, which employs an Explorer-like interface. It uses a simple dialog box to add or extract files, keeping a small memory footprint. The UI is very minimal and it needs lots of time for a beginner to get used to it.

+ Support for a many extensions, high-performance 7z format, small memory footprint
- Not an intuitive UI, additions to solid archives not yet possible

* only browsing and decompression

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Skype

    Skype is free and simple software that will enable you to make free calls anywhere in the world in minutes. Skype, created by the people who brought you KaZaA uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other Skype users. If you are tired of paying outrageous fees for telephony, Skype is for you! Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption.

+ Simple UI, no reconfiguring if behind firewall, excellent sound quality even over dial-ups
- Software still in beta, so overall performance yet to be assimilated
 

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-Signing off
ashish

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