Alternative MSN (...and more!) Client, account & Software

If you are bored of the M$ Messanger you can consider to use an alternative program with many compatible messaging protocols:

Gaim
multi protocols messanger, compatible with:

• AIM/ICQ
• Gadu Gadu
• Group Wise
• IRC
• Jabber
• MSN
• Napster
• Yahoo!

...open source, no virus, no adware, no malware...no shits!!!
The Gaim Homepage

Download Gaim for Windows [version 1.2.1 - check update at the Download page]

The Gaim Download page [Linux & Windows]

Plugins for Gaim

Themes for Gaim

Some Screenshots

Skype
free Internet telephony that just works.

Great software that provide a message client (for free) and allows telephone with other users (for free) or any telephone number in the World (low price).

The Skype Homepage

Download Skype for Windows
Download Skype for MacOS
Download Skype for Linux
Download Skype for PocketPC

Skype Screenshots
P2P Explained

How-to Links:

How to set 3d hardware acceleration on Linux (Ubuntu distro)

Links to FREE but not OPEN software

"free" is usally intended as "free of charge" so u don't need to pay for this software. But when talking about "open" resources, "free" means that the software follow a type of philosophy (respects some laws). Below you can find "money-less" software

• Grisoft AVG Free - AntiVirus - [ver. 7.038 - ENG]
  
• Directx - Libraries for many Microsoft programs - [ver. 9.0 - ITA]
  
• Macromedia Flash Player - Usefull tool to play flash movies (swf) - [ver. 7.019 - ENG]
  
• Apple QuickTime Player - Player for movies (mov) - [ver. 7.0 - ENG]
  
• Adobe Reader - Tool to open, read & save documents (pdf) - [ver. 7.0 - ENG]
  
• WinAmp - best free player for music (mp3) - [ver. 5.08 - ENG]
  
• Java - The runtime & development platform for the best nextgen programming language: Java; Can find here NetBeans IDE 4.0 too - [ver. 1.5 - ENG]
  
• WinAce - Very usefull program to compress and extract files (.rar,.ace) - [ver. 2.6beta - ENG]
  
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• Picasa - Free tool to manage your images - [ver. 2.0 - ENG]
  
• Hello - Free tool to manage your images (cooperates with Picasa) and publish them to your blog (with Blogger.com's blogs) - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
  
• Blogger - Get here your free blog to work with Picasa & Hello - [ver. ?.? - ENG]
  
• GMail Drive - A free tool that use your personal e-mail as a net virtual filesystem - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
  
• GMail Notifier - A free tool to use your personal Gmail with instant messanging - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
  
• Google Tools & Options - Link to the official tools and search options for Google - [ver. ?.? - ENG]
  
• Google APIs - Official Application Program Interface to use the famous search engine in your application - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
  
• Perchè Google - varie utilità e servizi grazie a Google, in italiano - [ver. ?.? - ITA]
  

[ITA] Link di vario tipo, ma molto utili...

Strade, itinerari, mappe, trasporti utili

• ViaMicheline - con percorsi e costi calcolati di benzina e autostrada
  
• Trenitalia - orari dei treni
  

Cinema: orari e programmazione

• CineStudio - tutti i cinema d'Italia
  

Telefono: trovare numeri e persone

• Pronto - servizio tipo pagine bianche
  

Giornali Online

• Giornali - i link a tutti i quotidiani italiani
  

Strumenti Online

• WebNote - strumento online per prendere appunti e averli sempre a disposizione sul proprio spazio
  
• Spazio personale di ariel per webnotes.
  

MPLL (Most Popular LINUX Links)

...this is just some linux links...

...to begin:
GNU's not Unix [The Linux philosophy]
linuxiso.org [Download and burn your next OS]
distrowatch.org [The Rank of the linux distros]

...this cause the OS don't exist!!!

SLAX [Live distro based on Slackware]
KNOPPIX [The Knopper LiveCD]
DamnSmall [Little Knoppix on usb pen too]

...and the gratest distro...

Debian [the most open source --- with the definitive tool!!!]
Fedora [powered by RedHat]
Mandrake [...maybe the most popular!]
Ubuntu [...very popular distro based on Debian]
Slackware [...very stable!]
SuSE [not free but really a good distro!]
Gentoo [for programmer]
FoX [Italian young distro base on Fedora CORE 3]

...if you need help:

HTML.IT Linux Forum
Debianitalia.org
Gentooitalia.org
Knoppixitalia.org
Mandrakeitalia.org
Slackwareitalia.org
Suseitalia.org

...if you need software:

sourceforge.net
freshrpms.net

...for the office:

OpenOffice
KOffice

...and if is not enough try:

http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=linux+help&btnG=Cerca+con+Google&meta=
or (for italian only)
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=linux+aiuto&btnG=Cerca&meta=cr%3DcountryIT

bye!

Links for an Open Source Dvd

Some "open" links:

• Mozilla Firefox - Browser - [ver. 1.02 - ITA]
  
• Mozilla ThunderBird - Mail Client - [ver. 1.02 - ITA]
  
• Mozilla ThunderBird - Mail Client - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
  
• Grisoft AVG Free - AntiVirus - [ver. 7.038 - ENG]
  
• OpenOffice.org - Office Utilities & Tools - [ver. 1.14 - ITA / ver. 2.0beta - ENG]
  
• Gaim - Chat & Instant Messanger - [ver. 1.2 - ENG]
  
• GTK - Libraries for many open programs - [ver. 2.6 - ENG]
  
• Directx - Libraries for many Microsoft programs - [ver. 9.0 - ITA] (yeah... they're not open AT ALL, but i need this link)
  
• Macromedia Flash Player - Usefull tool to play flash movies (swf) - [ver. 7.019 - ENG]
  
• Apple QuickTime Player - Player for movies (mov) - [ver. 7.0 - ENG]
  
• Adobe Reader - Tool to open, read & save documents (pdf) - [ver. 7.0 - ENG]
  
• WinAmp - best free player for music (mp3) - [ver. 5.08 - ENG]
  
• Slax - a free Live version of the distro Slackware of Linux - [ver. 5.0 - ENG]
  
• Java - The runtime & development platform for the best nextgen programming language: Java; Can find here NetBeans IDE 4.0 too - [ver. 1.5 - ENG]
  
• Gimp - Edit and manipulate images with powerful toys - [ver. 2.2 - ENG]
  
• Eclipse - A complete IDE for programming; Plugin based, best fit for Java - [ver. 3.2 - ENG]
  
• Mono - A complete platform to develop and run .NET and JAVA application - [ver. 1.06 - ENG]
  
• WinAce - Very usefull program to compress and extract files (.rar,.ace) - [ver. 2.6beta - ENG]
  
• Divx Player - Player of the famous divx movies, including all codecs - [ver. 2.6 - ENG]
  
• F-Spot - Great and powerful photo manager for the GNOME Desktop Enviroment - [ver. 0.0.12 - ENG]
  
• PostgreSql - Most efficient and complete DBMS open-source, and multi-platform - [ver. 8.0.2 - ENG]
  
• Tomcat - Server to handle JSP and java-servlets - [ver. 5.5.9 - ENG]
  
  
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• Picasa - Free tool to manage your images - [ver. 2.0 - ENG]
  
• Hello - Free tool to manage your images (cooperates with Picasa) and publish them to your blog (with Blogger.com's blogs) - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
  
• Blogger - Get here your free blog to work with Picasa & Hello - [ver. ?.? - ENG]
  
• GMail Drive - A free tool that use your personal e-mail as a net virtual filesystem - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
  GMail Notifier - A free tool to use your personal Gmail with instant messanging - [ver. 1.0 - ENG]
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• ExtensionRoom - Extensions for Mozilla FireFox Browser
  
• Extension Mirror - a comprehensive mirror for ALL Mozilla FireFox & Thunderbird extensions (over 700)
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• GNUWin - a site that collects many open and free WIN32 programs
  

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