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avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use.

You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (viruses already spreading between users) and excellent detection of Trojan horses.

The kernel is certified by ICSA; and frequently takes part in the tests of Virus Bulletin magazine, often yielding the VB100 award.

avast! features a powerful resident module that is able to detect a virus before it has any chance to infect your computer.

Award-winning software available for both Windows and Linux users.

Batch convert many formats to one selected format with Audio Converter. Grab audio from CD to any format. With free CDDB and album cover artwork retrieval. Comprehensive, full featured program.

Convert from 28 audio and video file formats to any of 19 audio file formats. Automatically transfers Track, Album, Artist, Genre etc. to converted file.

Convert iTunes files (MP4, M4A, AAC) to any other format. Convert any audio file to iTunes format.

Easy to use software - Vista compatible - Free Downloads.

The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

Firefox 2 delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive.

Firefox continues to lead the way in online security, and now includes active protection from online scams to keep you safer.

Choose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own.

Available free of charge for Windows, Mac & Linux platforms.

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. And even though the calls are free, they are really excellent quality. If you and your friends, family or business contacts are using webcams, you can also make free video calls. You can even call landlines and mobile phones at really cheap rates.

Skype works on most kinds of computers — Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Pocket PCs. Calls, chats and file transfers work between all kinds of computers.

Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops & servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

We issue a new desktop and server release every six months. That means you'll always have the the latest and greatest applications that the open source world has to offer.

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.