Open Source & Free Software for Windows
FeedDemon, the most popular Windows RSS reader. The easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to stay informed with the latest news and information. You can completely customize the way feeds are organized and displayed and set up custom news watches based on keywords. You can even download podcasts and audio files and have them show up on your portable audio device.
K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License.
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.
Sharpcast Photos is a free photos software and service combination that does everything, all by itself. Sharpcast Photos will let you share and receive original images right from your desktop, chat about your photos with friends or create fun group albums, even without using a web browser.
Sharpcast Photos stays automatically in sync with a free online photos account where you can view, share and manage your albums from anywhere. Finally, all your photos — your own collection, photos shared with you by friends, and even your phone pictures, are all in one place, right on your desktop. There’s nothing else like it!
Sharpcast Photos automatically backs up your photos online, organizes them into web albums, and syncs them instantly between all the PCs you use, and optionally your mobile phone.
Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox´s browser engine. It is open source and will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Play any MP3 on the Web without leaving the page. It can view Web pages as dynamic playlists that it can play, save, or automatically download every day. It plays your music too. It has all the features you expect in a desktop media player.
