If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or Email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Mikogo is a free software for screen sharing and online meetings. Mikogo also offers Skype extra tool.
Mikogo allows to share your desktop up to 10 participants simultaneously. To start a meeting download the software and [...]

Adobe AIR is a platform that allows developers to create applications that run on your desktop. Adobe AIR is a good platform to build desktop apps, these apps work both on windows and mac computers (Linux coming soon). Some of the folks have built useful desktop apps using Adobe AIR, here i am going to [...]

Alert Thingy is a Desktop app for friendfeed status updates. Alert Thingy is a Adobe Air app for friendfeed like Twhirl for twitter, which streams updates and allows you to post comments and messages to friendfeed.
Till now i am not an active user of friendfeed but after installing Alert Thingy i am now following [...]

Yugma is a slick web collaboration and desktop sharing tool for windows, Mac and Linux. Yugma is available as a Free and Paid versions, but free version is enough for most of the users, but for business purposes paid may be the way to go.
You need to register to use the app, it takes a [...]

Yakkle is a tool for instant collaboration that lets you collaborate with your colleagues of firends. Using Yakkle you can do instant messaging, Voice chat and importantly desktop screen sharing.
What is unique about Yakkle is it offers all the necessary ways to collaborate with others. No other free tool i know offers all these [...]

uvLayer is a new Adobe AIR application that allows you to watch and share videos with your friends. It is a nice way to watch videos on your desktop if you prefer that. uvLayer lets share the videos you are watching with your uvLayer friends or Facebook friends.
User interface of the application is visually [...]

Mac Only: 1001 is a free desktop app that allows to bring Flickr out of browser. This app uploads your photos to Flickr, notifies you about updates from your contacts, everyone, or from the tags you are following.
1001 has a nice UI and a fun way to use Flickr in a desktop app. It also [...]

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Some of the commercial software like Photoshop are so expensive that an average user can not afford to buy it. Lately I am looking for some free or open source alternatives for windows programs and i was amazed with the range of programs available. Here i will list some of the open source [...]