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Bandwidth / Connection Monitors

Note: Microsoft Taskmanager (both as a Window & Taskbar icon, is built into every Windows operating systems). Some software firewalls have a Taskbar icon that shows bandwith usage as well.

• Foul PX (Optus only)
• iiUsage (iiNet, OzEmail, iHug and most other iiNet aquisitions)
• Internet Connection Control
• Monthly Usage Meter (Internode only)
• NetMeter
• NetStumbler
• The NetUsage Project (This metre can be adapted for any ISP who provides a XML usage data feed)
• Optusnet Usage Meter
• RAS Graph & Stats
• ShareWatch
• WUG - WestNet Usage Grabber (WestNet only)

Download / Upload Managers

• Download Express
• FlashGet
• Free Download Manager
• Fresh Download Manager
• LeechGet
• TrueDownloader (Homepage here)

Email Clients / Utilities

• FoxMail
• GTray (GMail notification)
• hMailServer (IMAP, SMTP, POP3 email server)
• K9 (spam filter)
• Mail Enable (SMTP, POP3 email server)
• MailWasher
• Mozilla Thunderbird See also
• MrPostman (translates multiple webmail formats into POP3-readable format)
• Pegasus Mail
• PGtGM (translates GMail webmail format into POP3-readable format)
• POPFile (automatic email classification)
• PopTray (systray email checker)
• QuickE
• Scribe
• Trayhelper (email client + web utilities)
• ASSP (bayesian antispam transparent SMTP with greylisting, RBL, Good howto for Exchange server)

Link to free antispam software.

Forums Software / Hosting

• InvisionFree (hosted)
• Moodle Online course management Wikipedia
• phpBB
• ProBoards (hosted)
• SuddenLaunch (hosted)

More choices from Wikipedia

FTP Clients / Utilities

• FileZilla (FTP client)
• FireFTP (Mozilla Firefox extension)
• iFTP
• SmartFTP

Internet Filters

• K9 Web Protection (internet filtering program)
• Naomi (internet filtering program)

Instant Messenger Clients

• GAIM
• ICQ
• Jabber
• JMSN
• Laffer
• Miranda
• Trillian

IRC Clients

• Bersirc
• HydraIRC
• Visual IRC
• X-Chat

Online Gallery Software

• 4images (GPL php photo album application)
• Albumshaper (Online photo album application)
• Gallery (PHP/MySQL based photo album system)
• JAlbum (Online photo album application)
• Mihov Gallery Creator (Online photo album application)
• Porta (Online photo album application)
• Simpleviewer (Online photo album application)
• HuegoGallery (GPL php photo album application)
• Web Album Generator (Online photo album application)

More choices from Wikipedia.

P2P - Bittorrent Clients

• ABC Yet Another Bittorrent Client
• Azureus
• BitSpirit
• BitTornado
• Bittorrent
• BT Experimental
• Burst! (console port)
• eXeem (decentralised tracking)
• Personal Torrent Collector PTC (RSS feed support)
• µTorrent (portable)

For more choices click on the Wikipedia.

P2P - Misc Clients

• BCDC++
• eMule
• Kazaa / Kazaa Lite / K-Lite
• Shareaza (Gnutella2, Gnutella1, eDonkey2000/eMule and BitTorrent protocol support)
• WinMX

Plugins

• FlashPlayer
• IESpell (spellchecker for MS Internet Explorer)
• JTFlashManager

RSS

Most Internet Browsers have RSS builtin, or available as a plugin. Eg: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape & Maxthon

• Awasu
• BitsCast
• FeedDemon - now freeware
• FeedReader
• GreatNews
• KlipFolio
• Omea Reader
• RSS Bandit
• RSS Mate
• RSSOwl
• RSSReader
• Sharp Reader
• Squeet Reader

VoIP

• Skype
• X-Lite
• FreePBX - A GUI to configure... Managed by an Australian (A motorcyclist, too!)
• Asterisk
• Trixbox contains FreePBX and Asterisk in a ready-to-run ISO.

Web Authoring / Site Development Tools

• NVU
• Text2Html
• Xenu's Web Sleuth

For software to create online galleries, click here

Web Browsers / Utilities

Based upon Microsoft Internet Explorer:

• Avant Browser
• Deepnet Explorer
• Maxthon (formerly MyIE2)

Based upon Mozilla:

• Bookmark Backup (backs up Firefox bookmarks and other settings)
• FireTune (firefox optimiser)
• K-Meleon
• Mozilla Firefox (associated OCAU thread here )
• Mozbackup (a simple utility for creating backups of Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles)
• Netscape

Independent of Mozilla & Microsoft:

• Opera (wiki page here)

Misc

• FAHStats (folding @ home stats)
• FeedReader (RSS feed)
• Google Toolbar
• IECookiesView
• IE Window Maximizer (new window auto-maximizer)
• Mozilla Suite (suite - email, web browser, html editor, irc client, news client)
• Outlook Express Tweaker
• PuTTY (teletype client) (portable puTTY)
• SocksCap (TCP/UDP traffic tunnelling)
• WinMD5 MD5 hash checker
• XNews (usenet news client)