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Demos of Applications with Speech

Microsoft Reader

. Once downloaded, each eBook can be read on a user's desktop or laptop PC, Pocket PC or Tablet PC. Each week, new content will be made available to expand each user's personal library of eBooks.

Microsoft Text-to-Speech Package

Microsoft Reader Text-to-Speech Package is localized in three languages. All versions maintain the same system requirements, but the download size varies slightly.

MAGic Screen Magnification Software Downloads

MAGic® combines great magnification features with true low vision screen reading when purchased with the speech option. It gives you the ability to choose the information you want read from the screen as you navigate your applications. MAGic is easy to use with its talking large print installation, color-coded user interface, and hot keys that avoid conflicts with Windows® and popular software applications.

OpenBook Scanning & Reading Software

OpenBook™ allows you to convert printed documents or graphic based text into an electronic text format using accurate optical character recognition and quality speech. OpenBook's many powerful low vision tools allow you to customize how the document appears on your screen, while other features provide portability.

TypeAbility Demo

For both children and adults who need to learn to type, TypeAbility is the easiest, most enjoyable and most affordable of all typing programs. TypeAbility requires the JAWS screen reader, either the full JAWS version, or the JAWS demo. TypeAbility is also compatible with MAGic 10, Freedom Scientific's screen magnifaction program for the partially sighted.

e-Learning Entrance Freedom Scientific. Learn to use JAWS® screen reading software, MAGic® screen magnification software, PAC Mate Omni™ accessible Pocket PC, and more from the convenience of your home or office.

Features and Benefits of Online Learning from Freedom Scientific

Download a ZoomText 9.1 Free Trial  

20 levels of magnification from 105% to 200%, full screen or just the active application Change magnification levels using the mouse, Intelligent tracking of all program activity keeps important information in view, Unique zooming modes allow you to magnify the Supports True Color and High Color display modes and all screen resolutions

JAWS 12 Downloads

If you want to try a free demonstration of JAWS, select any current English FTP or HTTP link install and use JAWS in 40-minute demo mode. The software will run in this mode until you are ready to purchase a product license and upgrade to the released version. There are several advantages to having one release. For example:

Hal - Screen reader with Speech and Braille support

Developed for blind computer users, Hal is a software screen reader that works by reading the screen interactively and communicating through a speech synthesiser or a refreshable Braille display.

Serotek Free 30-Day Trial Downloads

today released version 3.0 of its award-winning System Access software. With this release, Serotek now offers the first full-featured screen access product with support for 64-bit operating systems, voice over IP, speech and refreshable Braille output, and the most compelling support for iTunes 8 on the market. This is a breakthrough for blind and visually impaired consumers and IT professionals alike. New computers, from the smallest Netbook to the most powerful server, that are running OEM versions of 64 Bit Windows are instantly accessible with System Access 3.0. Additionally, first-letter navigation is now available for email, community forums, and all the diverse entertainment options available within the System Access Mobile Network.

While System Access users have long had remote access capabilities for support, training or fun, the new voice over IP feature of System Access 3.0 allows clear and crisp voice chat among connected users, virtually eliminating toll-free number costs and the need for third-party VOIP software such as Skype.

Version 3.0 of the System Access software also offers full access to speech and refreshable Braille output for applications both at home and away. With a light, portable and fully plug-and-play Alva BC640 display, accessibility is available anywhere. Connected to any computer, it offers speech and Braille output without installation, and leaves no drivers or traces of usage on the host computer.

NCH Swift Sound Software Home Page

Verbose is a text to speech program which will read aloud any text or save it as mp3. After you have installed this text reading software you can assign a system wide hot key. Then whenever you want Verbose to read the text on your screen just push that key and the software will read it aloud.

Request a Kurzweil 3000 for Windows Trial CD Request or download Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Trial Product"

Kurzweil Educational Systems’ research-aligned technologies provide complete reading, writing, and study solutions to help all students overcome learning challenges and succeed academically.

AudiBill The free currency recognition program from the makers of Kurzweil 1000

Audibill is a simple Windows program designed to recognize the denominations of paper currency from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. It will run under any version of Microsoft Windows, and should support any flatbed scanner that has a compliant Twain or WIA interface.

Emacspeak

Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer.

allows Emacspeak to produce rich aural presentations of electronic information. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and messaging, Emacspeak speech-enables local and remote information via a consistent and well-integrated user interface. Available free of cost on the Internet, Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and the Internet. A rich suite of task-oriented tools

Browsealoud

Browsealoud is a computer program that reads out all website content As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud

Expressivo - Text To Speech Reader

The integration of Expressivo and Skype is automatic. A few moments is all it takes and Skype begins to speak. Now, at last, we can walk away from the computer. If we wish, the program will inform us which of our friends have logged onto Skype, or read all the text messages that have been sent to us without us having to constantly scan the monitor. Skype’s new functions, acquired thanks to Expressivo, make working with the program easier and give us a great deal more freedom. They can be of real significance for the elderly and those with sight problems. So far, using the communicator has been difficult or even impossible for them. Reading small fonts often was a difficult barrier to cross. Now, thanks to Expressivo, Skype has become a convenient and effective tool for communication.

FREE Guide 30-day Trial CD

GUIDE is an all-in-one computer package for people who are blind or partially sighted. It has been specifically designed to be easy to use and easy to learn. So it doesn't matter if you've never used a computer before, GUIDE will help you to achieve the results you want.

Guide gives you many easy to use features in one great package, including magnification, speech, emails, word processing, reading machine, web browser and much more!

Flamereader

Flamereader is a text to speech software which can convert any text into spoken words. You can listen on your PC or portable devices such as iPods, PocketPCs, MP3 players and CD players.
In the Reader Window, you can freely let it read, convert to MP3, translate and make conversations without hassle.
If you are tired of copy and paste text, PowerReader makes it easy. Just highlight text in different applications to read, such as WebPages, Emails, Word Documents, PDF files, PowerPoint files and ebooks.

PCVoz 8.0

PCVoz 8.0 Features

Thunder is now TOTALLY FREE to all organisations and all individuals.

Thunder is award-winning free screenreader talking software for blind and visually impaired people. Thunder is a reading aid and restores the ability to write, keep up to date with information, learning and work, while remaining within the mainstream of Society.

1. Thunder is very easy to use. .

2. Thunder is free of charge to EVERYONE and any organisation.

3. Thunder is a quick and easy download on a modern computer.

4. Thunder is a very smart screenreader.

Get WebbIE Now

WebbIE, the free web browser for blind people with little or no sight.

Download WebbIE 3.7.3 now - just click, download and run to get the latest WebbIE browser, Accessible RSS news reader, Podcatcher and more. All our programs in one simple download.

WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On the Go

WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. No $1000 software program required!

WebAnywhere's will run on any machine, even heavily locked-down public terminals, regardless of what operating system it is running and regardless of what browsers are installed.

Orca is a free, open source scriptable screen reader

Orca is a free, open source scriptable screen reader. Using various combinations of speech, braille, and magnification, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop). The development of Orca has been led by the Accessibility Program Office of Sun Microsystems, Inc. with contributions from many community members.

GW Micro - Window-Eyes - 7.01 Demo

The Window-Eyes demo is fully functional except for one item (which is excluded in the full version of Window-Eyes): the demo will time out after 30 minutes. You will need to reboot for an additional 30 minutes. You may do this an unlimited number of times. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of Window-Eyes that lasts longer than 30 minutes, refer to the Window-Eyes Lease To Own program, or the Window-Eyes 60 Day Evaluation

ReadPlease - Downloads
Features:
Microsoft voices: Mike, Mary, Sam, Customize font and background colour, Reads text via Windows clipboard from any program (copy/paste) and Control reading from system tray.
Plus version only features: Low vision large controls option, Fast forward and backward, Highlights text while reading, Dock Mode - will dock at the top of the screen, Add your own words and pronunciations, Play can start anywhere in a document, Adjustable pause between paragraphs, Hot-key controls for all functions, AT&T Natural Voices compatible and More languages (Lernout & Hauspie Voices), (.

Nextup.com

Our mission at NextUp Technologies is to bring new and interesting technologies and applications to the Internet community. Talking software is our focus and we are developing a series of programs for the PC and portable platforms. Free Downloads of TextAloud and other Text To Speech/Voice Synthesis/Text To MP3/Ipod Software

Free NaturalReader

NaturalReader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod.

Nuance TALKS

Nuance TALKS™ converts the display text of a cellular handset into highly intelligible speech, making the device completely accessible for blind and visually impaired people. Nuance TALKS runs on Symbian-powered mobile phones to speech-enable contact names, callerID, text messages, help files and other screen content.

the Home of NVDA

NVDA is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows Operating System. This software can enable blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows, for no more cost than a sighted person.

NVDA allows the user to find out what is happening on the screen, by querying the Operating system and using a speech synthesizer to output the information. Check out the Download section if you would like to get a copy and try it out.

Recording Applications

Skype Recorder free download

Skype Recorder is a surprisingly easy-to-use tool for recording Skype audio conversations. Skype Recorder can record Skype calls automatically. The software has a number of additional handy features such as an automatic record encoding into MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV format, all Skype versions support, conversations in either single or dual audio track recording, hidden mode work, a built-in audio player, a built-in FTP-client and an easy-going interface.

Visit the home page of: Skype Recorder!

Free MX Skype Recorder
MX Skype Recorder
MX Skype Recorder is a new tool that works in conjunction with Skype and other VOIP applications, to record your voice conversations.
It has the following advantages:

Audacity Free Sound Editor and Recording Software

The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.4 (beta). Because it is a work in progress and does not yet come with complete documentation or translations into foreign languages, it is recommended for more advanced users. See New Features in 1.3 for more information about the 1.3.x beta series. For all users, Audacity 1.2.6 is a stable release, complete and fully documented. You can have both Audacity 1.2.6 and 1.3.3 installed simultaneously. Download Audacity 1.2.6

Audacity 1.3.3 Guide

A guide for Jaws users

GoldWave - Audio Editing, Recording

GoldWave is a top rated, professional digital audio editor. It contains so many great features, you will be amazed by all the things it can do

Audio Recording | The JAWS Script Repository

Tag Archives: Audio Recording

JAWS Scripts Version 1.57 for Goldwave (a professional digital audio editor), Version 5 or later

Download Software to Record Streaming Audio

SoundTap lets you record just about any audio that plays through your Windows computer. Simply install this software, turn it on and then all sound played on or through the PC will be recorded as wav or mp3 files. All audio is 'tapped' by a virtual driver directly within the kernel so the process is perfect digital quality.

Sound Forge 9

Professional digital audio production suite includes everything you need to quickly get from raw audio to finished master. Use this suite to create and edit stereo and multichannel audio files with speed and precision.

Audio/Video Applications

RealPlayer Plus

Transfer Web video to your iPod, burn them to DVD, get advanced audio/video controls and more! Try it free.

Windows Media Player 11

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your digital media. It's easier than ever to access all of your music, videos, pictures, and recorded TV on your computer. Play it, view it, organize it, or sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go, or share with devices around your home—all from one place.

Download Winamp Media Player 5.5

Winamp Media Player 5.5, The Free MP3 Player!

Miscellaneous Downloads

Talking Atomic Alarm Clock

Manage your time better than ever before. Get organized — the fun and easy way! Say the Time will keep you on schedule by automatically announcing the date, time or both at specified intervals using a pleasant male or female voice. Keep track of important time commitments with fully-customizable appointment reminders. Manage ideas and information with colorful virtual sticky notes. Transform your boring taskbar time display into a colorful clock that can display both the date and the time. View the time in different parts of the world. And so much more!

Free Downloads Center

Over 30000 software titles available for free download!

Your Freeware and Shareware Download Destination!

This Web site is provided to you free of charge, "as is," by BlueChillies.com (the Site). BlueChillies.com lists Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, DOS, Windows CE, Palm OS, Linux and Linux/UNIX software which are organized to more than 200 categories including Games, Utilities, Drivers, MP3 and Audio, Multimedia, Internet, Business, HTML and more!

Talking Event Scheduler

Talking Event Scheduler for Blind and Disabled Computer Users. Talking Event Scheduler is a simple yet very effective speech enabled scheduler. It allows you to schedule limitless events (or alarms) with associated message text and is an invaluable tool for those who have trouble getting organized and those who do not like to forget their appointments, meetings, and so on.

Talking Secretary

Create reminders based on any dates, days or events, and never forget again. This will say the day and time out loud for you, read messages to you, play MP3 files, play video reminders, and display customized messages based on days of the week, weekends, specific dates, or even monthly dates. Never forget birthdays, holidays, or meetings again, and you can even use this as an alarm clock. You can create reminders or alarms to occur on specific days of each week or weekend, on a specific date or time you choose, or even any specific day of the month or month end. This alarm and reminder software will help you always remember your daily tasks, meetings, or special occasions. The voice activation will announce the day and time for you, and will read customized reminder messages to you. You can choose reminders that will play MP3 files or videos, open documents, display messages and more. (Runs on all Windows systems).

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Free Junk Files & Clutter Scan

If you use your computer frequently, chances are you have hundreds, if not thousands, of junk and clutter files slowing you down. Get rid of them today!

Download Safari 4 Here!

Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world’s fastest web browser. If you’re using Safari on a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP, you’ll feel right at home because Safari features a native look — just like other Windows applications — including a native title bar, borders, and toolbars.

Windows Font Rendering Safari on Windows now uses Windows Standard fonts to deliver a more consistent experience. You can also choose to use Apple fonts. Thanks to the anti-aliasing algorithm in Safari, you enjoy crisp, gorgeous fonts. The algorithm preserves the subtleties of each font while rendering each character with a crispness that makes your favorite sites a pleasure to read.

Downloads Folder Preference When you download files or programs to your computer, Safari saves them to your My Documents folder (Windows XP) or Downloads folder (Windows Vista). You can select an alternative default location or folder in the General pane of Safari preferences. Mail Link to This Page You can easily email web page links to a friend, colleague, or yourself. Choose “Mail Link to This Page” from the File menu, and Safari instantly opens your mail application, creates a new message, and inserts a link to the website you’re viewing in the body of the message.

Plug-in Download Assistance When you visit a site requiring a specific plug-in, Safari not only tells you what you need but also explains how to get it. The Safari download page links you directly to the most popular plug-ins and walks you through the installation steps.

Firefox web browser

The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance.

WebVisum

WebVisum is a unique and free Firefox add on which greatly enhances web accessibility and empowers the blind and visually impaired community by putting the control in your hands! Its aim is to allow you to better enjoy surfing the net and be significantly less dependent upon outside help.

Just a few exciting features that we already offer: * Community driven tagging and page enhancements. * Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving, sign up to web sites and make posts and comments without asking for help! * Built in helper functions for easier page navigation and less confusion. * Numerous under the hood page tweaks designed to help screen reader users. * Visually Impaired users benefit from features such as high contrast page viewing, link and focus highlighting, and more.

Accessible Podcatcher, the podcast aggregator for blind and visually-impaired people

Accessible Podcatcher (formerly Accessible Podcaster) is a simple way for blind and screen reader users to use podcasts. Podcasting is a way to distribute audio files on the web. Accessible Podcatcher lets you access these podcasts. You can listen to them, forward and rewind, save particular items to disk, and export and import lists of podcasts to send to other people. You also get Accessible Podcast Directory, a way for you to find new podcasts to add to your collection.

Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver

So what is it? Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.
If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.
Download Juice now, it's free!

Save as DAISY - Microsoft Word Add-In | DAISY Consortium

Microsoft Word add-in works with Word XP, Word 2003, and Word 2007. "Save as DAISY" add-in for Microsoft Office Word now incorporates a "Lite" version of the DAISY Pipeline. You can select to generate the DAISY XML for further processing, or you can generate a fully conforming DAISY file set with full navigation and full text synchronized with audio. The audio is generated by the default text-to-speech (TTS) engine on your Windows computer.

Communications

Download Skype For FREE!

Set your conversations free with Skype. Skype is software that lets you use your computer and internet connection to communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world. Free calls and video calls When you and the person you're calling are both on Skype, the calls are free. Oh, and video calls are free too.

If you are a JAWS user, go here to download Skype scriptts!

Vonage's Click-2-Call®

With Vonage's Click-2-Call® , you can call any number, in any location, on any device without even dialing. Best of all, Click-2-Call® is included at no extra charge and calls made using this feature enjoy the same great rates as your other Vonage calls. Click-2-Call® works with Microsoft Outlook and easily works with applications on your desktop. Just download Click-2-Call® and you are ready to go at no extra charge.

McTwit Version 2.5 executable installer is available, Click HERE

This download came from:Empowerment Zone

McTwit is a free, open source client for Twitter -- the second-most popular networking site after Facebook. McTwit works on almost any version of Windows, including 64-bit versions and the new Windows 7. The text-based nature of Twitter and its open programming interface has enabled McTwit to become a full-featured client that is keyboard and screen reader-friendly.

A zip archive that may be extracted onto portable media is available Click Here

McTwit now has a greatly expanded Utilities menu. It offers handy ways of getting useful information, which is obtained mostly from third-party web services rather than from twitter.com, itself. Most are still directly Twitter-related, though a few are general-purpose conveniences. The new utilities are as follows:
Common URLs - Show a list of the 100 most commonly referenced URLs on Twitter at the time. These typically point to news stories that people have been retweeting.
Driving Directions - Input a starting and ending location, and get a list of steps to get there by car (a blind person might share this with a friend or cab driver). The location may be specified as a street address in any country.
Feed Find - Get a list of RSS and ATOM feeds made available by a web site, e.g., by pointing to a URL in a tweet. A hotkey then lets you open a feed at the cursor position.
Hash Tag Lookup - Get definitions of hash tags (a word preceded by the # symbol). People on Twitter use these to annotate messages for easier categorizing and searching.
Language Translation - Translate a tweet in another language, or any text you specify, between about 100 different languages. You can quickly understand what a foreign phrase means or how to write it.
Members of Congress - Get a list of House and Senate members for a zip code, with various data about them including committee assignments and contact information, including Twitter screen name if available.
Neighborhood Search - Search for places near a location, e.g., restaurants with a particular cuisine near an address you are visiting (anywhere in the world).
Original URL - Get the original version of a URL that was shortened for sharing in a tweet.
People Search - Search for people on Twitter, e.g., an old classmate to reconnect with.
Short URL - Get a shortened version of a URL so you can share it in a tweet and have more text to type within the 140 character limit.
Trend Topics - Get a list of topics that are currently popular on Twitter.
User Stats - Get a variety of statistics about a user, e.g., average tweets per day and hash tags used, in order to help you decide whether to follow him or her on Twitter.
Weather Check - Get a summary of current and forecasted conditions for any location.

Download the Qwitter Client

Qwitter is an accessible Twitter client designed for access by the blind, providing an innovative integration between Twitter and a user's screen reader.

The Qwitter client enables blind individuals to interface with the Twitter service globally, regardless of application focus. Based off of revolutionary concepts pioneered in The Jawter Jaws Scripts, Qwitter, with full support for the three major comercial screen readers and sapi speech, provides you instant access to all aspects of the twitter microblogging service, giving you the ability to post a tweet from anywhere, read tweets, perform searches, and far, far more.

Access Free Yahoo! Mail with Outlook 2007

YPOPs! is a free open source software that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. You can use your favourite email client, be it Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever else you like and connect to Yahoo! Mail seamlessly. YPOPs! is an application that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail.
How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at o­ne end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! The same concept holds good for SMTP as well.
YPOPs! was started in May 2002 and over the years has a very large user community with over 3 million downloads from SourceForge alone.

TwInbox - Use Twitter directly from Outlook

If you are a Microsoft ® Outlook ® user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can have a fully-featured, powerful Twitter client at your fingertips without having to open any other applications. TwInbox seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook. It is a perfect Twitter client for any Outlook user, from a Twitter newbie to a business professional.
Follow @TechHit on Twitter to receive update notifications.
Download TwInbox, it is free!

Facebook Calendar Generator

Have you ever wished that you could have your Outlook calendar update from your Facebook events and birthday lists? Now, you can! With fbCal, you’ll be able to remember you Facebook friends’ birthdays and all the events you’ve been invited to. In under a minute, you’ll have a Facebook calendar you can subscribe to in Outlook or a downloadable copy you can import into Outlook. fbCal will actually generate two different types of calendars - one for birthdays and one for events - and each is available as a subscription or a download. Subscription calendars get updated whenever you refresh your calendar after there was a change in your Facebook friends or events. Download calendars are only accurate up to when you last downloaded the calendar. All the calendars made by fbCal are iCalendar (.ics) format.

FBLook - use Facebook from Outlook

If you are an Outlook user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your Facebook status, see your friend statuses and see the number of new requests without having to open the browser or any other applications. FBLook seamlessly integrates Facebook into Outlook.
Download FBLook, it is free!

SimplyFile

Download 30 DAY FREE TRIAL Today!

What SimplyFile does Files messages to the right Outlook folder with one click of a mouse. Uses an advanced algorithm to learn and adapt to your filing habits. No configuration wizards, no manual setup, no rules to maintain. It just works! Works on sent and received messages. Removes Outlook's "New Mail" icon when filing a message (small things like that make a huge difference in usability). Saves sent messages in any Outlook folder, including Public Folders. Turn messages into Tasks and Appointments with one click of a mouse. Snooze messages. Easily convert HTML messages to plain text format. Highly optimized for speed and size (Download is only 495KB). Supports fast keyboard-only operation. SimplyFile does NOT try to make you change the way you do email. SimplyFile does NOT get in your way. SimplyFile does NOT slow down Outlook. SimplyFile does NOT make you maintain rules. It's self-tuning.

Voice on the Go

Speak Your Email - Listen to email and compose email and SMS by voice, all without typing. Hands-free and eyes-free access to your email, SMS, calendar, contacts, Twitter, Facebook and more...from any mobile phone all by Voice.

Thunderbird

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail. “If you think there's nothing more that can be added to an email client -- except for the fabled seek-out-and-destroy-spam option -- prepare to be pleasantly surprised. The new Thunderbird comes with numerous new features.”

Download Eudora 7.1 Here!

Eudora 7.1 has the ability to save search criteria.
Add a picture or logo to your signature, you can also include a link to your company web site.
Updated SpamWatch definitions These SpamWatch updates will help with changes in spammer's technique.
Ultra-Fast Indexed Search : Even with decades of archives containing hundreds of thousands of entries, Eudora 7 finds results instantaneously.
Security: The S/MIME (Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) plug-in allows you to sign or encrypt your email communications for greatest security.
SpamWatch: (Paid mode only) SpamWatch is a powerful tool in Eudora 6 and higher to help you stop Spam.
ScamWatch: This new feature combats "phishing" schemes that use disguised URL's to gather personal information. Eudora now detects if the URL in the link differs suspiciously from the host name and warns you to exercise caution before making the connection.
OpenSSL: The state-of-the art standard in email security and encryption.
Improved IMAP: Improved functionality to synchronize and access email from multiple computers and locations.
Emoticons: 24 new originally designed emoticons (not in Light mode).
WebWords: WebWords combines email and web searching.

Windows Live Messenger

Get it free Get this and more Windows Live services all at once Instantly connect to the people who matter the most—via text, voice, or video. Even if they’re offline, you can leave a message or send a note. Share your personal files, photos, and videos of any size. Just drag and drop into a Shared Folder.

Download the latest version of Miranda IM

Miranda IM v0.7.14 Released January 23, 2009 by rainwater

Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu and more. Additionally, with the choice of hundreds of plugins, icons, sounds and other content, [...]

Download Yahoo! Messenger 9.0
Keep friends at your fingertips with Yahoo! Messenger 9.0
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