Communications

Mozilla Sunbird is a cross-platform calendar application. Sunbird is a full-featured and easy to use calendar application that you can use around the world.

Sim-IM is a multiple protocol instant messenger with support for Jabber/XMPP, Google Talk, ICQ and AIM (Oscar), Yahoo! Messenger and Microsoft Messenger (MSN).

It features:

* Receiving and sending SMS;
* Server-side contact list;
* Receiving and the sending messages in RTF-format;
* Phone directory support;
* File transfers;
* Chat;

And many more. See website below for details.

Scribus is an award-winning professional page layout desktop publishing program. I features a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

qBittorrent can now be considered as a good alternative to other bittorrent clients. It provides a lot of features such as:

* A polished Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
* UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
* Encryption support (compatible with Azureus)
* Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
* Download from RSS streams

PuTTY is a terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols.

Some features of PuTTY are:

* The storing of hosts and preferences for later use.
* Control over the SSH encryption key and protocol version.
* Command-line SCP and SFTP clients, called "pscp" and "psftp" respectively.

Psi is a instant messaging application designed for the Jabber IM network (including Google Talk). Fast and lightweight, Psi is fully open-source and compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Planner is a project scheduling and control tool with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility.

Pidgin is a chat program that replaces AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo! and other instant messaging applications. You can log into your AIM, MSN, and Google Talk accounts and chat with people on different networks simultaneously.

Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin's functionality above and beyond the standard features.

Pan is a Usenet newsreader that's good with both text and binaries. It supports offline reading, scoring and killfiles, yEnc, NZB, and multiserver. It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.

The Adobe Flash Player is a browser plug-in that delivers an exciting interactive multimedia experiences to Internet users. Previously called Macromedia Flash the player is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

Currently the Adobe Flash Player is non-free. See our section on software freedom to find out more about why software freedom matters and what you can do about it. The free Gnash player may be used instead to get many of the benefits of the Adobe Flash Player.