Zimbra - Email Client that Will Save You Time and Improve Productivity

Most of the people use Microsoft Outlook for their business operations and use free email addresses, like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail for their private needs, while working with their accounts in the web-based interface. While that helps to access your email from multiple sources - computers, phones, and tables – it carries its own significant limitations. Why not combine email client on your main desktop computer and still access your new email messages from anywhere in need? Or even install such software on multiple computers? There is no conflict in such combo use.

Today we present the free Zimbra Desktop client, which is able to deliver a features-rich user experience offline, so email, voice, social, calendar, contacts, files and documents are synchronized and locally accessible when on the road. Zimbra Desktop aggregates information across accounts (Zimbra, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) and social networks (Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.) to help make communicating and sharing information easier than ever.

Main Advantages:

* Works offline and online

* Allows you to read email from POP or IMAP accounts including AOL and Outlook

* Supports up to 20 different languages

* Tabbed interface makes it easier to navigate

* Unlimited email accounts support

* Works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems

* Facebook and Twitter support

Feature details:

Email

* Easily compose, edit, delete, reply, or make drafts

* "Drag and Drop" messages into new folders or the Trash

* Supports plain text and html message formatting

* Add email signatures for each account and automatically reply with the correct "from" address

* Compose email even when users are not online-messages sent are saved in the "Outbox" and are sent when users connect again

* Supports any POP or IMAP email plus Zimbra, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL and Hotmail

Conversation Views, Tags, and Search

* Collapse email threads into a single Conversation View to simplify the inbox

* Tag messages as important from people users care about

* Quickly search the mailbox for pictures, documents or text-even with attachments

* Use Advanced Search to easily search by folder, date, person, subject or attachment

* Save searches as Virtual Folders- for example "All email with attachments from Joe"

* Now features built-in support for Yahoo! Inquisitor

Web mash-ups

* View addresses as Yahoo! Maps

* Automatically detect users' location and find points of interest with Yahoo! Local

* Preview web pages at thumbnails instead of opening a browser

* Users can see the calendar schedule from within an email message simply by hovering over a date

* Web Search powered by Yahoo! is built directly into Zimbra Desktop

* Automatically save pictures to Flickr

Contacts

* Store all your contacts in one place for all your accounts

* Create groups and tags to organize them

* Add photos to contacts

* Auto complete email addresses when composing email

* Easily import new contacts from other applications as .csv files or export contacts as .csv files for backup

* Syncs Zimbra, Yahoo! and Gmail contacts

Calendar

* Manage multiple color-coded calendars

* View calendars in Day, Week, Work Week, Month or List view

* "Fisheye" in the Month view let's you easily view and edit events

* Drag and drop' events to new days or to change times

* Import public web calendars (iCal format), such as sports schedules

* Invite others to meetings and view free/busy times

* Syncs Zimbra, Yahoo! and Gmail calendars

Documents, Tasks, Briefcase

* Edit Documents including add images, tables and spreadsheets; share them in email

* Track your to do's including start and end dates, percent complete

* Save attachments in Briefcase rather than as message attachments

* Works with any account you set up

Website: http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra-desktop/index.html

Download page: http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/zd-downloads.html

Freeware to Normalize Audio Levels in Video Files

Do you often feel upset because your video files are too loud or too quiet? Now, you can have video collections with proper audio volume with BS FAG!

BS FAG will fix audio gain in video files to volume level about 89 dB with clipping prevention. It allows custom volume level and clipping control if preferred. You can perform the whole process manually, but for guys who know very little about audio/video technical things, BS FAG can be a great help.

The utility utilizes two amazing plugins: FFmpeg and mp3gain.

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Developer website: https://sites.google.com/site/bsprograms/the-programs/bs-fag

MP3val - free software tool to validate and fix MP3 audio files

If you are downloading music from the Web in descent quantities, you may find that some of the audio files are corrupted. While checking each downloaded file would the best assurance they are fine, you may need more advanced, faster, approach for running such tests.

MP3val is a small, high-speed, free software tool for checking MPEG audio files' integrity. It can be useful for finding corrupted files (e.g. incompletely downloaded, truncated, containing garbage). MP3val is also able to fix most of the problems. Being a multiplatform application, MP3val can be runned both under Windows and under Linux (or BSD).

The most common MPEG audio file type is MPEG 1 Layer III (mp3), but MP3val supports also other MPEG versions and layers. The tool is also aware of the most common types of tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2).

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Developer’s website: http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/