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	<pubDate>7 May 2008 09:53:21 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description>Free programming resources, webmaster resources, security tools and other utilities.</description>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/</link>
	<copyright>Copyright 2007-2008 by Christopher Heng.</copyright>
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	<title>[New] Free File Renaming Tools for Bulk Renaming of Multiple Files</title>
	<description>&lt;p&gt;Do you have a large number of files, such as those taken from your digital camera or &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/audiocdrippers.shtml" target="_top"&gt;ripped from your audio CD&lt;/a&gt;, that you want to rename? Do it the easy and efficient way with these &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/batch-file-renaming.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free file renaming tools&lt;/a&gt; designed for mass renaming of files and folders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tools allow you to rename the files according to a pattern you specify, change the case of the characters, add tags (such as MP3 ID3 tags), date strings, and other data (like the EXIF data from your camera), and so on.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	<pubDate>7 May 2008 09:53:21 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/batch-file-renaming.shtml</link>
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	<category>software</category>
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	<title>[Free] OxygenOffice Professional (Office Suite)</title>
	<description>OxygenOffice Professional is a complete office suite that includes a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentation software, database, built-in &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/imagephotoediting.shtml" target="_top"&gt;drawing software&lt;/a&gt;, formula editor, &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml" target="_top"&gt;web editor&lt;/a&gt;, and so on. It is based on the open source OpenOffice.org suite, but includes additional templates, clipart, fonts, samples, and also VBA support. &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/wordprocessors.shtml" target="_top"&gt;Read more about it or download it here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
	<pubDate>4 May 2008 03:28:45 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/wordprocessors.shtml</link>
	<category>freeware</category>
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	<category>applications</category>
	<category>software</category>
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	<title>[New] Free Font Editors, Font Creation Software and Sites</title>
	<description>Have you ever wanted to create your own fonts that have just the right characters, be it fun symbols or serious text? These &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/font-editors.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free font editors and online font editing sites&lt;/a&gt; will allow you to do just that.</description>
	<pubDate>1 May 2008 09:37:37 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/font-editors.shtml</link>
	<category>software</category>
	<category>freeware</category>
	<category>open source</category>
	<category>fonts</category>
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	<title>[New] Free Financial Accounting Software</title>
	<description>Looking for free or open source software to manage the accounts of your business or even your own personal finance? Check out these &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/accounting-software.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free accounting software&lt;/a&gt; and get one that suits your needs.</description>
	<pubDate>24 Apr 2008 09:30:38 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/accounting-software.shtml</link>
	<category>software</category>
	<category>freeware</category>
	<category>open source</category>
	<category>accounting</category>
	<category>ecommerce</category>
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	<title>[New] Free Email Clients</title>
	<description>Get yourself one of the &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/email-clients.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free email software&lt;/a&gt; that allows you to easily filter spam, color-code (tag) email messages, access your online email accounts via POP3 or IMAP, create multiple personalities with different email address (for example, to separate your business and home accounts), and so on. You can (of course) also use them to download your email to your own computer for reading/replying offline.</description>
	<pubDate>22 Apr 2008 08:54:44 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/email-clients.shtml</link>
	<category>software</category>
	<category>freeware</category>
	<category>open source</category>
	<category>email</category>
	<category>internet</category>
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	<title>[Free] muCommander - Open Source Cross-Platform File Manager</title>
	<description>muCommander, an open source file manager for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc, boasts an wide range of features including the ability to work not only with local hard disks but also with files via FTP, SFTP, NFS, SMB, HTTP and Bonjour. It has built-in archivers for a wide assortment of file archives including zip, tar, bzip, ISO, etc. &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/free-file-managers.shtml" target="_top"&gt;Check it out or read more&lt;/a&gt; about it.</description>
	<pubDate>19 Apr 2008 08:24:56 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/free-file-managers.shtml</link>
	<category>software</category>
	<category>freeware</category>
	<category>open source</category>
	<category>windows</category>
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	<title>[New] Free Windows Clones, Emulators and Emulation Layers</title>
	<description>Are you tired of Windows or Windows Vista, but feel chained to it because you need to run certain Windows applications? These &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/operating-systems/windows-clones.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free Windows clones and emulation layers&lt;/a&gt; allow you to run Windows programs on your computer without needing a copy of Windows.</description>
	<pubDate>17 Apr 2008 06:00:53 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/operating-systems/windows-clones.shtml</link>
	<category>operating systems</category>
	<category>software</category>
	<category>freeware</category>
	<category>open source</category>
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	<title>[New] Free File Splitters and Joiners</title>
	<description>Do you have a file that you cannot send as an email attachment because it is too big? Or perhaps you want to fit it onto a floppy, a USB flash drive or a CD, but found that it cannot fit? These &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/file-splitters.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free file splitting and merging utilities&lt;/a&gt; will split that file for you into smaller chunks and reassemble them back to its original state.</description>
	<pubDate>15 Apr 2008 08:29:38 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/file-splitters.shtml</link>
	<category>freeware</category>
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	<category>software</category>
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	<title>[New] Free Disk Usage Management and Reporting Software</title>
	<description>Are you running out of hard disk space and wondering where your space disappeared to? These &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/disk-usage-management.shtml" target="_top"&gt;disk usage visualization tools&lt;/a&gt; allow you to get a graphical report of your hard disk utilization, enabling you to better track your files and folders.</description>
	<pubDate>11 Apr 2008 08:30:17 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/disk-usage-management.shtml</link>
	<category>freeware</category>
	<category>open source</category>
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	<title>[Updated] Tofrodos 1.7.8: Text File Conversion Utility</title>
	<description>A new version of Tofrodos has been uploaded. &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.shtml" target="_top"&gt;Tofrodos&lt;/a&gt; is a utility to convert text files between Unix/Linux and Windows/MSDOS file formats. This version fixes a problem that only shows up when compiling under Mac OS X. (The distribution package for 1.7.7 was corrupted - sorry.)</description>
	<pubDate>8 Apr 2008 05:37:33 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.shtml</link>
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	<title>[New] Free Open Source Code Project Hosting Services</title>
	<description>Looking for somewhere to host your open source software project? &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/webhosting/free-open-source-code-project-hosting.shtml" target="_top"&gt;These free software project hosting facilities&lt;/a&gt; not only do it for free, but they also provide version control, bug trackers, and file distribution for your software packages.</description>
	<pubDate>3 Apr 2008 10:47:38 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/webhosting/free-open-source-code-project-hosting.shtml</link>
	<category>software development</category>
	<category>programming</category>
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	<title>[Free] Avidemux: Open Source Video Editor</title>
	<description>Avidemux is a free, open source video editor for Windows, Mac OS X, &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/operating-systems/linux-distributions.shtml" target="_top"&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/operating-systems/bsd-based.shtml" target="_top"&gt;BSD systems&lt;/a&gt; that allows you to perform cutting, filtering and encoding tasks on a variety of video files, including AVI, DVD-compatible MPEG files, MP4 files, certain video streams, etc. &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/free-video-editors.shtml" target="_top"&gt;Read more about it or download it here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
	<pubDate>31 Mar 2008 02:26:59 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/free-video-editors.shtml</link>
	<category>software</category>
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	<category>video</category>
	<category>video editing</category>
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	<title>[New] Free Online Photo Editors</title>
	<description>Edit your photos and images online with only a web browser. These &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/internet/free-online-photo-editors.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free online photo editors&lt;/a&gt; are not skimpy, lightweight image editors, but provide support for layers, special effects, red eye removal, brushes (to draw), text tools, collage-making tools, animation-making tools, and so on.</description>
	<pubDate>27 Mar 2008 08:35:33 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/internet/free-online-photo-editors.shtml</link>
	<category>online</category>
	<category>internet</category>
	<category>graphics</category>
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	<title>[New] Free 3D Software Box Image Makers</title>
	<description>Have you ever been fascinated by how some sites that sell downloadable software seem to be able to display a fancy 3D box for it anyway? Now you can do it for your software too. Create an image of a 3D box for your software the easy way, even if you don't have such a box, with &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/3d-software-box-shot-makers.shtml"&gt;these free tools&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
	<pubDate>15 Feb 2008 04:36:34 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/3d-software-box-shot-makers.shtml</link>
	<category>graphics</category>
	<category>programming tools</category>
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	<title>[New] Free Standalone Flash Video (FLV) Players</title>
	<description>Ever wanted to play a Flash video file (FLV) directly from your desktop or from the Internet without having to load up your browser? These &lt;a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/standalone-flash-video-flv-players.shtml" target="_top"&gt;free FLV players&lt;/a&gt; allow you to do just that. Software for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are listed.</description>
	<pubDate>4 Feb 2008 02:44:14 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/standalone-flash-video-flv-players.shtml</link>
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