Babelfish - provides you with a useful tool to communicate with your non-English speaking or bilingual customers. You can use this site to translate words, phrases, or entire web sites into 19 pairs of languages, including to and from English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. The site’s World Keyboard allows you to add accented or other special characters to your text for more accurate translations. Also by adding Babel Fish to your site, your customers can translate your site into their preferred language. There also is a limit on how much you can translate. Babel Fish is designed to translate up to about 800 words or two standard, double-spaced pages (about 5K of text) at a time. If you exceed the limit or if you attempt to translate a very long Web page (over 5K), the site translates up to the limit and then stops.

Free2ProfessionalTranslation - is one of the most popular websites of its kind, with in excess of 2 million visitors per week. FreeTranslation.com allows users to obtain free translations of both text and web pages. The translation is generated by a computer, displayed instantly and the user is dynamically shown the cost of having the same text professionally translated by Click2Translate Express. Translates text and web pages from and to: English, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, German, Norwegian, Japanese.

WorldLingo - is a leading innovator and provider of translation and localization services and technology. World Lingo has grown into a global organization with offices in Europe, America, and Asia. Provides text and web page language translations in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, and Korean.With context-sensitive option.
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• MagiCal - is a FREE menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in addition to, or instead, of the built in system menu clock. In addition to this, MagiCal features a handy drop-down calendar that can be torn off and placed anywhere on your screen.
• MenuMeters - is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably obscured by document windows on a PowerBook’s small screen. Those monitors which used the menubar mostly used the NSStatusItem API, which has the annoying tendency to totally reorder my menubar on every login.
• Adium - is a versatile instant messaging client with a sleek interface. Adium supports instant messaging protocols like AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, ICQ, iChat, Google Talk, and more. If you like to chat with several people simultaneously, you’ll appreciate Adium’s tabbed messaging feature, where a single window can contain several conversations in separate tabs. Adium also supports Off-the-Record Messaging. This allows you to conduct private conversations over instant messaging with other Mac, Linux and Windows users.

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Online file storage services allow you to save, browse and share files, photos, and documents from any computer or mobile device.

MegaUpload - is a leading provider of online storage. MegaUpload allows to send files up to 500MB, offers ad-financed free and affordable premium online storage, sophisticated uploading and downloading tools, and high-volume business accounts including pay-per-download.

ZShare - uploads files, images, videos, audio and flash for free. Simply use the upload form below and start sharing! You can also use zShare as your personal file storage: backup your data and protect your files. File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 10 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 10 days).

FileFront - allows user to upload as many files as you like in any format and there’s no LIMITATION storage in each member account. Uploading file can be up to 1GB. You can also navigate to add blog, photo, file and video. The only limitation is do not upload a large file if your connection speed is too slow or inactive as you will probably end up with a hanging screen after 10 hours processing. FileFront require registration.

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Mozilla Thunderbird has lots of great features including search, customizable views, IMAP, RSS support and more.

Contacts Sidebar - displays the address books in Thunderbird sidebar. This lets you easily access all your contacts from the main window, quickly edit contact details, drop files on top of a contact to send it as an attachment and more.

GMailUI - is an extension to Thunderbird which add concepts inspired by GMail to Thunderbird, like archiving mail and powerful message searching across all folders. a folder to be your sole “archive” folder, or choose to have an archive folder in each of your multiple accounts.

Quicktext - is an extension for Thunderbird that lets you create templates that can be easily inserted into your own emails. Quicktext is the perfect tool to help you quickly answer routine, repetitive emails. The program can insert different signatures into your emails depending on whom you are sending the email to.
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Music Sharing

Yahoo Launch - has hundreds of music videos you can watch while online. You can also listen to your own customized radio station. It has a Top 100 List that is created by the listeners. You can check out your favorite artist’s page that has their biography, pictures, watch some interviews and much more. While listening to your music, you can also play games at yahoo.com too.

eMusic - is a large retailer of independent music offering more than 2 million tracks from more than 13,000 independent labels spanning every genre of music. This is a program that you download to your computer and you pay $9.99 for 40 songs a month. There are over 500,000 songs to choose from. You can choose 3 different types of subscription programs. You can put your mp3s to your mp3 player or burn them to a CD. The only problem is that eMusic only carries independent labels. Read »