Xobni is a San Francisco-based email startup. It was founded in March 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina from Adam’s dorm room in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the Y Combinator summer founder’s program. In late 2006, it relocated to San Francisco when the founders felt that the environment there was more suited to grow their company.

In March 2007, Xobni raised US$4.26 million from Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, and Atomico, along with a number of angel investors.

Xobni’s first product, Xobni Insight, was launched into private beta on September 18, 2007, at the TechCrunch 40 conference. Xobni Insight plugs into Microsoft Outlook and offers fast search and people-based navigation of email archives. The company has hinted at plans to offer the same functionality for other email clients. Xobni Insight has received mostly positive coverage, although initial versions had performance problems on large inboxes. The company opened its beta to the public on May 5, 2008 and has since garnered media coverage from a number of blogs and media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and Cnet.

In February 2008, Xobni hired Jeff Bonforte, a Vice President at Yahoo!, as their CEO. In the same month, Bill Gates gave a demo of Xobni at the Office Developers’ Conference. This led to rumors of a US$20 million acquisition by Microsoft, which the company reportedly rejected.

Cisco Systems, which has been expanding its workplace collaboration tools, has taken an interest in Xobni. Xobni announced on January 5, 2009 that it closed a $7 million round of financing, its second, with Cisco as a new investor. The company’s previous investors Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures and Atomico also participated. The website CrunchBase has total funding at $14.6 million for the San Francisco based software development company.

There have been a lot of questions since the product release of how Xobni planned to make money and the scope of their products. In July of 2009 Xobni released a paid version of its product called Xobni Plus, offered initially for $30. Xobni Plus includes features such as advanced search, appointment search, the ability to search multiple PST archives, no ads, and one year support. In Free Studio version 4.2 Xobni is included in the .exe setup.

“Xobni” is the word “inbox” spelled backwards. It is pronounced Zob-nee.

Size : 6.3 MB

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. “Picasa” is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for “my house” and “pic” for pictures (personalized art). In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering it as a free download.

Size : 10.5 MB

Free and easy CD & DVD burning solution. Burn data, audio, video to your CDs & DVDs is now very easy. Audio format supported : WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A. Burn and save ISO files, copy your DVDs. Burn your dvd-video. Save your favorite audio CDs to mp3 with the internal grabber. Support for dual-layer DVD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW. Standard ISO9660 & Joliet, buffer UnderRun protection, and Multisession support. Version 4.0 is a bug fixing release.

Size : 4.4 MB

Put video on your phone or iPod!

Miro Video Converter has presets that will convert video to the correct sizes and formats for popular phones, iPods, and other media players. Just convert your video and copy it to your device.
Supported Devices
Android Phones

* Droid / Milestone
* Nexus One
* G1
* Magic / myTouch
* Droid Eris
* HTC Hero
* Cliq
* Behold

Apple Devices

* iPhone / iPod Touch
* iPod Classic
* iPod Nano
* iPad

Other

* PSP
Miro Video Converter can convert virtually any video file to MP4, Theora, or MP3 (the audio only).
Some of the most popular conversions:
Convert to MP4 Video

* Convert AVI to MP4
* Convert H264 to MP4
* Convert MOV to MP4
* Convert WMV to MP4
* Convert XVID to MP4
* Convert Theora to MP4
* Convert MKV to MP4
* Convert FLV to MP4

Convert to Ogg Theora Video

* Convert AVI to Ogg Theora
* Convert H264 to Ogg Theora
* Convert MOV to Ogg Theora
* Convert WMV to Ogg Theora
* Convert XVID to Ogg Theora
* Convert MP4 to Ogg Theora
* Convert MKV to Ogg Theora
* Convert FLV to Ogg Theora

Convert to WebM

* Convert AVI to WebM
* Convert H264 to WebM
* Convert MOV to WebM
* Convert WMV to WebM
* Convert XVID to WebM
* Convert Theora to WebM
* Convert MKV to WebM
* Convert FLV to WebM

Size : 8.5 MB

Miro (previously known as Democracy Player and DTV) is an Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The program supports most known video files and offers sound and video, some in HD quality. The software is downloaded several million times a year.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Miro is free software.

Size : 450 KB

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Size : 5.4 MB

PDFCreator – The free PDF Creator and Converter
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.
Key Features:
•Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
•Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc
•New: Digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you are the author and the file has not been modified
•New: Create PDF/A files for long term archives
•Send generated files via eMail
•Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
•AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
•Merge multiple files into one PDF
•Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
•Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
•And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
•Supports Windows Vista and Windows 7

Size : 11.9  MB

Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple and included as part of the Mac OS X operating system. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company’s Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple’s default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther.” Safari is also the native browser for the iOS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system, first released on June 11, 2007, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The latest stable release of the browser is 5.0, which is available as a free download for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. As of 2010^[update], Safari was either the third or fourth most widely used browser, tied with Google Chrome.

Size : 30.9  MB

Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python aims to combine “remarkable power with very clear syntax”, and its standard library is large and comprehensive. Its use of indentation for block delimiters is unusual among popular programming languages.

Python supports multiple programming paradigms, primarily but not limited to object oriented, imperative and, to a lesser extent, functional programming styles. It features a fully dynamic type system and automatic memory management, similar to that of Scheme, Ruby, Perl, and Tcl. Like other dynamic languages, Python is often used as a scripting language, but is also used in a wide range of non-scripting contexts.

The reference implementation of Python (CPython) is free and open source software and has a community-based development model, as do all or nearly all of its alternative implementations. CPython is managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.

Size : 14.7  MB

Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic “Yahoo! ID” which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.

Yahoo! Messenger was originally launched under the name Yahoo! Pager on March 9, 1998.

In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages. It was also the first major IM client to feature BUZZing and music-status. Another recently added feature is customized avatars.

Size : 16.8  MB