Like pidgin IM client for which written in All in one messanger, Miranda IM is also all in one messenger, it is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. but like pidgin it doesn't supported on linux platform.

Features

• it's very lite on the systme resources
• no intallation needed
• faster perfomence
• Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet
• requires less memory to store the application so you can carry it in your memory drive.

Supported Operating Systems are
Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP / Vista

Protocol Support

• AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
• Gadu-Gadu
• IAX (Inter-Asterisk Exchange)
• ICQ
• IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
• Jabber
• MSN
• Netsend
• Tlen
• Yahoo
• And more...

DownLoad: http://www.miranda-im.org/download/

Related: All in one messenger

we always looks the texture scraps which representing an image, while viewing profiles on orkut. and then wonders how does one can create the texture block that represent some image. in technical term it is called asciigenerator. and it is very easy to generate by the given tools. here are some freely available tools to generate the ascii texts of an image.

ASCIIArtist

The tool ASCIIArtist at the site toolpanel.org enables you to

• upload your image
• select the quality (1 for largest = best)
• colour mode
• hexadecimal colour
  
• you can select vertical and horizontal flips
• and other things.....
  

and then just click on render button. which will open a new window with your image in ascii texture format. now copy and paste the whole texture in your friends scrapbook text box. and surprise him/her.

This above tool is actually inspiration of Boosty's ASCIIArtist.

Boosty's ASCIIArtist

this tool is available for download for the developers. is for advance users.

ASCIIArtist is a class to convert Bitmap-Images
into nice ASCII Texts in HTML format written by Sebastian Röbke.

It is written in PHP and provides 3 different render modes
and support for JPG, PNG and GIF (if your PHP supports it, too).

This tool is available for download.
Link: http://www.sebastian-r.de/asciiart/
Related: convert any image to text image

Pidgin is an instant messeging program for OS like:

• Windows
• Linux
• BSD
• other Unixes

home page: http://www.pidgin.im/
download: http://www.pidgin.im/download/

mybookmarks.com is a free online bookmark internet service that helps you to manage and access your favorite links from anywhere, anytime. it's little weird while adding a new link using it in firefox browser, but it's nothing problem in IE browser. overall it's very nice to use online. there is also a tool available for download. for your quick desktop access and manage for your mybookmark account.

features:

• arrange bookmarks by folder
• choose where you want to put your new bookmark
• public and private accessible settings
  
• free software (remark) to manage and access the bookmarks of the site from your desktop
• easy to organize
• available search facility to find your bookmark entry
  

I found very nice article about online RSS readers available and their performance comparison reviews. i personally use jet brains omea reader.

There is also another called FreeReader. but omea is fast, it aggregates, and it keeps you organized.

Omea Reader 2.2

All-in-one feed reader: Read RSS feeds, Atom feeds. Also read newsgroups and bookmarked web pages, all in one easy to use information environment.

• FireFox 2.0 support
• Mixed feeds problem is solved
• Feeds tree filtering
• Export of resources' list
• Automatic database backup
• Text indexing in idle mode

There are a number of different types of readers: web-based, desktop, Outlook based, etc…
here are some Web-based Feed Readers

• Attensa Online
• Bloglines
• FeedLounge
• Google Reader
• Gritwire
• News Alloy
• NewsGator Online
• Pluck Web Edition
• Rojo

Related: more review about web-based feed Readers

DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension. It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage, it is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that with increased speed up to 400%, it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time


screenshots: view more
show: Home page
Download: install it!

features:

• Complete integration with Mozilla Firefox
• Have all the files you want with just one click
• Have your page spidered with a single click
• Filtering has never been easier
• Advanced auto-renaming options
• Increase your download speed up to 400%
• Pause and resume your downloads

features in Detail

The software facilitates you to pick any of the color and know the color code of it, by just moving the mouse pointer over the area on the web page. so no more need to view source and trace the html and css code.

source http://iconico.com/colorpic

Features:

• Easily pick any color from the screen
• Totally 100% Free!
• Colors shown in hex and decimal
• Adjust Hue, Saturation, Value, Red, Green and Blue values
• Easy to use with any other program
• Resizable magnification area
• Save multiple palettes of colors automatically
• WebSafe Colors and names displayed
• Edit colorpicker values after selection easily
• Works with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Photoshop and any other application