Open Source Communications Software
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Browse free open source Communications software and projects for Mac and ChromeOS below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Communications software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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RetroShare
[WARNING] Project has moved to http://github.com/Retroshare/Retroshare
[IMPORTANT] Retroshare is now distributed on Github. Please go to http://retroshare.net to find the latest releases and sources. RetroShare is a cross-platform, secured and decentralized communication system. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more with family and friends, using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. -
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Open Direct Connect is a multi-protocol file sharing program that supports the protocol used by Direct Connect ( http://www.neo-modus.com/ ).
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Using the vCard format as the data storage structure, Rolo will keep track of your contacts and display them to you with a curses front end.
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Java Psion Link (JPL), is intended to be a cross-platform solution for transferring files between Psion Epoc PDAs (netBook, series 7, 5Mx, revo) and any computer with a serial port and the ability to run java. As the program uses the existing Psion Link
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bbEditor is a stand alone client for create, editing and previewing of bbCode documents. This application was created to allow the local editing/storing of documents to be eventually posted on a CMS or BB system thats supports bbCode.
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OpenQueue is an open protocol for publish-and-subscribe message queuing. This enables language-independent, loosely-coupled, asynchronous communications between applications on platforms supporting TCP. Similar to MQSeries or MSMQ, but open.
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F2F is an XSLT scriptable strong-encrypted XML-VM with an F2F communications framework. Installed on a webserver, an F2F servers make up a decentralised network for securely sharing of XML data and requests with friends, friends of friends, foafoaf etc.
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A Java API for transparent access to instant messaging services. Currently supports AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! protocols, with more to come!!!
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pyPal is a jabber based chatterbot that can be used to launch commands remotely as well as to make some good conversation. It is expected to be capable of multi-language learning.
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ANet is a peer-to-peer networking protocol that implements an anonymous distributed network. With a common framework, it allows to do things similar to Gnutella, Freenet, "chat rooms", file transfer protocols, newsgroups, and so on.
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Annotea Ubimarks is an application of Annotea shared bookmarks in Mozilla. It helps users to easily organize Web information by using familiar concepts, share findings with trusted peer groups and benefit from the underlying Semantic Web technologies.
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ArCoLIVE provides a set of open source component-based toolkit for multimedia applications such as chat room, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) conversation, virtual white-board, audio/video conferencing, control connection containers, screen capture and file sharing.
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Communication protocol for advanced clients of talker Atlantis (now running at atlantis.talker.sk). No implementation. No source code. Only specfication.
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Awarinet is an API for enabling applications to form peer-to-peer worlds. Each Awarinet client is automatically connected only to those other clients most relevant to it.
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The Cisco IP Phone Idle Display Logo Engine project or CIP IDLE A framework for displaying custom logos on Cisco IP Phones 79XX series. Also provides a Java alternative to cip2gif.exe and gif2cip.exe
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The aim of the CP2PC project is to develop a minimal programming interface (API) to peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. Client side applications can be built to use this interface and thus integrate separate file-sharing networks.
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A high performance cross programming languages communication framework similar to Java RMI. Unlike RMI, CABLE allows server push and was tested to run up to 3x faster than RMI depending the number of threads and CPU power. Currently in Java and C#.
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CAXO (Component for Accessing XML based Objects) is mapping any xml based object to a multiline and editable tree structure. CAXO is a JComponent, and direct implementable in any swing container. In default configuration, CAXO is an xml browser or editor
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A secure collaborative framework that is being used by other projects such as CFAgent (online customer service), CFWeb (pure HTTP communication for CFAgent) and much more in addition to serving as a standalone all-in-one collaboration platform by itself.
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CPO is a tool written in Java that manages newsletters. It's focused on corporate needs (privacy, scalability, bounce count, opt-in & out, newsletter statistics).
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DGHMux-Java is a Java library for multiplexing several streams over one connection such as TCP and SSL. It allows a developer to create a protocol that can be encrypted with SSL and allows firewall admins to easily allow or reject your protocol.
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DeXter is a versatile Java Internet Communication Solution based on a Plugin Architecture. Plugin highlights: Messenger - currently supporting MSN, other will follow / CSBeagle - Half-life (Counter-Strike) online player finder
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The Distributed Computation Framework is a Java based Server/Client program for the distribution of tasks over a network of coputers.
