phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable opne source bulletin board package. The popular tool has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.

Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites. It allows you to make the forums as large or small as you desire.

Major features:

• Supports popular database servers
• Unlimited forums and posts
• Multiple language interface
• Private or public forums
• Powerful search utility
• Private messaging system
• Complete customisation with templates

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phpFreeChat is a simple, fast, and customizable chat server that uses the filesystem for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh and display the chat zone and the nickname zone. It supports customized CSS stylesheets and a plugin system that allows you to write your own storage routines.

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Adding a chat facility to your website is a great way of building a community and ensuring that people come back time and again. 123 Flash Chat Server allows you to implement an instant mailing system within web pages without any hassle. Although developed using Java technology, the application works with Flash and its interface has ample room for personalisation to fit in with the theme of your site.

The technology of this server allows you to organise work sessions, online meetings, videoconferences, etc. You can support thousands of users and the program is compatible with countless databases, such as PHP-Nuke, Post-Nuke, Asp-Nuke, etc. One of the facilities that provides a good example of the usefulness of 123 Flash Chat Server is its language detector. This clever feature recognises the language in which the user is writing and uses this information to form the client interface.

123 Flash Chat Server is well worth considering if you want to enable real-time communication on your site but have little knowledge of Flash or Java.

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Despite its funny name, Dialogoo actually proves to be an easy way of adding a chat service to your website. It contains support for all manner of bells and whistles to get your visitors talking, including support for emoticons, real-time warnings, webcam calls and voice chat. Once registered on the web page of the author you'll be able to use Dialogoo to generate the JavaScript needed to add to your site.

Despite creating well-functioning chat rooms the program doesn't really allow you to fully customise the environment to fit in with the style of your site. It's compatible with both Internet Explorer and Firefox though, and represents a quick way to harbour a community on your website, which, after all is what everyone wants these days.

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Vax Voice activeX is the easiest way to add PC-to-PC voice conferencing and text chat over the LAN, WAN or Internet in your applications and Web pages. Using Vax Voice activeX three or more people can have a real time voice conference and during the conference, they can even record what is said as a wave (WAV) file for later play back. It also provides the feature to send/receive encrypted voice and text data over the Internet.

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This utility allows you to easily create, store, and send macros to AOL chats on the fly. Create and store an endless amount of macros and categorize them into seven separate macro storage sections. If you're an avid chatter on the web and that you use AOL, WinHost will allow you to separate yourself from the masses.

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