Firefox
Firefox sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the
smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast
performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with
simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your
computer’s memory.
VideoLAN
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various
audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as
well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
BitTorrent
BitTorrent 6 is a client that transfers large videos, audios or
softwares in a faster and cheaper way. A ‘client’ in this case is a
computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. The BitTorrent 6
client will give you access to the world of content on the protocol in a
lightweight, fast and reliable package.
OpenOffice
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word
processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It
stores all your data in an international open standard format and can
also read and write files from other common office software packages. It
can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Drupal
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a
community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety
of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations
are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal
weblogs to large community-driven websites.
Gimp
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring.
7-Zip is an extremely popular file archiver for Windows, which,
although free, outperforms Winzip. It can unpack the vast majority of
archive formats and can create TAR and GZ archives, commonly used on
Unix and Linux systems, as well as its own 7z format, which easily
outshrinks ZIP files.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is
perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the
applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and
spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
Wine
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X,
OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running
Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a
completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting
of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native
Windows DLLs if they are available.
Magento
Magento, used by 30,000 merchants, including Samsung, Nespresso and
The North Face, is the world’s fastest growing e-commerce platform.
Magento Community Edition is offered for free under the Open Software
License. The Enterprise Edition, for which you have to pay, offers
features like multi-store capability, store credits and gift cards,
out-of-the-box.
With its speedy searches, built-in RSS feeds, strong security and
superb add-ons, Thunderbird has to be the best, free email application
available. If you’re prepared to spend some time tailoring your email
environment with add-ons, you’ll absolutely love it, but it’s probably
not ideal for complete novices.
FileZilla
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a
lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla
Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. It has a powerful Site
Manager and transfer queue and drag & drop support.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that
supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment. This
is based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written
in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution
speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as
possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce
the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC
can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener
environment.
TightVNC
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC,
you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your
local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front
of that computer.This is a cross-platform, available for Windows and
Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available
for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast
subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting,
metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and
texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools
with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers,
and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth,
and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated
rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as
well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.
Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and
recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records
into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound
files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together etc.
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