25 Most Useful Open Source Softwares

Fri, Jan 8, 2010

Latest, Useful Tools

 
1
 Mozilla Firefox The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world’s best browser.
2
 Miro Plays any video type, Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support.
3
 Pidgin Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
4
 SkipScreen A Firefox extension that skips unnecessary clicks and wait times on Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, zShare, and more.
5
 Mozilla Thunderbird Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
6
 RSSOwl Solid cross-platform RSS client.
7
 Cabos A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.
8
 X-Chat 2 IRC Client
9
 VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more.
10
 MPlayer Similar to VLC– plays loads of video formats.
11
 Audacity Simple but awesome sound recording and editing tool.
12
 Filezilla Excellent FTP program.
13
 OpenOffice Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents.
14
 AbiWord A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
15
 GIMP Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
16
 Paint.NET Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
17
 Handbrake DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
18
 PeaZip Fantastic archiving utility to extract and pack archives of an extensive amount of formats.
19
 7-Zip File archiver.
20
 Freemind An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
21
 Keynote Open Source note taking application, very good. I use this myself extensively
22
 Blender Powerful 3D Modeling software.
23
 CC Publisher Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.
24
 SharpDevelop Open Source IDE for the .NET Framework. Utilizes the multiple programming languages and Windows forms
25
 Notepad ++ Open Source programmers notepad for Windows
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