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