Office
software 
The fundamentals:
word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, illustration
software, Web browser and an e-mail client.
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OpenOffice.org
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 Open
source office suite available in more than 25 languages, with
dictionaries
for more than 95 languages. File compatible with StarOffice and many MS Office formats. PDF export as well as flash export is
possible from within the programs. Learn more...
Screenshots: Writer
| Impress
| Calc
| Draw
  Open
source compatible with
Windows, Linux,
Solaris, Mac OS X etc.
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| Mozilla
Thunderbird |
 Thunderbird is Mozilla's next generation
e-mail client.
Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever
before with the industry's best implementations of features such as
intelligent spam filters, a spell checker, extension
support and more.
Screenshot
Open
source for MS Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris,
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| Google Chrome |
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 Chrome is a new fast browser from Google. Its build to be as fast and safe as possible and is a good choice for slow computers. Google Chrome automatically updates itself.
Build on open source Chromium.
Free. Build on open source Chromium. MS Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
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| Mozilla Firefox |
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 Firefox
is Mozilla's next generation browser. Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and efficiently than with any other browser. Firefox 3.5 is faster, safer and easier to use than ever before.
Open
source for MS Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris,
OS/2
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| Web
authoring, graphic design
& DTP
Website and graphic
editing: web authoring software, vector graphics editor,
image
manipulation program and desktop publishing program.
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| Kompozer |
 A complete Web Authoring System for Linux
desktop users as well as
Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like FrontPage and
Dreamweaver.
Note: Kompozer 0.8 is under development!
Screenshot
Open
source for MS Windows, Linux, etc.
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| The GIMP |
 Image manipulation program with basic and some advanced capabilities similar to Adobe
Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro.
Screenshots or Gimp
Guru
Open
source for MS Windows, Linux etc. |
| InkScape |
 An
Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to
Illustrator & CorelDraw. Inkscape supports markers, clones,
alpha blending, etc.). It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex
path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.
Screenshot or A guide to Inkscape or InkScape
on
Wikipedia
Open
source for MS Windows, Linux etc. |
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| Scribus |
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 Scribus
brings professional DTP
to Linux,
Mac
OS X and Windows
desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new
approaches to page layout. See this WIKI for more info, HOW-TO's for help, the get started WIKI or go to
the official homepage.
Screenshots
Open source for
MS
Windows,
Linux, Mac OS X
etc.
Alternative: Pageplus SE |
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| Productivity
software
Misc applications:
bibliographic manager, project management
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Bibus
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 Bibus is a reference management software
designed for OpenOffice.org in particular, but
also Microsoft
Word.
A list of other
programs (freeware as well as
commercial) is available here.
Screenshot
Open source compatible
with Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X etc.
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Open
Workbench
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 Open
Workbench is the open source successor to Project Workbench, the
trusted tool used by more than 100,000 project management
professionals worldwide.
Screenshot
Open
Workbench is open source, but only
compatible with Windows.
Alternatives:
GanttProject - Planner
for Linux - Planner for Windows
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Task Coach
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 Task Coach is an open source todo manager
to manage personal tasks and todo lists. Often, tasks and other things
todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with
composite tasks.
Screenshots
Open
source compatible
with Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X etc.
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WordNet
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 WordNet
is a graphical frontend to the WordNet online lexical
database.
Compatible
with Windows, Linux,
Mac OS X etc.
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| Utilities
Small applications for
minor purposes: anti-virus & anti-spam tools, text editors, mail
checkers etc.
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Avira
Antivir Personal Edition
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 Effective protection against computer
viruses for the
individual and private use on a single PC-workstation.
MS
Windows and Linux (closed
source)
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 Audacity
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Audacity is free,
open source software for recording and editing sounds.
Screenshots
Open source for MS Windows, Linux
etc.
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Notepad++
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Notepad++
is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports
several languages. Also works on USB drives (you can adjust this during
setup).
Open source for MS Windows
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PopTray
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E-mail
notifier that can check multiple accounts. Also check out the clone, Popman.
Screenshots
Open
source for MS Windows
only.
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| Feedreader |
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Feedreader is a
lightweight open source aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM
formats. It works under Windows 95 and later
versions.
Screenshots
Open
source
for MS Windows only.
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Linux news reader, see above (Liferea). |
| Spamihilator |
Spamihilator is an email filtering
application that
works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and
automatically classifies incoming emails as spam (junk email).
Thunderbird has its own anti spam feature, while Spamihilator
supports any e-mail client and sports several powerful
features.
MS
Windows only.
Alternatives: PopFile |
| FilZip |
| FilZip
is a free compression utility that supports zip, rar, tar, etc. For
a multi-platform compression utility, I recommend 7-Zip.
MS
Windows only.
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XNView
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| XNView XnView is a utility for viewing and
converting graphic files. It support ICC profiles and ICM monitor
profiles, unlike popular programs like Google Picasa 3!
For MS
Windows
only.
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TightVNC
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| TightVNC is a free
remote control software package derived from the popular VNC
software. 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.
Open
source compatible with Windows, Linux, Unix,
etc.
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| Free
PDF document generation
Portable Document
Format: It is easy to create PDF documents from any program
with PDFCreator!
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PDFCreator
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| PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs
easily from
nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn
any program into a PDF-machine.
MS
Windows only
To merge several PDF files, check out "BeCyPDFAsm" or check out Other
free PDF tools
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