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Description

Filename/URL

7-Zip Open Source File Archiver

7-Zip is a file archiver offering a high compression ratio.

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is available under the GNU LGPL. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check out the 7-Zip website for more information.

7-Zip can be used on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. There is no need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

7-Zip

AbiWord Open Source Word Processor

AbiWord is a free open source word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and can run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. The software can run on most UNIX systems, Windows 95 and later. There is also a MacOS X native port available.

AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation.

AbiWord

Audacity^® - Free, Open Source Sound Editing Software.

Audacity^® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Audacity is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Audacity

Avidemux - Free Open Source Video Editor

Avidemux is a free open source video editor that can be used for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Avidemux

CamStudio

CamStudio enables you to record screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and, using its built-in SWF Producer, can turn those AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

CamStudio20.exe

CamStudio

Celtx All-in-one Media Pre-production System

Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

Celtx helps you produce all types of media - film, video, documentary, theatre, machinima, comics, advertising, video games, music video, radio, podcasts, videocasts, and however else you choose to tell your story.

Celtx is available under the terms of the Mozilla Public License (MPL)

Celtx

CinePaint Free Open Source Paint Application

CinePaint is a free open source deep paint application available for Linux, Mac and BSD, and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

It can be used to retouch feature films and in pro photography. It opens high fidelity image file formats such as DPX, 16-bit TIFF, and OpenEXR, and conventional formats like JPEG and PNG.

CinePaint can be used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and painting 3D model textures.

For still photography, CinePaint can import bracketed HDR exposures. It has gallery-quality 16-bit per channel color printing with GutenPrint.

CinePaint

Dia diagram creation program

Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GNU General Public License.

It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams, and has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

Dia

DocPal Document Management System

DocPal is a document management system based on the freeware desktop publishing system OpenOffice 3. The DocPal Document Manager lets you create OpenOffice Writer documents and automatically populate the document with important core contact details. DocPal lets you maintain core contact information separately from creating documents through the Contact Manager. DocPal files each document you create using a unique file name.

The DocPal Search Manager maps the filename to recognizable document attributes, such as date written and addressee so that you can retrieve documents quickly and easily. The Template Manager lets you record details about each template that you use. There are no limits to the number of templates that you may use. DocPal is completely stand alone and requires neither a connection to the Internet nor complicated database management software to be downloaded to your PC or laptop to work.

DocPal

Jarnal PDF Annotation Software

Jarnal is an open source application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal, making a presentation, annotating a document - including pdf - or collaborating using a stylus, mouse or keyboard.

It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal and to the earlier Mimeo whiteboarding and Palm notepad applications. There is also a commercial knockoff of Jarnal called PDF Annotator - for $50 you can enjoy a subset of the capabilities that Jarnal provides for free.

Jarnal

KOffice Office Suite

KOffice is a free open source office suite which is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Haiku OS. It contains a word processor (KWord), a spreadsheet application (KSpread) and a presentation program (KPresenter).

KWord is an intuitive word processor application with desktop publishing features. With it, you can create informative and attractive documents with ease.

KSpread is a fully-featured spreadsheet application. Use it to quickly create spreadsheets with formulas and charts, to calculate and organize your data.

KPresenter is a powerful and easy to use presentation application. You can dazzle your audience with stunning slides containing images, videos, animation and more.

KOffice

LyX Document Processor

LyX combines the power and flexibility of the TeX typesetting system with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content and structured documents. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well designed document layouts are built in.

LyX is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

LyX

Mikhail Ranish Freeware Software and Algorithms

A range of free software including hard disk partitioning tools, compression tools, and popup blockers.

Mikhail Ranish

NeoOffice Office Applications

NeoOffice is a free, full-featured, set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs) for Mac OS X.

The office suite is adapted to the unique needs of Mac users by taking the features in Oracle's OpenOffice.org office suite and adding improvements.

NeoOffice

OpenOffice.org 3 Open Source Office Software Suite

OpenOffice.org 3 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.

OpenOffice.org can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

OpenOffice

Open Source Mac

Free software for Macs.

Open Source Mac

Open Source Windows

Free software for Microsoft Windows.

Open Source Windows

Open Workbench

Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality.

Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project.

Open Workbench is available under the terms of the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

Open Workbench

PDFCreator PDF Creation Software

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

PDFCreator is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

PDFCreator

PowerTalk - Automatic Speech for PowerPoint Presentations

PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.

You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.

Speech is provided by the synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows 7, Vista and XP, and other voices are available. PowerTalk uses PowerPoint supplied with Microsoft Office to show the presentation.

PowerTalk

RoughDraft Word Processor

RoughDraft is a freeware word processor for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, plays and screenplays.

RoughDraft is designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use.

RoughDraft

ScreenCopy Screenshot Tool

smartision ScreenCopy is a freeware and open source screenshot tool for Windows developed in Borland Delphi. It has many features like Auto-Screenshot and an included Gallery Generator.

ScreenCopy

Scribus Desktop Publishing (DTP) Application

Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, with native versions being available for Linux, Unix-like, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows. It has a broad set of page layout features and is comparable to leading non-free applications such as Adobe PageMaker, PagePlus, QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.

Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.

Scribus

SSuite Office - BladeRunner - Portable Office Suite

SSuite Office - BladeRunner runs from any portable memory device, Thumb Drive, Memory Stick, Flash Drive etc. It will run on any netbook, laptop, and desktop computer instantly.

BladeRunner is based on SSuite Advanced Office for best hardware compatibility and system performance. Some utilities have been borrowed from The Fifth Element office suite. Now includes My Money and Calendar Diary. IMPORTANT - Close the start-up menu last for best system performance. The start-up menu initialises and finalises all the files for successful operation. Run the "StartupMenu.exe" as an "Administrator" in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

SSuite Office

SSuite Office - Accel Spreadsheet

Accel is a very useful spreadsheet application for everyday use at home or the office.

Perform calculations, analyze information, and create colourful charts in spreadsheets. Accel has also ODBC connectivity to query any database on your pc through SQL. Document compatibility with MS Office, OpenOffice and StarOffice - { vts, txt, xls, csv }; Multi-Display Compatible - {Dual Monitors}.

Accel Spreadsheet

Ultimate Paint Windows Graphics Program

Ultimate Paint is a full-featured, 32-bit, Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation.

The software supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI (reading only), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO (reading only), IFF/LBM and WAP BMP image formats and Twain compatible scanners.

Ultimate Paint

Vnc2flv Screen Recording Tool

Vnc2flv is a cross-platform screen recording tool for UNIX, Windows or Mac. It captures a VNC desktop session (either your own screen or a remote computer) and saves it as a Flash Video (FLV) file.

(Vnc2flv is a rewrite of its predecessor, vnc2swf. As FLV format is more prevalent today, vnc2flv is specialized for FLV format and aims at a simpler and more lightweight functionality.)

vnc2flv

WinPlanner Project Management Application

Winplanner is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

WinPlanner