Title

Description

Filename/URL

Penny Pincher Personal Finance Manager

(added: 02 February 2010)

Penny Pincher is a cross-platform, budget-oriented personal finance manager, supporting ad-hoc, weekly, monthly, and other budget types. Various levels of experience are supported, with wizards for new users and advanced interfaces for more experienced users.

Penny Pincher

Bid-O-Matic EBay bidding/selling utility

(added: 01 February 2010)

BOM is a tool that enables you to watch and bid on auctions. It includes features such as mail control, autoconnect/disconnect, integrated ODBC- client, multi-language-support, time sync, and item grouping.

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

Bid-O-Matic

Egoboo Computer Game

(added: 28 January 2010)

Egoboo is an open source, cross-platform computer game. It's a three-dimensional dungeon crawling adventure that borrows a lot of elements from the roguelike genre.

Egoboo is still under development (as of January 2010), but it is fully playable.

Egoboo

TUX Paint - Open Source Drawing Software for Children

(added: 27 January 2010)

Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor (a program for creating and processing raster graphics) geared towards young children (between 3 and 12 years old).

The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Tux Paint combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

TUX Paint

Open Workbench

(added: 26 January 2010)

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

Monex Open Source Finance Software

(added: 25 January 2010)

Monex is open source software. It enables you to organize your accounts into a tree structure, branch expense and income accounts or join accounts by currency or type. You can create, remove or change your account tree structure depending on your needs.

You can view current, cleared and total balances of a single account or a whole branch of accounts.

You can select a list of transactions to calculate expenses/incomes and sums.

You can filter transactions with various filter fields, and calculate filtered transactions expenses/incomes and sums.

You can calculate account balances or transaction sums in different currencies or just exchange currencies.

Monex

MySQL RDBMS

(added: 22 January 2010)

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS), which has more than 11 million installations worldwide (as of January 2010). The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.

MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, which holds the copyright to most of the codebase. The project's source code is available under terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

MySQL is popular for web applications and acts as the database component of the LAMP, BAMP, MAMP, and WAMP platforms (Linux/BSD/Mac/Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python), and for open source bug tracking tools like Bugzilla.

MySQL RDBMS

Daimonin Online Game

(added: 21 January 2010)

Daimonin is a free mmorpg, a so-called 'free to play' online game. You don't have to pay for playing. There are also free downloads available.

Daimonin is open source, with the daimonin source code available on the game project pages on the daimonin web site. You can join the team on the developer groups pages.

Daimonin is not only a mmorpg community, its an online game community. You can communicate with other daimonin players, write game blogs, upload pictures of you or game screenshots of your mmorpg character.

Game design does not mean game programming. You can join the team as a game artist, map or rpg maker or AI and quest designer.

Daimonin

Moodle E-learning Software Platform

(added: 20 January 2010)

Moodle, which stands for, Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, is a free and open source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System (CMS), Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Moodle is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. It is designed to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content.

It has a significant user base with 45,721 registered and verified sites, containing 32 million users in 3 million courses (as of January, 2010).

Moodle is primarily developed by Moodle Pty Ltd (based in Perth, Western Australia), supported by a large global community of users and developers. Moodle's open source license and modular design allow any developer to create additional modules and features.

Moodle

Celtx All-in-one Media Pre-production System

(added: 19 January 2010)

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

RQ Money - Free Household Finance Manager

(added: 18 January 2010)

RQ Money is a free financial program that runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system (version 9x to Seven). The program is very easy to install - just requiring a zip file to be unzipped. Once installed, the program taks up less than 2MB.

The program is very fast, easy to use, and stable. It is also portable, and can be transported on a USB key. Multilingual support is also built into the program.

RQ Money

GCompris Educational Software Suite

(added: 15 January 2010)

GCompris is an educational software suite consisting of numerous activities for children aged between 2 to 10.

Subject areas include: computers, algebra, science, geography, games, reading, and puzzles. Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being developed.

GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere. It is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

GCompris

Adonthell Role Playing Game

(added: 14 January 2010)

Adonthell is the combined effort of like-minded people to create a free (as defined by the Free Software Foundation) role playing game for various operating systems.

Adonthell

Crown and Cutlass Pirate Action/Adventure Game

(added: 14 January 2010)

Crown and Cutlass is a 3d pirate action/adventure game in the spirit of the old Pirates! game. It is simultaneously being developed in Linux and Windows, with a strong emphasis on cross-platform compatability.

Crown and Cutlass

WinSCP Open Source SFTP Client

(added: 12 January 2010)

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer.

In addition to this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, the legacy SCP protocol.

WinSCP

Core FTP LE - free Windows FTP Client

(added: 12 January 2010)

Core FTP LE - free Windows software that includes client FTP features. Features like SFTP (SSH), SSL, TLS, IDN, browser integration, site to site transfers, FTP transfer resume, drag and drop support, file viewing & editing, firewall support, custom commands, FTP URL parsing, command line transfers, and filters.

CoreFTP

FileZilla Free FTP Solution

(added: 12 January 2010)

FileZilla is a free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

FileZilla

GnuLedger Web-based Accounting System

(added: 11 January 2010)

GnuLedger is a Web-based accounting system having all the functionality that an average home user needs to manage their finances. Its backend is a MySQL database, and it currently uses a web browser front-end.

It is currently (January 2010) available for Linux/UNIX, Windows NT, 2000, and XP systems.

GnuLedger

OpenOffice Office Suite

(added: 08 January 2010)

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

Money Manager Ex Money Management Application

(added: 07 January 2010)

Money Manager Ex is a free, easy to use, money management application. It is a personal finance manager that can be used to track your net worth, income versus expenses, and so on.

The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

Money Manager Ex

CinePaint Free Open Source Paint Application

(added: 06 January 2010)

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

Chump Change Personal Finance Software

(added: 05 January 2010)

Chump Change is a novel approach to personal finances, using a web-based infrastructure and a strongly budget-oriented model. The software supports multiple users.

The software is written in Ruby, and made available under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

Chump Change

Quasar Accounting

(added: 29 December 2009)

Quasar is a full function, stand-alone business accounting package. With the proper licensing you can configure Quasar to have remote access via both LAN and/or WAN.

Currently the Quasar server runs on just Linux but a Windows version of the server will be released shortly. There is both a Linux version and a Windows version of the Quasar Accounting client.

Available as a free version, or more feature-rich versions are available for sale.

Quasar

Open Source Web Templates

(added: 23 December 2009)

Comprehensive selection of free, open source, templates, including WordPress and GUI templates.

Open Source Templates

Battle City Free Online Tank Wars Game

(added: 22 December 2009)

Players build, defend and attack cities in an endless quest for control and dominance.

To win you must drop the Orb on the enemy cities Command Center. The Command Center is always heavily guarded so teamwork is essential. Bomb buildings and destroy defensive infrastructure using your cities weapons.

You begin ranked as a Private and earn promotions based on how many points you gain. Work your way up to the rank of General by Orbing cities and blowing up tanks.

Battle City

NetWorth Open Source Personal Finance Package

(added: 21 December 2009)

NetWorth is a free, open source personal finance package, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

NetWorth is written in Java and is modelled (more or less) on the appearance and style of Microsoft Money. Primary goals include not only providing for a checkbook register, but also to allow you to schedule bills and forecast account balances.

NetWorth

Python Checkbook Manager

(added: 18 December 2009)

The Python Checkbook Manager (aka PyCheckbook) is a personal finance manager that focuses on simplicity and portability.

It will run on any platform that can run Python and wxPython. It handles very simple checkbook register features.

Python Checkbook Manager

Asymptopia Crossword Builder

(added: 17 December 2009)

Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern internet browser but does not require an internet connection.

The simple controls allow teachers or parents to create unlimited math crosswords, or supply their own word:hint pairs.

Support has recently been added for French, Spanish, pt-Brasillian, Kiswahili, and special characters (accents, tildes etc), in general. Some suggested uses include: cities, countries, lattitudes and longitudes to teach geography and spherical trig, simultaneously; Periodic table word:hint pairs; Language[i]:Language[j] word:hint pairs, for foreign language learning exercise; Terminology practice with virtually any other subject.

Asymptopia

My Money Personal Financial Software

(added: 17 December 2009)

My Money is a high quality personal financial software that works with online bank statements. Simply download your transactions from bank web site and they are automatically entered into electronic register.

By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, My Money helps you more efficiently organize your financial data, simplify taxes and grow your net worth.

Includes double-entry and single-entry accounting support, and powerful reporting and analysis. 60 day free trial.

My Money

Armagetron

(added: 16 December 2009)

Armagetron is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron.

It's an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots. For the more advanced player, there are new game modes and a wide variety of physics settings to tweak as well.

Armagetron Advanced is available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and OpenBSD, and is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Armagetron Advanced is free software.

Armagetron

Ultimate Paint Windows Graphics Program

(added: 15 December 2009)

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

Inkscape Web Design Software

(added: 15 December 2009)

Inkscape is free, open source, web design software, with features similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X.

The software is fully compliant to CSS, SVG and XML standards.

Inkscape

CleanSheets Spreadsheet Application

(added: 14 December 2009)

CleanSheets features a formula language that closely resembles that of Microsoft Excel, and extensions for aiding end-user programmers in developing correct spreadsheets. The application relies on ANTLR for generating the formula compiler and the JFC/Swing JTable component for spreadsheet visualization.

CleanSheets

GFP Personal Finance Manager

(added: 14 December 2009)

GFP (Personal Finance Manager) provides help with personal finance administration, offering a variety of reports and charts. Where possible, data is filtered on screen to obtain important information for your financial health.

GFP

iFreeBudget Free Personal Finance and Budgeting Application

(added: 14 December 2009)

iFreeBudget is free personal finance and budgeting application. It is designed for home and small business users with simple interface and fast user interaction. It is safe and secure with password based encryption for storing all financial data.

iFreeBudget

Free Open Source Web Page Templates

(added: 11 December 2009)

Open Source Web Design (OSWD) is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others.

OSWD

Canorus Free Music Score Editor

(added: 10 December 2009)

Canorus is a free music score editor. It supports note writing, scripting, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output.

Canorus is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Canorus runs on Linux, Windows, MacOSX, and other platforms.

Canorus

Celestia Free Space Simulation

(added: 10 December 2009)

Celestia is free space simulation that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. But if that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

Celestia

Allegiance Space Simulation Game

(added: 09 December 2009)

Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game, providing a mix of real-time strategy and player-piloted space combat gameplay. The game is set circa 2150, shortly after the destruction of Earth by an asteroid, forcing the remnants of humanity to the stars in search of new land and resources.

You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Allegiance challenges your tactical ingenuity, your ability to function in a team and your prowess at blowing stuff up. Experienced players take command and lead their teams to victory or defeat.

Initially developed by Microsoft Research, the game was later released under a shared source license in 2002 and is now maintained and developed by volunteers.

Allegiance

Scribus Desktop Publishing (DTP) Application

(added: 08 December 2009)

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

JMoney Personal Finance Manager

(added: 07 December 2009)

JMoney is a personal finance manager. It supports multiple accounts in different currencies, double entry banking, income/expense categories, various reports and Quicken file (QIF) exchange. It is built using the Eclipse RCP and can be extended using plug-ins.

The software is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

JMoney

Aleph One Free Open Source First-Person Shooter Engine

(added: 04 December 2009)

Aleph One (formerly known as the Marathon Open Source Project) is a free and open source first-person shooter engine based on the source code of Bungie Studios' Marathon 2: Durandal.

The project commenced in early 2000, when Bungie released the code shortly before being acquired by Microsoft and spurred the fan community to further develop it. Since that time, Aleph One has become a successful project in terms of development and community support.

Aleph One

Abuse run and gun video game

(added: 04 December 2009)

Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com, and published by Origin Systems/Electronic Arts. It was released in 1996, and runs on DOS and Linux operating systems.

An improved port of the game was released for Mac OS by Bungie Studios and for the Acorn Archimedes by R-Comp Interactive.

In 2009 it was ported to AmigaOS 4 as well. Furthermore, the game has been ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. The game's source code has been in the public domain since the late 1990s, along with some of the Shareware content.

Abuse

0 A.D. historical real-time strategy open source game

(added: 04 December 2009)

0 A.D. is a historical real-time strategy open source game, published by Wildfire Games. It concentrates on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D..

0AD

Ekiga open source VoIP and video conferencing

(added: 03 December 2009)

Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME.

Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting.

Ekiga

Mikhail Ranish Freeware Software and Algorithms

(added: 02 December 2009)

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

Mikhail Ranish

Free Open Source Loan Repayment Calculator

(added: 01 December 2009)

The loan repayment calculator is the latest addition to JDT's collection of free financial calculators. Written in open source PHP, the calculator is available as a free software download under the terms of the GNU General Public License, or it can be simply used as an online calculator (running on this web site).

The loan repayment calculator lets you enter three variables, and it calculates the fourth. For example, you could enter the term of the loan, the interest rate charged, and the amount of the loan. The calculator would then calculate the monthly repayments.

Alternatively, you could enter the term of the loan, the amount of the loan, and the monthly repayments. The calculator would then calculate the interest rate charged on the loan.

Loan Repayment Calculator

PBooks - free open source bookkeeping and accounting Software

(added: 30 November 2009)

PBooks is free open source bookkeeping and accounting software, written in PHP.

PBooks is a simple and basic accounting package that includes the required features for small business accounting, including a general journal, a charter of accounts, a general ledger, and various reports (balance sheet, the cash flow statement, and the income statement).

PBooks was designed to be used for accrual based accounting.

PBooks

Dia diagram creation program

(added: 27 November 2009)

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

Avidemux - Free Open Source Video Editor

(added: 25 November 2009)

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

Audacity^® - Free, Open Source Sound Editing Software

(added: 24 November 2009)

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

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