Free Soft
Free Soft
Convert your favorite audio files... Tags's editor integrated (V1 and V2). Copy your audio CDs very rapidly thanks to Free CD Ripper.
Simplicity at the service of efficiency.
aTunes
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be
executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, ...
Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize
music and rip Audio CDs.
fre:ac
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It
currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.
With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use with your hardware player or convert
files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder
and filename structure.
The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song
information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.
Features (click an entry to see details)
- Converter for MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
- Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support
- Portable application, install on a USB stick and take it with you
- Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs
- Full Unicode support for tags and file names
- Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them
- Multilingual user interface available in 37 languages
- Completely free and open source without a catch
GRISBI
Grisbi (French slang for "stash") is a personal finance system which runs under Linux and Microsoft Windows. Grisbi can manage
multiple accounts, currencies and users. It manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines,
financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations (except those that require double entry accounting).
Released under the GNU General Public License, Grisbi is free software.
Main Features:
- Graphical user interface
- Multi-account Handling
- Totally customizable financial printable reports
- Scheduled Transactions
- OFX, QIF, GnuCash, CSV (in development version) Import
- QIF, CSV Export
- Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
- Translations done or incoming into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
Chinese, Hebrew, Bulgarian.
GNUCASH
GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for
GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As
quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and
accurate reports.
Main Features:
- Double-entry bookkeeping
- Scheduled Transactions
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid
- Small Business Accounting Features
- OFX, QIF Import
- HBCI Support (disabled in pre-compiled binaries due to licensing conflicts)[2]
- Transaction-Import Matching Support
- (Limited) Multi-User SQL Support
- Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
- Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios
- Online Stock & Mutual Fund Quotes
GFP
GFP is a Free Open Source Personal Finance Manager in Java/Swing that can run on virtually any Operating
System. It's designed to people with few financial knowledge to be helped on managing their finances. Its
translated to 11 languages.
GFP help you to control checking accounts, account savings, and credit card. It is possible to generate reports,
and it can be run on Linux. After some months of use GFP will start trying to predict your account status based
on your financial behavior, it means that for future dates GFP will show you the state of each of your expenses
based on your configuration settings, making possible to instantly get the response for money income on this
account for the next 2 years. Also it allows to users to post their support requests for GFP team directly from
GFP help menu. It is also possible to import data from OFC and OFX files.
NUMERICAL CHAMELEON
The NumericalChameleon is a free, open source, platform-independent and localized software to convert units.
It converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000 significant figures. It supports more than 3200 units in 82
categories, including not only all important physical units of categories like length, area, volume, electricity,
magnetism, force, power, energy, pressure, mass, temperature, velocity, acceleration, radioactivity and time, but
also exchange rates, timezones, spoken numbers (literally and by audio*), roman numbers, 35 radixes,
bits&bytes, screen resolutions, colorcodes, unicodes, international dial codes, calendar and holiday
calculations, phonetic alphabets and more. It provides a modern, dynamic and graphical user interface. You
have unlimited access on all categories, units, icons, filters and themes. You can add, modify, hide or delete
them.
The NumericalChameleon is released under the terms of GNU GPL.
TurboCash
TurboCASH 4 is an open source accounting package that is free for everyone to download and distribute under the terms of the
General Public Licence (GPL). It is one of the world's first fully-featured open source accounts packages for small business, with over
80 000 users.
TurboCASH is much more than a simple 'home finances' or small business bookkeeping system (compare us to Quickbooks and Sage
and see why). Small business accounting software providers typically release a low-end product for 100 that excludes such basic
features as stock control. TurboCASH includes most functions a business will ever need: debtors, creditors, general ledger, full stock
control, VAT accounting, invoicing, bank reconciliation, trial balance, balance sheet and income statements, full reporting and
analysis, as well as mutli-company and multi-user capabilities.
TurboCASH accounting software is flexible. It can be configured for any country and any small business. We currently have chart of
accounts available for free download for the UK and USA. More countries and languages are being added continually. We strive to
provide powerful small business accounting software that doesn't break the bank.
HomeBank
HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail
using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
HomeBank benefits from more than 14 years of user experience and feedback. Its development started in 1995 on Amiga
computers. It is available for ~50 languages on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, MacOSX, and Nokia N***.
If you are looking for an easy way to manage your accounts then HomeBank should be the software of choice. Take some time to
try it out, you won't regret it.
FrontAccounting
Welcome to our Web Site. Our speciality is Accounting systems for small companies and our popular web based FrontAccounting is a
simple, but powerful, system for the entire ERP chain and covers:
- Purchase Orders
- Goods Receivable Notes
- Supplier Invoices/Credit Notes
- Payments
- Allocations
- Accounts Payable
- Items and Inventory
- Stock
- Manufacturing
- Sales Orders
- Customer Invoices/Credit Notes
- Deposits
- Allocations
- Accounts Receivable
- Dimensions
- General Ledger with Budget
- Languages
- Currencies
- Several Companies
The databases can be placed anywhere in the world and can be reached from everywhere.
FrontAccounting is free and released under the GNU General Public License.
ADempiere
ADempiere (pronounced ah-dem-pyeh-reh) is an Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP software released under an open source
software license.
Business functionality
Mifos
Mifos is a web-based management information system (MIS) for microfinance institutions (MFIs). Through its open source
technology platform, Mifos streamlines the operations of microfinance institutions, providing real-time information and the capacity
to scale. Mifos helps MFIs operate more efficiently and to drive a broader and deeper outreach to the poor. As the core backbone of
an MFIs operations, Mifos provides portfolio and transaction management, on-the-fly financial product creation, in-depth client
management, integrated social performance measurement, and a reporting engine to provide financial transparency and business
and social insight.
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual
Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic
web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or
one at a web hosting company.
What is Moodle?
The focus of the Moodle project is always on giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning, but there are many
ways to use Moodle:
- Moodle has features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be
used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
- Many institutions use it as their platform to conduct fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face
courses (known as blended learning).
- Many of our users love to use the activity modules (such as forums, databases and wikis) to build richly collaborative communities
of learning around their subject matter (in the social constructionist tradition), while others prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver
content to students (such as standard SCORM packages) and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.
Gcompris
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the
activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities
available in that category.
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.
eFront
Welcome! We are here to satisfy your training needs and help your organization be more efficient and more productive. With eFront
you will discover new ways to perform training tasks easier and faster, while keeping your people actively engaged and in shape. The
community edition is offered as open-source and free software so you can download and start using it immediately. Check the
functionality matrix for specialized commercial editions for Small companies, Educational institutes and Enterprises.
- Easy to use - explanation eFront was built with the end user in mind. The interface is natural, and easy to navigate. Most options
are self-explanatory.
- Visually attractive - explanation You will appreciate our aesthetic features. We didn't want to build "just another eLearning tool".
We built the most beautiful eLearning tool.
- Technologically advanced - explanation eFront is an Object-oriented, Ajax powered, Unicode, LDAP and SCORM (1.2 and 2004/4th
edition) supporting, multilingual eLearning platform.
- Pedagogical concepts - explanation Integrated to eFront are sound pedagogical concepts that guide users and keep them
motivated.
- Open Source and Professionally Supported - explanation All editions of eFront are offered with their source code. You may
download the community edition for free, customize it to your needs, add new functionality and share it with the community.
Although distributed as open source, eFront is being supported by a professional team of skilled developers.
- Complete - explanation eFront includes a wide variety of components that help you create your lesson structure and add content,
build online-tests, communicate with others, track users history and progress, conduct surveys, assign projects, and create
certifications. And this is only the beginning
JClic
JClic is a set of free software applications licensed under the GNU General Public License that are used for carrying out different
types of educational activities: puzzles, associations, text exercises, crosswords, scrambled letters, etc. It's developed in the Java
platform and works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris systems.
FlightGear
The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source
code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic
environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. We are
developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in
contributing.
There are many exciting possibilities for an open, free flight sim. We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many
people in many areas.
STAR Projects
The STAR program at MIT seeks to bridge the divide between scientific research and the classroom. Understanding and applying
research methods in the classroom setting can be challenging due to time constraints and the need for advanced equipment and
facilities. The multidisciplinary STAR team collaborates with faculty from MIT and other educational institutions to design software
exploring core scientific research concepts. The goal of STAR is to develop innovative and intuitive teaching tools for classroom use.
STAR educational tools are FREELY available. To complement our educational software, the STAR website contains curriculum
components/modules which can facilitate the use of STAR educational tools in a variety of educational settings. Students, teachers,
and professors should feel welcome to download software and curriculum modules for their own use. We welcome your comments
and feedback as you explore these educational tools
Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape
apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format.
Features:
- Object creation
- Object manipulation
- Fill and stroke
- Operations on paths
- Text support
- Rendering
DIA
Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It
can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML
diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing
simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by
default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print
diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a free raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs.
Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing
unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images
in GIF format. It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the
printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone. The project's mascot is named Wilber.
The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers under the
auspices of the GNOME Project. The current version of GIMP works with numerous operating systems, including all modern Linux
distributions, all recent versions of Microsoft Windows, and Apple's OS-X.
GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of
Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP. Due to the changes to the
interface, many Photoshop tutorials can be followed in GIMPshop unchanged, and most others can be adapted for GIMPshop users
with minimal effort.
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include
image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but
intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden
toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a
musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner
support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF,
WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
As of version 3.5, usage of FastStone Image Viewer remains cost-free for personal and educational (including non-profit organization)
use, while still requiring a registration for commercial use.
Photoscape
Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
Key Features
PAINT.NET
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.
Features:
- Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order
to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead
of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.
- Layers
Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition
experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.
- Special Effects
Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal,
distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add
perspective and tilting.
- Powerful Tools
Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The
Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities
for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the
Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a
simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.
IMGV
IMGV is a unique and feature rich Image Viewer. It is released as free software with full source code. Imgv is portable and can run on
Windows, Linux, BSD, OSX, and other operating systems.
- Supported Files: JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, TGA, PPM, PNM, PBM, PGM, XPM, XCF, LBM, IFF, MPEG
- Command Line: Ability to load image files from the command line.
- Fullscreen Support: View images in fullscreen mode.
- Slideshows: Create different types of slideshows.
- Transitional Effects: Effects currently include "fade in" and "melt". Ability to set multiple effects to run at the same time.
- Play Lists: Have collections of images. Files can be in any directory or drive on your system or even on the Web.
- Multi-view: You can view four images at a time (and even slideshow in this mode)
- Exif Support: On-the-fly viewing of Exif information (meta-data from images that came from digital cameras, scanners, etc) and
detailed Exif viewing are available.
- External Editor Support: Launch images into an external editor such as Adobe Photoshop for editing.
- Wallpaper Setting: - Easily set your desktop wallpaper.
- Costumization: Edit "imgv.conf" to configure IMGV's interface and abilities to your desires.
- Thumbnail Support: View screenfulls of thumbnails and adjust their sizes.
- Extract Images from web pages: View individual images from Web URL's or extract all images from a Web page. You can then
manipulate the images and even download them.
- Multi-Directory Loading: You can tag multiple directories to load all of their images at the same time.
- Subdirectory Loading: Optionally load sub-directories too.
- Hand Tool: Drag images to move them around the screen
- Persistent Zoom: Lock the zoom amount so that all images are auto-zoomed to that amount<
- Shuffle: Dynamically randomizes the images, even across multiple directories.
- Search Filters: Search for or filter out certain images.
- Typical Features: Zoom-in/out. Rotate. Flip vertically/horizontally, etc
- Movies Support: View MPEG movies
- Image Closing: Remove an image from your current session without deleting it.
- Image Hiding: Hides displayed images by blanking the window until a keypress or mouse-click. You can also password protect this
feature.
- Image Details: Shows an entire screen full of information about the image.
- Histogram Support: View an image histogram in color.
- ScreenSaver Disabling: IMGV temporarily disables your screensaver when watching movies or viewing slideshows.
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-
to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. Native versions are available for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Microsoft
Windows. It is known for its broad feature set of page layout features comparable to leading commercial applications such as Adobe
PageMaker, QuarkXPress and 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.Released under the GNU General Public License, Scribus is free software.
Scribus is powerful software that helps you create great looking documents of all kinds. It also comes with a lot of support options to
help you achieve the best result. There is an enthusiastic and friendly community around Scribus that assists beginner and pro alike
through our mailing list, IRC channel, wiki, contracted support, and the bugtracker.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows
desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly
interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile
PDF creation.
LIBRE OFFICE
LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. There is a large
base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it is available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems,
including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, ...).
You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement.
What's outstanding about LibreOffice?
LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great advantages:
- Writer is the word processor inside LibreOffice. Use it for everything, from dashing off a quick letter to producing an entire book
with tables of contents, embedded illustrations, bibliographies and diagrams. The while-you-type auto-completion, auto-formatting
and automatic spelling checking make difficult tasks easy (but are easy to disable if you prefer). Writer is powerful enough to tackle
desktop publishing tasks such as creating multi-column newsletters and brochures. The only limit is your imagination.
- Calc tames your numbers and helps with difficult decisions when you're weighing the alternatives. Analyze your data with Calc and
then use it to present your final output. Charts and analysis tools help bring transparency to your conclusions. A fully-integrated help
system makes easier work of entering complex formulas. Add data from external databases such as SQL or Oracle, then sort and
filter them to produce statistical analyses. Use the graphing functions to display large number of 2D and 3D graphics from 13
categories, including line, area, bar, pie, X-Y, and net with the dozens of variations available, you're sure to find one that suits your
project.
- Impress is the fastest and easiest way to create effective multimedia presentations. Stunning animation and sensational special
effects help you convince your audience. Create presentations that look even more professional than the standard presentations you
commonly see at work. Get your collegues' and bosses' attention by creating something a little bit different.
- Draw lets you build diagrams and sketches from scratch. A picture is worth a thousand words, so why not try something simple
with box and line diagrams? Or else go further and easily build dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects. It's as simple or as
powerful as you want it to be.
- Base is the database front-end of the LibreOffice suite. With Base, you can seamlessly integrate your existing database structures
into the other components of LibreOffice, or create an interface to use and administer your data as a stand-alone application. You
can use imported and linked tables and queries from MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft Access and many other data sources, or
design your own with Base, to build powerful front-ends with sophisticated forms, reports and views. Support is built-in or easily
addable for a very wide range of database products, notably the standardly-provided HSQL, MySQL, Adabas D, Microsoft Access and
PostgreSQL.
- Math is a simple equation editor that lets you lay-out and display your mathematical, chemical, electrical or scientific equations
quickly in standard written notation. Even the most-complex calculations can be understandable when displayed correctly. E=mc2.
LibreOffice also comes configured with a PDF file creator, meaning you can distribute documents that you're sure can be opened and
read by users of almost any computing device or operating system.
OPEN OFFICE
OpenOffice 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. It can be downloaded and used
completely free of charge for any purpose.
OpenOffice.org aims to compete with Microsoft Office and emulate its look and feel where suitable. It can read and write most of
the file formats found in Microsoft Office, and many other applications; an essential feature of the suite for many users.
COMPONENTS:
Writer - A word processor similar in look and feel to Microsoft Word or WordPerfect and offering a comparable range of functions
and tools. It also includes the ability to export Portable Document Format (PDF) files with no additional software, and can also
function as a basic WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing web pages.
Calc - A spreadsheet similar to Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 with a roughly equivalent range of features. Calc provides a number of
features not present in Excel, including a system which automatically defines series for graphing, based on the layout of the users
data. Calc is also capable of writing spreadsheets directly as a PDF file.
Impress - A presentation program similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. It can export presentations to Adobe Flash (SWF) files, allowing
them to be played on any computer with the Flash player installed. It also includes the ability to create PDF files, and the ability to
read Microsoft PowerPoint's .ppt format. Impress suffers from a lack of ready-made presentation designs. However, templates are
readily available on the Internet.
Base - A database program similar to Microsoft Access. Base allows the creation and manipulation of databases, and the building of
forms and reports to provide easy access to data for end-users. As with Access, Base may be used as a front-end to a number of
different database systems, including Access databases (JET), ODBC data sources and MySQL/PostgreSQL. Base became part of the
suite starting with version 2.0. Native to the OpenOffice.org suite is an adaptation of HSQL. While ooBase can be a front-end for any
of the databases listed, there is no need for any of them to be installed.
Draw - A vector graphics editor comparable in features to early versions of CorelDRAW. It features versatile "connectors" between
shapes, which are available in a range of line styles and facilitate building drawings such as flowcharts. It has similar features to
Desktop publishing software such as Scribus and Microsoft Publisher.
Math - A tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor. Formulae can be embedded
inside other OpenOffice.org documents, such as those created by Writer. It supports multiple fonts and can export to PDF.
OpenProj
OpenProj is a free and powerful open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. OpenProj has been
downloaded over 1,500,000 times and is used in over 100 countries.
Rich functionality: OpenProj offers the rich functionality project managers need to run their projects
including Gantt and PERT charts, WBS (work breakdown structure) and RBS (resource breakdown structure)
charts, Earned Value costing, and more. Because OpenProj is very similar to Microsoft Project, there is literally
no time or effort involved in switching to OpenProj.
Multiple formats: OpenProj enables project managers to easily work with Microsoft Project and Oracle
Primavera files. OpenProj users can eliminate any migration headaches with switching, and can continue
working with other project managers using Microsoft and Oracle products.
Global usage: OpenProj can run on virtually any computer including Windows, Mac, UNIX, and Linux. It
has also been translated into French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Galician, Persian,
Russian, Korean, and Chinese.
Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) - For more comprehensive project and portfolio management (PPM)
functionality, many organizations turn to Serena Project and Portfolio Management. Serena PPM helps
everyone collaborate on incoming requests, prioritize requests against current project pipeline and priorities,
and staff the best projects as quickly as possible.
Agile Project Management - Organizations that need to manage agile projects instead of traditional waterfall
projects rely on Serena Agile Planner. Serena Agile Planner offers organizations an easy and flexible way to run
their agile development projects. In addition to providing burndown charts, task boards, and sprint backlogs,
Serena Agile Planner also helps software developers more easily make the move to agile.
Adobe Reader is free software that lets you open, view, search, digitally sign, verify, and print PDF files. Portable Document Format
(PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional
documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.
Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2-D document (and, with Acrobat 3-D, embedded 3-D
documents) that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2-D vector graphics which the documents comprise.
Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and
interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.
GOOGLE DOCS
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application offered by Google. It allows users to
create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can be created within the application itself, imported through the web interface, or
sent via email. They can also be saved to the user's computer in a variety of formats. By default, they are saved to the Google
servers. Open documents are automatically saved to prevent data loss, and a full revision history is automatically kept. Documents
can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes. Collaboration between users is also a feature of Google Docs. Documents
can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users at the same time. In the case of spreadsheets, users can be notified of changes
to any specified regions via e-mail. The application supports popular Office file types such as .doc or .xls. It also includes support for
the OpenDocument format. It is also possible to upload and share PDF files.
PDFCreator
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.
Key Features:
Kexi Project
Kexi is a Free/Libre and Open-Source integrated data management application, a long awaited Open Source competitor for products
like Microsoft Access. Kexi can be used for creating database schemas, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data.
Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data. All database objects - tables, queries and forms - are stored in the
relational database, making it easy to share data and design.
KOFFICE
It utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document formats, component communication and component
embedding.
Applications
- KWord - KWord is a frame-based word-processing and desktop publishing application. KWord is capable of creating demanding and
professional looking documents. Whether you are a corporate or home user, production artist or student, KWord will prove a
valuable and easy to use tool for your word processing and layout needs.
- KSpread - KSpread is a spreadsheet. With KSpread you can create table-oriented sheets with information and powerful calculations
with ease with good support for the OpenDocument format. For calculations there is a huge list of formulas available that allow all
the expected numerical, financial and textual features that are expected in a spreadsheet. KSpreads excellent OpenFormula support
gives even demanding number crunchers the features they need.
- KPresenter - KPresenter is an easy to use yet still flexible presentation application. You can easily create presentations containing a
rich variety of elements, from graphics to text, from charts to images. KPresenter is extensible through a plugin system, so it is easy
to add new effects, new content elements or even new ways of managing your presentation. Because of the integration with KOffice,
all the power and flexibility of the KOffice content elements are available to KPresenter.
- Krita - Krita is a graphics application for everyone who wants to get creative with images. Whether you want to create from scratch
or work with existing images, Krita is meant for you.
- Karbon - Karbon is a vector drawing application with an user interface that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible. That
makes Karbon a great application for users starting to explore the world of vector graphics as well as for artists wanting to create
breathtaking vector art.
Task Coach
Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that most
task managers do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task
Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks. In addition, it offers effort tracking, categories, and notes. Task Coach is available for
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and iPhone and iPod Touch.
Task Coach is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version and free to use for both individuals and
companies.
Bibus bibliographic database
Bibus is a bibliographic and reference management software. As with other such tools, Bibus allows one to search, edit, and sort
bibliographic records. In addition, Bibus contains features that makes it unique among open source and even commercial
bibliographic databases:
AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the same time.
WinDjView
WinDjView is a fast, compact and powerful DjVu viewer for Windows with tabbed interface, continuous scrolling and advanced
printing options. It uses the free DjVuLibre library to decode DjVu documents. DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for
distributing documents and images.
Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations,
integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It
is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded
modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.
GNU Octave is also freely redistributable software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
LaTeX
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.
LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as free software. It is
most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
SAGE
Sage is a scientific computing software application including a computer algebra system. It is written in Python and Cython and
integrates an included distribution of specialized mathematics software into a common experience.
Sage can be used to study general and advanced, pure and applied mathematics. This includes a huge range of mathematics,
including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative
algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, exact linear algebra and much more. It combines various software packages and
seamlessly integrates their functionality into a common experience. It is well suited for education, studying and research.
SCILAB
Scilab is a scientific educational software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for
engineering and scientific applications. Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions with the possibility to add interactively
programs from various languages (C, C++, Fortran). It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational
functions, linear systems...), an interpreter and a high level programming language.
Scilab has been designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and operations on these data types by
using overloading.
CALCULATOR ++
Calculator ++ is a cross-platform, arbitrary-precision, customizable, multifunction, scientific calculator. Using Calculator ++, you can
perform any of the customary handheld or online calculator operations, and many more. While it serves as an excellent replacement
for your operating system's built-in calculator, it also offers many powerful features that are not available together in any other
handheld or computer-based calculator. Calculator ++ supports over 25,000 units for conversion in an ever growing list of categories
and units. Scientists, engineers, programmers, and students will find it a simple to use, yet powerful, tool.
Calculator ++ is written entirely in Java, so you can use it on the platform of your choice.
Das Unit Converter is an easy-to-use freeware program that can handle virtually all of your unit conversion needs. With over 2000
units, over 80 categories, and with the ability to add more (units and categories), you may never need to use an online converter or a
search engine for unit conversions again! Some features include (see full list below): Online updating, world currency, conversion
history, customizable outputs, support for math operations and functions, and much more. Das Unit Converter is 100% free software
and 100% spyware, adware, and virus free.
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. 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 is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If
that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked
eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
QGIS
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public
License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows
and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
7-Zip is a file archiver for Microsoft Windows with a high compression ratio.. 7-Zip operates primarily with the 7z archive format, as
well as being able to read and write to several other archive formats. In operation a user can use the command line, graphical user
interface or Windows shell integration.
7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license:
GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip license.
You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
Features
CDBurnerXP
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and
create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar
malicious components.
The program supports burning data on CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD as well as burning
audio files (WAV, MP3, FLAC, Windows Media Audio, and Ogg Vorbis) in the Red Book format. ISO images can be burnt and created.
CDBurnerXP Pro is freeware. It is closed source because it currently uses some proprietary libraries.
Key Features
Clonezilla
You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost. The problem with these kind of software
packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's
solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system
(OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partclone and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are
available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While
Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only
used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41
computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!
Features:
Clonezilla itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. However, to run Clonezilla, a lot of free and open
source software, e.g. the Linux kernel, a mininal GNU/Linux OS, are required.
TeamViewer
TeamViewer - the All-In-One Solution for Remote Access and Support over the Internet
TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you
were sitting right in front of it.
TeamViewer is our solution for easy and friendly desktop sharing. You can remote control a partners desktop to give online
assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer - all without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT.
MYCO
My Commander is small - smarter - fastest file manager in the world.
MyCO Features:
- Based on microPlatform
- Copy, move, rename, files
- Create, copy , move, rename, folders
- Create jonctions, softlinks, hardlinks, mountpoints
- Create, extract ISO files
- Create, extract zip files
Double Commander
Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and
features some new ideas.
- Unicode support
- All operations working in background
- Multi-rename tool
- Tabbed interface
- Custom columns
- Internal text editor (F4) with syntax hightlighting
- Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format
- Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives. Supported archive types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ,
LZMA and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR.
- Extended search function with full text search in any files
- Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands
- Total Commander WCX, WDX and WLX plug-ins support
- File operations logging
- And more...
FreeCommander
FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in
Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just
copy the installation directory on a CD or USB-Stick - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer.
CCleaner
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and
more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.
CCleaner is our system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run
faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally
it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains
NO Spyware or Adware!
Advanced SystemCare Free (formerly Advanced WindowsCare Personal) has a one-click approach to help protect, repair, clean, and
optimize your PC. With over 100 MILLION downloads since 2006, this fantastic, award-winning, free PC repair software is a "must-
have" tool for your computer. 100% safe with no adware, spyware, or viruses; a PC maintenance program that's incredibly easy to
use.
Why waste money on expensive "registry cleaners" to fix your PC when Advanced SystemCare Free will repair, tune, and maintain it
for you for free!
Free web development software
DRUPAL
Drupal is a free content management software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage
and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores
of different web sites, including
Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality,
combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:
Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a
community of thousands of users and developers. If you like what Drupal promises for you, please work with us to expand and refine
Drupal to suit your specific needs.
JOOMLA
Joomla is an award-winning web content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online
applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software
available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
A website content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local
public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about
anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage.
Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to. Joomla is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free
under the GPL license) are available in the Joomla Extensions Directory.
Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
Joomla is designed to be easy to install and set up even if you're not an advanced user. Many Web hosting services offer a single-click
install, getting your new site up and running in just a few minutes.
The Joomla content management tool consists of many different parts, which allow modular extensions and integrations to be made
easily. An example of such are extensions called "Plugins". (Previously known as "Mambots".) Plugins are background extensions that
extend Joomla with new functionality. There are over 3,500 extensions for Joomla available via the Extensions Directory. In addition
to Plugins, more comprehensive extensions are available. "Components" allow webmasters to perform such tasks as build a
community by expanding user features, backup a website, translate content and create URLs that are more friendly to search
engines. "Modules" perform such tasks as displaying a calendar or allowing custom code like Google AdSense etc., to be inserted
within the base Joomla code. Joomla permits administrators to set global configuration parameters that affect every article. Every
page conforms to these parameters by default, but a page can have its own setting for each parameter.
Joomla is the most popular open source CMS currently available as evidenced by a vibrant and growing community of friendly users
and talented developers. Joomla's roots go back to 2000 and, with over 200,000 community users and contributors, the future looks
bright for the award-winning Joomla Project.
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WORDPRESS
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless
at the same time.
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when youre ready for more there are thousands of plugins and
themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to
power the place on the web they call home wed love you to join the family.
TYPO 3
TYPO3 is a small to midsize enterprise-class Content Management Framework offering the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box
operation with a complete set of standard modules and a clean and sturdy high-performance architecture accomodating virtually
every kind of custom solution or extension.
For authors, TYPO3 is a user-friendly, intuitive tool, allowing content editors to produce and maintain web pages, using sophisticated
functions in just a few clicks of the mouse.
With TYPO3, everyone can participate in web-based communication and customer relations. Seamless integration of multimedia
content types and dynamic server-side image manipulation and generation are among the numerous standard options inside this
comprehensive toolbox for web-based communication. Also included is an internal messaging and workflow communication system
for shared authoring and collaboration.
For administrators and content managers, TYPO3 features an extremely detailed user permissions system for implementing
professional content creation and editing workflows. TYPO3 is a server-side platform-independent application that can be used with
virtually every browser available.
Web developers and agencies will appreciate the complete separation of design and content. TYPO3 does not limit the design
options expected by professional website designers and site redesigns are easily accommodated.
TYPO3 is database-driven and scales easily to deliver web pages and embedded formats in an enterprise content providing
environment.
b2evolution
b2evolution is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website.
It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management,
versatile skins, multiple blogs, detailed user permissions... not to mention plugins, of course.
b2evolution is free, open-source software (GPL), runs on virtually any webserver featuring PHP + MySQL and is available in several
languages.
XOOPS
XOOPS is a web application platform written in PHP for the MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for
developing small or large community websites, intra company and corporate portals, weblogs and much more.
XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Though started as a portal system, XOOPS is in fact striving
steadily on the track of Content Management System. It can serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites.
A lite XOOPS can be used as a personal weblog or journal. For this purpose, you can do a standard install, and use its News module
only. For a medium site, you can use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links etc to form a community to interact with your
members and visitors. For a large site as an enterprise one, you can develop your own modules such as eShop, and use XOOP's
uniform user management system to seamlessly integrate your modules with the whole system.
Zen Cart
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design
program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce
web design could be and should be done differently.
Some shopping cart solutions seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users' needs, Zen Cart puts
the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other shopping cart software programs are nearly impossible to install and
use without an IT degree, Zen Cart can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.
There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering the level of options, features and support
available with Zen Cart. Even the commercial programs have a hard time competing.