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 Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop has long stood as the epitome of image editing software, constantly evolving to meet the needs of creatives around the globe. With its origins dating back to the late 1980s, Photoshop... Alternatives: Gimp Krita Seashore Pinta
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
Photoshop Elements is the little brother of Photoshop. But that does not mean that it is simple and useless. Adobe has taken many features found in previous version of their flagship product... Alternatives: Gimp Krita Seashore Pinta
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 Gimp
GIMP, an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program, stands as a testament to the power and possibilities of open-source software. Since its inception in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter... |
Seashore 0.1.9
Seashore, an open source image editing program for the MacOS's Cocoa framework, stands somewhere between the old MacPaint and Photoshop. Its advantage lies in serving the basic image editing needs... |
Corel PaintShop Pro
PaintShop Pro, developed by Corel, stands as a powerful photo editing and graphic design software that offers a comprehensive suite of tools for photographers and designers alike. Since its... Alternatives: Gimp Krita Seashore Pinta
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Paint.NET
Paint.NET, initially developed as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, has evolved into a powerful yet simple tool for image and photo editing. Launched in 2004,... Alternatives: Gimp Krita Seashore Pinta
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Pinta
Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform painting and image editing program designed to serve as an easily accessible tool for both novices and experienced artists. Inspired by Paint.NET, Pinta... |
Inkscape
Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor that rivals proprietary software with its comprehensive feature set and flexibility. Launched in 2003, Inkscape has become a favorite tool among... |
Krita
Krita is a powerful, open-source painting program that has been gaining popularity among digital artists and illustrators for its wide array of professional-grade features. Launched in 1999,... |
Open source alternatives for educational and science software
Osalt.com launches a new category for educational and science related software. This new category will list free open source software alternatives to proprietary products.
The software listed will... |
Photoshop plug-ins for Gimp - now also for Linux
In March, a Photoshop plug-in interface (Photoshop 8bf filters loader) was developed, which made it possible for you to use all your favourite Photoshop plug-ins in Gimp on - not only Windows - but... |
Quest Software Toad for Oracle
Toad is one of the most populare and widely used database development and administration tools. This feature-rich product is a must-have for everyone working with Oracle. Features include query... Alternatives: TOra SQLTools SQuirreL SQL Client
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Lightroom by Adobe is a management system for your photos which helps you view, edit and manage digital photos in the same way that photographers handle traditional photographs.
Lightroom is... Alternatives: digiKam
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OpenOffice Draw
OpenOffice Draw, a component of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a powerful vector graphics editor that offers a flexible and dynamic platform for creating everything from simple diagrams to... |
RSS Bandit 1.6.0.2
RSS Bandit is a RSS and Atom reader that allows you to keep track of all of the news feeds you follow on the net. It's newspaper view lets you get a quick overview of unread posts across the blogs... |
iPhoto
Even people who have never used a photo editing program before will have fun with iPhoto. Apple's photo software will take the drudgery out of organizing your digital photos. It will even do it for... Alternatives: digiKam
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 Osalt.com now in Spanish
(read this announcement in Spanish below)
The popular Open source directory Osalt.com (Open Source as Alternative) is now available in Spanish
- How do you avoid paying for a Final Cut or... |
Today the future of internet begins - and open source is ready
Companies world-wide start to embrace the new standard for communication on the internet; the Internet Protocol version 6 - also known as IPv6. IPv6 will at some point replace existing IPv4 which... |
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator, a key component of Adobe's Creative Cloud, has set the standard in vector graphics design since its launch in 1987. It offers precision and power with sophisticated drawing... Alternatives: Inkscape Skencil Krita Xara LX
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TOra 2.0
TOra is an open source database administration and sql tool for Oracle. With TOra you can perform virtually any administrative task on your Oracle database servers - anything from user and security... |
Potrace 1.8
Potrace is an open source tool for converting bitmap images or raster to vector drawings. Even though Potrace is only a command line tool - its output is of the highest quality. It supports the most... |
Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in 4.5
Eventhough this is "just" a plug-in for Photoshop it is still listed here due to it's important features and high quality raw photo converter. Camera Raw lets you control exposure, color-cast - and... Alternatives: UFRaw
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EMS SQL Manager for MySQL 2007
SQL Manager for MySQL makes work with any MySQL database a simple task. No more need for command-line tool 'mysql'. Everything can be controlled directly from within SQL Manager - all database... Alternatives: HeidiSQL SQuirreL SQL Client
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IrfanView
IrfanView is a free, small, fast graphic viewer whose goal is to be simple for beginners while meeting the power needs of professionals. It allows you to view and change graphic images to your own... Alternatives: Cornice Imgv
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HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL is a brilliant, small and simple open source SQL tool for MySQL databases. It does exactly what you expect it to - and a few extra things. Downloading, installing and configuring is very... |
Sony ACID Pro 6
ACID Pro, a loop-based music creation tool, is a favorite of users worldwide. Combining loops, multi-track recording and MIDI, this is a full-featured music workstation that will produce... Alternatives: Audacity Traverso DAW
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Corel Draw X5
Corel Draw part of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has a long history of being one of the most popular vector drawing software applications around. Wheter you are designing graphics for print, web or... Alternatives: Inkscape OpenOffice Draw Skencil Xara LX
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Pencil 0.4.4b
Pencil is a program of creating of hand-drawn animation. When creating animations it uses four types of layers: vector graphics, bitmap, sound and camera. These layers and be added or removed... |
Final Cut Pro 5
Final Cut Pro is NLE (non-linear editing) at it's best. Final Cut allows you to edit any video format from consumer DV to high-end and professional HD (high definition) digital video. Editing and... Alternatives: Kino Avidemux VirtualDub Cinelerra
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Kino 1.3
Kino is open source non-linear video editing at it's best. Easily imports DV video through IEEE-1394 (firewire) and allow detailed editing and transition effect for both video and audio. The move... |
Corel PowerTRACE X4
As part of Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite, Corel PowerTRACE handles the complex task of converting bitmap images into perfect vector drawing for further processing. Now all old drawings and even... Alternatives: Potrace
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Moodle 1.9
Moodle, an open source course management system, that uses pedagogical principles to create online learning communities. Briefly, pedagogical principles theorize that people construct new knowledge... |
Ghost Solution Suite 2.5
Ghost is easy to use, high performance software used to deploy operating system images to servers and workstations as well as management of both Linux and Windows systems. It's so well known and... Alternatives: Clonezilla FOG
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Autodesk SketchBook Pro
Autodesk SketchBook Pro is paint and drawing software that makes your laptop, desktop computer or even iPad or smartphone into a sketchbook. It allows you to access professional quality sketching... Alternatives: MyPaint
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RSSOwl 1.2.3
RSSOwl is a great news reader that runs on virtually any platform. First you have to add feeds to RSSOwl - this can of course be done by manually adding the exact URL of the feed. However, RSSOwl... |
Avidemux 2.4.1
Avidemux offers simple video editing for your PC, but packs many more features than that. This open source project is great for DVD/DivX converting and editing. Avidemux also has scripting support... |
Cinelerra 4.0
Cinelerra is a highly advanced and professional video editing, but still remains open source. Cinelerra solves three main tasks: capturing, editing and compositing. There is virtually no limit to the... |
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Adobe Premiere is state of the art video editing. For real-time non-linear editing for any video format include High Definition (HD). Supports 16-bit color resolution, GPU accelerated rendering for... Alternatives: Kino Avidemux VirtualDub Cinelerra
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Skencil 0.6
Skencil is an open source interactive vector drawing application. It is a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes. If you are migrating from Adobe Illustrator - or... |
Jahshaka 2.0
Jahshaka brings the power of movie editing and effects to the open source environment. This free tool will offer almost the same features your will find in a profession/commercial editing suite.... |
Adobe Audition 3
When creating or editing audio - Audition is Adobe's tool that integrates perfectly with the rest of the Adobe suite. Make editing, restoring as well as composing possible in realtime. It also allows... Alternatives: Audacity Ardour Traverso DAW
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Karbon14 1.5.0
Karbon14 is a vector drawing application part of the open source KOffice suite. Being a vector based drawing program everything drawn is store as geometric shapes allowing you to scale you drawing up... |
MythTV
MythTV is an open source personal/digital video recorder (dvr) with alot of extra features making it a complete media center for your home. Besides the standard features of watching and recording TV... |
FreeCAD
FreeCAD is general purpose CAD (computer aided drawing) software that targets product design and mechanical engineering. It can be easily used for any engineering specialty, featuring tools that are... |
Xara LX 0.7
Xara LX is an open source version of the impressive Xara Xtreme, which has set a performance standard when is come to vector drawing applications. And eventhough Xara LX is not yet a fully... |
Apple iMovie
iMovie is part of Apple's iLife suite and lets you view and work with, edit and share your movies. The latest version of iMovie has made a marked improvement in working with large projects,... Alternatives: Kino Avidemux VirtualDub Cinelerra
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Traverso DAW 0.42.0
Traverso DAW (digital audio workstation) is an easy to use, open source multitrack audio recording and editing suite with a great user interface. You'll find yourself doing more work in half the... |
SolidWorks
SolidWorks 3D CAD is designed to let ideas be transformed quickly into products. Its powerful toolsets and virtual prototyping generates manufacture-ready drawings in record time with accuracy and... Alternatives: QCad Community Edition BRL-CAD Archimedes FreeCAD
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Audacity 1.3
Whether it's multichannel recording, easy editing, effects or audio analysis - Audacity sums it all up in this free and cross-platform tool. Effects includes changing pitch, equalization, compression... |
Octave 3.3
Octave, a freely redistributable software, is used for numerical computation with an interactive environment. Students pick up the basics quickly, comfortably using it within just a few hours.... |
SQLTools 1.4.1
SQLTools is an open source tool for Oracle database development. It is a small and light weighted tool which also aims at being fast and responsive. SQLTools' powerful editor has many features to... |
TrueCrypt 6.0a
TrueCrypt is an open source security tool that allows you to encrypt all data on each of your harddisk partitions and an external storage device like an usb drive. TrueCrypt also lets you create a... |
Mumble 1.1
Mumble is voice chat software that can be used by any type of group but is tailored for gamers who enjoy chatting while gaming. It has an ingame overlay for DirectX9 and OpenGL based games and shows... |
UFRaw 0.16
UFRaw or Unidentified Flying Raw - is an open source raw photo editor and converter. It is based on DCRaw (written by David Coffin) and can be used either as a standalone application - or as a... |
MyPaint
If you enjoy using drawing and painting software but need an open source program for your tablet or digitizer, you may want to check out the features of MyPaint. This program supports pressure... |
Corel Painter
Corel Painter, a drawing and painting program created mainly for use on a tablet or digitizer, is software for use as an art studio. It has hundreds of "brushes" in more than 30 mediums. You can... Alternatives: MyPaint
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VirtualDub 1.7.8
VirtualDub is an open source video processor/editor. Even though it may not be able to do advanced editing like non-linear video editors - it has powerful features for processing your video clips.... |
XML Copy Editor 1.2
XML Copy Editor is a versatile XML editor primarily focused on text editing with XML files. However, XML Copy Editor provides many other features including validation of DTD and XML schemas - as well... |
Sage 4.1
SAGE is open source mathematics software that can be used to studying elementary to advanced number theory, algebra, cryptography, group theory and so much more. It includes interfaces to many other... |
FlightGear 1.0
FlightGear is a flight simulator compatible with virtually any operating system including Windows, Mac and Linux - with several unique features and options that may be quite different than you're... |
Autodesk Maya 8
Maya is the best known 3d modeling and animation products for professionels. It's high quality rendering combined with it's advanced modeling features makes it a unique tool for people working in the... Alternatives: Blender
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Oracle SQL Developer 1.1
Oracle SQL Developer is freeware product from Oracle for managing databases. It has a great graphical user interface (gui) which makes manipulating of data a simple task. Also browsing database... Alternatives: TOra SQLTools
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IceBB 1.0-rc8
IceBB is an upcoming bulletin board/forum software. Since its initial release in 2004 IceBB has slowly gained in popularity and features. Today it is a feature rich forum software package that... |
FeedDemon 2.5
FeedDemon is a highly praised RSS feed reader and it has the features to back it. It user interface and the way you view and manage your feed is extremely customizable. FeedDemon allows searching... Alternatives: Thunderbird RSSOwl RSS Bandit
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K-3D
K3-D is a 3D modeling and animation software. Configured for optimal visualization, its flexible plugins and versatile tools make it a real asset for artists.
This software adapts to your... |
Open source media center alternatives
All of us knows about Microsoft Window XP Media Center Edition (MCE), but what actually makes up a full featured media center? There are a couple of main features and then a few less important ones.... |
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio stands out as a leading diagramming and vector graphics application, part of the broader Microsoft 365 suite. Since its initial release in 1992, Visio has been empowering... Alternatives: Dia OpenOffice Draw Kivio StarUML ArgoUML Draw.io
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Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver has been a cornerstone in the web design and development industry since its initial release in 1997. Acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005, Dreamweaver has evolved... Alternatives: Nvu SeaMonkey Bluefish Quanta Plus KompoZer Aptana Amaya
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Clonezilla
Clonezilla is an open source solution to computer backup, restoration and "ghosting". It is based on partition imaging and allows you to backup and recover your system should it be taken out by a... |
ArgoUML 0.24
ArgoUML is a great UML (Unified Modeling Language) tool. Written in Java and using Java Web Start makes it easy to work with (install) and use on any platform. It has full support for the UML 1.4... |
RedNotebook
RedNotebook is an electronic journal that allows you to do much more than old-fashioned analog journals used to. As well as keeping track of your thoughts, important events and all the daily notes... |
Macromedia Flash Professional CS5
Macromedia Flash has been one of the most innovative technologies on the web - and today it is even more widely deployed than ever. Flash was originally made to create multimedia for the web where... Alternatives: OpenOffice Impress OpenLaszlo
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vtiger CRM
VTiger CRM (customer relationship management) is software intended for small and medium sized businesses that have a need to manage their customer base, customer service, marketing department and... |
vBulletin 4.0
vBulletin often seen used on a wide variety of sites and is consider a popular commercial forum software package. The first version of vBulletin was released in 2000 and since then many years of... Alternatives: IceBB phpBB
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Ableton Live 8
Ableton Live is loop-based music sequencer designed to be as much an instrument as a composing and arranging tool. DJs often use it for precision mixing.
Ableton Live has been designed for use... Alternatives: LMMS Jokosher
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MuseScore 0.9.5
MuseScore is an open source cross platform music notation program that has a lot of very good features. Simple to operate, notes are entered on a virtual note sheet with your mouse, MIDI or keyboard.... |
digiKam
digiKam is a multi-platform digital photo management system. It was inspired by real photographers who knew what they wanted to see, manage, enhance, edit, tag, organize and share.
There are... |
Guitar Pro
Guitar Pro is a tab editor, score player and backing band all in one application. It allows you to create and edits tablatures for bass, guitar, mandolin and other fretted instruments with 4-8... Alternatives: TuxGuitar
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Typo3 4.2
Typo3, a content management system (CMS), is feature rich and yet is one of the easiest systems to learn. With new functions being created by more than 300 registered developers on a frequent basis,... |
Ventrilo 3.0
Ventrilo is a scalable VoIP designed to solve problems with packet loss, uptime, network latency and administration. Although Ventrilo is popular with gamers, it is good for home and personal use... Alternatives: Mumble
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StarDict 3.0
StarDict is international dictionary software with more than 1000 dictionaries available. It features Glob-style pattern matching, scan selection word, fuzzy query and more to aid you in looking up... |
New features on osalt.com
From now on we will be able to post any article along side with our open source product news on osalt.com's frontpage and through our popular RSS feed. We will be posting information about the... |
GnuCash for Windows
After a long periode of time GnuCash is finally available as a binary for Windows. However, this is still a very preliminary version - so don't expect everything to work just yet. But this is still a... |
Scribus 1.3
Scribus brings open source award-winning professional page layout to Linux and *nix desktops, but also supports Windows and Mac OS. As a DTP tool it supports professional publishing features, such as... |
Altova XMLSpy 2009
XMLSpy is most likely the number one XML editor on the market. While other programs may include XML editing functionalities - XMLSpy does it to perfection. The editing features and support for both... Alternatives: XML Copy Editor Serna Free
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ACDSee 10
ACDSee has for many years been the most well-known image viewer and photo manager on the market. Its unique user interface makes it simple and fast to navigate through all your folders of pictures.... Alternatives: Cornice Imgv
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GnuCash 2.3
GnuCash is open source personal and small-business financial accounting software. Keep track of income and expenses from all of your accounts. The small-business features allow you to keep track of... |
Pidgin 2.6
Pidgin is an instant messenger (IM) application that cover multiple protocols - including (but not limited to) AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Novell GroupWise Messenger and Lotus Sametime. These... |
QuickBooks 2010
QuickBooks by Intuit (who also make Quicken) is an accounting software package for small and medium-sized businesses. One of its strongest assets is its ease of use, allowing responsible record... Alternatives: PostBooks
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Skype
Skype, founded in 2003, is a fairly new type of telephone and instant message service that is becoming a preferred method of free communication. It provides free VoIP calls from one personal... Alternatives: WengoPhone Ekiga
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Jokosher
Jokosher is a multi-track music editor. The interface uses familiar concepts to musicians rather than relying on their knowledge of multi-track recorders. Guitarists and other players who don't... |
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office Sharepoint server (MOSS) runs on top of Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS), adding core features and and user web parts. Essentially, it's a workflow engine and business intelligence... Alternatives: Alfresco MindTouch Core
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Xming 7.3
Xming is a small and fast X-Windows Server for Microsoft Windows. But even though it is small - it is still simple to use and has the full set of features your would see in commercial products. Used... |
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
Citrix Presentation Server (previously known as Citrix MetaFrame) is an advanced remote display application. It makes it possible to run application remotely on large servers, thus making better use... Alternatives: VNC OSXvnc
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VirtualBox 3.0
Originally a commercial product VirtualBox is now also available in an open source edition. The open source version is, however, always a version behind the commercial version and thus lacks some... |
WinZip 14.5
WinZip is what most computer users think of when they want to compress files to send or to save on their own computers. As well as saving space, WinZip is easy to use and is so common that nearly... Alternatives: 7-Zip PeaZip
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GFP 0.6
GFP is a free open source personal finance manager written in Java, which allows it to run on virtually any operating system. It's designed to help people with little financial knowledge managing... |
Mathematica 6
Mathematica, created by Wolfram Research, isn't just a computation tool; it's great for documentation, development, visualization, deployment, simulation and modeling. It has proved to be a reliable... Alternatives: Scilab Octave Sage
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Mathcad
Mathcad is a Windows-based system from MathSoft, Inc. that handles text, graphs and mathematics. It features internet access, Lotus Notes and Email compatibility and has QuickSheets for common... Alternatives: Maxima
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QuarkXPress 7
QuarkXPress has for many years been the preferred desktop publishing (DTP) tool for professional designers using Mac. But today Quark is also releasing their software for the Windows platform - and... Alternatives: Scribus KWord
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Macromedia Freehand MX
Macromedia Freehand is a vector based drawing program aimed for professionel use in desktop publishing (dtp) market - Freehand makes vector drawing a breeze. And eventhough it is a drawing... Alternatives: Inkscape Skencil Xara LX Karbon14
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OpenOffice 3.0
OpenOffice provides a great alternative to existing commercial office suites. It comes with word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation (Impress), drawing and graphing tool (Draw), tool... |
Sibelius 6
Sebelius is notation software for students, composers, educators, arrangers and musicians of all disciplines. There are new improvements and features that make Sebelius a one-stop composing and... Alternatives: MuseScore
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Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
Encore DVD is one of the top professional DVD authoring suites. This software package lets you build anything from simple slideshows to advanced interactive menus for DVDs. Slidshows can be created... Alternatives: DVDStyler
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RedDot CMS 7.5
Whether you are designing your company's website, intranet or extranet - RedDot CMS is a professional tool with a simple interface. Like many other professional content management systems it... Alternatives: Umbraco SilverStripe Joomla Drupal Typo3 Concrete5 TextPattern
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Sakai 2.5
Sakai is an open source learning system, an online collaboration to support teaching, learning and research collaboration. Many of the developers come from the organizations that are using Sakai; an... |
TeamSpeak 2.0
TeamSpeak is software that allows people to talk to each other over the internet. It works equally well whether it's used for gaming, families staying in touch or inter-office communication. It has... Alternatives: Mumble
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PSPP
PSPP is an alternative to SPSS, a program used to analyze data. PSPP doesn't impose limits on the variables you use and you don't have to acquire different versions in order to access advanced... |
Rhino
It's important to effectively communicate your ideas, no matter what profession you are in. Your designs have to reach people in an attractive and understandable form. Rhino gives you to tools to... Alternatives: K-3D
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Apple QuickTime 7
QuickTime is digital media software that lets you view pre-recorded or live video and/or audio. On the first viewing, QuickTime immediately shows its superior video quality. Users like the clear,... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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Babylon
Babylon is translation software equipped with over 75 languages. You can translate Word, PDF and other documents as well as web pages or other online text. By selecting the text and opening Babylon... Alternatives: StarDict
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Qtpfsgui 1.9
Qtpfsgui is a tool for tone mapping HDR photography (high dynamic range imaging), which combines several photos of the same thing but taken at different exposures, resulting in a true representation... |
Dynamic Photo HDR 4
Dynamic Photo HDR (high dynamic range imaging) is software that adjusts photos and smoothes out imperfections such as focus problems and distortions. The bane of most amateur photographers,... Alternatives: Qtpfsgui
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Archimedes
Archimedes is a computer aided design (CAD) solution focusing on architectural design. While the current version of Archimedes may not be mature enough for all - this project is very promising. It... |
KompoZer 0.7.7
Kompozer is an open source web development tool built on NVU. The project strives to fix bugs in the NVU project and added new features to it. Both the HTML editor as well as the CSS editor has so... |
Adobe After Effects 7.0
After Effects is the most advanced and visually impressive effects tool on the market. Used for television and movie production After Effects provides some of the best 2D and 3D features for both... Alternatives: Jahshaka
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Amaya 10
Amaya, developed by W3C, is a web editor/browser that creates and updates documents directly on your website. W3C (WWW Consortium) needed a framework that could include as many of their technologies... |
Pingus
Pingus is a game created in 1998 as a free clone of Lemmings for Linux, Windows, MacOSX and more. It is a puzzle game that tests your strategy and planning skills as much as your reflexes.
The... |
ZScreen
Many people enjoy captures images to share with their friends and family or use in their blogs or on their websites. ZScreen is a capture program for Windows that allows region, window or full... |
Create Synchronicity
Created in 2009, Create Synchronicity is a backup tool for Windows that helps protect your files and keep your data current. It can copy documents, music, pictures and videos to a backup drive or a... |
WikidPad 1.8
If you've ever been frustrated in finding the ideal application for organizing all your ideas, lists, contacts or notes, you'll be glad you tried WikidPad.
The concept of "wiki" comes from the... |
VMware Server ESX
VMware was one of the first virtualization software available for PC. With the ability to run almost any x86 based operating system as a guest operating system on top of another - it provides new... Alternatives: Xen OpenVZ Cooperative Linux VirtualBox
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Grisbi 0.5.9
Grisbi is open source personal accounting software for practically any platform/operating system. The project strives to provide simple and easy to use software for managing your accounts. Grisbi... |
Bluefish 1.0
Eventhough Bluefish is not a WYSIWYG editor - it is still considered a strong tool, however, mainly for experienced web developers/designers. Has support for unicode - and provides wizards for -... |
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
Powerpoint is the most used presention software on the market. It comes as part of the Microsoft Office suite as one of the core applications. Powerpoint has many advanced features but is not always... Alternatives: OpenOffice Impress KPresenter
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phpBB 3.0.0
phpBB is open source flat style forum software written in PHP programming language. It supports most major database systems, enabling smooth and problem-free installation. Once installed, the forum... |
MindTouch Core 9
MindTouch is the Web's most popular commercially supported
wiki platform for creating content and mashups using a wiki interface.
The free, open source application is an easy to use program... |
Xen
Xen is state-of-the-art virtualization on the PC - and it is even open source. With a high performance mainly due to it's architecture with the hypervisor and it's support for hardware virtualization... |
Cornice 0.6.2
Cornice was originally developed to provide more or less the same functionality of ACDSee but on Linux. But since it was developed using Python program language - it is now available on virtually any... |
xvidcap 1.1.4
xvidcap is a screencast application for Linux. It allows you to capture either parts of the full screen of your Linux desktop. This makes it an ideal tool for making either demonstrations of software... |
Autodesk 3ds Max 9
3ds Max is one of the most widely used 3D graphics and animation packages on the market. 3ds has advanced modeling capabilities including NURBS - and a physics engine for realistic animation of... Alternatives: Blender
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XMind 3
Mind mapping is the new approach to preparing big projects or organizing functions among a group or just helping you get things done in a timely manner. XMind is an open source program that helps... |
Editra 0.4
Editra is an open source text editor that supports a variety of features, including syntax highlighting, for over sixty programming languages. Since it is built using wxWidgets, it can run on... |
Chrome
Chrome, the new browser by Google, uses refreshingly minimal design and combines it with advanced technology to make surfing the internet safer, faster and simpler than ever before.
One of the... |
Trillian Pro 3.1
Trillian Pro is one of the top 3 instant messaging clients. It comes in a basic freeware version as well as the professionel version, which has more advanced features. Trillian supports AIM, MSN,... Alternatives: Pidgin Miranda IM Adium PlanetaMessenger.org aMSN Psi
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Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.37
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly... |
KeePass 2
KeePass is an open source password manager. Once you begin using this KeePass you'll need only one master password to unlock its database and you don't even have to remember that one. If you... |
Emesene 1.0.1
Emesene is a MSN Messenger clone, which primary goal is to support all features of the Windows Live Messenger Network (WLM). However, it does have a few extra features - besides trying to be... |
ICQ 7
ICQ was the first instant messenger client available - pioneered by Mirabilis in 1996. For many years ICQ was the most popular client on the market, but lately it has been surpassed by MSN Messenger,... Alternatives: Pidgin Miranda IM Adium PlanetaMessenger.org Psi
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Rational Purify
Purify is the most well-known memory debugging tool around. It's memory corruption and memory leak detection helps keep hard-to-find bug out of your applications. On install Purify integrates into... Alternatives: Valgrind
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Firebird 2.0.1
Firebird is a relational database based on source code that Inprise (now Borland) release as open source. Many features from the ANSI SQL standard are included making Firebird easy to work with if... |
ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for your desktop that comes with ArcEditor software, ArcGIS help system and Esri Data and Maps. You'll have access to the ArcGIS Desktop Resource... Alternatives: Quantum GIS
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Clam AntiVirus 0.93
Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable... |
1Password 2.9
With all the passwords we have to remember, most of us need a little help. 1Password from Agile Web Solutions is an application that installs a plug-in into your browsers and gives you the option of... Alternatives: KeePass
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ZoneAlarm 7.0
Check Point's (former ZoneLabs) ZoneAlarm Free is a basic program and network firewall that affords the best protection offered by any freeware and meets or exceeds the features of many commercially... Alternatives: WIPFW
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Ingres 2006 Community Edition
For many years Ingres has been a well-known names in the database business. Now it is available as open source. Ingres is a high performance and highly scalable database systems, which also features... |
IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1
IBM WebSphere Application provides a very reliable, scalable platform for you web based applications or services. Security and high availability makes you applications running with no interference... Alternatives: JBoss Application Server Geronimo
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Concrete5
You might want to consider Concrete 5 if you need a simple CMS (Content Management System) that can be used by both web developers and designers. This open source CMS has a few speed bumps but its... |
Parasoft Insure++ 7.0.8
Parasoft's Insure++ is one of the most advanced and widely used memory debugging tools on the market. Insure++ detects main common and hard to find coding errors in C and C++ programs. Memory leaks,... Alternatives: Valgrind
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Alien Arena
Alien Arena is rather unique in the world of first person shooter games, first because of its 1950's science fiction-type atmosphere. Secondly, the AI (artificial intelligence) in single player mode... |
Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo is a racing simulation game with licensed reproductions of real vehicles. Since its first version in 1997, it's been popular in part because it combines arcade style racing with... Alternatives: VDrift
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 6.0
Well-known for it's refractoring and J2EE support - IntelliJ IDEA is one of the most used commercial Java IDEs available. The intelligent code editor helps the developer and increases productivity.... Alternatives: Eclipse NetBeans IDE
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MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a project that is creating an open content music database, a type of "Wikipedia for music" and software for auto-tagging your music. The base contains information about artists, their... |
TuneUp
Whether your music library is total chaos or just needs some organization, TuneUp can save you a lot of time, work and aggravation.
TuneUp is software that replaces missing track names and album... Alternatives: MusicBrainz
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Photomatix Pro 3.2
There are so many times that your photos don't come out like you want them to, especially outdoors. The brightness of all those objects is more than the camera can deal with; colors, textures and... Alternatives: Qtpfsgui
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SyncToy
SyncToy, a free download from Microsoft, is an easy to use application that allows you to manage files between folders and computers. You can copy, rename, delete or move files of any type whether... Alternatives: Create Synchronicity
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Quanta Plus 3.5
For quick and effortless web development - Quanta Plus is steadily becoming a worthwhile competitor to the commercial web editors on the market. Quanta Plus's features include multi-document... |
Nero Burning Rom
Nero Burning Rom is one of the most well-known and used applications when is comes to burning CDs and DVDs - and today even Blu-ray discs. Nero Burning Rom has many features for backup, cd copying,... Alternatives: CDRDAO K3b Burn InfraRecorder
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Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1
Even though Microsoft Movie Maker is freeware bundled with Windows XP - it is still a powerful video editor for home users and can even be used by for semi-professional video productions. Imports... Alternatives: Kino Avidemux VirtualDub Cinelerra
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InfraRecorder 0.50
InfraRecorder is an easy to use CD and DVD burner application. It supports virtually all different formats including rewritable disc, multi-session disc and dual-layer DVDs. Also audio CDs can be... |
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project, a stalwart in the project management software arena, has been assisting project managers in planning, executing, and controlling projects of all sizes since its launch in... Alternatives: Open Workbench GanttProject OpenProj
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Microsoft OneNote 2010
At last, someone has put an end to endless sticky notes and lost slips of paper! Microsoft's Office OneNote allows you to gather all your information in text, pictures, audio and video recordings... Alternatives: WikidPad Zim Tomboy zNotes RedNotebook NeverNote
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Partition Image 0.6.7
Partition Image is an open source disk cloner. It will create a complete image of the partitions you wish to backup that can be spilt into multiple files for storing on removable media - or copied... |
Adobe InDesign CS3
When it comes to desktop publishing Adobe's InDesign is a perfect package. The integration to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator makes it a powerful tool for create professional layout and designs.... Alternatives: Scribus
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Microsoft MSN Messenger 7.5
Not the first, but the probably the most used instant messenger product available. MSN Messenger, that is offered by Microsoft as freeware, has grown from a simple IM product into a trend-setting... Alternatives: Pidgin Miranda IM Adium PlanetaMessenger.org aMSN Psi Emesene
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QCad Community Edition
QCad Community Edition is an open source edition of RibbonSoft's CAD system. QCad is a 2D CAD application that aims at being simple enough for anyone to use - even users with no previous CAD... |
Aptana 2
Aptana is an html/javascript editor, however, it does not provide any WYSIWYG feature - but it is still an amazing editor with many advanced features. Aptana is intended for people developing dynamic... |
OpenLaszlo 4.0
OpenLaszlo is an open source development platform for web applications. It's main target today is generating macromedia flash files (swf)and AJAX/DHTML for use on web pages and sites. OpenLaszlo is... |
GarageBand '08
GarageBand, part of Apple's iLife suite, makes it easy to create a song for professional or amateur musicians. With multi-take recording, automation capabilities, and Visual EQ, you can concentrate... Alternatives: Audacity Ardour Traverso DAW LMMS Jokosher
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Ghost for Unix (G4U) 2.3
G4U is an operating systems independent application that can be used for disk cloning. It boots either of disks or LiveCD - and then allows you to copy all of the content from a harddisk to a remote... |
Quicken 2007
Quicken is one of the most well-known personal finance/accounting software packages on the market. Quicken lets you manage your accounts including checking, banking and credit cards. Information can... Alternatives: GnuCash Grisbi jGnash GFP
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Microsoft Frontpage 2003
Microsoft Frontpage is a wysiwyg HTML editor - well-know mainly through Microsoft's brand and massive advertising. However, Frontpage has never really been the choice of professionals, but remained... Alternatives: Nvu SeaMonkey Bluefish Quanta Plus KompoZer Aptana Amaya
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UltraEdit v14.00
UltraEdit is and has been for a long time - the answer to all of your text editing demands. Features include: syntax highlighting for many programming languages, built-in SFTP/FTP client,... Alternatives: jEdit Notepad++ Cream SciTE Editra Komodo Edit
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VLC media player
VLC media player - originally named VideoLAN Client - is a flexible media player available for virtually any operating system including portal/handheld computers. VLC plays all of the common media... |
Cyberduck
For Mac OS X Cyberduck is simply one of the best ftp clients around. Supporting both standard ftp and secure ftp (sftp) - Cyberduck is a versatile and easy to use ftp client. Additionally Cyberduck... |
Microsoft Money 2007
Microsoft Money (MSMoney) an accounting software application that helps you keep track of all of your accounts both banks, credit and even investments. Its budget feature keeps track of bills due and... Alternatives: GnuCash Grisbi jGnash GFP
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MindManager 6
MindManager is the most popular mind mapping on the market. For brainstorming, capturing ideas and then analyzing all of the collected information. It can be used for all projects from newsletters,... Alternatives: FreeMind XMind
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DataVision 1.1
DataVision is an open source reporting tool for almost any database available e.g. Access, Oracle, MySql, Information and more. The reports generated can be easily customized in a drag-and-drop user... |
PostBooks 3.2
PostBooks is an open source business software package that offers a total solution for managing your business, including fully-integrated accounting, CRM and ERP modules. Designed for businesses... |
Glom
Glom is an advanced database system and user interface designer with lots of high-level features. Its advantages include its simplicity and nearly no programming requirements. Loosely based on... |
Serna Free 4.2
Serna Free is an open source, powerful XML editor. It is geared toward those with no experience and uses WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) for ease of use. Its appearance is a lot like a word... |
Evernote
Evernote provides a means to capture just about anything you would want to save whether it is notes to yourself, something you saw or heard or even just things that you like. It works with nearly... Alternatives: RedNotebook NeverNote
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JasperReports 2.0
JasperReports is a powerful open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV, XML and even flash (swf) files.... |
Alfresco 2.1
Alfresco (Italian for "outdoors") is an open source, less expensive alternative to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The plentiful ECM (enterprise content management) features of Alfresco rival the... |
Imgv 3.1.5
Imgv is a versatile image viewer that support all common image formats - and allows you to easily browse through all of your pictures. Image data including exif information can be displayed on top of... |
Ghostscript 8.54
Ghostscript is an open source that inteprets PostScript (PS) and PDF in order to output them into raster format either for the screen or on a printer. This allows viewing of PS files and even... |
KToon 0.9
KToon is an open source 2d vector animation toolkit with focus on on the cartoon industry. All of the features you would expect of such a products is there: drawing tools, layers, keyframes, time... |
Banshee 0.13
Banshee is a music player with many advanced features. One of the most important is iPod synchronization, which is now available simple and easy on Linux. On top of that Banshee does a great job as a... |
KWord 1.6.1
KWord is a part of the open source office suite KOffice. KWord is more than just a simple word processor, with its frame-based layout capability it can act like any commercial DTP tool and even... |
Blender 2.46
Blender is a free 3D animation and modeling suite. It includes tools for modeling - fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and... |
Hummingbird Exceed 2007
Hummingbird Exceed has been one of the X server market leaders for close to 20 years. And even today Exceed continue to be widely deployed and remain of the best performing X servers. It supports all... Alternatives: Xming
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Komodo Edit 5
Komodo Edit is an open source editor by ActiveState that is different from your run-of-the-mill editor in that it has many features that are usually absent in editors, but you might find in IDEs... |
Wireshark
Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) is a top open source product that allows you to capture (or sniff) packets on a LAN (local area network) in order to analyze the network traffic. Once you turn... |
Xpdf 3.02
Xpdf is an open source PDF or Acrobat file viewer. Designed and works under virtually any unix operating system. Only its command-line tool are available in Windows. Xpdf support the latest PDF... |
Microsoft Word 2003
Word is the number one most widely used word processor - home users, academic institutions and a huge number of enterprises all use Microsoft Word. Word has continued to evolve through the years and... Alternatives: OpenOffice Writer AbiWord KWord
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WaveMaker
WaveMaker is a visual, drag and drop development platform for building web applications. WaveMaker generates standard Java applications that can run in any Java server. Applications created by... |
mIRC 6.21
mIRC is by far the most well-known IRC (internet relay chat) client on the market - and it has been for more than a decade. mIRC allows you to chat with people all over the world through different... Alternatives: XChat HydraIRC
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Greenshot
Greenshot is a screenshot tool, supports several image formats as well as saving part or all of a screen into a file within one second's time.
This program takes only a small amount of memory, a... |
CommView 6.0
Whether you are a network administration or a developer working with network protocols or just want to know what's happening on your LAN (local area network) you need a packet sniffer. CommView... Alternatives: Wireshark
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Microsoft Outlook Express 6
Microsoft Outlook Express ships as part of the Microsoft Internet Explorer freeware package. Outlook Express provides basic internet mail support, but works as a usenet news reader. As a mail client... Alternatives: Thunderbird
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Macrovision InstallShield 12
One of the first - if not the first installation tool, and by far the most well-known. InstallShield is easy to use for the novice developer - but is also powerful and flexible while maintaining ease... Alternatives: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Inno Setup Launch4j InstallJammer
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Many people in their forties remember the first Microsoft Flight Simulator, which seemed a miracle of technology when introduced in 1983. Their latest version of Flight Simulator has new aircrafts... Alternatives: FlightGear
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Microsoft Windows XP
Windows has for a long time been by far the most used operating system for PCs. Through the years Microsoft has continued to develop and improve their operating system. The latest version has many... Alternatives: Ubuntu Linux Fedora SUSE Linux
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Poderosa 4.1.0
Poderosa is an open source tabbed based terminal emulator. Unlike any other terminal emulator Poderosa allows you to work with split windows, so that you can easily run multiple sessions at once.... |
Anime Studio 5
Anime Studio is a professional software package for creating 2d animations. Everything from short cartoons to feature length animations can be done using the rich feature set of Anime Studio. Whether... Alternatives: Synfig KToon Pencil
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Borland Delphi 2006
Borland Delphi is a software development platform based on the delphi programming language (derived from pascal). Due to its simple language, IDE and GUI/forms editor - Delphi has been one of the top... Alternatives: Lazarus
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Bacula
Bacula is an open source networked backup system for Linux/Unix, Mac and Windows clients. Contrary to some other backup solutions Bacula uses a specific client application written for each operating... |
Apache HTTP Server
Apache HTTP Server is (according to Netcraft) the most deployed and used web server on the internet. It is always up-to-date with the latest HTTP standards - and runs on any modern operating system.... |
CCleaner
CCleaner from Piriform is a small application that cleans your Windows computer, protects your privacy and keeps your personal information more secure. Most computers that have slowed to a snail's... Alternatives: BleachBit
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Toon Boom Studio 3.5
For state of the art 2d vector animation, especially for cartoons - Toon Boom Studio is the product to get. Used for some of the most popular cartoons on TV as well as in the movies Toom Boom... Alternatives: Synfig KToon Pencil
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OSXvnc
OSXVNC is an open source implementation of the remote desktop server software VNC. This edition of the original VNC project has focused on making a complete and full features VNC server for MacOS.... |
389 Directory Server
389 Directory Server (previously known as Fedora Directory Server) is an open source LDAP server with many advanced features and built for both high performance and reliability. The 389 Directory... |
Blackboard Learning System
The Blackboard Learning System is an easy-to-use, intuitive application that encourages students' involvement in communication, collaboration and interaction. Instructors will find they can easily... Alternatives: Moodle Sakai
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Qt Creator 1.2.1
When you want to build applications with state of the art GUI interfaces you may want to look at Nokia's Qt Creator. It is focused on the idea of providing Qt users the features they need to get up... |
Drupal 6.2
Drupal is an open source software package for individuals or communities of users that need to publish, organize and manage a website's content also know as a content management system (CMS). ... |
FL Studio
Formerly known as Fruity Loops, FL Studio is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). It can be used as a sort of doodle pad for musical ideas or to master tracks that are ready to publish.
FL Studio... Alternatives: LMMS
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MySQL 5.0
Increasingly growing market shares caused by a good reputation and of course the fact that it is completely free of charge - makes MySQL the most widely deployed open source database. For most web... |
Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Databases has been on the market for almost 30 years. This makes Oracle the most well-known commercial database company ever - and the many years of research and development has produced the... Alternatives: MySQL PostgreSQL Firebird Ingres 2006 Community Edition
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Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Microsoft's Virtual PC allows you to create virtual computers on your own Windows desktop. Each of these computers has all the hardware of a physical computer, enabling you to run each virtual PC as... Alternatives: Xen OpenVZ Cooperative Linux VirtualBox
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CuteFTP 8
For many years CuteFTP has been a household name when is comes to effecient and simple file transfer (ftp) primeraly used by people how want to publish/upload their websites. CuteFTP's forces are... Alternatives: FileZilla Cyberduck WinSCP
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Check Point VPN-1
VPN-1 from Check Point Software has evolved from their well-known Firewall-1 product. VPN-1 provides highly secure connection to your office network with statefull inspection of all traffic. The... Alternatives: OpenVPN
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Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2010
Probably the oldest, most well-know and widely used antivirus application. Protects while surfing the net, chatting, emailing and file swapping. Alternatives: ClamWin Clam AntiVirus Winpooch
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Pixie 2.2.3
Pixie is a RenderMan like photo realistic renderer. It is being developed in the hope that it will be useful for graphics research and for people who can not afford a commercial renderer. Pixie is an... |
SQuirreL SQL Client
Relational Database Systems can make life difficult, especially when working with multiple databases. Squirrel is an open-source SQL Client that will help you solve database problems with its... |
OpenSTA 1.4.3
OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture. The main feature of OpenSTA is web (HTTP and HTTPS) performance and load/stress testing. It allows you to record different usage patterns on... |
FreeOTFE 4.71
FreeOTFE (on the fly encryption) is an open source tool for safe-keeping of your files through encryption. FreeOTFE allows you to create virtual encrypted disk drives - either as files on your... |
Microsoft NetMeeting 3.01
NetMeeting is Microsoft's desktop videoconferencing tool that allows people to have face to face meetings via computer. If you have Windows 2000 or XP, you can take advantage of this marvelous... Alternatives: Ekiga
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ThinkingRock 2.2
Thinking Rock is a GTD (getting things done) application you can use both at home or at work. It is a very simple, bare bones way to organize and implement tasks with more options and choices than... |
Liferay Portal 4.4.0
Liferay Portal is enterprise quality portal software. A major focus is usability - allowing users to get started right away without spending too much time buried in thick manuals. However, being an... |
NeoOffice 3.0
NeoOffice is a special version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. Even though OpenOffice is available for Mac OS X, it requires that you run X11 (X Windows Systems) on your computer. Thus it does not... |
SQLite 3.3.17
SQLite is an open source embeddable database engine written in C. It provides all of the standard features you would normally find in any commercial SQL database product - such as SQL, transaction... |
Quantum GIS
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a geographical information system (GIS) that works with many platforms and with other commercial software packages. It has all of the common GIS functions and features. Its... |
NetBeans IDE 6.8
NetBeans is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Java development. However, a C/C++ pack exists that lets you use NetBeans for your C/C++ projects. As a IDE for Java NetBeans... |
UltraCompare 4.20
UltraCompare is a great tool for developer when it comes to comparing and merging source code. And if you are already using UltraEdit this is a natural choice since it integrates seamlessly into it.... Alternatives: WinMerge
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GNU Privacy Guard 2.0
GnuPG is a command line tool mainly used by other applications to meet encryption demands. Supports many different encryption schemes such as AES, 3DES, etc. Among the frontend applications using... |
FrostWire 4.18
FrostWire is an alternative peer-to-peer file sharing service on the Gnutella network that is modeled after LimeWire and in fact, derived its code from LimeWire Pro. You'll find it a bit different... |
VDrift
VDrift is a driving simulator that is definitely different. The core of the game is 'drift' racing, based on a recent racing movie and a single driving move that is next to impossible to pull off in... |
Foxit Reader
Foxit is a free, multilingual PDF reader that provides an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader that is lightweight and easy on your resources. Many people who use Adobe need a reader but would prefer... Alternatives: Xpdf Sumatra PDF
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TuxGuitar
TuxGuitar is a great music writing and learning tool with no pretensions to being a real DAW, although it does contain some DAW type features. It is a multitrack guitar tablature and standard... |
Parallels Workstation 2.2
If you have Windows but also like Linux, now you can have them both on your computer with Parallels Workstation without rebooting. Whatever your skill level, Parallels lets you easily run more than... Alternatives: Xen OpenVZ VirtualBox
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Quake
Quake is a first person shooter PC game series. The games in the series frequently change their focus, with all its games having different storylines. Quake is the adventures of a brave marine... Alternatives: Alien Arena
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TextPattern
Textpattern (TXP) is a content management system (CMS) that comes in more than 40 languages with a browser based interface. It can be used by bloggers and web publishers to manage their websites. It... |
Games on osalt.com
Today we launch a new category - Games - here on Open Source Alternative. This has long been requested by our users - and we and now finally able to go live.
We hope that this new addition to... |
Dia
Dia is a free and open-source diagramming software that allows users to create diagrams for multiple purposes, such as entity-relationship models, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many... |
Autodesk AutoCAD
AutoCAD, developed by Autodesk, is a pioneering software in the field of computer-aided design (CAD) that has been instrumental in transforming the way architects, engineers, and construction... Alternatives: QCad Community Edition BRL-CAD Archimedes FreeCAD
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Microsoft Outlook 2003
As part of the Microsoft Office suit or offered in your enterprise if they are using Microsoft's mail server - Outlook is difficult not notice. Microsoft Outlook is a mail client that also integrates... Alternatives: Thunderbird Evolution SeaMonkey
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CamStudio 2.0
CamStudio is an open source screencast application cabable of capturing both audio and video directly of your PC screen - and store it for later playback. This is great for demonstrating how... |
Microsoft Access 2010
Microsoft's versatile tool for creating database driven application - or simply just maintain your data. Even though Access has its own embedded database engine - it is also able to connect to other... Alternatives: OpenOffice Base Kexi WaveMaker Glom
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Mozilla SeaMonkey
SeaMonkey settles all of your internet application needs in own package. Its a web-browser, email and newsgroup client, HTML authoring program and IRC chat client all-in-one. In most areas -... |
zNotes
zNotes is a note management application. It has a user friendly, attractive interface and has vertical tabs that can be placed on any side of your text area. Use it to organize your daily tasks as... |
Apple Music (iTunes)
Originally launched in 2001, Apple iTunes revolutionized the music industry by offering a platform for digital music consumption, allowing users to purchase, download, and organize music tracks.... Alternatives: Amarok Banshee Songbird musikCube
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Business Objects Crystal Reports SE XI
Crystal Reports is one of the most use reporting tool on the market. It help you design and create professionel reports and visualization of all of you data. The reports generated can be viewed... Alternatives: JasperReports DataVision OpenRPT Report Designer
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Adobe Acrobat 9
Adobe Acrobat (not to be confused with Acrobat Reader) is Adobe's tool for creating PDF documents. However, PDF documents is much more than just a simple document - it can have advanced features like... Alternatives: OpenOffice Writer PDFCreator Ghostscript
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Filemaker Pro 9
Using Filemaker Pro users can easily and fast create databases - and even share them over the web. Customize the applications you build to get the look-and-feel you or your organization require. Once... Alternatives: OpenOffice Base Kexi Glom
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WinRAR 3.93
WinRAR is one of the best multipart archivers on the market, it also provides high encryption based on 128-bit AES encryption to make sure that only the right people unpacks your files. With WinRAR... Alternatives: 7-Zip PeaZip
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MathWorks MATLAB 7.6
MATLAB is the most popular software package when is comes to numerical computing. With it's own programming language you can work with numbers in any ways imaginable - and the easily visualize them.... Alternatives: Scilab Octave Sage
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Kexi 2.2
Kexi strives to be a rapid application development (rad) tool for database driven development. Use Kexi to quick design forms to access and create your data - just as any full features application.... |
Nvu 1.0
Nvu is a web development system primarily developed for Linux but is now also available for windows and mac. The project aims to be an open source alternative for the major commercial web authoring... |
Microsoft Excel 2010
The lack of competition for spreadsheet applications and the massive deployment of Microsoft Office makes Excel the most used application of its type. Apart from basic spreadsheet features - Excel... Alternatives: Gnumeric OpenOffice Calc
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Notepad++ 5.2
Notepad++ is an excellent open source replacement for Microsoft Notepad, but has many more features that lets it compete with commercial text editors for both development and web design. Some... |
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
For messaging and collaboration Microsoft Exchange Server is one of the most used platforms. Together for Microsoft Outlook this is a powerful solution for enterprises of any size. Alternatives: Open-Xchange Zimbra
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GanttProject
GanttProject is a project scheduling and management tool which also offers resource management. Even importing and exporting Microsoft Project files is supported. |
OpenOffice Base 3.0
Maintain your databases or create new ones. Base either connects to your existing database engine - or your can use its built-in HSQL database. For beginners Base offers wizards to help create forms... |
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Acrobat Reader is the freeware product from Adobe designed to view Acrobat files (PDF). PDFs' popularity on the internet has made it virtual impossible to live without the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Not... Alternatives: Xpdf Ghostscript Sumatra PDF
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Sumatra PDF 0.9
Sumatra PDF is a fairly young project aiming to create a small, simple and fast PDF viewer. It main features are showing PDFs and starting up really fast - and it does both just perfectly. Apart form... |
OpenRPT 3.0
OpenRPT is an open source report generator. It consists of two parts: OpenRPT and RPTrender. The OpenRPT part is the graphical user interface for designing reports and has a simple interface similar... |
Microsoft Remote Desktop for Windows
Microsoft Remote Desktop is a feature that comes free with Windows XP Professional. It allows you to control a computer remotely either through a LAN or using the internet. It can be used for both... Alternatives: VNC OSXvnc
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HP OpenView Network Node Manager 7.5
HP OpenView Network Node Manager is state-of-the-art network monitoring and more. Using SNMP and other technologies it retrieves the information it requires. HP OpenView has many features of which a... Alternatives: Nagios NeDi OpenNMS Pandora Zenoss
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7-Zip 4.57
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. It supports the following formats for packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR - and the following for unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH,... |
Nagios
Nagios is an open source monitoring systems that keeps an eye on your network, hosts and even services using plug-ins and SNMP. It's web-based user interface allow you to quickly discover problems... |
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0
Among the top 3 anti-virus products on the market you will surely find Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Well known for its outstanding detection rates Kaspersky is a sure pick when it comes to multilevel... Alternatives: ClamWin Clam AntiVirus Winpooch
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GParted 0.7
GParted is an open source partition manager also known as the Gnome Partition Editor application. It is actualy a LiveCD/LiveUSB that allows you to boot directly into GParted when you need it -... |
Ardour 2.3
Ardour is professional hard-disc recording for MacOSX and Linux - meets all of you studio requirements. Ardour packs features such as: multi-channel recording, non-linear and non-destructive editing,... |
Fraps 2.8
Fraps is a great product in the unique market of real-time video capturing of DirectX an OpenGL based applications - mainly computer games. Fraps allows you to benchmark your games in always let you... Alternatives: Taksi
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MediaPortal 1.0
MediaPortal is a complete open source media center including a digital video recorder (dvr) feature. MediaPortal lets you view and record TV from both analog and digital (DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S) sources... |
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) transforms your PC into a media center and moves it into the livingroom. MCE is acutally an alternative to your VCR since it allows you to user your PC... Alternatives: MythTV MediaPortal Freevo
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Adium
Adium is open source instant messaging for Mac OS X. All of the most widely use protocols are supported such as AIM, ICQ, .MAC, MSN, Jabber and more - even Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime are... |
Winamp 5.24
Winamp has been and is still on of the most downloaded mp3 players on the internet. However, today Winamp does much more than just play mp3s - it supports a wide number of audio and video formats.... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer Amarok Miro Songbird musikCube
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Songbird 1.1
Songbird is a new audio player on the internet with unique features. It is, however, not a mature project yet - but for the enthusiast it is definitely worth a try. Songbird is built around the... |
Steinberg Cubase SX3
For state-of-the-art professional music creation Cubase is the first product that comes to mind. It provides the most advanced audio and midi recording, mixing and editing and has support for a large... Alternatives: Rosegarden Ardour
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Mozilla Thunderbird
This full-featured open source email client provides an excellent open source alternative to all commercial email clients. Thunderbird has a wide list of features of which some are: support for POP... |
Pandora 2.0
Pandora FMS (Flexible Monitoring System) is a complete network and node (servers, workstations, etc.) monitoring solution. Pandora comes in three parts - agents, server and console. The agents are... |
Zenoss
Zenoss is one of the top open source network and systems monitoring solutions - and some will even say that it valid competitor to many of the major commercial enterprise monitoring systems. With... |
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
Available as freeware from Microsoft - Windows Media Player is the default choice when it comes to playing either music or video on the Microsoft Windows platforms. Windows Media Player also allows... Alternatives: VLC media player Helix Player MPlayer Amarok Miro Songbird musikCube
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Scilab 4.1.2
Scilab is a toolbox for all of your numerical computing needs. It is a great software package for people working in engineering or scientific areas. Linear algebra, matrices, polynomials - everything... |
Acronis True Image
Acronis True Image is a backup system that saves everything on your computer. Should computer fall victim to a crash or virus attack you can save literally everything on your hard drive. Your... Alternatives: Ghost for Unix (G4U) Partition Image Clonezilla FOG
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aMSN 0.96
aMSN is an open source clone of MSN Messenger. It aims to implement as many features as possible from the original, and to provide even more features on top of that. Alot of the extra features are... |
SmartDraw
SmartDraw VP is the world's first visual processor. In the same way that a word processor automatically formats documents, SmartDraw VP automatically formats your visuals as you create them, making... Alternatives: Dia OpenOffice Draw Kivio StarUML ArgoUML Draw.io
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musikCube 1.0
musikCube is a music library and player. It plays virtually any music media format that is comes across, however, drm (digital rigths management) protected music (music bought on-line) is not... |
WinSCP 4.2
WinSCP originally started as a SCP (secure copy) client, but later gained SFTP capabilities - and as of April 2007 it also support legacy FTP. Once installed WinSCP integrates fully with Windows -... |
Snagit 9.1
TechSmith Corporation's Snagit has already won awards for its ease of use in capturing images from a computer. Not only can you capture images from webpages, video games or movie clips, you can edit... Alternatives: Greenshot ZScreen
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LMMS 0.4.5
Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS) is a free DAW (digital audio workstation) created for Linux & Windows. Although it has a rather steep learning curve, there are many tutorials and it includes several... |
CyberLink PowerDVD 9
PowerDVD was one of the first software based DVD players on the market. It gained enormous momentum by being bundled with many DVD-ROM drive manufactures products - and today offers many more... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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Keynote
Apple's Keynote has been around for nearly five years and during that time it has not only competed with Microsoft's PowerPoint but surpassed it. If you need a polished, professional looking... Alternatives: OpenOffice Impress KPresenter
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SciTE 1.73
SciTE is a developers editor. Originally made as an example for the Scintilla project - an open source source code editing component, SciTE today is a fully featured text editor for developers using... |
Rosegarden 1.7
Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on... |
FOG
FOG is an imaging solution for Vista and Windows XP that makes use of some open-source tools and a PHP based web interface. It is unique in that it requires no boot disks or CDs, using TFTP and PXE... |
Psi 0.10
Psi is an open source instant messenger client built for Jabber (the open source instant messaging protocol). However, to ensure that you don't loose touch we your friends who have not yet switched... |
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
As backend for Microsoft products that require a database - Microsoft SQL Server is available to make integration and development simple and easy. SQL Server is today considered one of the top 3... Alternatives: MySQL PostgreSQL Firebird Ingres 2006 Community Edition
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NeDi w-rc1
NeDi is an open source network management framework which uses scheduled discovery to examine your network. All data is store in a SQL database and through the web-based user interface your can... |
jEdit 4.2
jEdit is powerful open source editor that has taken the best features from all other editors and combined them into one. And as an open source java application is runs on virtually any platform.... |
Code::Blocks 8.02
Code::Blocks is an C++ IDE which makes it easy for experienced as well as new developers to create applications. Application made with Code::Blocks and based on wxWidgets - are portable between Linux... |
WinMerge 2.6
WinMerge is an excellent tool for developers that simplifies merging. Start by selecting two directories and WinMerge will quickly show you which files are alike - and which there are different and... |
Miro 1.2
Miro (formerly known as Democracy player) is an open source internet video player. It makes watching video on the internet a breeze either by subscribing to channels from the channel guide - or... |
Adobe FrameMaker 7.2
For writing books whether manuals, fact or fiction - FrameMaker is the product to use. FrameMaker is one of the most advanced typesetting programs on the market and is used by many enterprises for... Alternatives: Scribus KWord
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Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (assp) 1.3
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) is an open source anti-spam solution that utilizes advanced as well as more common ways to avoid spam. ASSP also takes care of email transferred viruses. Being a server... |
OpenOffice Writer 3.0
Writer is the word processor part of the OpenOffice suite. Its a full featured word processor with all of the advanced features found in commercial word processors. Also Writer exports directly to... |
OpenOffice Calc 3.0
OpenOffice Calc is a superb open source spreadsheet application. Whether you are a novice spreadsheet user - or require more advanced features such as data mining or large complex calculations -... |
HP LoadRunner 9.5
LoadRunner is state-of-the-art performance measuring and load testing. With LoadRunner you can emulate e.g. thousands of users accessing your application at once and collect performance data to e.g.... Alternatives: OpenSTA
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WIPFW 0.2.8
WIPFW is a firewall for Windows based on IPFW for FreeBSD unix and it provides virtually the same features, functionality and user interface. Please note when downloading WIPFW remember to get the... |
Apache Directory Server
Apache Directory Server is an open source LDAP directory server implemented in java. It provides an excellent back-end database for managing users, network resources and more. The architecture is... |
Cream 0.39
Cream is an open source text editor which used Vim as a base. However, Cream added an intuitive user interface with pull-down menus, toolbar, keyboard shortcuts and a tabbed based multi document... |
Joomla 1.5
Joomla is among the top two or three open source content management systems (CMS) on the market. Joomla offers an advanced CMS which is extremely modular built. This makes developing extensions easy... |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Most likely the most wide spread browser on the planet - mainly due to the fact that it is comes as freeware with Microsoft Windows. However, still a very effect tool that have matured over the past... Alternatives: SeaMonkey Firefox Amaya Chrome
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Tomboy
Most of us have experienced searching through piles of notes trying to find that number we jotted down or the idea we want to finally use. Tomboy allows you to go paperless and organize your notes. ... |
Inno Setup 5.1.6
Inno Setup is a feature-rich open source installer for Windows applications. With it's integrated Pascal scripting engine you have full control of both installation as well as uninstallation. Inno... |
Umbraco 3.0.1
Umbraco is a unique Content Management Systems (CMS) written in ASP.NET. First of all Umbraco allows designers to have completely free hands in terms of layout, and thus making sure that your site is... |
Araxis Merge 6.5
Araxis Merge is a professional tool for visual comparison and merging of text files most typically source code - but also web pages. A feature especially useful for developers is the three-way... Alternatives: WinMerge
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IBM SPSS
SPSS is a collection of data and predictive analytics tools for business and statistical programmers. It can be used to figure out potential costs savings or organize data in order to make better... Alternatives: PSPP
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Ekiga 3.2
Although people are still using the telephone in one form or another as the main means of communication, VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is the newest form of voice communication.
Ekiga,... |
Helix Player 11
Helix Player is an open source edition of the media player - Real Player, but is only available for unix platforms - mainly Linux. The application is part of the Helix DNA Platform which is a... |
Corel WinDVD 2010
WinDVD is a fully featured DVD and Blu-ray player - with superb video and audio quality. It also plays Real media, QuickTime, H.264 - and high definition formats such as WMV-HD and other HD video... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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Navicat
Navicat is a database management tool that lets users manage multiple databases on remote servers as well as local. Features include Unicode support, wizards for importing and exporting, batch job... Alternatives: SQLTools HeidiSQL SQuirreL SQL Client
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HydraIRC 0.3
Hydra IRC, an open source chat client, is quickly gaining a stellar reputation. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) used to be only for the computer literate but Hydra makes it easy for anyone to enjoy it. ... |
Amanda
Amanda is a network backup solution in which the Amanda server runs on a single machine on your LAN - multiple clients can then connect to backup their local data. The clients can run almost any... |
XChat 2.8
XChat is an IRC (internet relay chat) client. IRC is a world wide chat systems that has existed since the 80s. Based on multiple networks of servers where each network lists it's own topics (aka... |
Eclipse 3.3
Java based IDE which aims to be a universal development toolkit. Even though it has it's roots in Java eclipse's plug-in base allows it to edit files for almost any environment including but not... |
KPresenter 1.6.1
KPresenter is the open source presentations part of the KOffice suite. Excellent for combining text and graphics into slides either for on-screen presentation and handouts. With KPresenter you can... |
Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.0
NetBackup is one of the most widely deployed backup solutions. The server part runs on virtually any operation systems - and its clients are able to backup any system, and even application data that... Alternatives: Amanda Bacula
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Maxima
Maxima manipulates numerical and symbolic expressions. This includes integrations, Laplace transforms, differentiation, ordinary differential equations, sets, lists, vectors and matrices among... |
Finale 2010
Finale is notation software that is feature-rich and versatile, allowing the user to compose, notate, arrange and even print sheet music of engraver quality. And one of the best features is the more... Alternatives: MuseScore
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Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006
Norton Personal Firewall comes with the standard quality the Norton is well-known for. As soon as you have installed Norton Personal Firewall it will monitor and check all of your internet traffic.... Alternatives: WIPFW
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HSQL Database Engine
HSQL Database Engine or just HSQLDB is an open source java database engine for embedding into your applications. As the name indicates HSQLDB supports SQL making it very flexible when it comes to... |
JBoss Application Server
JBoss Application Server is the most widely deployed open source application server on the market. As a certified J2EE platform it supports all features of J2EE 1.4 including additional services such... |
Ubuntu Linux 8.04
Ubuntu Linux is one of the latest and most successful new linux distributions. Ubuntu is originally derived from the well-known Debian distribution, but has added a lot of new functionality. One of... |
Apache Derby
Apache Derby is an open source relational database - part of the Apache DB Project. Derby is written in java and is ideel for embeddable due to its small memory footprint. Derby supports SQL storing... |
Opera 9
Opera is a freeware web browser with lots of features such as: integrated BitTorrent client, ad and pop-up blocker, mail client and irc chat and many other features. Opera has always focused on... Alternatives: SeaMonkey Firefox Amaya Chrome
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Bea WebLogic Server 9.1
Bea WebLogic Server was one of the first J2EE application servers on the market and has since then kept evolving to reach new levels of functionality - always inline with Sun's developement and... Alternatives: JBoss Application Server Geronimo
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Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero first came out in 2005 and has been quite successful. The idea behind the game is that the player is a guitarist competing to be accurate in "playing" the music using a controller shaped... Alternatives: Frets on Fire
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Borland JBuilder 2006
Borland has always produced greate integrated development environments (IDE) - and JBuilder is no expection. All featres has been worked through to perfection, making JBuilder a feature packed... Alternatives: Eclipse NetBeans IDE
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OpenRA
OpenRA, as the name implies, is a real-time strategy (RTS) game engine that supports Command & Conquer: Red Alert. The developers of OpenRA maintain a website with a FAQ, downloadable code and a... |
Things 1.2
There are a lot of GTD (getting things done) applications flooding the market today, trying to make our lives easier and more organized. One of the latest is called "Things" and is both available... Alternatives: ThinkingRock
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UltraStar Deluxe 1.0
UltraStar Deluxe is a karaoke game inspired by the SingStar game played on PlayStation. The point of the game is to match the pitch of the music. One or several players score points by singing along... |
SUSE Linux 10.2
The openSUSE project delivers one of the best linux distributions available. For many years SUSE Linux has been considered a high quality linux distribution for both private users as well as... |
LimeWire 5.3
LimeWire stepped in to replace Napster after it was shut down and has become the most popular client for the Gnutella network. Its clean interface works on any operating system as long as you have... Alternatives: FrostWire
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Lemmings
Lemmings is a multi-port game introduced in 1991 by DMA Design, also known as Rockstar North. It was and still is popular with gamers of all ages. It is now configured for PlayStation Portable,... Alternatives: Pingus
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Roboform Pro 6.9
Roboform Pro an application that encrypts and stores your passwords, giving you complete security. It will generate random passwords, too. Like other similar applications, Roboform Pro fills out... Alternatives: KeePass
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SingStar
SingStar is a competitive video game in which players sing to score points. As a music video plays in the background, the player sings into a microphone to the pitch that is displayed on an... Alternatives: UltraStar Deluxe
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SuperTux
SuperTux is Antarctica's answer to Super Mario Bros., a lively game that you can download at no charge and play on your computer. You can use a joystick or the keyboard to control Tux, a penguin... |
Open Source Alternative added to Technorati
I am please to announce that the Open Source Alternative is now available on Technorati. More blogging features will be added to osalt.com in the very near future. |
OpenLaszlo Editor
For all of you looking for a great editor for your OpenLaszlo projects - look no further than Eclipse. Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) that was originally made for... |
Rate and comment on open source products at osalt.com
As of today, you are now able to contribute with rating and comments for each of all open source products listed at osalt.com.
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