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 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.... |
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 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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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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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... |
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... |
StarNet X-Win32 version 8
StarNet's X-Win32 is among the top selling X-Windows servers for Microsoft Windows. X-Win32 allows you to run the display of X-Windows based applications from virtually any Unix host on your Windows... Alternatives: Xming
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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... |
Freevo 1.8
Freevo is an open source home theatre PC platform. It provides all of the features you would expect of any HTPC/media center such as being able to watch TV either terrestrial or from DVB sources.... |
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... |
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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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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Xmanager 2
Xmanager is a excellent PC X server which runs on Microsoft Windows. Xmanager features Xbrowser that makes connecting to your X workstations as easy as navigating files and other networked Windows... Alternatives: Xming
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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... |
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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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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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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MPlayer
MPlayer is an open source movie player originally made for Linux. Today, however, a number of platforms are supported - and it is most likely the movie player that supports the most formats.... |
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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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... |
WS_FTP Professional 2007
WS_FTP Professional is a complete package for all of your file transfer needs. Apart from the normal ftp it supports secure ftp (sftp) based of the best security/encryption protocols. WS_FTP can also... Alternatives: FileZilla Cyberduck WinSCP
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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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Zim 0.48
Zim-Wiki is a very useful open source application that allows you to organize your notes and thoughts. Simple to use and easy to learn, it supports inline images so that you can insert images from... |
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 -... |
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... |
VNC
VNC is an open source remote desktop application. It allows you to control a graphical user session on a machine remotely through the network. Both VNC server and client runs on multiple platforms.... |
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,... |
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... |
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... |
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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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... |
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... |
Cooperative Linux 0.7
coLinux is an extremely interesting new approach to virtualization allowing you to run Linux parallel to your Windows platform. coLinux approaches the experimenting Linux novice - who does not... |
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... |
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. ... |
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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PeaZip
PeaZip is a file manager and archiver for both Windows and Linux. It features an archive browser with history and search features to make navigating an archive faster and easier.
PeaZip... |
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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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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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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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... |
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... |
NeverNote
Nevernote was created in response to popular demand of Linux users. A clone of Evernote, it was originally intended for Linux but can also run on Windows. Nevernote is a note-saving program that... |
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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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... |
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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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... |
BleachBit
BleachBit is an application that frees disk space and guards your privacy. It cleans the cache, clears internet history, deletes cookies and logs, shreds temporary files and gets rid of junk that... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
PDFCreator 0.9.5
PDFCreator is an open source printer driver that creates PDF documents. Acting as a printer driver it allows you to create PDF files from any Windows application. The PDF files can then be view with... |
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.... |
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... |
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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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... |
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Active Directory ships as a component of Windows Server. Active Directory lets you manage many different type of components in your enterprise e.g. users. Microsoft Active Directory... Alternatives: 389 Directory Server Apache Directory Server
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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... |
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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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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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... |
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... |
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... |
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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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... |
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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ClamWin 0.93
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It features high detection rates, scheduler, automatic download of virus database updates and a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. By... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
FileZilla
FileZilla is an open source ftp client, which also supports secure ftp (sftp). FileZilla is built to be a fast but yet feature rich ftp client. Like many of the commercial products FileZilla has a... |
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... |
Symantec Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
PartitionMagic has for a long time been the only real good product for managing partition creating and deleting - but even more importantly resizing without destroying data on the partitions. Other... Alternatives: GParted
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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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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... |
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... |
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.... |
Nero Recode 2
Nero Recode is one of the fastes video/DVD converters on the market. With Recode you can easily backup non-copy protected media (e.g. DVD) into MPEG-4 (H.263/AVC) format - which takes up alot less... Alternatives: HandBrake
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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... |
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... |
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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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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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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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). ... |
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... |
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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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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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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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... |
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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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... |
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... |
Launch4j 2.1.5
Launch4j is an open source installer that wrappes your jar files into native executables for e.g. Windows, but also MacOS, Linux and Solaris are supported. For JRE you can either embed one - or have... |
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... |
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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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... |
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... |
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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Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
As part of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 you find Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), which is Microsoft's web server. Fits organizations of all sizes - and fulfills any requirements for... Alternatives: Apache HTTP Server
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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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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,... |
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... |
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... |
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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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... |
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... |
aMSN - a simple MSN clone
Here on osalt.com we recieve many hits for people looking for alternatives to MSN Messenger. And while many of the alternatives we present are valid and great products - only one of them strives to... |
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