We have listed more free/opensource softwares. We have actually used these programs in our work and found good enough for us, to share with all.
OpenOffice
An open source office suite. As an alternate office tool, it is worth exploring. Being free it offers significant cost reduction specially for companies that are considering buying multiple user licenses for some commercial office suite.
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Mozilla FireFox
Browser
Mozilla Firefox is a small in size, yet full-featured efficient browser for Windows. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tabed-browsing opens several pages in a single window, integrated searching, simplified privacy controls.
Mozilla Firefox offers better compliance with CSS standards. Supports W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format which IE does not. Page source in a new window, using indents and color-coded tags like an HTML editor. The program includes such tools as a JavaScript debugger and a DOM viewer and a good built-in pop-up blocker. It provids better security than IE. The browser functionality can be enhanced with installing extensions as per user choice.
Thunderbird
Email client
Mozilla's Thunderbird 2 email application is powerful email client. That cab be used in place of Outlook. Thunderbird is easier to organize, secure and customize your mail, tag your mail. The open source Thunderbird email client is extendable with extensions which are available for free download at thunderbird site.
Sunbird
Calandar Application
Mozilla Sunbird is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Intention is provide user with full-featured and easy to use calendar application that you can use around the world.
Mozilla Sunbird is also available as an extension to Thunderbird email client. This extension is name Lightening
Filezilla
FTP client
FileZilla is a powerful opensource FTP-client for Windows. It has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable
Filezilla has a Site Manager to manage a list of servers so that you can quickly connect to them. It stores their addresses and their logon information so that you don't have to remember all server details. Filezilla will do that for you.
It has ability to resume Uploads/Downloads (if the server supports it), Custom Commands, Keep Alive system, Timeout detection, Firewall support, Upload/Download Queue, Drag & Drop, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support, SSL secured connections, SFTP support, Multi-language support, GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos are some of other features of Filezilla.
Inkscape
Vector Graphics Editor
Excellant Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.
Audacity
Digital Audio Editor
Audacity is opensource program that manipulates digital audio waveforms. In addition to recording sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis.
It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. It is not MIDI editor.
Audacity works with tracks, that contain one audio file. This file is editable and all actions are undoable. Undo's are instantaneous. Almost anything is undoable, including importing and deleting tracks!
Picassa
Photograph Organiser/Editor
Picasa is a free software from Google. It is must have software for your digital photographs. It helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures. The big plus for the software is ease of working, applying various effects on the digital pictures.
Irfanview
Graphics viewer and converter
IrfanView is a fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converter for Windows, with extremely low system resources requirements. Supports a large number of file formats. However it is freeware for non commercial use only.
Some features of IrfanView are Multi language support, Thumbnail option, slideshow, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing/rename, multipage editing, file search, email, print, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe Photoshop filters), EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, many command line options, many plugins to enhance its capabilities.
IcoFx
Icon Editor
IcoFX is a very good free icon editor. You can easily create, edit, read and save icons with transparency for Windows XP and Vista. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images. With the help of many tools and more than 40 effects icon creation is made easy. It offers powerful tools like Brighten, Darken, Blur and Sharpen for retouching your icons in minutes. In the integrated workspace you can easily preview, save, change your icons.
Convert
Conversion Utility
Convert is a handy conversion utility by Joshua F. Madison. It is available for no cost for all type of use, including use in commercial environment.
Convert has many tabs for conversion such as:
Acceleration, Amount of Substance, Angle, Area, Computer, Concentration, Density,
Distance, Flow, Force, Light, Mass, Power, Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Time, Torque,
Volume, Volume - Dry.
You can define our own units for conversion.
Ccleaner
Space Cleaning Utility
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. It's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and has no Spyware or Adware!
Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. (But use that only if you really know what you are doing, at times we have seen that it removes certain file associations when we used ccleaner's registry cleaner. If you are not a computer expert leave this feature unused. Even without it it is a very good utility to free space on your harddisk.
