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    Lightbulb Opensource your life!

    Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of.
    No adware, no spyware, just good software.
    Web Browsing

    Mozilla Firefox

    The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser.
    Download Page

    Video Player, BitTorrent, Podcasting


    Miro

    Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
    Download Page

    IM - Instant Messaging


    Pidgin

    Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
    Download Page

    E-mail


    Mozilla Thunderbird

    Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
    Download Page
    RSS

    RSSOwl

    Solid cross-platform RSS client.
    Download Page

    Peer-to-Peer Filesharing

    Cabos

    A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.
    Download Page
    Gnucleus

    A very good Gnutella search and download filesharing program.
    Download Page

    Video Playback

    Miro

    Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
    Download Page
    VLC

    Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
    Download Page
    MPlayer

    Similar to VLC-- plays loads of video formats.
    Download Page
    Media Player Classic

    Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.
    Download Page

    DVD Ripping / Video Conversion

    Media Coder

    Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.
    Download Page

    Word Processing / Office Suites

    OpenOffice.org

    Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
    Download Page
    AbiWord

    A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
    Download Page

    Podcasting

    Juice

    Solid podcasting client.
    Download Page

    DVD Ripping

    Handbrake

    DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
    Download Page
    Sound Recording

    Audacity

    Simple sound recording tool.
    Download Page

    Graphics / Photo Editing

    GIMP

    Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
    Download Page
    Paint.NET

    Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
    Download Page
    Inkscape

    Vector graphics application.
    Download Page

    FTP / SFTP

    Filezilla

    Excellent FTP program.
    Download Page

    IRC

    X-Chat 2

    IRC client.
    Download Page

    Archiving

    PeaZip

    Fantastic archiving utility to extract and pack archives of an extensive amount of formats. PeaZip also features password protecting archives, keyfile support, system integration, a lovely interface, and much more.
    Download Page
    It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

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    Default Opensource your life! (Part 2)

    Some more specialized free and open-source Microsoft Windows apps.

    Note Taking

    Freemind

    An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
    Download Page

    Jarnal


    Open Source note taking application written in Java
    Download Page

    Keynote

    Open Source note taking application, very good. I use this myself extensively
    Download Page

    Personal Finance

    TurboCASH

    Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances.
    Download Page

    Quasar

    Easy to use Accounting package
    Download Page

    Chat Clients

    aMSN

    MSN Messenger client written in TCL/TK aMSN Messenger

    X-Chat

    IRC Client X-Chat

    More Web Browsing

    K-Meleon

    Fast, nice web browser.
    Download Page

    Amaya Browser for Windows

    W3C developed web browser and editor for multiple platforms
    Download Page

    Screensaver

    Electric Sheep

    Immersive, trippy screensaver.
    Download Page

    More Filesharing

    Frostwire

    GNUTella client based on the Limewire codebase.
    Download Page
    Also see: Poisoned - Azureus

    3D Graphics and Modeling

    Blender

    Powerful 3D Modeling software.
    Download Page
    Also see: Kerkythea (illumination engine) - Persistence of Vision Raytracer - Quesa Stars and Outer Space

    Celestia

    Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space).
    Download Page

    Stellarium

    "Renders realistic skys in realtime." See what you would see if your city wasn't so light-polluted. Used in real planetariums.
    Download Page
    Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis

    Games

    Marathon: Aleph One

    Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps.
    Download Page

    Zombies

    3D zombie strategy game.
    Download Page

    Armagetron Advanced

    3D Tron game.
    Download Page

    BZFlag

    First-person tank game.
    Download Page

    Battle for Wesnoth

    Fantasy / Strategy Game
    Download Page
    Also see: Snes9X (SNES emulator), Frozen Bubble

    Free File Hosting

    CC Publisher

    Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.
    Download Page

    Security Tools

    NMap

    Easy to use port scanner for Windows
    Download Page

    Wireshark

    Network Protocol Analyzer, formerly called Ethereal
    Download Page

    TrueCrypt

    Creates encrypted virtual hard drives for extra security
    Download Page

    ClamWin

    Open Source Anti-Virus. Very good at detecting viruses. Can be plugged into hMailServer for e-mail protection LIMITATION: Real Time scanning not implemented yet
    Download Page

    Eraser

    Delete files securely off your hard drive utilizing DoD standards
    Download Page

    MP3 and Audio Tools

    MP3 Gain

    Easy to use MP3 manipulation tool for Windows. adjusts sound levels on MP3's so they are all the same
    Download Page

    MP3 Book Helper

    This program provides rapid Mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2) and Ogg/Speex/Flac Vorbis tags editing and file renaming functions. Mass Tag editing is done using special variables and Regular Expressions.
    Download Page

    musikCube

    Open Source MP3 Player, ripper and organizer written using the .NET Framework
    Download Page

    Utilities

    Cobian Backup

    Backup software.
    Download Page

    7-Zip

    File archiver.
    Download Page

    Developer tools

    XEmacs

    The classic, super customizable editor, for Windows.
    Download Page

    KompoZer

    Easy to use, open source WYSIWYG html editor
    Download Page

    SharpDevelop

    Open Source IDE for the .NET Framework. Utilizes the multiple programming languages and Windows forms
    Download Page

    Notepad ++

    Open Source programmers notepad for Windows
    Download Page

    SciTE

    Source code Editor for Windows and X
    Download Page

    Web Developer Server Suite

    Very good WAMP Stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Very thouroughly tested on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server (preliminary testing on Longhorn Server underway). Highly Recommended.
    Download Page

    Mapping Tools

    Nasa World Wind

    Mapping tool similar to Google Earth for Windows. Must have the .NET Framework installed.
    Download Page
    Other

    Graph (graph plotting software)

    Startup Manager (pick what you want to launch on startup)

    freeotfe "on-the-fly" transparent disk encryption program for PCs and PDAs.
    It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

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    Nice topic indeed! I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird , i already use FileZilla ^^. Very nice software.

    This topic has it all!

    Sticky

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    Default

    gj m8 nice topic

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    I'm not sure if Podcasting and Broadcasting is the same deal, but, is it possible to get a Live Broadcasting software?

    I see Xfire has this function, but i don't like to rely on xfire, especially since i can't record it directly from my desktop.

    Sincerely yours,

    → InFeCtoR

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    excellent topic
    Ειμαι απ αυτους που σε δευτερα σκανε και φτανω, ναι
    για ενα λογο απο σας, δωσ' μου λογο που μιλας
    καλυτερ' απο το να χωνεις ριμες να μασας
    Σας περιμενει η κασα
    απλα να παρω ανασα, παιρνω το μικροφωνο και δεν το κανω πασα
    πασα ιδεα εχω χασει για την παστα σου
    Μια μαντρα αρχιδια εχουμε παρε φορα και κλαστa
    Δεν πειραζει, ειμαι σαν τον Σινι Καμικαζι
    η γλωσσα μου σαν αλογο πανω απ το beat καλπαζει
    Σπαζει τα νευρα μου καθε ντεμεκ αλανι, κι αφου δεν το βουλωνει
    το πνιγω μεσ' το μελανι...

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    Default Great stuff

    Great stuff,great topic,great forum

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    Default

    Some incredible work indeed. But i've heard that Mozilla eats up 200 MB of RAM memory even when your PC is turned off (Shut down). Overall one amazing post.
    This is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain, And 100% reason to remember the name!

    No one dies a virgin!
    Life rapes us all...


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    http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/

    This is a plugin for pidgin to support Facebook chat also

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    Default WoW just WoW

    Some of this programs are just awesome good thread mate you just fixed my day.

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    Default

    Ohhhhhh
    excellent job there...!

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