HOME   PHOTOS   LINKS   DESK   ZIM   ATION   CHOOSE

List of Free Software        The following is a list of free software applications, some open sourced. I use most of these applications, and this is by no means a complete list of available applications; rather, these are the applications that I'd heartily recommend for other people.   Windows: Documents | Media | Network | Utilities | Programming Web Tools Programming Tools: Libraries | Installers   Windows Documents Program Description License Source Acrobat Reader (Adobe) pdf viewer freeware closed http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html OpenOffice.org word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, drawing PDL/GPL/LGPL/SISSL open http://www.openoffice.org/ Media Program Description License Source Winamp (Nullsoft) audio player freeware closed http://www.winamp.com/ CDex CD ripper and audio encoder GPL open http://www.cdex.n3.net/ Windows Media Player (Microsoft) video player freeware closed http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx QuickTime (Apple) video player nagware closed http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ GIMP image editor GPL open http://www.gimp.org/windows/ Blender (Blender Foundation) 3D modeling, animation, and rendering GPL open http://www.blender3d.com/ Network Program Description License Source Mozilla (Mozilla Foundation) web browser and email client MPL/NPL open http://www.mozilla.org/ Trillian (Cerulean Studios) AIM/ICQ/IRC/MSN Messenger/Yahoo client freeware closed http://www.trillian.cc/ FileZilla graphical FTP/SFTP client GPL open http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ PuTTY telnet/SSH client MIT open http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Zone Alarm (Zone Labs) software firewall freeware closed http://www.zonelabs.com/ Utilities Program Description License Source Ad-aware (Lavasoft) ad/spyware removal utility freeware closed http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Virtual Dimension virtual desktop manager GPL open http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/ Programming Program Description License Source Cygwin (Cygnus Solutions) Linux-like environment GPL open http://www.cygwin.com/   Web Tools Program Description License Source PHP (The PHP Group) scripting language PHPL open http://www.php.net/ Gallery photo management GPL open http://gallery.sourceforge.net/ phpMyAdmin MySQL database frontend GPL open http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ Bugzilla (The Mozilla Organization) bug-tracking system MPL open http://www.bugzilla.org/   Programming Tools Libraries Program Description License Source wxWidgets cross-platform C++ GUI framework wxWL open http://www.wxwidgets.org/ Simple DirectMedia Layer cross-platform C multimedia library LGPL open http://www.libsdl.org/ TinyXml small C++ XML parser zlib open http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/ Installers Program Description License Source NSIS (Nullsoft) Windows-only installer BSD-like open http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

copyright (c) 2004 mark dezelon