July 31, 2006

Useful Software for free

Over the years I have collected a lot of free software , open source and freeware which I find very useful for work and play . I will let you explore the difference between the two forms of licensing and will get on with my list .

Audio/Video


Bsplayer
VLCplayer
Virtualdub
FFDshow
Foobar


Editing/Formatting


Abiword A lightweight Bi-directional editor , Open source .
Open Office An excellent office suite for general formatting, presentations, spreadsheets etc etc Can read all formats that MS Office creates. Needs a decent machine to run it though - Open source
Pfe32

Graphics


The Gimp The best graphics editor - Open source
Irfanview Excellent viewer for all image formats



Audio video tools








  • ffdshow (DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies) [GNU GPL]

  • ffvfw (MPEG-4 Video for Windows codec) [GNU GPL]

  • AC3Filter [GNU GPL]

  • XviD [GNU GPL]






CAD/Graphics





Databases






System Tools







Office tools




PostScript viewers




Text editors




Web Related -Mail & Internet










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