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Geek to Live: Top 10 open source Windows apps
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WordPress
in 198 toolboxes Flexible open-source content management and blogging software with an active user and developer community and a wide variety of plug-ins or extensions available.
Drupal
in 159 toolboxes Very extensible CMS platform based on PHP and used by many NGOs - "Community Plumbing"
Firefox
in 345 toolboxes Firefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla
Skype
in 228 toolboxes Free/cheap Internet telephony and handy IM tool.
Delicious
in 173 toolboxes Web based social bookmarking lets you share online finds and discover new ones. Ground zero for tagging.
OpenOffice
in 203 toolboxes Full-featured open source office productivity suite, featuring word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database packages; free MS Office replacement.
Ubuntu
in 136 toolboxes User-friendly Linux distribution.
The Ubuntu promise:
* Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates
* Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world
* Ubuntu provides the best translations and accessibility features that the free software community has to offer
* Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
Google Earth
in 83 toolboxes Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Pidgin
in 91 toolboxes A multi-protocol Instant Messaging (IM) client
Thunderbird
in 137 toolboxes Mozilla's Open Source email client
MediaWiki
in 85 toolboxes Powerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project
Tor
in 30 toolboxes Free software for anonymous Internet communication.
PuTTY
in 71 toolboxes A Free Telnet/SSH Client
Enigmail
in 28 toolboxes Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla / Netscape and Mozilla Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG
Audacity
in 96 toolboxes Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
GIMP
in 116 toolboxes A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Adium
in 62 toolboxes Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
The Ultimate Boot CD
in 11 toolboxes A collection of floppy-based diagnostic tools and recovery Linux distributions all consolidated on one bootable CD
Wikipedia
in 131 toolboxes Wikipedia is a global and multilingual Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia.
LinkedIn
in 144 toolboxes Social networking for non-social purposes with a focus on professional development, networking for jobs and problem solving through the expertise of those in your extended network.
apache
in 62 toolboxes industry standard open source web server
VaultletSuite
in 12 toolboxes VaultletSuite 2 Go is privacy protecting software that installs on your hard drive or your thumb/USB drive. It uses Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption, and provides easy-to-use (transparent) encrypted and controllable email and password protects important files.
Gmail
in 159 toolboxes Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
in 25 toolboxes The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) enables people to securely exchange messages and to secure files with both privacy and strong authentication. GnuPG is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software.
Guardian Project port to Android: https://guardianproject.info/code/gnupg/
KeePass
in 17 toolboxes KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way
Portable Thunderbird
in 10 toolboxes Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.
phpMyAdmin
in 60 toolboxes web-based interface for managing MySQL
VLC Media Player
in 79 toolboxes VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Social Source Commons
in 144 toolboxes The Social Source Commons is a “knowledge commons” that provides users with: a directory of software applications; links to relevant documentation, localization tools, services, user reviews; and a place to request tools/features.
OpenSSH
in 28 toolboxes Secure shell
Twitter
in 125 toolboxes Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or on the web.
