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Geek to Live: The best apps of 2006
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How to Resize Your Parallels Drive, and Get Windows to Recognize It
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Paypal
in 90 toolboxes General funds transfer service which can be adapted for online donations.
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
iCal
in 35 toolboxes Calendaring application for Mac OS X
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.
CiviCRM
in 94 toolboxes Open source constitutent relationship management system.
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
PuTTY
in 71 toolboxes A Free Telnet/SSH Client
Safari
in 30 toolboxes Macintosh OS default web browser
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.
Mac OS X
in 68 toolboxes Apple's desktop operating system.
Adobe Photoshop
in 72 toolboxes Powerful but expensive digital image manipulation package.
Gizmo
in 11 toolboxes a voip/IM client like Skype, but based on open protocols
Cyberduck
in 27 toolboxes Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X. Cyberduck is easy to use and includes features such as uploading and downloading by drag and drop. It can also synchronise files and directories. Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports the Mac OS X Keychain and Bonjour networking
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.
YouTube
in 75 toolboxes Upload up to 100MB videos and embed them in your sites. Now with dedicated channels for nonprofits.
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.
Gmail
in 159 toolboxes Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity
Flip4Mac
in 15 toolboxes Digital Media Tools for the Mac
Colloquy
in 20 toolboxes Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client
Google Calendar
in 76 toolboxes A free web-based calendar.
Facebook
in 114 toolboxes Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
Google Talk
in 36 toolboxes Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free, anytime, anywhere in the world.
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
in 83 toolboxes Now covered by Google Drive.
Web-based word processor and spreadsheet tool. Formerly Writely.
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.
MySQL
in 64 toolboxes Open source DataBase Management System
MacFUSE
in 5 toolboxes A FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism for Mac OS X
Growl
in 22 toolboxes Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
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.
