11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares

Published on April 10, 2009

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There are many software available that we can purchase and use to get our job done. But what do you think about those softwares that are cross-platform and available for free as well. In simple words, Cross-platform can be defined as any software that can work on more than one operating system and specially are available for Windows, Mac and Linux environment. This is absolutely a great list of 11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares. Donâ€™t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you want any cross-platform software to get your job done.

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Google Earth

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computerâ€™s memory.

Skype

You can use Skype to call another person who also has Skype on his computer. Skype is free to call anywhere in the world regardless of location and time.

FileZilla

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. It supports resume and transfer of large files, contains powerful site manager and transfer queue and much more

OpenOffice

OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is the leading IDE for Today’s Web offering integrated language support for HTML, DOM, JavaScript and CSS. Customize your Studio with additional plugins for PHP, Jaxer, Ruby on Rails, Python, Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone and Nokia S60 development. For Java support, plug Aptana Studio into Eclipse. Aptana Studio is free, open source software.

Picasa

Picasa is a free digital photo organizer and editor. Picasa is excellent for beginners and casual digital shooters who want to find all their pictures, it will simply help you to manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had. You can even eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more with Picasa.

VideoLAN

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.

BitTorrent

BitTorrent 6 is a client that transfers large videos, audios or softwares in a faster and cheaper way. A ‘client’ in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. The BitTorrent 6 client will give you access to the world of content on the protocol in a lightweight, fast and reliable package.

Gimp

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

ThunderbirdÂ

Thunderbird 2 includes many new features to help you manage your inbox. With Thunderbird 2, itâ€™s easier to prioritize and find your important email with tags and the new find bar helps you find content within your email faster.

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Comment by Antonio Campos on April 10, 2009 @ 10:41 am

Great List, i hope that the list continues to grow!!!

Comment by Gennice on April 10, 2009 @ 10:43 am

Great list! I think I have all of these apps installed on my PC right at this moment.

Comment by logo designer on April 10, 2009 @ 1:10 pm

Thank you for the list of resources.

Comment by cssah on April 10, 2009 @ 2:51 pm

great list ,I really used most of them .

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Great compilation. Thanks.

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Comment by stib on April 15, 2009 @ 11:31 pm

Are they running out of stuff to do on this site? This week: 10 bleadin’ obvious apps that you’d have to be living under a rock not to know about.

As you can see from the comments everyone’s already got these.

Nothing to see here, move on..

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