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Today, we are listing The Eight Open Source Applications That Are Absolutely Useful. These would be very helpful for you when you have no budget to purchase commercial software to use in your daily life. You are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.
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PDF Split and Merge is an easy to use tool to merge and split pdf documents. Console and GUI versions are available. The GUI is written in Java Swing and it provides functions to select files and set options. It’s made over the iText library.
TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include bandwidth-friendly “Tight” encoding, file transfers in the Windows version, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.
WinSCP is a SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.
Notepad++, a source code editor and MS Windows Notepad replacement, has the mission to offer a greener environment. By optimizing its routines, it results in reducing CPU power consumption then reducing the world carbon dioxide emissions.
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, your desktop icons, and your file manager. Launchy indexes and launches your applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
PortableApps.com allows you to carry your favorite computer programs and all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you on a portable device (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, CD, etc) and use them on any Windows computer.
AxCrypt is the leading open source file encryption software for Windows. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.
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Comments
You know, you do have Mac users among your readers. When most or all of the apps are exclusively for Windows, you should include that in the title, so we don’t waste our time looking through a list of apps we can’t use.
@Greg I’m personally a PC, but I did notice that PDF Split and Merge had downloads for Mac OS X as well as Windows.
Handy list, I’ll have to take a closer look at a couple of your suggestions. I definitely wouldn’t be without Notepad++; I use it often.
nice list
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This is an excellent list of applications you have compiled. I use many of these regularly on my Windows PC and will have to look into some of the others. I find Launchy particularly useful as KDE has a built in application runner that works the same way. I find myself never using the start menu (or K menu) any more.
Excellent list, been thinking about setting up a portable solution, as I am always switching machines. Might as well just carry everything on a portable backup solution such as a usb or external hard drive of some capacity.
Open Source applications have alot of demands today. Many new companies are getting engaged with it. Really it has a long future to go.
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