List of Open Source Useful Software

Yeah, it is time to redo my laptop. So as I go through the process, I thought I would list some of the common freeware apps that I use. If you know of any good ones feel free to list them as well. I use a Windoze so this won't help you Mac folks much.

• Irfanview - great for simple image viewing and manipulations
• Virtual Clone Drive - Opens ISO's locally
• Izarc - Unzip utility with RAR support. Careful, site has a big advertisement that confuses the Isarc download with something else that isn't free
• CD Burner XP Burn CD's and DVD's
• Winamp- The old stand by for playing MP3's
• Sumatra PDF - Faster, Lighter Adobe PDF reader
• Open Office - Alternative to MS Office (There are others as well, google them yourself)
• Virtual Box - Run virtual machines on your computer
• Gladinet Cloud Desktop - Use this so I can map a drive to Microsoft's Live free 25 Gig free remote storage (see previous blogs)
• Paint.Net - Great for light Photo manipulation, not Photoshop. Also there are some great web based alternatives, do a google search.
• Notepad ++ - Great open source notepad replacement similar to Ultra Edit (Use Column Editing)

There are also some services I use, some I even pay for. I'll do a post for those as well, as well as update this list. I know there are more great open source software tools out there, I just either have commercial equivalents or I haven't used them yet.