21 Awesome (But Lesser-Known) Open-Source Applications for Windows
Reposted from www.tipsfor.us
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock in Madagascar for the last few years, you undoubtedly already know about the All-Star open-source applications for Windows. I’m talking about applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, OpenOffice, and VLC.
However, there are hundreds of lesser-known but highly-useful
open-source applications available for [...]
Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs
Author: Samer
Description:
I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that
I had to re-install all the [...]
Time Machine for every Unix out there – IMHO
Time Machine for every Unix out there
Using rsync to mimic the behavior of Apple’s Time Machine feature
rsync is one of the tools that have gradually infiltrated my day to day tool-box (aside Vim and Zsh).
Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS X new feature called Time [...]
GParted — LiveCD
GPARTED-LiveCD
The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD.
The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources
to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based
on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager,
and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.
Being up to date is [...]
TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
T r u e C r y p t
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
Main Features:
Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an [...]
FOSS for Security | Daily Cup of Tech
It never ceases to amaze me how much quality freeware/open source software (FOSS) there is out there. In honor of Security Week, I have decided to compile a list of security related FOSS.
I have broken the security software into the following categories:
* Anti-Phishing
[...]
40+ Free Windows Apps For You | Technology Bites
40 Free Windows Apps For You
Published at September 8, 2007
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This post is the part 2 of my earlier post 20 Open Source Windows Apps For You, i got lot of feedback for that post and my readers suggested some excellent programs to be included [...]