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LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for a wide range of audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.
Sage integrates several mathematical applications under a single Python-based graphical interface. It covers many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, and calculus.
Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, and edit sound files.
Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client. It features encryption, a web-based interface, peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X. Growl allows applications that support it to send you notifications. Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you're already in.
emesene is an instant messaging client designed for use with Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger service. Its goal is to replicate the functions of the official Windows Live client but with a simpler, cleaner, and easier to use interface.
FileZilla is a cross-platform client that supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). It allows you to transfer large files - larger than 4GB - and features filename filters and remote file editing.
Calibre is a one stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.
OpenOffice.org is the leading open source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all its data in an international open standard format and can read and write files from other common office software packages.
Application sits in the system tray and keeps reminding to take short break for relaxing eyes after every rest time interval. It displays the black screen enforcing rest for some time. It is also possible to enable/disable the rest enforcement as needed.
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel through the solar system, to any of more than 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A "point-and-goto" interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. It comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft, but if that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy-to-install add-ons with more objects.
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote) — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).
aTunes is a full-featured Java-based audio player and manager. It plays MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC, and MP4 files and streaming Internet radio. It also lets users edit tags, organize music, and rip audio CDs.
Foswiki is a wiki that supports the embedding of active and passive macros that enhance page content (e.g., with global and/or dynamic information) and allow end users to build applications that store and process data in a structured manner. It is a fork of Twiki.
Spicebird is a collaboration client with an intuitive interface based on Mozilla's Thunderbird code that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring, and instant messaging in a single application.
CamStudio can record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files. The software's built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWF). You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program, or video tutorials for school or college class, or record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people.
The PeaZip file and archive manager, according to Wikipedia, features an archive browser with a customizable interface with search and history features. You can apply fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules to the archive. You can extract and archive files automatically using the command line by exporting a job defined in the GUI front-end. PeaZip can perform file splitting and joining, secure file deletion, byte-to-byte file comparison, archive encryption, and more.
Psi is a free, lightweight instant messaging application designed for the Jabber IM network (including Google Talk). It offers Unicode support and localizations, easy file transfers, and customizable icon sets.
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. The main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered "State of the Art" anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world. Our plugin system was designed to give AbiWord all the functionality you might expect from a modern Word Processor. A variety of plugins can be used to extend AbiWord's functionality, ranging from Document Importers to a Thesaurus, Image Importers and a Text Summarizer. AbiWord is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun. This tour gives you a quick look into some of AbiWord's highlights.