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Recommended by the webmaster
- Internet browser
Firefox - The most user-friendly
browser. Replaces Internet Explorer. Hundreds of plug-ins for all kinds
of additional services.
- Internet email
Thunderbird - Without a doubt the
best and safe replacement for Outlook (Express). Excellent learning
anti-spam engine, better virus protection. An Outlook compatible agenda is available as Lightning. (With BirdieSync you can even sync your mobile PDA with Microsoft Outlook!)
- Instant Messenger Pidgin - Replaces MSN (Messenger) and at the same time also ICQ, Yahoo, Jabr, IRC,
AOL AIM.
- Word processing and all other 'office' OpenOffice.org - replaces Microsoft Office Professional and supports all Microsoft proprietary formats (documents from Word,
Powerpoint,
Excel, Access). Creates powerful PDF files and Flash from presentations. Supports many other formats including the new open ISO
standard Open Document Format and Microsoft's DOCX (which is not supported by Microsoft older Office suites).
- Photo and painting manipulation GIMP - replaces Photoshop
or PaintShopPro. You'll need to get used to the user-interface. But
very powerful, support an incredible number of file formats.
- Line drawing Inkscape - to build vector-graphics and
3D.
- Music and sound manipulation Audacity
- supports MP3, WAV, OGG &c. Not Microsoft WMA due to patents. Cut,
paste, speed, hiss reduction, convert, invert, sample, sound effects,
mirror, filter, pitch,
- MP3 player Foobar - replaces MediaPlayer, plays MP3, WAV, OGG and Microsoft WMA, audio-CD, play lists, and other formats
- Movie and DVD player
VLC player - replaces MediaPlayer and supports almost any format without plug-in or downloadable. Also supports streaming from your server TO internet.
- Desk top publishing (DTP) Scribus
- for real mark-up above the simple WYSIWYG from Word and Powerpoint.
For professional lay-outs of brochures, posters and so on.
- Web page mark-up (HTML) Kompozer - replaces FrontPage and DreamWeaver and creates much cleaner (smaller and faster) HTML code that supports all kind of browsres.
- A whole office suite on one USB flash stick plus the rest including your files? Seeing is believing. Replaces your laptop PC.
Includes everything you need to work anywhere, including ALL of the
above software. More can be included (or excluded if you need extra
space) and runs on any Windows PC without installing anything. Runs
from any device (USB stick, iPod, PDA, CD, ...). There are localised
versions available, such as the Dutch language version OSS Portable Office.
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