Favorite picks for Open Source Applications
Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 in Do it yourself guides
It’s no secret I love Open Source applications. Why? Well it’s really quite simple. When an application is Open Source you have much more control over how the application behaves and can easily customize it to your liking. Software that is not Open Source is similar to leasing a vehicle sure you own it, but you don’t have the right to fully pimp your ride. Below I have listed some of my favorite open source apps. Some are more promising than others and I am sure I have not covered all of the great open source apps out there. So to be fair if I missed any good ones please let me know in the comments.
- Firefox - Open source web browser with tons of great features, extensions, themes and more.
- Democracy Player - Open source media player that allows you to download torrents and play them in the same application. Democracy also supports a number of other great media formats.
- RSSOwl - A great little RSS reader.
- VLC - Handy video player that supports most video formats including Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, MPEG, VCD and etc.
- Audacity - Free audio editor packed with features. Enables copy and paste, audio filters and more.
- Notepad ++ Free full featured text editor. This one is great it supports syntax highlighting for 30 or so programming languages for all you programmers out there. Also see Scite (Ships with ROR) and Programmers Notepad.
- 7-Zip - Great little file archive tool that can open just about any archive file you through at it. Think of it as the swiss army knife of file archive utilities.
- Greasemonkey - Firefox Extension that allows you to execute your own Javascript files based on url locations. There are a lot of great Greasemonkey scripts already built that make this tool a must have for Firefox users.
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