Office

Office Tools - Free and Open Source Educational Software

This collection of office tools can be extended by examining the tools in networking, security, business, mathematics, graphics and the arts.

Free Office Suites

OpenOffice - includes Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base - developed by Sun Microsystems
Koffice - includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database and project management
GnomeOffice - includes AbiWord, Gnumeric, Evolution and Gnome-DB data access

Office Tools

OpenOffice - an office suite includes word processor, spreadsheet, database, drawing and slide presentation software (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.openoffice.org/ (LGPL)

Extensions for OpenOffice - such as Sun PDF Import, Sun Presenter Console, Data Form

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/

Tutorials for OpenOffice

http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/

Learn OpenOffice

http://www.learnopenoffice.org/

NeoOffice - based on OpenOffice - word processor, spreadsheet, database, drawing and presentation (MacOSX) http://www.neooffice.org/ (Free)

GanttProject - Gantt Project Charts - requires Java Runtime Environment JRE (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)

PDFCreator - create PDF files includes PostScript software (Windows)

http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator (GPL)

Bibus - Bibliographic and reference management software (Windows, Linux)

http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)

Scribus - Desktop publishing (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.scribus.net/ (GPL)

AbiWord - Popular small word processor (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.abisource.com/download/ (GPL)

Gnumeric - Free, Fast and Accurate Spreadsheet (Windows, Linux)

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric (GPL)

Gnome-DB - free unified data access architecture (Windows, Linux)

http://www.gnome-db.org/ (LGPL)

Ghostscript - interpreter for Postscript and PDF (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.ghostscript.com/awki (GPL)

Glom - Design and use database systems (Windows, Linux)

http://www.glom.org/ (GPL)

GnomeOffice - Gnome/Gtk applications for an Office Environment (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeOffice/ (GPL)

Koffice - part of KDE on Windows Project (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.koffice.org/ (GPL and LGPL)

Texmaker - A free LaTex editor for technical publications (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ (GPL)

Todo Managers

Sunbird - Calendar system (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/ (Mozilla Public License)

Rainlendar Lite - Desktop calendar, event and todo list (Windows, Linux)

http://www.rainlendar.net/ (Free)

OpenProj - Open Project is a free project management system (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://openproj.org/ (GPL)

Task Coach - A todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://taskcoach.sourceforge.net/index.html (GPL)

Planner - A project management application with Gantt Charts, Task and Resource views (Linux)

http://live.gnome.org/Planner (GPL)

TaskJuggler - Open source project management tool (Linux)

http://www.taskjuggler.org/ (GPL)

Communications

Web Browsers and Email clients

Firefox - Web Browser with lots of useful plugins (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ (Mozilla Public License)

Firefox Plugins - mozilla addons flash, shockware, java, chatzilla, downthemall, lightning, firebug, web_developer, export, noscript (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://addons.mozilla.org/ (Mozilla Public License)

Thunderbird - Email front end with lots of features (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ (Mozilla Public License)

Seamonkey - Web Browser replacement for Mozilla includes navigator, mail, newsgroups, composer, address book and IRC chat (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ (Mozilla Public License)

Safari - Fast Web browser from Apple (Windows, MacOSX)

http://www.apple.com/safari/ (Apple Single User License)

Opera - Fast Web browser (Windows, MacOSX,Linux)

http://www.opera.com/ (Opera Individual Free License)

Sylpheed - lightweight and user friendly e-mail client (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ (GPL)

Alpine - fast, easy to use email client (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ (Apache License)

Konqueror - Web browser, File Manager and more (Linux)

http://www.konqueror.org/ (GPL)

Evolution - Groupware with integrated email, calendaring and addressbook (Linux)

http://projects.gnome.org/evolution (GPL)

Zimbra - Groupware for email and calendars and compatible with MS Outlook and Apple email (Linux, MacOSX)

http://www.zimbra.com/community/downloads.html (Yahoo Public License YPL)

List of Free Web Browsers - provides images and details about the latest free web browsers for Windows with demos, reviews and links to the home sites

http://www.free-web-browsers.com/

For more organisers and project management systems see Business Workflow
Chat and Conference software

Miranda IM - Chat client for AIM, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo (Windows)

http://www.miranda-im.org/ (GPL)

Coccinella - Chat client with whiteboard, multi-user chat, file transfer, and add contacts to Jabber, ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo - requires Tcl/Tk (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://thecoccinella.org/ (GPL)

Ekiga - Open source VoIP and video conferencing (Windows, Linux)

http://ekiga.org/ (GPL)

Pidgin - Instant messaging application supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, and a lot more (Windows, Linux)

http://www.pidgin.im/ (GPL)

QuteCom - Free VOIP Softphone (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://trac.qutecom.org/wiki (Free)

Skype - Free chat and phone calls between users of skype software - phone charges apply when connecting to landlines and mobiles (Windows, MaxOSX, Linux)

http://www.skype.com/ (Free chat between skype users)

SpeakFreely - free phone calls only between computers with speakfreely installed (Windows, Linux)

http://www.speakfreely.org/ (GPL)

Asterisk - Open source telephone platform PBX with VoIP (MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.asterisk.org/ (GPL)

Kopete - Internet Messaging for services such as AIM and IRC (Linux)

http://kopete.kde.org (GPL)

OCS - Open Conference System is a free Web publishing tool, from the Public Knowledge Project (Linux)

http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs (GPL)

7-Zip - good file archiver with high compression ratio - supports packing/unpacking of 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR formats, and unpacking only for RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.7-zip.org/ (LGPL, AES code license, unRAR restrictions)

Aqua - Aqua dock MacOSX style for Windows (Windows, Linux)

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Aqua-Dock.shtml (Free)

ColorConsole - command console with changable font style and color (Windows)

http://www.softwareok.com/ (Free)

EmergeDesktop - Alternative desktop to windows explorer (Windows)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/emerge (GPL)

VirtuaWin - Virtual Windows desktops (Windows)

http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ (Free)

Explorer++ - free multi-tab clone of Windows Explorer, featuring several enhancements and additions (Windows)

http://www.explorerplusplus.com/ (Free)

Infrarecoder - free CD/DVD burning solution (Windows)

http://infrarecorder.org/ (GPL)

ObjectDock - MacOSX style for Windows (Windows)

http://www.stardock.com (Free)

A list of free software for Windows

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

System Tools

CCleaner - easy to use and functional system optimization and privacy tool to fix registry and remove temporary files (Windows)

http://www.ccleaner.com/ (Free)

md5sum - Calculate md5 checksums (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ (GPL)

PrcView - Process viewer displays memory, threads and module usage per process (Windows)

http://www.faratasystems.com/pview/prcview.htm (Free)

Wget - GNU command line tool to download web files (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ (GPL)

GnuWin32 Packages - Windows version of GNU tools ((Windows)

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html (GPL)

BugDoctor - fix hidden bugs and errors (Windows)

http://www.pcbugdoctor.com/ (Free)

Easy Cleaner - speedup Windows by cleaning registry and removing unwanted files (Windows)

http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm (Free)

RegSeeker - registry cleaner (Windows)

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm (Freeware for personal use)

Extfsd - Linux ext2/ext3 file system driver (Windows)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd (GPL)

USB Tools

PortableApps - Your digital life anywhere by having complete environment on USB stick (Windows)

http://www.portableapps.com (Free)

usbWebserver - USB portable easy to use Apache Web Server, MySQL Database, PHP and phpMyAdmin all in one (Windows)

http://www.usbwebserver.com/ (Freeware)

More Maths Tools

GraphCalc - Graphical calculator (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.graphcalc.com/ (GPL)

FreeMat - rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing, similar to MATLAB (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)

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