CamStudio

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

• You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
• Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
• You can create video tutorials for school or college class
• You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
• You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
• You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/files/CamStudio%202.6%20beta/ (Beta)

http://www.camstudio.org/CamStudio20.exe (CamStudieo 2.0)

Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application 
that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

      Sweet Home 3D is available in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish,
Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese.
It may run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6, Linux and Solaris.

Download

http://www.sweethome3d.com/download.jsp

Zorin OS-Beyond Limitations

Zorin OS is a multi-functional operating system designed specifically for Linux beginners who want to have easy and smooth access to open source software. It is based on Ubuntu which is the most popular Linux operating system in the world.

Zorin OS features the unique Look Changer program which allows users to change the user interface at the touch of a button. Simply click on either the Windows 7, Windows XP or Linux's GNOME interface in Zorin OS Core and Educational and your desktop looks and behaves accordingly. The Premium versions (Zorin OS Gaming, Multimedia and Ultimate) also include the Mac OS X, Windows Vista and Windows 2000 looks.

Zorin OS' many advantages include the following:

• Zorin OS is safe as it has practically no risk of getting viruses or malware.
• Zorin OS is a stable and robust operating system as it is based on Ubuntu Linux, one of the most reliable systems in the world.
• Zorin OS is an out-of-the-box software solution
• Zorin OS is a very fast operating system. It is tested to be around 4 times faster than Windows 7.
• Zorin OS is available in over 55 languages.
• Zorin OS is a fully customizable operating system.

Zorin OS comes pre-installed with the OpenOffice suite including a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software, the Firefox web browser, the Evolution e-mail client, the Rhythmbox music player, the Totem video player, the GIMP image editor, lots of multimedia codecs and much more.

Zorin OS gives users more flexibility. It allows them to use Zorin OS alongside your current operating system and run Microsoft Windows programs in Zorin OS with the help of WINE and PlayOnLinux. Tests show that most Windows applications run faster in Zorin OS than in Microsoft Windows. Zorin OS replicates the Windows graphical user interface which makes it easy for Windows users to operate Zorin OS alongside Windows or migrate to it.

Zorin OS utilizes the GNOME Desktop Environment. It is open source, which means that anyone can modify anything in the operating system to suit their liking.

Zorin OS was built with the help of the community, so even you can contribute to the Zorin OS project! (See the Forums page). We have mentioned only a few features and advantages of Zorin OS here but you can get a bigger picture by viewing the Screenshots, Videos, or by simply getting it.

Download

http://zorin-os.webs.com/download.htm

Google Chrome Frame

Enable open web technologies in Internet Explorer

Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:

• Start using open web technologies - like the HTML5 canvas tag - right away, even technologies that aren't yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
• Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.

Download

http://www.google.com/chromeframe/eula.html

Haiku Project

Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users.

Download

http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku

Browse the web, Chrome Fast

Why use Google Chrome?

The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: When you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser.

Speed

Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way: It's quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap, and runs complex web applications fast. Learn more about Chrome and speed.

Simplicity

Chrome's browser window is streamlined, clean and simple.

Chrome also includes features that are designed for efficiency and ease of use. For example, you can search and navigate from the same box, and arrange tabs however you wish — quickly and easily.

Security

Chrome is designed to keep you safer and more secure on the web with built-in malware and phishing protection, autoupdates to make sure the browser is up-to-date with the latest security updates, and more. Learn more aboutChrome's security features.

And more features

Chrome has many useful features built in, including extensions, translation in the browser, themes, and more. Learn more about Chrome's newest and most-loved features.

Dowmload

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en

Avira AntiVir Products

Basic protection

Protects your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.New: Generic repair.

Currently available in 9 languages.

Download

http://www.free-av.com/en/trialpay_download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html

ClamWin Open source GPL virus scanner

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003.ClamWin Free Antivirus is used by more than 600,000 users worldwide on a daily basis. It comes with an easy installer andopen source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:

• High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
• Scanning Scheduler;
• Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
• Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
• Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

The latest version of Clamwin Free Antivirus is 0.96.1

Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by theFree Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software.

Download

http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/223/1/

HTTrack Website Copier

HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

WinHTTrack is the Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Seven release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release.

Download

http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html

VLC media player The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server

"It plays everything!"

The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

And what is more it can even play back the file or media if it is damaged! Missing or broken pieces are no stop to VLC, it plays all the video and audio information that's still intact.

Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/files/1.1.0/win32/vlc-1.1.0-win32.exe/download

Inkscape, Draw Freely

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented developme

Download

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.47-3.exe

Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Download

http://www.scribus.net/?q=downloads

OpenOffice - The Open Source Office Package

OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years' software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. The result: OpenOffice.org 3 does everything you want your office software to do, the way you want it to.

OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language. And if you already have files from another office package - OpenOffice.org 3 will probably read them with no difficulty.

Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose - domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees - anyone you like.

Download

http://download.openoffice.org/

Ubuntu

Super-fast and great-looking, Ubuntu is a secure, intuitive operating system that powers desktops, servers, netbooks and laptops. Ubuntu is, and always will be, absolutely free.

Created by the best open-source experts from all over the world, Ubuntu is available in 24 languages and ready for download today.

Download

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

Request an Ubuntu CD

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

GimPhoto - free Photoshop alternative for photo and image editor

GimPhoto is released under GPL.
GimPhoto is based on Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program).

GimPhoto is a GIMP modification with new menu, additional plugins and resources to bring the best GIMP experience to Photoshop users.

The GimPhoto 1.0 and 1.4 modification process is done at binary level so it is only available for Windows and there is no source code, for more understand about the GimPhoto modification process then read
http://www.gimphoto.com/2007/12/gimphoto-process.html

but since GimPhoto 1.4.3 modification process is done at source code level so GimPhoto 1.4.3 also released its source code and GimPhoto 1.4.3 is available for Windows and Linux.

Why was this package created?
Many GIMP users have discussed how GIMP must be improve in many areas before it can be used as free Photoshop alternative (even with earlier versions of Photoshop - 5.5 or 6). Area that must be improved are:

- Features
Color Management, CMYK Separation, 16 bit Mode, Batch Process, Layer Adjustment, Styles, Action.

- User Interface
Menu Structure, Menu Priority, Shortcuts, Toolbox and Dialog design, Windowing System (too many big buttons and white spaces).

- Lack of Resources
More useful brushset, More useful gradients, More useful pattern, More useful plugin (tight selection of plugins, only include commonly used and high quality plugins because loading brushset, gradients and plugins takes time).

GIMP must be useful out of the box without further customization by user.

Many of these features have been added to the GIMP 2.3 development series and many plugins have been developed to extend GIMP capabilities but these plugins are spread all over the internet and must be installed manually to get the best GIMP experience.

Download

http://www.gimphoto.com/2007/08/downloads.html

SliTaz GNU/Linux OS

SliTaz is an open source and free operating system providing a fully featured desktop or server in less than 30 Mb. SliTaz is simple to use, fast and stable.

Download

http://www.Slitaz.org