15 Best Opensource Software You Can Use Now

Web Browsing

• Mozilla Firefox – Nearly half the internet population already knows this one and if you are reading this you may already use it and need no further introduction.

Word Processing

• OpenOffice Suite – This one is my favorite because it’s the equivalent of MS Office Suite. It’s got Open Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint equivalent and all can open Microsoft documents and save as Microsoft documents so all your contacts will be able to use your documents. Another feature of the OpenOffice Word is exporting to Adobe PDF,which allows for password encryption and no-print functions that you can add to secure your PDF documents.

Audio Recording

• Audacity – An entire audio recording and editing studio. All files can be exported to wav and mp3 with a small addon.

Photo Editing

• GIMP – Photo editing (Photoshop)
• Inkscape – Vector Graphics (Adobe Illustrator)

File Transfer

• Filezilla – FTP file transfer

Notepad/Coding/Programming

• Notepad ++: Simple opensource notepad client for coders and programmers

Video Playback

• Miro: A video player that plays more video types than Windows Media Player!

• VLC: Another cool video player that plays videos of all types including Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG etc

• Media Player Classic: Compact Media Player

RSS

• RSSOwl: Solid cross-platform RSS client

EMAIL

• Mozilla Thunderbird: Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and more features than you need.

Internet Security

• Spybot Search & Destroy: Searches whole computer or just a certain file for malicious software commonly missed by anti-virus programs
• NoScript: A  Firefox plugin than is used to block malicious scripts and allows JavaScript, Java and other potentially dangerous content only from sites you trust.

 Web Applications

• Piwigo: Host and share your photos with Piwigo. Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers.