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Closed Source Outlook Open Source Mozilla Mahogony Phoneix Mail The best of the current lot. Good but missing a few advanced features I'd like. Nice, feels a bit 'odd'. [CP]

No install necessary, single exe, fast clean, easy to use nice UI, no HTML email, Poor filteri FTP

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Filezilla

The more I use it the more I love it. Windows only. IM (Instant Messaging)

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Open Source Gaim Windows version has been stable for a while now. P2P File Sharing
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Open Source Gnucleus Lime Wire Accesses the Gnutella p2p network. Very nice program.

Accesses the Gnutella p2p network. Current versions of Lime Wire include advertising ban

source there are ad-free versions available. giFT Uses the OpenFT p2p network. Remote Access
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Closed Source PC Anywhere Open Source RealVNC TightVNC The original VNC developers returned. VNC with compression and other features. Telnet / SSH

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Open Source PuTTY Windows Only, hopes to port. Web Browser

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Open Source Mozilla Firefox Lynx Excellent web browser, with plenty of add-ons to custiomize it. [CP] Text only. Good, but not for most people. Webcam
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Open Source Dorgem Fwink Simple but effective. Simple but effective. Webgrabber
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Open Source Wget cURL HTTrack Has a GUI. Looks ok, but I'm still using Wget for now. Misc Very handy. A GUI would be nice but is very powerfull as is.

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Open Source Speak Freely Internet voice chat.

Internet - Utilities
Auction watchers
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Closed Source Open Source

JBidWatcher

Java based Bid watch program. I normally hate the ugly Java UI widgets but this one does much but next time I do I'll be sure to use this program.

Firewall
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Open Source Coyote Linux floppyfw Small Linux distribution designed to act as firewall. Small Linux distribution designed to act as firewall. Link Checker
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Closed Source Xenu Open Source Xenu is execellent free software but not Open Source.

Link Checker

Requires Python. Portscan

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Closed Source Languard Network Security Free. Scanner Open Source Nmap Windows port now available. Needs Winpcap. Security Scanner
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Nessus

Needs client and server pieces. Server currently only made for Linux/Unix Web Log Anlysis

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Open Source Analog Report Magic Analog is wonderful, very powerful. No GUI. Very good documentation. Report Magic makes the reports from Analog look prettier. Use them together.

Media - Audio / Visual

Audio Editor
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Open Source

Audacity Streamripper Record streaming MP3s Media Player

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Closed Source Real Audio MS Media Player WinAmp Open Source Zinf Previously known as FreeAmp.

CoolPlayer

MP3 / audio player focused on speed. I'm really begining to like this one. Video capture / conversion

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VirtualDub

Capture and edit video. Not meant to replace an editor but probably can for many uses. Do can't. Converts analog video for dispay on computer (?)

DScaler

Media - CD / DVD/ VCD

CD Ripping
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Closed Source Real Jukebox Open Source CD-DA X-Tractor CDex CD Writing
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Closed Source Easy CD Creator Open Source

CDRDAO Freeburn CD Record

Records Disk-at-Once. No Windows GUI. Still in early development.

DVD player
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Open Source VideoLan Looks good. VCD creation

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Open Source

GNU VCDImager

Create and analyze VCD and Super Video CD's

Media - Graphics
3D
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Closed Source Open Source

Liquid

"Liquid it a tool for translating Maya scenes into another renderer's scene description" I do to those who do. 3D modeler and renderer. 3D creation suite

Moonlight 3D Blender 3D

Diagramming
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Closed Source Visio Open Source Dia, Dia [CP] Graphics Editor
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Closed Source Paintshop Pro

Photoshop Open Source Gimp, Win Gimp / Win Gimp QCad [CP] Very confusing UI.

2D CAD system. Looks good, I don't know much about CAD though. Graphics Viewer

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Closed Source ACDSee Open Source

JImageView SlideShow Picture Viewer JavaExplorer Java Image Browser and Sorter JCDSee

Written in Java. Project dead? JavaExplorer is ok, not really for viewing large collections. Project dead?

JCDSee, nice and quick. Making good progress. Vanished?

imgv. portable image viewer Unique image viewing program. Very nice but might be an acquired taste. Best of the lot. Misc Graphics
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Open Source

GOCR/JOCR JImage Mosaic

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Makes a mosaic image from other images. Java.

WinPhoto

Generates a static photo gallery. Creates thumbnails and html pages automatically. Genera uploaded to server.

Media - Text / HTML

Office Suite / (Word processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation)
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Closed Source Microsoft Office Perfect Office Considered the standard by most. From Corel. Home of the aging, but still somewhat popular, WordPerfect.

Open Source OpenOffice.org StarOffice AstroGrep Tail For Win32

[CP] Good, but not perfect, reading and writing of MS Office files. Can't currently read Wo Semi-closed source version of OpenOffice.org. Grep with GUI. Searches across files for text. Watches text files for changes. Word Processor

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Closed Source MS Word Wordperfect What everyone currently uses. Still has some die-hard fans.

Open Source AbiWord GNU Emacs Loved by many. Not for your average user. PDF Writing
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Closed Source Adobe Acrobat Open Source GhostScript, xPDF Ugh, needs GUI. Database - desktop

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Closed Source Microsoft Access Open Source

JEDI Database Desktop

Not the MS Access replacement I was hoping for but it may be a start. I'm not sure if that i intending this to be used for. Text / HTML Editor

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Closed Source Notepad

Open Source SciTE Jext jEdit KeyNote PhpEdit Not specifically for HTML but works well. Includes syntax high-lighting. Programmers editor. Programmers editor written in Java. Tabbed notebook with Rich Text editor PHP IDE for Windows. HTML Formatting
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Open Source HTML Tidy

Automatically checks HTML files for common errors and can format the document for eas

Tidy GUI

A GUI interface for HTML Tidy.

Educational
Typing Tutor
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Closed Source

Open Source GNU Typist Tux Typing Bland but effective. Spiffy. Targeted toward children. Not particularly challenging for adults.

Games

Dungeon
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Open Source NetHack, Falcon's Eye Egoboo 1st Person Shooter

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No graphics. Dungeon adventure game. Classic. Falcon's Eye is literally Nethack with fancy graphics.

Closed Source Doom / Heretic / Hexen

Open Source Vavoom Wolfenstein GL Legacy Doom QBlood Cube Tenbrae Complete recreation of Blood. Unique engine, fun, not finished. Full code not yet released. Modernized version of old Quake code. Side scroller
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Allows IP deathmatch. True Windows program. Runs Doom, Heretic, and Hexen

Closed Source

Donkey Kong Commander Keen Open Source VideoToons Abuse Cannon volley
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Closed Source Scorched Earth Open Source

Scorched Earth 2000 Death Star Battles Scorched 3D XScorch

Web based version of Scorched Earth Web based, addictive and fun.

No Windows version available but looks to be closest to the original Scorched Earth that I' Strategy

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Closed Source Risk Open Source Java Risk

Space simulation / Astonomy

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Closed Source

Open Source Celestia Stellarium Worms

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Very nice.

Closed Source Worms

Open Source NiL Real time worms Space combat

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Closed Source

Open Source Vega Strike Orbit space combat simulator SimCity

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Closed Source Sim City Open Source LinCity Chess

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Closed Source

Open Source WinBoard Lemmings

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Closed Source Lemmings Open Source Pingus Lemmings clone Pong

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Closed Source Pong Open Source

Tuxpuck

Nice, but hard! Virtual Pool

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Closed Source

Open Source FooBillard

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Open Source

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Open Source

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Misc Games
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Benny Kramek Games Open Source Liquid War SDL Sopwith LGames WinPenguins PySol Onsight Crack Attack

Several nice looking games. Carterrain, Tank Wars 3D, Quack, Quandary

No describing it. Wierd but fun. Port of classic side shooter. Web site with several games inlcuding breakout and tetris clones. Little penguins that run all over your desktop. Solitaire, needs Python Odd little game. Fun. Take your time it's all tactics. Addictive and fun game. Single or multiplayer over IP. Minesweeper

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Closed Source Minesweeper Open Source XulMine Minesweeper clone. Requires Mozilla / Netscape 6+

Utilities - File
Compression / ZIP
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Closed Source Winzip

Power Archiver Filzip Open Source JZip 7-Zip NeonZip FreeExtractor Info-Zip, WiZ Not open source yet. Soon? Looks nice

Looks good. Despite the name JZip is not Java. Simple clean interface. Does not support ta Looks good. Different than I am used to but very easy to use. Integrates with Explorer. Java. Looks ok. Creates Self-extracting archives. Excellent, but not a general purpose archiving program. Seems good enough. Could use a lot of work on the user interface. Multiple File Search and Replace

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Closed Source BK ReplaceEm Open Source GSR Global Search and Replace Search and Replace Dos based

Written in Perl

Utilities - General
Windows utilities
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Closed Source

Open Source Vitrite GnuWin32 Allows for transparency in Windows 2000/XP

A ton of small, mostly command line, utilities common to Unix and Linux systems. Too 'sc Time Sync

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Open Source NIST Time Nettime Simple but effective. From the people who should know best.

Utilities - Security
Antivirus

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Closed Source Fsecure McAfee Norton Open Source Open Antivirus Encryption
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Closed Source

PGP Open Source GnuPG WinPT Open source version of PGP. WinPT gives a nice interface to GnuPG. WinPT requires GnuPG. File Shredding
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Open Source Eraser Password Management

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Open Source Password Safe PINs Unix environment for Windows.

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Open Source Cygwin

Advanced / IT Professional Desktop

Installers

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Open Source Inno Setup Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Installer for Windows programs Create your own installers.

PC Emulator
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Open Source Bochs Allows you to run any operating system 'inside' your current operating system. Very cool. Network Packet Analyzer
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Open Source Etheral Network Analyzer You need WinPCap to get Ethereal to capture packets. Scheduling
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Open Source Sinc Cron Dead?

Advanced / IT Professional Server

Database - server

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Open Source

My SQL

I generally avoid Windows as a server, but since MySQL runs on so many platforms you ca you go production on your real servers.

Firebird

Perl for Windows

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Open Source Active Perl

Novell utils
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Closed Source

Workstation Name

Especially useful for Zenworks. Allows admin to automatically change the workstation nam user. Many other options. Free but not open source.

ZEN Workstation Browser

Fast and easy way to launch Zenworks remote control of a workstation. Much better for it' Free but not open source. Holger Dopp has created a bunch of good utilities for Novell env Netware sever based file synchronization utility written in Java. Customizes your desktop background image to display your currently logged on user.

NJFSS Whoami Open Source

Novell Application Launcher Several to manipulate AOT files. Tools

Novell's own section on Open Source RConIP A native windows replacement for rconj Help Desk
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Open Source IRM RequiresPHP and mySQL

Misc
Personal Finance
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Closed Source MS Money Quicken Open Source JMoney JCash CBB GnuCash Although still in the early stages JMoney seems ok. Active devlopement. CP Early stages. Requires Perl and TCL/Tk. No Windows version, but it's wildly popular on Linux. I couldn't just ignore it. EBook reader for Palm
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GutenPalm / Weasel Reader My old Palm Pilot Pro can't run this but any reasonably modern Palm shouldn't have a pro Statistics and Mathematics
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Open Source Maxima A "computer algebra system". I don't understand it but looks useful to those who do.

Octave

"a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations" I don't understand do.

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Personal Information Managers (PIM)

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Open Source Treeline Elephant Memory Mozilla Calendar Tree structured outliner/PIM/small database. System tray remider program. Pops up to remind you of meetings and such. Early stages yet. You need to have Mozilla installed.

Screen Savers
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Open Source Matrix32 Vital desktop KISS Image Screen Saver Really Slick Screensavers Win32 port of xmatrix screen saver. Let screen savers run as your desktop background. Simple photo gallery screen saver. Several very nice OpenGL screen savers. Unorganized
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Partition Resizer Open Source Lifelines VirtuaWin Snort NMapWin Memtest86 PfaEdit Xchat piXfloW

Resizes partitions without destroying data. Free but not Open Source.

Geaneaology program. No GUI. A virtual desktop manager. Intrusion Detection System Windows version of the most popular portscanner. Stress test system memory. Also comes with an self booting ISO, so no install necessary. Edits and creates postscript fonts. Requires Cygwin. Popular IRC client. Possibly a replacement for ACDSee? Haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Requires Java.

Netrek

A online only two dimensional battle game with a Startrek theme Handy little POP3 new mail notification program. You can preview the subject and delete them. Vector based drawing program. Uses SVG as it's native file format. 3D creation, modeling, and animation suite. Windows native Rconag6 client for remote conosole access of a Netware server. Nice, easy to use, file encryption. Cleans out the Temp folder and the Recycle Bin. Lets you print to a PDF file.

Magic Mail Monitor 3

Sodipodi Blender 3D RconIP NeoCrypt AClean PDFCreator