[Shahryar_NEO]

Here I Want to introduce Open Source softwares in many categories . these contents are collected from many websites like http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ and ... .

First Category :

Video Playback

Miro

Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
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VLC

Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
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MPlayer

Similar to VLC-- plays loads of video formats.
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Media Player Classic

Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.
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Graphics / Photo Editing

GIMP

Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
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Paint.NET

Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
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Inkscape

Vector graphics application.
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Archiving

PeaZip

Fantastic archiving utility to extract and pack archives of an extensive amount of formats. PeaZip also features password protecting archives, keyfile support, system integration, a lovely interface, and much more.
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Mapping Tools

Nasa World Wind

Mapping tool similar to Google Earth for Windows. Must have the .NET Framework installed.
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Stars and Outer Space

Celestia

Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space).
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Stellarium

"Renders realistic skys in realtime." See what you would see if your city wasn't so light-polluted. Used in real planetariums.
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Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis

Open Source games !!! :

Games

Marathon: Aleph One

Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps.
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Zombies

3D zombie strategy game.
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Armagetron Advanced

3D Tron game.
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BZFlag

First-person tank game.
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Battle for Wesnoth

Fantasy / Strategy Game
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Also see: Snes9X (SNES emulator), Frozen Bubble



Free File Hosting

CC Publisher

Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.
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Security Tools

NMap

Easy to use port scanner for Windows
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Wireshark

Network Protocol Analyzer, formerly called Ethereal
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TrueCrypt

Creates encrypted virtual hard drives for extra security
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ClamWin

Open Source Anti-Virus. Very good at detecting viruses. Can be plugged into hMailServer for e-mail protection LIMITATION: Real Time scanning not implemented yet
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Eraser

Delete files securely off your hard drive utilizing DoD standards
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MP3 and Audio Tools

MP3 Gain

Easy to use MP3 manipulation tool for Windows. adjusts sound levels on MP3's so they are all the same
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MP3 Book Helper

This program provides rapid Mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2) and Ogg/Speex/Flac Vorbis tags editing and file renaming functions. Mass Tag editing is done using special variables and Regular Expressions.
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musikCube

Open Source MP3 Player, ripper and organizer written using the .NET Framework
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Utilities

Cobian Backup

Backup software.
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7-Zip

File archiver.
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Developer tools

XEmacs

The classic, super customizable editor, for Windows.
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KompoZer

Easy to use, open source WYSIWYG html editor
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SharpDevelop

Open Source IDE for the .NET Framework. Utilizes the multiple programming languages and Windows forms
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Notepad ++

Open Source programmers notepad for Windows
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SciTE

Source code Editor for Windows and X
Download Page Web Developer Server Suite

Very good WAMP Stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Very thouroughly tested on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server (preliminary testing on Longhorn Server underway). Highly Recommended.
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3D Graphics and Modeling

Blender

Powerful 3D Modeling software.
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Also see: Kerkythea (illumination engine) - Persistence of Vision Raytracer - Quesa

[DrNip]

Very nice collection. I will be looking into these. You sir received one rep for each post!

[Shahryar_NEO]

Originally Posted by DrNip

Very nice collection. I will be looking into these. You sir received one rep for each post!

nice to see somebody interested in OpenSource softwares .

Note Taking

Freemind

An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
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Jarnal

Open Source note taking application written in Java
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Keynote

Open Source note taking application, very good. I use this myself extensively
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Personal Finance

TurboCASH

Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances.
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Quasar

Easy to use Accounting package
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Chat Clients

aMSN

MSN Messenger client written in TCL/TK aMSN Messenger
X-Chat

IRC Client X-Chat
More Web Browsing

K-Meleon

Fast, nice web browser.
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Amaya Browser for Windows

W3C developed web browser and editor for multiple platforms
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Screensaver

Electric Sheep

Immersive, trippy screensaver.
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Last From http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ :

IM - Instant Messaging

Pidgin

Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
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E-mail

Mozilla Thunderbird

Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
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RSS

RSSOwl

Solid cross-platform RSS client.
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Peer-to-Peer Filesharing

Cabos

A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.
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Gnucleus

A very good Gnutella search and download filesharing program.
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DVD Ripping / Video Conversion

Media Coder

Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.
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Word Processing / Office Suites

OpenOffice.org

Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
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AbiWord

A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
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Podcasting

Juice

Solid podcasting client.
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DVD Ripping

Handbrake

DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
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Sound Recording

Audacity

Simple sound recording tool.
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Audacity is my favorite software that you can record any sound from you speaker easy and professionally !

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more softwares for specific categories :

Developer Tools

• phpMyAdmin - handles the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin performs many database administration tasks like running SQL statements, adding and dropping databases, and adding, editing or deleting tables or fields. Operating system: OS Independent.
• Dev-C++ gives you a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it’s compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
• EasyPHP - is a complete software package allowing to use all the power and the flexibility that offers the dynamic language PHP and the efficient use of databases under Windows. Package includes an Apache server, a MySQL database, a fully PHP execution, as well as easy development tools for your web site or your applications.
• XAMPP - is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start. Operating system:Windows, Linux, OS/X, Solaris.
• Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the M$ Windows environment. Notepad++ is designed to be a freeware replacement for Notepad. Supported languages : C, C++,Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, make file, ASCII art file(extension .nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua.
• jEdit - is a text editor written in Java. It supports auto indent and syntax highlighting for 130 different coding languages, as well as dozens of independently developed plug-ins and macros that make programming easier. Operating system: OS Independent.
• TortoiseSVN - is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. It works directly from Windows Explorer and you can use it with virtually anydevelopment tools. Operating system: Windows.
• DotNetNuke - is a powerful open source framework that creates and deploys robust modules on the ASP.NET platform. Written by its core team of developers, this book will provide youwith the tools and insight you’ll need to install, configure, and develop your own stunning
• AppServ - is an Apache/PHP/MySQL distribution designed to be completely installed and configured in less than one minute. While it works on Windows, the developers recommend Linux for Web ordatabase servers that will be used heavily. Operating system: Windows, Linux/Unix.
• SharpDevelop -is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft’s. It includes a forms designer, code completer, an integrated debugger, and many other features. Operating system: Windows.
• wxWidgets - lets developers create applications for Win32, Mac OS X, GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase. It can be used from languages such as C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET.
• Hibernate - is a powerful, high-performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate allows you to express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL), as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API.
• Ultimate++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development suite focused on programmers productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment.
• DeskWeb - applies the iconography and usability of a common Windows desktop system to Web applications. It is familiar and user-friendly and lets users easily learn how-to exploit all of the software’s features. It can be used in various ways, such as a content management system, a company groupware, a wiki, or more. Operating system: OS Independent.
• Zile - is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time open-source display editor. Zile was written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home. Operating system: Linux/Unix.
• WAMP5 - installs automatically Apache, PHP, MySQL, PHPmyadmin and SQLite manager on any Windows system. It was created in order to make it easy to use the latest version of PHP?PHP5Operating system: Windows.
• MiKTeX - is an up-to-date TeX implementation for the Windows operating system. It is a typesetting program with a complete set of fonts, utilities, and macros.
• TEA - is a GTK+-based text editor that supports a number of different coding languages, but it is especially helpful for writing HTML. It?s very small but includes a file manager, spellchecker, search function, and more. Operating system: Linux/Unix, OS X, Solaris.
• SiSU -is an information structuring, transforming, publishing and search framework. Supported formats include plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, and PDF. Operating system: Linux/Unix.
• PDFCreator -is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. It allows users to create PDF files from any printable Windows document. As an added bonus, it can also create PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, or EPS files. Operating system: Windows.
• Ghostscript -allows users to convert, view, and print PostScript and PDF files. Different versions of the software are available either as open-source or as commercial distributions. Operating system: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X, Classic Mac.