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I’m trying to switch to open-source cross-platform software and formats so I can use any OS I want. Hopefully I can finally find out what company makes the best OS while making as little compromises as realistically possible.

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  Feedly

  Free by DevHD |

  • iPhone, iPad
  • Online
  • Android

  Feedly is a browser addon and mobile app that weaves the content from the RSS feeds of your favorite websites into a fun magazine-like experience and provides seamless integration with social networks.Feedly requires a G ...

  Category: News & Books Tags: rss, blog, news, rss-reader, feed, feed-reader
  
  

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  Recuva

  Free by Piriform |

  • Windows

  Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other ...

  Category: Utilities Tags: restore, data-recovery, memory, recovery, recover, disk-recovery
  
  

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  gTasks (Google Tasks™ Go Mobile)

  Free with limited functionality by Yaniv Katan |

  • iPhone, iPad

  gTasks is a tasks app for iPhone/iPad in which you manage all your daily tasks, set reminders and sync with Google.

  Tags: Retina display, tasks, synchronization, google, reminder, alerts, reminders +3 more, alert, task-list-manager, synchronisation
  
  

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  Audacity

  Open Source by The Audacity Team |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records, edit sound files, change the speed or pitch of a recording and much more.

  Category: Audio & Music Tags: recording, audio-editor, music-production, record-output, pitch-correction
  
  

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  Speccy

  Free by Piriform |

  • Windows

  Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC. It does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear thats in your computer.

  Category: Utilities Tags: Portable, hardware, temperature, system-information, hardware-info, device +1 more, system-profile
  
  

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  FLAC

  Open Source by Josh Coalson |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android

  FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will g ...

  Category: Audio & Music Tags: Plugin / Add-on, audio, codec, encoder, lossless, decoder, archival +1 more, audio-codec
  
  

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  Portal

  Commercial by Valve Corporation |

  • Mac
  • Windows

  Portal is a single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon, and one of the best games of 2007. Open your min ...

  Category: Games Tags: game, puzzle, portal, videogames, valve, aperture-science, half-life
  
  

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  Dropbox

  Free with limited functionality by Dropbox |

  • Mac, iPhone, iPad
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Android
  • Blackberry

  Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that also have Dropbox installed. Because copies of your files are stored on Dropbox's secure se ...

  Category: Backup & Sync Tags: Portable, backup, storage, synchronization, online-storage, cross-platform +7 more, dropbox, file-sync, file-synchronization, sync-files, sync-folders, offline-access, sync-lan
  
  

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  Angry Birds

  Commercial by Rovio |

  • Mac, iPhone, iPad
  • Windows, Win Phone 7
  • Online
  • Android
  • S60
  • HP webOS

  The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles.Angry Birds feat ...

  Category: Games Tags: Retina display, game, physics-game, castle-demolition, birds, pigs
  
  

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  Handbrake

  Open Source by HandBrake Team |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder- it converts digital media from one format to another, compressing the files in the process. Handbrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss (libdvdcss is insta ...

  Categories: Burning & Ripping, Video Tags: video, dvd, video-converter, burning, converting, ffmpeg, transcoder +2 more, compressor, mpeg-4
  
  

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  LibreOffice

  Open Source by The Document Foundation |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  LibreOffice is a free office suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and is available on all operating systems. It is an independently-developed version of the OpenOffice.org suite. LibreOffice is open-s ...

  Category: Office Tags: database, office, word-processor, presentation, spreadsheet, office-suite +6 more, pdf-creation, openoffice, libre-office, open-office, libre, save-as-pdf
  
  

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  TrustPilot

  Free by TrustPilot ApS |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Online

  Trustpilot is a consumer watchdog portal that instantly tells you which companies you can trust and which may rip you off.Trustpilot makes it easy for you to assess the reliability of a company you're considering pur ...

  Categories: Internet Browsers, Security & Privacy Tags: firefox-extension, malware, spam, browser-addon, anti-spam +4 more, website-feedback, website-rating, ie-addon, consumer-tool
  
  

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  Adium

  Open Source by Adium Team |

  • Mac

  Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS Xs Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium ca ...

  Category: Social Tags: chat, facebook, instant-messenger, aim, google-talk, chat-client, aol +1 more, yahoo-messenger
  
  

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  Soulseek

  Free by Soulseek |

  • Mac
  • Windows

  Soulseek® is a unique ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application. One of the things that makes Soulseek® unique is our community and community-related features. Based on peer-to-peer te ...

  Category: File Sharing Tags: community, file-sharing, p2p, peer-to-peer, soulseek, slsk
  
  

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  FreeMeter

  Free by David Schultz and Mieszko Lassota |

  • Windows

  Monitor network bandwidth (C#.NET 2k/XP+). Desktop and Systray graph. Configurable connection speed, update interval, color, transparency. Monitor any or all network interfaces. Ping/Trace/UPnP utilities. Email notifier ...

  Tags: bandwidth, bandwidth-monitor, network-monitor, traffic-monitor
  
  

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  GMail Notifier for Windows 7

  Free by Code Brewery |

  • Windows

  GMailNotifier is a small easy to use tool which spends its life sitting in the notification area of your Windows taskbar, notifying you about new Emails in your GMail account.NO MORE AVAILABLE.

  Tags: mail, gmail, notification, tray, notifications, notifier
  
  

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  Gmail Notifier

  Free by Doron Rosenberg |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  This is a mail notifier for Firefox. It can check multiple Gmail accounts, including Gmail-hosted accounts. This app will add an item to the status bar, and a toolbar item can be added by customizing the toolbar.Supports ...

  Category: Internet Browsers Tags: firefox-extension, google, plugin, extension, gmail-notifier
  
  

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  aTunes

  Open Source by The aTunes Team |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.A skinnable java alternative to iTunes (simmi ...

  Category: Audio & Music Tags: music, mp3, audio-player, mediaplayer
  
  

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  MozBackup

  Free by Pavel Cvrcek | jasnapaka@jasnapaka.com |

  • Windows

  MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird, Songbird and Netscape profiles.

  Category: Internet Browsers Tags: backup, firefox, mozilla, back-up, thunderbird, firefox-based +7 more, backup-extensions, mozilla-firefox, songbird, backup-thunderbird, backup-firefox, backup-profiles, sunbird
  
  

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  Paint.NET

  Free by dotPDN LLC |

  • Windows

  Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An a ...

  Category: Photos & Graphics Tags: Portable, image, photo, image-editor, image-editing, photo-editor +8 more, photo-editing, paint, photoshop, graphic, webdesign, graphic-design, edit-photo, paint.net
  
  

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  Notepad++

  Open Source by Don HO |

  • Windows

  Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures ...

  Category: Development Tags: editor, development, text-editor, programming, notepad, code-editor +1 more, developer-tools
  
  

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