benoitl

Code samurai, open source advocate, Mobile, Web and Desktop software writer (with a hitch of graphics design)

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  Stack Overflow

  Free by Stack Exchange |

  • Online

  Stack Overflow is a free, community-driven, reputation-based Q & A site for computer programmers. No membership is required to ask questions or provide answers to questions by others. Registered users collect 'ka ...

  Tags: programming, community, questions-and-answers, questions, answers, q&a +4 more, question, answer, get-answer, make-questions
  
  

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  Google Docs

  Free by Google |

  • Online
  • Android
  • Android Tablet

  Google Docs is a free, Web-based office suite. It offers a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation program, graphics application, and a form designer. Users can upload and access their work online, and crea ...

  Categories: Office, Productivity Tags: collaboration, office, word-processor, presentation, spreadsheet, ocr +5 more, realtime, word-processing, ocr-online, online-ocr, realtime-collaboration
  
  

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  Google Chrome

  Free by Google |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android

  A free web browser developed by Google with a focus on speed and minimalism. Chrome offers fast start-up and web page loading, sports a minimalist user interface, automatically updates in the background, and offers synci ...

  Category: Internet Browsers Tags: Portable, browser, web-browser, extensions, internet-browser, chromium +1 more, bookmark-sync-own
  
  

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  Firefox

  Open Source by Mozilla Foundation |

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  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • Android Tablet

  Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox is highly extensible, with thousands of third-party add-ons available.Add-ons gallery: https://addons.mozilla.or ...

  Category: Internet Browsers Tags: Portable, browser, multi-language, plugins, extensions, internet-explorer +4 more, internet-browser, mozilla, addons, bookmark-sync-own
  
  

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  Gmail

  Free by Google |

  • iPhone, iPad
  • Online
  • Android
  • S60
  • Blackberry

  Gmail is a free search-based web-mail service. It offers a full featured web-based email client with search capabilities, a mailbox with Pop and IMAP access, SPAM protection, display of email threads as conversations, a ...

  Category: Office Tags: email, mail, webmail, mail-client, web-mail, webmail-service-provider +2 more, mail-filter, google-mail
  
  

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  AntiRSI

  Free by Onne Gorter |

  • Mac

  AntiRSI is a program for Mac OS X that helps prevent RSI (repetitive strain injury) and other computer related stress. It does so by forcing you to take regular breaks, yet without getting in the way. It also detects nat ...

  Category: Sport & Health Tags: health, work, exercise, rsi, rest, break, pause, repetitive-strain-injury +2 more, stretching, occupational-diseases
  
  

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  Workrave

  Open Source by Rob Caelers, Raymond Penners |

  • Windows
  • Linux

  Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit. Please refer ...

  Category: Sport & Health Tags: health, work, exercise, rsi, rest, break, pause, repetitive-strain-injury +2 more, stretching, occupational-diseases
  
  

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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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  Oracle SQL Developer

  Free by Oracle |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  Oracle SQL Developer is a free and fully supported graphical tool for database development. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. ...

  Category: Development Tags: database, sql, oracle
  
  

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  Foxit Reader

  Free by Foxit Software |

  • iPhone
  • Windows, Win Mobile
  • Linux
  • S60

  Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight PDF document viewer for Windows. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.Notable features include:Annotation tool: draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make n ...

  Category: Office Tags: Portable, pdf, document, pdf-viewer, pdf-reader, acrobat
  
  

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  Picasa

  Free by Google |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Online

  Picasa is a software download from Google, that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. The local application usage and the online storage up to 1 GB is free, and it is easy to use. The online version is called ...

  Category: Photos & Graphics Tags: photos, online-storage, google, photo-album, album, face-recognition +3 more, geo-location, online-photo-albums, face-tagging
  
  

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  WinRAR

  Free with limited functionality by RARLAB (Alexander Roshal) |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You ...

  Category: File Management Tags: WINE, zip, archive, rar, archive-manager, unpack, unrar, winrar, rar-file +1 more, win-rar
  
  

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  GIMP

  Open Source by GIMP |

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  GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch proces ...

  Category: Photos & Graphics Tags: Portable, image, photo, image-editor, image-editing, graphic, perspective +3 more, photo-retouching, shift-lens, architectural-photography
  
  

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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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  VLC media player

  Open Source by VideoLAN |

  • Mac, iPhone, iPad
  • Windows
  • Linux

  VLC media player is an lightweight, open-source multimedia player that supports nearly all digital audio and video formats (e.g. H.264 ,MKV, TS (but not from Technisat DigiCorder), MPEG-2, mp3, AVI, MPEG-4, Ogg, DivX, aa ...

  Categories: Audio & Music, Video Tags: Portable, Jailbreak, dvd, streaming, movie, media-player, avi, podcast, mp4 +6 more, ogg, codec, internet-radio, mkv, ffmpeg, converting
  
  

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  Real Alternative

  Free by KL Software |

  • Windows

  [DISCONTINUED: see on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPlayer#Real_Alternative . You can download it from Filehippo.com: http://www.filehippo.com/download_real_alternative/]Real Alternative allows your system to play Rea ...

  Tags: Discontinued, codec, realmedia, rm-extension, realplayer, play-rm-files +1 more, rm-files
  
  

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  MPlayer

  Open Source by The MPlayer Team |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA file ...

  Category: Video Tags: audio, dvd, movie, media-player, codec, ffmpeg, mplayer
  
  

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  Vim

  Open Source by Bram Moolenaar |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content.Vim offers several “modes” for editing with efficiency. This makes vi ...

  Category: Development Tags: editor, text-editor, syntax-highlighting
  
  

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  Media Player Classic

  Open Source by Gabest (Guliverkli) |

  • Windows

  Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo su ...

  Category: Video Tags: video, movie, media, media-player, dvd-player, subtitle-support
  
  

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  Corel Draw

  Commercial by Corel |

  • Windows

  With vector illustration, page layout, photo-editing and tracing software, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is ideal for professional and occasional designers tackling any type of graphics project. Precision design tools, mar ...

  Category: Photos & Graphics Tags: graphics, illustration, vector
  
  

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  Inkscape

  Open Source by Inkscape |

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux

  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 (marke ...

  Categories: Office, Photos & Graphics Tags: graphics, illustration, pdf-editor, vector, svg
  
  

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