I've been in the computer industry since 1987 and a supporter of Open Source since around 1993/4ish. I'm employed as a Python developer who's been lucky enough to work with many open source products and tools over the last ten+ years. I run OS X, Linux, Haiku, and an iPhone
Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support for tablets a ...
Storymill is a creative writing tool geared towards book writers; although, it could easily be used for other big creative writing projects, like scripts.Has many nice features including an editor with full screen mode, ...
Cache Out X is the cache removal tool for Mac OS X. Cache files are created by many applications to increase how quickly they access commonly used information. However, these same files can take up increasingly large amo ...
WineBottler is an App to manage and wrap your Windows apps into convenient OS X apps. WineBottler helps you with running Windows programs on OS X. It helps you to:- Manage your windows app; - Wrap the Windows apps into O ...
Nevernote, now named NixNote, is an open source clone of Evernote designed to run on Linux. It is written in Java so it will also run on Windows & OS-X, but the primary focus has been to try and get a usable enviro ...
iPhone Explorer lets you use an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad as if it were in disk mode or a flash drive. iPhone Explorer is an iPhone browser for Mac & PC that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone as i ...
Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it supports syntax highlighting and variety of other us ...
Fraise is an open source text-editor for OS X, forked from the discontinued Smultron. It has a very native Cocoa UI and supports syntax highlighting for many different programming, scripting and coding languages.
The Autodesk SketchBook Mobile painting and drawing application extends your digital sketchpad to your Apple iPhone, iPod touch or Android device. With the same paint engine as Autodesk SketchBook Pro software, SketchBoo ...
Firefox Sync is a Mozilla Labs project to integrate web services into Firefox by allowing users to securely share their data with other instances of their own software, other users and 3rd parties. Firefox Sync includes ...
Weve all been there - hunting for that one killer app that would make life so much easier. If only it existed. If only we could find it. With Bodega, you dont have to spend your time hunting for software - its your one-s ...
Storybook is a free, open source novel-writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing books, novels or other written works.
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution. Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including ...
Unlimited online backup for one flat fee. Free trial, no credit card required. Secure and encrypted for your privacy. Easy, on-demand restore. Securely backup your photos, emails, financial documents, music and more over ...
Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and is th ...
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application made by users, for users. Many languages, designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e., a single entry in your library that may correspond ...
Adblock Plus is a Firefox add-on and Chrome extension (beta- formerly AdThwart) that blocks internet ads, allowing you to regain control of the internet and view the web the way you want to. It is supported by over forty ...
CopyWrite is the award-winning creative writing project management system for Mac OS X. CopyWrite is a project manager for writers of all kinds. Rather than focus on formatting and layout, CopyWrite stands apart in its p ...
MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.MAMP is installed in ...
Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MyS ...
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popu ...
KOffice is an integrated office suite built on the KDE platform.It utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document formats, component communication and component embedding.It contains: KWord, an intui ...
MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need ...
Task Coach is a well structured portable open source todo manager (50 languages) to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of Franks frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlo ...
Based on the Firefox engine, supports standards, visual storyboarding, prod. sceduling, publication and international languages MUI support. you can even get a portable version by googling for it. Free tutes and vids and ...