Open Office 2 Beta: Office Set Software
Website: www.openoffice.org
The developers have just upgraded Open Office from 1.1.4 to 2.0, which launched three versions based on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, version 2.0 in text processing, electronic data sheets, demo tools and databases. A large number of improvements have been conducted and a lot of new features have been introduced.
In addition to the interface becomes more beautiful, Open Office 2 has introduced a new file format in the "Open Office XML Format" proposed by the OASIS organization. This is an XML. The open file format for the main body will gradually be supported by other software. Open Office 2 provides a network installation mode and user-defined installation mode, which is quite convenient for IT administrators that need to software installation through multiple machines.
Open Office 2 has its own database component (HSQLDB) for the first time, and you can create and manage the database. Commercial users will benefit from improved SQL functions and better LDAP database connectivity. In terms of text processing, creating a new template is more convenient, and the improved dialog box makes the software more intuitive. The new macro protection mechanism enhances its security, and the text hidden feature can better protect your privacy. The electronic data table software supports cell nesh, which can process data that does not exceed 65,000 rows, and has been strengthened with the compatibility of Excel form. As with the previous versions, Open Office 2.0 also contains demo procedures approximated with Microsoft PowerPoint.
Whether it is for office users or home users, Open Office (www.openoffice.org) is a good alternative for Microsoft Office Set software, which also provides a unique function, such as a PDF generating tool. For home users, the price of Microsoft Office is undoubtedly too expensive, compared to Open Office.
Figure 1: Open Office is a powerful opponent for Microsoft Office Settings
Thunderbird 1.02: Mail client
Website: www.mozilla.org
Microsoft's E-mail client Outlook and Outlook Express have been questioned by many people due to lack of security features and supports event scripts. So many people try to turn to other mail client programs, Mozilla Thunderbird is a choice.
Thunderbird provides a wizard program that allows you to import messages and email addresses from Outlook and Outlook Express. In Thunderbird, all important functions can be quickly operated by buttons on the toolbar. This mail client is quite easy to use and allows you to easily replace the interface topic. Quick Search feature allows you to search for keywords with your sender or email topic, and you can packet sort display by multiple keywords.
Thunderbird also integrates spam filters and RSS readers with self-learning functions. It is also very good for IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), and you can also add more features for Thunderbird by installing plugins, download the URL of the plugin to https: //addons.mozilla.org/extensions.
Figure 2: Thunderbird is more secure than Outlook / Outlook Express
GanttProject 1.11.1: Project Planning Tool
Website: http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net You can use this software to develop project plans and track project resources. GanttProject can be partially arranged in each component of the project and hook with the corresponding personnel and time period. It uses a bar chart to display the progress of the project, you can see the scheduled completion time and actual progress of each task. You can assign tasks for each project group, set the priority and completion period of the task. GanttProject's output feature is quite complete, not only can save data as a PDF file and a CSV electronic data sheet file, but also output to the HTML file to the Internet. Since GanttProject is a pure Java application, it can be run on a plurality of platforms such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
WX Musik 0.4.1: Audio Player
Website: http://musik.berlios.de
You can use WX Musik to manage your music library, you can also use its built-in player to play music files. WX Musik supports file format such as MP3, OGG, WMA, AIFF, WAV, APE, MPC, and FLAC, and also supports Internet audio streams. The software also provides Windows and Linux versions, which will prompt you to create a music library, you can specify it to scan the folder that contains music files. You can also import the cover of the record, which supports pictures of PNG, GIF, JPG, and BMP format.
WX Musik can list a lot of additional information at the same time when the song in the music library is displayed, such as album name, artist, song length, and bit rate. It can also classify or sort songs, such as you can choose to list the most recent 50 songs or 10 songs with the highest playback frequency. Other useful features include: ID3 label automatic modification feature, support logical queries search capabilities. WX Musik can also be used to listen to the network radio and allow you to customize the radio list.
NVU 1.0: HTML editor
Website: www.nvu.com
NVU actually originated from Netscape, remember that a little clumsy HTML editor Netscape Composer? NVU is further developed based on it, but the latest version of NVU is no longer the ugly duckling duckling, it is fully able to seek the needs of professional web design. Like FrontPage and Dreamweaver, this software (currently supporting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS platforms) also provides source code direct editing and "see what you see".
NVU strictly follows the W3C Alliance's standard, and its generated HTML code is quite compact, it will help you troubleshoot errors or redundant code. This editor provides spelling and syntax checking, and allows you to customize the interface with different subject regimen. You can create and save the template yourself, you can use the built-in FTP client to quickly upload the page to the web server.
Figure 4: NVU also provides the source code direct editing and "seeing the current result" two web design environments
Audacity 1.2.3: Audio File Editor
Website: http://audacity.sourceforge
With an Audacity 1.2.3, you can easily complete audio recording, play, edit, import, and output work in a Windows or Linux environment. When editing, click a few mouse to cut, copy, or insert the selected music clip. If you want to insert an MP3 file into the currently open audio file, you can use the Project | Import Audio command to import. Other features include: mixing multiple tracks, using audio special effects, and changing playback speed of music. Audacity has built-in 28 audio filters and can be extended, which supports VST, Ladspa, and Nyquist in plugins. The ID3 tag editor and removal noise make this software more perfect. If you want to save the results as MP3 files, you need to download and install a Lame DLL encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net) and specify the path of the encoder via FILE | Settings | File Formats | Search Library. In addition to editing, Audacity also supports recording sound from the sound-in-IN port from the sound card. Figure 5: Audacity enables multiple tracks to mix, apply audio effects, and change music playback speed
Ant Rename 2.0.8: File Name Editor
Website: www.antp.be
Change the file name under Windows Resource Manager is a painful thing because it lacks automatic processing. Once you need to rename the batch file, Windows's resource manager is reluctant. For example, you may need to add a unified singer name for a group of MP3 files, or add time and location for a group of image files, or you need to change the HTML file name to lowercase letters, at this time Ant Rename can Play a role.
You can drag the selected file to the program window with the mouse and perform related settings. For example, which characters need to be deleted, replace which characters and add digital numbers, and more. When you add a digit number, it allows you to specify the start number and number of numbers to increase the amplitude. In Character Replacement mode, you can search for specific characters or numbers in the file name and replace it to other characters or numbers. You can also modify the file name according to the MP3 tag or unifold the entire file name or lowercase status according to the case of the first character.
Figure 6: Ant Rename will make you more effort when you need to modify the file name
PDF-CREATOR 0.81: PDF program
Website: http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm
Commercial software or sharing software used to generate PDF files is quite rich, but completely free software is not very common. Here we want to recommend PDF-Creator to you, which can be installed as a Windows network printer or desktop printer in your system. This means you can output a PDF document in any Windows application. In the Print dialog, you can specify the name of the document, create a date and author. Under the Format | PDF option, you can choose compatible with PDF 1.2 or 1.4, and you can specify the preferred screen resolution. PDF-Creator allows you to adjust the PDF compression option to find a reasonable balance point between the output quality and the file size. In terms of output, you can also output documents to PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PS (PostScript), or EPS (Encapsuated PostScript) format. If you integrate PDF-Creator to the context menu of the Windows Explorer, you can create a PDF file with a mouse by pressing the mouse.
Figure 7: PDF-Creator allows you to output a PDF document in any Windows application
GNUPG: Mail Encryption Tool
Website: www.gnupg.org
Uncrypsed emails is easy to see unpleasant virginists. If you encrypt and sign messages with sensitive information, you can greatly improve security. Using GNU Privacy Guard (GNUPG) can encrypt the message, of course your mail client also provides the corresponding support, if you use Mozilla Thunderbird, you can go to http://enigmail.mozdev.org to download the enigmail plugin For the Outlook client, you can also find the corresponding plugin. Due to the use of public key and private key mechanism, encrypted mail has a fairly high security level. Each GNUPG user will have a pair of keys. Data encrypted using public keys can only be solved by the corresponding private key. On the other hand, the digital signature generated by your private key can be decrypted by the corresponding public key to confirm that a certain email is indeed from you. The public key is typically provided by the key server. If you receive a Gnupg encrypted message, you will not see any text information, and there is only a stroke and seven-eight numbers and letters. If you want to see the original text, you need Gnupg's support, of course, you have to use it to solve the private key. Even if you are using the mail client is not Thunderbird or Outlook, you don't have to worry, you don't have to find the corresponding GNUPGP plugin on the Internet is not difficult. For example, PEGASUS MAIL plug-in (http://community.wow.net/grt/qdgpg.html) /Winpt.SourceForge.net/de/down loading.php).
GAIM 1.4.0: Instant Communication Tool
Website: http://gaim.sourceforge.net
At present, the type of instant messaging software is quite a wide variety, such as AOL, MSN, and Yahoo provide such software, but the interconnection between these instant messaging software is quite inconvenient. What is better in addition to installing these instant messaging software at the same time? You can try GAIM, which is an instant messaging tool that supports multiple IM protocols and provides versions based on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM, ICQ (based on OSCAR protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-gadu, silc, groupwise messenger, and Zephyr instant communication software. You can log in with different accounts in multiple instant messaging networks. This means you can chat with friends on the AOL Instant Messenger while sending files to colleagues on Yahoo Messenger while also chatting in an IRC channel. GAIM is quite comprehensive for these instant messaging networks, except for the general chat, like file transfer, leaving prompts, typing prompts, etc. can be supported. In addition, it also has a lot of unique features. The most popular must be a friend reminder function, when a particular friend leaves or offline, it will be reminded in some way, such as sending a message, playing sound, even runs a program.
Figure 8: GAIM allows you to log in with different accounts in multiple instant messaging networks
Mozilla Firefox: web browser
Website: www.mozilla.org
The Firefox browser should be an open source software project that Mozilla has so far. From November 2004 to February 2005, this Internet Explorer's alternative software has obtained more than 25 million downloads (only the number of downloads of the official website and the mirror website). This number may be doubled if other downloads and Firefox issued in CD. Firefox has a lot of easy-to-use features, such as supporting label browsing windows, with open plug-in interfaces, you can install an advertisement interceptor, Google search bar, and other plugins. Firefox does not support Visual Basic scripts, ActiveX and Bho (Browser Helper Objects), relatively easy to suffer from malicious HTML code, of course, you can't completely have worry-free. Figure 9: Firefox browser supports label browsing window, with open plug-in interface
Filezilla 2.2.12c: FTP package
Website: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net
Windows has not been able to provide a good FTP client. Filezilla is a very recommended FTP client, although its features are rich, but it is very convenient. Its interface uses a multi-pane design that can also display the contents of the local hard disk and the directory on the remote server, and the commonly used FTP commands are listed. Filezilla supports breakpoint resume (download and uploading), which can bypass the firewall for file transmission, and also support SSL encryption transmission mode. You can select the file or arrange the transfer order by editing its transfer task queue. You can start uploading or downloading files after selecting a server in Site Manager. Software Developers provide you with an FTP server in Filezilla, if you use Windows NT, 2000, XP, or 2003 systems, you can run the FTP server as a system service.
Figure 10: Filezilla is rich in function, but it is very convenient to use
Media Portal 0.1.1.1: Multimedia system
Website: http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net;
Media Portal provides video, DVD, audio player, and TV feature. Don't worry about the problem of software settings, it provides a convenient wizard program to help you perform settings, such as specifying the storage location of multimedia files, setting channels of TV or radios. Media Portal supports multimedia cards for Medion, Hauppauge, Pinnacle, Twinhan, Typhoon, ATI, and Terratec. When you record your TV program to your hard drive, you can choose the appropriate encoding method. You can also use plugins to expand the functionality of Media Portal, such as increasing the functionality of the E-Mail client. The program needs to run on Windows XP Service Pack 1 or 2, requiring support for DirectX 9.0C or higher and Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1.
Figure 11: Media Portal provides video, DVD, audio player, and TV feature
FreeMind 0.8: MINDMAP Software
Website: http://freemind.sourceforge.net
What is MINDMAP? It is a note method created by British Tony Bashi, and the traditional linear recording method is completely different, it is based on the intuitive image of the concept. In China, MindMap is also known as brain or thinking. FreeMind is a Java program that helps you build organic links between some random content.
In FreeMind, you first need to select a topic, then start the content of MINDMAP from several nodes. Every time you join a new element, you can use the connection to link it with the original elements. The final MINDMAP can be output in the form of an HTML document. The help information of the software is very comprehensive, even if you are not familiar with Mindmap, you can follow its prompts soon to master the use of MindMap concepts and software. THE GIMP 2.2.4: Image Editing Software
Website: www.gimp.org
This image editing software also provides versions based on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, and is not inferior to those commercial image editing software. Just starting you may need some time to adapt to its interface, because each interface element of GIMP is presented on a separate floating window in the form of a separate floating window. If you are apple or linux users, you can choose GImpshop (http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p =241), which allows GIMP to look closer to Photoshop, but the current GIMPSHOP has not provided Windows-based versions. GIMP supports layer operation, Alpha channel, gradient curve, histogram and color adjustment. You can also use the filter, scripts, and plugins to enhance its features.
Figure 12: GIMP's Mac version looks close to Photoshop
Health Monitor 2.1: System Monitoring Tool
http://healthmonitor.sourceforge.net
System administrators can use Health Monitor to monitor every workstation PC or server in the network, once there is a problem, it can notify you by email or short message. You can also specify yourself to monitor which components and services, such as CPU utilization, residual hard disk space, available memory quantity. The changes in the folder or file will also be recorded, all monitoring results are saved in a log file.
Insert 1: Source of open source software
Search Open source software is not as easy as you think, because many download sites do not distinguish the free software and open source software, but collect them as "free software." If you want to find a pure open source software, the SourceForge.net website is undoubtedly the most worthwhile place. If you are a program developer, spend $ 39 registration (annual), you can access more information related to the software project after registration, you will receive a sub-domain name URL of a project in the email, general form For ProjectName.SourceForge.Net. If you are an ordinary user, you can also spend the same price to become a registered user, so you can get more search capabilities, you can also get the download speed faster mirror server URL, of course, you also have the right to get the source of the software. Code.
Insert 2: actively participate
Even if you are not a programmer, you can also participate in the development process of open source software. Most open source software projects have their own discussion groups and mailing lists. If you have any good suggestions for the software's functionality or menu option, or discover BUG, you can report to the project person in charge, and each user's opinion is helpful for the further improvement of open source software.
Best open source software list
7-Zip 4.16 Beta: File Compression Tools, can be integrated with Windows Explorer A Note 4.2.1: Wild note on Windows desktop, and provide alarm reminder Function ABAKT 0.9: Back up document in a compression method 2.27: The replacement of Windows Word board, the function is enhanced AEThera 1.21: providing calendar, address book, task table, reminder function, and built-in E-mail client Ant Movie Catalog 3.5: archive your favorite DVD DVD, and add a description Information Ant Renamer 2.0.8: Easy File Rename Tool, and Flexible Filter Mechanism Audacity 1.2.3: Editing, optimizing and adding special effects Axcrypt 1.6.1: Encrypting the program, can be used with Windows resources Manager integrate Blender 3D 2.36: 3D object modeling, rendering Borg Calendar 1.4.2: Provides desktop calendar, task list, contact function, support multi-user CDEX 1.51: convert music CD to WAV or MP3 format Cinepaint 0.19: Professional Image Editing Software CLAM WIN 0.83: Viral Scanning Tools Cool Mon 1.0.1003: System Detection Tools Cool Player 215: A Streamline Software Dia 0.94: Drawing Charts and Flowchart Double Type 0.2.1: Design your TrueType font EGroupware 1.0.0.006: A workflow system containing calendar, news, contacts, etc. ERASER 5.7: Permanently deleted data in the hard disk Filezilla 2.2.12c: FTP client Firefox 2: web browser, support side by side Web freeMind 0.8: Establish contact GAIM 1.4.0: ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo's instant communication software GanttProject 1.11.1: Project Management Software for ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Help you Arrangement and Resource Allocation Gnupg Add-Ons: Encrypting the Phone Health Monitor 2.1 Monitors: Windows Status Monitoring Tools, you can give an alert inkscape 0.41: Vector Graphic Design Tools, can be used to draw maps, technology drawings or companies logo JDictionary 1.8 : Encyclopedia dictionary of more than 1.4 million words Kee Pass 0.99b: Manage your password Keynote 1.6.5: Word processing software and database combination with a good search mechanism Media Portal 0.1.1.1: Video, DVD, Audio, Picture Playing Tool, and support TV and radio broadcast MP3 TAG Tools 1.2.008: MP3 Document ID Tag Editing Tool MP3 GAIN 1.2.5: Adjust the volume of MP3 songs without affecting the sound quality NVU 1.0: The HTML Editing Tools you have obtained, with a fairly professional webpage production feature Professional Web Pages Open Office 2.0 Beta: text processing, electronic data sheet, demo tool and database PDF-Creator 0.8.1: can be installed as printer and output document to PDF file POPTRAY 3.10: Monitor mail account in the background,
