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Web Link Scintilla/Scite
Scite, an implementation is Scintilla is a cross-platform free editor useful for PHP and other types of web-based editing. Binaries are available both for Windows, Linux and other platforms. If you want the same editor on a number of boxes, this is |
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Web Link Notepad++
Interesting FREE windows editor that has some useful syntax highlighting for geeks. Windows only. |
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Web Link R Project
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and col |
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Web Link Open Office
Open Office is the leading competitor to MS Office. The main elements are very useful. Only the database software lags the MS product. |
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Web Link Portable Apps
– a selection of heavily reviewed open source tools that work on USB keys
– NO impact on your operating system)
– most have desktop equivalents
If it is on portable apps, it should work reasonably well on XP and VISTA. |
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Web Link The GIMP
A bitmap graphics editor - very powerful
Like Photoshop on steroids
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Web Link Mozilla - Firefox and Thunderbird
Firefox is one of the more useful web browsing clients
Thunderbird is an excellent email client with many possible extensions. |
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Web Link Pidgin
Pidgin (formerly GAIM) is a useful alternative to the various proprietary products from AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. Pidgin can use most of the available protcols. |
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Web Link 7-ZIP
This zip/compression program can handle most of the various types of compressed file structures, including those from the Unix/Linux environment. |
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Web Link Abiword
Abiword is a useful alternative to Microsoft Word, Wordpad, and Openoffice writer.
It is very light weight in terms of resources. |
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Web Link Primo PDF
PrimoPDF offers a useful PDF creation program. The software creates a virtual PDF printer. |
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Web Link BullZIP PDF
A very useful PDF creation tool - creates a virtual printer. |
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Web Link Sumatra
Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. It is standalone and much more efficient than the Adobe Reader. |
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Web Link Foxit
Foxit is a free (but NOT open source) replacement for the Adobe Reader. It contains limited annotation capabilities and other features that are missing from the free (and not open source) Adobe Reader. |
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Web Link PDFX Viewer
Another light weight PDF viewer with some limited annotation and manipulation capabilities. |
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Web Link PDFTK builder
Useful package for some editing jobs on PDFS.
– Splits pfds into single pages
– Combines them
– Adds passwords |
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