Friday, October 19, 2012

10 Free Open Source Software substitutes for Paid Softwares

1)VLC



Simple, fast and powerful media player. Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. VLC is a packet-based media player, and it can play the video content of some damaged, incomplete, or unfinished videos. For example, files still downloading via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.


Features

  • Simple, Powerful and Fast
  • Plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray), Webcams and Streams
  • Plays most video formats with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, MKV, WebM, WMV
  • Works on most platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
  • Completely Free, 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking
  • Media Converter and Streamer

2) 7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, Z.



3)Apache Open Office.org

Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.
Features
  • Cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
  • 170+ Languages
  • Extensions available
  • Commercial support available

4)DVD Styler

DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played on standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus

Features

  • create and burn DVD video with interactive menus
  • support of AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV and other file formats
  • support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats
  • user-friendly interface with support of drag & drop
  • flexible menu creation on the basis of scalable vector graphic

5)JStock Market Software

JStock is a free stock market software for 26 countries. It provides Stock watchlist, Intraday stock price snapshot, Stock indicator editor, Stock indicator scanner and Portfolio management. Free SMS/email alert supported.

Features

  • Stock Watchlist - Multiple Countries
  • Stock Watchlist - Current Stock Info
  • Stock Watchlist - Intraday Stock Price
  • Stock Watchlist - Multiple Watchlists
  • Portfolio Management - Transaction Records
  • Portfolio Management - Cash Management
  • Portfolio Management - Dividend Management
  • Portfolio Management - Multiple Portfolios
  • Alert - SMS
  • Alert - Email
  • Alert - System Tray
  • Indicator Filter - Indicator Installer
  • Indicator Filter - Indicator Editor
  • Indicator Filter - Indicator Scanner
  • Charting - History Stock Info
  • Charting - History Index Info
  • Charting - Portfolio Summary
  • Charting - Cash Flow Summary
  • Cloud Remote Storage
6)PDF Creator

PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, Excel or any other Windows application. A PDF takes less storage space, and is easier to send with email. Make PDF creator part of your the software suite you have installed on your computer for easy PDF creation.

Features
  • Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
  • Send generated files via eMail
  • Digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you are the author and the file has not been modified
  • Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc
  • AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.

7)PortableApps.com

PortableApps.com is the world's most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any portable storage device (USB flash drive, iPod, memory card, portable hard drive, etc). With millions of users all over the world and a full collection of open source software (as well as freeware and commercial software), PortableApps.com is the most complete solution for life on the go.

Features

  • Carry your favorite software on a USB flash drive
  • Easily install, upgrade and uninstall your apps
  • Be safe from data loss with the built-in backup utility
  • The industry standard portable software format
  • Full set of utilities available for all developers


8)Zint Barcode Generator

A barcode encoding library supporting over 50 symbologies including Code 128, Data Matrix, USPS OneCode, EAN-128, UPC/EAN, ITF, QR Code, Code 16k, PDF417, MicroPDF417, LOGMARS, Maxicode, GS1 DataBar, Aztec, Composite Symbols and more.








9)MuseScore

MuseScore is the leading free & open source music notation software for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is easy to use and makes beautiful sheet music. MuseScore is often praised as a cost effective alternative for Sibelius and Finale.

Features

  • Create beautiful sheet music, fast and easy
  • WYSIWYG, notes are entered on virtual page
  • Unlimited number of staves & up to four voices per staff
  • Easy and fast note entry with mouse, keyboard or MIDI
  • Playback with integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer
  • Import of xml, mxl, md, bww, ove, mgu, sgu, cap, kar
  • Export to midi, wav, flac, ogg, pdf, png, ps, svg, ly
  • Available for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Translated in 43 languages

10) Pidgin

Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+.

Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

Features

  • Instant Messaging
  • IM
  • Chat
  • AIM
  • ICQ
  • Google Talk
  • Yahoo!
  • Bonjour
  • Gadu-Gadu
  • IRC
  • MXit
  • Novell GroupWise Messenger
  • Lotus Sametime
  • SILC
  • SIMPLE
  • MySpaceIM
  • Zephyr
  • Jabber/XMPP
  • MSN Messenger

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