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I have listed down some softwares which are available to be downloaded from the web at no cost.
This list is only an indicative, there are many other softwares which are available for free.
Please send email to saurabh(at)techwhiz(dot)in if you have used other free softwares.
Office Suite / Word Processor
- Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/)
- AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/)
Publishing
- PDF Creator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)
- Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/)
Email Client
- Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/)
Web Browser
- Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)
- K-Melon (http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/)
Utilities
- K3b (http://www.k3b.org/) – CD/DVD Burning
- 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) – Archiever
Security Tools
- TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org)
Financials
- Compiere (http://www.compiere.com/)
CD/DVD Ripping
- Media Coder (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/)
- Handbrake (http://handbrake.m0k.org/)
Graphic Editors
- Inkspace (http://www.inkscape.org/)
- GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
- Tux Paint (http://www.tuxpaint.org/)
Audio / Video Players
- Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/)
- Songbird (http://www.songbirdnest.com/)
- VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
- MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)
- Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/)
Video Editors
- Avidemux (http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/)
Audio Editors
- Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
- MP3 Book Helper (http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/)
Developer Tools
- Mozilla Sea Monkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/)
- Kompozer (http://kompozer.net/)
- Open Laszlo (http://www.openlaszlo.org/)
- Blue Fish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/)
- XML Copy Editor (http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/)
- Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/)
- Apache HTTP Server (http://httpd.apache.org/)
- MySQL (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/)
- php (http://www.php.net/downloads.php)
- Web Server Suite (http://sourceforge.net/projects/webdeveloper/)
FTP Client
- FileZilla (http://filezilla-project.org/)