WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

Open Office

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Google docs

https://docs.google.com

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. Share and collaborate in real time. Safely store and organize your work. Control who can see your documents.

Sunbird

Managing your appointments and events. Mozilla Sunbird® is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. SunBird’s goal is to provide you with a full-featured and easy to use calendar application that you can use around the world.

Dia

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams.

Firefox

Browse in the Fast Lane. Firefox is not only the best open source browser available today, it also provides you with a much safer and faster browsing experience.

Thunderbird

Thunderbird 2 includes several new features to help you manage your inbox. As you receive email, Thunderbird 2 will help you organize the most important messages to get you through your day.

MySQL

Many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money, powering their high-volume Web sites and business-critical systems. MySQL supports both open source values and corporate customers’ needs.

AVG Anti-Virus

It’s always been our philosophy at AVG that everyone has the right to basic computer security at no charge. And our 80 million users think we’re doing a pretty good job. So if you’re planning to spend time online and you regularly exchange files with friends, check us out.

CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

Defraggler

Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files – unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

Recuva

Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it’s free!

Gimp

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

VideoLAN – VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, …) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols. It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn’t need any external codec, program or codec pack to work.

Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. And more! See the complete list of features.

Eclipse for PHP developers

Eclipse is one of the best development IDE available. Tools for PHP developers creating Web applications, including PHP Development Tools (PDT), Web Tools Platform, Mylyn and others.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Programmers Notepad

These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad. Please Note: Programmer’s Notepad 2 does not have a hex editor built in.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio and supports all the popular archive formats such as zip, rar, gzip, tar and more. It is an alternative to WinZip and WinRar.

JStock

JStock is a free stock market software for 23 countries. It provides Real-Time stock info, Intraday stock price snapshot, Stock indicator editor, Stock indicator scanner, Portfolio management and Market chit chat features. Free SMS/email alert supported.

Media Player Classic

Home of Media Player Classic – Home Cinema. This project is based on the original Guliverkli project, and contains additionnal features and bugs fixes (see complete list on project Website).

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

FreeCol

FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer the new world.

Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D is free software designed to draw the plan of a home, arrange furniture, and display the result in a 3D view. It’s aimed at people who want to design their interior quickly. Can be downloaded or used online.