Open Source software for windows
These are some of the best open source software for windows worth to try this
IM – Instant Messaging
Gaim (to be renamed Pidgin in the next release) is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN, and AOL IM.
Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, free and cross-platform mail client and news reader for most modern operating systemsDownload Page
Image Editing and Graphics
GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a Photoshop replacement that doesn’t have “quite” as much functionality but it’s excellent for free. It comes installed by default on many Linux distros and is also available in Windows. Worth a look.
Graphics
Paint
Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a software suite for image manipulation and display, supporting a wide variety of formats. It is mainly used to perform various tranformation and conversion operations on images. It can currently support close to 100 image formats.
Blender
Blender is a free software 3D animation program. It can be used for modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.
Office
OpenOffice
OpenOffice.org is a free office suite of applications available for many different operating systems including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, OpenVMS, IRIX and Mac OS X. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange.
Web development
Aptana The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
Mozilla Composer
Composer is a WYSIWYG graphical user interface (GUI) HTML editor. You can also view, write and edit HTML source code with Composer.It is used to create and to edit web pages, e-mail, and text documents easily.
Nvu
Nvu is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1.7. It is intended to be an open source equivalent to proprietary software like Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver and is one of the primary WYSIWYG editors for Linux. Like all WYSIWYG editors, it is designed to be easy for novice users and does not require any knowledge of HTML or CSS to use.
Firebug
The Firebug extension for Mozilla Firefox allows the debugging, editing, and modifying of any website’s CSS, HTML, DOM, and JavaScript, and provides other web development tools. Firebug’s official website has a complete guide to what it can do.
Fiddler Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data.
Development Applications (IDE’s)
Eclipse
Eclipse is an open-source software framework written primarily in Java. In its default form it is a Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), comprising the Java Development Toolkit (JDT) and compiler (ECJ)
NetBeans
NetBeans Platform allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. A module is a Java archive file that contains Java classes written to interact with the NetBeans Open APIs and a manifest file that identifies it as a module.
Code::Blocks
A free c++ IDE built to meet the “most demanding needs of its users”.
SharpDevelop
A free IDE for C#, VB.net and Boo projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform.
Video Playback
Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic (MPC) is a compact free software media player for Microsoft Windows. The application has a similar look and feel to the old light-weight Windows Media Player
VLC Media Player
VLC media player is a free (GPL) media player by the VideoLAN project.t is a highly portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols
Audio
Audacity
Audacity is a free and open source, cross platform digital audio editor.
Audiobook Cutter
Audiobook Cutter is an easy-to-use tool which splits large MP3 audiobook files into smaller ones without re-encoding. The split points are determined automatically based on silence detection.
Anti-Virus
AVG
AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition is the standalone Anti-Virus product designed primarily for home desktops or for small organizations using peer-to-peer networks. Been using this for more thana year. Not an opensource but worthwhile freeware.
Avast! Home edition
one of the most popular full-featured freeware anti-virus applications for Microsoft Windows
ClamWin
ClamWin is a free, open source antivirus software for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It provides a graphical user interface to the ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) engine.
Games
Osswin
A repository for games in windows.
