Ultimate list of open source software:
Accounting to Audio Tools // Backup to Cloud Infrastructure // Cloud Desktop to CRM // Databases to Developer Tools // Dictionary to Encryption // Emulators to Foreign Language // Forensics to Graphics Editors // Healthcare to Modeling // Multimedia to Network Simulation // Office to POS // Portable Apps to Smoking Cessation // Speech to Typing // Utilities to Web Editors
If you need to clean up a lot of duplicate files, this tool makes the job more manageable. It also offers options for secure file removal, bulk moving of files and bulk file re-naming. Operating System: Windows.
Having a lot of junk in your "Temp" files can really slow your system down. This little app cleans out all the temporary files located throughout your file system. Operating System: Windows.
667. ClipUpload
This application quickly uploads whatever is on your clipboard to the Internet with a single click. You can use it with your own ftp server or with services like Imgur.com, Pastebin.com, and SendSpace.com. Operating System: Windows.
668. Explorer++
Like QTTabBar, Explorer++ offers a tabbed interface for Windows Explorer. Other key features include a preview window, keyboard shortcuts, file splitting and merging and more. Operating System: Windows.
669. GnuWin32
This site offers native Windows ports of lots of different open-source apps offered under the GNU license. There are dozens of apps, tools, and libraries available, but many of them fall under the "utilities" category, which is why we put it here on our list. Operating System: Windows
670. GodMode AllTaks
Also known as Windows Master Control Panel, the God Mode on Windows Vista and Windows 7 lets you perform a variety of systems administration tasks. This tool let you use the "All Tasks" folder without going through the steps that are normally necessary. Operating System: Windows.
671. HDGraph
Wondering how in the world you managed to fill up 300 GB worth of hard drive space? HD Graph lets you see the reasons in a flash by drawing a multi-level pie chart that details how much space each directory and subdirectory is consuming. Operating System: Windows
672. KShutdown
Need to turn off, turn on, or restart your computer at a later time? This app lets you schedule all those functions so they happen automatically and adds several other features as well. Operating System: Windows, Linux
673. Kysrun
Originally designed for the Eee, Kysrun lets you open applications, link to bookmarks, or perform other operations by typing a few letters instead of hunting through menus. As you begin typing one letter at a time, Kysrun brings up a list of all applications on your system with those letters in the name, and you simply click on the one you want. Operating System: Linux
674. PcClean
Normally, the Windows maintenance tools that let you clean up your drives are scattered throughout the operating system. This tool lets you access all those maintenance features from one place. Operating System: Windows.
675. QTTabBar
QTTabBar enhances Windows Explorer with a helpful tabbed interface. It's still technically an alpha release, but it's stable with few bugs and thousands of users. Operating System: Windows.
676. Startup Manager
Tired of waiting forever while Windows starts up? This app gives you control over which applications and services launch when you start up your system, so that you get better performance and greater security. Operating System: Windows.
677. UltraDefrag
Need to defrag your hard drive? Unlike the defragmenter tool that comes with Windows, UltraDefrag lets you defrag on startup for maximum speed. You can also configure it to shut down your system when it's finished, so you can leave it working at night after you go to bed. Operating System: Windows
This no-frills app can attach to any running Windows process and detect memory leaks. It groups leaks together by call stack for easier debugging. Operating System: Windows.
The "AFIS" in this app name stands for "Automated Fingerprint Identification System." It works with a variety of fingerprint readers to authenticate users. Operating System: OS Independent.
680. Smart Sign
Smart Sign offers several different modules that help you use smart cards for user authentication and digital signatures. It supports a number of different card types and readers, as well as the Open CA certification authority. Operating System: Linux.
681. WiKID The WiKID community version provides open-source, two-factor authentication for VPN, online banking, extranet access, and more. The commercially available enterprise version adds support and some proprietary code that cannot be released under GPL. Operating System: OS Independent.
Sponsored by Canonical and part of the GNU project, Bazaar offers distributed version control. It works cross-platform, has a GUI and boasts a generally welcoming community and user-friendly design. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
683. Git
Perhaps best known as the version control system for Linux, Git is also the choice of other well-known open source projects like Perl, Gnome, Ruby on Rails, Fedora and Debian. It offers a very fast, distributed method for tracking history and changes, with good support for branching and merging. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
683. TortoiseSVN
If you'd like to use Subversion on Windows, you might want to use the TortoiseSVN client. It lets you use commands and see the status of files from within Windows Explorer. Operating System: Windows
While it's not suitable for professionals, Avidemux gives amateur movie makers the tools they need for simple cutting, filtering and encoding. It supports multiple file types and includes some automation capabilities. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X, others.
686. CineFX
This project combines multiple video tools, including the video editing tool formerly known as "Jahshaka, the Cineplay multimedia player and Cinecode for converting your movies to Flash. It offers good basic capabilities suitable for amateurs. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
687. Cinelerra
Calling itself a "movie studio in a box," Cinelerra brings professional-quality video capture, compositing and editing to Linux. The main project is controlled by a company, but there's also a community-based fork at Cinelerra.org. Operating System: Linux.
688. DVD Flick
This app lets you take video files from your hard drive and turn them into a DVD that will actually play on your DVD player. It supports more than 45 different video formats, as well as numerous audio and video codecs. Operating System: Windows
689. DivXRepair
Experiencing problems playing AVI files? DivXRepair may be able to help. Operating System: Windows.
690. DVDx
The self-proclaimed "most popular DVD backup software world wide," DVDx copies DVDs and converts among various video file formats. It's notable for its speed and user-friendly interface. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
691. FFDShow
This codec decodes numerous file formats. It provides excellent video quality while consuming few computing resources. Operating System: Windows
692. Kaltura Community Edition
Kaltura is home to a number of video-related projects, including a player, editor, widgets, processing, and much more. Their latest release is a Joomla extension that makes it easy to add video to your Joomla-based Web site. Operating System: OS Independent.
693. Kdenlive
This app for home users offers a surprisingly robust feature set. For example, it has multiple audio and video track support, multiple color scopes, stop motion capabilities and a wide range of transitions and effects. Operating System: Linux, OS X.
694. LiVES
While most of the tools in this category are designed for people who edit video and then later show it in its finished state, this app is also suitable for VJs who mix and edit video live. It includes dozens of effects and is very flexible. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
695. Miro
While most video players also play audio (and thus ended up in the multimedia category), this one just plays video. It's claim to fame is its support for HD, as well as its library of 6,000 free movies and TV shows. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
696. Movica
Movica provides a graphical interface for a number of open source command line video editing tools. It offers fairly basic functionality when compared to some of the others on the list. Operating System: Windows
With both an intuitive interface and advanced features, this video editor boasts that it has the highest percentage of downloads to active users of any Linux video editor. Notable features include chroma key (bluescreen/greenscreen), rotoscoping support, scrolling credits, compositing, custom transitions and more. Operating System: Linux.
698. VirtualDub
VirtualDub does not offer the editing capabilities of Premiere, but it does provide video capture and processing capabilities. It's designed to work primarily with AVI files. Operating System: Windows
699. Windows Essentials Codec Pack
Having trouble playing a video file you've downloaded from the Internet? This download gives you the tools you need to play 99 percent of files available, including a simple media player. Operating System: Windows.
The "most widely adopted penetration testing framework in existence," BackTrack is a complete Linux distribution that incorporates many well-known open source tools that are beneficial for penetration testing, including nmap, OpenVas, Paros Proxy, Burpsuite, W3AF, Metasploit Framework 2 & 3, Social Engineering Toolkit (SET), Ophcrack, XHydra, Netcat and SNORT. It can also boot from a LiveDVD or a thumbdrive. Operating System: Linux.
701. Metasploit
Metasploit can be used both to determine any weakness in your network or by black or white hats to create new exploits. For less knowledgeable users, it's also now available in a commercial "Metasploit Express" penetration testing version with an easy-to-use GUI. Operating System: Windows, Unix.
702. Nmap
Nmap (Network Mapper) is useful for monitoring which devices are connected to your network and for detecting possible security holes. It can run from the command line or a GUI, and also includes Ncat for debugging and data transfer and Ndiff for spotting the differences between two scans. It's also the open source equivalent of a movie star, having been featured in The Matrix Reloaded, Die Hard 4, The Bourne Ultimatum, and several other movies. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
703. Nikto
Nikto scans Web servers for thousands of dangerous files and server-specific problems. Optional automatic updates are available. Operating System: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, BSD.
704. OpenVAS
Several years ago, the Nessus vulnerability scanner moved from an open source license to a proprietary one. OpenVAS is an open source fork that continues development of the original Nessus scanner. The scanner requires a feed of network vulnerability tests in order to work, but the project also includes an open source daily feed of more than 18,000 of such tests. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
705. Paros
This Java-based scanner intercepts all http and https data transmitted between server and client to help evaluate the security of Web applications. It includes a spider, proxy-chaining, intelligent scanning for XSS and SQL injections, and more. Operating System: OS Independent.
706. Samurai
Find out how well your Web site will stand up to attack with this penetration testing framework. It incorporates a number of well-known open source tools, including e Fierce domain scanner, Maltego, WebScarab, ratproxy, w3af, burp, BeEF, AJAXShell and many others. Operating System: Linux.
707. Sara
Although it's no longer being actively developed, Sara (short for "Security Auditor's Research Assistant") is a mature tool that performs a number of different types of vulnerability testing. It interfaces with many other open source tool and provides "gentle" scanning of networks. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
Dan's Guardian uses URL and domain filtering, content phrase filtering, PICS filtering, MIME filtering, file extension filtering and POST limiting to filter out objectionable content from your network. The default settings are set up to meet the needs of an elementary school, but they can be easily adjusted to the level that's appropriate for your organization. Operating System: Linux, OS X.
710. iSAK
The "Internet Secure Access Kit" (iSAK) lets you view reports on what type of sites your users are visiting and when. Of course, it also gives you the option to block specific sites or categories of sites for security or to prevent access to objectionable sites. It also incorporates anti-virus and anti-spam protection. Operating System: Linux.
The World Wide Web Consortium's editor and browser, Amaya integrates the viewing and editing of Web pages. Although it began as just an HTML and CSS tool, it now also supports XML. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
712. Firebug
If you're comfortable editing code, Firebug is a fabulous tool for editing your Web pages live. It integrates with Firefox and makes it easy to search, edit, and find errors in your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
713. Kompozer
Based on some of the same code as NVU, Kompozer also offers a high degree of usability for Web design novices. It includes a WYSIWYG editor, HTML editor, file manager, support for forms and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
714. Nvu
NVU claims to be the "#1 free Web authoring system." Aimed at relatively inexperienced users, it tries to make the process of getting a site built as painless as possible. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
715. SeaMonkey
Sea Monkey combines an Internet browser, email and newsgroup client, web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat, and web development tools into a single package. It's based on a lot of Mozilla code and should feel familiar to anyone who's used Firefox or the old Netscape Communicator software. Operating System: Windows, Linux
Ultimate list of open source software:
Accounting to Audio Tools // Backup to Cloud Infrastructure // Cloud Desktop to CRM // Databases to Developer Tools // Dictionary to Encryption // Emulators to Foreign Language // Forensics to Graphics Editors // Healthcare to Modeling // Multimedia to Network Simulation // Office to POS // Portable Apps to Smoking Cessation // Speech to Typing // Utilities to Web Editors