MegaPost: Open Source Windows

Hello friends,

This is the 100th post of my blog.I wanted it to make it special so here I present you a list of Top Open Source Programs for Windows.

 

Web Browsers:-

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Mozilla Firefox :-

Firefox is currently one of the most popular web browser .Not only its Powerful features but also the wide availability of Plugins and Themes for it make it the most Used Web Browser today.

Official Page

 

Flock :-

 Flock is a web browser that specializes in providing social networking and other Web 2.0 features built into its interface. The browser is built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase.

Official Page

 

K-Meleon :-

K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License.

Official Page

 

 

IM :-

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Pidgin :-

 

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.

Official Page

 

Miranda :-

Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu and more.

Official Page

 

Compression Utilities :-

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7 Zip :-

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license.It is one of the most powerful compressor available today.Although it uses its own format 7z for compressing.

Official Page

 

zZip :-

Zzip, a new compression tool still under development, can compress files with a very high compression ratio. It is licensed under the GNU LGPL license.Zzip has a lot of useful features that includes support for file integrity tests, built-in multimedia detection/compression etc
Official Page

 

2D Graphics :-

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 The GIMP :-

The GIMP,one of the best graphics editors available at the web,paid or unpaid, is considered as the free alternative to Adobe Photoshop.Although not as strong as photoshop yet ,but GIMP with its every new version is becoming more and more powerful and popular.With a lot of resources,tutorials and plugin available, GIMP has become the best free Graphics Editing Software.The GIMP has been licensed under a GNU license.
Official Page

 

Paint.NET :-

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Official Page

InkScape :-

InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

Official Page

 

 

3D Graphics :-

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Blender :-

Blender is a 3D animation program released as Open Source software. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications

Official Page

 

Wings 3D :-

Wings 3D is a free and open source polygon mesh subdivision modeller inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware, all using the winged edge data structure.

Official Page

 

 

Media Players :-

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VLC Media Player :-

VLC Media Player is growing as the most popular player with its ability to play almost any kind of media file ,even very rare ones.It is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Official Page

 

Xine:-

Xine is a Free and Open Source Multimedia Player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available - and some of the most uncommon formats, too.

Official Page

 

Media Portal:-

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.

Official Page

 

 

Mail and RSS Readers :-

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Mozilla ThunderBird :-

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.Thunderbird aims to be a simple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client.There are whole lot of extensions available for it for further tasks.

Official Page

 

Feed Reader 3 :-

Feedreader is a Free RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust, state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment.Feedreader offers advanced, cutting-edge capabilities, including the most comprehensive podcasting support available today, as well as unique smartfeed technology that puts the information you need right at your fingertips.

Official Page

 

RSS owl :-

RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform. Released under the Eclipse Public License, RSSOwl is free software.

Official Page

 

Eudora :-

Eudora is an e-mail client used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.Eudora 7 for Windows OS delivers a host of new features and benefits to users looking
for a robust, full-featured email program with an array of new productivity tools. Adding
to the top-rated SpamWatch junk mail quarantine introduced with Eudora 6.0, Eudora 7
now also offers an Ultra-Fast Indexed Search.

Official Page

 

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This is not the end of the list ,I will write the second part soon.If you find any problem with links,images etc in the post please do report via comment

Have a Nice Day And Enjoy!