Namu6 is a nice wysiwyg web editor for Windows.
Lightning is another online notetaking application, a bit like Evernote which I’ve covered before. It’s created by Corel, and integrates well with the WordPerfect Office suite, just in case anyone is still using it.
A recent release has seen Lightning be able to publish direct to WordPress.com blogs. Neat.
Nothing to do with search engine optimisation, SEO Note is in fact a hierarchical notes outliner program for free-form and structured information.
Windows only, I’m afraid.
Zoundry is another offline blog editor for Windows.
FeedReader is a free RSS aggregator for Windows. What more could you want?
Blender is another of the open source big guns. It’s a 3D modelling and animation programme.
Bored of FireFox? Try Flock. It’s based on our foxy friend, but adds in a load of social networking stuff. Much of this stuff is likely to be present in the 3rd version of Firefox, but why not be an early adopter and get in there now?
Sometimes, pieces of free software are so good they become de facto standard apps for an awful lot of people. A lot of the time, this is when they are a result of the open source community (free as in speech, as well as beer).
Audacity is one of those apps. It’s an audio recording and editing package, that’s used by podcasters all over the web, because it does everything you might want it to, and its free. It also works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
TiddlyWiki is a desktop based wiki that runs from a single HTML file, chock full of javascript goodness. Keep it on your USB stick as a personal organiser or install it on a network for colleagues to share.
As it’s HTML it works on any computer that can run a decent browser.
