Archive for the 'Cross Platform' Category
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.
Pidgin used to be known as Gaim. It’s an instant messaging client for Windows or Linux that is a) free and b) multi-protocol. The latter means it lets you use the same client for MSN (or Live, or whatever it’s now called), Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber, Google Talk…
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software.
Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
It works on Windows and Linux.
Qumana is an offline blog editor which is available for Mac and Windows.
Following the text editor theme, how about Zulupad, which combines a notepad with a wiki?
It works on Macs and Windows.
