Free as in Beer

Namu6

Dave Briggs — Sun, 20 May 2007 16:15:28 +0000

Namu6 is a nice wysiwyg web editor for Windows.

WordPerfect Lightning

Dave Briggs — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:07:27 +0000

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.

Tags: wordperfect+lightning

SEO Note

Dave Briggs — Sun, 13 May 2007 10:35:53 +0000

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.

Tags: seo+note

Zoundry

Dave Briggs — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:46:22 +0000

Zoundry is another offline blog editor for Windows.

Tags: zoundry

FeedReader

Dave Briggs — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:38:10 +0000

FeedReader is a free RSS aggregator for Windows. What more could you want?

Tags: feedreader

Scribus

Dave Briggs — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:34:04 +0000

Scribus is an open source desktop publishing application. Throw MS Publisher out of the window with confidence! Works on all the platforms that matter.

(If you can’t find the Windows version, it’s here. Installing it might not be for the faint-hearted…)

Tags: scribus

Blender

Dave Briggs — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:31:17 +0000

Blender is another of the open source big guns. It’s a 3D modelling and animation programme.

Tags: blender

Flock

Dave Briggs — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:28:28 +0000

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 3^rd version of Firefox, but why not be an early adopter and get in there now?

Tags: flock

Audacity

Dave Briggs — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:17:46 +0000

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.

Tags: audacity

TiddlyWiki

Dave Briggs — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:12:34 +0000

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.

Tags: tiddlywiki