If your working in the IT sector, you unfortunately sometimes have to work
with Windows. And if you're not used to that, it can be a very painful and
traumatic experience, much like trying to type with 2 fingers cut off each
hand.
Luckily, some people have made the Windows experience somewhat more bearable
by writing ans sharing free programs and I hope I can share that
information with you here.
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- - Print documents to PDF
- - Versatile text editor
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- - Open Source Anti-virus tool
- Ad-aware
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- - complete UNIX environment inside Windows (including X server)
- - platform independent programming language
- - platform independent programming language
- - Versatile music player and manager
- - DVD/VCD/Streaming movie player
- - CD Ripping/Conversion/Backup tool
- - Video editing tool
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- - Dial for free to other skype users
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- - SSH/telnet application (allows SOCKS tunneling)
- - Supports MSN,ICQ,Yahoo,AOL,Jabber,Sametime,IRC and many more
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- - VNC Remote desktop tool
- - tcptraceroute alike utility
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- - NMap for windows
- - Wireless Network Scanner
- - SCP/SFTP application for transferring files from and to UNIX
- - FTP application for transferring files from and to UNIX
- - Distributed file transfer utility
- - File compression utility
- - Measures the speed of local and remote disks
- - Memory tester
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- Bandwidth Tester
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- Colorful Tabs
- Flashblock
- Header Monitor
- IETab (replaces IEView and User Agent Switcher)
- Image Zoom
- Linkifaction
- Live HTTP Headers
- Modify Headers
- Mozilla Calendar
- SwitchProxy tool
- (replaces SessionSaver, Tabbrowser Preferences and Tab X)
- Uppity
- User Agent Switcher
- Web Developer
Send me your experience with one of these.
Also look at the
and website.
They provide downloadable CD images filled with forthmentioned and other
Windows Open Source applications.