Must-have open source/freeware application lineup

by Tom 3. December 2004 05:30

Here at core, I use several freeware/open source tools and resources to make my life easier, and best of all, they are all free to use... A line-up :

Sauce Reader

This is currently (according to my opinion) simply the best RSS-reader available.
It is simple and works as expected with support for ATOM/RSS/RSS2.
If you need to track a lot of websites for updates, this is one of the most time saving assets you can have at this moment.
link

DasBlog

The blogging engine I am currently using (you are probably looking at it right now). Very versatile and easy to setup.
link

Smart FTP

Simply the best FTP-client you can get
link

AntiVir Personal Edition

Free Anti virus that works (even the updates)
link

LavaSoft Ad-Aware Personal edition

Remove all trojans/dialers/unwanted stuff from your pc
link

Picasa

Manage your photographs on your pc with a tool by google
link

SharpDevelop

An open source .NET IDE (no ASP.NET)
link

Visual C# Express Beta

A c# editor from Microsoft
link

TestDriven.Net

Currently THE plug in for test driven development in .NET
link

LUA

The best embeddable scripting language. I still have to embed it myself, but that is another story ...
link

InnoSetup

Create installation packages easily.
link

Werkzeug1

Demo tool for creating top of the notch graphical presentations. Quite complicated, but also very powerful. I need some more time to dive in to this...
link

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