OpenOffice.org is a free alternative to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation software and drawing program and also allows to save to PDF file. In addition, OpenOffice.org offers enhanced printing capabilities and options for direct connection with external email programs as well as form-letter management to send letters to addresses from a database. WRITER is OpenOffice.org's word processor: use it for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book with embedded illustrations, cross-references, tables of contents, indexes, bibliographies... Auto-complete, auto-format, and real-time spelling check make light work of the hardest task. Writer is powerful enough to tackle desktop publishing tasks such as creating multi-column newsletters, brochures. The only limit is your imagination.

FreeCAD is a very useful 3D CAD modeler. FreeCAD will be a general purpose 3D CAD modeler. The development is completely Open Source (GPL & LGPL License). FreeCAD is aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design but also fits in a wider range of uses around engineering, such as architecture or other engineering specialties. FreeCAD features tools similar to Catia, SolidWorks or Solid Edge, and therefore also falls into the category of MCAD, PLM, CAx and CAE.

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

Video converter to modern formats AV1/H.265(HEVC)/H.264(AVC) with fast GPU acceleration for free! AV1 has high compression ratio - better than H.256/H.264. It allows you to save disk space for video storage. AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is a modern open video format that provides superior lossy and lossless compression for video files (replacement for H264/265). One of the interesting features is that you can specify the desired file size, for example, 1400 MB for a movie (or as a percentage, for example, 80% of the original size), and the program will automatically select the conversion settings for the best quality. Support for encoding and decoding on AMD and Nvidia video cards provides very fast video conversion (several times faster than on the processor). Multithreading support also speeds up the video encoding process. Important: AV1, unlike H. 265 (HEVC), is open, meaning no one has to pay to use it. It uses program ffmpeg.exe. Batch processing of files and drag-n-drop. Program optimizes your file to new one with «_optimized» name ending (source file will remain intact). Reduce the size of your video files in one click! AV1 video files are 50% smaller in size compared to H.264 and 30% to H.265.

Sumatra PDF is a slim PDF viewer for Windows. Sumatra has a minimalistic design but still has most of the features you need from a PDF viewer. It's small and starts up very fast. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive.

Foxit Reader is a PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Fill Forms. Allows users to leverage exiting forms and workflow with standard PDF (Acroforms) and XFA (XML Form Architecture) form filling. Create Industry-standard PDFs. Provide feedback to documents through annotation and text markup tools. Make feedback more effective with boxes, circles, arrows, and more drawing tools.

Why settle for a basic build of your Firefox browser on Windows Operating Systems when you can have one that performs 25% faster? Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, while many Linux ("from scratch") users get the advantage of a browser built specifically for their system. That needs to change! So, here is the Pale Moon project: Custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed out of your browser!

POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Netscape and other services. Send mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts. POP Peeper allows you to view messages using HTML or you can choose to safely view all messages in rich or plain text. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc).

The English version of a famous Japanese free painting and retouch software for full color graphic, with mask, layer functions. You can use your own customized brush tips and even use an image file as a brush tip to create unique effects. Its user-friendly interface is suitable for beginners as well as experts. The original Japanese Edition of Pixia was created and developed by the author, Isao Maruoka, but has also been aggressively raised by its fans, which makes this software quite unique and different from other tools. Formats supported: BMP, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, RGB, ICO, DIB, PNG, PSD, PXA, WMF, PICT, PCT, TGA, MPO.

Stellarium is a open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. Default catalogue of over 600 000 stars, extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars! Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations. The planets and their satellites. Star twinkling, shooting stars, eclipse simulation. Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.

Database .NET is a simple and intuitive database management tool for multiple databases, making local and remote database administration easier. With it you can Create databases, Design tables, Edit data, Export data, Generate scripts and run SQL queries. A standalone tool that does not require installation. Create, Shrink, Protect Database. Export to CSV/XML/TXT/XLS/SQL. Syntax Highlighting. Table Editor.

gPodder ??” simple, usable podcast consumption. Download free audio and video content ("podcasts") from the Internet and watch it on your computer or on the go. iPod, MP3 player and mobile phone support. RSS, Atom, YouTube and Soundcloud feeds. Focus on Usability. Integrated with the gpodder.net Web Service. User interfaces: GTK+, Maemo 4, Maemo 5 and CLI. Plays well together with the Panucci podcast player

Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.

Database Browser is an universal table editor. This easy to use tool allows user to connect to any database and browse or modify data,run sql scripts, export, import and print data. Works directly with Oracle, MS Sql Server, ODBC, MySql, OleDB, BDE, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS Sql Server Compact, Interbase and Firebird. Unlimited number of connections. One click table browsing. Data browsing, filtering and grouping. Data exports into CSV, TAB, Excel, RTF and Html files. Import data from Excel. Execution history. SQL Builder with wide range of supported databases. Incremental Table Search.

Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. In contrast to raster (bitmap) graphics editors such as Photoshop or Gimp, Inkscape stores its graphics in a vector format. Vector graphics is a resolution-independent description of the actual shapes and objects that you see in the image. A rasterization engine uses this information to determine how to plot each line and curve at any resolution or zoom level.