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Adobe Acrobat 9
Adobe Acrobat (not to be confused with Acrobat Reader) is Adobe's tool for creating PDF documents. However, PDF documents is much more than just a simple document - it can have advanced features like... Read more

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Acrobat Reader is the freeware product from Adobe designed to view Acrobat files (PDF). PDFs' popularity on the internet has made it virtual impossible to live without the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Not... Read more

Babylon
Babylon is translation software equipped with over 75 languages. You can translate Word, PDF and other documents as well as web pages or other online text. By selecting the text and opening Babylon... Read more

Business Objects Crystal Reports SE XI
Crystal Reports is one of the most use reporting tool on the market. It help you design and create professionel reports and visualization of all of you data. The reports generated can be viewed... Read more

Cognos Business Intelligence 8
Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis, reporting, dashboards, scorecarding and business event management. Each of these are actually stand-alone products building on Cognos'... Read more

Evernote
Evernote provides a means to capture just about anything you would want to save whether it is notes to yourself, something you saw or heard or even just things that you like. It works with nearly... Read more

Foxit Reader
Foxit is a free, multilingual PDF reader that provides an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader that is lightweight and easy on your resources. Many people who use Adobe need a reader but would prefer... Read more

Ghost Solution Suite 2.5
Ghost is easy to use, high performance software used to deploy operating system images to servers and workstations as well as management of both Linux and Windows systems. It's so well known and... Read more

IBM SPSS
SPSS is a collection of data and predictive analytics tools for business and statistical programmers. It can be used to figure out potential costs savings or organize data in order to make better... Read more

Keynote
Apple's Keynote has been around for nearly five years and during that time it has not only competed with Microsoft's PowerPoint but surpassed it. If you need a polished, professional looking... Read more

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0
For any business that need to keep track of customers - Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the perfect solution, if you already have a Microsoft environment. Integrates with the Microsoft Office applications... Read more

Microsoft Excel 2010
The lack of competition for spreadsheet applications and the massive deployment of Microsoft Office makes Excel the most used application of its type. Apart from basic spreadsheet features - Excel... Read more

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Most likely the most wide spread browser on the planet - mainly due to the fact that it is comes as freeware with Microsoft Windows. However, still a very effect tool that have matured over the past... Read more

Microsoft Money 2007
Microsoft Money (MSMoney) an accounting software application that helps you keep track of all of your accounts both banks, credit and even investments. Its budget feature keeps track of bills due and... Read more

Microsoft Office 2010
Office is a collection of Microsoft's business applications including: Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Publisher, Visio and Powerpoint. The suite offers good integration between all of its products -... Read more

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office Sharepoint server (MOSS) runs on top of Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS), adding core features and and user web parts. Essentially, it's a workflow engine and business intelligence... Read more

Microsoft OneNote 2010
At last, someone has put an end to endless sticky notes and lost slips of paper! Microsoft's Office OneNote allows you to gather all your information in text, pictures, audio and video recordings... Read more

Microsoft Outlook 2003
As part of the Microsoft Office suit or offered in your enterprise if they are using Microsoft's mail server - Outlook is difficult not notice. Microsoft Outlook is a mail client that also integrates... Read more

Microsoft Outlook Express 6
Microsoft Outlook Express ships as part of the Microsoft Internet Explorer freeware package. Outlook Express provides basic internet mail support, but works as a usenet news reader. As a mail client... Read more

Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
Powerpoint is the most used presention software on the market. It comes as part of the Microsoft Office suite as one of the core applications. Powerpoint has many advanced features but is not always... Read more

Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project, a stalwart in the project management software arena, has been assisting project managers in planning, executing, and controlling projects of all sizes since its launch in... Read more

Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio stands out as a leading diagramming and vector graphics application, part of the broader Microsoft 365 suite. Since its initial release in 1992, Visio has been empowering... Read more

Microsoft Windows XP
Windows has for a long time been by far the most used operating system for PCs. Through the years Microsoft has continued to develop and improve their operating system. The latest version has many... Read more

Microsoft Word 2003
Word is the number one most widely used word processor - home users, academic institutions and a huge number of enterprises all use Microsoft Word. Word has continued to evolve through the years and... Read more

MindManager 6
MindManager is the most popular mind mapping on the market. For brainstorming, capturing ideas and then analyzing all of the collected information. It can be used for all projects from newsletters,... Read more

QuickBooks 2010
QuickBooks by Intuit (who also make Quicken) is an accounting software package for small and medium-sized businesses. One of its strongest assets is its ease of use, allowing responsible record... Read more

Quicken 2007
Quicken is one of the most well-known personal finance/accounting software packages on the market. Quicken lets you manage your accounts including checking, banking and credit cards. Information can... Read more

SmartDraw
SmartDraw VP is the world's first visual processor. In the same way that a word processor automatically formats documents, SmartDraw VP automatically formats your visuals as you create them, making... Read more

Things 1.2
There are a lot of GTD (getting things done) applications flooding the market today, trying to make our lives easier and more organized. One of the latest is called "Things" and is both available... Read more

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AbiWord 2.6
This word processor strives to have a user-interface very similar to Microsoft Word - in order for user to easily migrate to AbiWord. It also support import and export of Microsoft Word documents and... Read more

Alfresco 2.1
Alfresco (Italian for "outdoors") is an open source, less expensive alternative to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The plentiful ECM (enterprise content management) features of Alfresco rival the... Read more

Clonezilla
Clonezilla is an open source solution to computer backup, restoration and "ghosting". It is based on partition imaging and allows you to backup and recover your system should it be taken out by a... Read more

DataVision 1.1
DataVision is an open source reporting tool for almost any database available e.g. Access, Oracle, MySql, Information and more. The reports generated can be easily customized in a drag-and-drop user... Read more

Draw.io
Draw.io, now widely recognized as diagrams.net, represents a significant leap forward in the realm of digital diagramming tools. Launched to provide a user-friendly, web-based platform... Read more

Evolution
Evolution is an e-mail client built from scratch to be an alternative to Outlook on Linux. Today it has evolved beyond that - and provides stable functionaly through typical e-mail features. But... Read more

Fedora Core 6
With it roots and backing in Redhat - Fedora is a easy to use and to configure. More advanced features include Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) that make tampering virtually impossible. Based on the... Read more

FreeMind 0.8.0
FreeMind is a great open source for all steps of project management. From simple note taking at project meetings - over brainstorming for new projects and keeping track of projects and time... Read more

GanttProject
GanttProject is a project scheduling and management tool which also offers resource management. Even importing and exporting Microsoft Project files is supported. Read more

GFP 0.6
GFP is a free open source personal finance manager written in Java, which allows it to run on virtually any operating system. It's designed to help people with little financial knowledge managing... Read more

Ghostscript 8.54
Ghostscript is an open source that inteprets PostScript (PS) and PDF in order to output them into raster format either for the screen or on a printer. This allows viewing of PS files and even... Read more

GnuCash 2.3
GnuCash is open source personal and small-business financial accounting software. Keep track of income and expenses from all of your accounts. The small-business features allow you to keep track of... Read more

Gnumeric 1.9
The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. With its customization features and support for import of spreadsheet files from other spreadsheets application - commercial as well as... Read more

Grisbi 0.5.9
Grisbi is open source personal accounting software for practically any platform/operating system. The project strives to provide simple and easy to use software for managing your accounts. Grisbi... Read more

JasperReports 2.0
JasperReports is a powerful open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV, XML and even flash (swf) files.... Read more

jGnash 1.10.6
jGnash is an open source personal finance manager. It will help you monitor and keep track of your accounts including investments. jGnash can import from Quicken (qif) and GnuCash - and generate... Read more

Kivio 1.6.1
Kivio is part of the KOffice open source office suite. For flowcharting, network diagrams and all other graphing need Kivio solves them with an easy to user interface. As part of the KOffice office... Read more

KPresenter 1.6.1
KPresenter is the open source presentations part of the KOffice suite. Excellent for combining text and graphics into slides either for on-screen presentation and handouts. With KPresenter you can... Read more

KWord 1.6.1
KWord is a part of the open source office suite KOffice. KWord is more than just a simple word processor, with its frame-based layout capability it can act like any commercial DTP tool and even... Read more

MindTouch Core 9
MindTouch is the Web's most popular commercially supported wiki platform for creating content and mashups using a wiki interface. The free, open source application is an easy to use program... Read more

NeoOffice 3.0
NeoOffice is a special version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. Even though OpenOffice is available for Mac OS X, it requires that you run X11 (X Windows Systems) on your computer. Thus it does not... Read more

NeverNote
Nevernote was created in response to popular demand of Linux users. A clone of Evernote, it was originally intended for Linux but can also run on Windows. Nevernote is a note-saving program that... Read more

Open Workbench 1.1.6
Aiming to be a direct alternative to Microsoft Project - Open Workbench provides project planning and scheduling together with resource management. Open Workbench even offers import of Microsoft... Read more

OpenOffice 3.0
OpenOffice provides a great alternative to existing commercial office suites. It comes with word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation (Impress), drawing and graphing tool (Draw), tool... Read more

OpenOffice Calc 3.0
OpenOffice Calc is a superb open source spreadsheet application. Whether you are a novice spreadsheet user - or require more advanced features such as data mining or large complex calculations -... Read more

OpenOffice Impress 3.0
Impress, with is capability to create fantastic presentation, is a strong member of the open source office suite - OpenOffice. It features 2D and 3D text rendering, special effects and animation... Read more

OpenOffice Writer 3.0
Writer is the word processor part of the OpenOffice suite. Its a full featured word processor with all of the advanced features found in commercial word processors. Also Writer exports directly to... Read more

OpenProj 1.4
OpenProj is a new open source solution for project management. It's simple user interface is very similar to that of Microsoft Project. OpenProj even let's you import you existing Microsoft Project... Read more

OpenRPT 3.0
OpenRPT is an open source report generator. It consists of two parts: OpenRPT and RPTrender. The OpenRPT part is the graphical user interface for designing reports and has a simple interface similar... Read more

PDFCreator 0.9.5
PDFCreator is an open source printer driver that creates PDF documents. Acting as a printer driver it allows you to create PDF files from any Windows application. The PDF files can then be view with... Read more

Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.0
Pentaho is an open source business intelligence (BI) platform that takes ETL (extract, transform, and load), reporting, data analysis, dashboards, and data mining and pulls them together on top of... Read more

Pentaho Report Designer 1.2
Pentaho Report Designer is a graphical front-end to the JFreeReport reporting library. Using the Report Designer creating layouts for you reports is a simple task. Separate tools help select data... Read more

PostBooks 3.2
PostBooks is an open source business software package that offers a total solution for managing your business, including fully-integrated accounting, CRM and ERP modules. Designed for businesses... Read more

PSPP
PSPP is an alternative to SPSS, a program used to analyze data. PSPP doesn't impose limits on the variables you use and you don't have to acquire different versions in order to access advanced... Read more

RedNotebook
RedNotebook is an electronic journal that allows you to do much more than old-fashioned analog journals used to. As well as keeping track of your thoughts, important events and all the daily notes... Read more

StarDict 3.0
StarDict is international dictionary software with more than 1000 dictionaries available. It features Glob-style pattern matching, scan selection word, fuzzy query and more to aid you in looking up... Read more

SugarCRM 5.2
SugarCRM is an open source crm (customer relation management) system, which helps you to track and share opportunities, manage existing customers, keep track of your pipeline and much more. Has... Read more

Sumatra PDF 0.9
Sumatra PDF is a fairly young project aiming to create a small, simple and fast PDF viewer. It main features are showing PDFs and starting up really fast - and it does both just perfectly. Apart form... Read more

SUSE Linux 10.2
The openSUSE project delivers one of the best linux distributions available. For many years SUSE Linux has been considered a high quality linux distribution for both private users as well as... Read more

ThinkingRock 2.2
Thinking Rock is a GTD (getting things done) application you can use both at home or at work. It is a very simple, bare bones way to organize and implement tasks with more options and choices than... Read more

Tomboy
Most of us have experienced searching through piles of notes trying to find that number we jotted down or the idea we want to finally use. Tomboy allows you to go paperless and organize your notes. ... Read more

Ubuntu Linux 8.04
Ubuntu Linux is one of the latest and most successful new linux distributions. Ubuntu is originally derived from the well-known Debian distribution, but has added a lot of new functionality. One of... Read more

vtiger CRM
VTiger CRM (customer relationship management) is software intended for small and medium sized businesses that have a need to manage their customer base, customer service, marketing department and... Read more

WikidPad 1.8
If you've ever been frustrated in finding the ideal application for organizing all your ideas, lists, contacts or notes, you'll be glad you tried WikidPad. The concept of "wiki" comes from the... Read more

XMind 3
Mind mapping is the new approach to preparing big projects or organizing functions among a group or just helping you get things done in a timely manner. XMind is an open source program that helps... Read more

Xpdf 3.02
Xpdf is an open source PDF or Acrobat file viewer. Designed and works under virtually any unix operating system. Only its command-line tool are available in Windows. Xpdf support the latest PDF... Read more

Zim 0.48
Zim-Wiki is a very useful open source application that allows you to organize your notes and thoughts. Simple to use and easy to learn, it supports inline images so that you can insert images from... Read more

zNotes
zNotes is a note management application. It has a user friendly, attractive interface and has vertical tabs that can be placed on any side of your text area. Use it to organize your daily tasks as... Read more

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