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 Open source alternatives for educational and science software
Osalt.com launches a new category for educational and science related software. This new category will list free open source software alternatives to proprietary products.
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 EMS SQL Manager for MySQL 2007
SQL Manager for MySQL makes work with any MySQL database a simple task. No more need for command-line tool 'mysql'. Everything can be controlled directly from within SQL Manager - all database... Alternatives: HeidiSQL SQuirreL SQL Client
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Moodle 1.9
Moodle, an open source course management system, that uses pedagogical principles to create online learning communities. Briefly, pedagogical principles theorize that people construct new knowledge... |
HP OpenView Network Node Manager 7.5
HP OpenView Network Node Manager is state-of-the-art network monitoring and more. Using SNMP and other technologies it retrieves the information it requires. HP OpenView has many features of which a... Alternatives: Nagios NeDi OpenNMS Pandora Zenoss
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Quest Software Toad for Oracle
Toad is one of the most populare and widely used database development and administration tools. This feature-rich product is a must-have for everyone working with Oracle. Features include query... Alternatives: TOra SQLTools SQuirreL SQL Client
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The popular Open source directory Osalt.com (Open Source as Alternative) is now available in Spanish
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Blackboard Learning System
The Blackboard Learning System is an easy-to-use, intuitive application that encourages students' involvement in communication, collaboration and interaction. Instructors will find they can easily... Alternatives: Moodle Sakai
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Sakai 2.5
Sakai is an open source learning system, an online collaboration to support teaching, learning and research collaboration. Many of the developers come from the organizations that are using Sakai; an... |
Today the future of internet begins - and open source is ready
Companies world-wide start to embrace the new standard for communication on the internet; the Internet Protocol version 6 - also known as IPv6. IPv6 will at some point replace existing IPv4 which... |
TrueCrypt 6.0a
TrueCrypt is an open source security tool that allows you to encrypt all data on each of your harddisk partitions and an external storage device like an usb drive. TrueCrypt also lets you create a... |
Mumble 1.1
Mumble is voice chat software that can be used by any type of group but is tailored for gamers who enjoy chatting while gaming. It has an ingame overlay for DirectX9 and OpenGL based games and shows... |
FreeCAD
FreeCAD is general purpose CAD (computer aided drawing) software that targets product design and mechanical engineering. It can be easily used for any engineering specialty, featuring tools that are... |
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... |
SolidWorks
SolidWorks 3D CAD is designed to let ideas be transformed quickly into products. Its powerful toolsets and virtual prototyping generates manufacture-ready drawings in record time with accuracy and... Alternatives: QCad Community Edition BRL-CAD Archimedes FreeCAD
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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... |
Sage 4.1
SAGE is open source mathematics software that can be used to studying elementary to advanced number theory, algebra, cryptography, group theory and so much more. It includes interfaces to many other... |
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... Alternatives: Clonezilla FOG
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TeamSpeak 2.0
TeamSpeak is software that allows people to talk to each other over the internet. It works equally well whether it's used for gaming, families staying in touch or inter-office communication. It has... Alternatives: Mumble
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Apple QuickTime 7
QuickTime is digital media software that lets you view pre-recorded or live video and/or audio. On the first viewing, QuickTime immediately shows its superior video quality. Users like the clear,... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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IceBB 1.0-rc8
IceBB is an upcoming bulletin board/forum software. Since its initial release in 2004 IceBB has slowly gained in popularity and features. Today it is a feature rich forum software package that... |
K-3D
K3-D is a 3D modeling and animation software. Configured for optimal visualization, its flexible plugins and versatile tools make it a real asset for artists.
This software adapts to your... |
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... Alternatives: Dia OpenOffice Draw Kivio StarUML ArgoUML Draw.io
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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... |
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... Alternatives: GnuCash Grisbi jGnash GFP
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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... Alternatives: PostBooks
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Jokosher
Jokosher is a multi-track music editor. The interface uses familiar concepts to musicians rather than relying on their knowledge of multi-track recorders. Guitarists and other players who don't... |
Xen
Xen is state-of-the-art virtualization on the PC - and it is even open source. With a high performance mainly due to it's architecture with the hypervisor and it's support for hardware virtualization... |
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... |
Octave 3.3
Octave, a freely redistributable software, is used for numerical computation with an interactive environment. Students pick up the basics quickly, comfortably using it within just a few hours.... |
WinZip 14.5
WinZip is what most computer users think of when they want to compress files to send or to save on their own computers. As well as saving space, WinZip is easy to use and is so common that nearly... Alternatives: 7-Zip PeaZip
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Banshee 0.13
Banshee is a music player with many advanced features. One of the most important is iPod synchronization, which is now available simple and easy on Linux. On top of that Banshee does a great job as a... |
xvidcap 1.1.4
xvidcap is a screencast application for Linux. It allows you to capture either parts of the full screen of your Linux desktop. This makes it an ideal tool for making either demonstrations of software... |
vBulletin 4.0
vBulletin often seen used on a wide variety of sites and is consider a popular commercial forum software package. The first version of vBulletin was released in 2000 and since then many years of... Alternatives: IceBB phpBB
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Sony ACID Pro 6
ACID Pro, a loop-based music creation tool, is a favorite of users worldwide. Combining loops, multi-track recording and MIDI, this is a full-featured music workstation that will produce... Alternatives: Audacity Traverso DAW
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Anime Studio 5
Anime Studio is a professional software package for creating 2d animations. Everything from short cartoons to feature length animations can be done using the rich feature set of Anime Studio. Whether... Alternatives: Synfig KToon Pencil
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MuseScore 0.9.5
MuseScore is an open source cross platform music notation program that has a lot of very good features. Simple to operate, notes are entered on a virtual note sheet with your mouse, MIDI or keyboard.... |
Sibelius 6
Sebelius is notation software for students, composers, educators, arrangers and musicians of all disciplines. There are new improvements and features that make Sebelius a one-stop composing and... Alternatives: MuseScore
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Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.37
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly... |
Clam AntiVirus 0.93
Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable... |
Rhino
It's important to effectively communicate your ideas, no matter what profession you are in. Your designs have to reach people in an attractive and understandable form. Rhino gives you to tools to... Alternatives: K-3D
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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... Alternatives: StarDict
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Ventrilo 3.0
Ventrilo is a scalable VoIP designed to solve problems with packet loss, uptime, network latency and administration. Although Ventrilo is popular with gamers, it is good for home and personal use... Alternatives: Mumble
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Corel Painter
Corel Painter, a drawing and painting program created mainly for use on a tablet or digitizer, is software for use as an art studio. It has hundreds of "brushes" in more than 30 mediums. You can... Alternatives: MyPaint
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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... |
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a project that is creating an open content music database, a type of "Wikipedia for music" and software for auto-tagging your music. The base contains information about artists, their... |
Dynamic Photo HDR 4
Dynamic Photo HDR (high dynamic range imaging) is software that adjusts photos and smoothes out imperfections such as focus problems and distortions. The bane of most amateur photographers,... Alternatives: Qtpfsgui
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Games on osalt.com
Today we launch a new category - Games - here on Open Source Alternative. This has long been requested by our users - and we and now finally able to go live.
We hope that this new addition to... |
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop has long stood as the epitome of image editing software, constantly evolving to meet the needs of creatives around the globe. With its origins dating back to the late 1980s, Photoshop... Alternatives: Gimp Krita Seashore Pinta
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OpenOffice Draw
OpenOffice Draw, a component of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a powerful vector graphics editor that offers a flexible and dynamic platform for creating everything from simple diagrams to... |
Avidemux 2.4.1
Avidemux offers simple video editing for your PC, but packs many more features than that. This open source project is great for DVD/DivX converting and editing. Avidemux also has scripting support... |
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... |
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... Alternatives: Open Workbench GanttProject OpenProj
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Corel Draw X5
Corel Draw part of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has a long history of being one of the most popular vector drawing software applications around. Wheter you are designing graphics for print, web or... Alternatives: Inkscape OpenOffice Draw Skencil Xara LX
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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... |
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... |
Kino 1.3
Kino is open source non-linear video editing at it's best. Easily imports DV video through IEEE-1394 (firewire) and allow detailed editing and transition effect for both video and audio. The move... |
Adobe After Effects 7.0
After Effects is the most advanced and visually impressive effects tool on the market. Used for television and movie production After Effects provides some of the best 2D and 3D features for both... Alternatives: Jahshaka
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ACDSee 10
ACDSee has for many years been the most well-known image viewer and photo manager on the market. Its unique user interface makes it simple and fast to navigate through all your folders of pictures.... Alternatives: Cornice Imgv
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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... Alternatives: GnuCash Grisbi jGnash GFP
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MathWorks MATLAB 7.6
MATLAB is the most popular software package when is comes to numerical computing. With it's own programming language you can work with numbers in any ways imaginable - and the easily visualize them.... Alternatives: Scilab Octave Sage
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ZScreen
Many people enjoy captures images to share with their friends and family or use in their blogs or on their websites. ZScreen is a capture program for Windows that allows region, window or full... |
Corel PaintShop Pro
PaintShop Pro, developed by Corel, stands as a powerful photo editing and graphic design software that offers a comprehensive suite of tools for photographers and designers alike. Since its... Alternatives: Gimp Krita Seashore Pinta
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Acronis Partition Expert 11
Acronis Partition Expert is a partition manager which ships as part of Acronis Disk Director Suite. It let's you perform all of the tasks you need on you harddisks and their partitions. The typical... Alternatives: GParted
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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... |
VMware Server ESX
VMware was one of the first virtualization software available for PC. With the ability to run almost any x86 based operating system as a guest operating system on top of another - it provides new... Alternatives: Xen OpenVZ Cooperative Linux VirtualBox
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7-Zip 4.57
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. It supports the following formats for packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR - and the following for unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH,... |
Skype
Skype, founded in 2003, is a fairly new type of telephone and instant message service that is becoming a preferred method of free communication. It provides free VoIP calls from one personal... Alternatives: WengoPhone Ekiga
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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... |
GParted 0.7
GParted is an open source partition manager also known as the Gnome Partition Editor application. It is actualy a LiveCD/LiveUSB that allows you to boot directly into GParted when you need it -... |
Xming 7.3
Xming is a small and fast X-Windows Server for Microsoft Windows. But even though it is small - it is still simple to use and has the full set of features your would see in commercial products. Used... |
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... Alternatives: OpenOffice Impress KPresenter
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VirtualBox 3.0
Originally a commercial product VirtualBox is now also available in an open source edition. The open source version is, however, always a version behind the commercial version and thus lacks some... |
Winamp 5.24
Winamp has been and is still on of the most downloaded mp3 players on the internet. However, today Winamp does much more than just play mp3s - it supports a wide number of audio and video formats.... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer Amarok Miro Songbird musikCube
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phpBB 3.0.0
phpBB is open source flat style forum software written in PHP programming language. It supports most major database systems, enabling smooth and problem-free installation. Once installed, the forum... |
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... Alternatives: RedNotebook NeverNote
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Scilab 4.1.2
Scilab is a toolbox for all of your numerical computing needs. It is a great software package for people working in engineering or scientific areas. Linear algebra, matrices, polynomials - everything... |
Cornice 0.6.2
Cornice was originally developed to provide more or less the same functionality of ACDSee but on Linux. But since it was developed using Python program language - it is now available on virtually any... |
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... |
Hummingbird Exceed 2007
Hummingbird Exceed has been one of the X server market leaders for close to 20 years. And even today Exceed continue to be widely deployed and remain of the best performing X servers. It supports all... Alternatives: Xming
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Snagit 9.1
TechSmith Corporation's Snagit has already won awards for its ease of use in capturing images from a computer. Not only can you capture images from webpages, video games or movie clips, you can edit... Alternatives: Greenshot ZScreen
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QuarkXPress 7
QuarkXPress has for many years been the preferred desktop publishing (DTP) tool for professional designers using Mac. But today Quark is also releasing their software for the Windows platform - and... Alternatives: Scribus KWord
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CyberLink PowerDVD 9
PowerDVD was one of the first software based DVD players on the market. It gained enormous momentum by being bundled with many DVD-ROM drive manufactures products - and today offers many more... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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FOG
FOG is an imaging solution for Vista and Windows XP that makes use of some open-source tools and a PHP based web interface. It is unique in that it requires no boot disks or CDs, using TFTP and PXE... |
Symantec Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
PartitionMagic has for a long time been the only real good product for managing partition creating and deleting - but even more importantly resizing without destroying data on the partitions. Other... Alternatives: GParted
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Autodesk Maya 8
Maya is the best known 3d modeling and animation products for professionels. It's high quality rendering combined with it's advanced modeling features makes it a unique tool for people working in the... Alternatives: Blender
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Greenshot
Greenshot is a screenshot tool, supports several image formats as well as saving part or all of a screen into a file within one second's time.
This program takes only a small amount of memory, a... |
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Many people in their forties remember the first Microsoft Flight Simulator, which seemed a miracle of technology when introduced in 1983. Their latest version of Flight Simulator has new aircrafts... Alternatives: FlightGear
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Editra 0.4
Editra is an open source text editor that supports a variety of features, including syntax highlighting, for over sixty programming languages. Since it is built using wxWidgets, it can run on... |
Code::Blocks 8.02
Code::Blocks is an C++ IDE which makes it easy for experienced as well as new developers to create applications. Application made with Code::Blocks and based on wxWidgets - are portable between Linux... |
Chrome
Chrome, the new browser by Google, uses refreshingly minimal design and combines it with advanced technology to make surfing the internet safer, faster and simpler than ever before.
One of the... |
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... |
Borland Delphi 2006
Borland Delphi is a software development platform based on the delphi programming language (derived from pascal). Due to its simple language, IDE and GUI/forms editor - Delphi has been one of the top... Alternatives: Lazarus
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WIPFW 0.2.8
WIPFW is a firewall for Windows based on IPFW for FreeBSD unix and it provides virtually the same features, functionality and user interface. Please note when downloading WIPFW remember to get the... |
OSXvnc
OSXVNC is an open source implementation of the remote desktop server software VNC. This edition of the original VNC project has focused on making a complete and full features VNC server for MacOS.... |
Qt Creator 1.2.1
When you want to build applications with state of the art GUI interfaces you may want to look at Nokia's Qt Creator. It is focused on the idea of providing Qt users the features they need to get up... |
Drupal 6.2
Drupal is an open source software package for individuals or communities of users that need to publish, organize and manage a website's content also know as a content management system (CMS). ... |
MySQL 5.0
Increasingly growing market shares caused by a good reputation and of course the fact that it is completely free of charge - makes MySQL the most widely deployed open source database. For most web... |
Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
Encore DVD is one of the top professional DVD authoring suites. This software package lets you build anything from simple slideshows to advanced interactive menus for DVDs. Slidshows can be created... Alternatives: DVDStyler
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Check Point VPN-1
VPN-1 from Check Point Software has evolved from their well-known Firewall-1 product. VPN-1 provides highly secure connection to your office network with statefull inspection of all traffic. The... Alternatives: OpenVPN
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KeePass 2
KeePass is an open source password manager. Once you begin using this KeePass you'll need only one master password to unlock its database and you don't even have to remember that one. If you... |
OpenSTA 1.4.3
OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture. The main feature of OpenSTA is web (HTTP and HTTPS) performance and load/stress testing. It allows you to record different usage patterns on... |
Lazarus 0.9
Lazarus is an open source development environment that strives to be Delphi compatible. Based on Free Pascal Lazarus has a great foundation that allows you to create applications that will run on all... |
ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for your desktop that comes with ArcEditor software, ArcGIS help system and Esri Data and Maps. You'll have access to the ArcGIS Desktop Resource... Alternatives: Quantum GIS
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Liferay Portal 4.4.0
Liferay Portal is enterprise quality portal software. A major focus is usability - allowing users to get started right away without spending too much time buried in thick manuals. However, being an... |
Eclipse 3.3
Java based IDE which aims to be a universal development toolkit. Even though it has it's roots in Java eclipse's plug-in base allows it to edit files for almost any environment including but not... |
1Password 2.9
With all the passwords we have to remember, most of us need a little help. 1Password from Agile Web Solutions is an application that installs a plug-in into your browsers and gives you the option of... Alternatives: KeePass
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Finale 2010
Finale is notation software that is feature-rich and versatile, allowing the user to compose, notate, arrange and even print sheet music of engraver quality. And one of the best features is the more... Alternatives: MuseScore
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Quantum GIS
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a geographical information system (GIS) that works with many platforms and with other commercial software packages. It has all of the common GIS functions and features. Its... |
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... |
Autodesk SketchBook Pro
Autodesk SketchBook Pro is paint and drawing software that makes your laptop, desktop computer or even iPad or smartphone into a sketchbook. It allows you to access professional quality sketching... Alternatives: MyPaint
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PeaZip
PeaZip is a file manager and archiver for both Windows and Linux. It features an archive browser with history and search features to make navigating an archive faster and easier.
PeaZip... |
RSSOwl 1.2.3
RSSOwl is a great news reader that runs on virtually any platform. First you have to add feeds to RSSOwl - this can of course be done by manually adding the exact URL of the feed. However, RSSOwl... |
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero first came out in 2005 and has been quite successful. The idea behind the game is that the player is a guitarist competing to be accurate in "playing" the music using a controller shaped... Alternatives: Frets on Fire
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OpenRA
OpenRA, as the name implies, is a real-time strategy (RTS) game engine that supports Command & Conquer: Red Alert. The developers of OpenRA maintain a website with a FAQ, downloadable code and a... |
RSS Bandit 1.6.0.2
RSS Bandit is a RSS and Atom reader that allows you to keep track of all of the news feeds you follow on the net. It's newspaper view lets you get a quick overview of unread posts across the blogs... |
MyPaint
If you enjoy using drawing and painting software but need an open source program for your tablet or digitizer, you may want to check out the features of MyPaint. This program supports pressure... |
UltraStar Deluxe 1.0
UltraStar Deluxe is a karaoke game inspired by the SingStar game played on PlayStation. The point of the game is to match the pitch of the music. One or several players score points by singing along... |
TuneUp
Whether your music library is total chaos or just needs some organization, TuneUp can save you a lot of time, work and aggravation.
TuneUp is software that replaces missing track names and album... Alternatives: MusicBrainz
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Photomatix Pro 3.2
There are so many times that your photos don't come out like you want them to, especially outdoors. The brightness of all those objects is more than the camera can deal with; colors, textures and... Alternatives: Qtpfsgui
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iPhoto
Even people who have never used a photo editing program before will have fun with iPhoto. Apple's photo software will take the drudgery out of organizing your digital photos. It will even do it for... Alternatives: digiKam
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New features on osalt.com
From now on we will be able to post any article along side with our open source product news on osalt.com's frontpage and through our popular RSS feed. We will be posting information about the... |
aMSN - a simple MSN clone
Here on osalt.com we recieve many hits for people looking for alternatives to MSN Messenger. And while many of the alternatives we present are valid and great products - only one of them strives to... |
GnuCash for Windows
After a long periode of time GnuCash is finally available as a binary for Windows. However, this is still a very preliminary version - so don't expect everything to work just yet. But this is still a... |
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