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Open Source Backup

Open Source Backup is a back-up utility for Windows. The application's name has absolutely nothing to do with being an open source project, since the source code isn't available on the website at all. When I first opened this, I was rather surprised at how simple and straightforward it looked.

• Publisher: BackupMill.com
• Last updated: May 10th, 2009

Open Source Notebook

Free software, open source, online privacy, and free speech propaganda for a more geek friendly future! Users should update to version 1.1 to minimize numbers of DNS requests, and netwok traffic. Longer entry summaries in new feed too! The latest entries from Open Source Notebook on your desktop!

• Publisher: Opera widgets
• Home page: widgets.opera.com

Open Metronome

Main features: -User definable beats per minute; -Measure can be set to any length, with emphasis on any beat(s); -Each beat can be one or more of over forty MIDI voices or custom WAV samples; -Each beat has a visual indication as well as audible output; -Windows Mobile metronome keeps itself alive during suspend-states (the screen can still be turned off);

• Publisher: code::Biscuit
• Home page: openmetronome.sourceforge.net
• Last updated: May 6th, 2011

Free open source updater launcher in Description

wyBuild

Use wyBuild to make update patches and get them to your users fast.Using the open source updater, wyUpdate, you can update your app no matter what language you used (C++, Delphi, Java, C#, VB.NET, etc.). You can silently check for updates to GUI apps and silently update Windows Services.

• Publisher: wyDay
• Last updated: June 27th, 2012

ASuite

ASuite is a great and simple open source portable launcher for Microsoft Windows. Designed to run portable applications, you can start anything runnable (software, documents and other file types) from removable storage media (USB keys, hard drives, iPods, etc.).

• Publisher: SalvadorSoftware
• Home page: www.salvadorsoftware.com
• Last updated: October 27th, 2022

Aegisub

Aegisub is an open-source application carefully designed to help you create, modify, correct, and synchronize subtitles in any language for your favorite movies and other video files. This feature-rich tool comes with all the functions required to produce high-quality professional subtitles in the most intuitive and straightforward way.

• Publisher: Rodrigo Braz Monteiro, Niels Martin Hansen, Thomas Goyne
• Last updated: November 18th, 2024

MP3 Book Helper

MP3 Book Helper is a complete tool for the integral management of your MP3 and OGG files. Though initially designed for audiobooks, this free open source project helps you to keep all your MP3 recordings organized and tagged, regardless of its content. It supports Vorbis and ID3 tagging (both v1.1 and v2.3), and creates NFO, SVF, and PAR files, together with WinAmp-compatible playlists (M3U).

• Publisher: MP3 Book Helper
• Last updated: April 5th, 2012

pdftk4all

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is widely accepted on the Internet in communication between different parties. Books, papers, technical drawings, PDF is capable of handling them all. In order to make PDF a success, free (and very good) viewers are available. And some of these are even open source.

• Publisher: Maarten Veerman
• Home page: pdftk4all.sourceforge.net
• Last updated: February 23rd, 2010

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WinPcap

WinPcap is a tool to capture and transmit network packets that is Free (open source), delivers High Performance (optimized according standards), Popular (used by many tools), Tested and Reliable (it has been available for years), easy to use for the final user (windows installer), Multi-platform (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003), commercial support in the website of CACE Technologies.

• Publisher: Riverbed Technology
• Last updated: May 23rd, 2013

WinCDEmu

WinCDEmu is one of the simplest and fastest solutions to mount disc images as virtual drives on your system. It is an open-source drive emulator that offers a very fast (“one-click”) solution to mount the disc images and view their contents: just double-click them wherever they are on your Windows system.

• Publisher: Sysprogs OÜ
• Home page: wincdemu.sysprogs.org
• Last updated: April 5th, 2016

Disk Cleaner

Disk Cleaner is a free open source (GPL v2) tool to quickly and easily clean your hard disk from temporary files like those in the system temporary folder, the Internet Explorer Cache and Cookies folder, and the Recycle Bin. Disk Cleaner is absolutely free from adware and spyware.

• Publisher: Robert Moerland
• Last updated: March 5th, 2014

ffdshow

ffdshow is an open source decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 and AVC (H.264) formats, but supporting numerous other video and audio formats as well.

• Publisher: ffdshow software
• Home page: www.free-codecs.com
• Last updated: May 26th, 2020

TeXnicCenter

TeXnicCenter is a feature rich and easy-to-use integrated environment for creating LaTeX documents on the Windows platform. Its powerful editor and its tight integration with the LaTeX environment helps you to concentrate on what matters: The content of your document. TeXnicCenter is Free Open Source Software (GPL).

• Publisher: ToolsCenter
• Home page: www.TeXnicCenter.org
• Last updated: December 17th, 2012

FlightGear

The FlightGear Flight Simulator project (often shortened to FlightGear or FGFS) is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. It also simulates space flight in Earth's orbit. FlightGear's flight dynamics engine (JSBSim) is used in a 2015 NASA benchmark to judge new simulation code to the standards of the space industry.

• Publisher: The FlightGear organisation
• Last updated: April 5th, 2023

avogadro

Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.

• Publisher: Avogadro
• Home page: avogadro.cc
• Last updated: December 19th, 2016

UOffice

UOffice is an open-source, Java-ased alternative to MS Office suite. Being an independent project, currently only Techdigm calc is available. This is the equivalent of MS Excel and has pretty much of the same functions of its Microsoft parent program.

• Publisher: TCT
• Last updated: March 5th, 2008

gretl

Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library (GRETL) is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It is free, open-source software. Gretl is an econometrics package, including a shared library, a command-line client program and a graphical user interface.

• Publisher: Allin Cottrell, Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti
• Last updated: July 5th, 2015

OpenCPN

OpenCPN is a chartplotter navigation software designed to be used at the helm station of your boat. It lets you chart a course and track your position right from your laptop. It can also accept AIS input for target-tracking and collision alerting. AIS for automatic MOB handling is also possible with SART having selectable MMSI.

• Publisher: opencpn.org
• Home page: opencpn.org
• Last updated: July 18th, 2023