Open Source or Free web aps that make your life easier

[Jreed129]

My life revolves around technology and I can say that a few of the greast programs and websites I have used are:

www.logmein.com - Great for remote use when i'm out of school and need to work on animation only place that has the program is in school

www.theopendisc.com- great for all of the open source programs taht are on that covers everything from web browsing to coding

gmail.com -this is a great free email host by the owner of the internet

Mozilla Thunderbird - Great program for RSS feeds can store a great amount of new news in one program. saves me from running from website to website morning.

Google Chrome - This is a great new web browser host by google. the thing i like the most about it is how it stores the websites that you where on incase the computer crash or restarts (tends to happen alot here)

If I think of more I'll post them but they are all awsome programs and free to use

[yoshibrock]

ImageJ- Not the best image processor, but it opens much faster than photoshop, and is perfect for small changes.

Finale Notepad- The very best free sheet music editor and creator EVER. I use it all the time, and it has so many capabilities. The only thing better is Finale itself, but that's like $600.

Disk Defragmenter- yes it comes with windows, and yes it doesn't make your computer run THAT much faster, but it's satisfying to start up and just hope that you might get a little more speed.

[JohnBoucher]

Pencil Add on for Firefox

The Pencil Project

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Top features:

• Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
• Multi-page document with background page
• On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
• PNG rasterizing
• Undo/redo supports
• Installing user-defined stencils
• Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...
• Cross-platforms
• Adding external objects
• And much more...

[JohnBoucher]

Check out this posting from FreewareGenius . Replacing all your applications with freeware.

[pyr0b0y]

VisualSVN This is a great SVN sever to store team data

[Uberbots]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

For really great ad blocking and pop up blocking lynx works for me.

Lynx saved me the first day i tried using ubuntu and accidentally rendered gnome unusable .

Besides that, i use notepad++ all the time, though i cant really think of any other open-source programs im a fan of.

[JohnBoucher]

Web Based Project management
http://gantter.com/