The following is a list of free and mostly open source software – non-open sourced products are marked with an asterisk. In all instances, please be sure to read licensing information.
We have been careful to include only those packages that can be used commercially as well as personally and only software that we use on a day-to-day basis and can therefore recommend.
They are a great way to increase productivity without increasing costs.
This list is by no means exhaustive – there are literally thousands of open source projects on the net – these are just a few that we know you will find useful.
| Anti virus Microsoft Security Essentials* |
3D Modelling Google sketchup* |
| Privacy/security Spybot Search & Destroy |
Image editing GIMP |
| Office suite Libre Office |
Scalable vector graphics Inkscape |
| Email client Thunderbird |
Page makeup Scribus |
| Web browser Firefox |
Improved notepad Notepad++ |
| File transfer Filezilla |
Disk encryption Truecrypt |
| File encryption Axcrypt |
File recovery Recuva |
| File shredding Eraser |
FTP server Filezilla |
| Ecommerce Zen Cart Virtuemart osCommerce |
Databases PostGresql MySQL Base |
| Webservers WampServer HTTPD |
Web frameworks Joomla! WordPress |
| Web Learning System Moodle |
Operating system Linux Ubuntu |
| Mind mapping Freemind |
CRM SugarCRM |
| Integrated development environment Eclipse |