Free Design Software

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Image editing

GIMP – is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Picasa – is a free software download from Google that helps you to locate and organise all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks, share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web.

Paint.NET – is free image editing and photo manipulation software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Continue reading

Free Icons and Buttons

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Simplistica Icon Set is the new free icon set of DryIcons’ creative team! After few weeks of icon development they are giving away another free icon set. The Simplistica icon set is very user friendly and has a glossy style. It consists of the most useful application and web icons. Icons come in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format. Simplicity and aesthetics goes a long way! Continue reading

Best Linux Software

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Office

AbiWord – a word processing program similar to (and compatible with) Microsoft Word. AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. The source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base. Continue reading

Open Source Mac Software

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Browsers

Camino is a powerful and secure web browser, yet simple and elegant in its design. Camino 1.5 is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs. From new features like the system spell-checker and session saving to improvements in trademark features like annoyance blocking, Camino 1.5 makes all your web tasks more enjoyable. Built on the world’s most compatible rendering engine, Mozilla’s Gecko 1.8.1, it displays more pages more accurately than any other Cocoa browser. Continue reading