BlueGriffon - WYSIWYG Web Content Editor

BlueGriffon is an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical knowledge about Web Standards. Available in many languages and on available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

BlueGriffon - WYSIWYG Web Content Editor

BlueGriffon can create and edit all HTML 4, XHTML 1 and HTML 5 (both HTML and XML serializations) documents.

Speaking of HTML 5 elements, BlueGriffon allows you to directly embed HTML 5 audio or video elements.

The builtin Style Properties panel offers controls for all the CSS properties and values Gecko implements. The usual suspects from CSS 2 but also 2D Transforms, 3D Transforms, Transitions, Shadows, Linear and Radial Gradients, Repeating Gradients, Border Images, Columns, Flex Box Model, and more

BlueGriffon includes (with permission) the popular SVG editor SVG Edit and you can then draw vectorial graphics from within BlueGriffon to embed them into your documents.

In ubuntu set the permission of the installable you downloaded "Allow executing file as program" and launch. Right Click Install File - Permissions - check "Allow Executable .." and then double-click. 

Artha - English thesaurus on WordNet

Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet. Stable releases for download are currently available for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. Artha is released under the GNU General Public Licence version 2; hence you are free to copy/redistribute it...

Artha - English thesaurus on WordNet

WordNet is a free open lexical database for English, by Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller. It is what its name says. Each word will have one or more definitions (or senses, technically). Apart from these definitions, a word is interlinked to other words by a relation like Synonyms, Hypernyms, etc. Generally, We tend to forget a word by learning a word's definitions alone.

LibreOffice - Enhance desktop productivity

LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. Works on all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, etc.

LibreOffice - Enhance desktop productivity

Writer is the word processor inside LibreOffice. Use it for everything, from dashing off a quick letter to producing an entire book with tables of contents, embedded illustrations, bibliographies and diagrams.

Calc tames your numbers and helps with difficult decisions when you're weighing the alternatives. Analyze your data with Calc and then use it to present your final output. Charts and analysis tools help bring transparency to your conclusions.

Impress is the fastest and easiest way to create effective multimedia presentations. Stunning animation and sensational special effects help you convince your audience.

Draw lets you build diagrams and sketches from scratch. A picture is worth a thousand words, so why not try something simple with box and line diagrams?

Base is the database front-end of the LibreOffice suite. With Base, you can seamlessly integrate your existing database structures into the other components of LibreOffice, or create an interface to use and administer your data as a stand-alone application.

Math is a simple equation editor that lets you lay-out and display your mathematical, chemical, electrical or scientific equations quickly in standard written notation. Even the most-complex calculations can be understandable when displayed correctly. E=mc2.

GnuCash SOHO Accounting Tool

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU

GnuCash SOHO Accounting Tool

• Double-Entry Accounting
• Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts
• Reports, Graphs
• Scheduled Transactions
• Financial Calculations

The GnuCash checkbook-style register provides a custom, convenient and familiar interface to entering financial transactions.

The register supports common checking and credit-card transactions, as well as income, stock and currency transactions. The following features are also provided:

• Autofill of entered transactions
• Possibility to mark a transaction as cleared
• Possibility to enter split transactions
• Multiple accounts can be displayed in one register window at the same time
• A summary bar that display all the relevant account's balance information
• Many options to customize the appearance and the display style

KompoZer - Easy web authoring

KompoZer - Easy web authoring

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

• WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor.
• Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site.
• Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today's most popular browsers.
• Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
• Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap.
• Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates.
• The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users.

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The SeaMonkey Project

Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.

SeaMonkey's powerful yet simple HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your documents and website projects, Composer is all you need.

Free graphic and photo viewer - XnView

Free graphic and photo viewer - XnView

XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files.

XnView (1.91.6/1.70) exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX !

It has the features :

• Import about 400 graphic file formats
• Export about 50 graphic file formats
• Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
• Resize, rotate, crop support
• Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
• Adjust brightness, contrast...
• Auto levels, contrast
• Modify number of colors
• Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...)
• Apply effects (lens, wave, ...)
• Fullscreen mode
• Slide show with effects
• Batch convert, batch rename
• Create WEB page easily
• Screen capture

GSview Ghostscript - PostScript or PDF

GSview Ghostscript - PostScript or PDF

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and Portable Document Format. GSview allows selected pages to be viewed, printed, or converted to bitmap, PostScript or PDF formats.

• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
• Ghostscript news and community site

GSview requires Ghostscript. GSview is available for Windows, OS/2 and Linux.

(grateful thanks - ananth)

FileZilla - The free FTP solution

FileZilla - The free FTP solution

FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

• Easy to use
• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more
• Available in many languages
• Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
• Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
• Drag & drop support
• Configurable Speed limits
• Filename filters
• Network configuration wizard

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.

XAMPP - Multi-OS Lamp - Apache Friends

XAMPP - Multi-OS Lamp - Apache Friends

Very easy apache, mysql, php and perl installation without hassles.

Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.

Apache Friends is a non-profit project to promote the Apache web server. It was founded in the spring of 2002 by Kai 'Oswald' Seidler and Kay Vogelgesang.

Apache Friends Forum

This forum is the right place for you if you've any questions about XAMPP, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl etc

7-Zip - File Archiver

High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL

7-Zip - File Archiver

Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR

Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB

For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip

• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 60 languages "