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.

Gnumeric - Spartan Spreadsheet Software

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet, a computer program used to manipulate and analyze numeric data. Gnumeric can help you keep track of information in lists, organize numeric values in columns and rows, perform and update complex calculations by defining each step of the calculation and modifying particular steps subsequently, create and display or print graphical plots of data using bar plots, line graphs, pie charts or radar charts, implement complex optimization modeling or perform many other tasks involving numbers, dates, times, names or other data.

Gnumeric - Spartan Spreadsheet Software

"A spreadsheet file contains a workbook and possibly some other information about the file. (Because the workbook is far more important than the extra information, the files themselves are often called workbooks.) A workbook contains one or more worksheets. Each worksheet contains a large number of cells usually arranged into a two dimensional grid made up of columns and rows."

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

OpenOffice - Multilingual Office Suite

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

OpenOffice - Multilingual Office Suite

Historical background

StarDivision, the original author of the StarOffice suite of software, was founded in Germany in the mid-1980s. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems during the summer of 1999 and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 2000.

Product Description 


OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.

Treepad Lite - Personal Tect database PIM organizer

TreePad Lite (freeware) and TreePad Asia (freeware) are small and powerful personal database programs, only 465 Kb in size. They allow you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier!. They have Linux Version.

Treepad Lite - Personal Tect database PIM organizer

TreePad can be run directly from a floppy, if necessary, including data. To find any article you previously created or imported, you can browse the tree, in the same way as you browse directories/folders in the Windows explorer. You can also use the internal search engine to find any piece of information swiftly.

(This is my Workhorse Text Snippet manager, This is part of my Local CMS - SAN Gear)

AbiWord - Cross platform Word processor

AbiWord - Cross platform Word processor

AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting.

Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

AbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.

The main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered "State of the Art" anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world.

Convert - Josh Madison

Convert - Josh Madison

Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions! Josh Madison

Karen's Power Tools

Karen's Power Tools

A Calculator with a difference! This one can accurately handle numbers containing thousands of digits.Calculator

Karen's Calculator is a high-precision calculator. Unlike ordinary calculators, it returns completely accurate results, even with operands containing thousands of digits. If you're patient, operands and results containing hundreds of thousands of digits are possble too!

WordWeb - Free thesaurus dictionary

WordWeb - English thesaurus and dictionary

WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia.



Definitions and synonyms, Related words, 5000 audio pronunciations, 65 000 text pronunciations. WordWeb Pro has more Features.

WordWeb for iPhone, iPod and the now very popular iPad

ESB Calculators and Unit Conversion Software

ESB Calculators and Unit Conversion Software
 
ESBCalc v6.1.0 is a Freeware Scientific Calculator for Windows with Infix Notation, Brackets, Scientific Functions (Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, Logarithmic - including Base 10, Base 2 & Natural - plus more), Memory, Paper Trail, Result History List and more. v5 Includes support for Prefix functions so to evaluate log (10) you can enter log 10 rather than 10 log (which is the default behaviour)

ESBCalc (free)

ESBUnitConv v5.2 - ESBUnitConv is a Free User-friendly Windows Utility to easily convert between units of measurement. Includes Units for Temperature, Distance, Mass, Area, Volume, Pressure, Velocity, Acceleration, Force, Energy, Power, Fuel Consumption, Flow, Torque, Angles, Luminous Intensity, Illumination, Time & Radioactivity.

ESBUnitConv (free)

(Both these tools are vital for every student, hobbyist or engineers desktop - San Cog)