Even though open source applications are free, but they still useful in enhancing our Web and desktop experience. Here are 10 innovative applications that make use of open source.
OpenOffice - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
You might have heard of this before. OpenOffice is a leading open source software which provides users with useful features such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, graphics, databases and many more. It stores your data in an international open standard format that is compatible to most office software packages.
OpenID - Secure OpenID Provider
Some of us face an identity crisis online when we forget what user names and passwords we have used for different websites.
Just like you can use an email address as a form of identity, OpenID lets you use a web address (URL) that you control to sign in on other sites. And just like email addresses, you can have more than one, for work, or at home, or for any other use. But unlike email, the sites you use can’t spam you or access your data unless you give them permission.
An OpenID is a URL. An example OpenID URL would be ‘http://bob.myopenid.com/’, and when asked to sign in to an OpenID-enabled site I would type “http://bob.myopenid.com/” into the sign in box.
Audacity is an award-winning open source software for recording and editing sounds. As a cross-platform, it uses wxWidgets library to provide a similar graphical user interface on several operating systemssuch as Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
SeaMonkey is the all-in-one application formerly knownas the "Mozilla Application Suite", containing a web browser, a mail and newsgroups client, an HTML editor, web development tools, and an IRC chat client in a single software package.
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
You can download mp3 music via the http protocol for free, legaly and without limitation, by clicking on the download links, directly from our player, from the album page or a playlist. The music is also available in ogg format and via eMule and BitTorrent networks (you can set this option in your preferences).
Jamendo offers a wide range of works categorised into sections, including hard rock and classical. Great if you are exploring new music.
What Ayttm does is that it provides a all-in-one chat functionality for several major instant messaging services such as Yahoo!, MSN and many more from just one simple and clean program.
ModSecurity - Open Source Web Application Firewall
ModSecurity is a free open source Web application firewall which give users great features such as HTTP traffic logging, real-time monitoring and attacking detection and attack prevention with just-in-time patching.
Mozilla Firefox3 - The Best Firefox Ever
This open source application is indeed one of the most successful open source software in the Internet arena. With 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 will become the leading browser in today's Internet world. Great features such as One-Click Bookmarking, Full Zoom, Smart Location Bar and a Platform Native Look and Feel make Firefox 3 a successful open source software.
uTorrent - The Lightweight BitTorrent Client
A great open source BitTorrent Client which allows users to download torrents at high download speeds. Also, it has a configurable bandwidth schduler, multiple stimultaneous downloads, global and per torrent speed limiting and many more.
SurveyMonkey - Because Knowledge is Everything
SuveyMonkey enables anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. First start with the Powerful Survey Designer, next use Complete Creative Control to change the color, size etc. Thirdly, Pick your Collection method either by emailing to your friends or put a link on your blog.
Next, you can view your results using the Powerful Reporting Tools and download your results if you want.
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