Top Open Source applications in my PC

There is nothing like good Free Open Source applications. First of all, you don’t have to worry about cracking or searching for a serial for the commercial applications(Do not tell me that you still pay for software…).

Second, most of the open source popular applications kick the hell out of the his commercial counter part.

And third, if you have some codding skills, you can go ahead and start playing with the code. Making it your own.

This is a list of the Top Open source applications that I generally use and have running in my Vista Box

Browsing

The Good

Mozilla Firefox

The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by me and many to be the world’s best browser.
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The Bad

Internet Explorer

Video Player

The Good

Miro

Beautiful interface. Plays any video type. Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.

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Media Player Classic

Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.

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VLC

Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
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The Bad

Windows Media Player

Instant Messaging

The Good

Pidgin

Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.

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The Bad

MSN Messenger,Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger, etc

Email Client

The Good

Mozilla Thunderbird

Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.

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The Bad

Microsoft Outlook

P2P File Sharing

The Good

Emule

Powerful, reliable, virus mallware free, many networks.

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The Bad

Kazaa

DVD Ripping, Media Conversion

The Good

Media Coder

Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.
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The Bad

Windows Media Player

Word Processing

The Good

OpenOffice.org

Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
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The Bad

Microsoft Office

Graphic, Photo Editing

The Good

GIMP

Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
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The Bad

PhotoShop

Dont get me wrong, photoshop is great, is not just open source…

FTP

The Good

Filezilla

Excellent FTP program.
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WinSCP

For your secure FTP needs.
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The Bad

FlashFXP

IRC

The Good

X-Chat 2

IRC client.
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The Bad

Mirc

Notes

The Good

Freemind

An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
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The Bad

Microsoft OneNote

ScreenSaver

The Good

Electric Sheep

Best ScreenSaver in the world, Immersive, trippy screensaver.
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Text Editor

The Good

Notepad ++

Open Source programmers notepad for Windows
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The Bad

Windows Notepad