Free and Open Source Software

There are some free tools, which Students, IT professional and Business owner can use.

I taken this list from Internet and some of them I am using also. It will help you to find out some new tools, which will help you to save money and time. Please share some tools if you already knowing.

As a IT professional, I can say we have so many tools which are free but we don’t know it. Let me tell you why we are not interested in free is we are assuming we will not get support, we will not able to fill full our requirement. Please share the list of free software in comment box.

To use below tools some time you just need to sign up and it’s not bog deal.

Skype – an obvious one but nevertheless great to keep in touch share files, share screens, also buy an online number if you are virtual and have people working in different areas

Free social media icons to use for email, website, business cards, social networks etc.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ - Instead of paying for Outlook you can use free email application

Google Calendar client (have to pay some amount nearly 5$)

OpenOffice.org – The Free and Open Productivity Suite OpenOffice.org is now LibreOffice

https://lastpass.com/ - Online Password storage. Great tool any one can take help and use it, easier, safer and secure

http://www.malwarebytes.org/ - For secure backup because anti virus is not enough, Don’t run windows without it

http://kettle.pentaho.com - Free ETL tool for BI

http://www.gimp.org/ - not exactly Photoshop, Image manipulation

http://inkscape.org/ – open source scalable vector graphics editor, not exactly Adobe Illustrator

http://www.nitroreader.com/ - Scan, edit Convert your document with security

https://www.toggl.com/ - for Time tracking and Time sheet management

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner- Cleaning your Window PC, keep your hard drive clean and optimized

Synergy - use one mouse and keyboard to connect multiple computers

http://www.wampserver.com/en/ - it allows to create web application in apache2, PHP and My SQL, best to build beta in local environment. 

Any Video Converter - convert any video, aptly named

https://www.dropbox.com – store and share files like photo, video, doc etc. online

getfirebug.com/‎ - Firebug tools for web development

Google Docs

http://www.planetsoho.com/ - a software management platform for invoicing, inventory management, contact management, reporting for small business owners

FreeConferenceCall.com - simple conferences or record teleseminars for training

Google Apps

AVG anti virus

Adobe Browser Lab for website testing

https://www.wetransfer.com/ – for sending files

http://www.primopdf.com/ it is a free PDF converter

http://www.hamstersoft.com/free-video-converter/ - it is Free video converter

MyPictr - for profile pictures on social networks, can manage Pixel size

http://www.dafont.com/ - install Font and create website

BeFunky Photo Editor for picture editing, make picture old to new and new to old

FanTools – Free social media marketing site to grow your business

http://www.dreamstime.com/free-photos - for free photo

www,pinpuff.com - calculate pinfluence score and pin worth


https://podio.com/ - Online work platform for collaboration


http://www.twylah.com – twitter brandpage


http://www.nimble.com – Free CRM

http://www.wisestamp.com/ – empowers your email signature


http://gist.com – CRM software

Audacity - Sound recording and editing

Notepad++ - I cannot live without it. #2 all time favorite.

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx - All in one software for Remote support, Screen sharing and more.

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html - screen capture, create video and image of what you see on your computer screen

https://filezilla-project.org/ - FTP management for file transfer

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/  - For free Photos

http://www.photogen.com/free-photos/-   - For free Photos

http://www.stockvault.net/ -  For free Photos

http://www.danosongs.com - for free Photos

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/ Paste text to any application without formatting

http://wordpress.org - create free and price less websites and blog

https://expensure.com - Maintain your expenses from grocery to daily use

http://www.producteev.com/ - task management app for office

http://www.zoho.com/crm/ – Free CRM software

Please share the list of free software in comment box.