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"The Best Things in Life are Free!"
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Firefox (Internet Browser)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
" The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better. "
Created by Mozilla a Global Community and Public Benefit Organization
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Thunderbird (Email Client)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
" Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail. "
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Sunbird (Calendar and Notes)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
" Mozilla Sunbird™ is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Our goal is to bring Mozilla-style ease-of-use to your calendar, without tying you to a particular storage solution.
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Open Office (Office Application)
http://www.openoffice.org/
" Free 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. "
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Blender 3D (3D Graphic Application)
http://www.blender.org/
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Blender is a full functional integrated 3D creation software suite. It lets users create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. Over the last decade, Blender has evolved as an in-house tool for a leading European animation studio. Blender is powerful technology used for creating broadcast quality 3D content.
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Red Hat Fedora (Operating System)
http://www.redhat.com/fedora/
" Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.
The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content. "
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Adobe Acrobat Reader (Adobe Reader)
http://www.adobe.com/
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Adobe PDF is the global standard for trusted distribution and viewing of information. Adobe Reader 8 is the only free software to allow you to more securely collaborate using PDF documents. Upgrade to free Reader 8 software today!
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Winzip (Zip Decompressor)
http://www.winzip.com/
" WinZip, the original and most popular compression utility for Windows, is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that quickly zips and unzips your files to conserve disk space and greatly reduce e-mail transmission time. WinZip 11.0 is available as Standard or Pro.
The new WinZip 11.0 offers a thumbnail image view and automatic compression selection, plus improved compression for audio files (WAV) and the ability to open .BZ2 and .RAR files.
WinZip 11.0 Pro adds expanded data backup functionality and includes a new internal image viewer that allows you to browse through multiple images within the Zip file.
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Audacity: The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor (Audio Application)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
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GIMP: an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program (Photo Editor)
http://www.gimp.org/
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GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
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