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Web Promotion Tools / SEO / Marketing

SilverGuru SilverGuru
Scam-buster, Traffic exchange and marketing tool for South African Business.
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Open Source Software

Web Browsing & Email

firefox Mozilla Firefox
The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser.
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thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird
Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
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rssowl RSSOwl
Solid cross-platform RSS client.
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Word Processing / Office Suites

open office 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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abiword AbiWord
A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
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Graphics / Photo Editing

gimp GIMP
Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
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paint.net Paint.NET
Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
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inkscape Inkscape
Vector graphics application.
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Audio-Visual Tools and Applications

miro Miro
Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
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VLC VLC
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
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MPlayer MPlayer
Similar to VLC-- plays loads of video formats.
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media player classic Media Player Classic
Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.
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juice Juice
Solid podcasting client.
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handbrake Handbrake
DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
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audacity Audacity
Simple sound recording tool.
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Instant Messaging / IRC / Filesharing

xchat2 X-Chat 2
IRC client.
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gaim Pidgin
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
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gnucleus Gnucleus
A very good Gnutella search and download filesharing program.
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Useful Utilities


Excellent FTP program.
PeaZip

PeaZip
Fantastic archiving utility to extract and pack archives of an extensive amount of formats. PeaZip also features password protecting archives, keyfile support, system integration, a lovely interface, and much more.
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