Graphism
Softwares for 2D and 3D graphisms.Gimp
GIMP stands for GNU's Image Manipulation Program.
It is a free Images editing program which gives you the ability to edit and to modify photos, images, ...
Thousands of tutorials are available on the web.
I don't know if it's really a good advertising, but I've made all the artworks of
this website with Gimp.
Blender
A suite for 3D artworks. There is :
- Modeller
- render engine (jpg, gif, ...)
- Animation (avi, ...)
- Blender Game
The dragon of this website has been made using Blender.
An enormous collection of tutorials are available all other the web.
MapZone
Good complement in 3d software like blender. With MapZone, you can quickly build tiled textures. Its use is very simple, because rather than painting and drawing on a canvas, you only have to connect effect filters.
Audio and Video
The sound and video manipulation programs.Audacity
Audacity offers recording and editing facilities.
Recorder : It records exactly what outwards from the audio card and the speakers.
Effects :
- Tempo modifier slows down or speeds up the tempo without modifiying the tonality. (It's a very interesting feature for music transcription.)
- Normalizes the sound
- Amplifier
- Echo
- ....
At this day, it can export and/or import several file formats like : mp3, wav, ogg vorbis, flac.
Utilities
Desktop softwares.Steganos LockNote
A growing number of websites require an inscription. At least, you need to create a user and a password.
As a Result, the list of doubles (user/password) is growing from day to day. Steganos LockNote offers
a simple way to solve this problem.
A short introduction to Steganos LockNote
Microsoft Power Calculator
MS power calculator is a scientific calculator. It draws 2d equations,
and it makes unit translations.
At the Microsoft page, you will find many other useful free tools.
For example, Virtual Desktop Manager creates up to 4 virtual desktops,
each with a different desktop background like on the linux distributions.
Download Microsoft Power Calculator
7-Zip
No need to have 50 file archiver tools, more efficient than the Microsoft build in tool,
7-zip supports the most common file formats :
*.zip, *.rar, *.tar, *.7z, *.gzip, *.bz2, *.arj, *.lzh, ...
OpenOffice
OpenOffice is an office software suite like MS Office.
From the user Viewpoint, the interface is very similar to the MS office one.
It contains the following components :
Writer : Word processor.
Calc : A spreadsheet application.
Impress : A tool for creating multimedia presentations.
Draw : A drawing tool : sketches, plans, ....
Base : A database tool.
With, OpenOffice there is too a programming language like the VBA in ms office.
Of course, the file formats between OpenOffice and Office, are shareable.
Scribus
Scribus is a Desktop Publishing program (DTP).
If you need to make a newspaper, brochures, books, ... it's the software you need.
PdfCreator
PdfCreator is a software which converts any type of document to pdf (the one read by Adobe Acrobat Reader).
For example, the page borders inside a MSWord document are often a problem at
the time of printing : On 4 edges, only 1 or 2 is correctly printed.
Conversion towards pdf format takes a few seconds and it solves the problem.
Burning solutions
InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is an engraving software which allows the overburning.
What is overburning used for ?
At the present time, You can buy 800Mo CDs. A traditional engraver will refuse to engrave more than 700Mo of datas on a single CD.
InfraRecorder is an easy-to-use tool and it will allow you to engrave 800Mo of datas on a single CD.
Cleaning
CCleaner
CCleaner is a cleaning and repair tool.
Very simple, it can be used without any risk and it doesn't require any knowledge.
Results visible, after the next reboot.
PageDefrag et Contig
PageDefrag is a defragmentation program which is able to defragment system files like the paging file or the registry hives.
Contig degragments one single file. Very useful to defragement files that Windows cannot defragment like very big files.
At Microsoft TechNet website, you will find many other useful tool.
Games
GLest
GLest is a real time strategy game about heroic fantasy.
You command one of these two factions : The Magic faction which is composed of alive dead, of dragons, of sorcerers, ...
and the Tech faction which is composed of engineers, of wood robots, of flying engines, ...
PlaneShift
PlaneShift is a multi-player game. Rather than fighting, the goal of the game is to solve quests. For example :
- To write a love letter for someone which can neither read nor to write.
- A NPC (Non Player Character) wants to win a chess duel. He wants you to find a potion for improving his intelligence.
- ...