I was cleaning up an old laptop recently, organizing all my applications. In my clean up I checked out some of the lists of open source applications people use and pimped myself out with the latest - Miro was a good one I just picked up for podcast, while Juice I tried and dropped. This is just my list of useful applications and way to keep the links in one place for future reference. I found good stuff in this post and the comments as well.

Standard Applications


Being creative



Listening In Keeping Up


Utility




And for that friend who asked for some utility stuff for windows which was open source




Can you match icons to the application name? (All of the images already link to correct project homes).

• Open Office
• Firefox (+webdeveloper)
• Thunderbird (+lightning, +google calendar provider)
• Gimp
• Inkscape
• Blender
• Freemind
• Kompozer (NVU)
  
• Miro
• Audacity
• X-Chat
• Pidgin
• 7 Zip
• ClamAv/ClamWin
• Putty
• HTTrack
• Truecrypt
• KeepPass
• Startup Manager
• Notepad 2
• Virtual Win
• PDF Creator
• Sumatra PDF
• ClamWin
  

It's great to be in amazement. His excitement, his wonder of the colors. Of course he ran around the rest of the afternoon pretending this was a web shooter and that he was spiderman!