Dearly Gparted

I’ve been using “Powerquest Partition Magic” (a non-distructive partitioning program) for sometime now. Here is a great free and opensource tool that replaces P-Magic. Gparted is a non-destructive that pretty much has the look and feel of P-Magic. The only difference I see is P-Magic runs in DOS and Gparted runs on a Linux GIU. Both good programs but Gparted is free!!!

Find Alternative Software

Find opensource alternatives to many popular software titles. There are very few reasons to buy the expensive software when there are so many good free programs out there. Example GIMP as an alternative for Adobe Photoshop $699 and Inkscape for Illustrator $599. Why pay $349 for Adobe Audition when Ardour is free. Many professionals use these very programs so why would you want to pay hundreds?

Osalt.com is a site where you can search for this alternative software and never pay for high price software again. Also Alternativeto.net same as Olsalt.

Favorite Free Software

Here are my favorite must have free programs:

K-Lite Mega- I think contains all of the media CODECs that you may use and some and some you will never use. For Windows.
Firefox- Superior web browser with many features like the many extensions that I can’t do without. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Open Office- Has most of the functionality of MS Office but it’s does not cost many hundreds of dollars. For Windows, Linux and Mac.
Juice- Easy to uses podcast receiver. For Windows
Gladinet- Turn your Internet storage into virtual drives on your desktop. For Windows only.
Gimp- Powerful image editing program like Photoshop but it doesn’t cost $800. Windows, Mac and Linux.
Sandboxie- Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer. For Windows.
Jing- Free screen capture program from the maker of Camtasia. Windows
7 Zip- Best file archiver program. For Windows
Audacity- Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. For Windows, Mac and Linux.
Gnu Cash- Free personal accounting software similar to Quicken. For Windows, Mac, Linux and everything else.
Truecrypt- Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Infrarecorder- Free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows

Extentions for OpenOffice g

Until recently I did not know about extensions for OpenOffice the free office suite. Here are some useful and cool extensions I found.

Sun PDF Import Extension [Beta]

New Template

OpenOffice 2 GoogleDoc

Writer’s Tools

GIMP Tutorials

Oct 21, 2008

Change Eye Color

Bare Basics of GIMP and Brushes/Filters

Create an oilpainting from a photo.

Making a pencil drawing from a photo.

Create Lightsaber Effects