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The Media Coder is a free Open Source media converter that can handle most of the newer audio and video codecs. It has the ability to do batch operations where it will handle many files at a time. It has been called the swiss army knife for media transcoding and many people all over the world are finding it very useful. Media Coder is also optimized for multi-core and multi-threading. Users have full control over all parameters.
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Blender is a free Open Source 3D modeling program that has many great features. You can create 3D  models, animation, texturing, rigging characters, and create 3D games. It has been ported to several operating systems and will run on Windows, Linux, and MAC. Blender also has some advanced simulation and character animation tools.
Ton Roosendaal and a Dutch animation company developed Blender as an in-house application. Roosendaal started NaN in 1998 to begin distribution of the program, but went bankrupt in 2002. Blender was released by the creditors as Open Source for a $100,000 fee that was paid through collected donations that Roosendaal gathered.
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VLC Media Player
VLC is a free Open Source media player. It can play multiple file formats, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1 and many differnet codecs. VLC will also play DVDs and VCDs and many different streaming protocols. It has also been ported to operate on different operating systems and will run on Windows, Linux, and MAC. VLC can be used as a multimedia framework and video server and streamer with various ways of remote control and different types of interfaces.
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Audacity is a free Open Source audio editing application created by a Google employee, Dominic Mazzoni, who was a former student of Carnegie Mellon University. The program is being hosted at Source Forge which claims Audacity to be the sixth most popular with over 60 million downloads.
Audacity can handle a number of different file formats, including WAV, AIFF, and MP3. It has the ability to do multi-track mixing with cut, copy, and paste editing. It can also perform sampling at rates up to 96Khz with 24 bits per sample and has nice navigation controls. Audacity also has some nice post processing features, such as, normalization, trimming, and fading.
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GIMP is a free Open Source Adobe Photoshop alternative. It can resize, edit, crop, and combine several images as  layers. GIMP can also be used to create GIF animations and do other image transformations. GIMP stands for General Image Manipulation Program.
The GIMP team has a vision for GIMP someday becoming a high-end photo and graphics editing program. There really is no limit on what GIMP can possibly become. As the designers and programs continue to add and refine the many great tools that GIMP offers.
GIMP provides over 150 filters, effects, and transformations. These include shadowing, blur and motion blur, noise, and animation. Also many different file formats are available and GIMP is able to interface some of the newer drawing tablets for easily creating drawings directly in GIMP.
GIMP is one of those great products that you have to start using to really appreciate.
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WordPress is an Open Source blog and CMS (content management system) that is installed on over 60 million websites in the U.S. and over 200 million throughout the world. WordPress is powered by PHP and MySQL, is easy to install and setup, and has many themes and add-ons available. It is also search engine friendly and has an SEO-All-In-One plug-in available.
The slogan on the WordPress site is, “WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.” You will find this statement to be very true as you compare WordPress to other software offerings. The WordPress team has also been addressing some security concerns and providing hardening software updates. The team has been very diligent to keep WordPress as a strong reliable software choice. If you haven’t tried it you are missing a great opportunity to setup at great website. Today web hosting sites support WordPress and for less than $10 a month you can have your very own website running some great software.
I have a YouTube video showing how you can setup a high quality website using WordPress in less than an hour. It’s easy and fun becoming your own Web Master.
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Firefox is an Open Source Internet browser with many great features and many more great addons. Firefox is has over 20% of the browser market and is now second behind Internet Explorer. Some of the better features include spell checking, tabbed browsing, download manager, and a new one called geolocation based on a IP address Google service Geographic Locator. There are also many great add-on services, such as, Adblock Plus, SEO toolbar, and Video down-loader.
Firefox is also the safest and fastest browser available and should be considered essential for a safer Internet experience.
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Open Office was first developed as Star Office and was subsidized by Sun Microsystems to compete with Microsoft Office by having the same look and feel and then later released as Open Source to the general public. Open Office has all the major applications included in the suite, such as, Writer(MS Word), Calc (MS Excel), and Present (MS PowerPoint). The advantages are that Open Office can save and create in several formats including Microsoft’s format. Google is wanting to replace the Adobe PDF files as the Internet standard with Open Office format, since PDF files cannot be edited without the expensive Adobe Write application. Open Office is what we use in our lab and many of my students have installed it on their home computers.
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The Linux kernel was first developed by Linus Trovalds, born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, and is a Finnish software engineer who first created the Linux  kernel. Through a large Open Source collaboration many distributions have been developed under the terms of the GNU GPL (General Public License) so anyone can freely use, modify, and redistribute the software.
Linux is mostly uses in servers and data centers. However there is a growing number of desktop distributions including Redhat (America), Suse (Europe), and Tubolinux (Asia). Unbuntu is a newer Linux desktop operating system developed for the average user. This OS has a focus on ease of operation and claims 30% of all Linux installations. Some say it has become the most popular distribution.
Linux has found its way into many embedded device applications as well as mobile phones. Some of the major components are the Apache Server, X Windows System, GNOME, and KDE desktop. IBM, since the early years, has also been very instrumental in supporting Linux, seeing it mature, and defending it against lawsuits.
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The Best Open Source Software has been developed by a community of highly skilled individuals to provide quality software using a broad general license that makes source code available to everyone with relaxed or no copyright restrictions. Some of the best software available is under the Open Source agreement, such as, Linux, Open Office, Firefox, and WordPress. Google chose Linux to run all its data center computers because of its speed, reliability, and source code availability. Google can custom tailor Linux for their own needs and the software is very stable and not a major target for viruses. Linux Apache provides the web server operating system that powers most of the Internet. Open Office is a great alternative the Microsoft Office. It has all the major programs like Writer (Word), Calc (Excel), and Presenter (PowerPoint) and can handle many formats including the Microsoft document formats. So you can open Word documents and modify, edit, or even create new documents in Word format. Firefox has proven to be the fastest and most secure web browsing software with many great add-ons which makes it invaluable to many users. WordPress has been described as both free and priceless. It has become the top choice for web site and blog software. WordPress is easy to install and easy to modify. It also has the ability, with PHP and MySQL built in, to handle some of the largest web site content.
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