408. Buddi Billing itself as “personal budget software for the rest of us,” Buddi is a basic budgeting program without all the bells and whistles you find in Quicken or MS Money. Because it’s aimed it people with little financial background, it’s extremely simple. But a set of plugins lets you expand Buddi’s capabilities, including more elaborate reports, customizing the look and feel, and importing and exporting to other file formats. Operating System: OS Independent 409. GFP This personal finance manager runs on any Java-enabled operating system and is available in 11 different languages. While it’s still easy for novices to use, it includes some advanced filtering, report, and chart capabilities for tracking your household finances. Operating System: OS Independent 410. Grisbi Grisbi is also a fairly simple personal finance package. It includes a few more advanced features, including multiple currency management, multiple user management, fiscal year tracking, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux 411. JStock JStock makes it easy to track your investments in 23 different stock markets around the world. It updates stock prices in near real-time and alerts you when a stock meets your buying or selling criteria. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris. 412. KMyMoney This double-entry accounting system includes tools for tracking investments and creating reports. Like most of the others in this list, it's not nearly as robust as Quicken or MS Money, but it's free! Operating System: Linux, Unix, BSD 413. Money Manager Ex Money Manager offers many of the most popular features from software like Quicken or Microsoft Money and can also import their file formats. Use it to track your bank and investment accounts, set up and track a budget, remind you when bills are due, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
414. Coppermine Photo Gallery Based on PHP and MySQL, Coppermine Web photo gallery script offers a huge lineup of features including multiple languages, e-card creation, thumbnails, and many more. In order to use it, you need a Web server running Apache, PHP, MySQL, and either GD or ImageMagick. Operating System: OS Independent. 415. Gallery Gallery makes it easy to add a photo library to your personal or business Web site. Key features include user authentication, automatic thumbnails, mirroring, themes, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux, BSD. 416. Hugin Sometimes a single photo can’t capture the grandeur of a particular scene—that’s where Hugin comes in. Hugin makes it easy to combine multiple, overlapping photos of a single location into one huge panorama. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X
417. Step Sometimes it's difficult to demonstrate the principles of physics in a live lab. Enter Step. With this physics simulator, you place an object in a scene, add forces like springs or gravity, and see what happens. Operating System: Linux. 418. Xoscope Xoscope turns any Linux PC into a digital oscilloscope for analyzing sound waves. You can visualize up to eight channels at once, control the time scale, make measurements, and more. Operating System: Linux.
419. Barcode4J This java-based app does just one thing—creating barcodes. It supports multiple 2D and 1D barcode formats and exports to several file formats, including EPS, SVG, and BMP. Operating System: OS Independent. 420. Openbravo POS With nearly 10,000 installations per month, Openbravo POS claims to be "the leading open source Point-of-Sale (POS) application in the retail industry." It’s Java-based and works with most touch-screen POS hardware. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. 421. Posterita Based on Adempiere ERP, Posterita provides Web-based point-of-sale capabilities for large, multi-site organizations like retailers, grocers, and franchises. It supports bar code readers, most cash registers, and thermal printers. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 422. SymmetricDS SymmetricDS is a data synchronization and replication tool designed to transmit data from POS databases to back office systems. Key features include guaranteed delivery, data filtering and rerouting, primary key updates, database versioning, and more. Operating System: OS Independent.
423. Achievo Achievo is a project management, time tracking, and scheduling tool with support available in 20 languages. It's Web-based, and also includes some basic CRM and HRM capabilities. Operating System: OS Independent. 424. BORG Calendar Despite the name, this project has nothing to do with Star Trek—in this case, "BORG" stands for "Berger-Organizer." It's a combination calendar/project manager that offers much better project tracking capabilities that most calendars apps (like Outlook, for example), but it's not nearly as robust as most Microsoft Project replacements. It's best for individuals or small groups who want monitor ongoing projects from daily/weekly/monthly calendars instead of Gantt charts. Operating System: OS Independent. 425. Dotproject Dotproject offers a Web-based approach to project management. In addition to the core modules which provide all the typical project management features, the Web site also includes links to a number of add-on modules for integration with other applications, invoicing, help desk, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 426. Double Choco Latte Double Choco Latte includes project management capabilities, time tracking on tasks, call tracking, email notifications, online documents, statistical reports, and a report engine. It works independently or as part of phpGroupware, and it's also included in GNU Enterprise. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 427. GanttProject Also compatible with Microsoft Project formats, GanttProject lets you create Gantt charts and PERT charts, assign people to projects, and collaborate using WebDAV. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. 428. Onepoint Project Onepoint calls its applications "project leadership software," but it's just project management software with a different name. It's available in five editions: Basic (open-source, for home users), Open (open-source, for developers), Professional (commercial, for a single user), Group (commercial, for small teams), and Enterprise (commercial, for large organizations). Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. 429. OpenProj Downloaded more than a million times, OpenProj offers the same functionality as Microsoft Project and even opens Microsoft files. In addition to the free, open source version, it's also available in a hosted SaaS version called Projects on Demand. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X. 430. Open Workbench Sponsored by CA, Open Workbench "provides robust project scheduling and management functionality." It offers an impressive feature set, but is only available for the desktop (and thus only practical for small groups of users) unless you also purchase Clarity. Operating System: Windows 431. openXprocess This award-winning tool integrates process improvement with project management and planning. It imports data from Microsoft Project, includes a tutorial, and provides project participants with real-time Web access to the project status. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 432. Plandora In addition to the usual assortment of Gantt charts and resource charts, Plandora also provides a Balanced Scorecard report for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs). The site includes a helpful demo to show you how the software works. Operating System: OS Independent.
433. BibleTime BibleTime Bible study software offers the same functionality and the same resources as Xiphos (see below), but with a different interface. Try them both and see which you like better. Operating System: Windows, Linux, BSD 434. Gnaural It already does everything else--now your computer can help you meditate. Using something called the “binaural beat principle,” Gnaural generates audio tones designed to get you in the right frame of mind for relaxation. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. 435. Noor Noor doesn’t offer a lot of bells and whistles, but it does let you access the text of the Quran from your PC. It includes both the original Arabic and translations. Operating System: OS Independent 436. Xiphos Formerly known as GnomeSword, Xiphos is an open-source Bible study application. You can search text, consult commentaries, look up maps, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix
437. BO2K Based on Back Orifice, BO2K provides file-synchronization and remote operation capabilities for network administrators. Unlike most commercially available products, it's small, fast, free, and very extensible. Operating System: Linux 438. OpenSSH Developed by the OpenBSD project, OpenSSH offers a set of SSH, SCP, and SFTP tools for secure remote access and file transfer. It encrypts all traffic, including passwords, to make hijacking nearly impossible. Operating System: Linux, Unix, BSD. 439. OpenVPN Winner of numerous awards, OpenVPN provides remote access, site-to-site VPNs, Wi-Fi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions. It geared primarily for medium- to large-scale enterprises. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD 440. Poptop Utilizing PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol), Poptop allows remote users to establish a VPN and connect to their corporate network from any location. It allows both Windows and Linux clients to connect to Linux servers. Operating System: Windows, Linux 441. PuTTY This basic telnet/SSH client offers remote access for most Windows and Unix systems. Note that it does not support Vista. Operating System: Windows, Unix. 442. TightVNC TightVNC offers remote access with features like file transfers, video mirror drive support, scaling of the remote desktop, support for two passwords, and more. It’s "Tight" because it uses extremely efficient encoding, which works well on slower Internet connections. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix. 443. UltraVNC UltraVNC lets you display the screen of another computer on your screen. Designed for help desk operations, it’s also great for accessing your home PC from work or for helping those relatives in other states who are always calling you for computer help. Features include text chat, file transfer, optional encryption, and more. Operating System: Windows 444. Zebedee While it's not a true VPN tool, Zebedee does provide secure IP tunneling for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems. It not only provides security against snoopers, its compression capabilities save on network bandwidth. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix
445. WIKINDX Remember the days of making note cards and bibliography cards by hand? WIKINDX replaces that laborious process with a digital system that makes it much easier to search for a quote or collaborate with multiple authors. And it automatically formats footnotes, endnotes, and bibliography for you based on your chosen style guide. Operating System: OS Independent.
446. The Player Project More middle and high school are offering classes in robotics, and The Player Project provides some of the software that supports instruction in robotics. It includes Player, a network server for robot control; Stage, a 2D multiple robot simulator; and Gazebo, a 3D multiple robot simulator with dynamics for simulating outdoor environments. Operating System: Linux, Unix.
447. FeedReader FeedReader offers robust news aggregation while keeping the interface basic enough for novices to use. Upgrades to the FeedReader Connect and FeedReader OEM products are available for a fee. Operating System: Windows 448. RSS Owl This RSS reader is easy to use and comes in a variety of different languages. The latest version has improved Owl’s searching capabilities, and it now supports Windows 7. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
