Chocolatey is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get in Ubuntu Linux, but built with Windows in mind. You can use Chocolatey to safely install free software in a command-line environment. There is up to 3719 free programs that can be installed using this fantastic utility. If you get tire of using the commandline you…
Category: Free Software
Handbtake, Video Transcoding Made Easy
HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder, originally developed by Eric “titer” Petit in 2003 to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. HandBrake is available for Windows, OS X and Ubuntu from its official website, although it is…
Portable Apps
PortableApps.com is the world’s most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any portable storage device (USB flash drive, memory card, portable hard drive, etc), cloud drive (DropBox, Google Drive, etc), or installed locally. With millions of users all…
Plex, Your Media Everywhere
Plex is a free media server software plus a client-side media player. Plex organizes your video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your screens. In addition, the integrated Plex Online service provides the user with a growing list of community-driven plugins for online content including Hulu, Netflix, and CNN video. The Plex server…
GParted, A Free Partition Editor
GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions. With GParted you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, enabling you to: Grow or shrink your C: drive, Create space for new operating systems and attempt data rescue from lost partitions. GParted is very similar to “Partition Magic” a commercial…
Kodi
Kodi (formally known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.
Best Software for Linux
Frequently the free programs that are available for Windows are not are not for Linux. Thankfully on the Linux platform there are a myriad of good choices. Of course Firefox, Google Chrome, Teamviewer, Skype, Pidgin, Thunderbird, VLC, Audacity, 7-Zip, GIMP and LibreOffice are all available on Linux. These are my choices of other programs for Linux……
Best Free Software For Windows
In this post I have chosen some of my favorite software. All of it free of course! Much of this software is similar if not better than the commercial software you may be using. This software maybe open-source or not but it is all free to use. Mush of this software have versions for “Windows”,…
Linux Mint 17.2, More stable than ever!
The latest version of Linux Mint, 17.2 is outstanding. LM’s plan for staying with the Ubuntu 14.04 code-base is paying off. Linux Mint 17.2 is faster and less buggy than any previous version. It’s stability is unparalleled. LM 17.2 has updated UEFI support makes much easier to install on newer systems. Better support for NVIDIA graphic…
Teamviewer
TeamViewer is a proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. For Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux and even Blackberry.
Good-N-Free Meetup 