Feed Fran Boon's Personal Toolbox (83 tools)
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Firefox
in 345 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFirefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla
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Skype
in 228 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree/cheap Internet telephony and handy IM tool.
tagged: apc, calls, chat, crossplatform, free, globalmelt, IM, instantmessaging, internettelephony, leadlearn, MacOSX, management, OnDemandNPO, phone, project, secbox, Security, skype, skypeout, tools, video, voip -
OpenOffice
in 203 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFull-featured open source office productivity suite, featuring word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database packages; free MS Office replacement.
tagged: apc, bloatware, calc, crossplatform, editor, microsoft, office, officesuite, opensource, powerpoint, preocessing, presentation, productivity, spreadsheet, spreadshet, suite, word, wordprocessing -
Flickr
in 160 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWeb based photo sharing service
tagged: 0, 2, awesome, during, event, flicker, flickr, globalmelt, hosted, lasatech_photos, leadlearn, Network, networking, photo, photography, photos, photosharing, sharing, social, software, tagging, tags, web, web2.0 -
Thunderbird
in 137 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMozilla's Open Source email client
tagged: client, communication, crossplatform, e-mail, email, GNU, IMAP, Linux, mac, mail, mail_client, opensource, secbox, side -
Ubuntu
in 136 toolboxes
add to my toolboxUser-friendly Linux distribution.
The Ubuntu promise:
* Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates
* Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world
* Ubuntu provides the best translations and accessibility features that the free software community has to offer
* Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
tagged: Africa, apc, Canonical, debian, distribution, distro, freesoftware, GNU, Linux, opensource, operating, operatingsystem, OS, South, system, ubuntu -
Wikipedia
in 131 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWikipedia is a global and multilingual Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia.
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GIMP
in 116 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
tagged: apc, bitmap, crossplatform, graphics, lasatech_photos, Linux, multimedia, opensource, photos, photo_editor, windows -
Google
in 105 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGoogle is the quintessential search engine.
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Audacity
in 96 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
tagged: audio, avbox, converter, crossplatform, lasatech_audvid, mac, multimedia, multmedia, opensource, sound -
Pidgin
in 91 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA multi-protocol Instant Messaging (IM) client
tagged: AIM, apc, chat, crossplatform, gaim, IM, instant, instant-messaging, instantmessaging, IRC, message, messaging, MSN, ngoinabox, NOSI, open, opensource, pigeon, secbox, YAHOO -
Paypal
in 90 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGeneral funds transfer service which can be adapted for online donations.
tagged: creditcards, donation, fundraising, hosted, Online, online-payments, payment, processing, sales -
MediaWiki
in 85 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPowerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project
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Google Earth
in 83 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGoogle Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
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VLC Media Player
in 79 toolboxes
add to my toolboxVLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
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PuTTY
in 71 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA Free Telnet/SSH Client
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MySQL
in 64 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOpen source DataBase Management System
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apache
in 62 toolboxes
add to my toolboxindustry standard open source web server
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phpMyAdmin
in 60 toolboxes
add to my toolboxweb-based interface for managing MySQL
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FileZilla
in 59 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree FTP client software.
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PHP
in 54 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPHP Language
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Firebug
in 51 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe ultimate in-browser code-monkeying and debugging utility. An undeniable reason to switch to Firefox. Installs as a toolbar in the browser.
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Plone
in 45 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA powerful platform for content, community and collaboration websites
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AVG Free Edition
in 42 toolboxes
add to my toolboxInexpensive antivirus software for up to five computers.
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Debian
in 38 toolboxes
add to my toolboxLinux distribution with a very strong community
tagged: apc, DEB, debian, distribution, distro, free, GNU, Linux, opensource, operatingsystem, server, ubuntu -
Google Talk
in 36 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGoogle Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free, anytime, anywhere in the world.
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Mailman
in 31 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMailing list manager
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OpenSSH
in 28 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSecure shell
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7-Zip
in 28 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree file archiver with high compression ratio.
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WinSCP
in 24 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWinSCP (Windows Secure CoPY) is an open source SFTP and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality for uploading and downloading files from a server.
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Trac
in 23 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTrac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system. It provides an interface to Subversion and an integrated wiki.
tagged: bugtracking, collaboration, cvs, development, engineering, free, management, opensource, project, projectmanagement, software, svn, wiki -
OpenStreetMap
in 21 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them.
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GNOME
in 21 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGNOME Desktop Environment and Developer Platform
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Asterisk
in 20 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOpen source PBX (phone system)
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gedit
in 19 toolboxes
add to my toolboxgedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
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Samba
in 19 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDomain management in multi-platform environments (Windows + Linux + Mac, etc) including user management, printer management, shared folder management, etc.
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Vim
in 16 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAn improved version of the vi editor
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Wireshark
in 15 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSniffing Problems A Mile Away. The Ethereal network protocol analyzer has changed its name to Wireshark.
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TortoiseSVN
in 15 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTortoiseSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension.
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OpenLayers
in 14 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree, Open dynamic web mapper. (An alternative to Google/Yahoo Maps)
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SAHANA
in 12 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system.
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RealVNC
in 12 toolboxes
add to my toolboxRemote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet.
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GParted
in 12 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application.
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PostgreSQL
in 11 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOpen source database.
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wget
in 10 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
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AWStats
in 9 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree open source web site traffic analysis software.
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squid
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSquid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on Unix and Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
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nmap
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxNmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts.
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Cygwin
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
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X-Chat
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree cross-platform IRC client
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VMWare Player
in 7 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree virtual machine software with a large library of useful preconfigured machines available for download.
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iptables
in 7 toolboxes
add to my toolboxnetfilter.org is home to the software of the packet filtering framework inside theLinux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel series. Software commonly associated with netfilter.org is iptables.
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Network Stumbler
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWireless Network surveying tool for Windows
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Time and Date
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThis helpful, free Web site includes a clock that displays current local times of cities around the world, a meeting planner, and a monthly calendar. Time and Date's customization features allow you to save your own settings.
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Meebo
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCross-platform, multi-protocol, IM and presence awareness aggregator.
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freeradius
in 5 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe server scales easily from embedded systems with small amounts of memory to systems with millions of users. It is fast, flexible, configurable, and supports more authentication protocols than most commercial servers. It includes support for SQL, LDAP, RADIUS Proxying, failover, load balancing, and nearly 100 vendor dictionary files. It can perform authentications via the PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, EAP-MD5, EAP-GTC, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAPv0, LEAP, EAP-SIM, and Digest authentication protocols.
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Selenium
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWeb application testing tool family
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Shorewall
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your requirements.
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Ekiga
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAn opensource Voice over IP phone allowing you to do free calls over the Internet.
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stunnel
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxStunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon's code.
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ntop
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well.
ntop users can use a a web browser (e.g. netscape) to navigate through ntop (that acts as a web server) traffic information and get a dump of the network status. In the latter case, ntop can be seen as a simple RMON-like agent with an embedded web interface.
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Gnumeric
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environment.
tagged: apc, free, freesoftware, GNOME, GNU, lightweight, officesuite, opensource, productivity, spreadsheet -
MWSnap
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTool for quickly getting any-size screenshots (Windows)
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Puppy Linux
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPuppy Linux
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AbiWord
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAbiWord is a free word processing program. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Works in Linux, Mac, PC
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OpenWRT
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.
Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
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dnsmasq
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP/TFTP for network booting of diskless machines.
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Trixbox
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAsterisk-made-easy: Easy to install & easy to manage through web-based UI
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SME Server
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxEasy to install & maintain Linux distro targetting small offices with no professional IT staff
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cacti
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxNetwork montioring/graphing tool (web-based)
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Smokeping
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxNetwork monitoring tool showing latency, packet loss & jitter (web-based)
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Stinger
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxStinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses.
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bind
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxBIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System, including:
* a Domain Name System server (named)
* a Domain Name System resolver library
* tools for verifying the proper operation of the DNS servertagged: dns -
m0n0wall
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxm0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).
m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent. -
kismet
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add to my toolboxKismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.
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RRDtool
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxRRD is the acronym for Round Robin Database. It is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average).
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iptraf
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxIPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts.
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iperf
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxIperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.
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vncon
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxFront-end for VNC clients - allowing saving of shortcuts & pushing installs
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Badboy
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxWeb application testing tool for Windows
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siege
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxWeb server stess-testing tool
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JMeter
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxWeb application testing tool (advanced)
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Gizmo Call
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxMake free, short (up to 10 minutes per day) phone calls from your web browser.