Akismet is a spam management tool for your blog. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your site it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down on whether or not it is spam.
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Free for blogs
WordPress
in 198 toolboxes Flexible open-source content management and blogging software with an active user and developer community and a wide variety of plug-ins or extensions available.
Firefox
in 345 toolboxes Firefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla
Skype
in 228 toolboxes Free/cheap Internet telephony and handy IM tool.
OpenOffice
in 203 toolboxes Full-featured open source office productivity suite, featuring word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database packages; free MS Office replacement.
Ubuntu
in 136 toolboxes User-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.
Thunderbird
in 137 toolboxes Mozilla's Open Source email client
MediaWiki
in 85 toolboxes Powerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project
GIMP
in 116 toolboxes A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
FileZilla
in 59 toolboxes Free FTP client software.
Wikipedia
in 131 toolboxes Wikipedia is a global and multilingual Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia.
LinkedIn
in 144 toolboxes Social networking for non-social purposes with a focus on professional development, networking for jobs and problem solving through the expertise of those in your extended network.
VLC Media Player
in 79 toolboxes VLC 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.
Social Source Commons
in 144 toolboxes The Social Source Commons is a “knowledge commons” that provides users with: a directory of software applications; links to relevant documentation, localization tools, services, user reviews; and a place to request tools/features.
Twitter
in 125 toolboxes Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or on the web.
Chrome
in 35 toolboxes Google's new entry into the browser market. Takes a simplified approach to the interface, and focuses on adding value to web applications
bit.ly
in 31 toolboxes A simple URL shortener. Generates shorter URLs than TinyURL, and has redirection. Useful for Twitter, and supports tracking number of clicks, traffic sources, and time-of-day patterns.
