Shane Baptista
Computing Consultant Center for Teaching Excellence
Open Source Software that I use regularly
The GIMP - The Gnu
Image Manipulation Program to be compared with Adobe Photoshop or
PaintShop Pro
Inkscape
- Scalable Vector Graphics Drawing program to be compared with Adobe
Illustrator or Macromedia (Macrodobia) Fireworks
OpenOffice
- Office Suite with Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, and
Drawing, and Database to be compared with Microsoft Office or
WordPerfect/Corel Suite
Audacity -
Audio edting and compression tool to be compared with Adobe Auditions
KompoZer - HTML Authoring
tool to be compared with Front Page and Macrodobia Dreamweaver
7-Zip - File
Compression Utility to be compared with Winzip
Python - Programming
Language - to be compared with...well Perl but Perl is also open
source...
Blender
- 3d Modeling, Compositing, Video Editing, Game Engine to be compared
with Maya but only within the modelling this is really a distinctive
tool.
Scribus
- Desktop Publishing to be compared with Adobe PageMaker or Quark.
Clam AntiVirus -
AntiVirus Software to be compared with Norton AntiVirus or McAffee
Anti-Virus
PortableApps.com
- Portable application that run from a thumb drive. Use them on
lab or classroom computers. No need for administrative priveleges.
