#2923

Dia – Lightweight alternative of Microsoft Visio

Office & Edit [ Mac Software ] [ Linux Software ]
Dia (full name: Dia Diagram Editor) is a vector-based and Visio-like structured diagram drawing tool made by Alexander Larsson from Germany. It's lightweight, free to use and open-source, supports for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
#2898

FreeArc – Real new King in file archivers for Windows and Linux

File & Manage [ Linux Software ]
At present, there are 3 giant compression software: the commercial WinRAR, free and open-source 7-Zip & FreeArc (we had said goodbye to the old WinZip many years ago). And today's leading role is FreeArc for Windows and Linux, from Russia.
#2873

Rufus – Lighter, faster bootable USB installer maker

Hardware-Related
Rufus is a free and open-source bootable USB installer creating tool developed by Pete Batard from Ireland. The first thing that went through my mind when saw its name is the character Rufus Shinra in Final Fantasy VII. So what does it excel at, compared with the classical UNetbootin, powerful Universal USB Installer, reliable Windows USB/DVD Download Tool and fast Win32 Disk Imager?
#2861

Wireshark – World's most popular interactive network traffic capturer and analyzer

[ Mac Software ] [ Linux Software ] Network Application
Without any doubt, Wireshark (formerly called Ethereal) is currently the world's most famous, foremost free and open source network packets capture & analysis tool. Its appearance puts an end to the future of all similar business software.
#2846

Shutter – #1 feature-rich screenshot tool on Linux

[ Linux Software ]
If we know one fact that TechSmith's Snagit is the #1 screenshot/screencast tool on Windows, than for Linux, the king of screen capture software will be Shutter (formerly GScrot) - of course, it's freeware and open-source, developed by Mario Kemper from Canada.
#2841

Cyborg Linux – More advanced, beautiful and poweful than Kali Linux

[ Operating System ]
Cyborg Linux (AKA: Cyborg Hawk) is a Ubuntu (currently the most popular Unix-like OS) based penetration testing Linux distro, specially designed for hackers or cyber security experts to perform all kinds of network security penetration testing, assessment, computer forensics and more.
#2836

FB Alpha – Best alternative of MAME and WinKawaks arcade emulators

Game Tool
FB Alpha (short for FinalBurn Alpha, FBA for short) is a very popular multiple-console emulator for MC68000/Zilog Z80 based arcade games. It has less system memory and lower computer configuration requirements than MAME, and runs faster with better graphics - comes with all features of MAME Plus!. One word, its position in video gamers' mind is now only after the king of arcade emulator MAME.
#2825

Win32 Disk Imager – Stable and reliable USB-Installer creator

Hardware-Related
Win32 Disk Imager (AKA: ImageWriter) is very simple image-to-disk writing tool, free, open-source, lightweight and easy-to-use. Compared with similar tools, its advantages are more stable and reliable. And when write a large size of image file into USB storage device, you will find it also has some superiority on writing speed. Besides, the whole process has no effect to the performance of your computer.
#2822

D-Fend Reloaded – Popular DOSBox GUI and DOS game packager, manager

Game Tool
As everyone knows, DOSBox takes the way of text-based configuration with lots of parameters, so that is absolutely not an easy thing to create the appropriate configuration for a DOS game for ordinary users. As as result, some graphical environment (AKA: frontend, GUI) tools were specially designed to complete this task, and D-Fend was once one of the outstanding graphical front ends.
#2810

MPC-BE – It is slowly replacing the position of MPC-HC

Multimedia
With the classic MPC (Media Player Classic) and powerful MPC-HC (Home Cinema), why do we need this MPC-BE (Black Edition) that mainly developed by Russian programmers separated from the MPC-HC team? Reason is, not only is it based on the former two, but also contains additional features and bug fixes.