#688

LibreOffice – Much better than OpenOffice

LibreOffice is a derived version of OpenOffice Office suite, is freeware and open source as well (compared with the expensive MS Office, this is absolutely its biggest advantage), but in comparison wih OpenOffice, it has increased a lot of notable features (just because of LibreOffice, the OpenOffice.org official support has stopped).

#671

VirtualBox – Best free and open-source virtual machine software

VirtualBox (formerly called Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox, now its full name should be Oracle VM VirtualBox) is a powerful cross-platform, open-source and x86-based virtual machine (VM) software. It allows users to virtual other x86-based operating systems on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, Solaris and Linux operating systems, that is to say, the user can install and run Solaris, Windows, DOS, Linux, OS/2 Warp, OpenBSD or FreeBSD system as the client operating system in VirtualBox.

#621

Regshot – Monitor and compare registry

System-Related

Do you want to know what happened to the registry after some software installed, and what is the path that had been added new key value? Or maybe you want to make a portable version of a program, then you need to know in which path had been created new files/folders after installation by the software.

#605

WinMerge – Visual file & folder comparison and merging

File & Manage

WinMerge is a free open-source file comparing/merging application designed for Windows, with which we can compare the contents of multiple documents or even the differences between folders. This is suitable for programmers or users who often need to write or modify codes or articles.

#583

Mcool – Simple, cool and unusual minimalist music player

Multimedia

Mcool is an extremely simple and cool lightweight music player, portable and free, powered by Bass and BassVis, with excellent performance and high quality sound effects.

#572

[v7.1, v7.0] Sweet Home 3D – Best free and open-source interior design software

[ Mac Software ] Interest & Life [ Linux Software ]

Sweet Home 3D is a free, open-source and cross-platform (written in Java) interior aided design software from France. It can help you design and decorate your furniture on a 2D house plan, and allows to preview the whole panorama of the decoration layout with 3D perspective.

#548

Graph – Open-source function plotting tool

Industry & Professional

Compared with the powerful SpeQ, Graph is more concentrated. Specially deal with the graph of a function, it covers all features for the evaluation of functions from Elementary Mathematics to Higher Mathematics, as a open-source, free and full-featured function drawing application, as well as a small size, Graph is a recommendable mathematical tool.

#506

WOL – Wake up your PC remotely

Network Application

WOL is a command line utility which uses "Wake-on-LAN" packet to realize a remote boot in the LAN (e.g. enables us to wake up/turn on a computer remotely), simple and quick.

#490

SumatraPDF – Small and fast multi-format universal eBook reader

Read & Browse

Software's size and function are growing with each passing day, yet those small ones are always welcome by users. Foxit Reader and PDF-XChange Viewer have taken over the market of the bulky Adobe Reader at one time, but they also gradually lost the original lightsome look in the process of commercialization. In this trend, only SumatraPDF is still faithful to its original faith!

#479

UltraStar Deluxe – A PC clone of the SingStar on Playstation

[ Mac Software ] [ Linux Software ] Music Auxiliary

Ultrastar Deluxe is a free and open-source karaoke entertainment application for PC users, its inspiration comes from the SingStar music video game provided by SONY PlayStation console. It allows up to six players to sing along to a song or music video, and let players score points according to the pitch of voice and the rhythm of singing.