Graphics |
 | The GIMP The GNU Image Manipulation program.
This free software under the GNU / GPL is a fantastic tool to edit images; compatible Windows / MacOSX / Linux, it is fully integrated with my graphic workflow. |
| Inkscape This page layout software under the GNU / GPL License, is very stable, very comprehensive and, multi-platform Windows / MacOSX / Linux. |
| Blender Blender is an Open Source modelling software, it is very intuitive, and its interface is the most flexible I know. Too bad that the "snap" tools are still very basic .... |
| Sketchup Published by Google this software can create 3d spaces so simply..., learning takes between an hour and a day. |
Web |
| Joomla! This CMS (Content Management System: understand simple management of the content of a website) allows anyone to manage its website both in terms of graphics and in terms of content, without any notion of 'HTML or otherwise. It is some kind of blog but unique and offering more opportunities than a classic blog. It is coded in php, is licensed under the GNU / GPL license, and thousands of free pluggins already exist. |
| TUTOS The Ultimate Team Software Organization, is also developed in php by Gero Kohnert which is a kind of genius of this language. The applications of this software go from a calendar to billing software through the mail box, address book, project management and teams. Tutos he is also licensed under the GNU / GPL. I have also developed a more user-friendly interface then the original for this software. |
 | Gallery Menalto
This tool is a photo gallery on the Internet, written in php, it allows downloading online or via software in real time on the Internet. - choice of layouts - resizing - rotation - thumbnails edition - management of albums and their tree - link easily with Joomla! ou autre CMS or other CMS
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 | Firefox The best tool to browse the internet, its hundreds of extensions make it the "Swiss army knife" of the Internet, it is multi-platform Windows / MacOS / Linux. |
 | Thunderbird It is a mail client such as Outlook, but 100 times better.
Its advantages are: - Multi-platform Windows / MacOS / Linux
- ultra-easy Recovery of backuped mailboxes
- Hundreds of free extensions |
 | Nvu A simple html editor, largely less powerful than dreamweaver, it can still help a lot. |
 | No-IP This company offers a free service very interesting: an Internet address in http://monsite.no-ip.org redirected to your Internet server computer even if you have a dynamic IP address ... This helps to host its own web server, or ftp server, orvnc distant sessions ... |
 | Real-VNC
This free software lets you take control of a remote computer. |
Office |
 | OpenOffice This software suite very powerful and free combines a word processor, spreadsheet, database management, a presentation tool.
Each of these modules reads the Microsoft Office formats and saves in these formats. |
 | PsPad The best GNU / GPL code editor I know it is very clean, has all the functions imaginable, including:
- typing help
- integrated ftp client
- Research and replacement through the files and folder |
 | XnView Is a fabulous image presentation tool, it can also manage and processimages, and especially in series.
- Full-screen presentation
- Rename in series
- Cropper, adjust colors, the piece or series
- Creation of Web Albums
- Export in most (if not all) of the current images extentions
- Playing videos and mp3 |
 | SourceForge The largest community of software developers of all kinds and for all platforms ... If, for an application, some software lacks, first of all go there, almost everything already exists. |
 | WinSCP SSH client software, allows to visit his SSH server (usually a Linux) and the same distance to work "live" on remote files. Ideal for nomads. |
 | 7 Zip Very comprehensive programme for managing file compression.
It handles virtually all extensions of the best known:. Zip,. Rar,. Tar. Targz.
It works much faster than integrated windows (de)compessor.
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OS |
 | Linux/OpenSuse
Installing Linux on servers and workstations permit to avoid the cost of windows licenses. This is a very stable, maintained by thousands of developers, highly scalable and open to other operating systems.
There are many Linux distributions (Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu ,..), OpenSuse still has my preference for his high professionalism.
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