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21 Jan 2010

Today, we are listing The Eight Open Source Applications That Are Absolutely Useful. These would be very helpful for you when you have no budget to purchase commercial software to use in your daily life. You are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.

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PDF Split and Merge

PDF Split and Merge is an easy to use tool to merge and split pdf documents. Console and GUI versions are available. The GUI is written in Java Swing and it provides functions to select files and set options. It’s made over the iText library.

TightVNC

TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include bandwidth-friendly “Tight” encoding, file transfers in the Windows version, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.

WinSCP

WinSCP is a SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

Notepad++

Notepad++, a source code editor and MS Windows Notepad replacement, has the mission to offer a greener environment. By optimizing its routines, it results in reducing CPU power consumption then reducing the world carbon dioxide emissions.

Launchy

Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, your desktop icons, and your file manager. Launchy indexes and launches your applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.

PortableApps

PortableApps.com allows you to carry your favorite computer programs and all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you on a portable device (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, CD, etc) and use them on any Windows computer.

AxCrypt

AxCrypt is the leading open source file encryption software for Windows. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.

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Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, computer, DEB, file, GUI, gui versions, Merge, MergePDF, ms windows notepad, notepad replacement, source, source code editor, Split, WIM, Windows

BumpTop’s 3D Desktop Comes to the Mac

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21 Jan 2010

BumpTop released the Windows version of BumpTop’s 3D desktop in April 2009. Today, BumpTop finally released a version for the Mac. BumpTop turns your desktop into a 3D experience, where documents are organized in stacks and you can pin often-used files, folders or images onto the walls. BumpTop also incorporates a physics simulations, so interactions with your files on the 3D desktop feel extremely lifelike.

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While the Mac doesn’t offer multi-touch screens, BumpTop managed to incorporate some multi-touch gestures by using the touchpad on Mac laptops (these are only available in the Pro version). Swiping down with three fingers, for example, creates a new stack of files on your desktop. If you are using a desktop or an older laptop, however, you will not be able to make use of these gestures.

Mac Version Give You a More Seamless Experience

For the Mac version, the BumpTop team has tweaked the user interface so that it fits in nicely with the rest of the OSX experience. BumpTop still suffers from a slight disconnect between the desktop experience and running an application. Switching to the application takes you out of the 3D experience. Interestingly enough, this effect is less pronounced on the Mac than on Windows. On the Mac, BumpTop just becomes a seamless part of your desktop and stays out of the way. On Windows, BumpTop often feels more like an additional application than an integral part of the OS.

For a more detailed look at BumpTop’s feature set, have a look at our earlier review of the Windows version.

Get a Free Pro Version

The free version of BumpTop incorporates most of the most interesting features in the software, but the Pro version ($29) includes a number of cool additional features like multi-touch gestures, unlimited sticky notes on your desktop and a find-as-you-type feature that makes it easy to find documents on your desktop.

~~The Pro version is a free upgrade to the first 100 people who sign up at this special ReadWriteWeb page.~~

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Tags: 3d experience, BumpTop, D Environment, desktop, experience, Mac, mac laptops, mac version, physics simulations, three fingers, touch screens, version, Windows

BumpTop for Mac Launches: a Seamless 3D Desktop Experience [INVITES]

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20 Jan 2010

We wrote about BumpTop last year when it launched for Windows, and now the impressive and unique re-imagination of the computer desktop is coming to the Mac faithful. We had a chance to chat with CEO Anand Agarawala about the launch of BumpTop on the Mac and some of the company’s future plans.

If you’re not already familiar with the concept, BumpTop essentially adds a three-dimensional “real world desktop” metaphor to your computer’s desktop. You can create visual “piles” of files and documents completely unrelated to their logical file structure — handy for keeping a “working stack” of items at the top of mind. You can make files physically larger or smaller by growing or shrinking them, giving you a quick and intuitive visual representation of their relative importance.

Thanks to the 3D view, you can also “sticky” items to the “walls” in addition to the primary desktop panel. There’s also a cool search feature that’s invoked simply by typing, making quick retrieval of key items a snap. Plus, you can of course customize the look and feel of each surface with your own background image or a complete theme if you wish.

What’s Unique About the Mac Version?

Importantly, the Mac version of BumpTop is not simply a port of the Windows version. It’s been built from the ground up to integrate seamlessly with Leopard, and plays nice with your existing setup. The app is integrated seamlessly into the Finder, meaning you can enjoy all the usual bells and whistles like Spaces, Expose, and Quick Look as usual.

BumpTop Mac also specifically supports multi-touch gestures for MacBook Pro and MacBook multi-touch trackpads. We talked a bit about how the forthcoming age of the tablet portends a sort of “renaissance of touch” that BumpTop seems to be fully prepared for.

Future Plans

Having already supported multi-touch gestures in the Windows version, future plans include exploring further into touch interfaces and how BumpTop can make the desktop a more intuitive experience in a touch environment. As new devices and form factors come online in the marketplace, the goal with BumpTop appears to be to embrace platforms as widely as possible.

Cloud computing also factors into the company’s roadmap, with some interesting new features in the works surrounding managing web content on your BumpTop desktop as well as local documents and files. Without getting too far into specific details that may change before feature release, it’s a good bet to anticipate some sort of widget platform emerging around BumpTop that brings more interactive and cloud-connected services into your BumpTop workspace.

For example, imagine a Facebook Wall that lives right on your desktop, providing new and unique ways to visualize your Facebook experience and associated data. Or, imagine drag and dropping a web page right into your desktop and being able to manipulate it locally as if viewing a “living page.”

No matter what specific concepts find their way into future versions of BumpTop, it’s an exciting new (and relatively rare) ambitious attempt to revitalize and rethink the desktop experience that was remained largely an unchanged paradigm for going on twenty years.

100 Free Pro Version Upgrades

The free version of BumpTop includes its core features, while the Pro version contains extra functionality including unlimited sticky notes, scroll wheel controls for flipping through document piles, the instant search feature, multi-touch trackpad support, and premium support service. BumpTop was kind enough to provide Mashable readers with 100 free upgrades to the Pro version:

The Pro version is a free upgrade to the first 100 people who signup at this special Mashable page: http://bumptop.com/press/mashable.php.

Enjoy, and let us know what you think of BumpTop for Mac.

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Tags: 3D, bumptop, cloud computing, desktop, mac, macintosh, software, touchscreens