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Office Applications
 

Open Office
- Licensing: OpenSource, LGPL

Office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet program, multimedia presentations tool, graphic and diagram package and a database application.

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Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
- Lizenz: CloseSource, Freeware

The OpenDocument format (ODF) is a file format for electronic office documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Published as an ISO/IEC International open Standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0. the standard specification is freely available and implementable. By default Open Office uses the ODF file format but the MS office suites do not. This plugin enables the Microsoft Office users to import and export to Open Document Format (ODF).

 

Sunbird / Lightning
- Licensing: OpenSource, MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license

Calendar application, where Sunbird is a stand alone version and Lightning is a plugin for Thunderbird. It can be used a stand alone or sharing different calendars with others (FTP / webDAV). Installing Lightnining turns Thunderbird to a PIM application simlar to the functionality of Outlook.

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FreeMiCal
- Licensing: OpenSource, Open Software License

Tool which allows a bulk export of MS Outlook appointment items to RFC 2445 conformant iCal format. .NET 2.0 or greater and Outlook 2003 or 2007 Interop Services required.
It is especially helpful to get Outlook appointment data to Sunbird or Lightning.

 

Miraplacid Form Lite Edition
- Lizenz: CloseSource, Freeware

helps to fill paper forms on a PC. To do so a form is a scanned as image, form fields are defined with mouse and fill it out afterwords. The created layout can be safed and can be filled out later again.

 

Dia
- Licensing: OpenSource, GPL

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).

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Argo UML
- Licensing: OpenSource, BSD

ArgoUML is a UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.

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Dictionary
Dictionary application for offline translation.

  • jDictionary - Dictionary supporting diffrent dictionaries due to plugins.
    - Licensing: OpenSource, LGPL
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  • JDing - German ↔ English dictionary (Ding Clone)
    - Licensing: OpenSource, GPL
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  • LingoPad - Multilingual Dictionary
    - Licensing: Freeware
  • TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus - Software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single language reference system. It also provides a large collection of examples of usage.
    - Licensing: Freeware
  • Ding / MacDING - German ↔ English dictionary
    - Licensing: OpenSource, GPL
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Project Management
 

OpenProj
- Licensing: OpenSource, CPAL

OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a familiar user interface and even opens existing MSProject files. OpenProj is interoperable with Project.

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Achievo
- Licensing: OpenSource, GPL

Web-basiertes Achievo is a flexible web-based free project management tool for small to medium businesses. It supports Project management, Relation Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRM), Time Registration, Calendar and Personal Information Management.
To run Achievo a web server, PHP4 and MySQL is needed.

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Publishing
 

KompoZer
- Licensing: OpenSource, MPL 1.1 / GPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.1

WYSIWYG-HTML-Editor to create and manage Web-Sites.

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Amaya
- Licensing: OpenSource, W3C® SOFTWARE NOTICE AND LICENSE

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

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Scribus
- Licensing: OpenSource, GPL

Scribus is a desktop publishing software providing a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. It supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Its broad feature set of page layout features is comparable to leading closed-source applications such as Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

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LaTeX
LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. LaTeX is intended to provide a high-level language that accesses the power of TeX comprising a collection of TeX macros and a program to process LaTeX documents. Following software is recommended to work comfortably with LaTeX on Windows:

  • MikTeX -TeX/LaTeX distribution for Win32 PCs
  • Tex Live - TeX/LaTeX distribution many other LaTeX distribuations are based on
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  • Texmaker - LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.
    - Licensing: OpenSource, GPL 2.0
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  • TeXnicCenter - Editor integrating all the tools, needed to develop documents with LaTeX. This includes the support to write your LaTeX files with, starting the building process and analyzing building warnings and errors using the output of the LaTeX compiler written to a window of TeXnicCenter.
    - Lizenz: OpenSource, GPL
  • JabRef - reference management software that uses BibTeX as its native format.
    - Licensing: OpenSource, GPL
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Mathematics
 

GNU Octave
- Licensing: OpenSource, GPL

high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab.

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