Toolist
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder.
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types and is a great tool for converting or compressing video files or making simple edits.
Drupal allows an individual or a community of users to publish, manage and organise a wide variety of content on a website.
Mozilla Firefox is considered by many to be the best internet browser available, particularly due to its security features, the global community of developers involved, and the huge range of add-on products that extend its functions.
GIMP is image editing software. It is similar to Adobe Photoshop for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems and is available in many languages.
HandBrake is a DVD ripper/converter. It allows you to read from DVD/VOB files and convert them to MP4 or AVI files for storage on your computer, use in editing software or distribution online.
Inkscape is a powerful and convenient drawing tool for the creation of logos and illustrations. It is similar to Adobe Illustrator and works on many operating systems.
Joomla is a tool which helps people create, manage and publish content on their websites.
Jubler is a tool to create text-based subtitles for video. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles.
KompoZer allows you to manage and create websites and is similar to Dreamweaver or FrontPage. KompoZer allows WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editing of pages, making website creation as easy as typing with your word processor.
An easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing audio content on the web.
Miro is a browser for watching videos and subscribing to vodcasts. It allows you to grab webpages (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds) and watch the videos in them full screen, one after the other.
OpenOffice.org includes a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation manager, and a drawing programme. OpenOffice.org works with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office, and it runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Scribus is a page layout program. With Scribus you can create layouts for newsletters, bulletins, manuals, reports or any other printed material that requires text and image layout.
Songbird will help you manage your music files and subscribe to podcasts. It functions in a similar way to iTunes, allowing you to create playlists. Songbird is the only media player which works with the Firefox web browser so you can use it to surf the internet and find audio files to download.
SPIP is a publishing system for websites. It allows a community of users to collaborate online, creating and developing content.
VLC is an audio/video player that will read almost any media format, including DVDs and VCDs. It can be used to author and burn CDs and DVDs, encode video and connect to audio and video streams, and for many other purposes.
Wordpress makes publishing and maintaining a website quite easy and it is also useful for distributing podcasts and video. You can add pages and quickly update content. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available. To use Wordpress you can either sign up for an account at wordpress.com or, for full control and more features, install it on your own server.
