Comments on: 5 Great Open Source Graphic and Web Design Alternatives

By: Shamima Sultana

Shamima Sultana — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:30:10 +0000

Its such a great resources…:)
Thanks.

By: Karl Craig-West

Karl Craig-West — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:36:20 +0000

I couldn’t live without Firefox with Web Developer and Firebug extensions.

I use Thunderbird instead of outlook, which works well – especially since it synchs with Google Calendar too.

I use Audacity regularly for editing seminar recordings.

However, can’t quiet bring myself to ditch Windows for good because I’m a Dreamweaver user and haven’t yet got my head around Aptana.

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:46:26 +0000

I always use the Javascript library JQuery! Its fantastic for site development, lots of plugins that use it. Its gives more life to the web!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:22:57 +0000

About 3 weeks ago I said bye to Windows all together and have been using Ubuntu.
I can’t say I am missing Windows!!!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:19:26 +0000

Notepad2 is a great tool http://code.kliu.org/misc/notepad2/

Paint.NET http://www.getpaint.net is a great alternative to big ‘photoshop-style’ art programs.

Those two are my weapons of choice.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:48:30 +0000

You may try SSuite Office for a free office suite. They have a whole range of office suites that are free for download that will meet all your demands. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, so it makes the software very small and efficient.

You can try these links:

http://www.ssuitesoft.com/index.htm
or
http://ssuite5element.webs.com/thefifthelement.htm

By: Rik

Rik — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:46:37 +0000

Notepad++ is great as an editor in Windows, one of the first things I install when I reinstall my Windows box (I don’t use Windows at home; what are you talking about? ). Syntax highlighting, tabs, powerful search tool – all life savers.

In Linux though, Kate (a KDE app but it’ll run in Linux) is as and more capable as Notepad++ though. So there’s 2 open source alternatives to each other

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:24:05 +0000

I’m a big fan of NotePad++ for HTML & CSS editing (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) although it does state it runs “…in the MS Windows environment” so I may get stoned for suggesting it

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:53:59 +0000

I always use VLC (http://www.videolan.org) for playing videos on my computer. It’s considerably better than Windows Media Player.

Before I used webmail I always used Mozilla Thunderbird (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/) instead of Outlook for a mail client.

Then of course there’s Linux instead of Windows.