Dia

This is one of the best freeware that I know. Dia is a diagram creation program and based of gtk+. This freeware was released under the GPL License.

I think, you are ever or maybe often use Visio from Microsoft to drawing Diagram. But, to use it, you must charging us more and more for it. Dia was born to be one of the alternative program to drawing diagram. Dia is very similar to Microsoft's Visio application, and was developed as part of the GNOME project's office suite. For anyone going entirely open source, without any Microsoft products, it's not a bad idea to use GNOME (which comes with a slew of applications) and Dia.

Dia is designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio 97'. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, org charts, network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. (http://www.visiolike.com/)

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).Take a look at the screenshot found at this link for the kinds of useful diagrams and flowcharts you can do in Dia. You can associate multiple diagrams with each other and work on them in tandem.

Also, at left is part of Dia's pallette of drawing tools, which, as you can see, looks and feels very Windows-like. In fact, the whole program ties in with Windows conventions very closely so people coming to it with Windows application backgrounds will find Dia intuitive.

Dia also can export diagrams to many popular formats, including :

1. EPS (Encapsulated PostScript),

2. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)

3. DXF (Autocad's Drawing Interchange format)

4. CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)

5. WMF (Windows Meta File)

6. PNG (Portable Network Graphics)

7. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

8. VDX (Microsoft's XML for Visio Drawing)

Read more : http://projects.gnome.org/dia/home.html

Download page : http://projects.gnome.org/dia/downld.html

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SCILAB 5.1

Scilab is a freeware that develop to compute numeric and data visualization. First time, Scilab was developed by INRIA and ANPC, France, and now Scilab development and maintenance is doing by Scilab. The Scilab Home Site is http://www.scilab.org.
The excellent from Scilab is FREEWARE and can run on many Operating System such as Windows, Mac OS/X, Unix, and Linux.

If you familiar with MATLAB in Microsoft Windows, you can easily learn Scilab. The User Interface from Scilab is like MATLAB. Not too different. But, MATLAB need more resources to run it. Like on MATLAB, Scilab also have many tools to do simulation.

Scilab feature :

• 2-D and 3-D graphics, animation
• Linear algebra, sparse matrices
• Polynomials and rational functions
• Interpolation, approximation
• Simulation: ODE solver and DAE solver
• Scicos: a hybrid dynamic systems modeler and simulator
• Classic and robust control, LMI optimization
• Differentiable and non-differentiable optimization
• Signal processing
• Metanet: graphs and networks
• Parallel Scilab
• Statistics
• Interface with Computer Algebra: Maple package for Scilab code generation
• Interface with Fortran, Tcl/Tk, C, C++, Java, LabVIEW
• And a large number of contributions for various domains.

So, get free for Scilab.

Scilab Home Site : here

Scilab Download Page : Scilab 5.1

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Blender 2.48

Blender, it’s remember me with a tools in my kitchen. Yeah, it has same name with that. But in this case Blender is one of the free software that can make 3D image with many feature. If you ever use 3DstudioMAX, MAYA, or Lightwave, yeah, this software have same function with that. Blender was made by Ton Roosendaal, and in 2007 established the Blender Institute to coordinate and facilitate Open Projects related to 3D movies, games or visual effects. in April 2008 the Peach Project, open movie "Big Buck Bunny", was completed in the Blender Institute. Currently the open game Apricot is being in development. The official website of Blender is http://www.blender.org.And I think that Blender is great, it looks from more feature and the advantages that come with blender.

The excellence of Blender is :

1.Free
This is the first best point that I means. Because you can get blender for free, without payment for licence. And I think blender have good expectation in animation industry.

2.Powerfull
I say like that because, you can work for fast and eficient with combination between keyboard and mouse. For beginner, you will feel hardly, but with try to spend a little time by using blender you will get a new experience, and that’s FUN.

3.Multifunction
Like other 3D software, blender can use to make 3D movie, game, 2D/3D animation, and visual effect. From some function that blender have, I like using blender for making game. Blender have internal game engine with Python as core programming. So easy and once again that’s FUN.

4.Small
This is also one of the best excellence of blender. With Python as base programming, and blender was made using Python, so blender have small installer and installed package. As you know that, for the newer version of blender 2.48 on Windows Operating System have installer as executable file about 9 MB and 13 MB in zip file.
You can compare with other comercial 3D software that have big size in your hard disk.

5.Cross Platform
Blender can run with many Operating System, that is Microsoft Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Irix. A something that can not found in other 3D Software.

6.Compatible with Old Machine
With the small size and many feature inside, blender can run on OLD MACHINE. For example, I using blender in my PC with specification : Intel Pentium III 450MHz, 256MB of RAM, Radeon 9200 grphic adapeter, 40 GB of HDD, and CDRW. You can imagine and compare my spec with your computer. So OLD. And you can compare with other 3D software that need big resources .

So, don’t wait until tomorrow, Lets Blending Your Imagination with BLENDER..!!!

Read more : Blender Home Site

Download Page : Blender 2.48

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PDF Watermark Creator

This tool can add watermark to your PDF file such as your company, e-mail, blog / web, or your name. PDF Watermark Creator is a FREEWARE. It means that you can free use this tool without pay license. This freeware can run on Microsoft Windows 98/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Server 2003.

The excellent of this tool is portable. You don't need to install this tool to your computer. Just double click to PDF Watermark Creator to run and use it. This is a light tool, because just use small recources from your computer.

Feature :

• Can be stamped behind virtually every elements of a PDF file
• Can choose whether to overwrite the existing text of a PDF file when the watermark is created.
• You can number the pages of existing PDF files or add you company text logo or your copyright message and much more.

Read more : http://www.coolpdf.com/pdfwatermark.html

Download : PDF Creator Watermark

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Artweaver 0.5.7

Artweaver is a freeware tools to manipulate 2D object like picture or photos. Yeah, it's like Adobe Photoshop. it has GUI like Photoshop GUI. This tools is small and light, so you can make it as your portable image editor.



























Artweaver feature :

• Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
• Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
• Transparency and Layers support.
• Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
• Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD.
• Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
• Support for many languages through language files (Columbian Spanish, Danish, Hungarian, Swedish, ...).
• Artweaver is Freeware.
• And much more...

Read more : Artweaver Home Site

Download page : Artweaver 0.5.7

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Audacity 1.2.6

Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. This program i called as substitution of Adobe Audition.

Audacity can used to :

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more! See the complete list of features.

General feature :

• Recording
• Import and Export
• Editing
• Effect
• Sound quality
• Plugins
• Analysis
• Free and CrossPlatform

Read more : here

Download : here

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Rocket Dock 1.3.5

RocketDock is a simple freeware and light dock for your desktop. RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.

Now your desktop can easily access many application faster. Just one click!!

System Requirements:

• Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• 500Mhz or faster CPU
• 10MB RAM free

Not support OS : Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows Vista 64-bit Editions.


Features:

• Minimize windows to the dock
• Real-time window previews in Vista
• Running application indicators
• Simple drag-n-drop interface
• Multi-monitor support
• Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
• Icons zoom and transition smoothly
• Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
• Positioning and layering options
• Fully customizable
• Completely Portable
• ObjectDock Docklet support
• Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
• Runs great on slower computers
• Unicode compliant
• Supports many languages and can easily be translated
• A friendly user base :)
• And best of all... its FREE!!!

Read more : here

Freeware Download : Latest Version 1.3.5 (6.20 MB)

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Quick PDF Tools

Quick PDF Tools is a free Windows PDF utility for editing and managing your PDF documents.This is good freeware for your PDF documents. Just right click on Windows Explorer to use it, and you ready to interact with your pdf. The feature is :

1. Edit PDF properties (Title, Author, Subject and Keywords)
2. Edit PDF layout and magnification
3. Modify PDF viewer preferences
4. Add/remove passwords for PDF
5. Merge selected PDF files
6. Convert (almost) any image to PDF
7. Remove all bookmarks from a PDF

Read more : Visit Website

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