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Useful free software


There are numerous very useful tools to organize, communicate, decide... Most famous commercial software has at least one free alternative. This page is a short guide to useful software for CENIR users.


Where can I find alternatives?

alternativeto.net is THE online resource to find alternatives (free or not, Windows, Mac, or Linux...) for all everyday software.

The Framasoft initiative promotes numerous free open-source alternatives to online services of the web giants.

Free open-source software recommended by the French state in 2017: http://www.numerama.com/content/uploads/2017/03/SILL-2017-socle-interminist%C3%A9riel-logiciels-libres_0.pdf



Image edition

Alternatives to:

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop

... and more!

Pinta (a simpler photoshop)

https://pinta-project.com

Inkscape (Illustrator)

Résultat de recherche d'images

https://inkscape.org/

Gimp (Photoshop)

https://www.gimp.org/

XnViewMP (bulk processing)

http://www.xnview.com/fr/xnviewmp/

Shutter (screen capture tool)

http://shutter-project.org/

Imagej

http://imagej.net





Sound


Audacity (editing sound files)

http://www.audacityteam.org/



Code versioning, text handling

Alternative to GitHub...


GitLab (code repository hosted by icm-institute.org)

https://gitlab.icm-institute.org/

ICM guide to GIT: GIT

smartGit (graphical Git client)

http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

Meld (text file comparison and merge)

http://meldmerge.org/

Atom (programming text editor)

https://atom.io/

Remarkable (Markdown editor and rendering)

File Icons

https://remarkableapp.github.io/



Cloud

Alternative to Dropbox, googledocs, googlecalendar, googleform, doodle...

Slack, Trello...


owncloud (dropbox replacement hosted by icm-institute.org)

Logo

http://owncloud.icm-institute.org/

framacalc, framadate, framagenda (online services replacing GAFA's ones)

https://framasoft.org/

Mattermost (replacement for slack, a live chat hosted by icm-institute.org)

https://mattermost.icm-institute.org

Project management (replacement for Trello and the like)

https://openproject.icm-institute.org

https://taiga.icm-institute.org



File management / transfer



FreeFileSync (synchronization, bulk copy...)

FreeFileSync - Open Source File Synchronization

Filezilla ((s)ftp file transfer)

baobab (Linux), windirstat (Windows), JDiskReport (OS X) (Utilisation du disque)