Best of the Web for Free Applications
26. Aug, 2009 
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Here are a listing some free applications which are very helpful for you to process your daily work. They are useful If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, that don’t want to spend a lot of money on software. We made sure to add something interesting for everyone. Some of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share any that you know that have not been shared here.
280Slides
Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there’s no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you’re done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.
Prezentit
Prezentit is a community where you can create (alone or with others), share and show your presentations.
With Prezentit, your presentations are always available, anywhere, anytime and from any place, for viewing or editing.
PFD to Word
Using PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect.
Best of all, it’s entirely free!
Adobe® Buzzword
Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser on Acrobat.com, so there’s no installation required. Getting started is free
Adobe® Browser Lab
Preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand. Adobe BrowserLab makes it easier and faster than ever before to see how your designs appear to your customers and audience. Get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the web.
Gimp
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
Pixlr
Pixlr is an advanced online image and photo editing tool. The pixlr services is built for the users that have basic editing needs like editing web images to be posted on social networks like Facebook, Myspace Bebo, image sites like Flickr, Fotolog, Photobucket etc.
It’s also widely used by professionals for fixing images for news sites and blogs etc.
Phoenix
From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application.
Peacock
Peacock is an amazing “Visual Laboratory”. Experiment with pixel-based images in completely new ways.
Toucan
Used alone or in conjunction with our other creation tools, Toucan gives you the features you need to inject color into your creative process.
CropMom
CropMom’s free online service allows members to upload their photos and embellish them with our top-of-the-line scrapbook graphics. The ability to create unique works of art is endless. The results are highly personalized and creative digital scrapbook pages, cards or artwork.
Photoshop.com
Photoshop.com is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. Upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.
Picnick
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
Kuler
Kuler is a web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
Mobify
MOBIFY is a service that provides websites with seamless, integrated mobile views. It lets publishers quickly monetize mobile users and gives web designers a powerful mobile toolkit. MOBIFY is compatible with thousands of devices, integrates with most web publishing platforms and is free to use.
Vue 7 Pioneer
Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres… in a few mouse clicks.
Vue 7 Pioneer is a great way to learn 3D. It’s so easy to use that you’ll be composing amazing 3D landscapes in no time.
Blender
Blender is a 3D graphics application released as free software. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, composting, and creating interactive 3D applications, including games. Blender is available for a number of operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.
Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla’s Thunderbird Free email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. It is the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide, after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Safari
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. It became Apple’s default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther”. Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone OS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system first released on 11 June 2007 supports both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Opera
Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying websites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds. Opera is offered free of charge for personal computers and mobile phones,
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Just wanted to thank you for listing our online scrapbooking Website, CropMom, under Best of the Web for Free Applications We appreciate how you’re helping to spread the word about our free online scrapbook software.
You are welcome Balint, CropMom was actually one of the online software that totally surprised me when I was doing my research. I know many Moms that enjoy scrap booking and your website seems to carry that over successfully to the web.
Stripemania is a great utility for creating beautiful striped backgrounds images for websites. It’s totally free and you don’t just download them, you can get creative with colors, gradients, spacing and angles. Check it out here: http://www.stripemania.com
Once again, ya’ll hit it on the head! Thanks!
Another cool online App.
Color Calculator http://www.sessions.edu/ilu/ilu_1.asp
Can be used to find sets of complimentary colors eg. purple and yellow and sets of colors that are harmonious. Good for when you are struggling to find the right color combination/s for your graphics project eg. logos.
Nice applications, saved. thanks.
Thanks for these nice article. Really useful.
Lots of apps, they’re all great, thanks.
Excellent! Thank you!
A few other applications worth mentioning.
1. Flock – The social web browser. It has many add-ons and streamlined services you have to give it a try.
http://www.flock.com
2.Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.
http://www.inkscape.org/
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And Justin tv.
Broadcast or enjoy what others are broadcasting while you text chat.
http://www.justin.tv
I will add more later I have things to do.
Cool, I will check those out, I totally forgot about Flock