Free C / C++ IDE for Windows, Linux and Mac OS

Most of the C C++ IDE are for older version of Windows and Linux and they hardly run on newer Operating Environment. To cop up with this problem, CodeLite was developed in Open source world. 

CodeLite is open source software IDE for C/C++ development and is available for different platforms like Windows, Linux, Mac OS. It
is Open source, free and is licensed under GPLv2 license. 

This new version of CodeLite has fixed its earlier bugs and is now performing great. CodeLite inherits features of Open Source Licensing such as 

• Free to use, download and distribute.
• Source code is available. 

CodeLite, free C/C++ software has been tested to work on operating systems like 

• Windows XP SP3
• Windows 7 and 8
• Debian / Ubuntu
• Fedora / OpenSUSE
• Mac OSX 10.5.8
• FreeBSD

You can download CodeLite from http://sourceforge.net/projects/codelite/files/latest/download?source=dlp . 

Its hosted on sourceforge website to download. 

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DropIt : A tool for organizing files and folders

When it comes to managing a large number of files and folders, it really becomes a tough job. Huge time taking and sometimes even frustrating. Just imagine you have to compress 5000 files. You will have to compress each files separately one by one wasting a huge lot of time and your resources. Here is tool which can automate all the processing realted to files and folders and it really works great. It might seem to you a small software but as you get familiar with it, you will know the power of it. 

DropIt is a free and open source tool for organizing different files and folders related process automatically. It can automate tasks like opening folders moving files from one folder to another and other. 
Some of the automated tasks it can perform are

• Move
• Copy
• Compress
• Extract
• Rename
• Delete
• Open With
• Upload
• Send by Mail
• Create list
• Create playlist
• Shortcut
• and some more. 

DropIt is surely a useful app for thse who works with files and folders more often and don't want to waste time doing manually all the work. Every process is automatic. Drop the bunch of files or folders on DropIt and it will guide you to provide the destination folder and to what operation you need to perform on it. 

Since the project is open source, you have the rights to use, modify, distribute and share with anyone you know without any need of payment. 

Platform. Currently its for Windows platform and comes both with an installer and portable format. 

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You can download DropIt from the link Download DropIt. 

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Handbrake : Free and open source best Video Converter

Handbrake is an open source free Video Converter that converts from common multimedia files including un protected DVDs or Blu Ray sources to a large number of output formats. Its a cross platform available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS x .


Outputs:

File Containers: MP4(M4V) and MKV
Video Encoders: H.264(x264), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), or Theora(libtheora)
Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis.
Audio Passthru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks


Misc features:

• Title / Chapter selection
• Queue up multiple encodes: Allowing user to queue up more than one encode.
• Chapter Markers
• Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
• Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
• Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
• Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preivew
• Built-in presets for common devices

Basic Features of an Open Source Software: 

• Free. Free to use, distribute, copy, modify. No need to pay a Rupee to anyone. 
• Source Code availability. Source code is available to modify, recompile, and distribute. 
• Free patches.

It can be download from its website http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php.

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Top 10 open source / free softwares. Part II

In the previous post, we have discussed the top 5 best open source free softwares. We are extending the topic in this article with 5 more widely downloaded and used open source softwares. The previous post you can access here. Top 10 open source free softwares part 1.

• Pango. The goal of Pango is to provide an open-source framework for the layout and rendering text into GNOME environments. GNOME environment is popular tool kit for the development of Graphical User Interface. Pango's major role is to provide localized text rendering. Pango uses Unicode for all of its encoding, and supports output in world's all major languages. Its official website to learn more about it and to download it is http://www.pango.org/

• OpenOffice. OepnOffice is a replacement for Micorsoft Office in open source world. It is dircetly in competition with Office suite of Microsoft. Open Office includes

• Writer
• Calc
• Draw
• Impress
• Database user tools
• Visual HTML editor
• Macro recorder
• Mathematical formula editor. 
• You can read about it more apache-openoffice Here.
• Its official website is www.openoffice.org.

• Tomcat. it functions as a servlet container under the Jakarta Project at the Apache Software Foundation. It implements the servlet and the JavaServer Pages sepcification from Sun Microsystem. Tomcat runs with many application servers that supports servlets and JSPs. It comes with Jasper compiler that compiles JSP into servlet. It also functions as an independent server itself. Since its written in JAVA, it runs on any computer that has JVM Java Virtual Machine installed on it. The official Tomcat website is http://tomcat.apache.org/

• PHP. PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used open-source programming language primarily for server side applications and developing dynamic web pages. It can be seen as an alternative to Microsoft's ASP/VBScript/JScript or JSP/Java system. PHP is easy to use and due to similarity with languages like C, perl it has gained its importance. It allows interaction with large number of Databases services like MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and PostgreSql. It runs on most operating systems including Linux, Windows, Sun OS, Mac etc. Home page of PHP is http://www.php.net/

• Python. It is an interpreted interactive programming language with very rich syntax and is considered as one of the fastest growing programming language. Due to its open-ness and powerful nature, its been a regular choice for most of the programmers. The famous website, www.reddit.com has been developed completely with python only. There are a large number of modules available for python which makes the use of python very east. The documentation is provided on the website itself free.You can read its features and download links here python-open-source-programming-language. Its official website is  http://python.org/

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Top 10 open source / free softwares. Part I

Open Source Softwares / Free softwares provides an alternative to the high cost Proprietary softwares. The software costing in hundreds of $$$ have alternative all over the internet. Here we are compiling Top 10 open source / free softwares. Only five of them are discussed here.

• Linux. Linux is a popular operating system which is the best example of free and open source software. That means its not only free to use but its underlying source code is also available for modification, redistribution. Linux has many different distributions developed along with its progress. You can a list of some of them here with features and downloads links. Linux Distributions and Open Source softwares lists.

• Mozilla. Mozilla is also both free and open source. It is free and cross platform Internet software suite that includes 
• a web browser. Mozilla Firefox
• an email client. Mozilla Thunderbird. 
• an HTML client. 
• a IRC client. 
• Mozilla is a cross platform and its web browser is one of the largest downloaded software on internet. The official website of Mozilla is http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

• Apache Server. Apache web server or Apache HTTP server is an open-source web server available for many platforms including BSD, Linux, Windows and others. Apache web server is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the name of Apache software foundation. It can be downloaded from apache official website. http://www.apache.org/

• MySQL. It is one of the most popular open source database system in the world. It is multi-threaded, multi-user, SQL relational database server. It is available for different platforms like windows, Linux, Mac, Sun OS etc. It supports many front end programming languages such as C, C++, SmallTalk, JAVA, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, TCl and some more. MySQL can be downloaded from its offcial site http://www.mysql.com/

• PostgreSQL. It is a free software object-relational database server and is seen as a alternative to MySQL and other database systems. It may serve as alternative to even proprietary softwares like Oracle, Sybase, DB2 etc. It can be downloaded from its official website http://www.postgresql.org/

5 more leading Open source software/ Free software will be discussed in next post. Keep visiting. 

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The top 5 Linux distributions.

Here is a short list of top 5 best Linux Distributions: 

Ubuntu is considered as one of most user friendly operating system with best GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) among all its complementary. Ubuntu is by-far the most used operating system by novice. If you are new to Linux and don't have a deeper knowledge and understanding of how Linux runs, you must try Ubuntu first. It tops the list of best 5 linux distribution according to me. 

Read more about Ubuntu Ubuntu: features and download.

Fedora was created to be user friendly. Yet, it contains all the powerful-ness of Linux. It is a powerful as any other distros and supports both graphical mode and command line. Fedora is designed user friendly and has beautiful artwork. Much better than windows. You will the desktop,, file systems, navigation. Almost everything about it. Fedora has a huge collection of its open source apps. 

Read more about Fedora Fedora: features and downloads.

CentOS is derived from Red Hat Linux Distributions. It was released in 2004, and supports many languages. The chances are you will find it in a language that best suits you. Powerful and easy to use. In fact, We have been provided centOS in our college. There is no support system for centOS which is one of its disadvantages. Still, its one the best to use for students who don't to miss the strength of Linux on the cost of GUI. 

Read more about CentOS CentOS: features and downloads.

 OpenSuse is considered as a desktop OS. It competes directly with Ubuntu in its user interface.It has somewhat magical desktop with beautiful graphics. It is built on Linux kernel 3.4. Some other features include inclusion of Open suite, media players, and a lots of software replacement which you use in Windows. Its completely open source and free as other Linux distributions and its support system is present. Best for a beginner after Ubuntu. 
Read more about OpenSuse OpenSuse: features and downloads.

Linux Mint was started in 2006 and soon it became the 4th most widely used operating system after windows, Mac, and ubuntu. Linux Mint has its own users. The latest version is LinuxMind nadia. It is very useful for multimedia lovers. 
Its community driven. There is a community support where users are encouraged to share experiences and bugs. Its very little maintainance makes it most widely used after ubuntu. No anti-viurs, spyware, nothing. Read more about Linux Mint Linux Mint: features and downloads.


Although it depends on person to person what they love. Some go for Graphics point of view, while others don't wanna miss the powerful part of Linux on the cost of GUI. 
If you are a beginner go for Ubuntu/OpenSuse. Or why not to try all, and see which suits you better. 

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Vuze bittorent Client - best torrent downloader

Vuze is the best torrent downloader for geeks. With many other torrent client, Vuze has its own users group who don't want to switch over to another one. Vuze is more tech savvy providing more features of controlling the bandwidth and including in it an HD player. With inbuilt search function, and high download speed its the best torrent downloader. Vuze is a light weight software which doesn't slows down the computer and automatically optimizes torrent download speeds. Lets discuss some of the features.  

Features: 

• Find torrents in One Click. Vuze provides a search box to search almost all the torrent websites and you don't need to go to every torrent website one by one in order to search a torrent file. 
• Subscription. Vuze provides a a way to subscribe to feeds and get regular updates contents directly in the client for download. No need to visit your favorite website daily to check whats new there. 
• Multiple torrents download simultaneously with full control on bandwidth allocation and priority of downloads. 
• Faster downloads by not allowing any third factors to influence the speed of downloads.
• Vuze HD video player. Play the downloaded files in 1080p with inbuilt playback device. No need of any other video playing software. 
• With Vuze HD player, there is a a feature to download subtitles directly in different language from open subtitle website. You don't need to go and search them according to your language need. 

Download. 

You can download Vuze here. 

Warning. Hosting or Downloading copyrighted contents from torrents is copyright violation. We Linuxosr do not appreciate it. By the way, there is always an alternative in free world for the paid softwares you download from torrents.

What is basically a torrent client.
A torrent client is small software which is used to download torrent files to your system. There are various websites which hosts torrents, including movies, games, softwares, or virtually anything. Most of the torrents are copyrighted by the owner. We dont recommend you to download any other copyrighted material from them. A torrent client manages all the sedd/peers activities and ensures a high speed downloading along with resume capability and download anytime anywhere facility. 

Not satisfied with Vuze? Here is another torrent client in Open Source World. Do try it. qBittorrent torrent client. 

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