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Mark Raborn’s Favorite Software Applications Download List

Posted by Mark Raborn in Downloads on 2010/01/31

Apple Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows operating systems have great software freely available to download. This article ( with links to software downloads ) is dedicated to the applications I personally use.

An active “mostly Free” Software Download List

I have thought of keeping an “up to date” resource of software downloads for some time now. Although not all this software is free, the vast majority is! I have listed my favorites in the context that these seem to be installed on the computers I use. The software includes freeware, open source, and commercial programs for Apple OSX, Ubuntu, and Windows. Thanks for checking it out. Enjoy :)

btw…  personal laptop is a MacBook Pro with the Big 3 OS’s and the stuff below.

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION Apple OS Linux Windows
BOOT LOADER /
DISK UTILITY		 - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Apple Boot Utility Boot Camp - Boot Camp
- EFI Boot Maintenance rEFIt rEFIt rEFIt
ANTI-MALWARE - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Anti-Virus (not all are free) Norton AntiVirus Kaspersky Lab Security Essentials
- compare these AV Solutions … AV Comparatives AV Comparatives AV Comparatives
BROWSER - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Internet Browser Firefox Firefox Internet Explorer
- add-on Adobe Flash Adobe Flash Adobe Flash
- add-on Adobe Shockwave Adobe Shockwave Adobe Shockwave
- add-on Silverlight Mono Silverlight
- add-on Apple QuickTime Apple QuickTime Apple QuickTime
- add-on Firefox Windows Media Player Plugin Firefox Windows Media Player Plugin Firefox Windows Media Player Plugin
add-on Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Firefox Web Developer Toolbar IE Developer Toolbar (IE 6/7)
add-on Firebug Firebug IE Debugging Tools
add-on Outwit – Harvest the Web Outwit – Harvest the Web Web Data Extractor
COMMAND SHELL CLIENT - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Telnet SSH Client Terminal (native) Shell (native) PuTTY (by Simon Tatham)
CRM - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- CRM (free server install)
viewed in mobile browser		 Mobile Express Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile Express Dynamics CRM Mobile Express Dynamics CRM
DATABASE - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- SQL Database MySQL MySQL SQL Server Express
note: Advanced Edition includes Tools and Reporting Services
- Database Administration MySQL Workbench Community Edition MySQL Workbench Community Edition SQL Server Management Studio
DEVELOPMENT & DESIGN - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- IDE Eclipse Eclipse Eclipse
- IDE - - Visual Studio Express Editions
- Web Suite (not free) Adobe Web Design - Adobe Web Design
- Web Suite (not free) - - Microsoft Expression Studio
FACEBOOK - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Facebook Mobile Apps Facebook for iPhone Facebook for Android Facebook for Windows Mobile
- Facebook Photo Exporter
exports images “from” Facebook		 Facebook Exporter for iPhoto Facebook Album Downloader for Firefox Facebook Album Downloader for Firefox
FILE MANAGEMENT - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Compression StuffIt tar , zip 7zip
- FTP Client Filezilla Filezilla Filezilla
- SVN Client SC Plugin for Tortoise SVN eSVN Tortoise SVN
FILE SYSTEM - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- 3rd Party File System Access MacFuse Fuse -
- File System Implementation Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem ( requires MacFuse ) - -
ISO CD/DVD TOOLS - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- CD/DVD Burn Mac CD Burn Tutorial Linux CD Burn Tutorial ImgBurn
- Mount ISO PowerISO PowerISO DAEMON Tools
- ISO Editor - - UltraISO
- Media Suites (not free) Apple iLife Nero Linux Roxio Creator 2010
MESSAGING & COMMUNICATION - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- IM/Chat PSI PSI Live Messenger
- VoIP Phone/Chat Skype Skype Skype
MOBILE - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Mobile Sync iTunes - WMDC – Windows Mobile Device Center
PHOTOGRAPHS / IMAGES - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Photo Editor Picasa for Mac Picasa for Linux Picasa for Windows
- Image Resizer - - ImageResizer
- Image Cropper - - Cropper
PRODUCTIVITY APPS - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Acrobat Reader Adobe Reader Adobe Reader Adobe Reader
- PDF – print & save to PDF OS X Save as PDF Cups-PDF CutePDF Writer
- Java Sun Java Sun Java Sun Java
- Office Suite (MS Office not free) Microsoft Office for Mac Sun Open Office Microsoft Office for Windows
- SharePoint Editor - - SharePoint Designer
- BCM (BCM not free) - - Business Contact Manager
- Mobile BCM (Mac version not free) CompanionLink - BCM for Windows Mobile
- Office 2007 Add-in - - Microsoft Office Save as PDF or XPS
- Office 2003 Add-in - - Office Compatibility Pack for 2007 versions
- Business Diagram (not free) - - Visio
PRESENTATION - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Zoom - - Zoomit – by Mark Russinovich
- Text Substitution Text Expander Snippets Texter – by LifeHacker
REMOTE DESKTOP - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Remote Desktop Apple Remote Desktop rdesktop for Linux -
- Terminal Services Client 7.0 “update” Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac - Terminal Services Client 7.0 Update for Vista and XP (NOTE: in WinXP requires SP3 or TS Client 6.1 be installed)
- Terminal Services - - Terminal Services Client 6.1 for WinXP
- Terminal Services - - Terminal Services Client 6.0 for Windows 2003
- Explanation of Terminal Services releases - - BLOG: explains what TS remote resources become available to users from each operating system/client combination
RESEARCH - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Data Collections (free) – – Pivot ( from MS Live Labs )
VIRTUAL MACHINES - APPLE OS LINUX WINDOWS
- Desktop Virtualization (free) VirtualBox VMware Player Windows Virtual PC
- Desktop Virtualization (not free) VMware Fusion VMware Workstation VMware Workstation

To Be Continued…

I’ll check back in to update the links as often as possible.

Thanks for reading
Mark Raborn
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