Computer Applications
In this section of the playroom I list a some of my favorite applications I use. you will find most of the tools listed here is FREE! that's because I'm a bit of an open source head! others might be free for non commercial use and others you will have to pay for, the types of software range from FTP, Anti-virus, office applications, imaging tools, editors etc. so check them out and if you can recommend something for me to try, let me know.
It's not easy to install an Apache web server, MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start. This is a grate tool for developing CMS sites, and similar projects from your computer.
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And are most great tools . . Its Open Source



GIMP ya might of heard of it. . its an open source image editor which is available for windows operating system. and has some great features including:
OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose. OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.