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Q11230
personal computer operating system by Microsoft that was released in 2007
Linux Mint
Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux distribution
jQuery
jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. , jQuery is used by 77% of the 10 million most popular websites. Web analysis indicates that it is the most widely deployed JavaScript library by a large margin, having at least three to four times more usage than any other JavaScript library.
LXDE
LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements. This makes it especially suitable for use on older or resource-constrained personal computers such as netbooks or system on a chip computers.
Xubuntu
Amazon Web Services
subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
Google Workspace
email, cloud storage, collaboration tools, hardware, administration, social media and other business apps
SeaMonkey
SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape 7.
Rockstar Advanced Game Engine
game engine developed by Rockstar San Diego
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
thin client operating system from Microsoft
Microsoft Defender Antivirus
antivirus app, component of Windows Vista and later
Windows Aero
graphical user interface
Microsoft Office 2007
version of Microsoft Office
TrueOS
TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT.
Q226915
Zotero () is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF and ePUB files. Features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, integrated PDF, ePUB and HTML readers with annotation capabilities, and a note editor, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, OnlyOffice, and Google Docs. It was originally created at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and, as of 2021, is developed
Vala
programming language
Adblock Plus
content filtering and ad blocking browser extension
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
antivirus program developed by Kaspersky Lab
Q285741
qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client written in native C++. It relies on Boost, OpenSSL, zlib, Qt 6 toolkit and the libtorrent-rasterbar library for the torrent back-end, with an optional search engine written in Python.
gNewSense
gNewSense was a Linux distribution, active from 2006 to 2016. It was based on Debian, and developed with sponsorship from the Free Software Foundation. Its goal was user-friendliness, but with all proprietary (e.g. binary blobs) and non-free software removed. The Free Software Foundation considered gNewSense to be composed entirely of free software.
Songbird
music player
Compiz
Compiz () is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as loadable plugins. Because it conforms to the ICCCM conventions, Compiz can be used as a substitute for the default Mutter or Metacity, when using GNOME Panel, or KWin in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Internally Compiz uses the OpenGL library as the interface to the graphics hardware.
Boot Camp
Proprietary dual-boot wizard
Firebug
web development add-on for Firefox
Windows Communication Foundation
runtime and set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications
Apache Struts
open-source web application framework
Windows Presentation Foundation
graphical subsystem
Windows Internet Explorer 7
web browser by Microsoft
Q306233
exFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards, that was introduced by Microsoft in 2006. exFAT was proprietary until 28 August 2019, when Microsoft published its specification. Microsoft owns patents on several elements of its design.
IronPython
IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language targeting the .NET and Mono frameworks. The project is currently maintained by a group of volunteers at GitHub. It is free and open-source software, and can be implemented with Python Tools for Visual Studio, which is a free and open-source extension for Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE.
Windows Essentials
discontinued suite of tools for productivity offered by Microsoft
AIMP
AIMP is a freeware audio player for Windows and Android, originally developed by Russian developer Artem Izmaylov (). It supports a variety of audio codecs, and includes tools to convert audio files and edit their metadata. It also has the capability of installing user-made skins and plugins. After its release, it has been well received by different parties.''''
NixOS
NixOS is a Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager. Unlike traditional Linux distributions, NixOS is configured using a functional language that describes the system configuration. It generates complete system profiles, enabling reproducible deployments, atomic upgrades, and system rollbacks.
Microsoft Expression Web
Discontinued HTML editor by Microsoft
Miro
Internet television software
Q1275912
PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, Linux, MacOS and BSD by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (supporting compression, multi-volume split, and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats. Version 9.4.0 supported 234 file extensions.
Q163075
virtual globe and atlas software
Redmine
Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool. It allows users to manage multiple projects and associated subprojects. It features per project wikis and forums, time tracking, and flexible, role-based access control. It includes a calendar and Gantt charts to aid visual representation of projects and their deadlines. Redmine integrates with various version control systems and includes a repository browser and diff viewer.
Nintendo DS & DSi Browser
web browser
1Password
1Password is a password manager developed by the Canadian software company AgileBits Inc. It supports multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides a place for users to store various passwords, software licenses, and other sensitive information in a virtual vault that is locked with a PBKDF2-guarded master password. By default, the user’s encrypted vault is hosted on 1Password’s servers for a monthly fee.
Windows DVD Maker
Movie maker for Windows Vista to Windows 8
WiiConnect24
WiiConnect24 was a feature of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for the Wii. It was first announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in mid-2006 by Nintendo. It enabled the user to remain connected to the Internet while the console was on standby. For example, in Animal Crossing: City Folk, a friend could send messages to another player without the recipient being present in the game at the same time as the sender.
SQLAlchemy
thumb|Mike Bayer talking about SQLAlchemy at PyCon 2012 SQLAlchemy is an open-source Python library that provides an SQL toolkit (called "SQLAlchemy Core") and an object–relational mapper (ORM) for database interactions. It allows developers to work with databases using Python objects, enabling efficient and flexible database access.
Q1419604
InfraRecorder is an open-source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.
Q2596578
SMPlayer is a cross-platform graphical front-end for MPlayer and mpv and forks of Mplayer using GUI widgets offered by Qt. SMPlayer is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. SMplayer has been localized in more than 30 languages.
Iceweasel
REDIRECT Debian–Mozilla trademark dispute
Windows Live OneCare
discontinued Microsoft security software
Box2D
Box2D is a free open source 2-dimensional physics simulator engine written in C by Erin Catto and published under the MIT license. It has been used in Crayon Physics Deluxe, Limbo, Rolando, Incredibots, Angry Birds, Tiny Wings, Shovel Knight, Transformice, Happy Wheels,, Noita, and many online Flash games, as well as iPhone, iPad and Android games using the Cocos2d or Moscrif game engine and Corona framework. It has also been used in the Unity game engine and is available as an extension for the Scratch-based programming languages TurboWarp (in its Extension Gallery website) and PenguinMod (bu
Q639194
KNIME (), the Konstanz Information Miner, is a data analytics, reporting and integrating platform. KNIME integrates various components for machine learning and data mining through its modular data pipelining "Building Blocks of Analytics" concept. A graphical user interface and use of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) allows assembly of nodes blending different data sources, including preprocessing (extract, transform, load (ETL)), for modeling, data analysis and visualization with minimal, or no, programming. It is free and open-source software released under a GNU General Public License.
jQuery UI
JavaScript library
Kaspersky Internet Security
computer protection software
PlayStation 3 system software
system software for the PlayStation 3
Q279182
Retroshare is a free and open-source peer-to-peer communication and file sharing app based on a friend-to-friend network built by GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). Optionally peers may exchange certificates and IP addresses to their friends and vice versa.
Pandoc
Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) and as a basis for publishing workflows. It was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Q1116614
screen reader software for Windows
Unreal Engine 3
third version of Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games
Google Programmable Search Engine
platform for creating custom search engines based on Google Search
Windows Speech Recognition
Speech recognition software
Orbit Downloader
download manager and malware application for Windows
Windows Meeting Space
peer-to-peer collaboration program developed by Microsoft