Free Stuff - My Top 5 Open Source Applications
5) osCommerce
I have a sort of love hate relationship with osCommerce, it is a fantasticly powerful, FREE opensource shopping cart software. The bug I have with it is that it does take alot of customisation and plugins to get the application ready for a spacific project. I am now starting to lean towards xcart as software of choice, it is not free - but you get the source code and are able to customise. Again you do need customisation, but you get support (beyond free forums) and there are several great options
4) Drupal
This is my CMS of choice, nice clean with loads of addons. I actually packaged up the software with a selection of great plugins a while ago. It is still available for download from this site
3) FireFox
Ok this is my second browser. Doing website building work I need to get things running in the most popular browser first, then check in FF. Firefox has a fantastic array of plugins and toolbars, and I am probably very guilty of not using FF as much as I should.
2)Word press.
Blog Software, you are looking at an example now.
1) Open Office
Ah yes. Why pay microsoft hundreds when you can get it for free? (There are some very good reasons to use microsoft office, but I will gloss over that just now) Mostly compatible with Microsoft Office, Open Office has a spreadsheet, wordprocessor, database and presentation software that can be used to open, view and edit the microsoft equivelents. The big drawback is that OO is NOT compatable with Microsoft Macros - but has its own macro language.
