It’s certainly my hope that you found the software solutions you were looking for in the main portion of this book. However, as I did my research for this book, more options were brought to my attention. This appendix covers a supplemental list of free software solutions that you may find useful.

Office Productivity, Note Taking, Accounting, and PDF Creation

Here are several software products related to office work similar to the ones in Chapter 1.

Jarte

• Software description (as shown on the provider’s website): A free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows. A fast-starting, easy-to-use word processor that expands well beyond the WordPad feature set. A small, portable, touch-enabled word processor whose documents are fully compatible with Word and WordPad (There are paid versions of Jarte available that offer more features).
• Website: www.jarte.com/features.html
• License: Proprietary Freeware
• Current Version: 5.3
• Operating System(s): Windows

NeoOffice

• Software description (as shown on the provider’s website): NeoOffice is a complete office suite for Mac OS X. With NeoOffice, users can view, edit, and save OpenOffice documents, LibreOffice documents, and simple Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
• Website: www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 2014.12 (Free Edition)
• Operating System(s): Mac OS

KeepNote

• Software description (as shown on the provider’s website): KeepNote is a note-taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, TODO lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc. in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, you can retrieve any note for later reference.
• Website: http://keepnote.org/
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 0.7.8
• Operating System(s): Windows, Mac OS, Linux

RedNotebook

• Software description (as shown on the provider’s website): RedNotebook is a modern journal. It includes calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality, and word clouds. You can also format, tag, and search your entries. RedNotebook is Free Software under the GPL.
• Website: http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/index.html
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 1.10.1
• Operating System(s): Windows, Mac OS, Linux

TurboCASH

• Software description (as shown on the provider’s website): TurboCASH Accounting is a community-developed, top-drawer, SME accounting package that will make your business competitive. Here is a world class software package that is going to improve your profitability. Best of all, it is free. There are no catches here. We are not looking to become your “accounting department.” It is our pleasure to watch you make profit. As a community member, we want you to use TurboCASH- FREE.
• Website: www.turbocash.net/index.php
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 5.00600
• Operating System(s): Windows, Mac OS, Linux

Buddi

• Software description (as shown on the provider’s website): Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.
• Website: http://buddi.digitalcave.ca/
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 3.1.4.13
• Operating System(s): Windows, Mac OS, Linux

CutePDF Writer

• Software provider’s description: Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer is the free version of commercial PDF converter software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a “printer subsystem.” This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to convert to professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!
• Website: www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
• License: Proprietary Freeware
• Current Version: 3.0
• Operating System(s): Windows

Point of Sale, CRM, Backup, and Compression Software

Regit® Express Point of Sale for Windows

• Software provider’s description: American Precision Instruments has been providing merchants all over the world with powerful, proven, and affordable POS software since we first released Regit POS in 1984. Now American Precision Instrument has released Regit Express, a free, powerful point-of-sale system with a wide range of features that will meet the needs of many retail merchants.
• Website: www.free-pos-software.com/
• License: Proprietary Freeware
• Current Version: 4.0.1.7
• Operating System(s): Windows (the .NET Framework 4.0 must be installed, freely available from Microsoft)

SuiteCRM

• Software provider’s description: SuiteCRM is a free and open source alternative to Salesforce, Dynamics, and other proprietary software. Feature-rich, powerful, flexible, and user-friendly, it is one of the most popular CRM applications globally.
• Website: https://suitecrm.com/
• License: AGPL
• Current Version: 7.2.2
• Operating System(s): Windows, Mac OS, Linux

Areca Backup

• Software provider’s description: It basically allows you to select a set of files/directories to back up, choose where and how (as a simple file copy, as a zip archive, ...) they will be stored, and configure post-backup actions (like sending backup reports by email or launching custom shell scripts).
• Website: www.areca-backup.org/
• License: GPL V2
• Current Version: 7.2.2
• Operating System(s): Windows, Linux

PeaZip

• Software provider’s description: PeaZip is freeware file archiver software, providing a wide array of file management tools, and it is released under Open Source license LGPLv3, which means this application is free of charge for any use (personal and professional, business and government, etc...), modification, and distribution.
• Website: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
• License: LGPL V3
• Current Version: 5.6.1
• Operating System(s): Windows, Linux

Illustration, Painting, 3D Modeling Software, and Photo Editing

Here are several software products similar to the ones in Chapters 3 and 4.

Draw SVG

• Software provider’s description: The free online drawing application for designers and developers, Draw SVG is fully standard compliant SVG.
• Website: www.drawsvg.org/
• License: Proprietary Freeware
• Current Version: 4-1
• Operating System(s): Browser-based

Sumo Paint

• Software provider’s description: Sumo Paint is an online image editor; there’s no need to install anything to your device. It’s the most versatile photo editor and painting application that works in a browser. You can open and save images from your hard drive or save them to the cloud.
• Website: www.sumopaint.com/home/
• License: Proprietary Freeware
• Current Version: 8.31
• Operating System(s): Browser-based

K-3D

• Software provider’s description: K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It combines flexible plug-ins with a visualization pipeline architecture, making K-3D a versatile and powerful tool for artists.
• Website: www.k-3d.org/node/1
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 8.0.1
• Operating System(s): Windows, Mac OS

Photo POS

• Software provider’s description: Photo POS Pro Photo Editor is a free photo editor that offers users a wide variety of possibilities in the fields of image enhancing, image editing, and computer graphics design. Using the editor you can perform various tasks, from simple basic tasks to complex tasks; you can edit existing images, create new works based on existing images, create new works from scratch, and more.
• Website: www.free-photo-editor.net/
• License: Proprietary Freeware
• Current Version: 1.90.5
• Operating System(s): Windows

Darktable

• Software provider’s description: Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer, a virtual light table and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable light table, and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
• Website: www.darktable.org/
• License: GPL V3
• Current Version: 1.6.7
• Operating System(s): Mac OS, Linux

Audio-Video Software

Here are a couple of software products similar to some of the ones seen in Chapters 5.

Audiograbber

• Software provider’s description: Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from CDs. Audiograbber can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LPs or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make WAVs or MP3s of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!
• Website: www.audiograbber.org/
• License: Proprietary Freeware
• Current Version: 1.83
• Operating System(s): Windows

Avidemux

• Software provider’s description: Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4, and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queues, and powerful scripting capabilities.
• Website: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 1.83
• Operating System(s): Windows , Mac OS, Linux

Project Management

There are two project management solutions listed in Chapter 6, but for good measure here’s one more.

Redmine

• Software provider’s description: Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
• Website: www.redmine.org/
• License: GPL
• Current Version: 3.0.4
• Operating System(s): Redmine should run on most Unix, Linux, Mac, Mac Server, and Windows systems as long as Ruby is available on the platform.