The Best Open Source Gadgets
gadgets open source, software whose source code is available for use or modification for users or developers.
The advantages of open source gadgets are obvious: since anyone can modify the software community Font is constantly improving and the vast majority of open source programs are free.
Being free is a great advantage at times, the team owner wants to do simple tasks such as editing a document or an image and do not want to spend a small fortune to do it for free movement of open source programs are their best friends.
Most open source gadgets were originally created for owners of Linux, but in the last period of longer and more open source gadgets have been developed for Windows. In this article I will say about the best gadgets for Windows users.
Free software and open source to be used are: Web browsing – Mozilla Firefox, video playback and video podcasts: Miro, IM: Pidgin, e-mail – Mozilla Thunderbird, RSS: RSSOwl, peer-to – sharing peer files: Rode, video player – Media Player Classic, extraction and conversion of DVD video – Media Coder, as a result of word processing – OpenOffice. Juice org podcasting:, sound recording: Audacity, Photo Editing Paint. NET, FTP – FileZilla.
I am currently using: OpenOffice. org to write and manage documents for the FileZilla FTP connections, Paint. NET to work with graphics and Thunderbird to read and write emails.
No aspect of the open source gadget to have as many features that customers, after all, you get free.
Known office are open source and Google Gadgets: Google Pack (never lose its power. I always say that the battery is left) Google Calculator (Calculator gadget for Google Desktop), Google-cricket – Google (new Cricket headlines from sample images), Google-cricket-videos (same as above, showing only the videos on your desktop), desktop-SDK-(complete examples using Google Desktop Gadget API) google-digital-clock (one of the favorite desktop gadgets, it is clear that what you do: it displays the time, but in a good way), Google-pot (it’s a virtual plant that will grow and full bloom right before your eyes if you give flowers to the water using the mouse as the old games Tamagoci), Google moon phase (Display the current phase of the moon) and Google-zone (for what it is time in different places).
For now the most used software are subscribers, but more free and open source come back quickly. Each day, the community of developers working on them for a better experience and free software.
