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Open Source Applications of the month. Past reviewed apps, some rather old reviews but many of these apps are still going strong in their current iterations:

January 09' Openoffice.org 3.o (excellent, much faster, free office suite)

June 08' DekiWiki: excellent wiki with features exceptionally suited for corporate intranets

April 08' RSSOwl: excellent RSS/XML news reader

April 08'  Joomla 1.5 CMS system thats easy to use! Used here

March 08: Drupal 6.1, CMS system

Feb/March 08: Kompozer - web editing and uploading (the bug fix version of NVU).

Dec/Jan: SugarCRM 5.0 , wow, new email client!

Nov 07' PowerTop from intel, tells you how much power individual programs use on your linux system!

October 07' OpenWorkbench Windows based project management designed to compete with MSProject

August 07' Avidemux cross platform (mac/linux/windows) video editor

July 07' Lightning , calendar plugin for thunderbird - AND 7Zip cmpression software

June 07' : SELanding Page , point search engine visitors to appropriate content coming to your Joomla site

May 07 Thunderbird 2.0 (more of the dsame good stuff, but, well, more.. Wink

April 07' rdesktop - small Linux application that provides access to your windows terminal server,

March 07' Gallery can add a very full featured image gallery to any website

Feb 07' will be UltraVNC tons of added features over the regular VNC

Jan 07' Firefox 2.0 next gen web browser for mac, linux and windows

Dec 06' the Gimp image editor

Oct 06' GigCalendar component for Joomla

Sept 06' GAIM a cross platform (Mac/Linux/Windows) Instant Messaging tool that supports multiple protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, and SILC.

July 06' SugarCRM 4.2.1a and PDFCreator

June 06' Mudbag easily create web based database driven applications

April 06' : Wordpress top rated blogging software

Feb. 06 : SSL Explorer clientless SSL based VPN

Jan. 06' : Portable apps Run applications on your flash drive

Dec. 05' : Thunderbird The best open source email app

Oct. 05' : Plans web Calendar : web calendar to show events on your website, with email reminders

Sept. 05' : DotProject really cool web based project management with user security

July 05' : OpenOffice Free offiuce alternative with pretty good compatibility with MSOFFICE

June 05' : Outreach Project Tool (OPT) Web based project management tool