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    KeePass

    KeePass

    A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager

    KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details.
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    Downloads: 1,465,786 This Week
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    GnuCash

    GnuCash

    Personal and small-business finance manager

    GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.
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    Downloads: 7,040 This Week
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    Digital Clock 4

    Digital Clock 4

    beautiful customizable clock with plugins

    Very customizable beautiful clock. There are 2 versions exist (they may co-exist): - Digital Clock 4 - discontinued, not recommended - Digital Clock 5 - current version, replacement for Digital Clock 4 Digital Clock 4 final version is 4.7.9 Digital Clock 5 current version is 5.1.7 Nothing special is required to start using this clock. Just launch it and enjoy! When it starts, apart from the clock itself, a small tray icon appears. This tray icon can be used to call the clock configuration dialog. Also this dialog can be called using clock context menu. Sources (v5) are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/Kolcha/DigitalClock5 You can create your own skin! See this link for details: https://sourceforge.net/p/digitalclock4/wiki/How%20to%20create%20skin/ NOTE: do NOT download any .rar or .exe files marked as my software, these files are NOT made by me and I'm not responsible for their content
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    Downloads: 1,492 This Week
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    Wine

    Wine

    Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X

    Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes.
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    Downloads: 872 This Week
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    uGet - Download Manager
    uGet, the Best Download Manager for Linux. uGet is a lightweight yet powerful Open Source download manager for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app. - Quick Links - Features: https://ugetdm.com/features Screenshots: https://ugetdm.com/screenshots Blog: https://ugetdm.com/blog Support: https://ugetdm.com/qa Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://ugetdm.com/qa/faq RSS Feed: https://ugetdm.com/rss GitHub: https://github.com/ugetdm
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    Downloads: 836 This Week
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    A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.
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    Downloads: 245 This Week
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    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the board game Risk

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.
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    Downloads: 166 This Week
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    KShutdown

    KShutdown

    A graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows

    KShutdown is a graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows. It allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications.
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    Downloads: 167 This Week
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    Florence

    Florence

    On-screen virtual keyboard

    Florence is an extensible scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when not needed. You need it if you can't use a real keyboard either because of a handicap, broken keyboard or tablet PC but you can use a pointing devide.
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    Downloads: 139 This Week
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    The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify

    Shopify offers plans for anyone that wants to sell products online and build an ecommerce store, small to mid-sized businesses as well as enterprise

    Shopify is a leading all-in-one commerce platform that enables businesses to start, build, and grow their online and physical stores. It offers tools to create customized websites, manage inventory, process payments, and sell across multiple channels including online, in-person, wholesale, and global markets. The platform includes integrated marketing tools, analytics, and customer engagement features to help merchants reach and retain customers. Shopify supports thousands of third-party apps and offers developer-friendly APIs for custom solutions. With world-class checkout technology, Shopify powers over 150 million high-intent shoppers worldwide. Its reliable, scalable infrastructure ensures fast performance and seamless operations at any business size.
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    searchmonkey

    searchmonkey

    Powerful desktop search app for Windows, Linux and Mac

    Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale.
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    Downloads: 78 This Week
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    PDF Split and Merge

    PDF Split and Merge

    Split and merge PDF files on any platform

    Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface.
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    Downloads: 236 This Week
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    Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.
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    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    GCompris : I got IT

    GCompris : I got IT

    Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.

    GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.
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    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.

    A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    FVWM-Crystal

    FVWM-Crystal

    FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use and powerful desktop.

    FVWM - Crystal aims to create an easy to use, eye-candy but also powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. Its goals include seeking for better ways of using window manager and providing it with eyecandy interface. It try to exercise FVWM quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix desktops like direct controls for several media players and its ability to bring in full screen virtualy any application. It can flow through the full screened applications and the desktop in a manner similar to the application stack of the Amiga OS, which provides an innovative way to go around the desktop space, without compromising traditional X multiple desktop pages. The core code was written by harnir Maciej Delmanowski with contributions from many other folks. The current developments are led by Dominique Michel.
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    Downloads: 26 This Week
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    Syllable Desktop is a complete operating system that is easy to use, powerful, lightweight and extraordinarily fast and responsive. It has its own kernel, filesystem, GUI and applications. Syllable Server is a matching small and efficient Linux server.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Krusader is a twin-panel (commander style) filemanager for KDE. It supports mime-type, complete drag n' drop, multiple filesystems, archives, bookmarks etc. Krusader's GUI is intuitive, and allows an easy access to all of your file-management needs.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    HotShots

    HotShots

    a screenshot and annotation tool

    HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, ...).
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Gis Weather
    Customizable weather widget
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Panoramio, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    KRadio

    KRadio

    The KDE Frameworks 5 Internet/AM/FM Radio App

    KRadio is an Internet and/or AM/FM radio application for KDE Frameworks 5. It has support for V4L and V4L2 radio devices, internet radio, RDS, lirc remote control, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis recording, TimeShift playing, alarms and much more. Try out!
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    BirdFont

    BirdFont

    Font editor

    BirdFont is a font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export fonts in TTF, EOT and SVG format. Binary releases are available from the website.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Language - C++, libraries - QT Support WINDOWS,LINUX,... Software help you keep, use and edit text The program represents the treelike editor of the text. Due to the mechanism of references the tree can be transformed in any graph.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Gnome Subtitles
    Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation.
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    Downloads: 13 This Week
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