In this week’s “Geek to Live” on Lifehacker, Gina counts down her favorite open source apps for Windows. Many of them will be familiar and you may already be using them (Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office), but a few might be new and worth checking out, like the free and open anti-virus app ClamWin, KeePass (password manager), and TrueCrypt (file encryption). And as always, Lh’s readers chime in with their own worthy candidates, such as FileZilla, 7-Zip, and Democracy.
We just finally made the switch to OpenOffice on all the PCs and Macs here at Street Tech Labs and we’re glad we did. Besides running XP, a neccessary evil of working in the tech/tech journalism biz, we have very view pieces of code left with Microsoft’s stink on ’em. And as Martha would say: “It’s a good thing.”
