Where can I get free software?
last updated: 06.12.09
Software is an all-important tool for digital creativity, and quite often it can be very expensive. But there are many excellent free and open source alternatives.
Audio:
Audacity and
Reaper [not freeware but a very well featured application that has a nice polite business model that just asks you to buy it if you like it but you can test it for as long as you want]
Image:
The Gimp
Video:
We found this page that has a pretty good round up.
Handbrake is a good free and open source program for converting videos.
Do you have any freeware recommendations for the Pool community?
Please contact us and we will add them.
Downloadpedia.org is a good place to find video editing, photo manipulation and audio tools as well as text publishers, web browsers and other general utilities.
If you want but can't afford a particular program, have a look for it in this listing of free alternatives: downloadpedia.org/Open_Source_Alternative_to_Commercial_Software
If you can't see what you want there, you could try browsing by operating system.
Windows: downloadpedia.org/Open_Source_Windows
Mac: downloadpedia.org/Open_Source_Mac
Linux: downloadpedia.org/Linux_Software
Another good round up is here: http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/
We found a good round up of mp3 ID tag editors here
