Software Globe

These curated programs are all for free, used by millions – including myself – and very useful:

Audio – Audacity

Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor & recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU / Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software. Get involved: All are welcome to contribute to Audacity by helping with code, documentation, translations, user support and by testing the latest code.

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Contents – SyncFolders

SyncFolders helps you to synchronize & backup the contents of two folders, including any subfolders. The program allows you to easily copy new and updated files and folders in either or both directions. SyncFolders is a very useful tool for backup and synchronization purposes.

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Images – FastStone

FastStone is a free image manager program for home users as well as educational institutions to view, edit and manage images of many common formats. In addition, video files can also be managed and played along with the images.

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Images – GIMP

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU / Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats and more specialized tasks. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.

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Media – VLC

VLC media player is a portable, free media player software for various audio, video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, video CDs and supports various streaming protocols and interfaces for TV cards.

Get VLC Media Player from VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organisation.

Music – MP3TAG

Mp3tag is a tag editor for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS 10.14 and higher, developed by Florian Heidenreich since 1999. The program primarily supports the editing of metadata in audio formats, but beyond that it also includes functions for managing music libraries.

Get MP3TAG, a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

(S)FTP – FileZilla

FileZilla® is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application consisting of FileZilla® Client and FileZilla® Server. Clients are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS while servers are available for Windows only. Both server and client support FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS), while the client can in addition connect to SFTP servers. FileZilla® is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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Videos – OpenShot

Award-winning open-source video editing software to create stunning videos. Cross-platform video editor designed to help use a drag-and-drop interface to edit audios, videos or images. You can use OpenShot video editor to add animation effects such as fade, flying text, snow, and bounce, watermarks, 3D titles, and audio tracks among others to enhance the videos.

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