looking for software?

software in general

If you are looking for software in general, I suggest my software list. it is categorized.

It handles everything from software engineering to cad to paint to web design and authoring to Office Suites.

software I package

The software I write currently is listed here. Unfortunately, due to software hosting costs at over $200/year, I am unable to afford both that and this hosting, and some of my packages cannot be hosted on sf.net because they are not all Open Source.

Office Suites

If you are a family or a student on a budget and want a free office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, There are 4 based on OpenOffice.org.

LibreOffice, based on OpenOffice.org code
OpenOffice.org, once owned by Sun, now owned by Oracle (Oracle purchased Sun)
IBM Lotus Symphony which is based on OpenOffice.org 3.x that has excellent Microsoft Office 97/xp/2000/2003/2007 compatibility with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and it also has compatibility with OpenOffice.org documents. IBM also has plugins you can get, but the plugins do not work.

Thunderbird stopped working or acting weird because the Inbox is at 2GB?

I wrote an Inbox splitter utility to fix this problem. allows you to break the inbox up into multiple files, which staves off the problem until you need to split the inbox again.

Need a paint/photo program? Want layers & masks?

I package the GIMP Massive Package. has a lot of plugins installed (except the mac version, those are separate). I am still waiting patiently for GAP (will probably have to donate to get it). see the site for a feature list. by the way, to use a scanner, it's File, Create (doesn't make any sense to me either).