Top 20 OpenSource softwares from the net

There are so many free alternatives and Open Source softwares, that can replace without any problem the most famous programs. In today's article, I will present you the best 20 OpenSource programs on the world wide web, surely, someone of you will find the program that was looking for, for quite a long time. Here is the list:

1. Gimpshop: The OpenSource program for graphics. Good alternative to the famous Photoshop.
2. Inkscape: it has the same functions of Illustrator. Really excellent and well done.
3. Miro: Good OpenSource media player, among its functions also the possibility to download video from Youtube and to manage blogs Feed RSS.
4. MediaCoder: It allows to extract the audio from the video, and to convert them in other formats. Excellent to reduce the size of the video, decreasing the resolution without losing quality.
5. Audacity: For the employees of the sector (and not only) this is the program number one for audio files tweaking. It has the possibility to save jobs in mp3 format.
6. Media Player Classic: together with VLC it's excellent, the best media player. It plays all kind of videos, all the formats both audio and video. Really well done. Besides it automatically installs all the necessary codecs needed to play videos also with Windows Media Player.
7. HandBrake: It converts DVD to AVI files in order to let you save them in your hard disk.
8. RogueScanner: This program allows you to check if there are not authorized users on your Wireless or LAN. Once started, it lists you all the connected devices to the net. It works only with Windows XP.
9. ClamWin: Good free antivirus.
10. Filezilla: Very known, it's a FTP client of great power. A must have!
11. TrueCrypt: It's able to crypt an entire folder or all the files it contains.
12. 7-Zip: This is WinRAR best rival, it allows the creation of compressed archives, in any format. It also creates .7-Zip compressed archives.
13. AbiWord: A good alternative to Microsoft Office Word, it's a text editor that allows you to create some enough elaborate text files too.
14. eMule: Who doesn't know it? This is one of th best p2p software. A must have!
    
15. Ares: Other p2p program, unlike eMule it has an easy interface. Good program.
16. FeedReader: A free Feed RSS reader.
17. K-Meleon: K-Meleon is a very light and high-speed Browser. Need a try.
    
18. Stellarium: This program displays all kind of Stars and constellations in our space. It's similar to Google Earth but it let you see the space.
19. Pidgin: This program make you chat using any kind of chats from MSN to Yahoo.
20. DOSBox: This is an old DOS emulator that can be usefull to let you play old dos programs.