5 USEFUL OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS

Now a Days Open Source Tools are widely developed to implement in windows platforms.The Open Source Software's are free for usage and they are useful for people in day to day life.

1.RAIN METER:

                            The Rainmeter  is used to customize your personal desktop's.In Windows it is an Proprietary Operating System so there is no much Scope for customization .It is not just an Application ,But a tool kit that lets you write and exend functionality,using this you can view System resources,Weather Forcast,emails,FaceBook status,Tweets and RSS Feeds as well as make notes,launch app,control media players and more.to download this software visit http://www.rainmeter.net.

  

2.GNU CASH:

                         This Tool Allows you to keep track of your Bank Accounts,Stocks,Income and Expenses.

for a regular person it is difficult to keep note of his monthly expenses so this tool is been designed to maintain it periodically. it can be installed in all platform operating systems ex:mac,windows,linux etc..to download this Tool visit(http://www.gnucash.org).

  

3.UMLET:

                 This Tool is mainly used to represent diagrams,instead of using microsoft word we can draw charts and diagrams so efficiently.this download are available in different formats,if the setup file is .jar format then install java1.6+ .To Download Visit(http://www.umlet.com).if any doubts in using umlet then refer to site(http://www.umlet.com/faq.html).

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4:AUDACITY:

                        This Tools is mainly used to Edit Audio,Recording Voices,compress MP3 songs,you can play Audio as well.To Download this Tool visit(http://audacity.sourceforge.net).

5:WINMERGE:

                       

                     WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. Use it to detect changes between files and folders, and then to merge changes selectively. You can use WinMerge by itself, or launch it from a version control system or another application.
When you compare two files or folders, the result is displayed in the WinMerge window. The WinMerge window's visual display and functions are designed to help you see differences between your targets, and to merge selected differences if you want to.
In a file comparison: WinMerge shows differences between lines. The built-in text editor provides syntax highlighting for several programming languages and other file formats.
In a folder comparison: WinMerge indicates various kinds of differences between the files that the folders contain.

Take this brief, guided tour if you are considering installing WinMerge, or if you just want to see what the tool looks like and what you can do with it. The topics below describe the main WinMerge features. They include some simple examples of comparing files and folders, and merging differences between them.to download this Tool visit(http://winmerge.org/downloads/).