5 More Free Apps Ever Marketer Needs
In follow-up to yesterday’s post (http://www.jimmybrown.com/5-free-apps-every-marketing-needs/) here are 5 more free applications…
1. NVU (Compare to Dreamweaver). From their website…
“Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. Nvu is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.”
Visit http://www.net2.com/nvu/ for more details.
2.FILEZILLA (Compare to WS_FTP). From their website…
“FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.”
Visit http://filezilla-project.org/ for more details.
3. JOOMLA (Compare to Amember). From their website…
“Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.”
Visit http://www.joomla.org/ for more details.
4. AUDACITY. (Compare to Sound Forge Studio). From their website…
“Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
Record live audio, Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, Change the speed or pitch of a recording, And more!”
Visit http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ for more details.
5. PHPBB (Compare to vBulletin). From their website…
“Millions of people use phpBB on a daily basis, making it the most widely used opensource bulletin board system in the world. Whether you want to stay in touch with a small group of friends or are looking to set up a large multi-category board for a corporate website, phpBB has the features you need built in.”
Visit http://www.phpbb.com/ for more details.
Enjoy these free alternatives to costly high-end solutions.
And feel free to post a comment with your favorite completely free applications.
Jimmy
May 15th, 2009 at 5:29 am
And while doing all the work you should always track your time with a free time tracker like Paymo.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I agree with you..
There are so much quality stuff available online and why to pay for them then…
And PhpBB, Wordpress and Joomla have so much offer that no paid one can match them….
Srv
May 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Free sure beats going in debt $500 each
Thanks for the great info. I will be sure to bookmark :0)
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 am
Hi Jimmy,
I have used a certain excellent PDF converter sent to me by you about an year back which I found invaluable in my day to day work.(unfortunately it got deleted recently by mistake).I feel thi is one freebie that should from the 6th free app in the above list!
(Confidentially, I need this again.Ha,Ha!!)
rgds
gamini
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:20 am
Has anyone tried Arachnophillia for web authoring.
I love it.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
@ Nursing Assistant I didn’t like Arachnophillia when I tried it. It was too stripped down for me. I did try Kompozer and I use it on occasion. You can even put it on a USB stick because it’s a portable application. It’s got a lot of functionality built in for free.