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MS Project replacement (Desktop apps)

Posted by Keith under Cool Apps, Development Tools

MS Project is a quite useful application, but it’s not ideal for personal use, in my opinion. MS Project is not cheap. Also, it’s an essential app and all the features are needed for business environment, but may be overkill for personal use.

There’re many (freeware) Web based project management tools, but not many desktop applications. Some for just Linux applications, but I use Windows (it came with the computer pre-installed, and Windows is very conveninent OS, btw.) — and have been looking for MS project replacement applications. Here are two apps I found. My personal choice is OpenPrj:

• OpenProj
  This app is amazing. It is just like MS Project, and does open MS project file! It is Vista compatible too.
  License is “CPAL”
  http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1795230&forum_id=708855
  The license is CPAL - It’s a newly approved OSI license and sourceforge hasn’t updated their license list yet to include it. The source will hopefully being going online later today.

  CPAL:
  https://www.socialtext.net/open/index.cgi?cpal
  https://www.socialtext.net/open/index.cgi?cpal_osd_compliance
  http://opensource.org/licenses/cpal_1.0

  Download from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/

  

  “A desktop replacement for Microsoft Project. It is capable of sharing files with Microsoft Project and has very similar functionality (Gantt, PERT diagram, histogram, charts, reports, detailed usage), as well as tree views which aren’t in MS Project.”

  
  

• Open Workbench
  http://www.openworkbench.org/

  

  “Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project.”

• GanttProject
  http://ganttproject.biz/

  “GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool. Our major features include:

  Task hierarchy and dependencies

  Gantt chart

  Resource load chart

  Generation of PERT chart

  PDF and HTML reports

  MS Project import/export

  WebDAV based groupwork”

True Crypt, Disk Encryption Softwre

Posted by Keith under Cool Apps

True Crypt
http://www.truecrypt.org/

“Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux”

Jalmus, music education software

Posted by Keith under Cool Apps

Jalmus
http://www.jalmus.net/

“Jalmus is a free, open source music education software helping the musicians, specially pianists, to improve their sight-reading. You can train to read music with both exercises on notes or rhythms.

Jalmus is developed in Java and so available on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS.”