Open source software

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Text Editors

Multi-platform

• BlueFish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners
• Komodo Edit - Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor.
• jEdit - jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

Windows

• PSPad - Editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems
• Notepad++ - free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Mac

• TextWrangler - TextWrangler is the “little brother” to BBEdit, a leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

Programming IDEs

Multi-platform

• NetBeans - Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more.
• Eclipse - multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment (IDE) and an extensible plug-in system.
• Adobe Brackets - With features like Live Development and Quick Edit, Brackets streamlines development without getting in your way.
• Cloud9 IDE - Write, run, and debug your code with our powerful and flexible cloud IDE. Collaborate on your workspaces publicly, or keep them private. The choice is yours!
• WebStorm The smartest JavaScript IDE

Application Design (UML etc.)

• ArgoUML - ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.
• StarUML - StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform.

Version control

• Git - Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
• Subversion - Subversion is an open source version control system.

Database Design

• DBDesigner 4 - a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

FTP tools

Multi-platform

• Filezilla - the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available.
• Cyberduck - Libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows

Image Manipulation

Multi-platform

• Gimp - GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package.

Mac

• Seashore - Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework.

Office

• LibreOffice - LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs.
• Open Office - OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
• OpenProj - OpenProj is an open-source desktop project management application similar to Microsoft Project.
• Google Docs - Create and share your work online