The Best Open Source Gadgets

Open source gadgets means any software whose source code is available for use or modification of users and developers.
The advantages of open source gadgets are evident: since anyone can modify the source program are continuously improved community and the vast majority of open source programs are free.

Being free is a great advantage sometimes you want the computer owner to make a simple, one job, such as editing a document or image and do not want to spend a fortune doing, so it is a free open source programs are your best friends.
Most open source gadgets initially designed for Linux owners, but lately more and more open source gadgets are developed for Windows. In this article I will tell you about the best gadgets for Windows users.

Free and open-source software that you should use are: surfing - Mozilla Firefox, video player and video podcasting: Miro, instant messaging: Pidgin, e-mail - Mozilla Thunderbird, RSS: RSSOwl, peer-to-peer filesharing: Cabos, video player - Media Player Classic, DVD copying and video conversion - Media Coder, word processing suites - OpenOffice.org, podcasting: juice, sound recording: Audacity, Paint.NET image editing, FTP - FileZilla.

I am currently using: OpenOffice.org for writing and managing documents, FileZilla FTP connection, Paint.NET for working with graphics and Thunderbird for reading and writing e-mail.
No aspect of open source gadgets that many features as the paid ones, after all you can get them for free.

Known as Open Source Google Desktop Gadgets such as Google-pack (. Never lose track of their power always tell you how much battery power is left) Google calculator (Calculator gadget for Google Desktop), Google-cricket-news (displays cricket news and images), Google-cricket-video (the same as the previous one just to show videos on your desktop), Google-desktop-SDK (Complete examples of using Google Desktop gadget API) Google-digital-hour (one of my favorite desktop gadgets, it's obvious what it does: it shows the time, but in a beautiful way), Google-flower-pot (it was a virtual flower pot that will grow to full bloom right before your eyes, if you daticvijeće little water using a mouse Tamagoci like the old game), Google-moon-phase (Shows the current moon phase) and Google-zone (Search for this time in different places).

For now the most used software they are paid, but free open source ones come out soon after. Every day, communities of developers working on them for us to have a better experience and free software.