Apps for the Digital Commons

The Digital Commons

We, the people of our communities, collectively provide for the greater good in a number of areas. We provide universal fire protect, universal police protection and universal K-12 education. The Digital Commons is a strategy - and associated policies - that provides universal access to a application software.

Example Application

Application Directory

A "stack" (list of open source applications) is available on the OHLON.Net site.

From this digital commons applicator stack you can navigate to statistics about any of the applications.

Apps for the Commons

Below is a short list of the world-class application applications available via the open source community. This list covers personal productivity tools, image creation and manipulations tools, film production and 3D animation.

OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Firefox 2

The award-winning Web browser is now even faster, more secure, and fully customizable to suit your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better. Download Firefox 2 now and start getting the most out of the Web.

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/

Thunderbird

Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape

Inkscape is a drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). The supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, it supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

http://www.inkscape.org/

Blender

Blender is a 3D animation suite with tools for modeling (advanced subdivision modeling, multi-layer UV's & Color, NURBS, multiresolution sculpting), uv unwrapping, texturing (procedural node, 2D and 3D painting), animation, rendering, particles and simulation (including fluid dynamics, hard body physics, cloth and particle hair), post-production with node based compositing and non linear editing, integrated game engine (with graphical programming, vehicle and rag doll constraints) and python scripting including an import and export suite.

http://www.blender.org/

Jahshaka

Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.

http://www.jahshaka.org/