{"id":2969,"date":"2010-11-25T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2010-11-25T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:55:57","slug":"50-free-apps-were-most-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/25\/50-free-apps-were-most-thankful-for\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collected by lifehacker<\/a><\/p>\n

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As we prepare to give thanks for our delicious Thanksgiving meals (and impending food comas), let’s not forget to pay tribute to the wonderful developers who bring us our favorite free apps.<\/p>\n

With a little spreadsheet magic and a few choices of our own, we bring you the top 50 free apps we’re all most thankful for. Whether you’re celebrating the holiday or not, it’s a great list of free software that ought to make for some gluttonous downloading. The popular apps are some of the more obvious, however, so be sure to look further down the list for new free software you may not yet know about. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!<\/p>\n

The 50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For<\/h4>\n
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  1. \n

    Dropbox<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n

    VLC (Video Lan Client)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n

    Google Chrome<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n

    Firefox<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n

    Opera<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n

    Google Apps<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  7. \n

    Simplenote<\/a> and Notational Velocity<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  8. \n

    CCleaner<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  9. \n

    uTorrent<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  10. \n

    Transmission<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  11. \n

    sabnzbd+<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  12. \n

    Open Office<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  13. \n

    Skype<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  14. \n

    Evernote<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  15. \n

    GIMP<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  16. \n

    KeePass<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  17. \n

    LastPass<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  18. \n

    7zip<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  19. \n

    ImgBurn<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  20. \n

    Microsoft Security Essentials<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  21. \n

    AutoHotkey<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  22. \n

    Pandora<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  23. \n

    FileZilla<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  24. \n

    TrueCrypt<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  25. \n

    Handbrake<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  26. \n

    VirtualBox<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  27. \n

    Audacity<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  28. \n

    Paint.NET<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  29. \n

    iTunes<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  30. \n

    Thunderbird<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  31. \n

    Foobar2000<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  32. \n

    Pidgin<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  33. \n

    Adium<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  34. \n

    avast!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  35. \n

    TeamViewer<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  36. \n

    TweetDeck<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  37. \n

    Launchy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  38. \n

    Quicksilver<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  39. \n

    Instapaper<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  40. \n

    ReadItLater<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  41. \n

    XBMC<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  42. \n

    PuTTY<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  43. \n

    Cyberduck<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  44. \n

    Perian<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  45. \n

    XAMPP<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  46. \n

    Windows Live Essentials<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  47. \n

    Winamp<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  48. \n

    TeraCopy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  49. \n

    Eclipse<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  50. \n

    MediaMonkey<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And that’s the list! Happy downloading, and happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Collected by lifehacker As we prepare to give thanks for our delicious Thanksgiving meals (and impending food comas), let’s not forget to pay tribute to the wonderful developers who bring us our favorite free apps. With a little spreadsheet magic and a few choices of our own, we bring you the top 50 free apps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}