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By Cynthia Harvey July 17, 2007 Document Publishing 41. MiKTeX An update of TeX, MiKTeX is a typesetting program with a complete set of fonts, utilities, and macros. According to the original developer, it was "intended for the creation of beautiful books—and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics." Operating system: Windows, Linux. 42. SiSU After creating documents in the text editor of your choice, you can use SiSU (Structured information, serialized units) to publish them in the format of your choice and make them searchable. Supported formats include plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, and PDF. Operating system: Linux/Unix. 43. PDFCreator This tool from PDFForge allows users to create PDF files from any printable Windows document. As an added bonus, it can also create PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, or EPS files. Operating system: Windows. 44. Ghostscript Written in C, Ghostscript allows users to convert, view, and print PostScript and PDF files. Different versions of the software are available either as open-source or as commercial distributions. Operating system: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X, Classic Mac. Education 45. NASA World Wind World Wind allows users to access satellite imagery to view the entire globe or zoom in on a particular area. It offers a number of different views and gives users the options of superimposing latitude and longitude lines, borders, and place name labels. Operating system: Windows. 46. Stellarium Why bother with a trip to the planetarium? Stellarium shows you the night skies from the comfort of your PC. In fact, this is the software in use at many planetariums. Operating system: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X, FreeBSD. Emulators 47. ZNES ZNES lets you play your Super Nintendo games on your PC. Some games work better than others, and it’s very much a work in progress. Operating system: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and DOS. If you’d like to play Gameboy or GameboyAdvance games on your PC, give VisualBoy Advance a try. In addition to offering most of the functions you would find on a Gameboy system, this app also makes it easy to find and use cheats. Operating system: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X. 49. DOSBox Miss the old programs and games from your x86 system? DOSBox allows newer Windows machines and other operating systems to run literally thousands of older games. Operating system: Windows, Linux, OS X. 50. Wine Its name stands for "Wine is not an emulator." While that may be technically true, Wine does let you run Windows programs on x86-based Unix systems. It also includes a toolkit for porting Windows code to Unix. Operating system: Linux/Unix, OS X, Solaris, All |