Software

Brackets

Brackets is a free open source web development tool designed for front end developers and professional web designers. While there are plenty of web editors around, Brackets differs because it combines all the essential tools in the editor as you’re coding. It also saves all the changes you make automatically without the need to reload, but there’s more.

Inkpad

Inkpad is an illustration app for the iOS that offers features you won’t see in other drawing apps for the platform. Developed by Taptrix, this app incorporates a lot of elements that you normally see in full featured desktop applications like masks and compound paths, but there’s more.

Fontrunner

Font Runner is a font manager for Windows, and while it’s free, the application has all the features you’ll need for font management. It was developed by John Famiglietti for the use of artists and graphic designers, but anyone who has a sizable font collection should appreciate it.

C2A

C2A is a planetarium software developed by Philippe Deverchère which you can use for building and viewing of stellar fields. With this program you can use it to access several catalogues for use in astrometry, and it also works well as a general purpose planetarium program.

Badoo

Badoo is a social networking app and a social site, but it’s not a Facebook clone, far from it. In fact it is the opposite. While Facebook is a network of your pals, Badoo is the network for people who have yet to become your friends. In short, it’s a site and app for connecting you with people you don’t know. But it’s not just for dating.

Elevate: Brain Training

Elevate: Brain Training from Elevate is an app that exercises the mind by way of games and tests, with the goal of improving your cognitive abilities. While there is a paid version of the app, this free version offers more than enough to give your brain a workout, and you’ll have some fun in the process.

Paper

Paper by Fifty Three is a drawing app for the iOS that offers you several ways to draw and express your ideas. While there are a lot of apps similar to it, Paper stands out by providing you with many great tools for the drawing tasks you may have in mind, specifically outlining, sketching and drawing.

Okular

Okular is a free cross platform document reader. Developed by the Okular Team, it is a universal reader that can run on multiple platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux and BSD among others. Unlike other so-called document readers that support only PDF and a few other formats, Okular has wide ranging format support.