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61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For - Thanksgiving - Lifehacker

61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For - Thanksgiving - Lifehacker
@Andy Mesa: Many of these are cross-platform and quite nice, so what's the problem with them? Just because I prefer Ardour to Audacity, Kopete to Pidgin, and think Kate is the best graphical text editor I've used doesn't mean Pidgin, Audacity, and Notepad++ are bad apps, for example. @Marand: I'm guessing he is a bit of a troll. Chances are he won't come back here to read your reply, because his was meant as a flame of the hit n run kind.

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