{"id":11,"date":"2011-06-20T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.111.237\/wpmgreene\/?p=11"},"modified":"2011-06-20T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:24:00","slug":"my-favorite-free-alternative-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Free Alternative Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was playing with Pearltrees, putting together all the major alternative applications I use that are open source.  One of the most important criteria is that a version exists for Linux and Windows.  Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"530\" height=\"430\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/cdn.pearltrees.com\/s\/embed\/getApp\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"lang=en_US&amp;embedId=pt-embed-2995318-647&amp;treeId=2995318&amp;pearlId=22091284&amp;treeTitle=Free%20Alternative%20Applications&amp;site=www.pearltrees.com%2F\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.pearltrees.com\/s\/embed\/getApp\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearltrees.com\/mikeyg\/free-alternative-applications\/id2995318\" alt=\"Free Alternative Applications\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt;color:black;font-weight:bold\">Free Alternative Applications<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;color:#999999;font-weight:normal\"> in Michael Greene (mikeyg)<\/span><\/a><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was playing with Pearltrees, putting together all the major alternative applications I use that are open source. One of the most important criteria is that a version exists for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,20,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-applications","category-linux","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":663,"url":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=663","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":0},"title":"Gnome 42","author":"Mike","date":"June 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought I would never reach a stable Gnome 42 install! 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