The open source community is vibrant, continually growing, and just loves to create applications and tools to make lives easier. Here are 50 of our favorite open source apps that help us do everything from managing pictures on our computer to learning about Jupiter and Mars.

Jeronimo is cranking out high quality photo-realistic clip art which is highly usable from everything from T-Shirts, labels, postcards, and compositions. Since the clip art is freely usable, you can use it on your own business card design or website. Jeronimo just uploaded the above Globe, seemingly inspired by the recent praise for his uploads. [...]

When we released Open Clip Art Library 0.19 last week, the amazing importance of getting back on track with monthly releases cannot be undervalued. As such, we hit a goal of 10,000 pieces of clip art uploaded to our new system. For April we are shooting to get 12,000 total pieces. Right now on April [...]

Sometimes I go through Open Clip Art Library and find gems like all the work AJ has made. For the Clip Art of the Week, I wanted to highlight his projection screen icon: This is a great graphic! He has a mastery over Inkscape’s gradients and making icons look crisp. And, what is great about [...]