sanctified Veteran Posted November 30, 2003 Veteran Share Posted November 30, 2003 (edited) Updated by ultima 10/2/2005 Originally compiled by [sanctified], thanks to the Neowin members. Items marked in red are new additions. 3D Graphics: 3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/ Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/ Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/ gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/ Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/ Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/ Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/ Anti-Virus: AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/ Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/ ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/ Anti Spyware: Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/ SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/ IRC Clients: BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/ BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/ TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/ XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/ Audio Players: 1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/ Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/ iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/ Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/ QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/ Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/ Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/ XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html Audio Tools: Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/ GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/ K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/ KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/ MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/ mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/ MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/ mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/ MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/ Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/ SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/ CD/DVD Burning: Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/ CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr Compression / Decompression: 7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/ bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/ FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/ IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/ QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/ TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/ UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/ Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/ Defrag Software: DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/ OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp Desktop Enhancements: AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372 CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/ MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/ Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/ tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/ Download managers: Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/ wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ Encryption and data security: Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/ Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/ PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm File Managers: 2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/ A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/ ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/ JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/ MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/ File repair and recovery: PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm Firewalls: Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp FTP Clients: CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/ Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/ FTP Servers: FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334 Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/ HTML Editors: 1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/ Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/ TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/ Image viewers: Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/ Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/ XNView - http://www.xnview.com/ Instant Messenger: Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ IM2: http://www.im2.com Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/ Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/ PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/ SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/ Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads Internet Explorer Front-Ends: Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/ Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/ SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm Mail programs: Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/ i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/ Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/ PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/ Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Anti-spam programs: K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/ POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ Network Tools: CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/ Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/ NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/ NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/ NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ Ntop - http://www.ntop.org PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400 RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/ TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/ UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/ Office Suite: 602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/ OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/ Partition Managers: Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/ Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/ TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html PDF Utilities: Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/ PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/ PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/ Photo manipulation and image design: ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/ Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/ Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/ The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint Programming: ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Context - http://www.context.cx/ Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/ ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/ JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/ Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/ Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/ PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/ Python - http://www.python.org/ Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/ Pop-up Blockers: Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/ NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/ PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/ Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/ RSS Readers: Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/ System Information and monitoring: CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1 Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/ Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311 SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html Video codecs : DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow XviD - http://www.xvid.org/ Video players : BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/ Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/ DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/ MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/ Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303 VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/ Video tools: DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/ DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/ FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/ VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889 Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html Web browsers: Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/ Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp Web servers: Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/ Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/ Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/ SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html Webcam Software: booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/ Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/ Checksum Utilities: fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/ hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/ md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/ General Utilities And Other Applications: AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/ AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/ Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/ EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/ Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/ QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/ png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/ Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/ Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/ TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/ Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net Edited February 10, 2005 by ultima Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fotix Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 In case anyone gives a damn (like i.e. me) the Net Transport site has a new website located here and the old listed site in this thread is dead: http://www.xi-soft.com/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1593473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 leedogg Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Thanks for finally adding the app I mentioned redfx lol. sok SD I know u a busy guy ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1593535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 el22 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 If your going to post huge lists like that, you might as well just go to www.webattack.com and click on freeware :\ www.snapfiles.com, actually Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1594866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 brain_freeze Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 PostCast Server is a free SMTP Server http://www.postcastserver.com/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1595547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 krmathis Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 PingPlotter are not freeware! ;) Ping Plotter is developed under the trialware (or shareware) concept. You're probably familiar with this - you can try out the software for a limited time (30 days) after which you need to pay for it. It only costs $24.95 per computer to license (discounts are available for buying multiple licenses). Please remove... Solaris Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1620020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 OrangeSoul Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 One Request. in front of each, just state one line of its features and uniqueness, that would make choosing much easier Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1620055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fili Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 www.snapfiles.com, actually Well, thank you for that smart ass, most people know it as webattack, I was aware of the name change. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1623192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 el22 Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Well, thank you for that smart ass, most people know it as webattack, I was aware of the name change. Errmm... :blink: You are welcome... but I wasn't the smart ass who disrespected the work of all users who contributed to this thread, I was just pointing out a simple correction. If everybody treated others like you just did, this place would be much worse. Can't you keep it fair? :) :rofl: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1623387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mimeryme Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 This is list is great. Thanks all. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1632125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ooeeaa Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Is there a freeware alternative to Microsoft Publisher? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1643192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Kasteo Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 I think you forgot 1 great program... Regcleaner Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1650485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ian Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 WOW! You guys ROCK!! :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1651682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nuka_t Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Games Gunbound-Gunbound.net Americas Army-http://www.americasarmy.com/downloads/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1654978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nodiaque Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Instant Messenger: - MSN Messenger - ICQ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1657975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fili Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 WindowsCleaner in Encryption and data security section is not freeware Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1659295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 casanova Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 i dont think its been mentioned but here is a fun one evilyrics http://www.evillabs.sk/evillyrics/ it searches for lyrics on songs in winamp, foobar etc.... really handy Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1659690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 leedogg Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 I was using both winrar and winzip...after trying IZarc from some of the reviews here, I uninstalled both rar & zip and this is now my default compression app. :cool: thanks guys. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1674886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ferdalic Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Great list! some additions: VIDEO PLAYER: Zoom player standard ( http://www.inmatrix.com ) MAIL CLIENT: Foxmail ( http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm ) note: download the chinese v5b1 version and turn it into english by deleting chinese.lgb file french and spanish versions here: http://foxmail.free.fr/www/home.php INSTANT MESSENGER: Skype ( http://www.skype.com ) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1676704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Si Veteran Posted February 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 7, 2004 Is there a freeware alternative to Microsoft Publisher? You could try Openoffice writer, ok so it's not dtp but :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1704050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 eversor Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 Here is a free DTP Programm (for private use only) RagTime Solo http://www.ragtime-online.com/link.cgi?download_rts_program Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1707423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 trigger_my_passion Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 {Create tutorials and presentations} A good way to teach someone how to do something is by creating a visual, animated tutorial. Unfortunately, programs that do this can be costly. Wink can do it at no cost and it's good quality. It even has a couple of tutorials to show how it works. It can save the tutorial as a PDF or HTML file. Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1720578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mm3h Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 I wish I had a alternative to MS VM and Suns Java client :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1720591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nazgul Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 {Create tutorials and presentations} A good way to teach someone how to do something is by creating a visual, animated tutorial. Unfortunately, programs that do this can be costly. Wink can do it at no cost and it's good quality. It even has a couple of tutorials to show how it works. It can save the tutorial as a PDF or HTML file.Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wow, thanks dude, been lookin for something like that for a whuile :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1720595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 trigger_my_passion Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 MeazureTM 2.0 What are the dimensions of that image? How big is this window? Does this layout fit on an NTSC display? What color are these pixels? What does this icon look like close up? How can I capture an arbitrary portion of the screen? These are just a few of the questions that kept coming up as I developed applications and web pages. Various tools are available to answer some of these questions but I could not find any that answered them all or that had a usable interface. So I created Meazure, a program that measures, magnifies and captures the screen by providing a battery of features in a cohesive user interface. Even better, Meazure is free! Features Measure objects on the screen such as images, windows and icons Capture arbitrary portions of the screen Magnify the screen up to 32X magnification Read the color of a screen pixel in RGB, hex RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSL, YCbCr, YIQ Display rulers anywhere on the screen Display a grid overlay on the screen with adjustable grid spacing Measure using a number of units including pixels, points, twips, centimeters, or user-defined Record measurements to an XML file for later playback or external processing Calibrate screen resolution to provide accurate measurements Save and restore measurement tool positions using Profiles Use predefined Profiles for common screen and video sizes such as NTSC and PAL Configure the user interface to show only the information you need Many more features. See the detailed context-sensitive online help http://www.cthing.com/Downloads.asp could say this is an alternative to the commerical program @ http://www.bitsplash.com/exactmouse/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1720603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Sparkler Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 for programming Borland C# Builder Personal Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/7/#findComment-1736228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sanctified Veteran
Updated by ultima 10/2/2005
Originally compiled by [sanctified], thanks to the Neowin members.
Items marked in red are new additions.
3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/
Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/
IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/
Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm
File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/
File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp
FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/
HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
Instant Messenger:
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads
Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
Mail programs:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/
Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
PDF Utilities:
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/
Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/
RSS Readers:
Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
System Information and monitoring:
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html
Video codecs :
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD - http://www.xvid.org/
Video players :
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/
Video tools:
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html
Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/
Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
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