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 heathrowe Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Here's one for Programming, dot net preferably - Web Matrix, a handy free tool for those who don't have Visual Studio.Net cheers heathrowe Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2150671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SIG Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 How about Samurize? It could go on Desktop Enhancements or perhaps System Information/Monitoring Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2171400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 qqqqllll Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 So much softwares. Thanks!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2174800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 I need Zoloft Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Crystal Video Player: Free Version http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2218882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 atchou Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 Antivirus Inoculate IT http://antivirus.cai.com/ Audio Players PCDJ RED http://www.visiosonic.com/ Audio Tools LAME http://mitiok.free.fr/ RazorLAME http://www.dors.de/razorlame Monkey Audio's http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ Musepack http://www.musepack-source.de/ Encryption ScramDisk http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/ | http://www.samsimpson.com/ E4M http://www.e4m.net/ | http://www.samsimpson.com/ FTP Clients LeechFTP http://linux.fh-heilbronn.de/~debis/leechftp FTP Servers Cerberus FTP Server http://www.cerberusftp.com/ IM Messenger2 http://www.messenger2.com/ EasyMessage http://www.easymessage.net/ Office Suites Atlantis http://www.rssol.com/ RSS KlipFolio http://www.klipfarm.com/ Abilon http://activerefresh.com/ Network Hopster http://www.hopster.com/ FreeAgent http://www.forteinc.com/ Grab It http://www.shemes.com/grabit PDF CutePDF http://www.cutepdf.com Image Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ CAD FreeCad 5.0 http://www.askoh.com/ TurboCAD LE http://nct.digitalriver.com/fulfill/0002.16 Video Players 1337player http://www.daansystems.com/ Video Tools analyzerDRF http://www.geocities.com/analyzerDRF WebServers Xitami http://www.xitami.com/ Text Editors EmEditor http://www.emurasoft.com/ (free for students and freeware developers) ConTEXT http://www.fixedsys.com/context SciTe http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html Rename Quick File Rename Personal Edition v3.0 http://minimice.cjb.net/ Lupas Rename http://go.to/lupas2000 Flexible Renamer http://go.to/lupas2000 Misc TreeSize http://www.jam-software.com/ SequoiaView http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview Dema Post It http://desoft.cjb.net/ DaemonTools http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php Columbus http://columbus.arup.com/ MACBETH http://www.umh.ac.be/%7Esmq -- Atchou Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2228491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 LOC Veteran Posted June 11, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 11, 2004 RSS RSSOwl http://www.rssowl.org/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2258793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 trigger_my_passion Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 DAMICON'S LIST OF OPEN SOFTWARE http://damicon.com/resources/opensoftware.html Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2272726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 trigger_my_passion Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 FAQGenie (free) - Website FAQ Manager FAQGenie is a tool that takes the hassle out of writing and maintaining a FAQ on a website. You simply enter your questions and answers, arrange them according to your preferences, select a suitable layout and with a click you have a professional looking FAQ page. You have the option to have the document on a single page or in frames - both horizontal and vertical options are supported. You can have the answers all on a single page or one per page - the latter being very useful for cases where you have a long document which takes forever to download. Other options include FAQ import, extra headers and footers, meta-tags, JavaScript to auto-frame automatically and much more. http://virdi-software.com/faqgen/desc.shtml=== PagePlus 5 is the easiest way to get professional desktop publishing results - in print or on line. With your PC, printer and PagePlus, you can save time and money - no experience required! Whether you want a classy logo, attention grabbing text or an artistic masterpiece, DrawPlus 4 has the power and tools to help you. Beginners and professionals have praised this as one of the best design programs, ever! PhotoPlus is your number one choice for working with photographs and paint type images, whether for the Web, multimedia, or the printed page. Once you've got your image into PhotoPlus, you can enhance and alter its on screen appearance with a diverse toolkit of functions and effects. Ready to add a new dimension to your Web graphics projects, presentations, or desktop publishing? 3DPlus 2 will take you there! 3DPlus puts all the tools and resources you'll need within easy reach. The professional-quality results will amaze you! If you thought creating Web pages was difficult, think again! With WebPlus' Web Page Wizards you'll be designing and publishing professional looking Web sites fast. Whether you're a professional or novice you'll come to appreciate the easy to use atmosphere in WebPlus. http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/products.asp Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2272781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 war Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 Pop Up Blocking: Ad Muncher Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2297856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ghatak Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 good list Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2320035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 I need Zoloft Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Video player Viplay http://www.urusoft.net/downloads.php?lang=1 Somegood websites for freeware http://freewarearena.org/PHPNuke/index.php http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2320489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Emon Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 HTML Editor: Nvu http://www.nvu.com/index.html Nvu is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers. Its remarkable support of XML, CSS and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2321647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Spitfire_x86 Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 Audio Player: Coolplayer coolplayer website Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2333883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 scotoma Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 Sorry if these repeat, but I didn't see them in the main list on the first page. At some point I might actually scroll through all 16 pages of postings. Media Encoder http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...er/default.aspx SSH Client http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/secur...commercial.html Screen Saver? http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ I forgot what about SlickRun http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2337906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Slimy Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 CCLEANER the best there is google it Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2337922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khaine Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 You'll have to remove NetTransport as it just became shareware :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2338982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 uratewl Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 First off...Great List! Next, here are a few freeware apps that I use regularly that I haven't seen. RSS Reader - http://www.pluck.com/ Image Manipulation(?) - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2339316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Flexhoy Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 Lots of those programs were ones that were very good, but some of them were not as hot. Such as Netscape. Netscape is free, but for what you get and how slow it is, they shoudl pay YOU to use it. Anyways, a job well done. Keep up the good work :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2378145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DigitalN. Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Firebird is no more, it is now Firefox ;) also, take off AIDA 32, it is also no more Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2381435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Viserov Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Firebird is no more, it is now Firefox ;)also, take off AIDA 32, it is also no more It's Everest now. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2388466 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Viserov Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 CCLEANERthe best there is google it I like CCleaner :yes: Doesn't the creator post here on Neowin? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2388483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ulpian Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Encryption and data security: http://www.dekart.com/products/file_disk_e...ate_disk_light/ Private Disk Light is a solution, which creates one or more secure virtual disks on your hard drive. Information stored in this secure area is automatically encrypted and may only be decrypted by entering the correct password. Without the password, the information from a secure disk cannot be accessed and decrypted.Private Disk Light employs an AES standard encryption algorithm. This technology ensures a high level of encryption, which does not hinder the computer`s performance in any way. Important note: Dekart Private Disk contains No spyware, No adware, No viruses and it's freeware. DPDL uses AES-128, maximum password lenght is 63 chars... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2416510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ulpian Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Please update AIDA - it is now Everest, it is on website: http://www.lavalys.com/products.php there is free version... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2416524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 trigger_my_passion Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Harddisk Search & Stats Harddisk Search & Stats is a freeware Search Engine for your harddisk. It enables you to search large numbers of text/ascii-based files simultaneously. Harddisk Search & Stats can search (inside) text/ascii-based files in all levels of a folder (recursive), or just one level. Also: select files to be searched by file name and/or file type, do not search inside files but just by file name/type. You can specify as many search terms you want, and there is no limit to the number of file types you can add for searching. For each search-term entered, the program will display an additional column in the search results. Double-clicking on a file in the search result will open the internal or an external viewer. More features: - search by file name and/or file type - search inside files and/or by file name/type - filter file types based on extensions - import file types from a folder - view/search individual files with the internal or an external viewer - zero-installation, easy uninstallation - the program does not write anything into the registry - run directly from CD-Rom Installation and use Harddisk Search & Stats does not need to be installed. Just copy the program files onto your harddisk, double click on the .exe file and the program will start. License and platforms Freeware for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP. (Linux version in the make!) This program is freeware for corporate and personal use, so you can run this program in any commercial or non-commercial setting. http://www.freebyte.com/harddisk_search_and_stats/ Forum thread: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=186117 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2417566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran Posted July 6, 2004 Veteran Share Posted July 6, 2004 A back-up suggestion: Karen's Replicator ( http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp ): I have used this for years. It is perfect for synchronizing between drives (and folders on drives). I don't like the idea of backing up my data in some compressed form or really in any form that requires me to have a proprietary program to access it. I have Karen's Replicator set up in my work laptop thus: 1. Daily backups to a Compact Flash card (here, I only back up my current workfiles) 2. Weekly backups to a USB hard drive (here, I back up all of my files) What I finish up with in both cases is an exact copy of my data. I can take this to other computers without a problem (no need to unzip compressed proprietary backup files, etc.). Anyway, it's a cool and free tool that I would NEVER do without, so I thought I'd mention it here. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/119821-freeware-alternative-list/page/10/#findComment-2431105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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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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