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question - I am curious how you could think/request people to have to ask permission of you to post a bunch of URLs? This is not software you have written, nor is is some new, or even creative (ie a poem or verse, story, etc..) Its a list of URL's. And now that you have added to it, per other peoples suggestions its not even yours anymore. Do we also have to get the permission of everyone that has contrib'd to YOUR list?? as well ;)

I guess you free to ask for people to ask you - but whats the point? You can not claim ownership of something that is NOT even yours. I could see asking to point to your list vs posting a static copy, since you will maintain it, etc.. But anyone has just as much right to link to FREE software as you do.

21,678 · December 1, 2003

question - I am curious how you could think/request people to have to ask permission of you to post a bunch of URLs? This is not software you have written, nor is is some new, or even creative (ie a poem or verse, story, etc..) Its a list of URL's. And now that you have added to it, per other peoples suggestions its not even yours anymore. Do we also have to get the permission of everyone that has contrib'd to YOUR list?? as well ;)
I guess you free to ask for people to ask you - but whats the point? You can not claim ownership of something that is NOT even yours. I could see asking to point to your list vs posting a static copy, since you will maintain it, etc.. But anyone has just as much right to link to FREE software as you do.

Im not asking for people to ask for permission, its just a pm to keep track of people using this list.

as a fact I can ask for permission, yes, is a bunch of links, but compiled links, some of them were given by the users, others were searched by me, but thats not the point

btw, the people contributing this list are contributing by themselves knowing that their entries will be added ;)

December 1, 2003

another nice firewall:

Outpost Firewall

http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html

December 1, 2003

Does codecs count under Video and Audio?

Nimo Codec Pack: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html

Instant Messengers

Trillian Basic is technically a freeware IM: http://trillian.cc/downloads/

Text Editors

EditPad Lite: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

Network Tools

Ethereal Protocol Analyzer: http://www.ethereal.com/

Free network protocol analyzer that allows you to examine data from a live network or capture file. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Features include a display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. Compares favourably to commercial software such as Fluke Optiview.

Nmap (Network Mapper): http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Nmap is a free stealth port scanner for network exploration & security audits, and provides network discovery and port mapping. There is a simple Windows GUI and configurable search options.

Ntop.org: http://www.ntop.org

A link to some free network analysis software, such as ntop and nProbe. The service enables the user to generate graphics or charted displays of network traffic from a web interface and is user-configurable to target specific needs.

PingPlotter: http://www.pingplotter.com/

Another free software package that provides a graphic output for a user-specified ping-trace, with details of the route, hop count, average ping time and current ping time in a convenient format.

December 1, 2003

some advice:

1. Sort the categories alphabetically

2. Only 2 programs are stated to be free for personal use only, but there's actually a lot more of them in the list

13,501 · December 1, 2003

How come all of the browsers that use the IE engine are called "Front ends" yet all the ones that use the Mozilla engine are simply "Browsers"?

21,678 · December 1, 2003

some advice:
1. Sort the categories alphabetically

2. Only 2 programs are stated to be free for personal use only, but there's actually a lot more of them in the list

yeah, I will work with the layout later, its just that I am lazy

21,678 · December 1, 2003

How come all of the browsers that use the IE engine are called "Front ends" yet all the ones that use the Mozilla engine are simply "Browsers"?

because they are frontends, they use already installed IE libraries and files along with their own files, firebird, k-meleon, etc, are not front ends since they include everything they need and dont use any files from the original mozilla (meaning: you dont need to have mozilla installed)

3,409 · December 1, 2003

FTP Servers:

FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net

SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd

Web Servers:

TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

9,683 · December 1, 2003

kickass system monitor app.

Gkrellm - http://www.gkrellm.net

windows port can be found here http://bill.nalens.com/

RAS Graph & Stats is a network/dialup monitor and stats tool.

http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400

also there is FlashSFV, but i don't think of any other SFV that's not free :)

AppRocket is a kickass free application/file shortcut soft. it doesn't take any screen space, and it can have almost unlimited number of shortcut..while still taking up same amount of screen space, "0"

Edited December 1, 2003 by MxxCon

2,732 · December 1, 2003

Already using some of those apps, thanks guys !

21,678 · December 1, 2003

updated:

1.- added suggestions

2.- List is sorted alfabetically and in list order

What do you think of the look of the list now?

9,683 · December 1, 2003

Net Transport is another download manager

http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm

FFDSHOW

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

it support almost every MPEG2/MPEG4 codec(xvid, divx3/4/5, ms mpeg42, mpeg43, etc, etc)

3,409 · December 1, 2003

[saint dark], the freeware list looks great!

Even I found a couple of interresting programs. :p

December 1, 2003

some more

Browser

SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Anti-Spyware

Ad-aware 6.0 - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

SpyBot - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

21,678 · December 1, 2003

updated again

1,017 · December 1, 2003

here is one. games: Wolfenstien enemy territory

21,678 · December 1, 2003

I was thinking to make a games section, but it will be incredibly huge so this time Im going to focus just on non-gaming software, thanks tho'

4,970 · December 1, 2003

Nice idea sd.

December 1, 2003

the list looks nice :)

Partition Managers:

Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/

Audio Players:

Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/

iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Audio Tools:

mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/

MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/

File Managers:

A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/

MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

3,661 · December 1, 2003

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/

Release date: 31/12/2000

I wouldn't trust that with my partitions...

2,364 · December 1, 2003

,Dec 2 2003, 01:46] What the list needs:
...more PDF makers...

OpenOffice?

3,409 · December 2, 2003

Audio Players:

1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch

CD/DVD Burning:

Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

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