Si Veteran Posted April 30, 2006 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2006 (edited) Updated by Simon, 30th April 2006 Originally compiled by sanctified, thanks to Neowin members. Note: If you are going to contribute to this list please ensure there is a line in your post in the following format: Application - http://url/to/homepage This makes updating the list so much easier :) Items marked in bold are new additions, the previous revision of the list can be found here. 3D Graphics: 3D Apartment Designer - http://creditsuisse.databecker.net/index.p...uage=en&s=4 3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/ Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/ 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 POV-Ray - http://www.povray.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: a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/ Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/ BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/ Anti Spyware: Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ Arovax Shield - http://www.arovaxshield.com/download.php Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html Browser Hijack Retaliator http://www.zamaansoft.com/products/bhr/ CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html ToolbarCop - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm Watcher - http://www.donationcoders.com/kubicle/watcher/index.html WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/ Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/home/index.php Audio Creation Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/ Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html Audio Players: 1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/ Evil PLayer - http://evilplayer.server-host.com/ Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/ iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/ Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/ Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/ monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/ Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/ musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/ QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/ Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/ Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/ XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/ Audio Tools: Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.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/ iTunes Agent - http://ita.sourceforge.net/index.html[/b] K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/ KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/ M4a/Flac/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player & Media Center 2005 - http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/ Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/ mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/ MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/ mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/ MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/ opcode - http://www.opcode.co.uk/opd2d/default.asp 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/ TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/ CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation: Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/ CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/index.html Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr eCover - http://www.esoftware.it/eCover/index.html GUI for dvdauthor - http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/ ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/ ISO Recorder http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/AUDIO Burner - http://www.silentnight2004.com/NEW_Download.html Smart CD-Menu Creator - http://www.cupidsystems.com/smartmenucreator.html 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/ Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/ IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/ KGB Archiver - http://www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/index.php?lang=en QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/ SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/ TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/ UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/ Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm Zipfocus - http://www.skaro.net/zip-reader/index.html Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/ Defrag Software: DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/ OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp Whitney Defrag - http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag Desktop Enhancements: Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/ AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372 Clocktrayskins - http://www.drive-software.com/windowsclock.html CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/ Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/ Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/ Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/#intro Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/ Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/ MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/ MouseIMP - http://www.mouseimp.com/ Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/ SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/ StartEx - http://www.zalentino.com/startex/ TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/ tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/ Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/ WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/ Download managers: Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/ LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/ Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/ wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/ Encryption and data security: Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/ Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm fseKrit - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/ KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/ PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/ File Managers: 2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/ A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/ CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/ ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm 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: Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html NetVeda Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/ Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html 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: Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/ 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 TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/ 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/ Elfima Notepad - http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/ HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ Notetab light - http://www.notetab.com/ NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html PHP Designer 2005 and HTMLGate FREE - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/ Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/ SuperEdi - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/ Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/ TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/ WebDwarf - http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/[/url] WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html Image viewers: Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/ Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/ SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/ XNView - http://www.xnview.com/ Instant Messengers: AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/ IM2: http://www.im2.com Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/ MiniAIM - http://miniaim.net/ Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/ Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/ PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/ qip - http://www.qip.ru/ Skype - http://www.skype.com/ SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/ TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/ Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads Internet Explorer Front-Ends: AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/ AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/ Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/ FastStone 4in1 Browser - http://www.faststone.org/FSBrowserDetail.htm Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/ SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm IRC Clients: BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/ BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/ NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/ TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/ XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/ 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/ SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/ Network Tools: CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/ Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/ FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/ Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/ 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...p;threadid=2400 RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/ Tango Dropbox - http://tangoftp.com/ TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/ Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/ Office Application: AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/ OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/ qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php Scribus - http://windows.scribus.net/ TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm Partition Managers: Dubaron - DiskImage http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/ Partition Logic - http://visopsys.org/partlogic/download.html Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/ Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/ SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html PDF Utilities: Brava! Reader - http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php 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: ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7 Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/ IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/ iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/ 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/ PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net Recolored - http://www.recolored.com Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/ Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/ The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/ Programming: ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/ 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/ Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm 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/ Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/ Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/ PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/ Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/ Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/ 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/ WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/ WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/ 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 BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/ FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/ GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/ klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/ RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/ RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/ RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews= SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/ System Information and monitoring: AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/ CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...en&pageid=1 Free Disks monitoring - http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/fr...oring-software/ Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/ HWiNFO - http://www.hwinfo.com/ K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en 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 WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx WINAUDIT - http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm Why Reboot? - http://www.exodus-dev.com/products/WhyReboot/ 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 : AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter AVS DVD Player - http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx 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/ Flash Movie Player - http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/flash_movie_player/ MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/ Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303 MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/ VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/ Video tools & converters: AVI2DVD - http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/ FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net FlowPlayer - http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/ GB-PVR - http://www.gbpvr.com/index.html GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ HDTVtoMPEG2 - http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/ iPod video converter - http://www.ipod-video-converter.org/ Mediacoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ MobileVideo For iPod - http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo-for-i...-converter.html PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/ Riva FLV Encoder 2.0 http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?downloads&L=3 STOIK Video Converter - http://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/Video..._ScreenShot.htm Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html The FilmMachine http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/ TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html Video DVD Maker - http://www.videodvdmaker.com/ Video Tools - http://www.bobyte.com/ Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/ 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 Opera - http://www.opera.com Web servers: Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/ Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/ HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/ Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/ SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/ TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/ Webcam Software: booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/ Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/ grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/ Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/ Checksum Utilities: fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/ HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/ hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/ ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/ MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/ QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/ Edited August 4, 2006 by Joel Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Annorax Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 (edited) One of my favorites is XML Copy Editor: http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/ A simple yet full featured XML editor that supports the following: - XML validation (if the file is the correct XML format) - DTD validation against an XML file - XSD validation against an XML file - XSL transformations - Xpath evalutations - Pretty print - Tabbed interface - Lower memory usage - A few more things that I don't use smile.gif It's being actively developed and is still kind of young, but works great. Edited September 10, 2006 by Annorax Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587868080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Audio Players Xion http://xion.r2.com.au/ * Full layered skins * Complete animation support * Powerful playlist support * Gapless playback * 10 band equalizer with presets * MP3/OGG internet file streaming * Customizable global hotkeys * Auto play and position saver * Single click play/pause * Volume and balance controls * Full system tray functionality Flac, Ogg, Wma, Asf, Mp3, Mod support. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587868472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tha Bloo Monkee Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Great list! I got a lot of useful programs from it (and tried many)! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587871289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Mail programs Revolver Mail http://www.revolversoft.com/en/products/mail/index.php Revolver Mail combines all the elements of a personal information manager - an email client, an address book, and a calendar - in a single, integrated, user-friendly interface. Even better: it?s free. Revolver Mail is the safe, network-savvy alternative to existing email programs. Designed especially for use in SOHO and small business environments, Revolver Mail?s secure framework and virus-resistant email area makes it a great choice for both company data and personal information. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587878560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Mail programs Koma-Mail http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=c...=5&Itemid=6 Evolution http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/ Cobian Herald http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobherald.htm Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587879167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Audio Creation Jungulator http://www.iamthemightyjungulator.com/downloads Brilliant looping/sequencing/slicing audio proccessor for PC and Mac. Takes a long, long time to start.....but worth the wait. I made some great music just using Windows system sounds as samples. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587908997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Audio Creation LoopBe1 A Free Virtual MIDI Driver http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html LoopBe1 is an internal MIDI device for transferring MIDI data between computer programs. Basically LoopBe1 is an "invisible cable" to connect a MIDI outport of an application to any other application?s MIDI inport. All MIDI data sent to the program?s output is channeled to the receiving applications in realtime. You may connect up to 8 applications to LoopBe's inport and up to 8 applications to the outport, all sending and receiving at the same time. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587909049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Network Tools: Win IP Config http://www.pkostov.com/wipcfg.html Win IP Configuration Manager is a replacement for the annoying command line tools "ipconfig.exe" and "route.exe". This version also includes the "netstat.exe" tool. Win IP Configuration Manager shows you the IP settings of the installed network interfaces. IP addresses obtained by DHCP can be renewed by Win IP Config. Routes can easily be added, removed, changed or made persistent by this tool. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587911387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TexasFlood Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Here's a good little program, very early in it's stages but it looks promising. Very fast too. FuturixImager is compact and customizable image viewer. It is capable of opening more then 50 graphical formats, including most popular ones (GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG2000, raw, DNG).Imager can also print, scan, perform basic editing operations, make screenshots, show camera metadata, import raw camera photos, generate histograms, and much more! http://www.futurix.co.uk/imager/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587911793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Video Tools Transana http://www.transana.org/index.htm Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587911858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fdsfdg Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Sudowin http://sudowin.sourceforge.net/ Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user's profile and ownership of created objects. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587914714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Network Tools: WinNG Windows Network Graph http://montaro.bur.st/winng/ * Monitoring of any TCP/IP adapter * Shows speed in/out * Records amount of data sent/received * Simple tray icon that mimicks built-in Windows one * Two graphs to graphically record traffic in/out * A choice of 5 different graph styles (Bar, 3D, Line, Filled & Scatter) * Selection of internet speeds to customize graph scope * Customise graph scope with your own up/down speeds * Displays your IP address and subnet mask * Calculates the actual percentage of bandwidth that is in use * Records statistical data to an INI file in the Windows directory for use with other programs. Such as displaying your network readings on IRC (a sample mIRC script is included to show how to do this). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587919218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 futrstyl Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 For Audio Tools, I recommend CUE Splitter: http://www.shareup.com/CUE_Splitter-download-30218.html Gets the job done nicely, and it's very easy to use. Just an FYI, it wants to call home for some reason, so if you don't want it to do that, be sure to take care of that first. ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587922944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vykranth Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 General utilities OverDisk http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html Graphical Disk Space Analyzer which shows you the relative sizes of the various folders on a hard drive. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587925401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Magnolia Man Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 maybe its been updated but i didn't see this on the list System Information & Monitoring PC Wizard 2006 http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php *Best Freeware System Info., Config. and Benchmark program i've found. i was given an old formatted computer and the MotherBoard was not labeled. This program gave me the Manufacturer & Model as well as info on the Chipset, BIOS, CPU, Memory, onboard Sound & LAN... all the info i needed in order to find the proper drivers Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587928537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Desktop Enhancements: Menu Inventor http://micron.ic.cz/menuinventor # graphically very similar to Linux KDE menu # fully configurablemenu structure # menu nesting supported # comfortable on-the-fly editing # access any application, file and even folder # in-built cut, copy, paste and move functions # both mouse and keyboard navigation # special menu items: headers and separators # unique movable trigger button, always floating above all applications # supports both user-selected icons as well as default application icons # comes shipped with 75+ crystal clear icons # quick batch adding supported Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587938995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Desktop Enhancements: Menu Inventor http://micron.ic.cz/menuinventor # graphically very similar to Linux KDE menu # fully configurablemenu structure # menu nesting supported # comfortable on-the-fly editing # access any application, file and even folder # in-built cut, copy, paste and move functions # both mouse and keyboard navigation # special menu items: headers and separators # unique movable trigger button, always floating above all applications # supports both user-selected icons as well as default application icons # comes shipped with 75+ crystal clear icons # quick batch adding supported Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587939001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Video Tools CaptureFlux http://paul.glagla.free.fr/captureflux_en.htm o you may capture to divx in real time, and not only in native, DV type 2 or wmv. o you may capture an audio stream in WAV (PCM uncompressed) or mp3. CaptureFlux can function like an audio recorder, with any audio source even integrated in a video source, for example the microphone of a DV camera connected to a firewire link. o generally speaking, the audio and video streams can be choosen with great flexibility. For instance, you could connect two camcorders and use one for audio and the second for video. o the different entries of a sound card can be directly selected in CaptureFlux o The video window can display in widescreen format (16x9) o During preview, the video may be flipped horizontally and not only vertically o A deinterlacer filter is contained internally in CaptureFlux. It is mainly used for deinterlacing the grabbed pictures. But during preview, it may also be activated in order to smooth the video (It is inactivated during capture in order to avoid dropping frames). o Data about the streams is displayed, for example image size, audio frequency... o A time difference may be fixed with any delay, and not only an integer number of hours. o CaptureFlux detects all changes in the capture devices, and adapts automatically to them. It is now fully possible to connect new devices after launching CaptureFlux. o You may choose which capture devices are listed by CaptureFlux and disable those who are not useful or messy. o CaptureFlux improves many internal procedures and becomes generally more performant o CaptureFlux may accept plug-ins for sources not recognized by default, specially mpeg2 devices. Presently a plug-in to support the usb box ADS Tech DVDXpress DX2 is available for download. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587940848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Office Application: TextMaker Viewer http://www.officeviewers.com/ If you want to... open a document created in Microsoft Word, TextMaker, or OpenDocument format, but you haven't installed the respective word processor send a document but you don't know whether the recipient has installed the programs to open it quickly view and print documents without editing them Then you need...the free TextMaker Viewer .doc Microsoft Word 6.0 up to Word 2003 .dot Microsoft Word templates 6.0 up to 2003 .tmd TextMaker 6.0 up to 2006 .odt OpenDocument Text .sxw OpenOffice.org Text .rtf Rich Text Format .psw Pocket Word (Pocket PC) .pwd Pocket Word (Handheld PC) .htm/html HTML documents .txt Text files (DOS, Windows, Unicode, UTF-8) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587946089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Web servers: NetworkActiv Web Server http://www.networkactiv.com/WebServer.html NetworkActiv Web Server (NAWS) was designed from scratch with the intent of being the very easiest Web server software available and is not based on any previously existing web servers or programs, while still providing the necessary advanced features. With an intuitive and to-the-point graphical user interface, NAWS can be set up in a matter of minutes, even by the inexperienced user. NAWS includes support for the industry standard features, such as CGI, PHP, and Perl, as well as support for serving byte ranges, which allows for real-time positioning of audio files that are being streamed. See below for a list of additional features provided by NAWS. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587959232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 PDF Utilities: Free Image Converter 1.0 http://www.downloadhotfile.com/download-do...rter-33715.html Free image converter. Support convert multi page tif to multi page pdf, convert jpg to pdf, convert jpg to tif, bmp to pdf, support tif compression ,Packbits, LZW, CCITT G.3 and G.4. image grayscale, bmp to png, jpg to png, jpg to bmp. set PDF information - PDF author, keyword, title, creator. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587962122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 File repair and recovery: ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/index.html ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives and file systems. The software incorporates extremely simple GUI with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity so one could recover the data easily. It gives you full control to undelete files, disk image back up, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, disk cloning, backup, edit and restore your boot parameters. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587970823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Copernic Reporter Posted October 20, 2006 Reporter Share Posted October 20, 2006 3D Box Shot Maker FREE tool to virtually desgin quality box shot as your software box cover. http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm 3D Box Shot Maker is an easy and FREE tool to virtually desgin quality box shot as your software box cover. It is important to present a professional boxshot to attract your potential customers to take a closer look at your products. An impressive box shot will make your software outstanding, and easily defeat your competitors at the start. 3D Box Shot Maker accepts a front image and a side image as input, and generate the final image on the fly. It can also include a shadow and a reflection in your box shot. It will show the preview image instantly as you adjust the size and other parameters. Three steps to get your own boxshot: 1. Set the side(left) and the Front(right) images. 2. Adjust the boxshot size, shadow and reflection. 3. Save the generated boxshot image out as image file. It supports 4 image format: BMP, JPG, PNG, and GIF. Present your software box cover with 3D Box Shot Maker, the ultimate solution, electronically! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587970849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Gawron Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Great list!!! Read thru most of it, and I don't think I spotted this one: File explorers / disk (space) utilities Sequoiaview http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ From the Sequoiaview (puh, hard to spell..) homepage: Ever wondered why your hard disk is full? Or what directory is taking up most of the space? When using conventional disk browsing tools, such as Windows Explorer, these questions may be hard to answer. With SequoiaView however, they can be answered almost immediately. SequoiaView uses a visualization technique called cushion treemaps to provide you with a single picture of the entire contents of your hard drive. Sorry about the big picture.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587973655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Copernic Reporter Posted October 22, 2006 Reporter Share Posted October 22, 2006 Eusing Free Registry Cleaner http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleane...try_cleaner.htm Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems with a few simple mouse clicks. The Windows Registry is a crucial part of your PC's operation system. Problems with the Windows Registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages. Registry problems can occur for many reasons, including references left behind after uninstallation; incorrect removal of software; missing or corrupt hardware drivers; or orphaned start-up programs. This will significantly increase the Registry size and slow down your computer, because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from the Registry. Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will scans your Windows registry for invalid or obsolete information and provide a list of the errors found. After fixing the invalid entries, your system will be more stable and run faster. For maximum safety, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will make a backup of the repaired entries. You will be able to restore any changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup. Eusing Software products are free of spyware and adware. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/456913-freeware-alternative-list/page/6/#findComment-587976869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Updated by Simon, 30th April 2006
Originally compiled by sanctified, thanks to Neowin members.
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Application - http://url/to/homepage
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Items marked in bold are new additions, the previous revision of the list can be found here.
3D Graphics:
3D Apartment Designer - http://creditsuisse.databecker.net/index.p...uage=en&s=4
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
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
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.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:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Arovax Shield - http://www.arovaxshield.com/download.php
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Browser Hijack Retaliator http://www.zamaansoft.com/products/bhr/
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
ToolbarCop - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm
Watcher - http://www.donationcoders.com/kubicle/watcher/index.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/
Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/home/index.php
Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html
Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Evil PLayer - http://evilplayer.server-host.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/
Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.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/
iTunes Agent - http://ita.sourceforge.net/index.html[/b]
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
M4a/Flac/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player & Media Center 2005 - http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
opcode - http://www.opcode.co.uk/opd2d/default.asp
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/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/
CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/index.html
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
eCover - http://www.esoftware.it/eCover/index.html
GUI for dvdauthor - http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
ISO Recorder http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/AUDIO Burner - http://www.silentnight2004.com/NEW_Download.html
Smart CD-Menu Creator - http://www.cupidsystems.com/smartmenucreator.html
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/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
KGB Archiver - http://www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/index.php?lang=en
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipfocus - http://www.skaro.net/zip-reader/index.html
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Whitney Defrag - http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag
Desktop Enhancements:
Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
Clocktrayskins - http://www.drive-software.com/windowsclock.html
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/#intro
Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/
Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
MouseIMP - http://www.mouseimp.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar
RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
StartEx - http://www.zalentino.com/startex/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/
Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/
CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
fseKrit - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
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:
Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVeda Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html
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:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
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
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
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/
Elfima Notepad - http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Notetab light - http://www.notetab.com/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
PHP Designer 2005 and HTMLGate FREE - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
SuperEdi - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
WebDwarf - http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/[/url]
WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html
Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
MiniAIM - http://miniaim.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
qip - http://www.qip.ru/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads
Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
FastStone 4in1 Browser - http://www.faststone.org/FSBrowserDetail.htm
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/
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/
SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/
Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/
Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
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...p;threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
Tango Dropbox - http://tangoftp.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/
Office Application:
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
Scribus - http://windows.scribus.net/
TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm
Partition Managers:
Dubaron - DiskImage http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/
Partition Logic - http://visopsys.org/partlogic/download.html
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
PDF Utilities:
Brava! Reader - http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
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:
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/
iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
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/
PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net
Recolored - http://www.recolored.com
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
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/
Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm
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/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
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/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/
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
BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/
klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/
System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...en&pageid=1
Free Disks monitoring - http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/fr...oring-software/
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
HWiNFO - http://www.hwinfo.com/
K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en
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
WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx
WINAUDIT - http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm
Why Reboot? - http://www.exodus-dev.com/products/WhyReboot/
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 :
AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter
AVS DVD Player - http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx
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/
Flash Movie Player - http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/flash_movie_player/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/
Video tools & converters:
AVI2DVD - http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
FlowPlayer - http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/
GB-PVR - http://www.gbpvr.com/index.html
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
HDTVtoMPEG2 - http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/
iPod video converter - http://www.ipod-video-converter.org/
Mediacoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
MobileVideo For iPod - http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo-for-i...-converter.html
PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/
Riva FLV Encoder 2.0 http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?downloads&L=3
STOIK Video Converter - http://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/Video..._ScreenShot.htm
Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
The FilmMachine http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html
VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html
Video DVD Maker - http://www.videodvdmaker.com/
Video Tools - http://www.bobyte.com/
Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
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
Opera - http://www.opera.com
Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/
Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/
Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/
QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
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