The FBackup application was designed to be a backup software for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. The backed up data can be either compressed (using standard zip compression) or an exact copy of the original files.

Audio Tools

Free Audio Converter http://www.free-audio-editor.com/otherfree...o-converter.htm

Sound file converter for Windows. Convert audio files from many different file formats to mp3, wav or wma. For example convert wav to mp3, mp3 to wav, wma to mp3 or many other formats. Just add the files you want to convert, select the output format, and then click convert.

General Utilities And Other Applications

New Folder Wizard http://www.newfolderwizard.com/

New Folder Wizard can help you create thousands of folders quickly and easily. Options include numbering the folders, prefix and suffix text, zero padding, and using a text file as the source for folder names. You can use this application when you need to organize images or other types of files by easily making folders.

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CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation

DVDisaster http://dvdisaster.net/en/index.php

CD, DVD and BD media keep their data only for a finite time (typically for many years). After that time, data loss develops slowly with read errors growing from the outer media region towards the inside.

dvdisaster stores data on CD/DVD/BD (supported media) in a way that it is fully recoverable even after some read errors have developed. This enables you to rescue the complete data to a new medium.

Data loss is prevented by using error correcting codes. Error correction data is either added to the medium or kept in separate error correction files. dvdisaster works at the image level so that the recovery does not depend on the file system of the medium. The maximum error correction capacity is user-selectable.

Image viewers

Imagine http://www.nyam.pe.kr/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=2

Imagine is a lightweight, easy to use, yet powerful image viewer enhanced with various editing features.

General Utilities And Other Applications

WinCDEmu http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting ISO images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer.

Each mounted image will be represented by a separate virtual CD device, as in MacOS. There is no limit for the number of simultaniously mounted images. To unmount an image, double-click the corresponding file in Explorer again, or simply eject the corresponding CD drive using the context menu.

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xVideoServiceThief http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/

The xVideoServiceThief application was designed to be a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites. xVideoServiceThief also provide you the ability to convert each video in most popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats.

Office Application

PolyEdit Lite http://www.polyedit.com/free.html

PolyEdit Lite is a free word processor that is designed to be lightweight, reliable, easy-to-use, and extremely fast. It has all of the standard capabilities you expect from a word processor. The program also introduces some innovative features that will make your work more efficient.

Educational Utilities

Geometry http://www.theeastfamily.net/software.html (scroll down)

Geometry is a calculator which uses many of the formulas found in geometry. The program will calculate surface area and volume of a variety of geometric figures such as prisms, cone, sphere, pyramids, torus and cylinder. The software will perform calculations involving the pythagorean theorem, sine, cosine, tangent, special triangles, regular polygons, circles, arcs, triangles, squares, rectangles, distance, slope, midpoint, Trigonometry, and coordinate geometry. The interface includes drawings of each scenario and the formulas involved in the calculation.

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I'm making a new category, 'Backup and Synchronization'. I think enough programs fit this description to justify giving it it's own category.

Backup and Synchronization

DirSyncPro http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/

DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to syncrhonize the content of one or many folders recursively. Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you'll spare lots of time because you don't have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied.

Encryption and Data Security

FreeOTFE http://www.freeotfe.org/

FreeOTFE is a free, open source, "on-the-fly" transparent disk encryption program for PCs and PDAs. Using this software, you can create one or more "virtual disks" on your PC/PDA. These disks operate exactly like a normal disk, with the exception that anything written to one of them is transparently, and securely, encrypted before being stored on your computer's hard drive.

Programming

AptEdit Lite http://www.aptedit.com/download.htm

AptEdit Lite is a 32-bit, full-featured text, hexadecimal, and web editor. It offers many powerful features to view and edit just about any text or binary file, and it's an excellent source editor for Web page authors, developers, and programmers.

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remove-restrictions-and-decrypt-password-protected-pdf-files-with-pdf-unlocker

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/07/10/r...h-pdf-unlocker/

http://depositfiles.com/files/7kiqyvswk

a-handful-of-free-media-converters-to-convert-unsupported-media-formats

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/07/12/a...-media-formats/

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Defraggler:

http://www.defraggler.com/

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I'm working on updating the freeware alternative list, and I should be done in a week or two. So there are some things I could use some help with:

Suggest new freeware programs that are not already on the list.
Programs that are no longer freeware.
Broken links that no longer work, and if possible, post a working link to the program.
Programs that have been renamed, ex: Gaim is now Pidgin, and jkDefrag is now myDefrag.
Any other suggestions in general, like programs that should be removed because they're crap :p

I'll look through all the suggestions, and I'll post the updated list when it's ready. :)

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http://www.fiastarta.com/PrtScr/

Print screen freeware

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xVideoServiceThief http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/

The xVideoServiceThief application was designed to be a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites. xVideoServiceThief also provide you the ability to convert each video in most popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats.

Awesome, thanks for this :)

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textdiff-compares-and-highlights-text-differences-with-copy-and-merge-capabilities

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/07/21/t...e-capabilities/

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