Freeware Alternative List (2009/10)

Audio Tools and Converters:
Album Art Downloader http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

< < spam > > - http://www.< < spam > >.com/index.php?kmp3

AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm

Balthers Graphic Groove Box - http://www.balther.dk/gboxenter.html

BeatHarness - http://www.beatharness.com/

BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

And there are a couple broken formatting tags.

Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Bitwise IM - http://www.bitwiseim.com/
Digsby http://www.digsby.com[/B
Fomine LAN Chat - http://www.fomine.com/lan-chat.html
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
[B]Instantbird http://www.instantbird.com/

Edited July 27, 2009 by Relativity_17

5,743 · July 27, 2009

< < spam > > is considered spam? We have a winner ...

or maybe its the word "wares" at the end ... nope, just use kcsoft before wares and all is fine :)

3,512 · July 27, 2009

Hopefully a moderator can fix it. I actually made 3 separate posts, but the forum merged them all into one post. If I try to edit it, the forum tells me the post is too big. :pinch:

There's also some broken [ b] bold [ / b ] tags. I'd appreciate if a moderator could fix those also.

Alternate link for SUMo:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System...eous/SUMo.shtml

The other missing program is Audio_Grail (added the underscore to bypass the spam filter):

http://majorgeeks.com/AudioGrail_d4342.html

These programs aren't dangerous. I guess the author spammed on Neowin and had his website blocked.

4,400 · July 27, 2009

Very nice job Xinok.

3,472 · July 27, 2009

Thanks for the list!

13,214 · July 27, 2009

Very nice job Xinok.

Yes, many thanks for the update! (Y)

Thread pinned

5,743 · July 27, 2009

@Si, can u fix the < < spam > > problem?

3,512 · July 31, 2009

Encryption and Data Security:

DiskCryptor - http://diskcryptor.net/index.php/DiskCryptor_en

DiskCryptor is the only truly free solution, provided under GNU General Public License (GPLv3), which offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition. The main criteria for open-source software is the availability of its source code under one of the open source licenses.

2,110 · July 31, 2009

virtual drives:

imdisk - http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

good list

Edited July 31, 2009 by yxz

1,266 · August 2, 2009

Nero 9 is freeware now. (Y)

http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php

Please note: Nero 9 Freeware does not have all of the features and advancements of a Nero 9 Premium package. It can only burn and copy CD/DVD discs. For all other features, you will need to buy the premium version.

3,512 · August 2, 2009

System Tools:

Windows SteadyState http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ss/default.mspx

Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet caf?, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them.

August 3, 2009

Mil Firewall and 7Zip, great software :)

3,512 · August 5, 2009

System Information and Monitoring:

Yet Another Process Monitor (YAPM) - http://yaprocmon.sourceforge.net/

Yet Another (remote) Process Monitor (YAPM) is a powerful application that allows to view and manage your running tasks, processes, threads, modules, windows, handles, network connections and your services on a local or on a remote machine. YAPM offers lots of features to manipulate them, such as privilege management, memory management, a complete history of statistics, a dependency viewer... etc.

3,512 · August 8, 2009

Anti-Spyware:

SafeSpace - http://www.artificialdynamics.com/content/...al-edition.aspx

SafeSpace protects your from malware by creating a impenetrable shield between your computer and the Internet, protecting you and your personal information against all known and unknown threats.

SafeSpace creates a virtual environment, called a sandbox, for Internet facing applications and content that is downloaded from these applications. From inside SafeSpace, all changes to your application files, system files and registry become virtualized in an instance.

These virtualized changes only affect applications inside the sandbox, leaving the native computer in an unmodified state. When the SafeSpace session ends, or the user logs off, all changes are deleted.

1,022 · August 10, 2009

Backup Software

EASEUS Todo Backup - http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/

EASEUS Todo Backup is an award-winning and Free backup and restore solution for a good reason: with detailed instruction wizards, your computer will be in a safe condition within minutes without the help of an IT specialist to backup your system state, partition and disk. And this program is totally free to use!

EASEUS Todo Backup can backup your system partition to quickly get the system up and running in the event of a system crash or hardware failure. It allows you to backup and restore disk or partition after viruses attack, unstable software download, hard drive failure, etc. Meanwhile, EASEUS Todo Backup is useful if you want to upgrade the older smaller hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.

3,512 · August 11, 2009

Encryption and Data Security:

R-Crypto - http://www.data-security-software.com/

This is the first encrypted drive software I found which lets you resize the disk images.

R-Crypto is an easy-to-use disk encryption software that protects your confidential information and personal data on a desktop, notebook, or a removable data storage device against unauthorized access.

To protect the data R-Crypto creates encrypted virtual disks (virtual data storage devices). These disks provide real time data encryption and decryption which are fully transparent to the user, it means that the data is being encrypted just before it is being written to the disk and is being decrypted right after it is being read from the disk without the need of user intervention. All data (such as file and folder names, and content of all files) stored on such disks is constantly encrypted. The access to data on the virtual encrypted disk is impossible unless the user provides a correct password. At the same time, all file and disk operations for connected virtual encrypted disks are performed the same way as for standard disks.

R-Crypto encrypts the data on virtual disks using the cryptographic infrastructure of the Microsoft Windows operating system. This infrastructure allows the users to use various installable cryptographic service providers, including those that are already pre-installed. For example, Microsoft AES Cryptographic Provider is one of the pre-installed cryptographic service providers in Windows XP and Vista that implements the modern and most secure encryption algorithm: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with key length of 128, 192, and 256 bits.

3,512 · August 14, 2009

Audio Players:

MusicBee - http://www.getmusicbee.com/

If you are looking for an application geared toward managing extensive music collections, easy to use and with a comprehensive feature set - MusicBee is that application.

MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find and play music files on your computer, on portable devices and on the web.

3,512 · August 17, 2009

Programming:

TortoiseSVN - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control application for Windows. It is based on Subversion. TortoiseSVN provides a nice and easy user interface for Subversion.

Since TortoiseSVN is a Windows shell extension, it integrates in the file explorer. That means you can use it with the tool you are most familiar with.

1,647 · August 17, 2009

PDF Utilities:

PDFill Free Tools - http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

Screenshot shows all the functionalities offered, as well as a virtual PDF printer to create PDF from any application:

2,541 · August 17, 2009

Audio Players:
MusicBee - http://www.getmusicbee.com/

If you are looking for an application geared toward managing extensive music collections, easy to use and with a comprehensive feature set - MusicBee is that application.

MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find and play music files on your computer, on portable devices and on the web.

Glad someone else knows about this application, I posted about it in BPN last month, of course no one cared:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=803454

3,512 · August 20, 2009

General Utilities and Other Applications:

MojoPac - http://www.mojopac.com/

For Windows XP Only!

Mojopac is a technology that can transform your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 complaint storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere. Every time you plug your MojoPac-enabled device into any Windows XP PC , MojoPac automatically launches your environment on the host PC. Your communications, music, games, applications, and files are all local and accessible. And when you unplug the MojoPac device, no trace is left behind your information is not cached on the host PC.

3,512 · August 23, 2009

Image Tools and Converters:

Microsoft Image Composite Editor - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/red...groups/ivm/ICE/

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom.

3,512 · August 26, 2009

Firewalls:

Online Armor Free - http://www.tallemu.com/free-firewall-prote...n-software.html

The Online Armor product was designed to be a revolutionary software that will protect your system against Spyware, Malware, Trojans and Phishing attacks. Instead of using patterns to identify programs (letting unknown threats run silently in the background) Online Armor uses a unique combination of behaviour analysis and white list of safe programs.

August 28, 2009

I wonder how decent Online Armor is...

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