But the best free Downloadmanager is:
http://freedownloadmanager.org I sticked it so people could have this great post available.
yule, great work 
. I hope you can keep this up-to-date with your new findings and if anyone finds good free app's, you can reply here with links (just check to see it isn't yet posted, plz).
Be Well 
P.S. - yule, if necessary, we can give you a hand keeping it up-to-date, by editing and adding the replyed links. just tell us how you want it, and if you don't have the chance to update it, it will stay here just the same 
yule, 2 words for you.
GREAT WORK!
Hey, add True Downloader into the download managers list . I wouldn't call this small... I was think in the range of 5 apps... Jaw dropping. Incredible. 
| n0obie4life wrote: |
yule, 2 words for you.
GREAT WORK! |
| yule wrote: |
| Posted by dgridley |
huh, either the name of the original poster was left there by mistake or out of courtesy 
a nice compilation nonetheless
hmm then i didn't see it then. i thought he'd spend the time typing it . truth is: there is no need to reinvent the wheel. if the work was already done (somewhere else) and is something usefull for our community, i have to thank yule for finding it and bringing it here. the original posters name is a nice touch, showing respect for his work (i want to believe it was left there on purpose).
Be Well u forgot:
Winrar
Windows MediaPlayer
there lots more i can't think of them at the mo
and does anyone know wher ei can get a keylogger e.g. one that counts total amount of keys pressed on my pc?
Uhm , as far as I know WinRAR is not free. But then again - I may be wrong. 
Windows Media Player is also not free. You will have a hard time playing it on a non-windows system
Cheers,
//\\//ick. Here is mine...
i hope u all would like it Another ftp client:
Core FTP lite - http://www.coreftp.com/ NVU - Cross-platform WYSIWYG Web Editor
nvu.com
If you like linux and you want to install in your linux all apps that you got in windows, this page could be useful for you:
http://alts.homelinux.net
Here you'll find the similar software for linux to many software for windows such as office, games, utilities, programmming environments, etc.
I hope it be useful. I've found the Microsoft Anti-Spyware (beta) does a pretty good job. I used to use Spybot and Ad-Aware exclusively, but this program found stuff that they didn't. Core FTP lite - http://www.coreftp.com/
This is really a great help! thanks I've come to the conclusion.. that to rid yourself completely of any adware or virii you need EVERY antivirus and antiadware program there is lol. That is always the case with those programs. One catches things the others dont.. they all catch something the other ones dont.
very nice and informative list. people need to know that paying $$ is not always the best route... often open source/free programs offer much greater functionality for FREE...
OMG ive searched for free apps in a search engine and found less apps before this list is massive thanx dude we love free stuff lol
For those that have many huge photos to manage:
http://www.virtualzone.de/resizer/
It's simply the best resizer for Win i've ever found! wow.. the best list ever.. thanks so much for posting this great list
i found so many new usefull program from ur list..
Agreed, great list. Anyone recommend any useful ppc software?
This is starting to sound rather very redundant, but anyway: great list, and great thanks for taking the time to compile it.
Here's my addition:
Netbeans: this is a new and great crossplatform Java IDE -- for any developers out there.
Google Talk: New Instant Messaging Client by Google (Beta). Requires a gmail account -- if you don't have one, PM me and I'll send you an invitation. Thanks for your nice list .
I add to it Opera web-browser.
Opera 8.5 is free and the best web browser.
Irfanview (image viewer)
Cannot stress enough; very awesome, small image viewer. Especially works well also as a Batch-Conversion tool (like if you wanted to reduce 100 pictures to 150x150 resolution and compress to JPEG).
Download 5 cds of OpenSuse and get software with all that functionality installed on your machine out of the box. Can we list smartftp as free application?
It is free for noncomercial use and education but not free for business.
My signature: what I post reflect my thinking and knowledge. Sometimes, it may be wrong. So I am not responsible for what I posted. If my thinking is correct and it benefits you. Just PM me to thank me. My website is www.msu.edu/~avss. Feel free to visit my organization. These is no limit for the bandwidth for my website. You can visit it at anytime. But please dont hack it coz I'll kill you. (I just got my black belt in karate last week). I love PhotoStory 3 - from Microsoft
I've been using some of the appz you mentioned and I assure you a lot them is better than the proprietary counterpart . Nothing is better than free softwares 
Great list and great job! Examines the differences between whole directories files and shows you highlited line by line the differences.
Great for version control problems after walking away from code for awhile or installing code on different servers for different clients.
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiffpro Nice list man thanks! I really needed the HTML Editors. I would donate to you for this but im low on Fri$!
I have to plug our Wiki.
Please visit our organizations Wiki at http://wiki.uplug.org
We made a partial list of Linux-counterparts of Windows applications. I hope that you could also contribute to our Wiki. Please don't forget to register first. We really hate spammers. Really impressed ny the list; Almost everything for free!!!
Also very thankful for a few links. And to add one more:
http://www.maxthon.com Maxthon browser - A very good one, with few useful plugins (combo version) and lot of skins and plugins to download. Also very good parasite, popup and activeX protection level. Here are other two sites that I can recommend:
http://www.softpedia.com - all sorts of software(for windows, linux & mac), news, reviews, drivers
http://www.soft32.com - this one has all sorts of software too at the risk of sounding repetitive, great list
you can get more by searching for linux alternatives for windows programs, but of course that works for linux only Under "Encryption" you should add the following:
Enigmail - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
WinPT - http://wald.intevation.org/projects/winpt/
GPGee - http://gpgee.excelcia.org/
These all give you the functionality of PGP (they use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org) but they don't cost you anything at all, and are a bit more "lightweight" than the new PGP, which has somewhere around 1000 registry entries, I believe.
To get full encryption functionality, I'd recommend that you use Enigmail with Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5RC1, Mozilla Suite or Mozilla Seamonkey irssi should be included IRC =P
and DAEMON Tools is an awesome program for mounting isos
and ActionOutline (although not free) is amazing for taking notes
(thats just some of the apps I use)
i'm suggest adding this Anti-Spyware program:
Spyware Doctor: http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/
it's a great program, i've found several spyware that i didn't initially find with any other program. the free version blocks all incoming spyware but if you want to scan your PC, you'll have to pay for it but other then that, it's a very useful program that i recommend for everybody. Why not add MediaMonkey, a musicplayer!
www.mediamonkey.com Free Portable Apps for USB-Stick´s I propose to add this other tool:
Ccleaner cleans your windows temp files and all the rotten stuff slowering down your computer. You can select which things you want to clean, or just scan without cleaning, in order to know which unused files your computer is having on the hard disk.
Here is the URL:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
I use it very often and it is working very well. Loved the list as well, the only thing I would add is that if you are on OS X and you want a good IM chat client, use Adium (http://www.adiumx.com), it is so much better than iChat. But most likely, no one else uses Apple computers sigh. miranda is the best of course! i carry my msn, yahoo, google, icq list in 400 KB of miranda in my usb:)
Excellent list, but you should add Maxthon (web browser). Keep up the good work. Do you mind if I use this list on my site? PM me for details.
-Aquastrike
Delete ANY file from yor computer. it is free.
(you wil need this when you get virus and it it is undeletable)
delete doctor
http://www.soft32.com/download_25933.html jsut for the record sygate personal firewall is no more 
Symantec bought them out, and replaced it with theri overbloated excuse of a firewall... although if you search you can still find a few copies of sygate floating around. Here is a light fast PDF reader that requires no installation:
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php Wow Very Nice =), Also Dont Forget About http://virusscan.jotti.org m0n0wall - http://m0n0.ch/wall/ - Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall. Extremely compact (< 5 MB), requires an old PC, two NICs and either a bottable CDROM drive or a CompactFlash (CF) card - (Transcend makes a really nice one - http://tinyurl.com/c5fk7 )
Trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ - Multiple chat client application. The basic version is free though somewhat limited in features/plug-ins.
SenseiC Do you know of any program that allows me to insert a program disk in the CD drive and play it without installing it?
| alkady wrote: |
| Do you know of any program that allows me to insert a program disk in the CD drive and play it without installing it? |
This depends on the program itself - there are very few commercial programs that will run without an installation since they require changes in the registry, file associations etc.
If you want to keep a "clean" copy of Windows and use another to install a load of apps, you could possibly look into VMWare - there's a free trial version available.
Otherwise, I don't really understand why you would want to run programs without installing them. | Animal wrote: |
| alkady wrote: | | Do you know of any program that allows me to insert a program disk in the CD drive and play it without installing it? |
This depends on the program itself - there are very few commercial programs that will run without an installation since they require changes in the registry, file associations etc.
If you want to keep a "clean" copy of Windows and use another to install a load of apps, you could possibly look into VMWare - there's a free trial version available.
Otherwise, I don't really understand why you would want to run programs without installing them. |
Well Everytime I try to install battlefield 2 it freezes at de/whidata0.htm which is annoying and it worked perfectly fine when I first bought it. It was either I found a program or reinstall it which is too much work.thanks, that is an awesome list. i just wanted to mention that winlibre is an entire suite of free software, which includes some of the items on the list and adds others. it is currently at release 0.3.1, but many of the programs in the suite are bulletproof, with the source code available on sourceforge. Winlibre is available at http://www.winlibre.com.
One of my favorite apps in the package is PDFCreator, which is an open source program to make PDF files from most wordprocessing or graphics packages. I have Adobe PDF creator 5, and actually like the functionality of the free package more.
Winlibre also includes openoffice, an MP3 player with Oogvorbis support, an MP3 ripper, VLCMedia player for video playback, ClamWin for antivirus support (which I find to be not quite a user friendly as Avast!), and Nettime for syncrhonization to timeservers.
I have not tested all of the applications yet (they are on my spare/test machine now, and I am trying them out as time permits). The ones I have tested all seem to work well, and the installations package is pretty friendly. One workd of advice, if you are installing the winlibre package, do not restart between applications when they ask (some, like the Java2 installation want to know if you would like to reboot after that portion of the Winlibre install). i found that it is best to install all of the applications you have chosen before rebooting. I especially like the Yahoo! Widget Engine (aka Konfabulator) if you have a couple of megs extra RAM for it.
http://widgets.yahoo.com
Wonder when they'll stop stealing ideas from Apple. I would like to give you many thanks for that list, not only is it the biggest I have every seen, but also the best. Thanks very much for that.
If you are adding things to the list when they are posted (I don't know if you are) I would sagest a few programs
IRC
Ice Chat www.icechat.net/
OCR (Optical character recognition)
www.simpleocr.com/
This is a very good program for turning those pages you scan back in to text.
Also I can't see CCleaner in your list, it removes temp files.
www.ccleaner.com/
Or another program that dose the same thing, Clean up
www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/
Hope you maintain that list is is awesome. That's a long list, but maybe you could add a description for each program. I would rather read about what something does before I go to the home page and find it is something I don't need or want.
Good job though, must have taken a while. Windows Add-ons
Download Windows XP virtual CDRom @ Microsoft: stand alone app, fast and easy way to create a virtual CD/DVD to use .iso file.
PowerMenu stand alone app, give more control to windows:minimize to tray or keeps always on top, set priority, transparency.
Enhanced Windows Service Manager: stand alone app, painlessly manage Windows services
Pathbuddy:Easily access to any folder directly from Windows File Explorer, Open and Save Dialogs
Folder Box: explorer shell extension, display the contents of two folders at once.
Sysinternals Freeware - Process Explorer: absolute Task Manager's replacement
flo's freeware - Notepad2: Small, fast, portable enhanced Windows notepad with syntax highlighting for many common programming languages
Power Off:Schedule a shutdown/reboot/logoff/poweroff/Standby/Hibernate/Lock/Wake-On-LAN at a certain time
CPU-Z: Small freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
Tray Commander Lite: My favorite program launcher
7-zip:This free program provide higher compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression. It supported packing formats:7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR and unpacking formats: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB. 7-Zip comes with both GUI version and powerful command line version.
GPGee:GPGee is a shell extension for Windows explorer that acts as an assistant for using GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG/GPG) Security Tools
Nirsoft's CPORTs displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For security reason, CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications. Personally, I found this one is better than ActivePort, because it offers export the port information to HTML/XML/Text file with command line options.
Spybot Search & Destroy: Besides its main objective is removing adwares/spywares/dialers/keyloggers/trojans/usage tracks, Spybot-SD has many valuable features such as Tea Timer (real-time registry protection); A comprehensive System report. Especially, System Startup section shows the important degree of programs that loaded at startup based on Paul Collins Startup list. With its help, I have removed a lot of unnecessary programs (almost are programs' update checkers), thus reducing system load, and save network bandwidth.
KL-Dectector : This portable program is used to find out whether your activity is being recorded without your knowledge. It is designed to be able to detect all keyloggers. Best for use in public computer.
Portable ClamWin: Standalone Virus Scanner that can automatic downloads of Virus Database updates
ZoneAlarm: The best rated free firewall program. A MUST for every Internet User. ZoneAlarm monitors all activity on your computer and alert you when a new application attempts to access the Internet One addition: http://http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated -> a great free .flv viewer for when you fish streamed media from out of your local cache. I know.. its microsoft...... oh well...
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Download Size:
35-70 MB per Express Edition
Price:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
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Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition »
Productivity that is ideal for first time or casual Windows programming.
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition »
A great combination of power and productivity for the Windows developer.
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition »
Horsepower with a finer degree of control than other Express Editions.
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition »
Ideal for those with prior Java-language experience or learning the Java language. |
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Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition »
An ideal environment for dynamic Web development.
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SQL Server 2005 Express Edition »
A powerful and easy-to-use database to complement each Express Edition. |
Did you tried Google Earth Free version. I can see my home from satellite camera isn't it amazing
Google earth http://earth.google.com/
Google web accelator is the program which accelerate ur web surfing speed.Its made for broadband connections only. http://webaccelerator.google.com/ WOW thanks for the list!
Let's just say that everything Google-related is a grat free application?
Google Finance is such a cool site...
Thx for this post, it's realy usefull!
Good work!
The following site has a bunch of free applications. I think they are kinda fun. Check it out.
http://bluefive.pair.com/free95.htm Does anyone know of any good java decompilers?
I don't think they're illegal, though there's some controversy over them I think... crimson editor should be added under programming. http://crimsoneditor.com I didn't have time to read the whole thing, but I skimmed it. I don't think I saw Google SketchUp on there. [url=http://www.sketchup.com/]
I think Google SketchUp is an awesome 3D sketching application. [/url]
| Shake wrote: |
That's a long list, but maybe you could add a description for each program. I would rather read about what something does before I go to the home page and find it is something I don't need or want.
Good job though, must have taken a while. :D |
It's really big list, all my preferred apps were specified. Some another idea. You could add poll for each SW category. It will be good indicator.Are all those freeware of just trialware ?
These thing are all freeware. Read the first post please.
Anyway, for browsers you forgot Mozilla Firefox - www.mozilla.org
Or try www.mozilla.com wow big list. nice apps thankx for some of those websites they have come in handy
Add Go!Zilla to the download manager list www.gozilla.com Thank you so much everyone for contributing towards this list
I just found 3 programs that fit my needs perfectly!! look for it
[url=http://www.sourceforge.net]
good collections are the gnuwinII and the open source cd-collection
Here is a systems administrator tool.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time! Aida32 is now Everest Home Edition
You may change it if You want [/url] When i want a program, i get it. those free-progs can't race photoshop and stuff.. but still nice for when you've nothing to do, right or wrong?
That's some list, yule!
Very impressive. Great collection! You're da man...
| yule wrote: |
Thought some of you might find this list usefull.
|
Very useful indeed! Ummm, I didn't seem to find PhotoFiltre on the list. It is a graphic creation and manipulation software. It is free and in constant improvement. You find it at http://photofiltre.com
GVim is also a great text editor. It is my Windows Notepad replacement. GVim is Vim for Windows. It is at http://www.vim.org.MatrixY2K - Great free HTML, CSS, PHP etc. editor. Built-in W3C validation, syntaxing, presets tools and easy to use! Maybe make a list for free Mac apps
Wow nice list..
tnx.. Good Softwares,
The link to the stickies is broken. 
I'd like to know about free e-mailing clients & calendaring systems (serevr & client) that are available for free.
Awesome awesome list...thank you so so much! Hi!
Well that was really a LONG list...
In Desktop enchancements i recommend ObjectBar, its a free utility that add bars like the windows bar to win 2000, or you can download other skins. Here is a screen shot:
http://lmsu.50webs.com/images/objectbarinaction.jpg
Thats all XD
Happy Fragging! | hellrahul wrote: |
Did you tried Google Earth Free version. I can see my home from satellite camera isn't it amazing
Google earth http://earth.google.com/
Google web accelator is the program which accelerate ur web surfing speed.Its made for broadband connections only. http://webaccelerator.google.com/ |
Hi there. What do you think about webaccelerator? Does it speed up your connecton? I can't say it did for me.For audio software, such as audio editing, the WavePad of NCH Swift Sound is one of the best that I have tried so far.
Audacity is also good.
Dramatically speed up your existing Internet broadband connection and get the best
performance possible from your current Internet access.
No technical questions; just one click and it's done. Free Internet speed test software included.. Full Speed will increase your online Internet speed with everything you do: faster downloads, web browsing, data streaming, e-mail. P2P and gaming.
Features:
* Faster Internet access
* Faster download speeds
* Faster web site browsing performance
* Improve Internet and Intranet performance
* Quicker data download times
* Improved streaming music and movies
* Faster download for songs and video
* Faster performance with email
* Better download speed for all data
* Faster loading Web graphics
* Speed test for Web site browsing
* Speed test for general data transfer
Download
http://rapidshare.de/files/26645168/SpeedModemFull.rar.html ^er above poster what software is that? I get a feeling its illegal :X
Its fun trying stumbleupon on opensource. Usually get lotsa free software. Good ones too.
HI,
here's a list of freeware software that can help someone in daily use. Many of these softwares and programs are used daily by millions users and are really a quality software.
Here you can find a list with freeware software:
http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html
Regards,
Seoconsultant thanks! Your list kicks arse!
Fine and very long list. But this software is out of list. It's Tales Animator. Command based animation software what is very easy to use. And few localisations are also avaible http://www.dollysoft.com . Read online help before using! | homer09001 wrote: |
u forgot:
and does anyone know wher ei can get a keylogger e.g. one that counts total amount of keys pressed on my pc? |
I know that post is pretty old, but the best software for that is without doubts WhatPulse.
it's not a real keylogger so you don't have to worry about passwords being stolen by physical use of your computer by other people.
www.whatpulse.org
you can read more about it in there.anybody have the sofware keygen collection,.. i just like it a lot 
for those really expert in software programming,.. please teach me
try this for free:
download manager:
fresh download
http://www.freshdevices.com/
diagnostic tool:
Fresh Diagnose
http://www.freshdevices.com/
tweaking tool:
Fresh UI
http://www.freshdevices.com/
multimedia manager:
Fresh View
http://www.freshdevices.com/ do you know free pop3 downloader. help me please...
Here is a list of freeware, or free software I've compiled that'll make your life much more easier. I've put a lot of hard work into this, so be nice. Thank you.
OpenOffice:
OpenOffice is a great replacement for MicroSoft Office and has much more features.
Trillian:
Trillian is an IM software that is customizable, doesn't steal your homepage, and supports AIM, YIM, MSN, ICQ, and IRC! You can have mulitple conversations in one window with tabs for each one!
Foxit PDF Reader:
Foxit PDF Reader is a small and fast PDF reader that loads faster than Acrobat!
FileZilla:
Fillezilla is a great FTP program that has a lot of features and a user-friendly interface.
Picasa 2:
Picasa is a great program for managing image and pictur librarys and is recommended for the unorganized photographer and digital artist!
Google Desktop:
Google Desktop is a very hander search engine for your computer's files and documents if your looking for one or two!
IrfanView:
IrfanView is a great image vewer that is small and fast so you don't even have to install it to your hard drive! Just put it on a CD/DVD/Pen Drive/Flash Drive and your set! It also has a better resizer than PhotoShop and has so much options that you can forget about ACDSee!
Weel, thats about it so far. Tell me some more to add!
Edit by Traveller: This topic already existed, so I have merged your message into the original topic. Please search before mindlessly creating duplicates of existing topics. I love you guys! Thanks so much.
Thanks the above guys for posting these good tools!
Add Arovax Antispyware to Anti-Spyware list.
Bye
add daemon tools for virtual rom mounting
nice list but some softwares are a bit outdated...
Wow, thats ahuge list. I knew of alot of them, but there were a few I have never heard of. I am going to try them out. Thanks for the great list. I am a free software junkie. I have wasted countless hours of my life searching high and low for decent free software. This list is basically everything I have ever found.
sandboxie
Nice utility. Free. Sandboxie intercepts changes to both your files and registry settings, making it virtually impossible for any software to reach outside the sandbox.
It means you can run any suspicious programm from the sandbox, to make sure that no dangerous actions perfromed. After it you can do a real installation. nice, thanks for posting this. I have it bookmarked just in case I find myself in need for one of these files.
You could download a bunch of freewares at www.filehippo.com | bananaphone wrote: |
| I love PhotoStory 3 - from Microsoft |
Hm It`s okay...now this is what i call an huge post! very good post,man! I really appreciate it!
i LOVE free stuff thx guys
my favorite out of all the apps got to be hijackthis
thanks
This is great and has been of great use for me.
I'm gonna continue browsing but first, I wanted to say thanks for this compilation!
very good , addition . free voip www.voipdiscount.com - pc to pc calls and free landlines =D - free 4 ever no skype due date or anything =D =D omg,man,great work! it's the most complete list of free programs that i saw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! congratulations! (Y) 
Here is another good Free encryption tool, it's called TrueCrypt we use it for keeping sensitive customer data secure. Its available at :-
http://www.truecrypt.org/
It supports Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent, Triple DES, and Twofish.
AES is currently Rijndael.
I think its worth adding to the list.
TurboSquid Wow! Thats lots of freeware. Thanks for posting the links. This forum is wonderful.
great work thanks very much great list of software definitely shows that you dont have to pay to get some really good programs
I use the following programs....all freeware
1. Mediamonkey-gr8 music player and id tagger
2. Cookie monster clears out all my unwanted cookies
3. Spyware doctor
4. Spyware blaster
5. Burn4free- Really good burner software
6. VLC plays movies without the need of a bilt in encoder
7. NVU-wysiwyg web editor
8. Audacity-Music editor
9. Krystal-allows me to import loops and samples to make my own tunes love this program
10. DVDX for DVD backups
11. SUper-Great encoder can take all manner of files and encode them to different formats .flv to vcd mpg for example
12. Scar simple file shredder for zapping unwanted files
13. Flash slide show maker..my fav free prog i can take my photos and create a flash slideshow with transitions etc in a matter of seconds very impressive the prog makers can also host your slideshow for free
For entertainment I also like
1. Shot online a really good online golf game also has a strong community element..
2. Frets of fury free guitar heroes clone this is superb use your keyboard and become an axe hero
thank you very much
Thanks thanks thanks
http://www.daz3d.com
For those who like poser ;o) I made the devil's lair using that nifty program and it's free. Go to Rendorosity for the free stuff to add into daz [/url] please add
Mplayer - http://mplayerhq.hu
DigitalMars COmpilers - http://www.digitalmars.com You forgot the best HTML editor...
!!!BlueVoda!!!
web site: www.bluevoda.com There's another free Antivirus & Firewall software from COMODO: www.comodo.com
Also a powerful file killer called killbox. This program can delete those hard to remove files that refuse to go away via normal deletion attempts.
For those who would like to create PDF files without Adobe, you can try using PrimoPDF. THe document or file is converted to PDF via the print driver. Can i add this one
vlc media player it's amazing and free too
play almst all types of vedio and audio
http://mirrors.optralan.com/videolan/vlc/0.8.6b/win32/vlc-0.8.6b-win32.exe a lot of them, I knew already, but most of them not!
very usefull list.
This list is really very useful. Thanks a lot.
Wow thankyou for this list.. Most of these programs i have been looking for,for some time. Thank you again Web CEO is a great free program for making sure your site is search engine-friendly. You could also consider Download Accelarator Plus and Comodo Firewall.
Hi,
Is there some free Version Manager software like Serena Version Manager – just something to store files by version and to be distributed.
Thanks
You forgot Adobe Acrobat for PDF making and GoLive.
All at http://www.adobe.com A very fast PDF reader, alternative to Adobe Reader:
Foxit Reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php i really love this section... it helps me a lot when i need a free applications... hhehe I like my sf.net tons of free stuff
but here is what i use tons
http://daemon-tools.cc can't live wihtout
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net (free CD/DVD burner also CD ripper don't forget to vote for it on sourceforge)
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net awesome I always use it
http://mozilla.com both firefox and seamonkey (used to use thunderbird too but not too much lately)
http://freepdfxp.de/fpxp.htm to make PDF files also join them too (fast, simple and effective)
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ i use that alot too
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ putty i need that too
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ MPC i love that stuff
http://www.cccp-project.net/ is my choice for codecs
http://www.free-codecs.com for Real Alt lite & Quick Time lite
http://free-av.com is my Avira AV which I've been using for years now
http://www.safer-networking.org Spybot S&D I love it
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html Spyware blaster works great with Spybot S&D
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ good stuff too
http://phpbb.com oh yea my forums of course phpbb3rc is nice
there is more but I'm getting tired of typing them up 
maybe on next post | fadirocks wrote: |
I like my sf.net tons of free stuff
but here is what i use tons
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net (free CD/DVD burner also CD ripper don't forget to vote for it on sourceforge)
there is more but I'm getting tired of typing them up maybe on next post |
Is it really reliable? Does it replace Nero in all functions? Do you trust it to burn your most valuable data? Is it bloated like Nero? (kind of a dimb question for a sf application but say anyway )
And thanks.As a web developer, here are my essentials.
Web Developer Server Suite
This suite is easy to install and contains the following:
* Apache server
* MySQL
* phpMyAdmin
* Joomla
* WordPress
* Drupal
* phpBB
* MediaWiki
It happily runs alongside the .NET framework as well. For any serious developer it's an excellent solution.
TopStyle Lite
The best CSS editor I have come across. There is a Pro version at a cost, but for CSS editing, this free version is superb.
Notepad2
An excellent replacement for Windows Notepad. It has syntax highlighting for numerous programming and markup languages, and the colours used for the highlighting are configurable.
Notepad++
My favourite text editor. Just as with Notepad2, this is a Windows Notepad replacement. It's not quite as nice to look at compared with Notepad2, although some configuration can make it look nicer. Plus it has a tabbed interface which is very handy if you're working on more than one file at a time, or need to copy something from one file to another without having two windows open.
SmartFTP
In my opinion, the best free FTP program available. It's certainly one of the nicest to look at, borrowing it's look from MS Office 2003.
Portable Apps Suite
An excellent suite of free applications that run from a USB drive. The standard instalation includes: ClamWin Portable (antivirus), Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (web browser), Gaim Portable (instant messaging), OpenOffice.org Portable (office suite), Sudoku Portable (puzzle game), Mozilla Sunbird - Portable Edition (calendar/task manager) and Mozilla Thunderbird - Portable Edition (email client). This runs really well on a 512MB drive, but if you have a larger drive spare to use for this, you can add many more free portable apps such as Opera, Audacity, 7Zip, RoboForm, NVu, The GIMP, Filezilla, Sumatra PDF, the afformentioned Notepad++. Basically any application that claims to run on a USB stick can be included in this. When open, it just puts an icon the "systray" or "notification area" on your machine. | Quote: |
SmartFTP
In my opinion, the best free FTP program available. It's certainly one of the nicest to look at, borrowing it's look from MS Office 2003. |
Are you sure it's free? | Da Rossa wrote: |
| Quote: | SmartFTP
In my opinion, the best free FTP program available. It's certainly one of the nicest to look at, borrowing it's look from MS Office 2003. |
Are you sure it's free? |
Yes, it is free for non-commercial use. You'll get the warning splash screen, but it will continue to work. | welshsteve wrote: |
Yes, it is free for non-commercial use. You'll get the warning splash screen, but it will continue to work. |
Thanks, but I'm sticking with FileZilla. | Da Rossa wrote: |
| welshsteve wrote: |
Yes, it is free for non-commercial use. You'll get the warning splash screen, but it will continue to work. |
Thanks, but I'm sticking with FileZilla. |
Nothing wrong with that it's an excellent program It's what I have installed in my portable apps suite (portableapps.com)I suppose mIRC should be on the list under IRC clients. I mean sure it does prompt you to register after 30 days but after about 5 seconds you can click continue and continue to use it anyways. registering only removes the box that tells you to register and you lose no functionality if you don't register, or gain any new features if you do 
Here's a free web server to add to the list to host asp.net apps.
UltiDev Cassini Web Server for ASP.NET Applications
http://ultidev.com/Products/Cassini Nice work it looks like the list has grown a lot and this is very helpful for people who don't have all those high end expensive programs nice job. I can't believe you haven't got Anvil Studio. It's a program for creating/editing MIDI-music. It's really simple to learn but allows for really good music to be written. More info: www.anvilstudio.com Heres a good anti-virus software that can be added to the list:http://www.activevirusshield.com/
avs, its a free software created and maintained by the kasperski labs, and its pretty good yay iv been looking for some free software like these thanks Can someone recommend a good binary newsreader for windows? Mac OSX has MT Newswatcher, something like that. Thanks.
for 3D modeling, you should check out Milkshape 3D, and i believe(but i may be wrong) that autodesk has a free trial version of 3DsMax, but i'm not positive
What a fnatastic list and a fantastic idea. Thanks for all of this!
some of there are probably on posts around here but here goes
www.ffmpeg.org command line utility to convert any media file to anything
www.avisynth.org scriptbased script-based video editing tool that can collate and edit video /audio files
www.dvdauthor.sourceforge.net dvdauthoring tool command line utility which takes an
xml file as input and spits out dvd files (allows total programming flexibility to create professional
menus).
microsoft platform SDK's and debugging tools for windows (www.msdn.microsoft.com) I have one that I came across that should be added to that list! It's called WAMP (Its for Windows). its Apache, MySQL, and PHP all in one convenient installer that not only installs them but automatically configures them to work together! It also includes PhpMyAdmin. Link: http://wampserver.com/en Hi friend,
Thank you for the wonderful post. The links you have posted are very useful for me and for many. I am sure that you have spent lot of your precious time to gather this information of Free Applications. I would like to say that these applications are not free but they are paid by some other good precious people like you who spent their valuable time to design and to share with friends around the wold.
Thank you so much for your time and the post
Game Maker. A game developing program, with a simple interfrace. Website is http://www.yoyogames.com/make Wow, thanks for this awesome list! Will definately help me out HotKeys, automation and macros:
AutoHotKey
www.autohotkey.com
Perfect. download Manager
Flashget http://www.flashget.com
Superfast! Mirror + torrent support DUNE 2
Very cool. The DOS program DUNE2 still works without problems in Windows XP or a DOS emulator!
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Isn't Flashget shareware? Thanks to this list, I got Super,
which seems to be like what J F K was recommending in command line conversion for DVD production.
Super just gives a nice front end for it.
I'll be looking at earlier recommendations for a free DVD burning software, rather than the non-pro Nero I got with my new low-cost box.
Happy New Year, too.
I want to recommend a program called Launchy. It's an awesome tool that will enhance your work under Windows framework. Something like Run menu, but much much better. Allows you to run almost any program that you ever installed on your computer. You can also configure a hotkey to run it.
Details: http://www.launchy.net
Edit:
I forgot to add another program I like. It's a small, ultra light, and free PDF reader. It's called Foxit Reader. I had a few problems with Adobe's Reader so I looked for an alternative, and found it. Really good and does it's job.
Details: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php Thanks alot for this, it realy helped me on the way to php programming
But you should add 'bluevoda' to the web wediting tools. Its free and very easy to use. (drag and drop)
You just have to add it!
Keep up the good work! Hi.
I just wanted to tell that I have tried out GnuPG. (which was listed),
only that I installed GPG4Win which gives GUI to the "application", and FireGPG which gives direct support for pgp encryption in GMail.
And I must say, it works really well.
You can download them here (as I don't think these were on the list...)
http://gpg4win.org
http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/
Also I spotted this Firefox plugin, called freenigma, which claims to give support for yahoo and hotmail aswell. Haven't tried it out yet, though:
http://www.freenigma.com/ this is something that i came across the other day
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2260070,00.asp
lots of good stuff | eXon3 wrote: |
I want to recommend a program called Launchy. It's an awesome tool that will enhance your work under Windows framework. Something like Run menu, but much much better. Allows you to run almost any program that you ever installed on your computer. You can also configure a hotkey to run it.
Details: http://www.launchy.net
Edit:
I forgot to add another program I like. It's a small, ultra light, and free PDF reader. It's called Foxit Reader. I had a few problems with Adobe's Reader so I looked for an alternative, and found it. Really good and does it's job.
Details: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php |
If I may, Launchy interfere with you already set hotkeys. Instead, I'd recommend you use AUTOHOTKEY, plus nDROID.
www.autohotkey.com
http://www.codenite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=138
Makes your life easier.thanks, it might be very usful..
KVIrc
The best crossplatform IRC client. It's open source. Wow great post it was...!!! Wonder how i missed it...!!! Thanks for the links friends...Manu are very very useful for me...!!
Thanks once again...!!!
Thanks for your nice list .
I add to it Opera web-browser.
Opera 8.5 is free and the best web browser.
The image “http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:P5La-2BXmrwegM:http://promote.opera.com/logos/Opera5_t.png”.
Nice list! A few of these things are exactly what I've been looking for in a while. This is such a useful community
Media player: MediaMonkey, the best media library ever!
thanks alot i love the webservers thanks so much
Thanks alot everyone these lists are perfect. I had been compiling my own list from scratch and this makes it soooo much easier, having alot of the work done for me. Just wanted to share- Migrated to open office from MS office, to Firefox from MS IE- Quite happy with the change. Long live open source movement..!
Just one question- is there a free ware substitute for Moviemaker as in Windows XP?
sachin
Here is a list of free software for you computer
Anti-virus
Avast
avast! 4 Home Edition is a FREE full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users. It provides constant protection against viruses and will automatically update your virus files.
http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe
AVG Antivirus from Grisoft
This antivirus program not only protects your computer against viruses, worms and malicious code - it's free! AVG AntiVirus allows you to scan on demand or at scheduled times. It also features an e-mail scanner that supports most e-mail programs such as Outlook Express and Eudora.
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/40/lng/ww
AntiVir - AntiVir PersonalEdition
Classic Windows from Avira GmbH protects your computer from viruses, nalware, and unwanted programs and other dangers.
http://www.free-av.com/antivirus/allinonen.html
Firewalls
ZoneAlarm
This is my favorite firewall. Made by Zone Labs, it will render your computer invisible to hackers? probes. Hackers run scanning programs over the Internet, looking for computers with electronic openings, called ports. A good firewall such as ZoneAlarm makes your computer invisible to the scanners. (Note: This program phones home)
The goal of these intruders is to place a Trojan horse on your computer. The rogue program uses the open port previously identified by a scanner. However, ZoneAlarm blocks those transmissions. They can only go through if you agree. Always say no, unless you recognize the program.
www.zonelabs.com
Outpost Firewall from Agnitum
The free version of Outpost Firewall offers a basic protection solution for casual web surfers and low budget systems. There is also a "Pro" version with more robust features.
http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostInstall.exe
Internet Browsers
Firefox
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web.
http://getfirefox.com/
Opera
The opera browser is fast, safe, and easy to use.
http://opera.com/download/
E-Mail Clients
Thunderbird
Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better.
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Spyware & Adware
Ad-aware from Lavasoft
This program finds spyware, also known as adware. These are little programs that advertising companies place on our computers. They report back on our browsing habits. Run Ad-aware weekly, and get this garbage off your hard drive.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download
CWShredder from InterMute
CW Shredder removes some variants of spyware known as the Coolwebsearch Trojan. The Trojan takes advantage of a flaw in a key component of Windows -- Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine -- to install itself via popups often found on norp and illegal software (a.k.a. "warez") sites. Run CWShredder after installing, and have it look for updates. Then click the "Fix" button, and the program will both scan and fix any problems it finds. If your system does not have this kind of spyware, it will give you the good news.
http://cwshredder.net/bin/CWSInstall.exe
Hijack This
A program designed to fix browsers whose home pages and settings have been altered or "hijacked," Hijack This! requires some knowledge to be used safely. After scanning your system, which takes just a few seconds, it shows in a single window a list of items that could be related to browser hijackings.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Spybot Search and Destroy
This program finds spyware, also known as adware. These are little programs that advertising companies place on our computers. They report back on our browsing habits. It allows you to fix registry inconsistencies related to adware
http://www.safer-networking.org/inde...;page=download
Windows Defender Beta 2
Windows Defender (Beta 2) is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. It features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected, and a new streamlined interface that minimizes interruptions and helps you stay productive.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...aylang=en(Must validate windows)
Video Players
Divx
They have a range of programs
http://www.divx.com/divx/
Quicktime
QuickTime is Apple's technology for handling video, sound, animation, graphics,
text, music, and even 360-degree virtual reality (VR) scenes.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html
foobar2000
Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Instant Messaging
Trillain
Trillian? is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
Misc
CCleaner
A simple program that removes unused and temporary files from Windows machines.
http://www.ccleaner.com/ccdownload.asp
Open Source
Instant Messaging
Gaim
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single application, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Miranda
Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client.No bloat, it's Easy and Small! Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. Just unzip and run! This also makes it ideal for users that want to run their messenger client from a removable storage such as an USB memory stick. It can even be stored on a floppy disc if not too many plugins are used.
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Video Players
VLC Player
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Fairly easy to use interface.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
foobar2000
Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Photo Editing
GIMP.app
Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.
http://www.gimp.org/windows/
Paint.Net
Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/download.html
Inkscape
Vector graphics application.
http://www.inkscape.org/download.php
Word Processing
OpenOffice
Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/download.html
AbiWord
A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
http://www.abisource.com/download/
Anti-Virus
ClamWin
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine.
http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/
Web Browsers
Flock
Flock is a free, open source web browser.
http://www.flock.com/developer/ (Still in developer mode)
Camino
The Camino Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.
http://www.caminobrowser.org/ (Note: This program is for Mac OS X)
Download managers
Download accelerator plus
Click to download a file & DAP will accelerate your download by finding the fastest sources (websites) for the file you want, then splitting the file into several pieces & downloading them at the same time, making the most of your connection speed. This is just the beginning of what DAP can do for you.
source and download from:
http://www.speedbit.com
Ftp
smart ftp
SmartFTP is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client which allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet. With its many basic and advanced features SmartFTP also offers secure, reliable and efficient transfers that make it a powerful tool.
source and download from:
http://www.smartftp.com/ Thanks, I already use some of these programs, but I will check the others out.
I been looking for a new firewall anyhow, the one I have is great but it was discontinued about 2 years back. I just never really wanted to search for another. I think I will check some of them out from your list Thank You!, for sharing the list! thanx for the list. m looking for a pdf to word converter. wish there is something to convert page maker to word without having to convert to pdf. oh this is gonna be a long day
Thank you! Useful list. What about benchmarking? What is a good and reliable software to evaluate my hardware?
Just ask something: which of these are exactly waveform audio edition tools like Audacity, Sony Sound Forge and Adobe Audition? I'm looking for one! Thank you for the list. Quite handy.
silverdown you can check out www.comodo.com for another free firewall software. It also has a free anti virus program and anti-malware program. I've used them before and it seems pretty good.
another good sofware for converting anything to PDF is by using primopdf. you can get it from www.primopdf.com This is an excellent list!
I was cleaning out my computer today, and remeber this list was here at frihost. As soon as I cleared out all the junk I didn't want anymore, I cam stright here and replaced some of my old programs with some from this list.
Thanks a lot!
The free version of Winamp is pretty neat...... as a player. Can't rip CDs to MP3.
Foobar is neat too. My only problem is that you need to do considerable tweaking to it to configure it.
A free CD Ripping program I use is EAC, Exact Audio Copy. Not built for speed though. Made to get, well.... an exact copy of the cd. You should see if you can get this topic merged with the one that is already stickied.
Hijackthis and other hack-cleaning for registry aren't quite good, because they can delete the reg table for antivirus update, browser home page, etc.
There is also a program called ncleaner, that cleans ur system and registry as well. Works pretty damn good if ya ask me
That program called CCleaner is awesome!
I downloaded it and checked it out, it has some really cool features.
Thanks for this list!
Wow, very good list! All programs here are very reliable, but as for antiviruses I prefer NOD32.
And for system registry cleaning I use RegCleaner, really fast, small and reliable with multilanguages.
| Ghost Rider103 wrote: |
That program called CCleaner is awesome!
I downloaded it and checked it out, it has some really cool features.
Thanks for this list! |
Yeah, CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is really great. I use it daily!I sticked it so people could have this great post available.
yule, great work . I hope you can keep this up-to-date with your new findings and if anyone finds good free app's, you can reply here with links (just check to see it isn't yet posted, plz).
Be Well
P.S. - yule, if necessary, we can give you a hand keeping it up-to-date, by editing and adding the replyed links. just tell us how you want it, and if you don't have the chance to update it, it will stay here just the same
Some of the best freeware programs (i.e. programs that you don't have to pay for AND programs that aren't "free trial" and DON'T eventually ask you to sign up for paid subscription (as a few of the aforementioned programs do) can be found here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/. Not to mention the amount of spam that you receive for the "free" programs listed.
About Tech Support Alert:
It is widely believed to be the best and/or longest list of freeware programs, with complete analyses and reviews of the majority of the programs it lists. The categories are as follows:
Select the broad class of freeware program you are looking for:
Security / Privacy / Encryption
Internet: Email / IM / FTP / File sharing / Download managements
Enhancements to Windows / Desktop
Computer maintenance / Performance
System utilities / Backup / Data recovery
Audio / Video / CD / DVD
Office / Administration / Personal productivity
Digital imaging / Photo software
Technical / Programming
Applications
Thanks much. That programming list is fantastic! I've been looking for a list like that forever. Thanks.
What do you think of NOTEPAD++
Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. It runs in the MS Windows environment.
Based on a very powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. Its use is governed by GPL Licence.
Supported languages :
C
C++
Java
C#
XML
HTML
PHP
CSS
makefile
ASCII art (.nfo)
doxygen
ini file
batch file
Javascript
ASP
VB/VBS
SQL
Objective-C
RC resource file
Pascal
Perl
Python
Lua
TeX
TCL
Assembler
Ruby
Lisp
Scheme
Properties
Diff
Smalltalk
Postscript
VHDL
Ada
Caml
AutoIt
KiXtart
Matlab
Verilog
Haskell
InnoSetup
CMake
YAML
Website: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net It was a very very useful post for me, lots of interesting free software. Thanks.
Congratulations!!! I say Yes to free software.
Go to filehippo.com they have the most amazing collection of great free software and it's all non-virus ridden. I use it 24/7 for looking for apps
Woah! Thank you very much. i wouldn't call this a small list...i see now why you put "small" in your topic header.
Yap, I will stick this to my delicious site.
There is a site that has plenty of freeware you can download and with clear grading and popularity rating.
I hardly find any virus from this site.
it is http://www.webattack.com
Try it and remember to click the freeware tab - you then can access the few thousands freeware.
My most visited site for freeware - since 1990s.
Hope you find this useful. Like seeing an old friend again,
Synergy
Great little app that allows sharing of keyboard and mouse between multiple computers on a LAN. Nice for those w/ more than one computer/monitor pair and no KVM.
You can go to Portableapps.com to download your soft you need.
Nice list there, lots of good stuff there.
Just a couple programs I noticed that I use that aren't on there:
Encryption and data security > Key Scrambler - Great program (or Firefox addon) which encrypts all keystrokes at the kernel level, so even if you have a keylogger, all the keylogger will pick are the encrypted keystrokes which can't be decoded.
HTML Editors > Notepad++
A very nice HTML (or pretty much any code, for that matter) editor with color coded syntax, as well as all those great extra features like regex mass replacements - kind of just like a super powered version of the regular Windows notepad.
Wow many thanks for this list. Although I already have some listed. Yes, I can see this has generated lots of interest and people are wanting to improve that list and contribute to the list.
But we are unable to update the initial list and contribute to it.
The various web sites some have pointed out are just like this - they gather all the freeware and categories them, some even allow voting, and some even guage the number of downloads.
One site that does all these and have very clean (little of no virus) is
http://www.webattack.com
I am sure there are others.
Can we do something that can allow this initial list to grow and mature?
This will definitely benefit the popularity of Frihost.
With best regards. The 602 software site - does not have free Word Processor, and Print2PDF is no longer freeware.
So the list may have changed since it was first posted.
SQL Server - MS SQL 2008 Server Express Advanced edition is freeware and can be used for application development.
MS Visual Studio 2008 C#, VB, Web Development Express editions are also freeware.
Combine them, you have a pretty good development platform.
Of course Vista is not free. You can run these on XP still.
With regards.
pretty good list, but I won't use...gotta give you credits right?
There is one Browser I think, which is also very important. I haven't read the hole thread but i hope the first post is up-to-date.
Opera
www.opera.com
There is also a Mobile and Miniversion available.
Greets
Steve please add:
Code::Blocks - the best free C++ IDE (windows, linux. open sourse!) , http://www.codeblocks.org/
SciTE - free programming editor, (many programming languages, windows/linux), http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html I used the GDATA AnitVirenKit v2004 and v2005
I tested the software on different computers. On the most computers it wasn't working correctly (nothing to do with windows version). Maybe the floppy drive was working all the time, or if there was really a virus on the computer, windows didn't start again. But if the program works it's very nice but uses many system resources.
I also used F-Prot and NAV 2005, these two are not bad but they could cause some problems on some games. They also use many system resouces.
I tryed out some other Programs but they aren't interesting.
Now I'm using the AVG Free-Edition (www.grisoft.com). This one is working very good on every PC and for free. Also very good on some older PCs because it uses just 7 MBRam and has a fast scan but is finding nearly everything.
A tip to secure your PC: Download all the Security- Windows- Updates.
And if your PC is infected by a virus which can't be deleted by your Anti- Virus- Program just use Hijackthis. I get every system running again with this tool.
Check this thing:
http://www.sumopaint.com/web/
Online image editor which is "photoshop like" one
Realy nice thing when You are somewhere where You can't install anything and You have to edit an image. It realy can help a lot If you want a free trial php IDE editor, go to phpDesigner. Not only does it code php, but it can recognize the syntax of (x)html, css, javascript, and more.
mpsoftware.dk Lol.. Yea this is very "small". Thanks. Is this updated regularly or not?
Wow, lots of great software there, thanks for sharing. Nice to know there's always a lot of free alternatives out there to the big expensive software packages that have essentially the same functions.
I shall be taking a good look through this and certainlly downloading a few. very very good
thank you ...
WOW!
really great work
i found so many great sites. thankyou
XXX
Something I like is nDroid. Good to fasten up your work. Take a look. all you need to know is that it's based on AHK. wow alot of nice free apps here, definately gonna give some of them a try
I use http://www.optikvervelabs.com/ Virtual Photographer, which is a nice plugin for photoshop, only about 500kb in size but really good for photo manipulation, brighten colours and increase saturation and contrast. Only drawback is that it only supports 8bit mode so you cant use it for your 16bitt TIFF files
For file extraction from zip, rar or anything other archive type extensions i use Peazip. Works just like winrar or winzip and of course its free =)
I also use Zone Alarm free home editiion version. I make my hardware firewall deal with everything else and use it for program control.
And for Antivirus protection I use Avast Home edition. All you have to do is create a license key once per year which is free to do. If I think of anymore I'll add to the list. Really great, nice job, thanks a lot..
I'll give a little try and stop searching for cracks serials and key fot those captalists softwares
For those who wants portables..
http://www.portablefreeware.com/
http://portableapps.com/
http://portableappz.blogspot.com/ AWESOME!!!
But for the html editing program list add NVu
search it on google, im currently using it
| Ccsteph22 wrote: |
| But for the html editing program list add NVu |
Nvu is quite good, although for all my web development I simply use Notepad or another basic text editor like Kate. Nvu is, however, great for doing mock-ups or planning designs.Nice lists, good to know there are free alternatives to commonly used softwares.
| Ccsteph22 wrote: |
AWESOME!!!
But for the html editing program list add NVu
search it on google, im currently using it |
Use Kompozer (Google it) instead, which is a bug-fix NVU modification.Wow great work on this list I really think that this will help a lot of people. I am using some of these programs already but others are really useful, thanks again.
That is a great list of free apps.
I know some you didn't list :p
Bluevoda Website Builder (free) / Pay if you wanna host with them.
http://www.bluevoda.com/ (with video with description)
GSC / Ventrilo (P2P Communication Program)
http://getgsc.com/
http://www.ventrilo.com/ (pay for servers, compard to GSC you don't gotta pay)
and isn't Notepad C++ Free?
Online Messengers Free to use, no software to Install (thought it would be good to list two.)
KoolIM.com - Meebo.com Hi
I found Dia as a best alternative (alternative not replacement) to Visio.
Moreover is it portable (and of course free).
Here is the link for it.
http://portableapps.com/news/2009-08-19_-_dia_portable_0.97
Hopefully you like it too.
-- Best Regards Subject: ImgBurn an excellent CD/DVD writing and a Partition Manager (PartitionMagic Alternative)program
ImgBurn
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Among all the CD/DVD burning software, I liked Imgburn the most.
They always try to upgrade/update and I admire their efforts.
Moreover it is portable too.
The simplicity is their best Graphical User Interface.
You may please get it from: http://www.imgburn.com/
By the you can make iso images of your CD/DVDs too (some legal restriction may apply).
I have also made boot-able discs as well.
EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition (PartitionMagic Alternative)
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I wondered when I found EASEUS Partition Manager 3.0 Home Edition Free Download (PartitionMagic Alternative). It worked like a charm. It is really an alternative to Partition Magic. Please read terms and conditions if you want to use for commercial purposes (as it is free for home users only, I think).
I used two times and it worked perfectly. It is not time consuming too.
Of course, it make partition of a single/C drive without loosing data within/using windows/window based GUI.
I bet you will gonna like them.
-- Best Regards
