A "small" list of free apps

yule

Thought some of you might find this list usefull.

3D Graphics:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-s...ple/index.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
CWShredder - http://www.download.com/CWShredder/...4-10301586.html
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
HiJackThis - http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
MS Anti-Spyware(beta) - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.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/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
ModPlug Tracker http://www.modplug.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
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/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

Download managers:
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
Free Download Manager - http://freedownloadmanager.org

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
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:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
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/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

The freeware list continues....

Instant Messenger:
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail programs:
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
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/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.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/showthrea...=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
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/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Paint.NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

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/

System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA00...c/download.html

Video codes:
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=topta...from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Kazaa Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Nimo Codec Pack - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html
Quicktime Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Real Player Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

Video players:
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=65889
xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Internet Explorer - http://www.Mcft.com/ie
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Aprelium Abyss - http://www.aprelium.com/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
TClockEx - http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
Posted by dgridley

Last updated Oct. 24, 2005 by gh0stface
Programs added:
Free Download Manager
CoreFTP
Microsoft Anti-Spyware(Beta)
Paint.NET

progma

But the best free Downloadmanager is:
http://freedownloadmanager.org

Bockman

I sticked it so people could have this great post available.

yule, great work Very Happy

. 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 Cool

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 Wink

n0obie4life

yule, 2 words for you.

GREAT WORK!

Hey, add True Downloader into the download managers list Very Happy

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OnlyOneLife

I wouldn't call this small... I was think in the range of 5 apps... Jaw dropping. Incredible. Dancing

mOrpheuS

n0obie4life

hmm then i didn't see it then. i thought he'd spend the time typing it Very Happy

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Bockman

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 Cool

homer09001

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?

noliver

Uhm , as far as I know WinRAR is not free. But then again - I may be wrong. Smile

Windows Media Player is also not free. You will have a hard time playing it on a non-windows system Smile

Cheers,
//\\//ick.

cancer10

Here is mine...

snowboardalliance

Another ftp client:

Core FTP lite - http://www.coreftp.com/

nikolic

NVU - Cross-platform WYSIWYG Web Editor

nvu.com

darkelven

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.

parl

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.

menhao

Core FTP lite - http://www.coreftp.com/

This is really a great help! thanks

donj

A good free Photoshop-looking program: Paint.Net

Info: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

Download http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/files/zip/PaintDotNet_2_1b_Full.zip

!! You also need Microsoft .Net Framework: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&DisplayLang=en

Zythrix

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.

Donutey

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...

huffy53

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

mitja

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!

sontex

wow.. the best list ever.. thanks so much for posting this great list
i found so many new usefull program from ur list..

neil_swann80

Agreed, great list. Anyone recommend any useful ppc software?

Resident Egoist

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.

etan

Here's my addition:

Picasa2 http://picasa.google.com/download/

kimia

Thanks for your nice list .
I add to it Opera web-browser.
Opera 8.5 is free and the best web browser.

wrightbros

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).

modak

Download 5 cds of OpenSuse and get software with all that functionality installed on your machine out of the box. Smile

uknowgary

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).

bananaphone

I love PhotoStory 3 - from Microsoft

pjv

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 Surprised

Great list and great job!

steveadams617

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

krapsterhead

Nice list man thanks! I really needed the HTML Editors. I would donate to you for this but im low on Fri$!

djclue917

I have to plug our Wiki. Very Happy

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. Smile

GranMastah

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.

kenetix

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

srijit

at the risk of sounding repetitive, great list Very Happy

you can get more by searching for linux alternatives for windows programs, but of course that works for linux only Very Happy

Animal

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

root

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)

Ironz

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.

Commando_Sondre

Why not add MediaMonkey, a musicplayer!
www.mediamonkey.com

dostra

Free Portable Apps for USB-Stick´s

marquis51

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.

jeffsolodky

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.

zence

miranda is the best of course! i carry my msn, yahoo, google, icq list in 400 KB of miranda in my usb:)

bassgs_17

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

magnusmoty

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

jaysen

jsut for the record sygate personal firewall is no more Crying or Very sad

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.

abramovich

Here is a light fast PDF reader that requires no installation:
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Nibbler26

Wow Very Nice =), Also Dont Forget About http://virusscan.jotti.org

SenseiC

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

alkady

Do you know of any program that allows me to insert a program disk in the CD drive and play it without installing it?

Animal

alkady

wizdrag

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.

sush

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.

Michael B

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.

Animal

Moved to Software Forum

Shake

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. Very Happy

ehunter

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)

ehunter

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

nevillethenerd

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.

Saber

I know.. its microsoft...... oh well...

hellrahul

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/

caroline

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...

Bluescan

Thx for this post, it's realy usefull!

Good work!

wapkralj

it so reminds on one post from one other forum....than it isnt good work it is good copying ,unless you are that same person Very Happy

just
3D Grafika:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services...ple/index.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

IRC Klijenti:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

Audio Plejeri:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Zvuèni alati:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.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/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
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/

CD/DVD Prženje:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
Kompresija / Dekompresija:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Programi za defragmentaciju:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop dodaci:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

Download menaðeri:
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Enkripcija i sigurnost podataka:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

Fajl Menaðeri:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

Fiksanje PC-a:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Vatrozidi:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Klijenti:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Serveri:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
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
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editori:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

Preglednici slika:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messenger:
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer "školjke":
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail programi:
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programi:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Mrežni alati:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.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=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Uredski paketi:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/

Softveri za particije:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Programi:
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/

Programi za obradu slika i sl.:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Pixia -