Home |  Forums |  Search |  My Profile |  Chat  Photo Gallery |  Events Calendar |  Technical Documents  No messages |  New Posts |  Watched Topics |  Register   Freeware Alternatives          Forum Index -> Geeky Bits Latest ratings Highest-ranked posts Highest-ranked topics Highest-ranked posters   blackjack_original Fordmods - Getting Side Ways Age:23 Posts: 3443 Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Location: Adelaide SA, Australia View User Gallery (8) Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 11:55 pm    Post subject: Freeware Alternatives Copy>Paste from a thread of the same name from www.nissansilvia.com __________________________________________________________ here is a massive list of freeware alternative programs for all the tightasses out there that can't afford the big commercial stuff or that just want something easy to use. Feel free to contribute more if you know of any useful ones. Mods: sticky this please. should be pretty useful for some people. 3D Graphics: 3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/ Art Of Illusion - http://www.artofillusion.org/ Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/ Freestyle - http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/ Gelato - http://www.nvidia.com/page/gz_home.html Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com...3&Itemid=89 Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...&id=7639525 Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org Pointshop 3D - http://graphics.ethz.ch/pointshop3d/downloadPS3D20.html POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/ SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com/ Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/ Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/ Anti-Virus: a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/ Avast - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/ BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/ Anti Spyware: Ad-aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php Arovax AntiSpyware - http://www.arovaxantispyware.com/ Arovax Shield - http://www.arovaxshield.com/download.php Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html Browser Hijack Retaliator http://www.zamaansoft.com/products/bhr/ Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html Microsoft Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx Sentinel - http://www.runtimeware.com/sentinel.html SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html Spyware Terminator - http://www.spywareterminator.com/ Super AntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html ToolbarCop - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm Watcher - http://www.donationcoders.com/kubicle/watcher/index.html WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/ Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/page/home.php?lang=en&page=home Audio Creation Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php Jungulator - http://www.iamthemightyjungulator.com/downloads KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php LoopBe1 - http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html MIDI Pattern Generator 64 - http://www.gradywerks.com/mpg64/ orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/ Reaper - http://www.C**k.com/reaper/index.php Smart PC Record - http://www.voiceemotion.com/smartrecorder.htm Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/tu2.html Audio Players: 1by1 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html Apollo 37zx - http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/[/b] Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/ Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/ iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Jet Audio Basic - http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/ Juke - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/juke/index.html Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/ Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/ monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/ MPXPlay - http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/ Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/ musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/ QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/ Screamer Radio - http://www.screamer-radio.com/ VUPlay - http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.php Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/ Xion - http://xion.r2.com.au/ XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/ Audio Tools: Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ Audiograil - http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?kmp3 AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm Balthers Graphic Groove Box - http://www.balther.dk/gboxenter.html beatharness - http://www.beatharness.com/ BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/ CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ CUE Splitter - http://www.shareup.com/CUE_Splitter-download-30218.html dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ EffecTV - http://pbx.mine.nu/effectv/ Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/software.htm Gephex - http://www.gephex.org/index.php GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/ iTunes Agent - http://ita.sourceforge.net/index.html KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/ M4a/Flac/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player & Media Center 2005 - http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm MediaInfo - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/ Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/ mp3DirectCut - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ mpTrim - http://www.mptrim.com/ MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/ opcode - http://www.opcode.co.uk/opd2d/default.asp SC Free Audio Extractor - http://www.download-up.com/download-SC_Fre...tractor-60.html SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/ TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/ Vibe Streamer - http://www.vibestreamer.com/ Whorld - <a href=http://whorld.org/ target=_blank>http://whorld.org/ CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation: Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/ CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ DVDAuthor GUI - http://download.videohelp.com/liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/ eCover - http://www.esoftware.it/eCover/index.html GUI for dvdauthor - http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/ ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/ ISO Recorder - http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm MediaCD - http://www.botproductions.com/mediacd/index.html SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/AUDIO Burner - http://www.silentnight2004.com/NEW_Download.html Smart CD-Menu Creator - http://www.cupidsystems.com/products/smart...eator/index.php Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - http://www.mispbo.com/burner.htm Compression / Decompression: 7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/ Alzip - http://www.altools.net/Downloads/DownloadA...88/Default.aspx bzip2 - http://www.bzip.org Compress it - http://www.rg-software.de/ ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/ FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/ Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/ IZArc - http://www.izarc.org KGB Archiver - http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/ QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/ SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/ TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/ UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/ Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm Defrag Software: Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/ JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/ OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp Whitney Defrag - http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag Desktop Enhancements: Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/ AutoSmall - http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~wingdog/soft1.html AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372 Clocktrayskins - http://www.drive-software.com/windowsclock.html CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/ Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/ Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/ Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/#intro Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/ Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/ Menu Inventor - http://micron.ic.cz/menuinventor MouseIMP - http://www.mouseimp.com/ Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html Qliner Hotkeys - http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/default.htm Rainlendar - http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php RKLauncher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/ RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/ SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/ Taskix - http://taskix.robustit.com/ TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/ Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/ Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/ WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/ Yahoo! Widget Engine (Formerly Konfabulator) - http://widgets.yahoo.com/ Download managers: Flashget - http://www.amazesoft.com/index_en.htm Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/ LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/ Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/ wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/ WinBITS - http://www.darvin.de/english/ wxDownload Fast - http://dfast.sourceforge.net/index.html Educational Utilities: Kicad - http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/ Molecular Workbench - http://mw.concord.org/modeler/ Periodic Table - http://paulalanfreshney.com/education/pt/ SciCraft - http://www.scicraft.org/ Scilab - http://www.scilab.org/ XCCalc - http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Calc/XCCalc.html Encryption and data security: Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/ Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm fseKrit - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/ KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/ Lock Note - http://locknote.steganos.com/ PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/ File Managers: 2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/ A43 - http://http://www.primitus.us/a43/ BarracudaDrive - http://barracudaserver.com/examples/BarracudaDrive/ CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/ ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/ JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/ MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/ SequoiaView - http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ File repair and recovery: ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools - http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/index.html Avira UnErase Personal - http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassic/avira_unerase.html FreeUndelete - http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm VAIOSoft Recovery Manager - http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html Firewalls: Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com Filseclab Personal Firewall - http://www.filseclab.com/eng/products/firewall.htm Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm NetVeda Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/ Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp FTP Clients: CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/ FFFTP - http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~sota/ffftp-e.html Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla Flash Wanderer - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/ftp_wanderer.html miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/products/miFiles/miFiles.htm SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/ FTP Servers: Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/ FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com GuildFTPD - http://www.guildftpd.com/ Quick 'n Easy FTP Server Lite - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...ftp_server.html SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/ WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/ zFTP Server - http://www.zftpserver.com/ HTML Editors: 1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ Blocknote - http://www.blocknote.net/index.shtml Elfima Notepad - http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/ FTP HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ JoJoThumb - http://www.jojosoftware.de/jojothumb/english/default.htm Notetab light - http://www.notetab.com/ NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/ Selida - http://selida.camelon.nl/ SuperEdi - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/ Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/ TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/ visualEdit - http://www.activecampaign.com/visualedit/ WeaverSlave - http://www.weaverslave.ws/weaverslave.31.html WebDwarf - http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/ WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html Image viewers: Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe ALSee Picture Viewer - http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=54 BlueMarine - http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/ FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Futurix Imager - http://www.futurix.co.uk/imager/ Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/ Picasa - http://picasa.google.com Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/ XNView - http://www.xnview.com/ Instant Messengers: AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php Fomine LAN Chat - http://www.fomine.com/lan-chat.html Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/ Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/ MiniAIM - http://miniaim.net/ Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/ Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/ PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/ qip - http://www.qip.ru/ Skype - http://www.skype.com/ SIM - http://http://sim-im.org/wiki/Main_Page TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/ Trillian Basic - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/ Internet Explorer Front-Ends: AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/ Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/ Green Browser - http://www.morequick.com/indexen.htm Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/ SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm IRC Clients: BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/ b**ch - http://b**ch.org/ HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/ NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/ TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/ XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/ Mail programs: Cobian Herald - http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobherald.htm Evolution for Windows - http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/ Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/ i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/ Koma-Mail - http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=c...=5&Itemid=6 Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ NMZ Labs Mail Chekcer - http://www.nmzlabs.com/mail_checker Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/ PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/ Revolver Mail - http://www.revolversoft.com/en/products/mail/index.php 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/ Spam Experts Home - http://www.spamexperts.com/products-servic...perts-home.html SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/ Network Tools: ACMP - http://www.aagon.com/English/default.asp?A...em=JR40c089fpo9 BeyondCopy - http://beyondcopy.sourceforge.net/ CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/ Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/ Fomine NetSend GUI - http://www.fomine.com/net-send-gui.html FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/ Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/ NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/ NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/ NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ Ntop - http://www.ntop.org PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com PRTG Traffic Grapher - http://www.paessler.com/prtg PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s...p;threadid=2400 RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/ Remote Reboot - http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/05/r...ur-network.html Tango Dropbox - http://tangoftp.com/ TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/ Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ WinIPConfig - http://www.pkostov.com/wipcfg.html WinNG - http://montaro.bur.st/winng/ WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/ Office Application: AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/ OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/ qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sect...id=2&page=1 TextMaker Viewer - http://www.officeviewers.com/ TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm Partition Managers: Dubaron - DiskImage http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/ g4u - http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4u/ GParted LiveCD http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Partition Logic - http://partitionlogic.org.uk/ Partition Resizer - http://www.zeleps.com/ Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/ SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html PDF Utilities: Brava! Reader - http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm Cool PDF Reader - http://www.pdf2exe.com/reader.html CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php Free Image Converter - http://www.downloadhotfile.com/download-do...rter-33715.html Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/awki PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/ pdf24-creator - http://www.pdf24.org/en/pdf24-creator.htm PDF/Textbox - http://www.pdftextbox.com/default.aspx PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ PDFTK Builder - http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/ PDFRedirect - http://www.exp-systems.com/ PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/ Photo manipulation and image design: 3D Box Shot Maker - http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version Beneton Movie GIF - http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7 Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/ Faststone Photo Resizer - http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/ Imagicon - http://www.download3000.com/download_9302.html iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/ Movie to Animated GIF Converter - http://www.evanolds.com/movtogif.html Paint .NET - http://www.getpaint.net Pixia - http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/ Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html Pixrev - http://pylab.altervista.org/pixrev.html PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/ PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3 Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/ The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Tuxpaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org Watermark Creation - http://www.leolasoft-herter.de/Download.html Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/ Programming: ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/ Context - http://www.context.cx/ Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/ Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/ JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/ Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/ Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/ PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/ Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm PHP Designer 2007 Personal - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php PHP Hypertext a*** - http://www.php.net/ Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/ PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/ Python - http://www.python.org/ Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org/ Screenweaver - http://screenweaver.com/download SE|PY ActionScript Editor - http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/ WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/ WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/ XML Copy Editor - http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/ Pop-up Blockers: Google Toolbar for Firefox - http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer - http://toolbar.google.com/T4/?rd=f NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/ PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/ Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/ RSS Readers: Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/ FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/ GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/ klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/ RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/ RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/ RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews= SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/ System Information and monitoring: AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/ CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Free Disks monitoring - http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/fr...oring-software/ Gkrellm - http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/...lm/gkrellm.html HWiNFO - http://www.hwinfo.com/ K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en MonitorApp - http://www.desktopapps.co.uk/monitorApp.html Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311 MSKeyViewerPlus - http://www.toddandkeelee.com/software.html PC Wizard - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php SIW - http://www.gtopala.com/index.html SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com Systemware Task Manager - http://www.mediaware.at/ WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx WINAUDIT - http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm Why Reboot? - http://www.exodus-dev.com/products/WhyReboot/ XPSysPad - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/xpsyspad.php Video codecs: DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow XviD - http://www.xvid.org/ Video players : AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter alltoavi - http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/ AVS DVD Player - http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/ Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/ Democracy - http://www.getdemocracy.com/ DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/ Flash Movie Player - http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/flash_movie_player/ GOMPlayer - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/ Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303 MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/ VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/ Video tools & converters: AV DVD Player Morpher - http://www.download-up.com/download-AV_DVD...rpher-2595.html AVI2DVD - http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html AVIDemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ AVI Screen Capture - http://www.evanolds.com/sc_main.html AVI Trimmer - http://solveigmm.com/?Products&id=AVITrimmer AVS TV Box Free - http://www.download-up.com/download-AVS_TV..._Free-6192.html CaptureFlux - http://paul.glagla.free.fr/captureflux_en.htm DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/ DVDx - http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/ FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net FlowPlayer - http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/ GB-PVR - http://www.gbpvr.com/index.html GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ iPodTVShow - http://members.verizon.net/pucklock/iPTV/iPodTVShow.html[/b] HDTVtoMPEG2 - http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/ Mediacoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ MeGUI - http://megui.sourceforge.net/ MobileVideo For iPod - http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo-for-i...-converter.html Movica - http://vani.bhargav.googlepages.com/movica PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/ Riva FLV Encoder 2.0 http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?downloads&L=3 ScreenCoder - http://www.merage.uci.edu/~dvdotnet/screencoder.html STOIK Video Converter - http://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/Video...ter07070016.htm Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html Taksi - http://taksi.sourceforge.net/ The FilmMachine http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/ TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_main.html Transana - http://www.transana.org/index.htm TVTagger - http://tvtagger.wordpress.com/ VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html Video DVD Maker - http://www.videodvdmaker.com/ Video Tools - http://www.bobyte.com/ Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/ VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/ VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889 Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html Web browsers: Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com Flock - http://www.flock.com/ K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/ Netscape - http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/ Opera - http://www.opera.com Web servers: Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/ Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/ HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/ NetworkActiv Web Server - http://www.networkactiv.com/WebServer.html Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/ SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/ TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/ Webcam Software: booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/ Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/ grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/ Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/ Splitcam - http://www.splitcamera.com/index.html Checksum Utilities: fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/ HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/ HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/ ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/ MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/ QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ QuickSFV - http://www.quicksfv.org/ General Utilities And Other Applications: AdShield - http://www.adshield.org AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/ AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/ Attribute Changer - http://webplaza.pt.lu/~rpetges/ AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/ BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com ClipGuru - http://clipguru.com/ ClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/ Cobian Backup - http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com dd for windows http://www.chrysocome.net/dd Dir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/ Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/ DM2 - http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ Doc Converter - http://www.dbtalk.net/doc-convertor/ EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT - http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ EssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/ Eusing Free Registry Cleaner - http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleane...try_cleaner.htm Everyday Auto Backup - http://www.backupsoft.net/everydayautobackup.htm Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/ Fab's Autobackup - http://fabs.dyndns.org/index2.php?lang=en&...ction=freewares File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/download...re_fte_105.html Folder Marker - http://www.foldermarker.com/ Folder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/ Freeproxy - http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org/index.p...ry&cat_id=2 Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/ HDCleaner - http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/hdcleaner_e.htm HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/ Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php iWeb Album - http://www.eunq.com/ KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Language Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/ Launch Admin - http://launch-admin.sourceforge.net/ Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/ Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/ Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com MISPBO Free Registry Cleaner - http://www.mispbo.com/registrycleaner.htm Money Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.asp Multi Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/ MV Reg Clean - http://www.velasco.com.br/mvregcln-installer-br.zip MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net NMZ Labs File Eraser - http://www.nmzlabs.com/file_eraser Notebook BatteryInfo http://www.batteryinfo.de.vu/ Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis OpenContacts - http://www.fonlow.com/opencontacts/ Open Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.html OpenWengo - http://www.openwengo.org/[/b] Outlook Linker - http://www.teamscope.com/otherpro/utilities.asp#linker Overdisk - http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html Peerguardian - http://phoenixlabs.org/ png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico QuickUninstaller - http://quninst.batoufflet.info/index.html RegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm Rename Master - http://www.joejoesoft.com/rm.php Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html RunItAll - http://www.maliprogramer.com/index.php?str...hp&jezik=EN RunWithParameters - http://rwparam.whyeye.org/ ShellExView v1.14 - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html Space Monger - http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html Starter - http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/ Startup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml Stellarium - http://www.stellarium.org/ Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/ StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ Sudo for Windows - http://sudowin.sourceforge.net/ Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html SyncToy - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/ Task Coach - http://taskcoach.sourceforge.net/index.html TextHarvest - http://members.aol.com/getmydata/pc-sample.htm[/b ] Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/ TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/ ubSpawn - http://www.unitedbytes.de/go.php?site=ubspawn Udpix - http://udpix.free.fr/ UninstallSmith = http://rihh.info/usmith/ Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.html Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net WakeUpOnStandby - http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/download.php?what=WOSB WeathAlert - [url=http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermain]http:// Back to top basstrom_dave Fordmods - Smokin em up Age:21 Posts: 228 Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Location: Adelaide SA, Australia View User Gallery (0) Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:07 am    Post subject: Used a few of these such as Anti-vir for anti-virus, lots of the addware and spyware removal tools PC Inspector File Recovery, openoffice, cygwin (unix terminal emulator for windows) few others that i don't think were mentioned were things like crimson editor which is a basic text editor, glaringly obvious one was GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) know a few people who have gone from using PhotoShop to GIMP and also Hijack this for checking your registry startup areas and few other bits and pieces but all the above I highly recommend and great list too blackjack_original always on the look out for freebies Back to top fnp Fordmods - Getting Side Ways Age:23 Posts: 4224 Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Location: Perth WA, Australia View User Gallery (3) Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:47 am    Post subject: Nicely done. Who says you have to pay for decent software. Back to top x3ros Fordmods - Getting Side Ways Age:26 Posts: 1172 Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Location: Cranbourne VIC, Australia View User Gallery (0) Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:39 am    Post subject: Graphics GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/ K-3D - http://www.k-3d.org/ Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/ Art of Illusion - http://www.artofillusion.org/ Blender - http://www.blender.org/ KuickShow - http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/ ShowImg - http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/ Gwenview - http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/ GQview - http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ Eye of GNOME - http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/ Skencil - http://www.skencil.org/ Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ Karbon14 - http://www.koffice.org/karbon/ Xara Xtreme for Linux - http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ CinePaint - http://www.cinepaint.org/ Krita - http://www.koffice.org/krita/ Audio Tools Sound Juicer - http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer Rubyripper - http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper ripperX - http://ripperx.sourceforge.net/ Grip - http://nostatic.org/grip/ KAudioCreator - http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator Kid3 - http://kid3.sourceforge.net/ Pinkytagger - http://pinkytagger.sourceforge.net/ EasyTAG - http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ Cowbell - http://more-cowbell.org/ Audio Tag Tool - http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ Audio Players Amarok - http://amarok.kde.org/ Audacious - http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page XMMS - http://www.xmms.org/ Banshee - http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page aTunes - http://www.atunes.org/ Quod Libet - http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet SongBird - http://www.songbirdnest.com Exaile - http://www.exaile.org/ Listen - http://listengnome.free.fr/ Rhythmbox - http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/ gtkpod - http://www.gtkpod.org/ CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation K3b - http://www.k3b.org/ X-CD-Roast - http://www.xcdroast.org/ Brasero - http://perso.orange.fr/bonfire/index.htm GnomeBaker - http://gnomebaker.sourceforge.net/ Graveman! - http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/ k9copy - http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/ OGMRip - http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/ Thoggen - http://thoggen.net/ xdvdshrink - http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/ DVD Rip-O-Matic - http://dvdripomatic.sourceforge.net qVamps - http://vamps.sourceforge.net/ dvd::rip - http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ AcidRip - http://untrepid.com/acidrip/ Desktop Enchancement AWN - http://awn.wetpaint.com/ Compiz Fusion - http://www.compiz-fusion.org/ Desklets - http://www.gdesklets.de/ Screenlets - http://www.screenlets.org/ Desktop Drapes - http://drapes.mindtouchsoftware.com/ FTP Clients gFTP - http://gftp.seul.org/ FireFTP - http://fireftp.mozdev.org/ FTP Servers vsftpd - http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ glFTPd - http://www.glftpd.com/ PureFTPd - http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd oftpd - http://www.time-travellers.org/oftpd/ Video Editing / Creation PiTiVi - http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page LiVES - http://lives.sourceforge.net/ Open Movie Editor - http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net/HomePage Avidemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ Cinelerra - http://cvs.cinelerra.org/ kdenlive - http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/ Video Players KPlayer - http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/ VideoLAN - http://www.videolan.org/ xine - http://xinehq.de/ mplayer - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html I'll add to this as time/energy permits Anyone care to take a crack at Mac ? Back to top Slick Fordmods - Getting Side Ways Age:39 Posts: 5125 Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Location: Hobart TAS, Australia View User Gallery (0)