Freeware Replacements For Common Commercial Apps

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Grinler View Member Profile	Oct 15 2004, 12:30 PM Post #1
Bleep Bleep! Group: Admin Posts: 29,840 Joined: 24-January 04 From: USA Member No.: 3	I thought a beneficial topic to everyone, would be a list of freeware programs, that you can use instead of a commercial one. Feel free to suggest programs that should be added to the list. Please, only suggest programs that are known to be free of spyware or other malware. Antivirus Applications Antivir AOL VirusScan Plus - free AOL Antivirus, Spyware, and Firewall, provided by McAfee. (valid AOL E-mail address required for free version) - Windows 2000/XP/Vista Avast Free AVG Free - at the bottom of the page. Bitdefender Free Free Online Virus/Trojan/Spyware Scanners aumha.org - Internet Explorer (IE) parasite scan BitDefender - virus scanner CastleCops - several scans under "Tool Kit', on the right, about halfway down the page eTrust - Virus scanner - WhyBeNormal F-Secure - virus scanner HouseCall - virus scanner HouseCall - Europe - virus scanner - Does not require the use of ActiveX controls. Uses Java instead. - joe53 Jotti's scan - submit files to be scanned by multiple (15) scanners kephyr.com - PopUp Killer Test McAfee - virus, security and Wi-Fi scanners, under "Free Services" PC Pitstop - several scans, on the left, under "Tests and Scans" SpywareGuide - spyware scanner, on the right SpywareInfo - spyware scanner, on the left, under "Site Navigation" Symantec.com - virus & security scanners Virustotal - submit suspicious files to be scanned by multiple (22) Antivirus/Spyware scanners - SifuMike Webroot Spy Audit - Spyware scanner. It will not remove or modify any files. - WhyBeNormal WindowSecurity - trojan scanner Spyware Removal - You may also want to read this topic, Simple steps to keep your computer secure! a² Free - a complementary product to antivirus software which is specialized in protection against harmful software. Antivirus software often features an inadequate protection against Trojans, Dialers and Spyware. a² fills this gap." - tg911 Ad-Aware - Tutorial: Using Ad-Aware - Windows Vista (32-bit), Windows XP (Home and Pro), Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 (Pro and Server) Comodo BOClean - removes malware and registry entries, doesn't require a reboot to remove all traces, daily malware database updates, optional rollback of update to an earlier version, sweeps and detects INSTANTLY in the background, etc. - boopme IE-Spyad - Tutorial: Using IE-Spyad Spybot - Search & Destroy - Tutorial: Using Spybot S&D Spywareblaster - prevents spyware from being installed on your PC. - Tutorial: Using SpywareBlaster Spywareguard - provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster's protection method. - Tutorial: Using SpywareGuard Spyware Terminator - Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers and other malware threats. Real-Time Protection is included in the basic version. - nigglesnush85 SuperAntiSpyware - link to a direct download of the Free version WinPatrol - "WinPatrol uses a heuristic approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. Traditional security programs scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. WinPatrol takes snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes that may occur without your knowledge." - joe53 Specific Virus Removal Tools - if you know what Virus you have, try here. AVG BitDefender McAfee Panda Symantec Firewalls Comodo Firewall - boopme Jetico Personal Firewall - acklan Outpost Firewall Free Sunbelt Personal Firewall Sygate Free ZoneAlarm Free PC Security Active@ KillDisk - powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. - acklan Core Control - a full featured advanced security program, designed for Windows 95, 98, and ME Operating Systems - acklan DeleteOnClick - completely deletes files in one click rather than sending the file to the recycle bin. The data becomes unrecoverable. For this reason you must use this program carefully. - leeanne172 Eraser - an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. - jgweed EULAlyzer - can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. Discover if the software you're about to install displays pop-up ads, transmits personally identifiable information, uses unique identifiers to track you, or much much more. - Wink iProtectYou - allows parents to control which web sites can be visited, which programs can have Internet access, block e-mails, chat sessions and instant messages with inappropriate words, stop annoying ads, and/or restrict internet time to a predetermined schedule. - acklan KL-Detector- detect keylogging activity on your computer! - boopme File Encryption AxCrypt - a powerful, yet extremely easy to use file encryption program. It integrates directly with Windows Explorer, enabling encryption, decryption, viewing and editing of any file with just a few clicks of the mouse. Cryptainer LE - A really simple to use encryption tool that creates an invisible, password protected folder on your hard drive or other media. Free version limited to 25MB. "Cryptainer LE's encryption works with all 32 bit versions of Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server) and with all known file types." - Rimmer PowerCrypt - a powerful file encoder. Make sure your files are protected with a 100% secure encryption algorithm, which is not resolveable by NSA nor CIA. True Crypt - disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux. A, more powerful version of Cryptainer. As a user of both, I recommend TrueCrypt over Cryptainer by a long shot. No stupid limits on how big you can have the drive, as well, so you could encrypt your whole drive if you wanted to - ØÇë¦òT Hard Drive & System Utilites Auslogics Disk Defrag - designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. - Yourhighness BootSafe - a program (doesn't require installation) that sits on your desktop. Double click on it, select one of the 3 Safe Mode options, and click on Reboot. - usasma Drive Manager - has been written to help you easily identify drives which are of the same type. - fleamailman driveSMART EWT - a Early Warning and Tracking Systems which tracks the status of the computer hard disks, timely detecting, and anticipating any problems occurring with the disk, before the danger of the data loss appears. - Windows 95b/98/ME/2000 Pro & Server/NT 4.0 Workstation & Server/XP/2003 Server__MAC OS X 10.2 & 10.3 - BlackSpyder DShutdown- a stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many specific options. - acklan DTaskManager - a Task-Manager, but specifically engineered to give additional functionalities that the Windows bundled TaskManager (and other third party products) do not have. - scratcher ERUNT - registry backup tool - rowal5555 GParted - an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). - fozzie HDDScan - a freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics. Supports IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards. - Stidyup HDTune - a good piece of software for testing the HD in the PC. Gives good analysis of the drives sector issues. - projectfocus JkDefrag - disk defragment and optimization utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64 - Shaba Memtest86 - a thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. - boopme MicroSoft's Memory Test - tests the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer for errors. - acklan PC INSPECTOR - a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. - usasma Power off 3 - a small program that allows you to control the power state of your pc. - Yourhighness Process Explorer - shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. - Ronbo ProcessLibrary - Gain insight on any process through easy and quick search feature that queries over 9000 entries in processlibrary.com database directly - Windows 2000/2003/XP - nigglesnush85 Quick Access InfoBar - Get the latest definitions and exhaustive advice on all the processes running in the Windows Task Manager. - Quick Access InfoBar Ranish Partition Manager - Partition resizer, create, manager similar to Partition Magic but free! SpeeDefrag - a program, which restarts your computer and runs only defrag.exe with optimized windows settings. - acklan Swissknife - can create, delete and format partitions on your hard disk drives. Supports Internal interfaces such as IDE and SCSI and External interfaces such as Hi-Speed USB, Parallel port, PCMCIA, USB On-The-Go, Firewire®, SATA interfaces etc. Creates Fixed and Removable Disk Format types. - Windows 98/XP/Mac OS/Linux - BlackSpyder SyncBack Freeware - backup and synchronization software - usasma Unknown Device Identifier - Identify unknown devices not recognized by Windows in your system especially after you reinstall your system and cannot figure out what all those yellow question mark labeled devices really are. - acklan Vision - Reports all open TCP and UDP ports and maps them to the owning process or application. - usasma WinDriversBackup Personal Edition 1.0.9 (last freeware version) - for backing up your Windows system driver files. It can also scan for, and back up, third party non-Microsoft drivers. - mommabear System Information Belarc Advisor - builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. - Ronbo CoolMon 2 - a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else you wish to display on the desktop. - nosnhoj#3 CPU-Z - gathers information on some of the main devices of your system; CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and System. - Rimmer Double Driver - you can view which drivers are installed in your system and you can backup the drivers you choose, save and print the drivers list, and more. - Yourhighness EVEREST Home Edition - a freeware system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for home PC users. Similar to Belarc, but much more comprehensive. - Herk SIW - This program performs computer configuration, analysis, and diagnostics. (Similar to Everest) SpeedFan - monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. - usasma System Spec - lets you can see, save and print a complete spec of your PC with this no-install, system information utility and perform various windows functions. Additional advanced info includes CPU, drives, apps, display, memory and more. - John_McKenna What's Running - a product that gives you an inside look into your Windows 2000/XP/2003 system. Explore processes, services, modules, IP-connections, drivers and much more. - rowal5555 WinAudit - a self-contained (no setup required) PC audit, and inventory of software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings... - usasma File Compression and Archiving 7-Zip - a file archiver with high compression ratio. - nosnhoj#3 ExtractNow - will let you extract multiple archives with the ease of a single click. - acklan FilZip - an archiving utility (zip tool) that can open various archive types. It offers Windows integration, drag and drop, encryption, multi-extract and more. - leeanne172 IZArc - File compression utility that supports most standard compression formats. WinRAR - click on the downloads tab and download the trial version (not the beta). You can use the full functionality forever. - Lanscader ZipGenius - A nice archiving tool. It handles zip, rar and many others. - Storm Rider File/Folder Utilities Cobian Backup - a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. - usasma Delete Doctor - Delete files that are difficult to delete, such as some files left by viruses and trojans, or files with corrupted file names. Digital Dolly - hard-disk-partition, image, and cloning software that runs completely from a bootable CD-ROM. - acklan HostsMan - a hosts file manager and editor - Yourhighness LupasRename 2000 - rename files quickly (Will run on USB Drive) - turbines MDI Viewer - allows you to view .MDI files - sitalchauhan Norton Ghost 2003 - imaging utility for your hard drive(s). - usasma ReNamer - a small, yet very flexible file renaming tool, that offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as remove contents of brackets, add number sequences, change file extensions, etc. - Walkman SequoiaView - an excellent utility to help you figure out what is taking up so much space on your hard drive. - ddeerrff Snap Backup - The One-Click Backup Utility that makes it simple to protect your important work. - acklan Unlocker - Remove, hard to Delete, files and folders. WinDirStat - a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - Windows 95/98SE/ME/NT4(SP5)/2000/XP/Server 2003 - nigglesnush85 WinMerge - a visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. - Walkman Continued in the next post... This post has been edited by tg1911: May 2 2008, 06:25 PM -------------------- Lawrence

Grinler View Member Profile	Aug 24 2006, 04:35 PM Post #2
Bleep Bleep! Group: Admin Posts: 29,840 Joined: 24-January 04 From: USA Member No.: 3	Continued from previous post... Utilities 3DMark03 Free Version - a benchmarking proooogram that includes a collection of 3D tests, a set of CPU tests, feature tests, image quality tests, and sound tests. - BlackSpyder 8start Launcher - a portable application launcher. - Yourhighness Calc 98 - Scientic Calulator and Conversion Tool (Will run on USB Drive) - turbines Convert - an easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions. - Ronbo Digital Post-It - replaces all those sticky yellow post-it papers that you got on your desk. - usasma EssentialPIM - Personal Information Manager - acklan Fass - a forum post editor & automated post generator. It also has a "Post Preview" feature, which shows your post as it will appear on forums. Designed for use with Invision Power Board, compatible with most forum software. Filebox Extender - enhances Windows by adding several advanced functions to the standard Open File and Save File dialog boxes. - Yourhighness HandyNotes - a small software program, that makes it easy to keep all your notes organized, in one easily accessible place. - Herk KeyNote - a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. Launchy - indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes. - nosnhoj#3 LogMeIn Hamachi - a VPN service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there's an Internet connection - nigglesnush85 Magical Jellybean Keyfinder - a utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. - Herk Microsoft Reader - allows you to read books published in the MS reader (.lit) format. - Ronbo MyUninstaller - Free app to remove entries from your Add/Remove Programs list. PCMark05 Basic Edition - PC performance benchmark program that provides an accurate and consistent assessment of the performance of your PC in general home environment usage. - BlackSpyder PitchPerfect Guitar Tuner - Tune your electric or Bass with your computer - BlackSpyder RealVNC - makes it possible to view, and fully-interact with, one computer from any other computer, or mobile device, anywhere on the Internet. - acklan Safarp - a small and fast alternative to the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel applet of Windows 2000/XP. Among other things, it displays a list of the installed programs, and allows one to uninstall / repair them. - scratcher Start++ - an enhancement for the Start Menu in Windows Vista. It also extends the Run box and the command-line with customizable commands. For example, typing "w Windows Vista" will take you to the Windows Vista page on Wikipedia. - nosnhoj#3 Startup Inspector for Windows - helps both novice and expert user manage Windows® startup applications. Stickies - a PC utility to try and cut down on the number of Post-It® notes stuck to your monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes. - Animal Sun's Solaris 10- a free Operating System - acklan Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! - allows you to Repair and Customize the Quick Launch, Taskbar and Notification Area in Windows XP. - Ronbo Tidy Start Menu - allows you to arrange all the shortcuts in the Start Menu. Your Start Menu looks neat, and you can easily and quickly find any program you want. - rowal5555 Total Uninstall - can help you to monitor any changes that were made to your system during installation of a new software product and allow you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied uninstall program (which may leave files or changes behind).(last freeware version) - usasma TweakVI - was designed for easy tweaking an optimizing a Windows Vista based computer. - nosnhoj#3 TweakUI - This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. - Ronbo Uninstall Tool - (Last Free Version) a small and fast utility that helps you to uninstall various software. It can be used instead of the standard unconvenient and heavy "Add and Remove Programs". - mommabear WinKey - create keyboard shortcuts to access your favorite programs, documents, and files. Once you've made a shortcut, simply press your desired key combination to launch your program. This tool supports up to 200 key assignments. - nosnhoj#3 Networking Fiddler - a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. - usasma Netstat Live - a small, easy to use TCP/IP protocol monitor which can be used to see your exact throughput on both incoming and outgoing data - whether you're using a modem, cable modem, DSL, or even local network. Will also graph the CPU usage of your system. - Herk No-IP - Use to map a static or dynamic IP address, or long URL, to an easy to remember subdomain, such as yourname.no-ip.com. - turbines PingPlotter - a high performance, low-overhead traceroute application. - turbines Wireshark - a network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) Web Browsers Avant Browser - based on the Internet Explorer browser engine. - nosnhoj#3 Firefox - a highly customizable web browser, with tabbed browsing - JEservices K-Meleon - an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla) - saint satin stain Maxthon Internet Browser - tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine. - wng_z3r0 OffByOne - Incorporates a tabbed browsing, and does not require any installation. If you're looking for a fast browser, with minimal features, this is it. - acklan SeaMonkey - Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application. - ddeerrff Netscape - Includes a browser, email client, and html composer - Bizrus Opera - JEservices Web Browsing Utilities AM-DeadLink - detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. Checks Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape. - Ronbo CleanUp! - a powerful and easy-to-use application that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more. - WhyBeNormal Clipboard Buddy - a clipboard cache program that remembers what was copied to the clipboard even after new data is copied, and allows you to retrieve the old data. - rowal5555 Convert & Open - automatically repairs bad links. No more copy and pasting of incorrect/invalid URLs. - leeanne172 CookieWall - allows you to quickly and easily decide which cookies can stay on your system, and which cookies should go - once you let CookieWall know which ones are unwelcome, it does the rest. (Internet Explorer only) - Jacee Extract URL - extract URLs with title, description, keywords meta data from entire websites, list of URLs, or search engine results. - acklan Hitware Popup Killer Lite - an intelligent popup killer for Internet Explorer (5 and up), that runs in the system tray and quietly eliminates most pop-up and pop-under ads before they appear. - idk HTTrack - allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. - nosnhoj#3 KeyScrambler - a web browser plugin that encrypts your keystrokes to protect your important personal information from keyloggers. - Jacee McAfee SiteAdvisor - (for IE and Firefox) installs a small button that changes colors as you browse the Web based on the results of their safety tests. You can also click on the button's menu to see the site's detailed test results. - nosnhoj#3 Netcraft Toolbar - Anti-phishing toolbar. It works well with Firefox in Vista - and with one minor glitch (in the updater) with IE7 in Vista (I just close the updater and it runs just fine). - usasma PeerGuardian 2 - IP blocker for Windows. - Walkman Pow - trainable, popup blocker for Internet Explorer. - Herk Smart Popup Blocker - intelligently block pop-up ads and messenger pop-up spam, and speed Internet Explorer by optimizing settings. It also cleans cookies and guards your default Internet Explorer home page. - idk Tor - can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol - Walkman Xenu - checks Web sites for broken links. - Yourhighness Password Managers/Generators KeePass - an open-source password manager, or safe, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. - turbines KeyWallet - a browser independent Password Manager which encrypts your data, and supports skins - TerryK Oubliette - password database, and generator, that stores a list of accounts with information such as account name, associated password, URL, and free-form notes. Oubliette offers a number of ways to transfer account names and passwords to the browser: via the clipboard, through drag-and-drop, or by automated form filling. Password Corral - password generator, and organizer, with several additional features - Yourhighness Password Safe - a tool that allows you to have a different password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords - Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP - saint satin stain Password Scrambler - a browser add-on that allows you to automatically generate secure, hard-to-guess passwords for every site you visit, based on a master password of your choice. - Jacee Whisper 32 - a very easy-to-use Password Manager for Windows. - turbines Spell Checker & Dictionary Aspell - can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. - Ross Zip IESpell - A spelling checker for Internet Explorer. Works like the spell checker in M$ Office, right click and select Check Spelling. - Ronbo Magical Jellybean Dictionary - a freeware dictionary client for Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP, that connects to a dictionary server, and retrieves the definition from a database on the server. - Herk tinySpell - easily and quickly check the spelling of words in any Windows application. Monitors your typing on the fly, and alerts you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It also checks the spelling of every word you copy to the clipboard. - Wink Word Web - a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, that can be used to look up words from within most programs. - tg1911 Email Clients & Tools ePrompter - automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your e-mail messages from up to 16 password-protected e-mail accounts. It not only lets you compose, forward, and reply to your retrieved messages, but also gives you the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious-looking mail without having to launch your e-mail program or having to go to your Web mail's site. - nosnhoj#3 Eudora - Free mail client but is ad sponsored. ( Eudora has a lite version available... just download the current version, and if you can live without the spellchecker, you dont have to live with the ad screen, being there. Go to the help menu, after installing, and select "payment and registration". Then select "lite mode", and it will ask if you can live without all of the extras, just click on "reduce features") - rexifelis FreePOPs - can be used to download mail from the most famous webmails, but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much more. This way it is possible to get all your messages in your favorite email client. - acklan K-9 - POP3 Bayesian spam filter - turbines OE Quick Backup - Backup Outlook Express mailboxes, settings, mail rules, etc. Pegasus Mail - Bizrus POP Peeper - an app which picks up all your incoming E-mail automatically at a user-defined interval and displays it in one screen where you can read, use links, and reply. - rowal5555 Quicksilver - a PRIVACY software that can give you complete privacy in your email and newsgroup postings. - turbines SpamBayes - anti-spam filter Spell Checker For OE - a way to add a spell checker to OutLook Express without having to have MS Office installed. - acklan StripMail - Strips the characters ">" and "\|" from forwarded e-mails, formats the text into paragraphs, making it easier to read, changes the text's right margin, by indenting, and can be used with any e-mail client. Thunderbird - Open Source email client. - Jgweed YPOPs! - an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail - acklan Office Applications Abiword - Free word processor that can open and edit OpenOffice, Word, Rich Text Format, HTML, Wordperfect documents, Palm, web pages and many more Calendar Magic - an easy-to-use program that is entertaining, informative, educational, and of equal applicability in the home - saint satin stain CutePDF - Create PDF Documents Foxit PDF Reader - You can view and print PDF documents. No installation required. - hiteckee Microsoft® Office Accounting Express 2007 - everything you need to make your small business idea flourish. - acklan Open Office - Free Microsoft Office alternative. Has the ability to open most mainstream document types and edit them. - JEservices Open Workbench - an alternative to Microsoft Project, that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. - jgweed PagePlus SE - a great way to get into desktop publishing and easily design professional-looking documents for every occasion. - acklan PDF Creator - Freeware PDF creation through any Windows based program. - ColdinCbus PDFill PDF Writer - a PDF Writer, Printer or Converter. - hiteckee PDF reDirect - a full-featured alternative to PDF995 and CutePDF. It features Merging, Encryption, Optimizing, and Previewing - saint satin stain Rainlendar - Desktop calender for Windows, that's skinnable and able to synchronize with M$ Outlook's calender so you may see what your appointments are, without opening Outlook. - Ronbo RoughDraft - word processor for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, plays and screenplays - saint satin stain Sunbird - Calendar program Wink - A presentation program designed to make tutorials on how to use software. Can export these tutorials in Flash, EXE, and HTML. Chat Clients ChatZilla Easy Message - The smallest IM available (Will run on USB Drive) - turbines Pidgin (formerly GAIM) - a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. - acklan IceChat Miranda IM - an open-source multi protocol instant messenger client for Microsoft Windows. - phew Trillian - acklan Continued in the next post... This post has been edited by tg1911: Sep 26 2007, 06:26 PM -------------------- Lawrence

Grinler View Member Profile	Aug 24 2006, 04:37 PM Post #3
Bleep Bleep! Group: Admin Posts: 29,840 Joined: 24-January 04 From: USA Member No.: 3	Continued from previous post... Audio Applications Audacity - a free audio editor. - tg911 Coolplayer - Sourceforge alternative to Winamp. - Yourhighness dBpowerAMP Audio Player - "dAP plays Mp3s, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, Monkeys Audio, Real Audio, Wave and Midi, and many more" - tg911 eags on! - an easy to use ID3v1 tag editor, that offers single or batch renaming of mp3 files, based on ID3 information or custom parameters. foobar2000 - an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. - agitarius iTunes - Music Player, Organizer, Tag Editor and online store. Only works with Windows XP. - Phawgg with clarifications from Jeservices K-Lite Codec Pack - a collection of codecs and related tools. - nosnhoj#3 Kristal Audio Engine - audio recorder/editor - BlackSpyder MediaMonkey - a music file manager that will rip CDs, convert audio files, edit ID3v1 & ID3v2 tags, automatically organize & rename files, create playlists, export playlists to m3u files, burn Audio CDs, burn MP3 (Data) CD/DVDs, play CDs, correct volume levels, create statistics & other reports, and synchronize with iPods, MP3 phones & other Portable Audio Devices. - kellydgk Media Player Classic - The application has the same look and feel as the old light-weight Windows Media Player 6.4, but is a completely different application which has all the options and features one might expect from a modern media player. (Media Player Classic comes bundled with Real Alternative, so if you'd like both, just get RA) - WhyBeNormal Mp3Decode - a real handy app to have in your Send To menu, it simply converts MP3 into WAV, quick and lightweight. - nosnhoj#3 mp3DirectCut - a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for MP3. - HitSquad MP3 Shield - can rapidly scan vast MP3 collection for corruptions and automatically detects corrupted MP3 files while being downloaded - Walkman QuickTime Alternative - will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. Real Alternative - designed for playing RealMedia files, which normally require Real Player - WhyBeNormal SUPER - a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click - idk Switch Soundfile Converter - Converts sound files to many other formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, and more) - BlackSpyder TagMaster - lets you edit the ID3 tag in MP3 files, which contains information like the name of the artist, song, album, etc. - Bluie The GodFather - a multi-function audio tag editor, and organizer - sitalchauhan WavePad Audio Editor - audio recorder/editor - BlackSpyder winLAME - an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface. - nosnhoj#3 WinMP3Shrink - encode or re-encode your MP3s by using the Lame encoder. - idk XMPlay - an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. - Yourhighness Video Applications AVI2DVD - an All In One tool used to convert, with just few clicks, an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd. - Yourhighness AVIcodec - Gives the codecs needed to play the file, and where to download those codecs if they are missing on your system. DScaler - a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation on a projector or computer monitor. - turbines DVD Flick - a simple but powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice. - Yourhighness DVD Shrink - DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs IfoEdit - allows users to parse VOB files, remove and add video, audio and subtitle streams to VOBs, create new IFO files, create DVD images. Also basic DVD Authoring. - Walkman Movie Organizer - a movie collection organizer. Download movie information and images online using UPC, title, actors or MOODb ID. - Walkman MovieTrack - a freeware dvd database and general movie collection organizer, for Windows. - Ronbo PSP Video 9 - a free PSP video conversion and management application. It can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files, as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP. - bilko Swiff Player - a standalone Flash player, that allow you to view .SWF files. TMPGEnc - converts .AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality. VCDGear - a tool written to effortlessly extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VideoCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, create (Super)VideoCDs and more. - Walkman VLC - a free cross-platform media player. VirtualDub - VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP) Wimpy - a cross platform (Mac and PC), standalone Flash Video FLV player, which will allow you to watch your FLV, and SWF videos, from your desktop. Graphics Design & Editing @icon sushi - an icon convert tool that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit icons. Avery Design Pro Limited - Customize and print professional looking labels, cards, dividers and more in minutes. - Ronbo Blender - the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Dogwaffle - A program designed for creative individuals who want to get down and dirty with their pixels (Scroll to the bottom of the page for free version). - tg911 Dup Detector - will scan pictures within a file (including subfolders) and present potential duplicates for deletion. - jgweed Easy Thumbnails - can resize your pictures physically either larger or smaller, or you can keep the physical size and downgrade the quality FastStone Image Viewer - An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. - nosnhoj#3 FastStone Photo Resizer - An image converter / resizer intended to enable users especially digital camera owners to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermark to images in a quick and easy BATCH mode. - quietman7 Gimp - " GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring." Google Picasa - Locate, edit, add effects, and share your photos - TMacK Google SketchUp - a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. - need TOS Icon Snatcher - "This one can pull icons from your own files to use to customize your folders." - Ronbo ImageForge - Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more. - Poru Image Resizer - gives you the ability to resize an image/picture in 2 clicks, by adding the option to the Context Menu. - nosnhoj#3 Inkscape - an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. A powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. - nosnhoj#3 IrfanView - "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003." - ColdinCbus Paint.NET - image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. - nosnhoj#3 Photobie - a free image editing software with multilayer support. Photobie is customized for photo editing. PhotoPlus 6 - image editing software that enables you to create, manipulate and enhance photographs, bitmap graphics and web animations. (Registration Required) - cybormoron Picture Resizer - An easy-to-use tool for batch resizing of JPG pictures and photos. - El_Tel Pixia -"Pixia is the English version of a popular Japanese painting and retouch software for full color graphics. It supports mask, layer and many other editing functions." - tg911 and Ataryu SharpControl - Image Sharpening Utility (Will run on USB Drive) - turbines Terragen - a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. UnFREEz - a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images. Xnview - you can quickly and easily view, process and convert image files. Will read more than 400 graphic file formats, and write to about 50. Will also display video formats. Also offers more advanced features such as Web page creation, contact prints, multiple conversion (format and transformation), slide shows, screen capturing and Twain support for scanners and digital cameras. - Herk Screen Capture Applications Capture - a screen capture utility for Windows (and NT), which allows you to capture the active window, or the entire screen, at any color depth and resolution, and save it into a Bitmap file for editing. - Herk Fastone Capture 5.3 - (last freeware version) a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages, plus additional features. - HitSquad Gadwin Print Screen - an easy to use utility, that allows you to capture any portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to Windows clipboard, print it or e-mail it to a recipient of your choice. - cybormoron MWSnap - Screen & Window Capture (Will run on USB Drive) - turbines Screenhunter - screen capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. - cybormoron ScreenPrint32 - allows you to print, and/or capture to disk, or clipboard, the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area of the screen. - rowal5555 CD & DVD Applications AudioGrabber - audio CD ripper - Current Resident BwgBurn - a Windows XP .NET 2.0 application that can be used to burn CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD+R DL/BD-RE. It includes the ability to burn both data disk, audio disk and video disk (include VCD and DVDs) - twardnw CDBurnerXPPro - can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs - Yourhighness CDex - a CD ripper and converter for Windows - tg1911 Deep Burner - "A CD/DVD burning software that lets you create Data Cds, Bootable CDs, and Audio CDs as well as data DVDs. In addition, it lets you burn ISO files, and create ISO images. Also lets you design an auto start menu to launch documents or programs from the CD" - tg911 DeepRipper - can convert music files from AudioCDs into practically any format you'd like, including: MP3, WAV, OGG, and others. Exact Audio Copy - CD ripper - rms4evr Express Rip - rips CDs to wav or mp3 - BlackSpyder InfraRecorder - CD/DVD burning software that will create data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images. Will also burn dual-layer DVDs, and image files. - Yourhighness ISO Recorder - a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder. - usasma Windows Desktop Customization AJScreenSaver Clocks - a collection of various clock screensavers - acklan BootSkin - "These two are the full version and never expire, but are unsupported by the company. The bootskin will not work on every computer, from their literature; "Some drivers and bios makers "break the rules" which can cause BootSkin to not work correctly. If you experience that, you can try these alternative versions:" Unfortunately my HP was one of the ones that broke the rules so I don't know how this one works, but I can vouch for the rest." Information contributed by Ronbo CursorXP - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo exalead one:desktop - a desktop search utility that's fast, intuitive, and you don't have to have it running all the time for it to be effective - saint satin stain FlyakiteOSX - a transformation pack that will transform the look of a Windows XP system, to resemble the look of Mac OSX - Ross Zip Iconoid - Iconoid is a small program that helps reduce the clutter and confusion of the Windows desktop. - tg911 Logon Studio - Never expires - Ronbo ObjectDock - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo Picture and Sound Show - a 32-bit screen saver for Windows that enables you to create your own slide shows from pictures and sounds on your computer. - Floydoid WindowsBlinds - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo Website Creation CSS Tab Designer - a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required. - nosnhoj#3 Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. - nosnhoj#3 Jalbum - "This one is pretty cool for making photo layouts for your website." - Ronbo Netdrive - integrates your Website as a drive into your Windows Explorer, so you can easily copy and paste all sorts of files, straight to your website. Only supports Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. - Yourhighness Nvu - a complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver - saint satin stain Picture-Shark - a tool to add logo watermarks to your pictures in order to brand them or display copyright information. A stamp can be any GIF, JPEG or BMP image and it can be positioned anywhere on the image and previewed from the interface. You can also specify a transparency level, in order to blend the watermark with the image. Porta - allows you to create attractive image galleries from your digital photos in just a few easy steps. SiteGenWiz - Site Creation Program. - Ronbo WindowSizer - Sets a given window to an exact size in pixels. Useful for web developers who want to see what their site will look like at various resolutions. - nosnhoj#3 HTML & CSS Editors 1st Page 2000 - HTML Editor - Bizrus HTML- Kit - HTML Editor Notepad++ - a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. - nosnhoj#3 NoteTab Light - a Notepad replacement and handy HTML editor. Handle a heap of files with a simple tabbed interface. Search files, strip HTML tags and format text quickly. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work. - acklan NVU - WYSIWYG HTML Editor Selida - HTML/WYSIWYG Editor - tg911 Sothink HTML Editor - HTML Editor (Can only edit one page at a time) - Bizrus Topstyle Lite - CSS Editor File Transfer Programs BlazeFTP - FTP Client FileZilla Client & Server - FTP Client and Server FTP Surfer - FTP client - acklan Leech FTP - FTP client - acklan SmartFTP - FTP Client WinSCP - A secure FTP Program and Secure Copy Program for use with SSH Programming Languages & IDE/Editors Bloodshed Dev-C++ - An excellent C/C++ IDE BlueJ - developed at a University specifically for the purpose of teaching object orientation with Java. - jpshortstuff Eclipse - used for Enterprise Development, Embedded + Device Development, Rich Client Platform, Application Frameworks, and Language IDE - jpshortstuff phpEdit - PHP IDE (Newest version 2.6.0 is pay for. Previous versions are freeware) PSPad - a code editor that supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion... - phew Visual Studio Express Products - This includes Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, SQL Server, and Visual Web Dev. Telnet Clients Putty - Telnet and SSH Client Time & Weather Atomic TimeSync - synchronize your system clock with the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). - Herk ClocX - An analog clock application for Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. - tg911 DS Clock - a digital desktop clock that displays variable date and time information built from the format string - saint satin stain ForecastFox - (Firefox extension)This great little extension allows you to set it up so you can always view your local forecast in your Firefox Browser itself. The forecasts come straight from the Weather Channel's website. - tg911 Forecastfox Enhanced - (Firefox extension) Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension that adds 12 improved radar images and the ability to supply an URL for your own radar image. Neutron - simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. - turbines SysMetrix - Highly customizable, and skinnable clock. Can be customized to monitor the weather, your e-mail, cpu, memory usage and many other things, in addition to the time. - Ronbo Weather Pulse - A weather application Weather Watcher - personal Windows desktop weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide - 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista - saint satin stain WebTime2000 - WebTime 2000 is a small utility program that will synchronize your PC's internal clock with one of the several atomic clocks maintained by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. 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SPAM Magnet Group: Site Admin Posts: 14,428 Joined: 6-May 04 From: SW Louisiana Member No.: 363	Please, feel free to suggest any additions to this list, that you might have. All we ask, is that you abide by these 3 conditions: 1. It must be Freeware (free programs). 2. It must not contain any Spyware/Malware. 3. It must be a program, that you have, or are still using. Registry cleaners are not included in this list due to the fact that, in the hands of inexperienced users, they could cause irreparable damage to the Operating System, and render their computer inoperable. So to be on the safe side, they aren't included in the list. If you feel you have the need for a registry cleaner, inquire in the forums, and someone will direct you to one. Please do not recommend any registry cleaners for inclusion into this list. Any registry cleaning programs that are posted as suggestions, will be removed from this topic, without any explanation!! So, if you have a program that's not on the list, that you use and like, please suggest it. Who knows, it might be "just the program" someone was looking for. All suggestions, will be considered for addition to the list. If you find any links that don't work, or that don't lead to where they are supposed to, please post them as a reply to this topic, or send me a PM. This post has been edited by tg1911: Jul 25 2007, 01:23 AM -------------------- I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy, for the rest of your life.

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