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OK the Old one got wacked, so this is a recreation, and its categorized (more or less)
I'll continus to copy ones from the open thread and place them here
Freeware Sites or Databases and Search Engines
Freeware World Team Internal Search Engine with descriptions and links to homepage
Sourceforge
Freshmeat
Analog X all matter of useful utilities
Sysinternals Freeware all sort of useful utilities and some very advanced ones not exactly suited to the end user
Recommended Freeware @ Radified.com
Major Geeks all sorts of Freeware
OS[/B]
Red Hat 8, Mandrake 9, and Lycoris DLX are all great "beginner" Linux distros and can be downloaded at [url=http://www.linuxiso.org/]LinuxISO. Xandros
Browsers
Firefox & Mozilla
Crazy Browser
AvantBrowser
Opera (Ad version)
Neoplanet
Email Clients
Mozilla (with use of the browser not as a standalone)
Eudora (Adware version is free)
Pine
Outlook > Thunderbird standalone mozilla mail client
Email Spam Filters
Cloudmark Spamnet > SpamBayes Integrates with Outlook and uses a Bayesian filtering technique. It "learns" to recognize spam, based on spam messages you designate for it. Highly effective, it blocks the vast majority of spam I receive.
MailWasher Safely view contents of email before downloading it.
Instant Message Clients
AIM > GAIM
Miranda
Office Aps
Microsoft Office > Open Office
Microsoft Word > abiword
Ximian Evolution (Linux)
Office XP > PC suite
Total Commander File Manager
Final draft > Rough Draft (Screenplay Writing)
Visio > NetworkNotepad
Graphics Image Manipulation Image Management
Extensis >Irfanview
Acdsee > 32VerSee
xnviewImage Viewer / Browser
Graphics Image Editor
Photoshop > GIMP
Graphics Video
Cool Edit Pro = Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Camtasia > CamStudio Record AVIs of what you do on your computer
Graphics Animation
3D Studio =
POV-Ray (rendering/scene description): http://www.povray.org/
Wings 3D
Terragen (free for personal, non-commercial use)
Blender (free open source GPL)
Art Of Illusion (open source, Java-based modeler and renderer
Milkshape 3D
Anim8tor
Animoids
gmaxfree short version of 3dsmax for Game Character development
also check for freeware through > Search for 3D Tools
Security Anti-Virus
Norton or McAfee Antivirus = AVG
Avast
AntiVir Personal Edition
Security Spyware Removal[/url]
CWShredder
Spybot Search and Destroy
AdAware
HijackThis
Security Filters
Proxomitron & Guide if you have trouble with .info addresses. (I think I heard some ISPs did or something.)
Popupstopper
Firewalls[/url]
Kerio
Zone Alarm
Agnitum Outpost
Sygate
Networking
VPN\SSL
SecureCRT > Putty / SSH Secure Shell SSH Secure Shell has both a SSH client and a SFTP client
PC Anywhere > VNC
SecureCRT > [url-http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html]Various Freeware SSH clients[/url]
FTP Clients
CuteFTP > FileZilla
WinSCP
LeechFTP
SmartFTP
NCFTP
WarFTP
WSFTP LE
methodus
FTP ExplorerFTP Manager
FTP Servers
Serv-U FTP Server > GuildFTPd
IIS FTP > CesarFTP 0.00g supports virtual directories, and user defined passive port ranges (allows FTP serving on ports other than 21 through a linksys/netgear/etc. style router). you WILL run into probs trying to do that on IIS
FileZilla
Server Oriented
Windows Advanced Server > Apache Web Server
Macromedia Generator > JGenerator
JGenerator is a web server production application that can dynamically combine text, graphics, and sound to build rich Flash content. JGenerator supports most of the Macromedia Generator features, uses the same data format, the same set of commands and emulates its behavior
Mail Server > MailEnable Free for Personal Use
Players
Media Player > Media Player Classic / Alternative
bsplayer
foobar 2000
MV2Playerallows you to STRETCH videos, not zoom or enlarge, but stretch
CD Utilities
CD Identifier
DVD
PowerDVD, WinDVD > MaximusDVD
CD Burning Software
Nero > Burnatonce
XPBurnerPro Download
CDR Tools Front End
Encoding \ Compression Music
Fraunhofer mp3 codec = LAME: http://home.pi.be/~mk442837
CDex
OGG
MonkeyAudio - aka APE. A lossless audio compression
ExactAudioCopy (EAC) & Guide for secure mode
raZor lame
Encoding \ Compression Video
DIVX Pro = XVID: http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
HuffYUV - lossless video compression
VirtualDub
TMPGenc
Compression
Winzip > Ultimate Zip
7zip
Utilities
Notepad > Metapad
TClockEX makes the windows clock a lot more useful
StrokeIt advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor
eDexter
you know how when you add something to the hosts file, it shows the ad as an annoying little text thing? this fixes that, makes it a blank.
MaxMemI frees up ram, plus shows you current usage
Shareware Tweak Program > Xteq X-Setup
Control Panel Webshots, wallpaper/screen saver
IconRestore retain your Desktop Icon positions even after switching resolutions
Utilities Hard Disk
Partition Magic > Ranish Partition Manager
PDF
Acrobat > FreePDF
How to Create a PDF File Guide with freeware scripts (Ghost script & Ghost gum)
PDF995
PDFCreator available in different languages
Games \ Simulators
MS Flight Simulator > FlightGear
Counter-Strike > America's Army
Racing Games > Racer
Space flight > Orbiter
Return To Castle Wolfenstein > Enemy Territory
Programming
Visual basic (lite) > Python
Visual C++ > Dev-C++
jbuilder for JAVA dev > http://www.eng.auburn.edu/grasp/ will also do C++ dev
eclipse
Integrated Development Environment for Win32
1st page 2000 from evrsoft free html/javascript/perl editor for windows > FTP Download
Windows C/C++ compiler > MinGW
Check
Minitab > Openstat
Graphing = Prestoplot
Matlab > Octave
NoteLab
Remote Selector > Girder
lcdc > LCDCSmartie
nero > http://w1.878.telia.com/~u87812405/
winrar > http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download/0,fid,6383,fileidx,1,00.asp
Mirc - Various http://www.webattack.com/freeware/downloader/fwdown.shtml
Homesite 4.5 - AM-CodeSearch
Microangelo - @icon sushi[/ur], [url=http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?go=10016]Avalon Icon Library Viewer, IconEdit32
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/darktips/story/0,24330,3569694,00.html
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php
I'll continus to copy ones from the open thread and place them here
Freeware Sites or Databases and Search Engines
Freeware World Team Internal Search Engine with descriptions and links to homepage
Sourceforge
Freshmeat
Analog X all matter of useful utilities
Sysinternals Freeware all sort of useful utilities and some very advanced ones not exactly suited to the end user
Recommended Freeware @ Radified.com
Major Geeks all sorts of Freeware
OS[/B]
Red Hat 8, Mandrake 9, and Lycoris DLX are all great "beginner" Linux distros and can be downloaded at [url=http://www.linuxiso.org/]LinuxISO. Xandros
Browsers
Firefox & Mozilla
Crazy Browser
AvantBrowser
Opera (Ad version)
Neoplanet
Email Clients
Mozilla (with use of the browser not as a standalone)
Eudora (Adware version is free)
Pine
Outlook > Thunderbird standalone mozilla mail client
Email Spam Filters
Cloudmark Spamnet > SpamBayes Integrates with Outlook and uses a Bayesian filtering technique. It "learns" to recognize spam, based on spam messages you designate for it. Highly effective, it blocks the vast majority of spam I receive.
MailWasher Safely view contents of email before downloading it.
Instant Message Clients
AIM > GAIM
Miranda
Office Aps
Microsoft Office > Open Office
Microsoft Word > abiword
Ximian Evolution (Linux)
Office XP > PC suite
Total Commander File Manager
Final draft > Rough Draft (Screenplay Writing)
Visio > NetworkNotepad
Graphics Image Manipulation Image Management
Extensis >Irfanview
Acdsee > 32VerSee
xnviewImage Viewer / Browser
Graphics Image Editor
Photoshop > GIMP
Graphics Video
Cool Edit Pro = Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Camtasia > CamStudio Record AVIs of what you do on your computer
Graphics Animation
3D Studio =
POV-Ray (rendering/scene description): http://www.povray.org/
Wings 3D
Terragen (free for personal, non-commercial use)
Blender (free open source GPL)
Art Of Illusion (open source, Java-based modeler and renderer
Milkshape 3D
Anim8tor
Animoids
gmaxfree short version of 3dsmax for Game Character development
also check for freeware through > Search for 3D Tools
Security Anti-Virus
Norton or McAfee Antivirus = AVG
Avast
AntiVir Personal Edition
Security Spyware Removal[/url]
CWShredder
Spybot Search and Destroy
AdAware
HijackThis
Security Filters
Proxomitron & Guide if you have trouble with .info addresses. (I think I heard some ISPs did or something.)
Popupstopper
Firewalls[/url]
Kerio
Zone Alarm
Agnitum Outpost
Sygate
Networking
VPN\SSL
SecureCRT > Putty / SSH Secure Shell SSH Secure Shell has both a SSH client and a SFTP client
PC Anywhere > VNC
SecureCRT > [url-http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html]Various Freeware SSH clients[/url]
FTP Clients
CuteFTP > FileZilla
WinSCP
LeechFTP
SmartFTP
NCFTP
WarFTP
WSFTP LE
methodus
FTP ExplorerFTP Manager
FTP Servers
Serv-U FTP Server > GuildFTPd
IIS FTP > CesarFTP 0.00g supports virtual directories, and user defined passive port ranges (allows FTP serving on ports other than 21 through a linksys/netgear/etc. style router). you WILL run into probs trying to do that on IIS
FileZilla
Server Oriented
Windows Advanced Server > Apache Web Server
Macromedia Generator > JGenerator
JGenerator is a web server production application that can dynamically combine text, graphics, and sound to build rich Flash content. JGenerator supports most of the Macromedia Generator features, uses the same data format, the same set of commands and emulates its behavior
Mail Server > MailEnable Free for Personal Use
Players
Media Player > Media Player Classic / Alternative
bsplayer
foobar 2000
MV2Playerallows you to STRETCH videos, not zoom or enlarge, but stretch
CD Utilities
CD Identifier
DVD
PowerDVD, WinDVD > MaximusDVD
CD Burning Software
Nero > Burnatonce
XPBurnerPro Download
CDR Tools Front End
Encoding \ Compression Music
Fraunhofer mp3 codec = LAME: http://home.pi.be/~mk442837
CDex
OGG
MonkeyAudio - aka APE. A lossless audio compression
ExactAudioCopy (EAC) & Guide for secure mode
raZor lame
Encoding \ Compression Video
DIVX Pro = XVID: http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
HuffYUV - lossless video compression
VirtualDub
TMPGenc
Compression
Winzip > Ultimate Zip
7zip
Utilities
Notepad > Metapad
TClockEX makes the windows clock a lot more useful
StrokeIt advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor
eDexter
you know how when you add something to the hosts file, it shows the ad as an annoying little text thing? this fixes that, makes it a blank.
MaxMemI frees up ram, plus shows you current usage
Shareware Tweak Program > Xteq X-Setup
Control Panel Webshots, wallpaper/screen saver
IconRestore retain your Desktop Icon positions even after switching resolutions
Utilities Hard Disk
Partition Magic > Ranish Partition Manager
Acrobat > FreePDF
How to Create a PDF File Guide with freeware scripts (Ghost script & Ghost gum)
PDF995
PDFCreator available in different languages
Games \ Simulators
MS Flight Simulator > FlightGear
Counter-Strike > America's Army
Racing Games > Racer
Space flight > Orbiter
Return To Castle Wolfenstein > Enemy Territory
Programming
Visual basic (lite) > Python
Visual C++ > Dev-C++
jbuilder for JAVA dev > http://www.eng.auburn.edu/grasp/ will also do C++ dev
eclipse
Integrated Development Environment for Win32
1st page 2000 from evrsoft free html/javascript/perl editor for windows > FTP Download
Windows C/C++ compiler > MinGW
Check
Minitab > Openstat
Graphing = Prestoplot
Matlab > Octave
NoteLab
Remote Selector > Girder
lcdc > LCDCSmartie
nero > http://w1.878.telia.com/~u87812405/
winrar > http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download/0,fid,6383,fileidx,1,00.asp
Mirc - Various http://www.webattack.com/freeware/downloader/fwdown.shtml
Homesite 4.5 - AM-CodeSearch
Microangelo - @icon sushi[/ur], [url=http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?go=10016]Avalon Icon Library Viewer, IconEdit32
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/darktips/story/0,24330,3569694,00.html
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php