thunderstruck said:

Thought it might be a good idea if we had a thread where any useful freeware apps we came across on the web could be listed. I'll start: AVG Anti-Virus: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 Ad-Aware Spyware Detector: www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ IrfanView Image Viewer: www.irfanview.com PHP Designer (IDE): www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php HTML Validator: www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/ Firefox Internet Browser: www.firefox.com/ >> Edited by thunderstruck on Monday 10th October 17:14

I've alsays run avg at home, always uptodate. Was given a full copy of mcafee which found some things avg had missed.... Won't be using that again.

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davidd said:

I've alsays run avg at home, always uptodate. Was given a full copy of mcafee which found some things avg had missed.... Won't be using that again.

Ah! But I've seen machines with McAfee on that I've had to use AVG to clean up... touche'!

Edit: Ethereal Useful for locating virus-ridden machines on a network, sniffing pop3 passwords for people who've forgotten them, all kinds of stuff.

>> Edited by aldi on Monday 10th October 18:14

dBpowerAMP

Good CD ripping/audio conversion tool.

Here are a few that I use, that haven't already been covered:


FreeAV - freeware antivirus
www.free-av.com

Avast home edition - freeware antivirus
www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Kerio Personal Firewall - excellent software firewall
www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

nVU - Dreamweaver-alike HTML editor
www.nvu.com/

CDburnerXP Pro - Nero-alike CD/DVD burner
www.cdburnerxp.se/

ABC - bittorrent client
http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/

3d Traceroute - handy and flexible ping/tracert tool
www.d3tr.de/

NetStumbler - WLAN hotspot detector
www.netstumbler.com/downloads/

Audacity - SoundForge-alike audio editor
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

XP antispy - privacy tool for WinXP
www.xp-antispy.org/

MetaPad - useful notepad replacement
www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

MP3Tag - Great MP3 tagging and renaming package
www.mp3tag.de/en/

Winamp - great MP3 player
www.winamp.com

I also use many apps already mentioned - OpenOffice, GIMP, Spybot, FileZilla, and Firefox. All great! Also, don't forget Thunderbird, the companion email client to Firefox, and that the "other" alternative browser, Opera, is now offered free of charge, including the ad-free version.

www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
www.opera.com

Finally, a great site with lots of neat utilities you might want to check out is www.analogx.com. I've had lots of neat stuff from there

[k]

edited to add: this thread should be stickied!

>> Edited by [k]ar| on Monday 10th October 23:39

This is a good place for Linux ISOs and whatnot.

This is where you go when you bugger up your master boot record then realise you don't know the XP Recovery Console administrator password...

grc.com has some useful stuff, not all of it free.

They do however offer a very good free firewall test called Shields-Ups.

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nVU - Dreamweaver-alike HTML editor
<a href="www.nvu.com/">www.nvu.com/</a>
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Thanks for that - really good and am using it already!

Keep them coming! Here's another one I found recently:

GB-PVR - neat-looking personal video recorder/media centre app for those with Hauppage TV tuner cards.
www.gbpvr.com

Does anyone know of a good freeware cd/dvd cloning utility for making backup discs? I prefer to use copy discs in the car so that when they get scratched, I can just burn another.

Thanks!

[k]

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