Useful Freeware Apps
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Useful Free PC Software
Please Keep The Information in Alphabetical Order.
Anti-Virus
- Avast Anti-Virus
- AVG Anti-Virus Anti-Virus
- Clam Antivirus Multiple platform AV ( Windows version)
- Comodo - Free Security Apps Free AntiVirus, Firewall and others.
- Free AV Anti-Virus
Audio/Video
- amaroK Music Player and advanced collection organiser with song tagging features
- Ardour Digital audio workstation, record, edit and mix multi-track audio
- Audacity Audio Editor
- AVS Player Media player that includes free DVD codecs
- Azureus BitTorrent
- Burn Aware Excellent Free CD Burner (Windows)
- CDburnerXP Pro CD Burner
- CDex MP3 Ripper
- dBpowerAMP Cd Ripper & Audio Converter
- DVD Shrink
- DVD43 DVD Region Decoder
- Foobar2000 Music Player and advanced collection organiser
- GB-PVR Personal Video Recorder
- Klite Codec Pack
- Media Player Classic
- MP3TagStudio MP3 Editing Tool
- MP3Tag MP3 Tagger and Renamer
- Ripitforme DVD Ripper and Shrinker
- Songbird Opensource musicplayer from Mozilla for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
- SUPER Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer: Decode and re-code any format a/v
- Videolan Video Player (also known as VLC Player)
- VirtualDub Movie Editing
- Winamp Music Player
- XBMC Media Center which supports a vast library of audio, video and image formats.
- YouCOntrol iTunes iTunes Menu Bar Controller
Documenting
- Crimson Editor Freeware Text Editor
- Compatibility pack for Office 2007 files on Office 2003 & XPOffice add-on to be able to read Office 2007 files on older versions of Office.
- Doxygen Create software documentation from source code (supports JavaDoc format, QT, and many more)
- Foxit Reader PDF Reader
- IBM Lotus Symphony Office suite
- MetaPad Notepad Alternative
- Notepad++ Ditto
- Open Office Alternative to MS Office
- OpenWorkbench Alternative to MS Project
- PDFSU Adobe Acrobat plugin culler
- PrimoPDF PDF Generator
- TextPad Text Editor (I don't think this is freeware- shareware maybe?)
- WinMerge Document Comparison and Merging Tool
File Transfer
- ABC BitTorrent Client
- AceFTP FTP
- FileZilla FTP Program
- PuTTY Telnet/SSH Client
- uTorrent BitTorrent Client
- WinSCP SFTP/SCP Client
Imaging & DeskTopPublishing
- FastStoneImage viewer/converter/resizer/editor
- GeoHTML Image Map Maker
- GIMP Image Editor similar to Photoshop
- Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor, reads & writes PDF
- IrfanView Image Viewer
- NeatImage Digital Image Noise Reducer
- Paint.net
- Picasa
- Scribus DTP Software that helps creating PDF and printed matters
- VSO Image Resizer Resize on right click
Instant Messaging
Internet Browsers, E-mail & Accessories
- Camino Internet Browser for Mac OS X
- IESpell Spellcheck addond for IE
- Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser
- Mozilla Thunderbird E-mail client
- Mozilla Lightning Calendar add-on for Thunderbird
- Opera Internet Browser
- Spellbound Spell Checker for Firefox
- Xobni Outlook add-on that's indispensable once you've used it for a week.
- Xmarks Bookmark backup and synchroniser
Networking
- 3d Traceroute
- Kismet High-End wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system
- LogMeIn Remote Computer Access
- NetStumbler WLAN Hotspot Detector
- Nmap Network Scanner
- Privoxy Web Filtering Proxy
- Proxomitron - Web-filtering proxy
- UltraVNC Feature-packed version of below
- VNC Remote Computer Access
- Wireless Key View View the wireless keys on a PC
Programming
- Java
- Python
- Ruby
- Erlang
- .NET 2.0 SDK Microsoft .NET 2.0 SDK for Use with above
- Dev-C++ Windows Development Environment
- Doxygen Create software documentation from source code (supports JavaDoc format, QT, and many more)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Express C++ and VB
- SharpDevelop Very Good C# Development Tool
Security
- Axcrypt File encryption & secure deletion.
- Ethereal Network virus scanner, pop3 password cracker and all that good stuff
- Keepass Password Storage Program
- Kerio Firewall
- Sygate Firewall
- Truecrypt Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux
- XP Antispy
- ZoneAlarm Firewall
Spyware
- Ad-aware Spyware Detector
- Hijack This & CWShredder Tools for removal of spyware
- Hitman Pro Anti-Spyware
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Good anti-spyware that finds things that many others don't.
- Spybot Anti-spyware
- Spyware Blaster
- Windows Defender
Web Design
- HTML Validator
- Microsoft Visual Studio Express C++ and VB
- nVU Dreamweaver style HTML editor
- PHP Designer (IDE)
- PSPad HTML and other languages code editor
Virtualisation Software
- VMware Server - Free with paid for support options (Runs on Windows and Linux Platforms)
- VMware ESXi - Free with paid for support options (Runs on hardware, so hardware compatibility first)
- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 RC2
Operating Systems
Miscellaneous
- AutoInsult Automatic Insult Generator
- CCleaner Cache Cleaner
- Cobian Backup Backup Program
- Copernic PC Indexer and Searcher
- File Unlocker Unlock those annoying locked files and folders in Windows so you can delete, move or rename them.
- Internet Speed Test
- Internet Speed Test with local servers worldwide
- Mass File Renamer This is a utility i (Shocker-z) created for renaming files within a directory, it allows you to replace one word with another in all file names.
- MSIA MS Software Network Auditor
- ObjectDock Program Dock
- PartWord Quickly get selected characters from a password
- PC Wizard PC Benchmark Program
- SimpleActivityLogger Log various system events to help track your computer's usage
- SpamBayes Spam Filter
- Sysinternals Suite Sysinternals Suite
- Task Switch XP Alt-Tab Replacement
- WinRAR Multi-format archiving utility
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