the point of this thread is to provide free software that will help the community,
im a big believer in things for free

if
you find any of these apps that are very good or just ok please comment
as i would like to rate them based on your findings,thanks

,Ok ★

,Fair★★

,Good ★★★

,Excellent ★★★★

,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★


criteria
it needs to be windows apps and free of adware and malware full versions only as in not limited trial versions for 30 days ect, and no registry cleaners

linux users go here ,thanks badog

a freeware site found by Black_Bilbo nice find mate

this site found by solerida nice find m8

another great site for freeware Bleeping computers



Open Source Living is a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS) spanning all major platforms, inclusive of small to large scale projects. It aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to corporate, closed source software. thanks swollen-nose




Antivirus Applications


avira,,Excellent ★★★★
read this

Avast Free,,Excellent ★★★★


AVG Free - at the bottom of the page.
,,i think AVG stands for Aint Very Good

Bitdefender Free
BitDefender Free Edition is your chance to use one of the world's most effective antivirus engines for free!
BitDefender
Free Edition uses the same ICSA Labs certified scanning engines found
in other BitDefender products, allowing you to enjoy basic virus
protection for no cost at all.

Comodo
Download
our free Firewall and AntiVirus to take the first step in protecting
your PC from malware, viruses, worms, and more. * Install the AntiVirus
as a standalone * Install the Firewall as a standalone* Install both
Firewall and AntiVirus
,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★


ThreatFire is
the perfect complement to your existing antivirus, and will protect you
between antivirus updates. It is fully compatible with most traditional
antivirus programs, and can run side-by-side with these programs
without conflict.[except avg] While the traditional programs will
protect only against known threats included in their signatures,
ThreatFire goes beyond and protects against new or unknown zero-day
threats as well.,
,Excellent ★★★★



Rising Antivirus Free
Edition 2009 protects your computers against all types of viruses,
Trojans, worms, rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use and
Smartupdate technology make it an "install and forget" product and
entitles you to focus on your own jobs with your computer.


Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft
Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that
guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
,
,Excellent ★★★★
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ThreatExpert Memory Scanner

ThreatExpert Memory Scanner
TEMS
provides a "post-mortem" diagnostic to detect a range of high-profile
threats that may be active in different regions of a computer’s memory.
This tool is designed to assist in answering a common question asked by
many customers whose systems have been infected by a threat: "Is my
system still infected?"



Rkill – Repair Tool of the Week
Rkill
Rkill is a small, freeware and portable tool designed to terminate active malware processes allowing you to use other removal tools. Rkill is made by a Microsoft MVP “Lawrence Abrams” and is available in 4 different extensions. An .EXE, .COM, .SCR and a .PIF file.
The reason why Rkill comes in 4 different versions is because some malware will block .EXE files in an attempt to prevent you from running other malware removal tools, so this gets around that problem.
this is not a malware removal tool, but a malware process killing tool.

guide on how to use

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anti malware apps for usb devices

Ninja Pendisk awaits
quietly in the system tray for the times whenever a USB pendisk is
inserted on the computer which will be examined to uncover the commonly
malicious or virulent files known as "autorun.inf" and "ctfmon.exe"
amongst many others.
To keep everything simple, Ninja Pendisk is self-contained, fully portable, and will require no installation.
Besides
removing known virulent files, Ninja Pendisk will also immunize your
pendisk and create a folder called autorun.inf with special protection
permissions to protect your pendisk from being infected again when
plugged on contaminated computers.

Flash Disinfector
is free autorun.inf trojans and USB/Flash disks trojans remover. This
is a program designed and developed by sUBs (author of combofix) to
clean autorun.inf trojans that are running on the system.
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Free Online Virus/Trojan/Spyware Scanners



Anubis
Anubis
is a service for analyzing malware. Alternatively, submit a suspicious
URL and receive a report that shows you all the activities of the
Internet Explorer process when visiting this URL.

BitDefender - virus scanner

ESET Online Scanner is a user friendly, free and powerful tool

eTrust - Virus scanner

F-Secure - virus scanner

HouseCall - virus scanner

Jotti's scan - submit files to be scanned by multiple 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

Virustotal - submit suspicious files to be scanned by multiple Antivirus/Spyware scanners
SUPERAntiSpyware Online Scan.
The scanner will detect AND remove over 1,000,000 spyware/malware
infections. The scanner does NOT install anything on your Start Menu or
Program Files and does NOT need to be uninstalled.solerida


WindowSecurity - trojan scanner

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Spyware/Malware Removal

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.",,Good ★★★

Ad-Aware Real-time protection against spyware, trojans,rootkits, hijackers, keyloggers, and more!,Ok ★

comodo
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,

Combofix is
a freeware (a legitimate spyware remover created by sUBs), Combofix was
designed to scan a computer for known malware, spyware (SurfSideKick,
QooLogic, and Look2Me as well as any other combination of the mentioned
spyware applications) and remove them.
ComboFix allows the manual
removal of spyware infections . It 's a specialized effective cleaning
tool, which is useful compared to other malware and spyware removers.
After Combofix finished,a report will be created. You can use
guide for using combo fix


CWShredder
removes these browser hijackers. CoolWebSearch installs dozens of
bookmarks–mostly to porn Web sites–on your desktop, changes your home
page without asking, and continually changes it back if you attempt to
correct it. Furthermore, it significantly slows down the performance of
your PC, and introduces modifications which cause Microsoft Windows™ to
freeze, crash or randomly reboot.,,Good ★★★

CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller
CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller (v1 and v2) is a new, real ugly variant of CoolWWWSearch. When running, it will close every browser window you use to visit a large list of anti-spyware-sites, and even will close Spybot-S&D and some other anti-spyware applications as well.
So if your copy of Spybot-S&D (or the anti-spyware application of your choice) closes a few seconds after starting, or your browser closes whenever you try to visit an anti-spyware site, try this CWS.SmartKiller removal utility.



FREE Dr.Web CureIt!® Utility
Easy
to use FREE curing utility to clean your computer infected with viruses
and various unwanted codes by the Dr.Web Anti-virus updated once or
several times an hour.

GMER
GMER is an application that detects and removes rootkits .

IObit Security 360
IObit
Security 360 is an advanced malware & spyware removal utility that
detects, removes the deepest infections, and protects your PC from
various of potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, bots, worms,
and hijackers. With the unique "Dual-Core" engine and the heuristic
malware detection, IObit Security 360 detects the most complex and
deepest spyware and malware in a very fast and efficient way. IObit
Security 360 has a real-time malware protection and frequent updating
for prevention of zero-day security threats. Designed for Windows® 7,
Vista™, XP and 2000 (32bit and 64bit), IObit Security 360 can work with
your Antivirus for a superior PC security.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a surprisingly effective freeware antimalware tool.",,Excellent ★★★★

RemoveIT Pro program
is specific because he detects malicious files and viruses that many
other popular programs does not detect. It also offers you full report
of active processes with full paths and full windows startup list of
files that starts on windows startup.
with vista run as administrator,,Ok ★

Spybot - Search & Destroy Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software.,,Good ★★★

Spywareblaster - prevents spyware from being installed on your PC.
,,Good ★★★

Spyware Terminator
- Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page
hijackers and other malware threats. Real-Time Protection is included
in the basic version. -,Ok ★

SuperAntiSpyware - free edition bottom right,,Good ★★★


VundoFix.exe
VundoFix.exe is a removal tool developed to remove Virtumonde infections.
If
you are infected, you will be bombarded with popups for WinFixer,
Amaena, WinAntiVirus, ErrorSafe, SystemDoctor and DriveCleaner.
Downloading
and running these Fraudware applications will result in a fake scan
telling you that you are infected with malware then telling you that
you need to buy their program to remove the malware that it found. DO
NOT BUY THESE PROGRAMS. They are scams and will not remove anything but
could possibly make your infection worse. ,,Good ★★★

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.

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Specific Virus Removal Tools - if you know what Virus you have, try here.

AVG

BitDefender

McAfee

Panda?
Symantec

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Firewalls

PC Tools Firewall Plus is
a powerful free personal firewall for Windows® that protects your
computer by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your
computer through the Internet or a network.,,Excellent ★★★★

Comodo Firewall -,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★



Jetico Personal Firewall

Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (last freeware version)
OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Kerio
Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for
protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks.
It is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute
firewall. The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a
special low-level driver loaded into the system kernel

Outpost Firewall Free

Online Armor Free
Online
Armor's broad range of features help keep you safe when suring the
internet. Not all features are available in Online Armor Free. For a
list of which features are not included


sunbelt firewall

R-Firewall
R-Firewall
is an effective and easy-to-use solution to secure your on-line
activity. It protects a computer connected to a local network and/or to
the Internet against any intrusions, attacks, trojans, spyware, and
other external and internal threats. R-Firewall also filters out
inappropriate Internet pages content and blocks dangerous active
components you may get while browsing over the Internet or receiving
e-mail massages



Sygate Free,,Good ★★★

Windows 7 Firewall Control Free (32-bit version)
Want
fine-grained control over the firewall built into Windows 7 and Windows
Vista--especially the way it blocks outbound connections? Good luck.
Even if you manage to unearth the controls buried deep in Windows menus
and applications, you'll be baffled. Windows 7 Firewall Control Free
solves the problem for you.


Windows 7 Firewall Control Free (64-bit version)
Windows
7 Firewall Control Free lets you tell the Windows firewall to block
applications from making outbound connections to the Internet, or to
customize the way they make those connections. Outbound filters like
this are important, because if you've been infected with a Trojan or
similar software, that malware makes an outbound connection without
your knowledge, letting someone else take control of your PC. Some
malware can also turn your PC into a spam-spewing robot, sending out
email without your knowledge.


zone alarm firewall,
,Good ★★★
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LIVE CD'S

Avira AntiVir Rescue System
Avira
AntiVir Rescue System is a Linux-based application that allows
accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible
to:repair a damaged system,, rescue data,scan the system for virus
infections.
Just double-click on the rescue system package to burn it to a CD/DVD. You can then use this CD/DVD to boot your computer.

F-Secure Rescue CD
Rescue CD scans the computer and renames all files containing malware to .virus file extension.
Rescue
CD will by default scan: all hard drives in the computer: all USB
drives attached to the computer:Windows FAT and NTFS drives : Virus
definition databases are updated automatically if the computer has an
internet connection

Dr.Web LiveCD!
If
your Windows or Linux system has been rendered non-bootable by malware,
restore it for FREE with Dr.Web LiveCD..Dr.Web LiveCD will clean your
computer of infected and suspicious files, help you copy important
information to a removable data storage device or another computer, and
then attempt to cure infected objects.

Hiren's BootCD
Hiren's
BootCD is a live CD containing various diagnostic programs such as
partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and
imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many
others for fixing various computer problems.[2] As it is a bootable CD,
it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted.
Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with
similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem
redundant; however, they present choices through different UIs and
options in what they can do.

Parted Magic
* Format internal and external hard drives.
* Move, copy, create, delete, expand & shrink hard drive partitions.
* Clone your hard drive, to create a full backup.
* Test hard drives for impending failure.
* Test memory for bad sectors.
* Benchmark your computer for a performace rating.
* Securely erase your entire hard drive, wiping it clean from all data.
* Gives access to non-booting systems allowing you to rescue important data.
* Runs from the CD, no install required.
Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.
Parted Magic requires at least a i586 processor and 256MB of RAM to operate or 128MB in "Live" mode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWYI2p4DhUM...layer_embedded#


UBCD4Win
UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. Some of the tools inlcuded are "free for personal use" copies so users need to respect these licenses. A few of the tools included in UBCD4Win are paid for and licensed software owned by UBCD4win


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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

Core Control - a full featured advanced security program, designed for Windows 95, 98, and ME Operating Systems

DBAN
Darik's
Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely
wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and
completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect,
which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data
destruction.


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.[4th one down]

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.

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.

heidi Eraser is
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. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME,
NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.


Parental Control Bar
Parental Control Bar is a simple, powerful tool to help shield your children from explicit websites. Simply activate Child-Mode while your children surf the internet, and the toolbar will block access to adult-oriented websites.


HijackThis™is
a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file
settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no separation between
safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to
selectively remove items from your machine.>>Badog


Hotspot Shield.
* Access all of your favorite content privately
* Secure your web session with HTTPS encryption
* Hide your IP address for your privacy online
* Protect yourself from snoopers at Wi-Fi hotspots, hotels, airports, corporate offices and ISP hubs.
* Secure your data & personal information online,,Good ★★★

proXPN
# Secures your internet with 2048-bit military-grade VPN encryption, for free
# Works with all connections from DSL and cable to 3G
# Gives you 100% private access to the internet
# Never worry about being spied on again

iSpy
iSpy
uses your webcams and microphones to detect and record movement or
sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting
services. Any media that is captured is compressed to flash video and
available over the web or via the built in web server. iSpy can run on
multiple computers simultaneously and you can use the built-in
webserver or this website to view captured media, live webcam feeds and
control iSpy remotely. iSpy is free, open-source software, so if you
want it to do anything else, please download the source code and
customise it to your requirements.
more info on how to set it up here

ItsHidden.
ItsHidden.com
is the ultimate FREE surfing privacy service on the Internet with huge
capacity and no complicated software to install, you already have
everything you need on your computer right now! * ItsHidden.com is fast
and reliable with over 5 Gigabits of Dedicated Bandwidth
Instant
access,Total Privacy, no records of your surfing are kept by us,No
Software is needed.128 Bit Secure Connection to ensure privacy over all
networks,,Good ★★★





Rohos Mini Drive creates
hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work
with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special
program. Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive
and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB
stick without the hidden volume that is created using this tool.


KL-Detector- detect keylogging activity on your computer!

TimeSnapper is
an Automatic Screenshot Journal. It runs in the background of your
computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week
long.


Prey
Prey is a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.
Prey helps you locate your missing laptop by sending timed reports with a bunch of information of its whereabouts. This includes the general status of the computer, a list of running programs and active connections, fully-detailed network and wifi information, a screenshot of the running desktop and — in case your laptop has an integrated webcam — a picture of the thief...Tara09
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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
Phenomenally
easy to use, Cryptainer LE's encryption works with all 32 bit versions
of Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista) and with all
known file types. Cryptainer allows you to password protect and secure
any file or folder on any media, including removable drives (Flash
Drives, CD ROM's etc.)

FreeOTFE
FreeOTFE: A free "on-the-fly" transparent disk encryption program for MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 PCs (both 32 and 64 bit), and Windows Mobile 2003/2005 and Windows Mobile 6 and later PDAs
Using this software, you can create one or more "virtual disks" on your computer - anything written to these disks is automatically, and securely, encrypted before being stored on your computers hard drive.



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 - # Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed


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Hard Drive & System Utilites

Auslogics Disk Defrag - designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks.

Clonezilla
You're
probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package
Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The
problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to
massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard
of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate
Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone
system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and
multicasting!



Defraggler
It
differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to
quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to
process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment
in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool! freekjason


BootSafe takes
the hassle out of rebooting in Safe Mode or back to Normal mode.
BootSafe is 100% free and contains no adware, spyware or malware! No
more fighting with the F8 key or MSCONFIG!


BleachBit
BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.Advanced system cleaner.
Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.
WARNING, this is only for advanced users. Pay careful attention to what boxes you are checking and their descriptions.



DAMN NFO Viewer
is an utility designed for viewing text files containing ASCII Art
(e.g. nfo files), and it proved itself to be handy.,,Good ★★★


Drive Manager - has been written to help you easily identify drives which are of the same type

S.M.A.R.T.
(Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is implemented
into almost all of the modern hard disks. A special program inside the
disk constantly keeps tracking the condition of a range of the vital
parameters: temperature, disk heads, surface state, electronics, etc.
At the present time, S.M.A.R.T. technology is able to predict up to 70%
of all hard disk problems! However, to use this information, you have
to retrieve it from the disk and analyze it. This is one of the
DriveSMART program's tasks.

DShutdown- a stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many specific options.

EasyBCD dual-booting
EasyBCD
is NeoSmart Technologies' multiple award-winning answer to tweaking the
new Windows Vista bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is
possible. Setting up and configuring Windows boot entries is simple,
and there is no easier way to quickly boot right into Linux, Mac OS X,
or BSD straight from the Windows Vista bootloader - on the fly, no
expert knowledge needed!


ERUNT - registry backup tool -

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

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.

HDTune -software for testing the HD in the PC. Gives good analysis of the drives sector issues.

JkDefrag - disk defragment and optimization utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64

MicroSoft's Memory Test - tests the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer for errors.
PC INSPECTOR - a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.

Process Explorer - shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded

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

Ranish Partition Manager - Partition resizer, create, manager similar to Partition Magic but free

Smart Defrag
Keep your hard disk running at peak performance.
Designed for Windows 7, Vista™, XP, 2000, and Windows Server Editions (32bit and 64bit),,OnTimeTechGuy

SpeeDefrag - a program, which restarts your computer and runs only defrag.exe with optimized windows settings

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

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.

Vision - Reports all open TCP and UDP ports and maps them to the owning process or application.

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.


HashTab -
Very handy if you do lots of file transfers and want to check to ensure
the file hasn't been corrupted. Adds a tab to the file properties
window with the files hash (or signature) information (such as md5 and
sha). freekyjason

ToolTipFixer - fixes the annoying bug where the tool tips sometimes come up underneath the taskbar instead of on top! (Win95 -> WinXP) freekyjason

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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.

CoolMon
CoolMon
is a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else
you wish to display on the desktop. It can also display stats from
remote pc's and publish real-time stats on a webpage. The application
can display CPU, RAM and page file usage, hard drive usage, MotherBoard
Monitor temperatures and fan speeds, various network stats and much,
much more.


CPU-Z - gathers information on some of the main devices of your system; CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and System

GPU-Z - Like CPU-Z but for Graphics cards. freekyjason


pc wizard Since
Since 1996 PC WIZARD is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. PC WIZARD is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results. . ,,Good ★★★

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

EVEREST Home
Edition is a freeware system information, system diagnostics and
benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning
EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate system
information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features,
memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware
information.


Free PC Audit
is a freeware system, hardware and software information tool. It
extracts details of all components of the PC, shows installed software
with version and product key. Free PC Audit does not require
installation and can be used as a portable application. It can be run
from a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM drive, USB flash
drive, flash card, or floppy disk.


SIW - This program performs computer configuration, analysis, and diagnostics.

SpeedFan - monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips

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

VSO-Inspector
is a free add-on to report various information about your hardware
configuration. Using this freeware, you can check the listed cd and dvd
readers and writers connected to your computer, check the firmware
used. The details about the media used and the speed supported by a
given writer with this media. Also you can scan a burnt media for read
errors and be confident about the readibility of your fresh backup.brundlfly


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

WinAudit -
a self-contained (no setup required) PC audit, and inventory of
software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings

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File Compression and Archiving

7-Zip - a file archiver with high compression ratio.

ExtractNow - will let you extract multiple archives with the ease of a single click.

FilZip - an
archiving utility (zip tool) that can open various archive types. It
offers Windows integration, drag and drop, encryption, multi-extract
and more.

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
,Good ★★★

Zipeg
Zipeg
allows you to open and explore content of zip, rar and other archives,
preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only
the files you want. Zip thru photo archives. See image thumbnails.
Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract. You can choose
what to extract and where to put extracted files or just drag and drop
them. Windows: XP and Vista, Mac OS X: Tiger and Leopard.


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File/Folder Utilities

3DMark03 Free Version
3DMark03
Free Version - a benchmarking program that includes a collection of 3D
tests, a set of CPU tests, feature tests, image quality tests, and
sound tests,ect

AllDup
AllDup is a free tool that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your PC.


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

DupDetector
Duplicate images often find their way into collections, even commercial stock collections. Now you can clean them of duplicates and near duplicates. Search a folder (including subfolders) for duplicate and near duplicate images. Match all images or restrict match to same size or same aspect ratio. Dup Detector creates a data file
by opening and reading image pixel data for each image in your collection. It then finds duplicates by % match and displays matching pairs from a log file. You may delete a duplicate at any time.
Supports 9 image file formats (jpg, bmp, png, tif, pcx, tga, wmf, emf, psp).
This freeware
version requires all images to be in one folder (or subfolders).
(MFC42.dll must exist on your system)



Duplicate cleaner
Duplicate cleaner is a useful program to help you organize the contents of your home hard drive or corporate network.
You'd be surprised just how many redundant or duplicate files you could find forgotten in an obscure documents folder. Duplicate Cleaner will deep scan for all types of files - photos, music, films/video, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, text files - you name it, if it appears twice on your computer then Duplicate Cleaner will find it. Once these files are found you are provided with helper tools to enable you to select which copies to delete or move.These files can be deleted to the recycle bin, moved into an archive elsewhere, or replaced with hardlinks.



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.

Gizmo Central
Gizmo
Central is a unified set of utilities designed for powers users.
Included with this free suite of tools are some essential features that
make your daily computational chores a little bit easier and a lot more
fun. Gizmo allows you to mount ISO, VHD, and BIN images to a virtual
CD-ROM device. You can create encrypted virtual hard drive images to
protect your important files from prying eyes. The hashing module gives
you the ability to calculate MD5 and SHA-1 values for any file on your
computer, or for an entire CD-ROM disc. The script module automates
your repetitive day-to-day tasks by simulating mouse movements and
keystrokes. Database tools are included too, as well as a handy launch
bar, synchronization tools, and an editor that supports hex editing and
syntax highlighting (PHP, PERL, JavaScript, HTML, XML).....SoulOfANewMachin...


HostsMan - a hosts file manager and editor

HashMyFiles
HashMyFiles
is small utility that allows you to calculate the MD5 and SHA1 hashes
of one or more files in your system. You can easily copy the MD5/SHA1
hashes list into the clipboard, or save them into text/html/xml file.
HashMyFiles
can also be launched from the context menu of Windows Explorer, and
display the MD5/SHA1 hashes of the selected file or folder. Mazuki
File Recovery:
Recuva
- I can't vouch for this one but its made by Piriform (the people who
do Ccleaner & Defraggler (both of which I swear by) so should be
good I reckon.freekyjason


Lupas Rename is a FREEWARE program developed to rename a big number of files.
It works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2K and WinXP.

MDI Viewer - allows you to view .MDI files
It is a simple .EXE file and doesn't need any other external libraries.

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

MyUninstaller is
an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows
operating system. It displays the list of all installed application,
and allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry,
and save the list of all installed applications into a text file or
HTML file.


Revo Uninstaller helps
you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on
your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot
uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel
applet.,,Good ★★★



SequoiaView - an excellent utility to help you figure out what is taking up so much space on your hard drive.

Snap Backup - The One-Click Backup Utility that makes it simple to protect your important work

FreeUndelete restores
deleted files, including those removed from Windows Recycle Bin. In
case of accidental removal of files on a NTFS (default for Windows
Vista, XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems this is the
utility to help.


Unlocker - Remove, hard to Delete, files and folders.,Good ★★★

vLite - Vista Lite
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.


WinDirStat - a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - Windows 95/98SE/ME/NT4(SP5)/2000/XP/Server 2003

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.

WizMouse is
a tiny freeware utility that has a single, simple, function--if you
hover your mouse over an inactive window, and use the mouse scroll
wheel, it will scroll that window while keeping it inactive. This can
be a boon for anyone copying text manually from an inactive window to
an active one, or who needs to see data in one window (perhaps one
partially obscured) while reading or working in another. It even
scrolls applications that don't offer mousewheel support by converting
the wheel to clicks on the scroll bars. In other words, if you spin the
wheel down, WizMouse will virtually click the "down arrow" for you.

The Widget Print Directory
The Widget Print Directory will print all of the contents of a selected directory, sub-directories, and its contents. Choose from 16 different formatting options like: Full path name or just the file name; Created time; Last access time; Last written to time; File size in bytes or kilobytes. Date formatting options and many more. Program gives the ability to print the listing or saving the listing as a tab or comma delimited file so that it can be opened by Excel.
View screen prints of the
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web browsers



Avant Browser
Avant
Browser's user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and
efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have
steadily improved its reliability. Avant Browser is freeware That's
right. 100% Free! No cost to you ever. No limitations. No Adware. No
Spyware.

Firefox
The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.,,Good ★★★


Google Chrome
Google Chrome runs websites and applications with lightning speed.,,SoulOfANewMachin...

K-Meleon
K-Meleon
is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on
the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by
Firefox. K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU
General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft
Windows (Win32) operating systems.

Maxthon
Maxthon
Browser is a powerful tabbed browser built for all users. Besides basic
browsing functionality, Maxthon Browser provides a rich set of features
to improve your surfing experience.,,Good ★★★


KidRocket Web Browser - Internet Filter - Desktop Protection
Protect your kids from the internet and your computer from the kids!..,,SoulOfANewMachin...

Opera
Opera
is Internet browser innovation. Our features, speed and security will
give you the best browser experience available. More than 20 million
people use Opera as their preferred browser of choice. Feel free to
download and judge for yourself,,,Excellent ★★★★

Safari 4.
Safari 4. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world’s fastest web browser..SoulOfANewMachin...

SeaMonkey
Web-browser,
advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing
made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application

Sleipnir
Sleipnir
is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure
to suit your individual needs. With Sleipnir, you can create your ideal
browser by changing the design, skin, and visual appearance. You can
also add custom functionality to Sleipnir with a wide range of plugins
and user scripts. Users love Seipnir for it's unique blend of
high-performance and customizability!


SRWare Iron:
SRWare Iron: The Browser of the future..,,SoulOfANewMachin...


TweetDeck
TweetDeck is the leading browser for the real-time and social web, allowing users to connect with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.


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WEB BROWSING SECURITY

ClickOff
ClickOff
has been written out of a personal need - like most programs here.
Questions like "are your sure you want to exit the program?" made me go
insane after having seen them a dozen of times. I found a program
called "BuzOff" on a computer magazine CD-ROM which took care of this
situation by simply clicking a button to close the window but it also
displayed nag-screens which annoyed me as well. Being a programmer I
just thought "you can do that yourself" and I started working on
ClickOff. I started looking for functions that windows provided for
clicking on buttons without actually moving the mouse and I was
successful. Meanwhile ClickOff has been improved through bug reports
and suggestions of new features that you sent me. ClickOff is supposed
to be the swiss knife for window handling, not just a simple popup
blocker

CookieWall
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. CookieWall
can be configured to delete cookies as soon as they arrive, to notify
you of any new ones, or just queue them up for you to check out at a
later date

Finjan SecureBrowsing
Finjan SecureBrowsing provides you with safety ratings of URLs showing in your browser.

Hitware Popup Killer Lite
Hitware
Popup Killer Lite is 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. You can choose to be
notified via animated tray icon or a sound whenever a popup window is
closed, maintain a WhiteList of allowed sites, and also disable popup
blocking from the tray, if needed.

KeyScrambler
KeyScrambler - a web browser plugin that encrypts your keystrokes to protect your important personal information from keyloggers

AVG LinkScanner®
Antivirus
and firewall software is no longer enough. The threat has evolved. Only
AVG LinkScanner® can protect you from the Data Snatchers and raise your
internet security to the next level.


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REMOTE ACCESS

CrossLoop simplifies the process of securely working with friends located in
different physical locations and across different network environments. CrossLoop
enables you to see the screen and control the mouse and keyboard on a remote
computer. It is as if you are working side by side at the same PC.

You can get up and running with CrossLoop in under 2 minutes. Simply download
and install the application and it will automatically configure itself to your network
environment.

Simply Connected LogMeIn - access your computer remotely from anywhere,pc/mac

TightVNC
TightVNC
is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see
the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse
and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that
compute
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Video Applications

ALShow
FREE
MEDIA PLAYER FOR EVERYONE~! ALShow is the easiest free media player on
the Internet. With codecs already built in, it's the only download
you'll ever need!Play FLV Files - SRT Subtitle Support - MP4 Filter -
H.264/H.263 Upgrades - VobSub Caption Support - CVID & TP
Support... And lots more!

Any Video Converter
is a professional video converter which can convert video files from
various formats with fast converting speed and excellent video quality
. It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV,
rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-I, MPEG-I, DVD NTSC , DVD
PAL, Flash for Video (FLV) , AVI Video and Customized WMV movie
formats. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the
output. It has an unmatchable speed and high quality.


AVI2DVD - an All In One tool used to convert, with just few clicks, an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd


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
DVDShrink is
software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction
with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any
DVD video disc.,Good ★★★

Free FLV Player
Looking for an easy way to play FLV (Flash Video) files downloaded from
YouTube and other video sites? Get the free Applian FLV Player. It's
easy to use, and you can view videos at 1x, 2x or even full screen.
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.
iWisoft Free VideoiWisoft
Free Video Converter can fast convert videos between all popular
formats like AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, XviD, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, FLV,
MKV, RM, MOV, 3GP, and audio MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG.
Directly convert video for playback on your PSP, iPod, iPhone, Apple
TV, PS3, Xbox, Zune, Creative Zen, Archos and other digital multimedia
devices.tutorial

FreeStar Free DVD Rippe
FreeStar Free DVD Ripper is quickest DVD ripper, DVD ripping software to rip DVDs to VCD, SVCD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, DivX, and XviD formats. Back up your favorite DVD movies to various formats and extract soundtracks from DVDs. Easily and quickly in excellent DVD ripping quality.,,,,free808



GOTSent
Easy and Fast h264 .MKV to #00FF00"][b]PS3 and XBOX 360 compatible MP4 and PS3 compatible M2TS/AC3 conversion.
recoding to Xvid, mpeg2 and compatible h264 (with hardcoded subtitles or to AVCHD with softsubs) is also supported. A newer feature includes folder batch conversion of AVI files to PS3 compatible format. (scan and only convert incompatible AVI files)



GSpot
GSpot codec information appliance establishes what video codecs (audio and video) are required to play an AVI file. Determines whether these codecs are installed on your system. Isolates problems associated with these codecs. Simple operation - Basic use: "File > Open", then read results. Identifies download induced problems (truncated files, "cooked" files, etc.) Shows framerate, duration, aspect ratio, bitrates, AVI structure info, and more. Displays and allows editing of RIFF info (title, etc); displays "hidden" ASCII info. Drag and Drop and "Send To" support, multi-file (batch) processing support Copy/Paste or text export GSpot information - format is user configurable. Built-in database of 350 video and 150 audio codec types Advanced UI including "dual-mode" and hyperlinked "persistent" tool tips Full support for OGG media files as well as AVI stream formats Identification (only) of non-AVI files (.mpg, .mov, .qt, .rm, .swf, .wmv, .asf, etc.) Supports VFW, ACM, DirectShow and DMO codec types (audio and video).

Free GIF2SWF
Free GIF2SWF Converter web site. This free software will help you to convert the animated GIFs into popular Macromedia's (now Adobe) SWF file format. You can use the produced SWF files as banners for your web site.

MediaInfo
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio files. Example of information are codec, bit rate, frames per second, width, height, count of channels, duration, title, author, language of subtitles, name of chapters.Multiple means to view information (text, sheet, tree, and HTML) and you can customize these views. Exporting possibilities for text, CSV, HTM, Graphical Interface, or Command Line are available. Supported formats include MKV, OGM, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DVD, OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, and AIFF.

MP4Creator creates
and modifies MP4 files. It combines previously encoded video or audio
tracks, as well as subtitles, chapter information and meta data. While
supporting many formats, the number one choice for video is H.264 and
for audio is AAC. Both formats play on a wide range of devices and are
supported by most software players including Quicktime, Flash and VLC.

Next Video Converter
Next Video Converter is an multifunctional video converting freeware with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed, and excellent video quality. It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, and AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod, iPhone, PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player, or Smartphones. It can also rip DVD to many video formats.


OpenSubtitles player
OpenSubtitles team is proud to present you long awaited OpenSubtitles Player for Windows, it is ofcourse for free, without any malicious software, this subtitles player is specially improved with subtitles manipulation - download and upload subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org servers. AVI Doctor can fix broken files, and it is possible preview partially downloaded files in MKV Player.


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

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.

VLC - If you have a strange media file that no other video player will touch, throw it at VLC and the chances are it will play. The interface is nothing to write home about, but it will deal with anything, even ISO images containing video CD or DVD content. In fact, the only thing it won’t touch is RealPlayer files. Its name stands for Video LAN Client, stemming from the fact that it can act as both client and server for media-streaming apps using a range of streaming protocols.
,Good ★★★

VirtualDub - VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP)


VobBlanker is
a tool able to blank, replace, cut and strip titles, more specifically,
program chains or individual cells. From release 1.5 VobBlanker is also
able to work (blank, preview, delete..) in the menu domain.
It also
has special features like reduce to still with or without audio
complete PGCs or single Cells, or splitting cells capability
VobBlanker
is strictly an editing tool, designed to be applied in unprotected and
no-copyrighted sources. It has nothing to do with ripping or protection
removing practices.


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.


AutoGK -
I have used this for a long time. Its a pretty good program for
encoding files to .avi. Actually its a frontend for a number of
different progs (all packaged together) which it installs (which leads
to a fairly protracted install) but works great. freekyjason


Handbrake -
Video encoding/re-encoding software. I just discovered this one,
cleaner looking all-in-one install (which looks a little more
professional than AutoGK), also has some extra features like x264
encoding, alternate containers such as MKV and preset setting for
ipod/iphone/psp/ps3/xbox360. If it lives up to appearances, this is
what I'll be using from now on (instead of AutoGK). freekyjason

DVD Decrypter -
An old one but a good one. I still use this lots for doing raw rips of
DVD VOBs (before I feed it into one of the above to create an AVI). freekyjason,,Good ★★★


WinX DVD RipperWinX
DVD Ripper is a free software program that facilitates ripping the
content of a DVD to computer hard disk drive and converting to popular
video formats. It supports all types of DVDs including normal DVDs, CSS
protected DVDs, commercial DVDs, Sony ArccOS DVDs, all region 1-6 DVDs
and most of popular video formats such as FLV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV,
MPEG1/2 as output video formats.

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Video Editing Software


Blender
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.



Jashaka
The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.


Virtual dub
A
powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a
choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks.
,Excellent ★★★★


WAX
Wax
is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special
effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and
flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your
dream video sequence with ease everytime.

Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein
3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and
editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable
elsewhere.
With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and
still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially.
Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.

ZS4 Video Editor
ZS4
Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to
provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media
types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more)
output file(s).



Avedit
It
is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable
size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video
processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to
perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video
warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on...



Avidemux
Avidemux
is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and
encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD
compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks
can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting
capabilities.

AVI-Mux GUI
AVI-Mux
GUI is an application that allows to combine several video, audio or
subtitle files into one file, with out without size restriction,
allowing to configure properties of the output file to a deeper level
than usual for such applications.


DDClip Free 2.23
New version is not free ;-) old one is though.

Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro

iWisoft Free Video Converter
The
video converter also has powerful video editing functions including
crop, trim, merge, adding watermark and special effects. And it's
totally free!

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM
AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut
extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is
small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes.
Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files
or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync
problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type
1 and 2.,,Good ★★★

Windows Free Media Editor. Its called Windows Movie Maker.
You
must use IE to download this product as well, Open source browsers will
not allow you to access the site I believe. Windows MovieMaker 2 is a
capable little editor and ships free with virtually all new XP
computers these days, with upgrades available on the Microsoft Website
and other addons available as part of the Plus! package.

Subtitle Workshop
Subtitle
Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware
subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need
and has all the features you would want from a subtitle editing
program. Subtitle Workshop makes subtitle creating/editing/converting
tasks almost a pleasure, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes
easy to access menus & must have features with advanced functions
and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle
editing time. It includes spell check function and an advanced video
preview feature which will ease the task even more. The best choice for
the beginner, expert or the fansubber. Have a try, and you'll forget
the rest!

OGMcleaver
OGMcleaver
is a small, simple and easy-to-use program that will enable you to
easily and quickly extract video, audio and subtitle tracks from OGM
and MKV files. It is basically an oversimplified GUI for OGMTools and
MKVToolnix.This download package contains everything needed to extract
tracks from OGM files.OGMcleaver is small, simple, and doesn't even
require any ..

VirtualDubMod v1.5.10.2
VirtualDubMod
(project that combines three popular VirtualDub modifications,
VirtualDubMPG2, VirtualDubOGM and VirtualDubAVS) is a modified version
of the original VirtualDub video editing software. VirtualDubMPG2 adds
several new features to the normal VirtualDub's features, including
MPEG-2 processing and support for various audio formats, such as AC3,
OGG Vorbis and VBR MP3. Also included now is a support for OGM
container format and AVS scripts. How to convert OGM files to AVI,,Good ★★★

Movie to Animated GIF Converter
This
application allows you to load up an MPEG or AVI movie and convert a
section of it to an animated GIF. General usage consists of opening a
movie ("File" -> "Open"), seeking to the position in the movie where
you want to start the animation sequence (use the track bar at the
bottom), setting start and end points (buttons on sides of trackbar)
and then exporting ("Export" -> "Export to animated GIF...").,Fa

MKVtoolnix
MKVtoolnix is a set of tools to create, alter, split, join and inspect Matroska files(mkv). Command line tools but mkvmerge GUI included (mmg.exe). Use MKVExtractGUI/MKVE Wizard or MKVcleaver to extract/demultiplex mkv video and audio files.
MKVToolnix is a set of tools that will help you create, alter and inspect Matroska files. They do for Matroska what the OGMtools do for the OGM format and then some.With these tools one can get information about (mkvinfo) Matroska files, extract tracks/data from (mkvextract) Matroska files and create (mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files. Matroska is a new multimedia file

Free DVD to MP3 Ripper
Windows only: Freeware application Free DVD to MP3 Ripper does exactly what its name says: Rips DVD audio to your hard drive as MP3s.


all these links checked and working 20/12/2009 if you find any that are not working ,please post and let me know thanks


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That's a nice list thanks pete21

Thanks for all your hard work on this pete21 having such valuable helpful resources in one place is priceless.

Very much appreciated, sure many will find the links very helpful indeed...Well done

cool list and very helpful too
shit sticks

,Ok ★

,Fair★★

,Good ★★★

,Excellent ★★★★

,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★



Graphics Design & Editing
and photo-shop type stuff

Artweaver
Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

Aviary
Creation on the Fly
Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com
also
Avery DesignPro® for PC
DesignPro gives you the most flexibility while designing and printing Avery labels, business cards, dividers, t-shirt transfers, greeting cards and more. Quickly customize and print professional labels, business cards, dividers, greeting cards and mor


@icon sushi - an icon convert tool that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit icons

Blender - the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.


Cooliris
Cooliris is a browser plug-in that revolutionizes how you find, view, and share photos and videos. Whether you're browsing the Web or your desktop, Cooliris presents media on an infinite "3D wall" that lets you enjoy content without clicking page to page.


Dup Detector - will scan pictures within a file (including subfolders) and present potential duplicates for deletion.

DAVID-laserscanner 2.4.3
DAVIDLaserscanner is too cool not to mention! DAVID-Laserscanner is a freeware software for 3d laser range scanning. All you need to build a 3d scanner is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser that projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs.

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.

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

FotoSketcher
FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.

The Free Online Image Editor
The Free Online Image Editor lets you edit images ONLINE.
Resize or Crop your images (also for animated gifs).Add Text to your images (also for animated gifs).Add Borders, or Overlay your images (also for animated gifs).Put your image in a Picture Frame or add a Mask. (also for animated gifs)Resize or Crop your images (also your animated gifs).Overlay your images with predefined animations! (a must try!)Convert, sharpen, reduce size of your animated gif... and much, much, more....


G3D
The G3D Innovation Engine is a commercial-grade C++ 3D engine available as Open Source (BSD License). It is used in commercial games, research papers, military simulators, and university courses. G3D supports hardware accelerated real-time rendering, off-line rendering like ray tracing, and general purpose computation on GPUs

GIFworks Editor
The GIFwork application was designed to be a small utility for generating and maintaining animated GIF files.
Its main purpose is to merge the constituent images (or graphic elements) of the animation sequence (or cycle) into one single "animated" GIF file which can be integrated into HTML documents with an adequate editor. Another interesting feature is the ability to streamline an existing animated GIF file so as to make its file size smaller.
Accessorily you may also change selected settings of an existing animated GIF file, this usually without having to disassemble and reassemble it.


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
,Good ★★★

icons extract .Ever want to spice up your desktop with new icons? Couldn't be bothered downloading or paying for new icons? Here is a way to extract the icon files uses by all those programs installed on your PC.

IcoFX
IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.Jafiliya


Jasc Animation Shop
Jasc Animation Shop is a powerful yet easy-to-use program that creates animations from one or more graphic images and offers a wide variety of effects and transitions for enhancing animations. Used as a standalone application Animation Shop allows users to easily create animations for use on a Web site or in a presentation..faerie

K-3D
Seven Degrees of Freedom
K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It combines flexible plugins with a visualization pipeline architecture, making K-3D a versatile and powerful tool for artists.,,Tara09

PhotoScape
PhotoScape is an all-in-one style photo editor with fun and ease of use. Major capabilities are: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, rename, raw converter, resizing, brightness/color/white-balance adjustment, backlight correction, frames, balloons, text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal and blooming. PhotoScape has been used for two years and is expanding its features continuously.Tara09


SUMO PAINT online photoshop
Sumo Paint is an online image editing application that offers an interactive platform to image enthusiasts to play with images. crunchytop


Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Pinnacle's VideoSpin, a new, free editor based on Studio, does a pretty darn good job compared with most free video tools.

Google Picasa - Locate, edit, add effects, and share your photos

Google SketchUp - a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily

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.

Image Resizer - gives you the ability to resize an image/picture in 2 clicks, by adding the option to the Context Menu.

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

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

MS GIF Animator:
Are you looking for animated files in GIF format , for your web page or any other use, without ever finding the one that meets exactly what you need? Here is the solution. It's a very simple tool, as much in design as in usability, with which you will be able to create your own animated GIF in the blink of an eye. It doesn't even need any installation.

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.,Good ★★★
paint.net plugins
How to make animated GIF's with Paint.NET

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.


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)

Picture Resizer - An easy-to-use tool for batch resizing of JPG pictures and photos.

SharpControl - Image Sharpening Utility (Will run on USB Drive)

Photo Gadget Free and easy tool for resizing images

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.,Good ★★★

Sqirlz WaterReflections is a way of adding rippling pools of water, and rain or snow effects, to images or existing AVI videos.
,Good ★★★

Free Video Flip and Rotate contains no spyware or adware. It's clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run.

vso image resiser With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batc

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Screen Capture Applications

CamStudio - Desktop Screen Recorder
CamStudio records activity from your screen and audio from a microphone into AVI video files and can also convert the AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) using its built-in SWF Producer.


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.

Fastone Capture - (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.

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

Jet Screenshot
Jet Screenshot is a freeware utility enabling you to share screenshot via the internet in seconds. It allows you to take a screen snap,
edit it and send it to the Web, so that you can immediately provide anyone with a link to the image. Such an approach allows you to
speed up sharing of ideas, facilitating further discussion. It's ideal for remote work of programmers, designers, QA testers, bloggers,
technical assistance specialists, sales managers, etc...Tara09

Lightscreen
Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences.

MWSnap - Screen & Window Capture (Will run on USB Drive)

Screenhunter - screen capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. ,,for ease and quality ,,Excellent ★★★★

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.


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Audio Applications



Audacity - a free audio editor.
,Good ★★★

BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files.,Good ★★★

Burrrn
Burn audio CDs the easy way!
Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files.
Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.

burnatonce
burnatonce is no longer 'just' an image writer
Burnatonce now includes all the features needed to make it a full audio and data cd authoring program while still maintaining the speed and ease of use that has always been it's goal
Support for OGG and FLAC as standard: We are pleased to announce support for OGG and FLAC as standard. The external decoders are included in the burnatonce install but please note a suitable codec is required for previewing media files in burnatonce,,
Internal support for reading media headers and tags: burnatonce is now able to read tags and calculate the correct duration of wave, mp2, mp3, ogg and flac files internally.

Coolplayer - Sourceforge alternative to Winamp

dBpowerAMP Audio Player - "dAP plays Mp3s, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, Monkeys Audio, Real Audio, Wave and Midi, and many more"


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.

introducing Ask & Record Toolbar, free software that lets you download, record and convert all kinds of Internet Video and Audio, right from within your browser. It's the only tool that combines a powerful video downloader, high quality analog sound recorder, and converter all in one. And it's totally FREE.
,Fair★★

freecorder toolbar,,original
Freecorder Toolbar is a free sound recorder - a revolutionary new browser-based audio recorder program, combining state of the art sound recording technology, ease-of-use, and some great browser enhancements. And best of all, it's 100% FREE!,,without the ask,Good ★★★


The Filelist Generator
The Filelist Generator application was designed to be a file list and directory list generator. The program is useful for MP3 lists and media file catalogs. It scans drives, directories and sub-directories for specified file type...ibticktock


foobar2000 - an advanced audio player for the Windows platform.
,Good ★★★

iTunes - Music Player, Organizer, Tag Editor and online store.

K-Lite Codec Pack - a collection of codecs and related tools,Good ★★★

Shark007's
The codec packs contains a Settings Application to use in conjunction with your windows media center setup which will enable each user to choose from different splitters and decoders for specific filetypes. The application will also allow you to choose from 10 different speaker configurations from 'same as input' and all the way up to full 7.1 channel output.The following filetypes are enabled and SUPPORTED by the installation of Shark's Codec Solutions.
amr | mpc | ofr | divx | mka | ape | flac | evo | flv | m4b | mkv | ogg | ogv | ogm | rmvb | xvid
All of the above filetypes can be queued to the Windows Media Player Playlist using a right-click.


Kristal Audio Engine - audio recorder/editor

Lyrics Plugin
Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself :) ,Jafiliya
,Fair★★

Free M4a to MP3 Converter 6.1
Do you need to convert AAC to MP3? M4a to MP3? MP4 audio to MP3? Your favorite player doesn't support M4a audio? Then take a look at the new tool from ManiacTools, Free M4a to MP3 Converter.
The program supports a number of input formats, like the above mentioned AAC, M4a, MP4 audio, M4b (audiobooks), and some other MPEG-4 based audio formats. You can convert those types of audio files to MP3 or uncompressed WAV,,homepage


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
,Good ★★★


Monkey’s Audio
Monkey’s Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or lqt that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey’s Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music. That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space. (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ for your music) The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey's Audio files back to the exact, original files. That way, you'll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you'll always be able to recreate the original music CD if something ever happens to yours...SoulOfANewMachin...


MP3Gain - A free automatic mp3 volume normalizer.

Mp3Decode - a real handy app to have in your Send To menu, it simply converts MP3 into WAV, quick and lightweight.

mp3DirectCut - a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for MP3.

MP3 Player Morpher
AV MP3 Player Morpher Basic is all-in-one audio morphing studio for digital music and movie editing. It features most popular audio formats, a CD player, ripper, converter, burner, recorder, and cover creator.
You can morph music by changing voice, tempo as well as adding effects and beats. Play, capture & record music, convert, rip, and burn MP3s & CDs. Edit CD Cover & Label. Full functions included to make unique CDs, movies, audio & video clip.,,,lemmings


MP3 Shield is a plug-and-play application developed to help you protect your music collection.It can rapidly scan vast MP3 collection for corruptions and automatically detects corrupted MP3 files while being downloaded.


MP3 tag
This batch MP3 tag editor is, in the words of a user, "simply indispensable." If you're looking for a freeware ID3 tag editor with an auto-tagging feature sourced from FreeDB, Amazon, or discogs, you could do much, much worse than Mp3tag....ADL_242



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

SUPER - a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click,Good ★★★

Switch Soundfile Converter - Converts sound files to many other formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, and more

TagMaster - lets you edit the ID3 tag in MP3 files, which contains information like the name of the artist, song, album, etc.

TagScanner
TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Also you may get album info via online databases like freedb or Amazon. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4(iTunes) tags. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Easy-to-use interface. Built-in player .InSaiyanOne

The GodFather - a multi-function audio tag editor, and organizer

Trout
# Supported audio formats (standard): AIFF, AIF, AIFC, MP1, MP2, MP3, OGA, OGG, WAV, MO3, XM, MOD, S3M, IT, MTM.Supported audio formats (w/ plugins): FLAC, WMA, WMP, WMV, ASF, MID, MIDI, RMI, KAR, WV, WVC, AAC, MP4, M4A, M4B, M4P, APE, AC3, SPX, TTA, OFR, MPC, ALAC.Basic freeDB support for audio CD track titles. Support for internet radio streams. Supported tag formats: ID3v1, ID3v2.2/3/4, OGG/FLAC Vorbis comments, WMA, APEv2, MP4/ALAC/AAC (not available under 9x/ME) WinampAPI support for external control and display. Commandline parameters for external control (/play, /stop, /prev, /next, & /mute). Extremely customizable hotkey system. Track announcements (ideal for audiobooks) Basic album art support (folder.jpg) Horizontal/vertical "minibar" controls. Toaster style popup. Play modes (Play file, play list, repeat file, repeat list, random, shuffle). Simple tag editing (not available under 9x/ME). last.fm support. Lyrics window (Lyrics from LyricWiki.org


Traverso DAW
Is a GPL licensed, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It's suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW.


WavePad Audio Editor - audio recorder/editor


Winamp
Winamp is a free multimedia player made by Nullsoft. It supports numerous audio and video formats. It also plays streamed video and audio content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. It has an extremely customizable media library, and allows you to rip and burn your favorite music CDs. Winamp has thousands of skins and plug-ins that allow you to change the look-and-feel of the player, as well as add new features. The player also has access to thousands of free songs, videos and online radio stations from SHOUTcast Radio and AOL Radio with XM.



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

WinMP3Shrink - encode or re-encode your MP3s by using the Lame encoder.

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


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CD & DVD Applications

AoA Audio Extractor free version
AoA Audio Extractor provides you a handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files.


AudioGrabber is a complete solution to create perfect copies of CD audio on your hard drive and to rip CDs directly to MP3 format. It integrates with the Freedb online database to retrieve track information (artist, title etc.)

ImgBurn ,is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit
,Good ★★★

BwgBurn ,,This application is a Windows XP .NET 3.5 application that can be used to burn CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-RAM/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD+R DL/BD-R/BD-RE. It includes the ability to burn both data disk and audio disks.

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free


CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.

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"...,Fair★★

DeepRipper - can convert music files from AudioCDs into practically any format you'd like, including: MP3, WAV, OGG, and others......,Fair★★



Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :


Express Rip is a free CD ripping program for Windows that lets you extract digital audio tracks directly from audio CDs to mp3 or wav audio files. By using direct digital extraction, pure audio quality is maintained when you convert cd audio to mp3 or wav. Express Rip is also the fastest CD ripper in the world
Format Factory
Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.[ANDY]

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.


Free DVD to MP3 Ripper
Windows only: Freeware application Free DVD to MP3 Ripper does exactly what its name says: Rips DVD audio to your hard drive as MP3s.

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.
KMPlayer
The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization. >>Badog


media coder is a free universal batch media transcoder Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files
Converting for audio/video playback devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)Extracting audio tracks from video files Ripping audio/video discs Reparing corrupted or partial downloaded video files
,Good ★★★


Next Video Converter
Next Video Converter is an multifunctional video converting freeware with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed, and excellent video quality. It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, and AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod, iPhone, PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player, or Smartphones. It can also rip DVD to many video formats.


Quick Media Converter is a free universal Video and Audio converter and much more , designed to be as simple to use as it may get, Quick Media Converter supports a myriad of formats and codecs :

SUPER - a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click
,Good ★★★


VCDGear is an application designed for handling VCD MPEG streams in various formats. It can also correct certain errors on MPEG streams.

Cross conversions between the following formats are supported: cue/bin, raw track image, VCD DAT and MPEG. Also Easy CD Creator CIF and Nero NRG formatted VCD images can be converted to an MPEG stream.
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Windows Desktop Customization



DeskDuster 2010
DeskDuster 2010 is a program specifically designed to clean desktop from icons, allowing the user to look at the wallpaper images while the PC is inactive.
The program will load automatically with Windows, monitoring PC inactivity: if inactivity time ( default = 5 min ) will be reached, the program will make all of the icons on the desktop disappear. To see the icons again, simply move the mouse or press a key on the keyboard.
On program startup, an icon will be placed on Windows the tray bar: double clicking the icon a small interface will appear, giving the option to modify the interval of PC inactivity time to be monitored, right clicking the icon will popup a small menu for options.
If the program is found useful, the author encourages a little donation to the UNICEF.
This program has been tested and works under Windows 98, 2000\XP\Vista\7 RC1.


AJScreenSaver Clocks - a collection of various clock screensavers

DisplayFusion
DisplayFusion will make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) experience smooth and painless. With DisplayFusion you can add a taskbar to every monitor that works and looks just like the Windows Taskbar. Or take advantage of advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr integration for image searching and fully customizable window management hotkey

Stardock BootSkin is a program that allows users to change their Windows boot screens.

Stardock CursorFX is a program that lets you use and create incredibly cool looking Windows mouse cursors.

Exalead Desktop search gives you instant access to all content on your desktop, connected peripherals (USB keys, external drives) and shared sources (Lotus Notes, MS Exchange), whether you are looking for an Office document, an email, an attached file, a contact, an appointment, etc.

FlyakiteOSX - a transformation pack that will transform the look of a Windows XP system, to resemble the look of Mac OSX

InstantStorm
InstantStorm is a Windows freeware tool for creating Flash based screensavers with many advanced features. All you have to do is to choose an SWF file, set screensaver parameters and compile an executable installer. All 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows are fully supported, including Windows 95 and Windows Vista. A

Picture and Sound Show:
The Picture and Sound Show is a 32-bit screen saver for Windows that enables you to create your own slide shows from pictures and sounds on your computer. Each slide show has many customization options that control picture and sound order, picture position, transition effects, picture captions, and background patterns.

Iconoid - Iconoid is a small program that helps reduce the clutter and confusion of the Windows desktop

LogonStudio is a free program that allows users to change their Windows XP logon screens. It comes with several logon screens to choose from, along with thousands that are available online from Web sites, such as WinCustomize.com.

ObjectDock™ is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock. By allowing users to have more control over how they organize their desktop, users can take control of their desktop icons and shortcuts to have them be available when where and how they need them.

The Picture and Sound Show is a 32-bit screen saver for Windows that enables you to create your own slide shows from pictures and sounds on your computer. Each slide show has many customization options that control picture and sound order, picture position, transition effects, picture captions, and background patterns

A WindowBlinds skin can make Windows look like an alternative operating system, like their favorite sports or car brand, or something completely new. Because WindowBlinds uses the latest hardware acceleration features of modern video cards, WindowBlinds won't slow down your computer and uses very little memory.[limited functions]

WinSplit
What is WinSplit Revolution?
What is it for? WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate. Video demonstration

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Website Creation

CSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required!
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.

Jalbum consists of free album software, free hosting and a creative community. With Jalbum it's easy to create your own photo album site. Just the way you want it.

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

Enersoft SiteGenWiz is an easy to use web page generator that allows you to choose from several different site styles and then generates all HTML pages for you.

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 resolution

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HTML & CSS Editors


HTML Editor Software

HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment

NoteTab is a leading text and HTML editor. Winner of software industry awards since 1998, this application does it all: it easily handles a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line global replacements. It even corrects your spelling mistakes.
NVU - Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

Selida is one of the most advanced HTML editors on the planet. Selida features a very effective WYSIWYG editor, Code Completion and a complete HTML 4 reference.
Sothink HTML Editor Free Version (previous name is CutePage) supports code and visual editing modes as well as site management, built-in preview and file upload. Built-in visualized editing window. WYSIWYG editing forms, tables, frames, links, images, etc.

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File Transfer Programs


BlazeFtp is a multiple-session and cache-enabled ftp client with offline searching capability. It's slim, easy to use and powerful. You can learn to use it in several minutes. BlazeFtp also has many special features making esp. convenient to be used by webmasters.


FileZilla Client & Server - FTP Client and Server

FTP Surfer is a professional FTP client featuring an Internet Explorer style user interface including an address bar, history, and favorites menu.

Leech FTP - FTP client

SmartFTP - FTP Client

WinSCP - A secure FTP Program and Secure Copy Program for use with SSH
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torrent search engines

bit che
Bit Che makes searching for torrents simple. It quickly searches lots of torrent websites for files and easily organizes the results. Bit Che allows you to instantly preview the torrent details by reading the torrent file directly. Easily view the page where the torrent was found or click to open the torrent in your favorite downloader. Bit Che also features built-in filtering to remove duplicate torrents found across the different sites that it searches.
,Good ★★★

Torrent Harvester is a free and useful software that will preform a search for Torrents on multiple websites returning all results in a single list. Just enter some text to search on, press enter or click the search button and the list will fill with torrents found. Right clicking a torrent in the list will bring up a menu to download the torrent and start your BitTorrent
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drivers


Driver Max - checks if there are updates available for your drivers. Its still under development and plans to offer downloads of newest drivers,,you need to register,[always back up your old drivers before installing new ones as they may alter your system and stop it functioning ,also set a restore point]driver magician will back your drivers up
,Good ★★★


drivers
* BIOS
* FIRMWARE
* GRAPHICS BOARD
* JOYSTICK, GAMEPAD, WHEELS AND TABLETS
* KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
* MOBILES
* MODEM
* MONITOR
* MOTHERBOARD
* NETWORK CARD
* OTHER DRIVERS/TOOLS
* PRINTER
* SCANNER / DIGITAL CAMERA / WEBCAM /CAMCORDER
* SOUND CARD
* TV TUNER & CO

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virtual drives

Alcohol 52%,
Emulation software, supports 25 plus languages. Can handle up to 31 virtual CD and DVD-ROM drives, all at once. The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200X. This means you can play a CD from the virtual CD-ROM with 200X reading speed. Supports normal CD and DVD and CD RAW sub-channel reading methods: RAW reading method enables to emulate all CDs


deamon tools,,
An advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. DAEMON Tools enables you to convert your physical CD/DVD discs into "virtual discs" so called "images". It also emulated up to 4 virtual CD/DVD drives, so you can mount (insert) and unmount (eject) images
,Good ★★★

VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Several guest operating systems can be loaded. Each can be started, paused and stopped independently. The host operating system and guest operating systems can communicate with each other, through a common clipboard or using the network facility provided, as can guest operating systems if more than one is running.


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Programming Languages & IDE/Editors

BlueJ - developed at a University specifically for the purpose of teaching object orientation with Java

Eclipse - used for Enterprise Development, Embedded + Device Development, Rich Client Platform, Application Frameworks, and Language IDE

The NetBeans IDE 6.5 provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features, improved support for using the Hibernate web framework and the Java Persistence API, and tighter GlassFish v3 and MySQL integration. >>kylops


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


Visual Studio Express Products - This includes Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, SQL Server, and Visual Web
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Miscelanious

Dziobas Rar Player
Compressed video is a great way to download and share movies, but it does have a downside in that you normally need to wait for the whole thing to unpack in WinRAR before you can see it. This nifty little tool solves that problem, by allowing you to watch parts of a video before it has fully unpacked.
Dziobas Rar Player supports the following formats:
RAR, DVD, MVK, AVI, MPEG, OGG
Dziobas Rar Player Portable

IncrediMail
Enjoy tons of fun animated characters (Notifiers) - they will appear on your screen to tell you that new mail arrived.
IncrediMail has 1000's of email backgrounds you can use in your email messages. Simply select your favorite background from our ever-growing collection and make your email incredible.


Movienizer
Love movies? Have a growing wish list in addition to a respectable collection? Having trouble navigating through the collection? Organize your movie collection with Movienizer for absolutely free!


Movie Organizer - a movie collection organizer. Download movie information and images online using UPC, title, actors or MOODb ID.

MovieTrack - a freeware dvd database and general movie collection organizer, for Windows.


Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organiser. Always wanted to manage all your collections in one product? You want a product you can customize to your needs? Your search ends here! Using Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself.

IceChat IRC
IceChat IRC Client allows users to connect to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Servers. IceChat allows a user to connect to upto 10 servers at once, and provides an easy to use Interface to connect to channels and sending and receiving files. Users can customize the look and feel of IceChat with changing of fonts and colors, and has many different options to change how IceChat reacts to certain events. IceChat is in constant development, and being updated regularily. An Auto Update program is also included to check for Updates to the program, without having to go check on the web site. IceChat has Scripting capabilites, made in VBScript and with extra Custom Commands added for easier use. The Scripting is now fully working, and event based. Rating 6,Excellent ★★★★



DVD43 is a free DVD decrypter that runs in the background and decrypts DVDs on the fly. This website gives you some basic information, like what it does, how to use it, and where to download it. If your copy program needs a decrypter, you can use DVD43. It's free, so you won't need to waste money on a decrypter.

EventGhost
EventGhost is an advanced, easy to use and extensible automation tool for MS Windows. It can use different input devices like infrared or wireless remote controls to trigger macros, that on their part control a computer and its attached hardware. So it can be used to control a Media-PC with a normal consumer remote. But its possible uses go much beyond this.

Free PDF to Word Doc Converter v1.1 How to edit PDF files without purchasing an expensive PDF editor? How to extract text/images from PDF files? What you need is a PDF to Word Converter.

myLookout
Lookout is the easiest way to protect your phone from viruses, hackers, loss and theft. For Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile
Keep your mobile device safe from viruses, malware and hackers. Backup your mobile data securely. With mobile antivirus, surf the mobile web and download cool new apps without worrying about downloading viruses.

Sandboxie When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations. Sandboxie changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk.

Virtual Hypnotist is a free, open source, interactive hypnosis program.
It includes features such as voice recognition, speech synthesis, subliminal messages, completely customizable scripts (featuring a unique scripting language), videos, audio, and lots more. Its purpose is to simulate a real hypnosis session as much as possible.


inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn't work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, we built an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems. A year later, inSSIDer was discussed by Lifehacker and Tekzilla!

pub quiz machine
alternate d/load
If you enjoy playing pub quizzes or just like to test your general knowledge then this is the game for you. It contains over 6000 quiz questions covering a wide range of categories from literature, television, film, geography, history, science, sports, mathematics, biology, astronomy, religion and many more.
,Fun ★★★

Musonya Translator
This product immediately translate all the languages to each other. Usage is very simple. First, press CTRL key, then select a text with your mouse.

Office Suite: - OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a great free & open source replacement for MS Office. Hasn't got all the bells and whistles of the latest MS Office (pretty much equivalent of Office 2003) but the features are good and the price is right! Features Writer (MS Word replacement), Impress (MS Powerpoint replacement) and Calc (MS Excel replacement). All 3 programs will open and save MS file formats (formatting sometimes changes a little when going one to the other). You can choose to set the default save type as MS style, or use the smaller native odf formats. Can even export as pdf. Oo.o (with an extension) and GO-oo & OxygenOffice (out of the box) can open MSWorks & MSOffice2007 files (eg docx) and can convert pdf to doc or odf (sometimes formatting lost).
Downloads:
OpenOffice (original) (sponsored/developed by Sun Microsystems) - current version 3.1
GO OpenOffice (Optimised version) (supported by Novell) - My personal preference - current version 3.1
OxygenOffice - Another optimised version of Oo.o including fonts clipart and many more extras - current version 2.7 (version 3.0.1 is also available but I think it is only in beta at the moment) freekyjason
,Good ★★★

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more.

Subtitle Workshop
Subtitle Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want from a subtitle editing program. Subtitle Workshop makes subtitle creating/editing/converting tasks almost a pleasure, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes easy to access menus & must have features with advanced functions and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle editing time. It includes spell check function and an advanced video preview feature which will ease the task even more. The best choice for the beginner, expert or the fansubber. Have a try, and you'll forget the rest!

Tunatic
Ever thought ‘what is this song?’ Let Tunatic hear it and you will get the artist's name and the song's title within seconds. Tunatic is the very first song search engine based on sound for your computer. All you need is a microphone and Internet access.

Sigil
Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
Free and open source software under GPLv3, Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16,,Full EPUB spec support
WYSIWYG editing,,Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View
Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each

RunAsDate
RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify. This utility doesn't change the current system date and time of your computer, but it only injects the date/time that you specify into the desired application.
You can run multiple applications simultaneously, each application works with different date and time, while the real date/time of your system continues to run normally.

Time Stopper
Using Time Stopper, Stop time of each trial version software and use them forever
This is a Freeware. Using this software you can stop the time for exe and start the exe specified date. When you stop the time of any exe using this Time Stopper it works via this Time Stopper. Real time & date runs normally on your system

Xpadder
Xpadder will simulate keypresses and mouse movements using a gamepad. Xpadder allows you to use your controller to play PC games with poor or no joystick support (including DOS games in a Windows DOS box and Shockwave/Java internet games).Here are some key features of "Xpadder":￭ Full keyboard and mouse emulation


PortableApps.com
Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind
The PortableApps.com Suite and Platform is free. It contains no spyware. There are no advertisements. It isn't a limited or trial version. There is no additional hardware or software to buy. You don't even have to give out your email address. It's 100% free to use, free to copy and free to share.


AMP Font Viewer
This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:
Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts. Supports Type1 fonts. Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list). Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed). Deletion of installed fonts. List of all installed fonts with several display options. List of the fonts from a folder with several display options. Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font.Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).Dual English/Spanish version.
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FREE ONLINE STORAGE
do you want to share large files with friends then try these


Dropbox
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. which uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. ,it has a free 2 gig option

ADrive
ADrive’s Basic plan offers individual users 50GB of online storage and backup for all file types including access to our basic service features, all for FREE. With our Basic plan you will have the essentials to store, backup, share, and edit your documents online.

Windows Live SkyDrive
Windows Live SkyDrive is 25GB of free online storage. You can use SkyDrive storage to backup your files online for free, or to share files online that are too large to email. You can set permissions and set folders as private, public or share with only people that you select.
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all links were checked and working ,,03/05/09,,please report any broken ones,,
feel free to donate any finds i will credit you with your tag on each find,
thanks

edit ,no registry cleaners plz ,thanks

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but plz give credit to this site by posting a link to it and thanking the staff and members

Thanks pete very handy

thanks for the share pete, loads of info.

a great list thank you for sharing

well spent time searching in one place for freeware, very cool

Thanks! I found a couple links/programs very handy! :)

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,Good ★★★

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mobile devices ,ipods,3gp,ect

doubleTwist
doubleTwist is a free application for Windows and Mac that helps you move all your media onto all your devices; i.e. sync your music, video and photo libraries to your phone, MP3 player and other mobile devices.
1. Sync and or transfer your digital media (pictures, videos and music) onto all your devices with one easy to use application. Multiple devices if you're anything like me (iPhone, Blackberry, 2 iPods, 2 PSP's and a Nexus 1). No need to wrestle with a different piece of software for every device.
# 2Move media from your device back to your computer. Offload those pics and videos from your phone or other devices to your media library as back-up/permanent storage
#3Drag and drop a YouTube video straight to your hard drive via the doubleTwist application Yes, it's that easy. See a video you really like and want to have available to watch from your computer or to sync to your Droid? Simply highlight it then drag it over to the library/videos and doubleTwist does the rest ( the importer box pops up and you can watch the download -- The Import box is also accessible from File>Import from Web on Windows and File>Library>Import from Web for Mac).
We convert it to a compatible playback format and place it in your library for you to access it at any time. You can then watch it in doubleTwist media player or drag it to a connected device and take it on the road with you. Sweet barely begins to describe this feature.

MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter Convert MP3 audiobooks to iPod audio books file format.

media coder home page

media coder
MediaCoder iPhone/iPod Edition
* Easy-to-use user interface
* Supporting iPhone, iPod Touch/Classic/Video/Nano
* Decoding most popular A/V formats
* DVD/VCD/CD ripping
* Clipping and cropping
* High quality, 2-pass mode available
* Optimized for multi-core processors
* Advanced encoding settings for Pros
* Absoultely FREE

MediaCoder PSP Edition
* Support all decoding formats of MediaCoder standard edition
* Encode to PSP SP Format
* Encode to PSP AVC Format
* Encode to PMP AVC Format
* Automatically transfer converted files to connected PSP

MediaCoder PMP (Personal Media Player) Edition
* Support all decoding formats of MediaCoder standard edition
* Encode for your MP3/MP4 players with ease
* Support for AVI/MP4/AMV/AAC/MP3 formats
* Fast transcoding speed

MediaCoder Mobile Phone Edition
* Support all decoding formats of MediaCoder standard edition
* Encode to MP3 and AAC audio
* Encode to MPEG-4 video
* Dedicated options for mobile phones
* Fast transcoding speed

PodLift is a freeware application which will allows you to browse the contents of any iPod, listen to any tracks you want, and transfer tracks and playlists to your computer, either to the directory of your choice or directly into iTunes into the playlist of your choice.

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


Quick Media Converter is a free universal Video and Audio converter and much more , designed to be as simple to use as it may get, Quick Media Converter supports a myriad of formats and codecs :

SharePod
Add and remove music, videos, playlists and artwork on your iPod.Backup all those tracks you just can't lose onto your computer. Import them automatically into your iTunes library.SharePod can run straight from the iPod itself, so you can use it at work, school, home - wherever you and your iPod are.,CVC

Support for iPhone and iTouch (Thanks to Nikias Bassen, Paul Sladen, Jonathan Beck, and Christophe Fergeau for making this possible)

Songbird
Ideal user: Music addicts, hipsters, concertgoers, file hoarders, people who often jump between Mac and PC.CVC

VIO,, ViO 3GP Video Converter – converts all AVI, MPEG, MP4 video files to 3GP video ViO BlackBerry Video Converter – converts all AVI, MPEG, MP4 video files to BlackBerry optimized 3GP, AVI or AMR video format

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation.

PocketDivXEncoder
PocketDivXEncoder allows you to encode any video clip with optimized parameters for handled devices (landscape mode, 240x320, low CPU usage, increased brightness, ...). The video output standards are directly playable on PMP devices (Archos,...) but also on your PocketPC, Smartphone or Palm thanks to the player The Core Pocket Media Player. The clips are created thanks to the fast encoder mencoder.[should work with insignia NS-DV2G

Floola
Floola supports almost all features offered by iPods including photos, artwork, podcasts and smart playlists!
It automatically converts any incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to it. It allows adding youtube and myspace videos with a single click. Now it even makes it possible to keep your Google calendars synched!

Funetica :
Funetica IPod EBook Maker converts text files to be read by your IPod. It automatically converts the file, reduces the file and creates Next Page and Previous Page links and a main index page. It makes a new folder for each project and can convert directly to your IPod if it is connected. Simple and easy to use.

Podcast Generator
Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also features a comprehensive web administration.

Any Video Converter
Any Video Converter Freeware- the Free Video Converter - is the most renowned free video converter for converting video files between various formats, with fast converting speed and excellent video quality. This powerful free video converter application makes video conversion quick and easy.

Next Video Converter
Next Video Converter is an multifunctional video converting freeware with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed, and excellent video quality. It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, and AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod, iPhone, PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player, or Smartphones. It can also rip DVD to many video formats.

Videora iPod
Videora iPod Converter is a free iPod video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD's so you can play them on your iPod. The software, developed by the creators of Videora, can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the iPod.

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ringtones


The ringtone maker,online ringtone maker free


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Telnet Clients

Putty - Telnet and SSH Client


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Time & Weather

Alarm
Alarm is a digital clock that you can set to display a message and play a sound at a time of your choice.Sineroth

Atomic TimeSync - synchronize your system clock with the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

ClocX - An analog clock application for Microsoft Windows

DS Clock is a FREE digital desktop clock that displays variable date and time information built from the format string.


Forecastfox is an extension that brings international weather from AccuWeather.com® to your Firefox web browser. You can use your US zip code or you can easily find your town or city by using the built in search tool.

Neutron is a very simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer's clock to match it.


SysMetrix is a skinnable clock and metering application. Its purpose is to provide system metrics in a variety of interesting, useful, and cool ways. It can monitor and report on the hundreds of statistics including:

Weather Watcher Live is your personal, real-time
Got real-time weather on your desktop? Get Weather Watcher Live today and start watching the weather as it happens in your neighborhood.


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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streamed & real time capture tools


Easy Video Downloader >for grabbing youtube vids


Orbit RTMP is a protocol used by flash to deliver real time streaming media, video, music and song. Orbit Downloader is a free RTMP video downloader which can help you to download RTMP video easily with great speed.
this app comes with a warning,use it for grabbing pr0n and you will get a thick ear off your missus
,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★
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STREAMED TV


Sopcast
Sopcast is, like all programs, also fully free. It's one of the older programs, and it has been developed very well with alot of interesting feautures and options. It's so far the best program, besides the fact it can't handle most busy moments. It's fully English, and many other languages are available aswell.

TVAnts
TVAnts is one of the next generation P2P programs that allows many users to share live streams, not files. These streams can contain any sort of media however one of the most common uses for this type of software is to enable you to watch live football matches online and other sporting events on your PC. What TVAnts has above all the competition in the area of watching live football over the internet is it has a very good quality live ESPN feed. It is now possible to watch very high quality English Premiership streams with English commentary thank to TVAnts

TVUPlayer
TVUPlayer is a free program that enables viewers to watch high quality live Television programs around the world.
TVU networks brings you programs from around the world that you can't get from your local cable and satellite providers.
Note: Some antivirus and antispyware programs flag TVUPlayer as being infected/malware, although the application is perfectly safe and does not pose a threat to your system. This is called a 'false positive'.

Myp2p is a site specialized in schedules for all kind of Sports. You can watch Live Sports by using our schedules. On top, browse to Live Sports. The information we give is fully free. You only need some clients to download and then you're ready to go. Prepare to watch alot of Football, MLB, NHL, NBA, Cricket, Tennis and many more.
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STREAMED MP3

Vibe Streamer
Vibe Streamer is a free MP3 streaming server
that allows you to connect and
stream your music using only a standard
web browser - Stream your music anywhere!

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musical toys

Making sense of the VSTi, DXi, MAS, RTAS, and AU Jungle guide


arp 2660 virtual sytnh
Based on ARP's legendary semi-modular analog monosynth! This amazing softsynth sounds very close to the original ARP 2600. Like the original, it's a monosynth (no polyphony). But, also like the original, it has a multitude of Frequency Modulation options which enable it to create some truly awesome sound effects. PWM, Sample & Hold, virtual Spring Reverb, Ring Modulation, and a dedicated Noise Generator are all there
,Good ★★★


Free VSTi Software Synthesizers
Based on the most popular analog monosynth of all time! This amazing softsynth sounds very close to the original Minimoog, yet has tons of additional features not present on the original Mini (as well as the Minimoog Voyager!), including 5-note polyphony, an Arpeggiator and 16-note Step Sequencer, dedicated Release knobs for the two Contour Generators (envelopes),

UVI Workstation is a multi-timbral instrument that provides unlimited parts, integrated effects, live performance features, and a smooth real-time workflow.

UVI Workstation main features:
• New UVI Engine XT design provides superior sound quality and functionality.
• 100% compatible with the UVI Soundcards from Ultimate Sound Bank.
• Easily expandable with new Soundpack downloads from UVISoundsource.com
• Universal compatibility Mac/Win


Ots CD Scratch 1200 is the perfect tool for all those DJ wannabes that like mixing music but don't dare work in a club yet.


Ots Turntables Even if you're not a professional DJ, you can have lots of fun with Ots Turntables Free. However, its basic functionality may disappoint more experienced users.


Beatport SYNC makes for a good audio player for users looking to have fun with mixing features. The clean and crisp dark blue interface shows both your music library and the mixing tools. We found it very easy to browse between the different categories including our own music, playlists and even iTunes. Beatport SYNC can let you play music from any external device, whether a hard drive, an MP3 player or an iPhone.

UpStereo is a simple, useful tool - it makes your mixes bigger, in stereo width and loudness.
Using three basic systems:
1. A fixed frequency EQ designed to lift the highest audio frequencies, and boost the bass.
2. A stereo width unit, for expanding stereo sounds so they appear wider and fatter.


British Valve Custom is based on the gain structure of popular British Valve (Tube) Rock amplifiers (like the infamous Marshall tube heads) with some subtle modifications to give it slightly more gain. This amplifier model has considerable bite and attack making it perfect for classic rock and hard rock sounds.


LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

The Macaw music software is a program that implements a clip based MIDI sequencer, which drives a variety of the most excellent built in plugin instruments and effects, as well as external MIDI devices and also loads VST plugin instruments and effects. It has a soundfont loader and wave editor.
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

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file recovery software

DiskDigger is a utility for recovering deleted or formatted files from any storage media connected to your computer, including all types of memory cards, USB drives and internal or external hard drives.

CD Recovery Toolbox Free is a data recovery tool, designed to recover files from scratched or otherwise damaged or corrupt CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-Ray disks. Just select the drive that contains the media you want to recover from


MjM Free Photo Recovery Software will recover images that have been deleted from a memory card, or from memory cards that have been formatted. The easy-to-use interface will automatically detect the media card in the card reader and scan it, while displaying thumbnail images of the photos that are found during the scan.


PC Inspector Smart Recovery is a data recovery program for Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card(SD) or any other data device for digital cameras


JFileRecovery
JFileRecovery is a free Java Web Start application that can copy files from damaged storage devices and media, skipping over problematic regions that typically cause copying to fail. If the file is listed, there is a good chance that JFileRecovery can salvage much of the data with minimal corruption. For many media files such as MP3, MPEG, AVI and JPEG, corruption is often not even noticeable.


Recuva
Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it's free!


Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery is an easy to use data recovery tool for the recovery of accidentally delete image files on removable media disks (Compact Flash, SmartMedia, Memory Sticks etc.).



road kill,,Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.
,Good ★★★


geProduct Key Finder enables you to recover your product CD-keys and serial numbers for most Microsoft products as well as several 3rd party products. If you need to reinstall or upgrade your PC and no longer have your original registration keys, this program can help you retrieve them.

windows vista and windows 7 32 bit and 64 bitrecovery disc
The problem is, with Windows Vista and windows 7, the installation media serves more than one purpose. It's not just a way to get Windows installed, it's also the only way of recovering a borked installation. The Windows Vista DVD has a "recovery center" that provides you with the option of recovering your system via automated recovery (searches for problems and attempts to fix them automatically), rolling-back to a system restore point, recovering a full PC backup, or accessing a command-line recovery console for advanced recovery purposes.
Microsoft seems to have realized this problem, and have thankfully made a recovery disc for this purpose. It contains the contents of the Windows Vista DVD's "recovery center,"


TestDisk can
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
Fix partition table, recover deleted partition Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup* Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
* Fix FAT tables * Rebuild NTFS boot sector * Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup* Fix MFT using MFT mirror
* Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock* Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem * Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.
TestDisk can run under
* DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box), * Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista), * Linux * FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, * SunOS and* MacOS

PhotoRec
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
PhotoRec runs under

* DOS/Win9x
* Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista
* Linux
* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
* Sun Solaris
* Mac OS X
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FILE SHARING APPS

ANts P2P
ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net. It protects your privacy while you are connected and it makes you not trackable, hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others.

Azureus.
Download quickly and efficiently with intelligent bandwidth, queue and speed management

BitComet
BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE.

BitLord
BitLord is a p2p file-sharing freeware program fully compatible with Bittorrent,

Deluge
Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.

Soulseek™ is a unique ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application.
[its great for those hard to find music cds]
One of the things that makes Soulseek™ unique is our community and community-related features. Based on peer-to-peer technology, virtual rooms allow you to meet people with the same interests, share information, and chat freely using real-time messages in public or private.


µTorrent is the world's most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT



DOWNLOAD MANAGERS
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Tucan
Tucan also manages waits between downloads and interchangeable links seamlessly, relieving the user from this nuisance.
Supporting the main Hosters like RapidShare or MegaUpload, Tucan brings a new experience to users discouraged by other file sharing methods as p2p.


JDOWNLOADER
Command line application written in Java useful for automation of downloading process and filtering contents of downloaded files. jDownloader uses simple script file to configure downloading and filtering processes....,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★
java
tutorial ,,,,


Free Download Manager
What is Free Download Manager? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license. Warning: beware of fake versions.

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IP BLOCKERS


PeerBlock
PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either.


PeerGuardian 2
PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P.


Protowall
Protowall is a lightweight program that runs in the background, taking up little CPU and memory, while blocking thousands of bad IP addresses. In Protowall, all the work is done by the driver that filters each packet, extracts the IP header and then compares the address with the ones in the table, then either discards or permits the packet to pass. The GUI is essentially a "driver instructor" that communicates to the driver the IP list to check against. The GUI also receives notifications from the driver when a packet arrives and when actions are performed with a packet. Protowall Blocks both inbound and outbound packets. Protowall blocks incoming packets from Internet addresses that are on the Bluetack Blacklists. This is handled by another program called the Blocklist Manager. This program finds and retrieves lists of bad IP addresses. They are sorted (overlapping resolved) and then converted to various formats such as Protowall, PeerGuardian & other common applications and firewalls.
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PORT FORWARDING


Simple Port Forwarding v.2.4.5
Program Summery:
Simple Port Forwarding works with WebPages and not directly with your router. Making it a safe program to use. Its no different than using Firefox, IE or any other browser to setup port forwarding yourself.
The program works by automating the process for you. So whether you don't understand how to forward ports, or your simply looking for an easier way to forward ports then this program is for you.
Its port forwarding made simple.
,Excellent ★★★★

Simple Static IP v.1.1.1


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PORTABLE APPS


Avira Portable Antivirus Removal Tool
If you have windows as your primary Operating system then antivirus software is must required to protect from viruses, spywares & worms. if you are looking for any antivirus software which you can carry along with you in your USB Flash drive then here is portable version of Avira AntiVir Removal Toool...,Fair★★



Eraser Portable
Eraser Portable is a secure data removal tool that runs directly from your iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It is a repackaged version of the popular Eraser utility designed with portability in mind, so it has all the same great features of Eraser, but there's nothing to install.


FileZilla Portable
FileZilla Portable is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or on a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

HouseCall Free Portable Antivirus
HouseCall is a Free Portable Antivirus Software created by Trend Micro. It can be used for detection and removal of potential viruses, trojans, worms, and malware
that might reside on your PC. This appears to be a stand alone Free Antivirus Tool that installs temp files during it's launch and removes them on exit. It also should not interfere with any other Antivirus or Antimalware software that may be installed on your Computer....,Excellent ★★★★

Miranda IM Portable
Miranda IM Portable is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.


Multiboot USB
How to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive that you can use to Boot Multiple ISO Files from USB. Please note that you will need a large USB device to be able to support every bootable ISO listed in the Grub menu. I will update and add more Bootable ISO files to the list as I find the time to test them. You can also contact us to submit working Bootable ISO entries for inclusion.video tut


PortableApps.com
Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind
The PortableApps.com Suite and Platform is free. It contains no spyware. There are no advertisements. It isn't a limited or trial version. There is no additional hardware or software to buy. You don't even have to give out your email address. It's 100% free to use, free to copy and free to share.


Sumatra PDF
Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Portable out of the box.
Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features.
It's small and starts up very fast.
It's designed for portable use: only one file so you can run it from external USB drive. Doesn't write to registry.


Totally Free Burner – Portable CD DVD ISO Burner
Totally Free Burner is a Free application that allows it's user to Burn Audio, Video or Data CDs or DVDs quickly and easily. With Totally Free Burner, a user can create an Audio CD using mp3, wma, ogg and wav files, create a VideoCD from Mpeg1 VCD files, create a Data CD/DVD ISO9960 and Joliet (Multisession), create a Data CD/DVD UDF, create a Video DVD from existing DVD files and create a CD/DVD from BIN/ISO image directly. The application is both powerful and simple to use and most importantly, Totally Free Burner can be easily converted into a portable application.


VLC Media Player Portable
VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

UNetbootin
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on both Windows and Linux. You can either let


USB Creator
LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.
This software also offers an exclusive option of automatic virtualization to directly run Linux in Windows without any configuration nor installation.
or make a bootable recovery usb/pen drive ,, create bootable Live USB of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux and many others !
enable persistency of your datalaunch Linux directly in Windows with a special Portable VirtualBox
hide created files on the keymultilingual : French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish and Portuguese
Anybody can use LiLi USB Creator. It's really easy to use and you don't have to be a computer geek !


WinToFlash,
Install Windows from USB. WinToFlash, created by Novicorp, is a tool that can be used to copy your existing Windows XP, 2003, 2008, WinPE, Vista, or Windows 7 CD/DVD Install Disk – Setup Disk to a USB Flash Drive. Upon completion, you should be able to Install Windows using a Flash Drive. Very useful if you own a Netbook or Notebook PC that can boot from USB but does not have an optical drive.
vid tut but you shouldnt need one its so easy
another tutorial


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all links were checked and working ,,03/05/09,,please report any broken ones,,
feel free to donate any finds i will credit you with your tag on each find,
thanks

edit ,no registry cleaners plz ,thanks



if you wish to copy and paste this freeware thread on another site feel free to do so
but plz give credit to this site by posting a link to it and thanking the staff and members

Cheers for that pete saved a lot of time searching for "Freestuff" Nice one mate thankyou ..!

Geezz man ....Cannot imagine how much time took ya to fill that list!
Great job m8

Thanks for all your hard work in compiling this list.

cheers mate that is an awesome list
and much thanks for your time wasted trying to help the community

We all love free stuffs. Thanks a lot mate

thank you

Great work. Thanks.

Great list there!!

Thanks

thank you again

Thanks for all your hard work.

Very nice list Pete21, I appreciate the time you put into it.

Can I add a couple of other great freeware examples to your already extensive list?;

HijackThis by TrendSecure which is here
HijackThis™is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no separation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your machine.

and KMPlayer available here.
The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization.

Programs Nominated for the 2009 Pricelessware List this site found by solerida nice find m8

The following programs were nominated, seconded and included on the ballot for the 2009 Pricelessware List.

µTorrent
http://www.utorrent.com/
µTorrent is the world's most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.
1by1
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
40tude Dialog
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/
a-squared Free 4.5
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AbiWord
http://www.abisource.com/
Agent Ransack
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
Agnitum Outpost Free
http://free.agnitum.com/
AIMP2
http://aimp.ru/index.php
AllChars
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
Analog-X CacheBooster
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/S...cb/Freeware.htm
Analog-X Capture
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/S...re/Freeware.htm
Analog-X Fastcache
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/N...fc/Freeware.htm
Analog-X Script Defender
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/S...nd/Freeware.htm
Ant Movie Catalog
http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog
AnVir Task Manager Free
http://www.anvir.com/taskmanagerfree/
Apache
http://httpd.apache.org/
Applian FLV Player
http://applian.com/flvplayer/
Atlantis Nova
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/nova.htm
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Auslogics Disk Defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag
AutoHotKey
http://www.autohotkey.com/
AutoIt
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3
Autoruns
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb963902.aspx
avast! antivirus Home Edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
avast! antivirus Home Edition is available free of charge for non-commercial home use ONLY. avast! antivirus Home Edition is FREE to use but it is necessary to register before the end of the initial 60 day trial period. The registration process is very easy, and it will take you only a couple of minutes.
Avidemux
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
AxCrypt File Encryption
http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/
BonkEnc
http://www.bonkenc.org/
Bulk Rename Utility
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
Bullzip PDF Printer
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php
BurnCDCC
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm
Burrrn
http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4
Calendar Magic
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/calendar.htm
CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!
CDBurnerXP
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Chainsaw
http://www.frankenwandern.de/software/chainsaw.html
Clickie
http://defoort.free.fr/clickie/
Clippy
http://wots.coolfreepage.com/link.php?id=SW3
ClipX
http://bluemars.org/clipx/
Cmdow (Commandline Window Utility)
http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html
Cobian Backup 9
http://www.cobian.se/
Colibri
http://colibri.leetspeak.org/
Color Cop
http://colorcop.net/
Contig
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897428.aspx
Converber
http://www.xyntec.com/converber.htm
Convert for Windows
http://joshmadison.com/software/download-c...rt-for-windows/
Copernic Desktop Search Home
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/deskto...home/index.html
CPU-Z
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
CurrPorts
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
Dark Room
http://they.misled.us/dark-room
dBworx v.3.8
http://www.plworx-software.com/index.html#iddbworx
DeepBurner Free
http://www.deepburner.com/index.php?r=prod...mp;prr=features
Defraggler
http://www.defraggler.com/
Dependency Walker
http://www.dependencywalker.com
DiskDigger
http://dmitrybrant.com/diskdigger
Do PDF
http://www.dopdf.com/
docmd
http://thomaslauer.com/comp/docmd
Double Driver Version 3.0
http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm
DriveSentry
http://www.drivesentry.com/AntiVirus-downl...-computers.html
DTaskManager
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
DupDetector
http://www.photo-freeware.net/dupdetector.php
EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
EAC is "Exact Audio Copy". It will help you to copy (extract) audio tracks, or even parts of them, to the harddisk. In newer versions it also includes some audio CD writing routines and a small audio editor.
EASEUS Partition Master
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
EclipseCrossword
http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/
EditPad Lite 6.5.1
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Eraser
http://eraser.heidi.ie/
ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT)
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/index.htm
ESBCalc
http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm
ESBUnitConv
http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm
EssentialPIM Free
http://www.essentialpim.com/
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner v.2.5.1
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleane...try_cleaner.htm
Everything
http://www.voidtools.com
ExifTool
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool
ExifTool GUI
http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm
Faststone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
FileAlyzer
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/filealyzer/index.html
FileMenu Tools
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html
Filenote (part of ShellTools)
http://www.moonsoftware.com/shelltools.asp
Filezilla
http://filezilla-project.org/
Firebug
http://getfirebug.com/
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
FlashFolder
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flashfolder/
Folder2Iso
http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareFolder2Iso.php
Foobar2000
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Format Factory
http://www.formatoz.com/index.html
Forte Free Agent v1.93
http://www.cc.uom.gr/pub/FREEWARE/INTERNET...et/a32en193.exe
Fotosketcher
http://www.brothersoft.com/download-fotosketcher-66829.html
FreeCommander
http://www.freecommander.com/
FreePdf
http://freepdfxp.de/
FreeUndelete
http://www.officerecovery.com/
Gadwin PrintScreen
http://www.gadwin.com/download/ps_setup.exe
GFI Backup
http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm
Ghostscript
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost
GMER
http://www.gmer.net/
GNU Privacy Guard
http://www.gnupg.org/
Gnumeric
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
GnuWin32
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
GParted LiveCD
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
HandBrake
http://handbrake.fr/
Hash
http://keir.net/hash.html
Hashtab v3.0.0
http://www.beeblebrox.org/
HJSplit
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
HostsMan
http://www.abelhadigital.com/
HoverSnap
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
HTTrack
http://www.httrack.com/
HxD 1.7.7.0
http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
ImgBurn
http://www.imgburn.com/
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit! ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS's - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
Index Your Files
http://www.indexyourfiles.com/
InfraRecorder
http://infrarecorder.org/
Inkscape
http://www.inkscape.org/
innounp
http://innounp.sourceforge.net/
Input Director
http://www.inputdirector.com/
Instan-t Messenger
http://www.instan-t.com/
IPNetInfo
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html
Irfanview
http://www.irfanview.com/
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
IZArc
http://www.izarc.org/
Jaangle
http://www.jaangle.com/
JkDefrag 3.36
http://www.kessels.biz/JkDefrag/
JkDefragGUI
http://www.emro.nl/freeware/
JR Screen Ruler
http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
K-Meleon
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Karen's Replicator
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
KeePass Password Safe
http://keepass.info/
Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/files/keriopf215.zip
KompoZer
http://www.kompozer.net/
Lame
http://lame.sourceforge.net/
LightBox Free
http://www.lightboxeditor.com/
Lister
http://www.ghisler.com/lister
Lupas Rename
http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/
Magic Mail Monitor
http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
http://magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
MagicDisc
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-mag...sc-overview.htm
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Maxthon Classic Ver. 1.6.5
http://www.maxthon.com/
Media Player Classic Home Cinema
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
Mercury Mail Transport System (SMTP Server)
http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercury.htm
Metapad
http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
Miranda IM
http://www.miranda-im.org/
MozBackup
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php
Mp3tag
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
MySQL
http://www.mysql.com/
MyUninstaller
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html
Neutron 1.07
http://keir.net/neutron.html
NewsProxy 1.2.5
http://www.exscientia.org/akula_tools/index.html
nLite
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html
Nmap Security Scanner v5.00
http://nmap.org/download.html
Noscript
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
NotePad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
OllyDbg
http://www.ollydbg.de/
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
OpenExpert
http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html
Opera
http://www.opera.com/
PC Wizard
http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php
PDF-XChange Viewer
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/P...ls/pdfx_viewer/
PDFTK Builder
http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/#pdftkbuilder
Pegasus Mail
http://www.pmail.com/index2.htm
Photo! Editor
http://pho.to/editor/
PhotoFiltre
http://photofiltre.en.softonic.com/
Photoscape
http://www.photoscape.org/
PHP
http://www.php.net/
Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/index.html#
PngOptimizer
http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php
Pop Peeper
http://www.poppeeper.com/
Power Defragmenter
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Powe...load-20185.html
Process Explorer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896653.aspx
ProcMon
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896645.aspx
PSPad
http://www.pspad.com/
Pstart
http://www.pegtop.net/start/
Pure Text 2.0
http://www.stevemiller.net/apps/
PuTTY
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Qtpfsgui
http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/download.php
QuickPar
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
Rainlendar
http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
Recuva
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
RegScanner
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html
RegSeeker
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Regshot v1.81
http://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/files/
Revo Uninstaller
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
RJ TextEd
http://www.rj-texted.se/
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
http://www.roadkil.net/
Sandboxie
http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie
Scanner
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
SearchMyFiles
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/search_my_files.html
Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
Servant Salamander
http://www.altap.cz/download.html#salrel
SizeMe
http://lars.werner.no/?page_id=2
Skype
http://www.skype.com/
slrn
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
SoftPerfect Network Scanner
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/
Spacemonger
http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
SpeedFan
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Spybot Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareBlaster secures your browser against potentially unwanted software and sites - preventing the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software, exploitation of security vulnerabilites, and much more. Most importantly, however, SpywareBlaster works without interfering with the good side of the web. SpywareBlaster works on Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, or Vista.
Stickies
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
Stunnel
http://www.stunnel.org/
Superantispyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Sysinternals Suite
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb842062.aspx
System Information for Windows
http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html
Take Command Console LE
http://jpsoft.com/tccledes.htm
TClockEx
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/
TED Notepad
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
Teracopy
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
The Gimp
http://www.gimp.org/
TheSage
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html
Thunderbird 2
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
TinySpell
http://tinyspell.m6.net/
TOMBO
http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/
Treecopy
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/treecopy/
TreePad Lite
http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/
TrueCrypt
http://www.truecrypt.org/
UBCD4Win
http://ubcd4win.com/
UK Kalender
http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/
Universal Extractor
http://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract
Unlocker
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
UnxUtils
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils
USB Disk Ejector
http://quick.mixnmojo.com/usb-disk-ejector
USBDeview
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
USBDLM
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/
VirtuaWin
http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
VMware Player
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Wallpaper Changer 1.90
http://www.wallpaperchanger.de/
Wavosaur
http://www.wavosaur.com/download.php
WinAudit
http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm
WinContig
http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm
WinDirStat
http://windirstat.info/
Windows System Control Center
http://www.kls-soft.com/freeware/wscc.php
WinMerge
http://winmerge.org/
WinPatrol
http://www.winpatrol.com/
WinSCP
http://winscp.net/
Wireshark
http://www.wireshark.org/
WnBrowse v.4.9.2
http://www.ngthomas.co.uk/
Wordweb Free Version Dictionary/Spell Checker
http://wordweb.info/
XBMC
http://xbmc.org/
Xenu's Link Sleuth
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
XMedia Recode
http://www.xmedia-recode.de/
Xnews
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
Xnview
http://www.xnview.com/
xxclone
http://xxclone.com/
xxcopy
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
ZSoft Uninstaller
http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4

The following programs were nominated, but did not receive a second and therefore, were not eligible to be included on the ballot for the 2009 Pricelessware List.

Active Perl
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/
Cool Ruler
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhan...ool-Ruler.shtml
dsCrypt
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/
DShutdown
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
Emule
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/
EvJO Wallpaper Changer v2.0
http://www.evjosoft.com/
FWTools
http://fwtools.maptools.org/
HostsXpert
http://funkytoad.com/
Liberkey
http://www.liberkey.com/en/download/2-liberkey-en/
Moo0 Rightclicker
http://www.moo0.com/?top=http://www.moo0.c...%23RightClicker
Nasm
http://www.nasm.us/
Prish Image Resizer
http://prishcom.spaces.live.com/blog/cns&a...mp;sa=632048861
Python
http://www.python.org/
R
http://www.r-project.org/
Space Sniffer
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
StrokeIt
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
TortoiseCVS
http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
Video Thumbnails Maker
http://www.suu-design.com/projects.html
VSO Image Resizer
http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/

Holy Moses!!! Now THIS is a 'collection' of sites!!

I've been searching around for a or the "proper" A/V program for me. With my VERY limited knowledge it can be, and has been, somewhat confusing. Until now. Well ok .... the truth ... ... may-be I'm still a teeny bit confused, but I certainly do know that I have found "The Spot" to look for ...... well ..... to look for any and every thing as far as I can tell!!

I found my way here by the way, through following a link provided underneath a comment you made {provided by you I assume} on a page where someone else had requested some guidance on which A/V that they should maybe use.

Thank you SO much for providing the link!! And, if it's possable, an even BIGGER thank you for all the time and hard work you must obviously have put in to put this list togeather, and then in turn make it available for all of us!!

This is one 'Newbie' who wants you to know that, without doubt, you my friend are APPRECIATED!!!

Once more .... Thanks so much!

Thanks for the leg work. Lots of good useful programs and free

Great list, I use some of those programs!


You can add two more freewarez that I use, one of them is CCleaner:

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

I use it mostly to clean my registry when I uninstal something or so, it's very fast and reliable.

You can download it here.



And the other one is Netbeans:

A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

The NetBeans IDE 6.5 provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features, improved support for using the Hibernate web framework and the Java Persistence API, and tighter GlassFish v3 and MySQL integration.


This is one is for Java programming, I use it in my classes in college, it works great too!

Download it here.



Hope you enjoy, I'll post some more if I remember, there are too many and the list is properly done :p


Greetz,

Kylops

thanks kylops net beans has been added,

i left cc cleaner off as registry cleaners may cause harm in the wrong hands

CCleaner is almost harmless, but I get your point :)

Glad I helped, keep up the good work!

thank that unit.

-cheese eggs-

Cheers pete21 excellent list.

There might be a good reason you left them out but you could also include some of the popular linux distros like ubuntu/debian, suse, DSL, fedora etc etc, the list is long. There's a good freeware site here that lists most of them. .

my bad i should have titled it winows apps/utilities,
i was thinking of looking into linux ,as im told its a lot more stable than windows,
i fancy having a play with it
thanks for the link

brilliant - cheers pete

very useful info !

great list !

thank you !

oh f*@&% yah
is this shit for computers or for blackberrys ? i was a bit confused lol

its for pc,s ,,windows freeware,
there are converters for mobile devices though

pete21, that is a FANTASTIC list of freeware!!! Thanks to you and Badog for your hard work!!

Awesome work on that list mate. You've got some of my favourites listed already. But I do have a couple of others I'd like to propose for addition:

Disk Defragger:
Defraggler - I use this and really like it. You can defrag individual files, multiple files, all files & run on a schedule.

File Recovery:
Recuva - I can't vouch for this one but its made by Piriform (the people who do Ccleaner & Defraggler (both of which I swear by) so should be good I reckon.

System Information:
GPU-Z - Like CPU-Z but for Graphics cards.

Video Applications:
AutoGK - I have used this for a long time. Its a pretty good program for encoding files to .avi. Actually its a frontend for a number of different progs (all packaged together) which it installs (which leads to a fairly protracted install) but works great.
Handbrake - Video encoding/re-encoding software. I just discovered this one, cleaner looking all-in-one install (which looks a little more professional than AutoGK), also has some extra features like x264 encoding, alternate containers such as MKV and preset setting for ipod/iphone/psp/ps3/xbox360. If it lives up to appearances, this is what I'll be using from now on (instead of AutoGK).
DVD Decrypter - An old one but a good one. I still use this lots for doing raw rips of DVD VOBs (before I feed it into one of the above to create an AVI).

File Search:
Agent Ransack - powerful and fast file search utility.

System Tool - Shell Extension:
HashTab - Very handy if you do lots of file transfers and want to check to ensure the file hasn't been corrupted. Adds a tab to the file properties window with the files hash (or signature) information (such as md5 and sha).

System Tool - Tweaker:
TweakUI - Microsoft tool (part of powertoys package) for adjusting a few settings that default windows doesn't allow access to (without reg hacks). Very user friendly. [XP & 2003 only]

System Tool - Fix:
ToolTipFixer - fixes the annoying bug where the tool tips sometimes come up underneath the taskbar instead of on top! (Win95 -> WinXP)

Office Suite: - OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a great free & open source replacement for MS Office. Hasn't got all the bells and whistles of the latest MS Office (pretty much equivalent of Office 2003) but the features are good and the price is right! Features Writer (MS Word replacement), Impress (MS Powerpoint replacement) and Calc (MS Excel replacement). All 3 programs will open and save MS file formats (formatting sometimes changes a little when going one to the other). You can choose to set the default save type as MS style, or use the smaller native odf formats. Can even export as pdf. Oo.o (with an extension) and GO-oo & OxygenOffice (out of the box) can open MSWorks & MSOffice2007 files (eg docx) and can convert pdf to doc or odf (sometimes formatting lost).
Downloads:
OpenOffice (original) (sponsored/developed by Sun Microsystems) - current version 3.1
GO OpenOffice (Optimised version) (supported by Novell) - My personal preference - current version 3.1
OxygenOffice - Another optimised version of Oo.o including fonts clipart and many more extras - current version 2.7 (version 3.0.1 is also available but I think it is only in beta at the moment)

[edit] Also, almost forgot two CD/DVD burners: CDBurnerXP & ImgBurn. Both compatible with Win2k -> Win7 (inc Server OS). They have some unique features but as they are both primarily burning apps there is also a fair bit of crossover.

thanks freakyjason CDBurnerXP & ImgBurn. and TweakUI were already on the list ,the others have been added and tagged:thankyou:

great list, thanks


i can also recommend VSO Inspector

its a useful little tool for analysing cd/dvd drives and the actual disks themselves

a VERY USEFULL LIST

i shall book mark this page.

Thanks you for taking the time to do this for us All :)

added and tagged thanks

Thanx this list is awesome, I appreciate the time you took collecting all this info!!!

Thank you very much, this will become my bible

cool, thanks



another good free prog that I use is CDisplay

I mainly use it for viewing comic books and graphic novels, but it can be used for all sorts of other things

unfortunately the main site is not working but there are plenty of places to grab it from if you google it. I have posted the link to the wiki page for it so you can have a look and and see if you think it's worth putting on your list (i didn't want to link to a download site for it as i'll leave that to you to decide on one you trust)

Much thanks

Thanks for the Freeware suggestions. Now for the Encryption Software Vista Users I highly recommend True Crypt. It's very easy to use and runs very smooth on Vista. PowerCrypt the other one is good to use if you like to send files to other people ''discretly'' without them installing the software to open the file. All the need is the paraphrase. Runs okay on Vista but if you just want protection just for yourself then True Crypt is the way to go.

thanks for the suggestion chessmaster
they were already listed ,
thanks for the input

absolutly fantastic collection.
thank you so much for going to all the trouble to not only provide all the links but your ongoing dedication to this thread
may I suggest this one for the art side of things?
http://www.sumopaint.com/web/

it is a free and online alternative to a 'lite' version of photoshop ( same layout)

I have added details in this thread http://94.75.224.58/forums/index.php?showtopic=98944&hl= but badog suggested it might be good here too

thanks crunchytop
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