morabu Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 This is a list of legal, free programs for various uses i found while surfing the web.. I cannot take credit for this as i found it as you see it. it is a very good list though! 3D Graphics: 3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/ Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/ Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/ gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/ Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/ Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/ Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/ Anti-Virus: AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/ Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/ ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/ Anti Spyware: Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/ Audio Players: 1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/ Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/ iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/ Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/ musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/ QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/ Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/ Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/ XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/ Audio Tools: Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/ GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/ K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/ KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/ MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/ mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/ MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/ mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/ MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/ Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/ SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/ TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/ CD/DVD Burning: Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr Compression / Decompression: 7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/ bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/ FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/ Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/ IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/ QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/ TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/ UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/ Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/ Defrag Software: DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/ OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp Desktop Enhancements: AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372 CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/ Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/ MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/ Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/ SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/ tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/ WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/ Download managers: Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/ wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/ Encryption and data security: Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/ Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/ PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/ WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm File Managers: 2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/ A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/ ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/ JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/ MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/ File repair and recovery: PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm Firewalls: Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp FTP Clients: CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/ Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/ FTP Servers: FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334 Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/ HTML Editors: 1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/ Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/ TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/ Image viewers: Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/ Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/ XNView - http://www.xnview.com/ Instant Messenger: Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ IM2: http://www.im2.com Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/ Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/ PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/ SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/ Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads Internet Explorer Front-Ends: Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/ Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/ SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm IRC Clients: BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/ BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/ TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/ XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/ Mail programs: Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/ i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/ Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/ PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/ Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Anti-spam programs: K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/ POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ Network Tools: CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/ Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/ hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/ NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/ NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/ NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ Ntop - http://www.ntop.org PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400 RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/ TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/ UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/ Office Suite: 602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/ OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/ Partition Managers: Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/ Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/ TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html PDF Utilities: Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/ PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/ PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/ Photo manipulation and image design: ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/ Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/ Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/ Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/ The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morabu Posted December 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 i had to split it in 2 as the post was longer than 15000 characters so here's the rest! Programming: ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Context - http://www.context.cx/ Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/ ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/ JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/ Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/ Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/ PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/ Python - http://www.python.org/ Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/ WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/ Pop-up Blockers: Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/ NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/ PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/ Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/ RSS Readers: Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/ RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/ RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/ SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/ System Information and monitoring: CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1 Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/ Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311 SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html Video codecs : DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow XviD - http://www.xvid.org/ Video players : BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/ Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/ DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/ MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/ Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303 VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/ Video tools: DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/ DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/ FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/ VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889 Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html Web browsers: Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/ Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp Opera - http://www.opera.com Web servers: Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/ Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/ Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/ SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html Webcam Software: booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/ Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/ Checksum Utilities: fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/ hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/ md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/ General Utilities And Other Applications: AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/ AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/ Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/ EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/ Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/ QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/ png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/ Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/ Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/ TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/ Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lustalbert Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Nice heap of stuff. :thumbup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS69 Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Thanks for the post, I was trying to find AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/ and couldnt remember the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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