Freeware alternative list

don't know if this has been considered or whatever, but it would be useful to have ratings next to the programs on the list. don't know how you'd implement this to be practical, i doubt you could poll it for so many items but someone could think of something i'm sure. which is the best all-round anti-virus software on that list?

February 19, 2004

Great list!
some additions:

VIDEO PLAYER: Zoom player standard ( http://www.inmatrix.com )

MAIL CLIENT: Foxmail ( http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm )

note: download the chinese v5b1 version and turn it into english by deleting chinese.lgb file

french and spanish versions here: http://foxmail.free.fr/www/home.php

INSTANT MESSENGER: Skype ( http://www.skype.com )

Skype isn't just an IM program, it does free Voice Over Internet

13,214 · February 21, 2004

Free CAD software:

QCad http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

26,206 · February 21, 2004

free shutdown utility: alt+f4...nah j/k :)

it's named switch off. best by far. and it's free.

http://yasoft.km.ru/eng/switchoff/

Overview

Switch Off is a tiny easy-to-use tray-based system utility that can automatically perform various frequently used operations like shutdown or restart your computer, disconnect your current dialup connection, lock workstation, etc. It also provides fast access to this operations through system tray icon. Utility has fully customizeable Web interface, that allows you to initiate operations mentioned above remotely from any computer with web browser installed. Web interface includes WAP support, so you can control your computer from mobile phone. This utility is intended to be used by either novice or professional user, because of its intuitive interface and professional features.

Features

Scheduled and immediate options for:

Shutdown / Restart computer

Log-off user

Lock WorkStation

Disconnect dialup connection

Standby / Hibernate (power saving options)

Fast restart (Windows 95/98)

Customizeable Web interface (mini HTTP server)

WAP protocol support.

Simple intuitive multi-language interface

Can work everytime when windows is running, even at logon screen.

Command line support (including timer setings)

Silent install option (good for run in a batch scripts)

Works on all 32-bit versions of Windows (9x/NT/2000/XP)

Tiny size and system resource requirements

5,918 · February 21, 2004

What about audio stuff? Like my friend wants to record some stuff his band is making, and wants to clean it up and stuff. Any ideas?

13,558 · February 22, 2004

Programming C#

SharpDevelop

February 24, 2004

Great list! Thanks for the work!

February 25, 2004

Video tools:

DVD Rip and Burn

DVD Decrypter

March 2, 2004

does anyone know of a standalone excel program?

1,365 · March 2, 2004

FTP Servers:

TYPSoft FTP Server

File Managers:

Dimension File Manager

March 3, 2004

AppRocket is now shareware (as of final ver 1.0)

March 4, 2004

Has anyone tried Crimson Editor? It's almost a clone of EditPlus (which every "real" coder swears by). CE is EditPlus, but free. Has a few extra's like inline evaluation (type 10+3= and press enter and it gives u the result on the next line) and stuff like that. Its prettttty nice. I had a few crashing problems while using regular expression searching and replacing, but apart from that, great freeware.

www.crimsoneditor.com

- Aalaap

March 4, 2004

Also this reallly simple and cute download manager called WinGet. I was unable to get the latest WinGet 1.6 from the website at winget.cc but i managed to get 1.5 from FileMirrors. It's got the basics - multi threaded downloading and queing and all that. Its almost perfect for an average user. It shall come in handy in my effort to woo users away from clunky Download Accelerator Plus :angry:

- Aalaap

1,365 · March 6, 2004

Also this reallly simple and cute download manager called WinGet. I was unable to get the latest WinGet 1.6 from the website at winget.cc but i managed to get 1.5 from FileMirrors. It's got the basics - multi threaded downloading and queing and all that. Its almost perfect for an average user. It shall come in handy in my effort to woo users away from clunky Download Accelerator Plus :angry:
- Aalaap

Great little download manager, I also use it. You can download the latest 1.6 here http://filicide.timdorr.com/files/winget16.exe

4,972 · March 7, 2004

Programming Editors

Hexplorer

http://artemis.wszib.edu.pl/~mdudek/

CodePad

http://shicola.d2.cz/codepad/download.php

2,103 · March 8, 2004

Newsgroups reader (mainly for downloading binaries): Xnews.

March 15, 2004

Another Free (Excellent) Mail Program (My Default)

FoxMail 4.1 - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm

there are newer versions but these are in japanesse or something like that :p

March 15, 2004

Programming Editors
Hexplorer

http://artemis.wszib.edu.pl/~mdudek/

CodePad

http://shicola.d2.cz/codepad/download.php

The only real programming editor is gVim.

http://www.vim.org/

March 15, 2004

What about audio stuff? Like my friend wants to record some stuff his band is making, and wants to clean it up and stuff. Any ideas?

You can try Audacity over at Sourceforge

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects.

Audacity is being developed by a team of volunteers under the open-source model. It is written in C and C++, using the wxWidgets cross-platform toolkit. All of the source code to the program is made available under the GNU General Public License, which essentially allows anyone to modify the source code as long as they publicize the changes. The code is hosted on SourceForge.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

cheers!

5,022 · March 19, 2004

I like to use GDivx, now GDivx Zenith player for video: Link.

2,443 · March 21, 2004

Video: VirtualVCR

2,009 · April 2, 2004

a better stickies...:

Nullsoft's safesex SAFESEX

3,847 · April 2, 2004

Any good Registry Cleaners?

April 3, 2004

Any good Registry Cleaners?

RegSeeker 1.35

RegSeeker is a perfect companion for your Windows registry !

RegSeeker includes a powerful registry cleaner and can display various informations like your startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much more ! With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS ! Now RegSeeker includes a file tool to search for duplicate files, bad shortcuts and more !

RegSeeker is FREE for personal use only !

There are also other freeware on the page listed above.

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

HoverSnap v0.8

HoverSnap is a a free handy snapshot tool with jpg, png, bmp and gif support.HoverSnap can take snapshots of the full screen, active window or a selected area. It can even capture layered windows (alphablended ones under 2K / XP). You can even FTP upload your screenshots !

You can set up the capture folder / filename and format.

You can reduce the capture size.

Auto-generate filename option will add the time stamp (date/time) to your filename in order to be able to take several captures without having to change the filename.

Optional sound when capture is done.

HoverSnap is FREE for personal use only !

HoverMatch

HoverMatch is a FREEWARE utility designed to allow desktop customizers to modify exiting themes and skins to their tastes by altering an images Hue, Saturation and Brightness values and saving the results. This utility makes it possible for users to modify themes and skins without requiring an image editor program like Photoshop.

Features:

Skin colorizing preserves the transparency ?key color?. This can be ?magic pink? (255,0,255) or any user specified color.

Lock Filter to re-apply the same filter for each new loaded image.

Zoom with optional lock for appplying the same zoom valye for every image loaded (zoom is only for preview)

Target color panel an easy way to select the hue/sat/brightness values to match a selected target.

A moveable preview image (to place it near the target color for example).

2 Color pickers included: 1 for the color to exclude (bitmap color picker) / 1 for the target color (desktop color picker).

Bitmap / Icon (size from 16x16 up to 128x128) / Jpeg recolorizing support (changed save to bitmap files).

Icon to Bitmap conversion: Icon files (.ICO) can be saved into Bitmaps in a very easy way.

Sophisticated image browsing: - a small thumbnail preview in the image list with different text colors to identify the image types.

Details View: image size / bpp / date display.

cheers!

3,469 · April 3, 2004

FTP Servers:

http://en.typsoft.com/

its a good one do i need to pm sait dark?

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