Freeware Alternative List

Should the list include only spyware-free and very freeware software. Some of the programs encountered in the list has spyware in it. Good idea to take them down or put a note next to the software to say that it has spyware.

Make a post with the name of the software if you find spyware, I will remove it.

May 11, 2006

PDF Utilities

PDF/TextBox http://www.pdftextbox.com/default.aspx

PDF/TextBox is an easy to use PDF Editor. This means that you can write documents quickly and easily. You can also copy/paste from Office applications. Once you have saved a PDF document you can re-open it to make changes. PDF/TextBox supports typical PDF features such as password protection, encryption and document info.

Elfima Notepad http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php

(I notice this is listed as HTML Editor in the list. Suggest reconsideration)

Elfima Notepad is a free text editor to create and modify PDF, SVG,

XHTML, and XML documents.

You can use Elfima Notepad as the Windows Notepad, but with some

extra features such as export to PDF, XHTML, SVG, and XML formats.

You can also open files created with Elfima Notepad.

You can insert pictures, bookmarks, annotations and hyperlinks in PDF

documents

May 14, 2006

Small CD Writer 1.12- http://home.earthlink.net/~1.414213563/files/SCDWriter.exe

It's a direct link. The newer versions are encrypted and are impossible to translate.

May 14, 2006

Video and Audio :)

AVS TV Box Free - Watch and record TV to PC from any sources with FREE AVS Tv Box.

AVS DVD Player FREE - Watch movie DVDs and video files right on your computer with FREE AVS DVD Player

AV DVD Player - Morpher - The DVD player software that can morph movie, convert DVD/VCD and edit subtitle

SC Free Audio Extractor - Extract Audio From Video Files.

May 15, 2006

PDF Utilities

PDFTK Builder http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/

PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to the Windows version of PDFTK.

May 15, 2006

Video tools & converters

ScreenCoder http://webfiles.uci.edu/jklint/work/screencoder20.zip

This software is capable of recording from many video sources, including live video from capture cards, on-screen windows, remote machine screens, and much much more! ScreenCoder is based on the Microsoft Windows Media platform, which includes Windows Media Encoder, Windows Media Player, and Windows Media Server

May 15, 2006

Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/

Just tried to check this out. Maybe it's handy if you change the link to http://www.aqsis.org/

The current link... well... links to something naughty.

May 16, 2006

PDF Utilities

Tomahawk http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/util/pdf.html

Tomahawk PDF+ 2.7.2 (last freeware version) gives you a complete PDF file creation suite right on your computer. Tomahawk can also be used as an advanced editor for rtf, txt, tmd (own format) and other file formats.

May 16, 2006

AutoSmall - Makes Icons on desktop into small 16px icons. Small footprint. Be sure to get the english zip.

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~wingdog/soft1.html

BarracudaDrive - With BarracudaDrive, you can securely upload, download, and manage your files on your home computer from anywhere in the world. BarracudaDrive also bypasses firewalls and proxies

http://barracudaserver.com/examples/BarracudaDrive/

Dupdetector - find duplicate files on your computer

http://www.prismaticsoftware.com

May 16, 2006

Webserver:

Wamp5 - http://www.wampserver.com/en/

May 17, 2006

Partition Managers

g4u http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4u/

"ghost for unix" is a 4.4 mb bootable ISO for cloning drives and partitions (Yes, it works on Windows).

Can clone an image by FTP also.

May 19, 2006

3D Graphics

Freestyle http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/

Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. It is designed as a programmable interface to allow maximum control over the style of the final drawing: the user "programs" how the silhouettes and other feature lines from the 3D model should be turned into stylized strokes using a set of programmable operators dedicated to style description. This programmable approach, inspired by the shading languages available in photorealistic renderers such as Pixar's RenderMan, overcomes the limitations of integrated software with access to a limited number of parameters and permits the design of an infinite variety of rich and complex styles.

May 20, 2006

Video tools & converters

DVDx http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/

DVDx allows you to convert DVD to VCD2.0 or SCVD1.0 or DivX or WMV in one step (including multiplexing, splitting). It produces very good quality movies in MPEG1/2 format and you don't need to have 5GB or more free on your hard disk. DVDx has been designed especialy for unexperimented users, it is a simple and intuitive program. You only need Nero to burn your VCD/SVCD. DVDx has evolved in a very powerful program, the fastest DVD backup solution ever and is now adopted by a lot of people including advanced users.

May 21, 2006

Anti-Virus

Comodo AntiVirus http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/

* Detects and eliminates viruses from desktops and networks

* Constantly protects with real-time On Access scanning online

* Proactive Heuristic analysis intercepts unknown threats

* Daily, automatic updates of virus definitions

* Isolates suspicious files in quarantine preventing infection

* Simple to use: install and forget

* Windows XP (SP2) / Windows 2000 (SP4 or later)

* 50 MB available space on your hard drive

* 128 MB RAM

* Intel Pentium 300 MHz processor (or equivalent)

Note - Not compatible with Windows 9x systems

May 21, 2006

HTML Editors

visualEdit http://www.activecampaign.com/visualedit/

Full fledged web based site editor

From file creation, modification, and deletion - visualEdit can do it all. The intuitive interface and controls allows a seamless learning curve for yourself or your clients. visualEdit includes a version history system, template options, and numerous file options. Allowing you to go beyond a basic create and edit.

May 25, 2006

Educational (New category, perhaps, Simon?)

Stellarium http://www.stellarium.org/

Scilab http://www.scilab.org/

Molecular Workbench http://mw.concord.org/modeler/

SciCraft http://www.scicraft.org/

Envisage http://www.nikhilsud.com/envis_about.htm

Kicad http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/

May 25, 2006

Defrag Software

WinDefrag http://www.kessels.com/defrag/index.html

May 29, 2006

General Utilities And Other Applications

X-ecutor http://www.xpertdesign.de/english/sw_xecutor_info.php4

Runs programs at system startup or shutdown

You can specify different conditions under which your programs should be started

You can activate programs at specific times or on specific days of the week.

Runs programs only once a day if you want to

Shutdown the system automatically to a specified time

Shutdown the system automatically if it is idle for a specified amount of minutes

May 30, 2006

Video tools & converters

MeGUI http://megui.sourceforge.net/

MeGUI is a modern frontend for open source audio and video encoding. Like other frontends such as Gordian Knot, MeGUI is a GUI which seamlessly manages the running of many encoding tools. In many ways, it is the combined successor of Gordian Knot and Auto Gordian Knot. It manages everything that these tools do (and more), but it is primarily designed to encode to the new compression standard: H.264/AVC.

iPodTVShow http://members.verizon.net/pucklock/iPTV/iPodTVShow.html

A Windows GUI for setting iTunes-style metadata into MPEG-4 video files

TVTagger http://tvtagger.wordpress.com/

Tag mp4 videos

avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

AviDemux is a video editor and encoder which can edit, encode, requantize MPEG and AVI, including DivX

Edited May 30, 2006 by CoolCatBad

May 31, 2006

Download managers

WxDownload Fast http://dfast.sourceforge.net/index.html

WxDownload Fast is a opensource download manager. It was created to be multi-plataform, so in the momment it builds in Windows(2k,XP), Linux and MacOS). Besides that, it is a multithread download manager. This means that it can split a file in several pieces and download this pieces simultaneously.

June 1, 2006

Some of these are very nice. Thanks. :)

June 4, 2006

iWebAlbum http://www.eunq.com

June 4, 2006

3D Graphics

Pointshop3D http://graphics.ethz.ch/pointshop3d/downloadPS3D20.html

June 5, 2006

Can someone tell me whats a good app for mp3 editing like downgrade from 128k to 96k?

Thanks!!

June 6, 2006

offtopic

@coolcatbad

man you own this thread... thanks for posting all these free programs :)

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