Freeware Alternative List

Revolver Mail combines all the elements of a personal information manager - an email client, an address book, and a calendar - in a single, integrated, user-friendly interface. Even better: it?s free. Revolver Mail is the safe, network-savvy alternative to existing email programs.

Designed especially for use in SOHO and small business environments, Revolver Mail?s secure framework and virus-resistant email area makes it a great choice for both company data and personal information.

September 13, 2006

Mail programs

Koma-Mail http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=c...=5&Itemid=6

Evolution http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/

Cobian Herald http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobherald.htm

September 25, 2006

Audio Creation

Jungulator http://www.iamthemightyjungulator.com/downloads

Brilliant looping/sequencing/slicing audio proccessor for PC and Mac.

Takes a long, long time to start.....but worth the wait. I made some great music just using Windows system sounds as samples.

September 25, 2006

Audio Creation

LoopBe1 A Free Virtual MIDI Driver http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html

LoopBe1 is an internal MIDI device for transferring MIDI data between computer programs. Basically LoopBe1 is an "invisible cable" to connect a MIDI outport of an application to any other application?s MIDI inport.

All MIDI data sent to the program?s output is channeled to the receiving applications in realtime.

You may connect up to 8 applications to LoopBe's inport and up to 8 applications to the outport, all sending and receiving at the same time.

September 26, 2006

Network Tools:

Win IP Config http://www.pkostov.com/wipcfg.html

Win IP Configuration Manager is a replacement for the annoying command line tools "ipconfig.exe" and "route.exe". This version also includes the "netstat.exe" tool.

Win IP Configuration Manager shows you the IP settings of the installed network interfaces. IP addresses obtained by DHCP can be renewed by Win IP Config.

Routes can easily be added, removed, changed or made persistent by this tool.

September 26, 2006

Here's a good little program, very early in it's stages but it looks promising. Very fast too.

FuturixImager is compact and customizable image viewer. It is capable of opening more then 50 graphical formats, including most popular ones (GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG2000, raw, DNG).
Imager can also print, scan, perform basic editing operations, make screenshots, show camera metadata, import raw camera photos, generate histograms, and much more!

http://www.futurix.co.uk/imager/

September 26, 2006

Video Tools

Transana http://www.transana.org/index.htm

Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips.

September 27, 2006

Sudowin http://sudowin.sourceforge.net/

Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user's profile and ownership of created objects.

September 30, 2006

Network Tools:

WinNG Windows Network Graph http://montaro.bur.st/winng/

* Monitoring of any TCP/IP adapter

* Shows speed in/out

* Records amount of data sent/received

* Simple tray icon that mimicks built-in Windows one

* Two graphs to graphically record traffic in/out

* A choice of 5 different graph styles (Bar, 3D, Line, Filled & Scatter)

* Selection of internet speeds to customize graph scope

* Customise graph scope with your own up/down speeds

* Displays your IP address and subnet mask

* Calculates the actual percentage of bandwidth that is in use

* Records statistical data to an INI file in the Windows directory for use with other programs. Such as displaying your network readings on IRC (a sample mIRC script is included to show how to do this).

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October 2, 2006

For Audio Tools, I recommend CUE Splitter:

http://www.shareup.com/CUE_Splitter-download-30218.html

Gets the job done nicely, and it's very easy to use. Just an FYI, it wants to call home for some reason, so if you don't want it to do that, be sure to take care of that first. ;)

October 3, 2006

General utilities

OverDisk http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html

Graphical Disk Space Analyzer which shows you the relative sizes of the various folders on a hard drive.

October 4, 2006

maybe its been updated but i didn't see this on the list

System Information & Monitoring

PC Wizard 2006 http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

*Best Freeware System Info., Config. and Benchmark program i've found.

i was given an old formatted computer and the MotherBoard was not labeled. This program gave me the Manufacturer & Model as well as info on the Chipset, BIOS, CPU, Memory, onboard Sound & LAN... all the info i needed in order to find the proper drivers

October 8, 2006

Desktop Enhancements:

Menu Inventor http://micron.ic.cz/menuinventor

# graphically very similar to Linux KDE menu

# fully configurablemenu structure

# menu nesting supported

# comfortable on-the-fly editing

# access any application, file and even folder

# in-built cut, copy, paste and move functions

# both mouse and keyboard navigation

# special menu items: headers and separators

# unique movable trigger button, always floating above all applications

# supports both user-selected icons as well as default application icons

# comes shipped with 75+ crystal clear icons

# quick batch adding supported

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October 8, 2006

Desktop Enhancements:

Menu Inventor http://micron.ic.cz/menuinventor

# graphically very similar to Linux KDE menu

# fully configurablemenu structure

# menu nesting supported

# comfortable on-the-fly editing

# access any application, file and even folder

# in-built cut, copy, paste and move functions

# both mouse and keyboard navigation

# special menu items: headers and separators

# unique movable trigger button, always floating above all applications

# supports both user-selected icons as well as default application icons

# comes shipped with 75+ crystal clear icons

# quick batch adding supported

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October 9, 2006

Video Tools

CaptureFlux http://paul.glagla.free.fr/captureflux_en.htm

o you may capture to divx in real time, and not only in native, DV type 2 or wmv.

o you may capture an audio stream in WAV (PCM uncompressed) or mp3. CaptureFlux can function like an audio recorder, with any audio source even integrated in a video source, for example the microphone of a DV camera connected to a firewire link.

o generally speaking, the audio and video streams can be choosen with great flexibility. For instance, you could connect two camcorders and use one for audio and the second for video.

o the different entries of a sound card can be directly selected in CaptureFlux

o The video window can display in widescreen format (16x9)

o During preview, the video may be flipped horizontally and not only vertically

o A deinterlacer filter is contained internally in CaptureFlux. It is mainly used for deinterlacing the grabbed pictures. But during preview, it may also be activated in order to smooth the video (It is inactivated during capture in order to avoid dropping frames).

o Data about the streams is displayed, for example image size, audio frequency...

o A time difference may be fixed with any delay, and not only an integer number of hours.

o CaptureFlux detects all changes in the capture devices, and adapts automatically to them. It is now fully possible to connect new devices after launching CaptureFlux.

o You may choose which capture devices are listed by CaptureFlux and disable those who are not useful or messy.

o CaptureFlux improves many internal procedures and becomes generally more performant

o CaptureFlux may accept plug-ins for sources not recognized by default, specially mpeg2 devices. Presently a plug-in to support the usb box ADS Tech DVDXpress DX2 is available for download.

October 11, 2006

Office Application:

TextMaker Viewer http://www.officeviewers.com/

If you want to...

open a document created in Microsoft Word, TextMaker, or OpenDocument format, but you haven't installed the respective word processor

send a document but you don't know whether the recipient has installed the programs to open it

quickly view and print documents without editing them

Then you need...the free TextMaker Viewer

.doc Microsoft Word 6.0 up to Word 2003

.dot Microsoft Word templates 6.0 up to 2003

.tmd TextMaker 6.0 up to 2006

.odt OpenDocument Text

.sxw OpenOffice.org Text

.rtf Rich Text Format

.psw Pocket Word (Pocket PC)

.pwd Pocket Word (Handheld PC)

.htm/html HTML documents

.txt Text files (DOS, Windows, Unicode, UTF-8)

October 16, 2006

Web servers:

NetworkActiv Web Server http://www.networkactiv.com/WebServer.html

NetworkActiv Web Server (NAWS) was designed from scratch with the intent of being the very easiest Web server software available and is not based on any previously existing web servers or programs, while still providing the necessary advanced features. With an intuitive and to-the-point graphical user interface, NAWS can be set up in a matter of minutes, even by the inexperienced user. NAWS includes support for the industry standard features, such as CGI, PHP, and Perl, as well as support for serving byte ranges, which allows for real-time positioning of audio files that are being streamed. See below for a list of additional features provided by NAWS.

October 17, 2006

PDF Utilities:

Free Image Converter 1.0 http://www.downloadhotfile.com/download-do...rter-33715.html

Free image converter. Support convert multi page tif to multi page pdf, convert jpg to pdf, convert jpg to tif, bmp to pdf, support tif compression ,Packbits, LZW, CCITT G.3 and G.4. image grayscale, bmp to png, jpg to png, jpg to bmp. set PDF information - PDF author, keyword, title, creator.

October 20, 2006

File repair and recovery:

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/index.html

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives and file systems.

The software incorporates extremely simple GUI with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity so one could recover the data easily. It gives you full control to undelete files, disk image back up, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, disk cloning, backup, edit and restore your boot parameters.

October 20, 2006

3D Box Shot Maker

FREE tool to virtually desgin quality box shot as your software box cover.

http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm

3D Box Shot Maker is an easy and FREE tool to virtually desgin quality box shot as your software box cover. It is important to present a professional boxshot to attract your potential customers to take a closer look at your products. An impressive box shot will make your software outstanding, and easily defeat your competitors at the start.

3D Box Shot Maker accepts a front image and a side image as input, and generate the final image on the fly. It can also include a shadow and a reflection in your box shot. It will show the preview image instantly as you adjust the size and other parameters.

Three steps to get your own boxshot:

1. Set the side(left) and the Front(right) images.

2. Adjust the boxshot size, shadow and reflection.

3. Save the generated boxshot image out as image file. It supports 4 image format: BMP, JPG, PNG, and GIF.

Present your software box cover with 3D Box Shot Maker, the ultimate solution, electronically!

October 21, 2006

Great list!!!

Read thru most of it, and I don't think I spotted this one:

File explorers / disk (space) utilities

Sequoiaview http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

From the Sequoiaview (puh, hard to spell..) homepage:

Ever wondered why your hard disk is full? Or what directory is taking up most of the space? When using conventional disk browsing tools, such as Windows Explorer, these questions may be hard to answer. With SequoiaView however, they can be answered almost immediately. SequoiaView uses a visualization technique called cushion treemaps to provide you with a single picture of the entire contents of your hard drive.

Sorry about the big picture..

October 22, 2006

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner

http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleane...try_cleaner.htm

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems with a few simple mouse clicks. The Windows Registry is a crucial part of your PC's operation system.

Problems with the Windows Registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages. Registry problems can occur for many reasons, including references left behind after uninstallation; incorrect removal of software; missing or corrupt hardware drivers; or orphaned start-up programs. This will significantly increase the Registry size and slow down your computer, because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from the Registry.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will scans your Windows registry for invalid or obsolete information and provide a list of the errors found. After fixing the invalid entries, your system will be more stable and run faster. For maximum safety, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will make a backup of the repaired entries. You will be able to restore any changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup. Eusing Software products are free of spyware and adware.

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