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Freeware Alternative List


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Updated by kinetix63, 15th December 2006

Originally compiled by sanctified, and updated by Simon thanks to Neowin members.

Note: If you are going to contribute to this list please ensure there is a line in your post in the following format:

Application - http://url/to/homepage

This makes updating the list so much easier :)

Items marked in bold are new additions, the previous revision of the list can be found here.

3D Graphics:

3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm

Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/

Art Of Illusion - http://www.artofillusion.org/

Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/

Freestyle - http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/

Gelato - http://www.nvidia.com/page/gz_home.html

Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com...3&Itemid=89

Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...&id=7639525

Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm

OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org

Pointshop 3D - http://graphics.ethz.ch/pointshop3d/downloadPS3D20.html

POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/

SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com/

Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/

Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:

a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/

Avast - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/

BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com

ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:

Ad-aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Arovax AntiSpyware - http://www.arovaxantispyware.com/

Arovax Shield - http://www.arovaxshield.com/download.php

Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html

Browser Hijack Retaliator http://www.zamaansoft.com/products/bhr/

Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Microsoft Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx

Sentinel - http://www.runtimeware.com/sentinel.html

SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Spyware Terminator - http://www.spywareterminator.com/

Super AntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

ToolbarCop - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm

Watcher - http://www.donationcoders.com/kubicle/watcher/index.html

WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/page/home.php?lang=en&page=home

Audio Creation

Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml

Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php

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

KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php

LoopBe1 - http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html

MIDI Pattern Generator 64 - http://www.gradywerks.com/mpg64/

orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/

Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php

Smart PC Record - http://www.voiceemotion.com/smartrecorder.htm

Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/tu2.html

Audio Players:

1by1 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html

Apollo 37zx - http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/[/b]

Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy

CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp

DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/

Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/

iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Jet Audio Basic - http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/

Juke - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/juke/index.html

Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/

Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/

monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html

MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/

MPXPlay - http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/

Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/

musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/

QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/

Screamer Radio - http://www.screamer-radio.com/

VUPlay - http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.php

Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Xion - http://xion.r2.com.au/

XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html

Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Audiograil - http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?kmp3

AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm

Balthers Graphic Groove Box - http://www.balther.dk/gboxenter.html

beatharness - http://www.beatharness.com/

BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

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

dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

EffecTV - http://pbx.mine.nu/effectv/

Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/software.htm

Gephex - http://www.gephex.org/index.php

GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/

iTunes Agent - http://ita.sourceforge.net/index.html

KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/

M4a/Flac/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player & Media Center 2005 - http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm

MediaInfo - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/

MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/

Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

mp3DirectCut - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

mpTrim - http://www.mptrim.com/

MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/

opcode - http://www.opcode.co.uk/opd2d/default.asp

SC Free Audio Extractor - http://www.download-up.com/download-SC_Fre...tractor-60.html

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/

Vibe Streamer - http://www.vibestreamer.com/

Whorld - <a href="http://whorld.org/"'>http://whorld.org/" target="_blank">http://whorld.org/

CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation:

Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/

Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/

Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/

CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/

CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/

Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/

DVDAuthor GUI - http://download.videohelp.com/liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl

DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/

eCover - http://www.esoftware.it/eCover/index.html

GUI for dvdauthor - http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/

ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

ISO Recorder - http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

MediaCD - http://www.botproductions.com/mediacd/index.html

SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/AUDIO Burner - http://www.silentnight2004.com/NEW_Download.html

Smart CD-Menu Creator - http://www.cupidsystems.com/products/smart...eator/index.php

Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - http://www.mispbo.com/burner.htm

Compression / Decompression:

7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/

Alzip - http://www.altools.net/Downloads/DownloadA...88/Default.aspx

bzip2 - http://www.bzip.org

Compress it - http://www.rg-software.de/

ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/

FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/

Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/

IZArc - http://www.izarc.org

KGB Archiver - http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/

QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/

SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/

TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/

UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm

Defrag Software:

Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/

JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Whitney Defrag - http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag

Desktop Enhancements:

Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/

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

AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372

Clocktrayskins - http://www.drive-software.com/windowsclock.html

CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html

Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/

Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/

Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/#intro

Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/

Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/

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

MouseIMP - http://www.mouseimp.com/

Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html

Qliner Hotkeys - http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/default.htm

Rainlendar - http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

RKLauncher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/

Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/

SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

Taskix - http://taskix.robustit.com/

TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/

Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/

Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/

WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Yahoo! Widget Engine (Formerly Konfabulator) - http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Download managers:

Flashget - http://www.amazesoft.com/index_en.htm

Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html

Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/

LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/

Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html

Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php

Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml

wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/

wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/

WinBITS - http://www.darvin.de/english/

wxDownload Fast - http://dfast.sourceforge.net/index.html

Educational Utilities:

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

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

Periodic Table - http://paulalanfreshney.com/education/pt/

SciCraft - http://www.scicraft.org/

Scilab - http://www.scilab.org/

XCCalc - http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Calc/XCCalc.html

Encryption and data security:

Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm

ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm

Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

fseKrit - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/

KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/

Lock Note - http://locknote.steganos.com/

PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html

PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html

TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

File Managers:

2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/

A43 - http://http://www.primitus.us/a43/

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

CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/

ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com

freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/

JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/

MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

SequoiaView - http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

File repair and recovery:

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

Avira UnErase Personal - http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassic/avira_unerase.html

FreeUndelete - http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

VAIOSoft Recovery Manager - http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

Firewalls:

Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com

Filseclab Personal Firewall - http://www.filseclab.com/eng/products/firewall.htm

Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm

NetVeda Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm

Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:

CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/

FFFTP - http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~sota/ffftp-e.html

Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

Flash Wanderer - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/ftp_wanderer.html

miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/products/miFiles/miFiles.htm

SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:

Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/

FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com

GuildFTPD - http://www.guildftpd.com/

Quick 'n Easy FTP Server Lite - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...ftp_server.html

SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd

TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/

WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

zFTP Server - http://www.zftpserver.com/

HTML Editors:

1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml

Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

Blocknote - http://www.blocknote.net/index.shtml

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

FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/

FTP

HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

JoJoThumb - http://www.jojosoftware.de/jojothumb/english/default.htm

Notetab light - http://www.notetab.com/

NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html

PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/

Selida - http://selida.camelon.nl/

SuperEdi - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/

Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/

TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

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

WeaverSlave - http://www.weaverslave.ws/weaverslave.31.html

WebDwarf - http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html

Image viewers:

Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe

ALSee Picture Viewer - http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=54

BlueMarine - http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/

FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Futurix Imager - http://www.futurix.co.uk/imager/

Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/

Picasa - http://picasa.google.com

Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/

XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers:

AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php

Fomine LAN Chat - http://www.fomine.com/lan-chat.html

Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/

Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/

MiniAIM - http://miniaim.net/

Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/

Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/

PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/

qip - http://www.qip.ru/

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

SIM - http://http://sim-im.org/wiki/Main_Page

TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/

Trillian Basic - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:

AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/

Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Green Browser - http://www.morequick.com/indexen.htm

Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/

SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:

BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/

BitchX - http://bitchx.org/

HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/

NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/

TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/

XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:

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

Evolution for Windows - http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/

Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/

i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/

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

Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/

NMZ Labs Mail Chekcer - http://www.nmzlabs.com/mail_checker

Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/

PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/

Revolver Mail - http://www.revolversoft.com/en/products/mail/index.php

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/

Spam Experts Home - http://www.spamexperts.com/products-servic...perts-home.html

SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools:

ACMP - http://www.aagon.com/English/default.asp?A...em=JR40c089fpo9

BeyondCopy - http://beyondcopy.sourceforge.net/

CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/

Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/

Fomine NetSend GUI - http://www.fomine.com/net-send-gui.html

FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/

Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html

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

PRTG Traffic Grapher - http://www.paessler.com/prtg

PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s...p;threadid=2400

RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/

Remote Reboot - http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/05/r...ur-network.html

Tango Dropbox - http://tangoftp.com/

TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/

Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

WinIPConfig - http://www.pkostov.com/wipcfg.html

WinNG - http://montaro.bur.st/winng/

WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Application:

AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/

OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/

qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php

Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sect...id=2&page=1

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

TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:

Dubaron - DiskImage http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/

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

GParted LiveCD http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Partition Logic - http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

Partition Resizer - http://www.zeleps.com/

Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/

SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm

TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:

Brava! Reader - http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm

Cool PDF Reader - http://www.pdf2exe.com/reader.html

CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

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

Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm

Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/awki

PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/

pdf24-creator - http://www.pdf24.org/en/pdf24-creator.htm

PDF/Textbox - http://www.pdftextbox.com/default.aspx

PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

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

PDFRedirect - http://www.exp-systems.com/

PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:

3D Box Shot Maker - http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm

ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

Beneton Movie GIF - http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php

ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7

Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/

Faststone Photo Resizer - http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/

Imagicon - http://www.download3000.com/download_9302.html

iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico

Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/

JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/

Movie to Animated GIF Converter - http://www.evanolds.com/movtogif.html

Paint .NET - http://www.getpaint.net

Pixia - http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

Pixrev - http://pylab.altervista.org/pixrev.html

PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/

PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net

Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3

Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/

The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/

Tuxpaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org

Watermark Creation - http://www.leolasoft-herter.de/Download.html

Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Programming:

ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl

BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html

Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/

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/

Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm

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/

Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/

PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/

Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm

PHP Designer 2007 Personal - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php

PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/

Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/

PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/

Python - http://www.python.org/

Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org/

Screenweaver - http://screenweaver.com/download

SE|PY ActionScript Editor - http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php

SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/

WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

XML Copy Editor - http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/

Pop-up Blockers:

Google Toolbar for Firefox - http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html

Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer - http://toolbar.google.com/T4/?rd=f

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

BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html

Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/

FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/

GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/

klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php

RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/

RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/

RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/

RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=

SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

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Video tools & converters:

Griffith http://griffith.vasconunes.net/

(All GTK and Python runtimes included in Windows installer)Griffith is a movie collection manager application. Adding items to the movie collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web.

Griffith is a cross-platform application and is known to run on GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS X systems.

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Anti-spam programs:

Agnitum Spam Terrier http://www.agnitum.com/products/spam-terrier/index.php

Agnitum?s Spam Terrier is a powerful, self-learning spam filter for Outlook and Outlook Express. It detects and quarantines most spam automatically, relieving users of the need to manually browse through and sift out junk mail from legitimate messages. It saves time and frustration, and safeguards users from potentially malicious content.

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Office Application:

JelloDashboard http://jello.wordpress.com/

There are many great applications out there to

organize your tasks and your life using GTD. But when it comes to Outlook, a very popular application which manages mail, time and contacts, a user has only the option of plugins designed for GTD. Let?s face it. We all are reluctant to leave our favorite application and use another one just to manage

tasks. And then? Another application for emails, another one for tasks? It can be really confusing.That?s why I developed Jello.Dashboard. It?s just a homepage for Outlook, easy to install and use and totally free.

# Create and manage contexts and projects

# Assign any type of Outlook item to contexts and projects

# View your appointments and tasks with due dates

# View your favorite Outlook folders from inside the dashboard

# Define @Review and @Reference folders for email organization

# Search for any type of Outlook item

# View helpful lists of Outlook flagged and unread items

# View all your items in a comprehensible Master list which you can email and print

# Control dashboard?s behaviour through user settings

# Inbox management including assignment of related folders to context and projects

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Educational Utilities:

GeoGebra http://www.geogebra.org/cms/index.php?opti...ge&Itemid=1

GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards.

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Photo manipulation and image design:

Panorado Flyer http://www.panorado.com/en/index.htm?PanoradoFlyer.htm

Panorado Flyer is a small, yet very useful tool for linking JPEG image files to the location where the picture was taken, using geographical coordinates.

Technical metadata as described by the EXIF standard can contain fields for GPS data, like geographical latitude/longitude, altitude, and track. The Panorado Flyer tool enables you to get the coordinates of the place where the picture was shot and insert them into these fields.

Later - on a few mouseclicks again - you can make Google Earth "fly" you to the location!

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Educational Utilities:

SpeQ Mathematics http://www.speqmath.com/index.html

SpeQ is a small, extensive mathematics program with a simple, intuitive interface. All calculations are entered in a sheet. In there you can freely add, edit and execute all calculations. You can define variables and functions, and plot graphs of your functions. You can save your calculations for later re-use.

* Expression calculations with arithmetic, conditional, logical and bitwise operators

* Around 100 built-in mathematical, physical and conditional constants

* Around 60 built-in functions for Analysis, Arithmetic, Complex numbers, Hyperbolic, Integers, Probability, Numeral systems, Statistics, Trigonometry

* Define your own variables and functions for use in calculations

* Plot fully adaptable graphs, trace the plotted functions, save your graphs

* Decimal, binary, hexadecimal and octal numeral systems

* Complex number calculations

* Colored workarea

* Save and load sheets

* Orderly overview of all available functions and constants in the Functionstree

* A list with all defined variables and functions in the Memorylist

* Context-sensitive help and a detailed users guide

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Anti Spyware:

WehnTrust http://www.wehnus.com/products.pl

This gives you ASLR protection, which is implemented in Vista.

WehnTrust is a Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) that provides secure buffer overflow exploitation countermeasures.

WehnTrust implements Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) for Windows. While ASLR is a common security measure for UNIX-based operating systems thanks to the PaX Team, it has not been widely implemented for, or deployed on, Windows. When implemented properly, ASLR mitigates nearly all exploitation techniques.

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Partition Managers:

DriveImage XML http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.

The program allows you to:

# Backup logical drives and partitions to image files

# Browse these images, view and extract files

# Restore these images to the same or a different drive

# Copy directly from drive to drive

# Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler

Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use.

Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup!

Restore images to drives without having to reboot.

DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP Home, XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 only. The program will backup, image and restore drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.

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General Utilities And Other Applications:

Command Line shell http://tp.lc.ehu.es/jma/win95.html

# If you are a power user you probably use old DOS or new Win32 programs designed to be run from the command line where the corresponding options are indicated. To start with, many file maintenance jobs are far easier when using command line utilities and batch files. The "user-friendly" way to do many simple tasks (comparing two directories or copying to the disk the relevant modified files of you current programming task, for instance) is boring and error prone. Unix-like filters also are still very useful.

# Any advanced user has a lot of command line programs in her system, but if you do not use them very often it is not always easy to remember the right option to do something. Cmd Line Shell is designed to be a shell for any command line program.

# It provides a common, easily configurable, GUI look to any program which takes its options from the command line.

# It will help you to prepare the command line and launch the external program. (You may also copy the command line to use it, say, form a batch file.)

# You do not have to remember the syntax: the available options and their use are displayed.

# You may easily search through your system for the input and output files.

# Your favorite options may be set as new default.

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File repair and recovery:

NTFS Undelete http://ntfsundelete.com/

NTFS Undelete is free software that allows you to recover deleted files. It recovers files directly from hard drive, and it will work even if you empty Recycle Bin.

Available as Installer, Zip or ISO image.

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Photo manipulation and image design:

QuickBox http://www.dancemammal.com/quickbox.htm

# Easily and quickly create your virtual covers and boxes

# Quick 3D box guide grid

# Quick double click Graphics change

# Show backgrounds and floors

# Mouse driver 3D rotation

# Save your settings for later

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Video tools & converters:

VEMoDe http://www.free-codecs.com/download/VEMoDe.htm

VEMoDe is a free program that gives you a quick and easy way to turn your videos and movies into portable videos.

- Easy to use interface. Just pick your file and go!

- Very fast, high quality encoder (using FFmpeg)

- Existing settings for several popular devices (PSP, iPod, Palm, Pocket PC, Zodiac, Treo, GP2X), plus you can create settings for other devices.

- Support for optional subtitles

- "Encode by Size" to get the most quality for your memory cards.

- "Split by Size" to maximize quality and portability

- Easy to configure encoding options.

- Cropping options to get the best screen usage.

- Select the start and end positions to remove those long credits.

- Batch Processing and Auto-shutdown for overnight encoding.

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Recuva

www.recuva.com - freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from computer (from creators of CCleaner)

RogueRemover

www.malwarebytes.org - utility that can remove various rogue antispyware, antivirus and hard drive cleaning utilities

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Desktop Enhancements:

KO/Pi http://www.pi-sync.net/html/ko_pi.html

KO/Pi is based on KOrganizer, the calendar application of the KDE Desktop environment for Linux and other Unixes.

KO/Pi has two to-do views, a month view, a list view, a date navigator, a search list view and an agenda view.

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Desktop Enhancements:

Shell Tray Info http://www.voidnish.com/articles/ShowArtic...e=ShellTrayInfo

The Tray Icon Info application lets you enumerate your system tray icons and rearrange their positions, so that you can have your more frequently used icons positioned to the left most side (or right most depending on your personal preference). I wrote this as I got used to having the MSN Messenger icon on the left most side of the tray and found it annoying and inconvenient when newly added icons pushed it to the right. I had to exit and restart MSN Messenger to reposition it where I wanted. This application simplifies things for me.

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