Freeware Alternative List

[Si Veteran]

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/

[CoolCatBad]

PDF Utilities:

IE Snapshot ACCALIA http://www.limperex.com/snapshot/

IE Snapshot ACCALIA is a tool to capture web pages as they appear on the user's monitor. The application can grab webpages and save them in to PDF, JPG, GIF or BMP file format.

Full PDF support

The application fully supports the capturing to PDF files including multi-page option. Since the IE Snapshot is 100% WYSIWYG, it does not save the page as text, it saves it as picture - archive format.

Top features avoiding printing errors or missing images

Each snapshot stores all background images, even images inside the style sheets.

[Leoboy]

e-mail client

Mozilla Thunderbird http://pcjudge.com/Internet/E-mail/mozilla-thunderbird.html

chat

QIP http://pcjudge.com/Internet/Chat/qip.html

Free Download Manager http://pcjudge.com/Internet/Download-Manag...ad-manager.html

[takecare]

educational software

maxima - http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

[CoolCatBad]

Video tools & converters:

AVI Quick http://www.tlhouse.co.uk/pc_software.shtml

AVIQuick is a freeware utility for assembling bitmaps into AVI files. It is an application designed for use with the Windows animation control and to help you extract picture from movies.

[CoolCatBad]

Photo manipulation and image design:

ImageTasks http://www.imagetasks.com/

ImageTasks is a powerful tool for editing, adjusting, converting images. It also includes Batch Edit for processing large sets of images, HTML Album for generating albums ready to be published on the web and Desktop Extensions for customizing look and feel of your desktop.

Image Adjusting features include hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, color balance settings, resize, cut, rotate, flip and watermark tools and 12 graphic filters (blur, sharpen, place in frame e t.s.). Batch Edit makes it easy to apply all this settings and filters to a large sets of images.

ImageTasks supports 15+ graphics formats and can save your images as JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP. Also provides a full-featured HTML Album generation tool and templates.

[well...]

Found a site with more than one can wish for.

http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/biz.htm

Just be carefull: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/priceless...fe&aff_id=0

[Vettetech]

Ive been using MediaMonkey to retag all my songs and place proper album art with them. It looks like iTunes but uses 1/2 as much resourses. Just right click on a song and it will tag it from Amazon. Player is pretty good also.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

[bibutteryboy]

probably been said but isn't it a lot easier just to go to a freeware site to get all this?

[Vettetech]

probably been said but isn't it a lot easier just to go to a freeware site to get all this?

I dont think you understand the post. The post is direct links to freeware products. What freeware site are you gonna find all these links. if you google freeware sites half of them may be spyware. These are trusted programs with direct links so you dont have to search yourself. I find this post very useful.

[freetv]

Free Internet TV Player

http://free-internet-tv.org/free-internet-tv-software.html

[bibutteryboy]

I dont think you understand the post. What freeware site are you gonna find all these links. if you google freeware sites half of them may be spyware. These are trusted programs with direct links so you dont have to search yourself. I find this post very useful.

I could list probably 3 or 4 off the top of my head but it's whatever floats your boat I guess.

[CoolCatBad]

By all means please tell us. I don't know of any sites that are as fully reliable and have the same stringent anti-malware ethic as we have here.

Edited April 18, 2007 by CoolCatBad

[Jexel]

WinSCP now supports FTP (although only in beta). It's an AWESOME standalone application.

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

It supports:

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)

SCP (Secure Copy Protocol)

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

[IncidentFlux]

Hey can someone please suggest some good free AutoCAD alternatives?

[IncidentFlux]

Image viewers:

FreeVimager http://www.contaware.com/component/option,...tpage/Itemid,1/

* View & Edit graphics file of type: jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff, png and pcx

* Works with all Windows versions from 95 up to Vista

* EXIF is displayed and all data are kept when editing and saving images

* IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for jpeg and tiff files

* Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation

* Recursive directory slideshow to view all files in a directory and it's subdirectories

* Print Preview with image positioning by dragging

* Size optimized Email sending of image(s)

* Well known editing features like: rotate, crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen, ...

* Live configurable Redeye removal tool

* Transparent borders tool (save the result to the alpha channel for png, tiff or bmp)

* Multi page tiff support

* Twain interface for image acquisition through a scanner

* Avi video player has draggable borders in full-screen mode

* Live audio / video time shift slider (to fix out of sync. videos)

* Choosable GDI or DirectX video rendering in YUV or RGB mode

* Basic Audio player

* Zip extraction (context menu entry available)

Hey man thanks a lot for finding this awesome application, I couldn't get IrfanVirew or Picasa to go in full screen slide show mode on my second monitor (HDTV). They'd jump to my main monitor like the default Windows picture viewer. I'm really disappointed to see how useless some of the great and popular apps can be at times of need.

Uninstalled both?IrfanVirew or Picasa! Long live FreeVimager!

[CoolCatBad]

Photo manipulation and image design:

aaPhoto v0.23 http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html

Auto Adjust Photo, simple right-click method for image optimization.

The program handles the following image formats:

mif, pnm / pgm / ppm, bmp, ras, jp2, jpc, jpg, pgx

[BryanChung]

Any freeware for nice looking FTP?

[leesmithg]

SecureZIP v11.00.0019 Free licence limited time offer.

http://www.securezip.com/

[jnr]

HI :-)

noteworthy AntiMalware:

Comodo has released free Comodo Boclean:

http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html

[jnr]

And as an alternative to Foxit PDF viewer: PDF-XCHANGE VIEWER

http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/pdfx_viewer/

It loads fast, renders nice and has features similar to Foxit.

Some extras include page panel, tabs and export to image format.

[jnr]

some more freeware I use not mentionned in the list (haven?t checked the whole thread):

Sandbox software with file virtualization to allow you to run programs safely or even to install software in a safe, emptiable "buffer" for testing:

SandboxIE: http://www.sandboxie.com/

Bufferzone: http://www.trustware.com/virtualization/free.html

[CoolCatBad]

PDF-XCHANGE VIEWER looks good, indeed.

Video players :

PB Media Player http://toptech-online.com/pbmediaplayer.htm

Description: A Youtube video searcher, downloader and player. supports .flv and .swf file formats. This is an offline video player. Uses the well-known online version of the SWF FLV Player by Jeroen Wijering.

Special Features: Single File, No Installations required, plug n' play, can run on Flash Drives, save window dimensions, save recent browsed folders and many more...

[jnr]

Hi Coolcat and all,

a few calendar apps have been mentionned but I am surprised that Mozilla Sunbird isn?t mentionned:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

Sunbird 0.5 is about to be released:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/ (you'll find a link to the latest nightly there)

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/

It supports multiple calendars, iCal, Google calendar sync, etc...

[jnr]

and one more free handy utility: Texter

http://lifehacker.com/software/texter/life...dows-238306.php

"Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define.

Unlike software-specific text replacement features, Texter runs in the Windows system tray and works in any application you're typing in. Texter can also set return-to markers for your cursor and insert clipboard contents into your replacement text, in addition to more advanced keyboard macros. Did we mention it's free?"

Similar utility: Phrase Express

http://www.phraseexpress.com/

:-)

[tf76]

DVD FLICK http://www.dvdflick.net/

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice.