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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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in search results not found :)

Core FTP LE - free Windows software that includes the client FTP features you need. Features like SFTP (SSH), SSL, TLS, IDN, browser integration, site to site transfers, FTP transfer resume, drag and drop support, file viewing & editing, firewall support, custom commands, FTP URL parsing, command line transfers, filters, and much, much more.

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Desktop enhancements:

ac'tivAid, not found in search results so far.

ac'tivAid (pronunciation: activate) is a small tool that enhances Windows,

giving useful functions known from other operationg systems. ac'tivAid is

developed with the script language AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com)

and the source is available.

Thanks to the quite simple syntax of AutoHotkey and the articles of the

german computer magazine c't, ac'tivAid is extendable quite simple.

Website (GER only)

Bug tracker (incl. beta versions - top right corner)

German/English. :p

Worth a glance...

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General Utilities And Other Applications

Xpadder - http://www.xpadder.com/index.html

Xpadder simulates keypresses and mouse movements using a gamepad.

It allows you to play games with a gamepad that have poor to no gamepad support.

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Photo manipulation and image design:

Photo Studio http://www.stuffware.co.uk/photostudio/

Photo Studio is a multi purpose tool for dealing with photographic images. It greatly speeds up and enhances the process of getting images from your digital camera to the web. It supports everything from downloading the images from your camera or memory card, through rotating, resizing, conversion, previewing, adding comments, creating thumbnails and generating fully customisable HTML index pages ready for uploading to your website.

Photo Studio is also a useful tool for exploring the meta data stored along with your image files. The program supports a wide variety of meta data standards, including EXIF, CIFF, Olympus, JFIF and Photoshop. EXIF data will be of particular interest to digital camera users - it is the format used by most digital cameras to store camera settings along with an image.

The tool also has basic support for some movie formats - AVI and QuickTime/JPEG, as recorded by some older digital cameras. The tool can play back, as well as extract video, audio and stills from these files.

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Educational Utilities:

Mitaka http://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/html/program/mitaka/index_E.html

Mitaka is software for visualizing theoretical, computational, and observational astronomical data, developed by the Four Dimensional Digital Universe (4D2U) project of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Users can seamlessly navigate across the universe from Earth to the edges of the known universe.

Mitaka is optimized for 3D visualizations on multiple screens at the 4D2U theater in NAOJ's Mitaka headquarters. However, it can also be used on a single Windows PC.

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This has been my IM client of choice since Trillian is ... well... yeah... Not sure why this isn't on the list already. I first heard about it from Neowin, somewhere.

Pidgin - http://www.pidgin.im/

It is. Only as Gaim. If my brain doesn't fail me name problems led to the change.

Ps: Sorry for the english, long time without writing in other language than spanish.

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Photo manipulation and image design:

Phatch http://photobatch.stani.be/

Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, rename, ... and more in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Phatch will also support a console version in the future to batch photos on webservers.

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General Utilities And Other Applications:

NoteLab http://java-notelab.sourceforge.net/homepage.html

Using NoteLab is just like writing with a pen on real paper. However with NoteLab, the pen and paper are electronic, you never run out of ink, and you have all the paper you'll ever need.

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Educational Utilities:

iTALC http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php

iTALC has been designed for usage in school. Therefore it offers a lot of possibilities to teachers, such as

* see what's going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshots

* remote-control computers to support and help other people

* show a demo (either in fullscreen or in a window) - the teacher's screen is shown on all student's computers in realtime

* lock workstations for moving undivided attention to teacher

* send text-messages to students

* powering on/off and rebooting computers per remote

* remote logon and logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scripts

* home-schooling - iTALC's network-technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN-connections just by installing iTALC client

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What about Visual Studio Express? It's freeware, maybe not exactly "alternative" since it is so similar to Visual Studio, but still, you'd be crazy to not give it a look when looking an powerful yet free software IDE.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/

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Educational Utilities:

As-Easy-As Spreadsheet http://www.triusinc.com/asawin.htm

Works on XP, Vista

Powerful 32-bit spreadsheet program with over 130 math, financial, scientific, statistical, string, date and time functions. Superb graphics. New macro programming language implementation. Min/Max Linear Programming. Goalseeking. Linear and Non-linear Multi-variate Regression. Internal and External User-definable Functions. Text Search & Replace. File Linking. Integration & Recursion. Beta and Gamma functions. Gaussian & Poisson distributions. Much more...

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Huge List Of Freewares :)

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AAA Web Album 2.0

Create cool web photo album from your digital photos and upload it to the Web

AAA Web Album Software allows you to create smooth web photo albums out of your digital photos, and upload them on the Web.

You can apply different styles to change the look and feel of your web albums. Now you can create great looking web photo albums from your digital photos and upload on your own website.

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AmoK Exif Sorter

AmoK Exif Sorter enables you to copy, move and rename your photos based on information contained in the EXIF and IPTC data. The program can automatically generate folder structures and file names based on dates, camera model, exposure and other technical details. You can create custom profiles for multiple cameras, preview the new file paths in real-time, and process sub-directories. The prgram can be used to copy images from your camera or memory card and automatically organize them on your hard drive, or to re-organize existing images in your local folders.

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CataThumbs 0.02z

A free tool that allows you to print a catalogue of thumbs directly on printer or create documents

CataThumbs is a free tool that allows you to print a catalogue of thumbs directly on printer.

With CataThumbs you can also create documents such as eMail, HTML, RTF (Word) and PDF.

Home Page : Link

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ConTEXT Programmers Editor

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. It offers syntax highlighting support for the most popular scripting languages, inclding HTML, PHP, Java, VB, SQL, Python, Perl and many others - and of course plain .txt files. It also includes a macro recorder, project support, bookmarks and much more. ConTEXT is highly customizable and allows you to change syntax highlighting colors, cursor shapes, right margin, gutter, line spacing as well as user definable execution keys and other things. Additional features include find/replace, compiler support, code templates, file explorer and others.

Home Page : Link

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Data Crow 3.1.30

Data Crow is a music (audio CD?s and mp3, ogg, flac, ape, .. files), book, software and movie cataloguer. It is platform independent and easy to install. Data Crow uses internet services like amazon.com, imdb.com and freedb.org to retrieve information. It?s platform-independent and is easy to use..Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinkFree Loan Calculator 4.2.1b>

This software utility is a free payment calculator for Windows

This free loan payment calculator for Windows allows you to quickly calculate loan payments based upon variable payment frequency!

Free Loan Calculator is a useful finance utility that will calculate loans for you.

Offers Daily 365/year, Daily 360/year, Weekly, Biweekly 26/year, Bimonthly 24/year, Monthly, Quarterly, Biannual, and Annual payment periods.

Free Loan Calculator is a financial calculator designed for Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP systems.

Free Loan Calculator offers integrated help, provides automatic hints, and offers Wheatworks' integrated Upgrade Center for easy, free, online updates.Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinkGreenfish Painterb>

Greenfish Painter is a painting program that allows you to paint with virtual brushes, calligraphic pens, charcoal, or chalk instead of the standard pain brushes. The results will look more like a real painting, created with traditional paint tools. Greenfish Painter provides a variety of ready-to-use brush presets (crayon, oil paint, marker, aquarel etc.) which can be customized or (with some effort) you can create your own brush presets. The result can be exported to BMP or JPG format.Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinkGreenfish Relief Map Generatorb>

Greenfish Relief Map Generator is a unique program that enables you to create fake map images that resemble real relief maps, but are completely random. You can customize the map colors, load city names from a text file and also set the map size and amount of water to use. The result can be exported to a BMP image. The program is useful if you need map displays for demonstration without infringing on any copyrights.Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinknDroid 2.1.3b>

This software was created to enable you to easily open your programs, regardless of their type.

Basically nDroid is a blazing fast keyboard based application launcher. But not just that, it can open documents, play songs, open browser bookmarks, lookup web references, find torrents, do online searches, find your files .. plus a lot more.

nDroid uses an open plugin based infrastructure, so anybody can add to its functionality by bringing anything to its searchable domain, and doing anything with the result, and not just launch an application.

Forget using your mouse to fiddle with Start Menus, Application Docks and Favorites Menus. There is no need to organise your files. You simply need to launch nDroid and it will help you open

them in an instant. Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinkOff4Fit 2.0b>

Friendly interface, 3D graphics, a number of exercises for your eyes, hands and body.

You work by the PC daily, and proceed working at home? This software is just for you then! Organize the breaks with Off4Fit! It will remind you of the breaks periodically and very softly give a hint on a distraction time. Perfect interface, 3D graphics, a number of exercises for your eyes, hands and body - just follow the instructions of a pretty girl.

You will have a rest to go on with your work with fresh efforts! Set the program autostarted and in a few days you will realise that it is red-hot for you! All in all, you need to keep in mind that your health is the only thing you cannot buy.Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinkRealWorld Cursor Editorb>

RealWorld Cursor Editor enables you to create and edit static or animated Windows cursors. You can create new cursor by editing existing .cur files or create new cursors from scratch by importing an image file. The program provides a variety of tools to draw lines, curves, rectangles and other shapes as well as predefined filters for color correction, sharpening, drop shadows and other effects. Other features include support for animations with custom frame sequence, batch processing of filters, cursor hot spot editing and more.Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinkSunTimes - Geographical Time Calculatorb>

SunTimes displays an animated map of day and night moving across the world`s time zones. It calculates and tabulates sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk times for more than 10,000 locations in the world and also displays the current local time for each, along with daylight saving adjustments and local event times that are based on the position of the sun. In addition to the main functionality, the program also includes several climate, aviation and astronomy related map features that display current temperatures, commercial airline routes and movements of the moon, sun and planets. Other features include integration of local photos (where available), support for custom locations, climate statistics, and a lot more. The location database include almost all of the places with populations greater than 100,000 and the capital cities of countries.Home Page :b> Link[/urlDownload :b> LinkShock Stickerb>

Shock Sticker enables you to place virtual sticky notes on your desktop to keep track of notes or to be reminded of upcoming events. The stickers can be customized in size and color, support text formatting, and can be minimized to a small title bar. The program supports password protected stickers, allowing you to keep private notes that can only be viewed with the proper password. Notes can also be hidden from view and send to other Shock Sticker users on the network. Other features include customizable color schemes, a recycle manager, adjustable transparency, note printing, alarm notes and more.

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Calgoo Calendar is a calendar application that can synchronize it`s data with Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar and iCal format. It enables you to manage multiple calendars and schedules, contacts and tasks online and offline. Furthermore, you can also share your agenda and schedule with your Facebook friends. Calgoo Calendar provides a drag&drop interface with daily, weekly and monthly views, as well as a task list. You can maintain up to 3 calendars in the free version calendars and combine them in the same view area with color coded evHome Page :colorc--> Download :[/b]colorc--> Flickr Downloaderownloader

Flickr Downloader enables you to download series of photos from Flickr. You can download photos by Flickr username, tags or group name, and also limit the download by image dimensions. The program can optionally create a Flash slideshow from the downloaded images that can be published on your personal website or set as screensaver. No HTML or Flash experience is needed to create the Home Page :colorc--> Download :[/b]colorc--> Nexus Radio v2.2.2 o v2.2.2

Nexus Radio is a free full featured radio player for listeners who want to record their favorite radio content for playback on their PC, or any portable device that supports MP3s.

With over 7000+ radio stations and support for thousands more, Nexus Radio delivers the content radio listeners yearn for. Search through a rich variety of radio stations with a straightforward interactive guide that can be updated daily with more content than XM and Sirius radioHome Page :colorc--> Download :[/b]colorc--> Transporter Peer to Peer[/b]r to Peer

Transporter Peer to Peer is a software for personal file sharing across local networks or the Internet. It uses non-server based P2P connections with customizable encryption and password protection for added security. You can use the program to text chat, transfer files via drag&drop and also share local folders and browse shared folders of the remote contact (if enabled). Transporter Peer to Peer supports direct IP connection as well as dynamic DNS services. Other features include transfer resume, contact notifications, auto-connecHome Page :colorc--> Download :[/b]colorc--> TV v2.1 TV v2.1

Now you can watch hundreds of LIVE worldwide channels on your PC, free of charge. TV is an extremely easy to use application and anyone can find their own favorite stations on TV. Music, news, educational, sports & shopping channels are sorted in a very easy to find way, together with TV in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese & Arabic sections.

You may also browse world TV by regions or by country name. No configurations or settings are needed. The intuitive & user friendly interface will give you a pure Plug n? Play! Experience. All you have to do is easily find your desired station, click on the station?s name, then sit back &Home Page :-/colorc--> Download :[/b]-/colorc--> WOT for Internet Explorer[/b]et Explorer

WOT for Internet Explorer is a browser add-on that can warn you of potential security or privacy issues related to the website you are visiting, as well as sites that are returned in search engine results (Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and others). It adds a button to your browser toolbar and next to search engine results that indicates the assessed security level for the site, based on trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. The security level is based on ratings from other WOT users as well as a database of harmful sites, maintained by WOT. Unfortunately the program does not provide any reasons or explanation for the security rating it provides, so you have to take their word for it without any facts to back Home Page :-/colorc--> Download :[/b]-/colorc--> Link

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ClassicPro is a plugin for Winamp that enables you to use use, easy to make, ClassicPro skins.

The objective for this Modern Skin platform was to enable "Winamp Classic" skinners to make their own Modern skins just as easy as they made Classic skins. The ClassicPro layout is based on the bundles Winamp skin, Big Bento.

ClassicPro make use of a singl-user-interface (SUI) to show all the Winamp components (Video, Playlist, ..) Unlike some SUI skins, ClassicPro can be used with the Playlist in the main area witch should be useful for the Winamp users that don?t make use of the Media Library. ClassicPro skins can also be resized smaller until it hides all of the WinaHome Page :--/colorc--> Download :[/b]--/colorc--> LinSMPlayer 0.6.0 RC2 0.6.0 RC2

SMPlayer, is a new multimedia player. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as engine, so it?s able to play the most known video & audio formats without the need of external codecs: avi, mkv, ogm, mpeg, vob, 3gp, asf, mov, wmv, mp3, ogg... You can also play DVD discs and Internet streams.

Special care have been taken with subtitles. It supports srt, sub, ssa, embedded subtitles in Matroska files, DVD subtitles... SMPlayer subtitles can be very nice, you can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.

One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don?t worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtHome Page : Download :[/b] Xion Audio Player 1.0.93 Beta [/b] 1.0.93 Beta

Xion is a high fidelity, deliciously sweet, out of this world audio player.

Xion features a new standard in skin support. Baffled by script syntax? Pulling your hair out over slicing up skin elements? Crying over spilt milk?

Xion has arrived and it brings style, candy and sanity back Features:

Features:

* Full layered skins

* Complete animation support

* Powerful playlist support

* Gapless playback

* 10 band equalizer with presets

* MP3/OGG internet file streaming

* Customizable global hotkeys

* Auto play and position saver

* Single click play/pause

* Volume and balance controls

* Full system traSupported file formats: file formats:

* Audio Interchange File Format (.Aiff)

* Advanced Streaming format (.Asf)

* Free Lossless Audio Codec (.Flac)

* Impulse Tracker (.It)

* MIDI music (.Mid)

* Protracker / Fasttracker (.Mod)

* MPEG I/II Layer 2 (.Mp2)

* MPEG I/II Layer 3 (.Mp3)

* Ogg Vorbis (.Ogg)

* MIDI music (.Rmi)

* Scream Tracker 3 (.S3m)

* Microsoft Wave files (.Wav)

* Windows Media Audio (.Wma)

* FastSupported playlist formats:ylist formats:

* M3u

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UndeleteMyFiles is a free tool to recover accidentally deleted files from hard disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media.

UndeleteMyFiles is a quick and easy way to find and recover deleted media and digital devices.It employs a simplified two-step process that enables you recover any files that used to reside on your system.

The interface is very easy to use, just select the device that contains the files that need to be recovered and specify the folder to saHome Page : Download :[/b] Link

A free password manager utility that allows you to categorise passwords

Passweerd is a free password manager utility that allows you to categorise passwords. Passweerd is fully portHome Page : Download :[/b] Secure Cam[/b]

Secure Cam

Secure Cam is a motion detecting web cam surveillance software that can automatically capture a series of images whenever motion is detected in the monitored area. You can adjust the detection sensitivity, automatically archive captured still images and playback the images in sequence with the supplied viewer application. Secure Cam can monitor and display up to 99 cameras and automatically organizes captures based on the device. Other features include support for multiplexing, time stamps, text overlay and more. The program works with webcams, as weHome Page : Download :[/b] Link

This program is used mainly by administrators or by people, who make computer installations as their job or they do that for friends and want to have summary in one place of all installed machines. This will help to make your work effective and thanks to this program, you will not lose a lot of money when discovering who have what installed. If problem occurs, you will know all about installed computer by cliHome Page : Download :[/b] Link

MediaCoder is a free audio/video batch transcoder, putting together many excellent audio/video softwares from the open source community into one friendly GUI. On video side, MEncoder is used as back-end, which provides support for nearly all known video compression and container formats as well as rich and useful video filtering features (e.g. post-processing, 3D de-noise). On audio side, MPlayer and Winamp input plugins used as decoders, various encoders integrated, MediaCoder can simply batch transcode among any known audio formats, with tags transferred, file names generated, and even performing audio filtering (e.g. resample, normalHome Page : Download :[/b] Quick Media Converter[/b]edia Converter

Quick Media Converter enables you to convert between most audio and video formats, including AVI, DVD, Quicktime, Flash, Xvid, DivX, MPEG, MP3, WMA, MP4, 3GP and many others. You can convert multiple files (of different formats) in a single process and optionally customize the output settings in Expert Mode. In addition to media conversion, the program also includes CamStudio, which allows you to record desktop acxtivity to video, as well as a WebCam capture feature that enables you to record video directly from your webcam device. Quick Media Converter uses open source code from softwares such as FFmpHome Page : Download :[/b] Link

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#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft?s .NET platform.b> It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables.In addition, you can find the latest information and changes on #develop, as well as get in touch with the team in the forum.

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Photo manipulation and image design:

HeliosPaint http://www.heliospaint.com/

HeliosPaint is a freeware paint program for creating and editing images and drawings. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix and is written in Sun Microsystem's Java programming language.

* Pencil for editing pixels.

* Freehand and straight lines with choice of width, dash pattern, line joint and line end.

* Paint Brush with sizeable head.

* Spray Can with sizeable head.

* Paint Can with local and global replace. Colour bleed sensitivity allows nearby similar colours to be painted.

* Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon and star shapes.

* Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation.

* HSB/RGB/contrast adjustment of image.

* Image invert, gray, blur and sharpen.

* Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate and shear.

* Full colour pallet with adjustable transparency and colour grabber.

* Zoom in/out with optional zoom grid.

* Text and image paste from clipboard. Image and image segment copy/cut onto clipboard.

* Scissors, lasso and wand for selecting and moving image segments. Sensitivity of lasso and wand is adjustable. Transparency of overlaid segments is adjustable. When part of the image is selected, all paint operations apply only to that area.

* Undo and redo.

* Printing with auto fit to page.

* Reads image file formats: bmp, gif, ico, jpg/jpeg, pct/pict, pcx, png, psd, ras, tga, tif/tiff, xpm.

* Saves image file formats: bmp, gif, jpg/jpeg, pct/pict, pcx, png, psd, ras, tga, tif/tiff, xpm.

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Audio Players:

Aqualung http://aqualung.factorial.hu/win32/

Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system. It has many useful features built on a rock-solid backend supporting gapless playback that is a rarity not only among Linux players, but also Windows programs.

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Another good Firefox extension is Downthemall which allows you to download multiple files from a website and is pretty usefull imo.

A good free alternative for MS Project is Open Workbench (you have to register on the site first to download)

Its still a beta version, i personally prefer rainlendar over this, but if you dont like a calendar on your desktop there is a standalone application called mozilla sunbird, it looks quite a bit similar to iCal, but its not yet the final version.

Not sure but i think its not possible to copy text from a pdf, but Text Mining Tool is a program that lets you convert pdf and more extensions to text. :D

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Educational Utilities

Console Calculator http://ccalc.shanebweb.com/

Console Calculator is a fast and powerful command-line calculator. This calculator performs advanced mathematical functions, remembers recent entries, allows creation of user defined variables and custom functions. This calculator is an especially handy tool for software developers or engineering.

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HxD (Hex Editor) http://www.mh-nexus.de/hxd/

HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor including raw disk editing, modifying foreign RAM and handling files of any size. Its clear interface offers searching/replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and more.

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System Information and monitoring:

Raid 2 Raid http://raid2raid.com/

Unlock your native RAID array! Stop depending on the system board chipset to support your RAID configuration! Mount RAID arrays and Dynamic Disks created with all current Intel, nVidia or VIA chipsets on any other chipset and on all versions of Windows with free Raid 2 Raid software.

Motherboard failed? Upgraded to a different chipset? Changed brand or manufacturer of a system board? Don?t get locked into a single chipset! Raid 2 Raid will mount your RAID array no matter what chipset you were using then and no matter what you are using now.

New motherboard does not have built-in RAID support? No problem! Raid 2 Raid will accommodate your existing RAID arrays on the new PC ? whether or not it supports hardware RAID!

Created a Dynamic Disk with Windows? Moving the software RAID onto another PC? Raid 2 Raid will mount any Dynamic Disk on any version of Windows no matter whether or not it supports the Dynamic Disks!

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PDF Utilities:

PDF Split and Merge http://www.pdfsam.org/

A simple tool designed to split and merge pdf files. With it?s simple and intuitive interface you can:

* split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.).

* merge many pdf documents or subsections of them.

* exctract sections of your document into a single pdf document.

* save and load your environment to automatize your recurrent jobs.

* manage pdfsam settings and set an environment to load at start up.

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    • Cuktech 10 Ultra charger review: big display, four ports, 110W total power by Taras Buria Cuktech recently announced a couple of Ultra-branded chargers, including a desktop 300W charger, which I reviewed a few weeks ago. For those who do need that much (or who do not want to spend that much on a charger), Cuktech also offers the 10 Ultra, a traditional wall charger with similar features. Four ports, a big display, and up to 110W of power output. After using it for a few weeks, here are my impressions. Disclaimer: Cuktech provided the review unit without any editorial input or pre-approval. Like the 30 Ultra, the 10 Ultra arrived in a box made of nice cardboard with quality print all over it. Inside, besides the charger, you will find a 240W 6A charger, which, this time, is fully braided. While Cuktech always bundles high-power cables with its chargers and power banks, they are usually regular and unassuming. This time, the cable is much nicer, matching the charger's $59.99 price tag. The charger itself measures 67 x 76 x 33 mm or 2.6 x 3.0 x 1.3 inches and weighs about 250 grams. Considering the charger has four ports and a big display, I would say the compact size is quite impressive, albeit a little hefty. The overall design is similar to other chargers from the manufacturer, minus the chrome Cuktech logo next to the four ports. The Cuktech 10 Ultra has retractable prongs for better portability. Its front side is covered with piano black plastic housing two elements: a capacitive button with backlight and a quite large display for various charging stats. Ports are downward-facing, and I have mixed feelings about such a design. It is not the most convenient when you frequently connect and disconnect cables. It makes you bend over to find the right port to connect, and it is a no-go with outlets mounted closer to the floor. On the bright side, design like this eliminates clutter and sagging, especially when using four cables at once. Plus, you get plenty of space for a big display. Ports include two high-speed USB Type-C ports, one Type-C for less demanding devices, and one classic USB Type-A. The first two ports deliver full 100W, while the third is capped at 45W. As for the Type-A port, its maximum output is 18W. In total, the charger delivers 110W of power, but in my testing, I managed to squeeze 117W when charging two power banks and a tablet. Quite impressive. Type-C1 Type-C2 Type-C3 Type-A Single-port 100W 100W 45W 18W Two ports 80W 20W - - Three ports 65W 20W 20W - Four ports 65W 20W 10W 10W The charger can detect handshake protocols and balance power across all four ports according to each device's needs. As such, power is not limited to the values in the table above. You can have two ports charging at 55W, three ports at 45W + 20W, and more. For some reason, Cuktech is not listing the supported protocols, but a quick test showed that it is compatible with PD3.0, PPS, QC5, DCP, and UFCS. When you connect a compatible device, the charger automatically detects its charging standard and displays it on the screen, for example, Apple 6A or Samsung 3A. Speaking of the screen. The main highlight of the 10 Ultra is its 1.57-inch display with a maximum brightness of 700 nits and 160-degree viewing angles. The display takes up most of the front, and it shows various charging-related information, including total output power, current temperature, power distribution across ports with watts, volts, and amps, a screensaver, and more. You can toggle between the different views by tapping the button, and holding it changes the screen orientation (portrait or horizontal, plus flipped) according to your socket position. The screen is very nice. It is sharp, vivid, and the fonts are easy to read. As for settings, you can change the following: Keep the screen on or off Lock the screen orientation (hold the button to change the screen orientation) Keep the USB Type-A port on Toggle power modes The charger has three power modes: AI: standard mode that automatically allocates power to each connected device. Power Priority: prioritizes power for high-demand devices, such as laptops or power banks. Balanced: splits power evenly across connected devices according to their needs I was skeptical at first, but after testing a few devices in different modes, I can see the benefit of these three modes. The most useful is power priority, which gives the first Type-C port more power. When I was charging a 100W power bank (port 1) alongside a 140W power bank (port 2), Power Priority split the total output about 75-30. Balanced mode, as the name suggests, splits the total output between the two ports more or less equally. As for AI mode, the charger uses its brain to detect which device needs more power. In my testing, it figured out that the 140W power needs a bit more juice. As I said, I expected this to be more of a gimmick, but the three built-in modes turned out quite useful. For example, you can prioritize your laptop while giving other ports a little less power, but still enough to charge at acceptable speeds. Unfortunately, unlike the 30 Ultra, this charger cannot display the battery level of the device being charged. This small feature turned out to be very useful when I was testing the 30 Ultra, as it allowed me to see my phone's battery level without picking it up. Like other Cuktech chargers I tested, the 10 Ultra one proved itself reliable and well-made. It uses Gallium nitride semiconductor technology to reduce the charger's size and improve efficiency. It is also better at dissipating heat, but I have to say that when charging two power banks at 117W total, the charger got hotter than what I would call comfortable (hold it for a few seconds, and you start feeling a burning sensation at your fingertips). However, the built-in thermal indicator remained below the temperature threshold, with the screen reassuring that the device operated at "High performance" (I tested it in a 21 °C / 69 °F room). Overall, the Cuktech 10 Ultra is a solid choice. If you need four ports and you like to nerd out on various stats, it is a very easy recommendation. It will take care of your laptop, phone, tablet, and power bank without breaking a sweat, plus the build, material, and cable quality are top-notch. The mode switcher is handy when charging different devices with different power needs, too. I cannot say a display is a must-have in a charger, especially when it makes you more conscious about where to plug it, but it is a neat addition if you have a socket at your table or bed level, so that you can actually use the display and its features. The more important fact is that despite its size and quality, the display does not make the charger that much more expensive than similarly powerful chargers from competitors. Plus, you can save 10% on the 10 Ultra with a promo code on Amazon. Buy Cuktech 10 Ultra charger - $53.99 on Amazon with a promo code As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
    • Last week I was investigating an issue with contacts and tried using the new Outlook. In the real (Classic) Outlook, you can easily go to any Outlook folder and present it in a Table View, then customize the columns to show/sort any field, which was exactly what I needed. But of course, the new Outlook doesn't have this feature at all. I gave up. Oh, and can we possibly stop claiming the new Outlook has PST support? What it really has is the ability to use the real Outlook in the background to pretend to have PST support. There is no PST support without the real Outlook installed.
    • Honestly just before Panos left it started to feel like MS just wasnt interested in them so they were being less innovative with them, and then when he DID leave for Amazon its kind of clear the direction is gone. It felt like Panos had both goals and drive, and a vision, but it felt like no matter what his title/department was the Surface devices never had the full interest of the rest of management and he was just pushing a bolder up a hill that MS was adding dirt to as he went.
    • A roguelike and a 4X strategy game are free to claim on the Epic Games Store by Pulasthi Ariyasinghe The final leg of the Epic Games Store's mystery giveaways promotion just landed, and it brought along two more games to keep. Last week's Lonestar and Calico giveaways have now been replaced with copies of Rogue Waters and Songs of Conquest to claim for PC gamers. As always, the game is yours to add permanently to your Epic Games Store library within the next seven days. Diving into the games, Songs of Conquest is developed by Lavapotion. This is a turn-based 4X strategy experience that has players making tough decisions and participating in tactical combat while also managing their kingdom. "Songs of Conquest is a turn-based strategy game inspired by 90s classics. Lead powerful magicians called Wielders and venture to lands unknown," explains the developer. "Wage battles against armies that dare oppose you, hunt for powerful artifacts and expand your territory. The world is ripe for the taking – seize it." Meanwhile, Rogue Waters comes from developer Ice Code Games. This rogue-lite experience has you taking the role of Captain Cutter as he commands his ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters. You'll be recruiting and training crew, use sea creatures, and battle with other ships and pirates. "Set sail as Captain Cutter, a pirate caught in a deadly struggle for power and vengeance," adds the developer. "Navigate dangerous waters, unleash mythical sea creatures, and outwit enemies as you chase legendary treasure and confront dark secrets." The newly available Rogue Waters and Songs of Conquest giveaways on the Epic Games Store are set to run until June 11, giving PC gamers seven days to claim the latest offer. Once this closes out, a new freebie will take its place on the same day, which is slated to be Warhammer 40K Speed Freeks. Don't forget that mobile gamers can check out the Epic Game Store's weekly giveaways on Android and iOS to grab a freebie there as well.
    • Still using Classic Outlook? Microsoft highlights 15 reasons to switch to New Outlook by Usama Jawad As many of you may know, Microsoft has been trying to get customers to ditch Classic Outlook in favor of New Outlook for quite some time now. To that end, it has added numerous capabilities to the latter, including PST features, and it is working on several more, such as a unified inbox. However, customer response has been a bit lukewarm so far, with many considering the New Outlook to be "hot garbage". Now, Microsoft has highlighted 15 features that users can leverage in New Outlook in yet another attempt to get customers to migrate. Although not all of the 15 capabilities are exclusive to New Outlook, in fact, most of them are available in Classic Outlook as well. But Microsoft hopes that this combination of familiar and fresh features will be able to attract existing users as well as new ones. For ease of readability, we have summarized the 15 features below: Pin an email: This makes it easier to track important emails Snooze an email: You can temporarily snooze an email thread for a specific time frame until it becomes relevant again. This can be very useful in scenarios where you don't feel like actively following a thread or simply want to follow up on a later date Add multiple categories at the same time: You can assign multiple categories to an email through a single, simplified interface Sweep: As the name implies, you can define automated move processes on your inbox to declutter it, rather than cleaning it up manually Schedule send: Does exactly what it says on the tin, and can be useful when accommodating recipients in different timezones Simplified folder sharing: The sharing process has been simplified so permissions are automatically applied on parent folders Follow a meeting: This is an RSVP option that lets people know that you won't be able to join the meeting but would still like to access a recap Save calendar views: You can save different views for the calendar based on different workflows Improved meeting tracking: Organizers have more controls in viewing meeting responses, such as the ability to sort and download them. Typically useful when there is a large audience Meeting recap: The Outlook Calendar surfaces a meeting recap with recordings, transcripts, and shared files Filtered views: Allows you to declutter your Calendar so that it's easier to scan and schedule Change a recurring event: Users can modify future events of a series of meetings while preserving the configuration of previous ones Rename your email account: This labeling makes it easier to identify multiple accounts in Outlook Modern themes: Exactly what the name says, plus Dark Mode Keyboard shortcuts: This facilitates flexible user behavior as customers can choose between Outlook for Windows shortcuts, Outlook for the web, or turn them off completely There you have it. It's a decent list, but it remains to be seen if it will move the needle in a meaningful way for users who are attached to Classic Outlook. Again, a lot of the aforementioned features are already available in Outlook Classic, but for some, native functionality is not present, and people typically resort to workarounds. Microsoft will be hoping that it's primarily those capabilities that get people to finally switch.
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