What Free Software do you use?

mrweeble

I'm a big user of Free Software and always install loads on any computer I use. Here is my list of can't do without free software

Mozilla Firefox
Web Browser
http://www.getfirefox.com/

Mozilla Thunderbird
Email client - the sister program of Firefox
http://www.getthunderbird.com/

OpenOffice.org
Complete Office suite, can open MS Office files and can save to PDF
http://www.openoffice.org/

Irfanview
Image Viewer - can also resize, rotate crop and convert
http://www.irfanview.com/

Inkscape
Graphics program similar to Adobe Illustrator (vector graphics)
http://www.inkscape.org/

WinAmp
Small and easy to use music player
http://www.winamp.com/

VLC
A video player that will play almost anything. It's kind of ugly looking though, but you can install skins to make it look decent.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Avast! Home Edition
Fully featured antivirus program
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

FreeRip
MP3 Ripper. Will also rip to Ogg Vorbis, which gives small files and better sound
http://www.mgshareware.com/frmmain.shtml

AviDemux
A rather useful video editor/convertor
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Then of course there are the usual suspects like
Acrobat Reader, Flash Player, Real Player and QuickTime.

Hint for installing Real. Install Real from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_install.shtml
Apparently the BBC told Real they would only use the format if Real provided a player without adverts. So if you use this, there will be less adverts and those adverts will only be from Real rather than 3rd parties and thus less annoying. God bless Auntie.

I also have other ones but those are far more geeky and related to my job as a web developer.

lfc4eva

CDBurnerXP Pro.......burn CD/DVD's for free

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

One of my fave sites for freebie software is freesoftware4all

http://www.freesoftware4all.co.uk/

Oh and here's a list of free software some may find useful......I got this off another forum quite some time ago (about 2 years!!) ...so hopefully all the links are still ok

3D Graphics:

Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

Anti-Virus:

AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/ (now not so free, apparently!!!)
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html

Audio Players:

Winamp - http://www.winamp.com
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Audio Tools:

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
EAC - https://www.exactaudiocopy.de

CD/DVD Burning:

CDBurnerXP - http://w1.878.telia.com/~u87812405/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression

7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/

Defrag Software:

DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Download managers:

Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm

Encryption and data security:

Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

File Managers:

Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:

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

Firewalls:

Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...reeDownload.jsp
Bartware Personal Firewall - http://www.bart-ware.net/fw2/
Outpost Firewall - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/

FTP Clients:

EFTP - http://www.eftp.org/
WinSCP - http://winscp.sourceforge.net/
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

FTP Servers:

GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd

HTML Editors:

Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/

Image viewers:

Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe

Instant Messenger:

Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda32 - http://www.miranda-im.org/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian - http://www.trillian.cc

Internet Explorer Front-Ends

MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Mail programs:

Pegasus - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Sylpheed claws - http://claws-w32.sourceforge.net/
Geminisoft Pimmy - http://www.geminisoft.com/

Network Tools:

PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org

Office Suite:

Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/

Partition Managers:

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

PDF Makers:

Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:

The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/

Programming:

Python - http://www.python.org/
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/

Pop-up Blockers:

NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/
System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/

Spyware Removal

Adaware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.2 - http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Opt Out - http://grc.com/optout.htm

Video players:

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

Video tools:

xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:

Firebird - http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera - http://www.opera.com

crazybear

http://100-downloads.com

This has an up to date list of all the top freeware applications. I find that downloads.com and tucows.com simply has too many applications, as I only want to know about the best ones.

pontyendred

here is an excellent website listing freeware utility software

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

lightisfading

I use The Gimp (graphics), OpenOffice, Firefox, Winamp, AceHTML and AceFTP, Trillian, Skype, and probably some other stuff

betterbargains4u

Does anyone know of any free software to design flyers with...must be easy to use!!!

ksrao

The list seems tobe too big.May be useful to some one.But how to accomodate in your favorite?
I tend to use one programme https://www.filehippo.com which contains everything I want.May be useful to others as well.

Viz_2

I use the image resizer from Microsoft. You can get it here...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

dorsetmiss_2

Free thesaurus and dictionary....sits near the clock ready for use.

http://wordweb.info/free/

audioedition.org

Spybot S&D
https://www.safer-networking.org

Coffee Cup Free Zip Wizard
Coffee Cup Free Ftp
https://www.coffeecup.com

Switch sound file converter
https://www.nch.com.au

iTunes
https://www.apple.com

Abexo free registry cleaner
https://www.abexo.com