Best/Useful Free software

needaspirin

I like this site.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
Each piece of free software is accompanied by a short review so you can choose what's best for you.

NickiM

Picasa is good, sorry just realised it is already added

Aiadi

XnView (portable and better than IrfanView),
Essential PIM (best portable contacts manager),
DVDFlikr (easily turn you Divx, Avi. Mpeg onto DVDs watchable on normal players),
Cybershredder (deletes files safely and completely, portable),
And FSCapture (the best screen capture utility ever).

All portable (but not mentioned in Portableapps.com) on my USB drive, Free and absolutely superb.

isofa

Perhaps we can all add our faves and get a definitive list added as a sticky subject?

I've loads of anti-spyware / security software to add, I'll compile a list later.

Reluctant_spender

Rather than type out the full list, I go here when I need freeware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3616.html

The list is broken into business areas and has a short description for each.

superscaper

isofa wrote: »

Perhaps we can all add our faves and get a definitive list added as a sticky subject?

The stickies do need cleaning up, not sure what it could replace or merge with (the mods won't introduce additional stickies as there's enough already, I remember talking to them about it a while ago).

Also worth thinking about whether it's worth it, remember that as soon as you put "Sticky" in front of a subject it turns invisible for most people. Proper stealth technology. :rolleyes:

b33r

Cheers for your input guys, some very useful apps there and plenty I'd never seen which I'm going to give a try.

Cheers for those links needaspirin and Reluctant_spender, I will have a look through and pick out any we don't have and pick out the useful looking ones.

Will update my first post later with what has been added.

Cheers

rumpelstiltskin_2

If you use Excel a lot this is a great free add-in

http://www.asap-utilities.com/

Rumpestiltskin

Zagu

Always good to know about these freebies, but The_JinJ did the same thread a while back.

And yes, there should be a definitive list as a sticky.

charlieheard

needaspirin wrote: »

I like this site.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
Each piece of free software is accompanied by a short review so you can choose what's best for you.

I've recommended this site in these forums since I was introduced to it here a couple of years ago. It's got an RSS feed and/or a newsletter, so you can keep up to date with what's out there...