Freeware & Stuff

[Shakey]

Okay, boys & girls. Know of some good software that you would like to promote or let others know about? Then this thread is for you. Let's try to keep this neat though. So when you post a link, make sure to use the name of the program as the text to display. I'll try to keep everything organized into one nice and neat post in the beginning of the thread. Here are some categories to think about - Audio Players, Utilities, Games, Applications, etc... Please feel free to make any suggestions.

ANTI-VIRUS
AVG Anti-Virus
avast! 4 Home edition
AntiVir Personal Edition

AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYERS
Winamp
Real Player
Cool Player
Quintessential Player
Sonique
Music Match Jukebox
Quick Time
TrayPlay - Quite possibly the leanest, most resource friendly player I have seen!
QuickTime Alternative
Real Alternative - Real Player sans the intrusive behavior.

BACKUP SOFTWARE
DrvImagerXP - Windows 2K/XP only. Free drive imaging program.
ISO Recorder - A simple way to create ISO images.
SyncBack v2.1 - Easily backup or synchronize your important files
HDCopy - Make an identical copy of a hard drive onto another hard drive.

CALENDAR & REMINDERS
Rainlendar - A skinnable desktop calendar.

CD BURNING
Micro Burner - A small standalone (no installation necessary) CD burning tool.
Feurio!
DeepBurner - CD/DVD burning software that seems to be a darn nice piece of software!
burnatonce - Another free CD burning app.
CDBurnerXP Pro - Very nice burning app.
ImgBurn - A quick and competent ISO file burner

CODECS
DIVX CODECS

COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION TOOLS
XAcePlus - Free tool to decompress .ace files.

COOKIE CONTROL
Cookie Monster

CUSTOMIZATION
EFX - A free way to skin Windows.
Drempels - Not only a great screensaver, but also a great way to animate your desktop.
XP Tips and Tweaks
Glass2K - A small little program that allows Windows 2000/XP users to make any window transparent.
Y'z Shadow - Enhancement software which adds a shadow effect to windows.
ObjectDock - Gives you the OS X style dock on your PC. 2000/XP only.
CustomEyes - Another app to change the look of Windows.

DIAL UP NETWORKING
DFUeTweaker - Optimize your dial up connection.

DISK CLEANING
Cleanup
Diskcleaner
Crap Cleaner
HDCleaner
CleanCache

DISK UTILITIES
ISO Buster - A CD/DVD data recovery tool.
SectorSpyXP/98 - Professional forensics analysis and data recovery tool.

DVD TOOLS
DVD Shrink - Still one of the best backup programs available
DVD43 - Bypasses copy protection

E-MAIL APPLICATIONS
Chandler - An open source replacement for MS Outlook.
Sylpheed Claws
Incredimail
Eudora
Thunderbird
GMail Drive - Creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account.
SeaMonkey - Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple

GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS
The Gimp - No, not the dude from "Pulp Fiction".
Pixia - A lightweight alternative to Paint Shop Pro.
Project Dogwaffle

HTML Authoring
HTML-Kit
NoteTab Light
1st Page 2000
HTML Beauty++
EasyHtml

INTERNET BROWSERS
Mozilla
Netscape Navigator
Opera
Internet Explorer
K-Meleon
Mozilla Firefox
Avant Browser

INTERNET TOOLS
Copernic Agent 6.0 - The best way to conduct an Internet Search. Queries multiple engines simultaneously.
Flash Saving Plugin - Lets you easily save flash movies right from Internet Explorer.

MESSAGING APPLICATIONS
Yahoo Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger
Trillian
MSN Messenger
ICQ
Odigo
IRC Gold
BuddyVision - Adds video to AIM

MISC. APPLICATIONS
Adobe Acrobat Reader
X-Fonter
Shutdown Machine - An app that will shutdown your computer at a pre-determined time.
Avery Design Software
Post-it® Software Notes
SlickRun - A floating command line utility for Windows.

NETWORK UTILITIES
Packetmon - A free packet sniffer.
Zone Alarm
Sygate Personal Firewall
Tiny Personal Firewall
TightVNC - Allows remote network access to PC's.
Kerio Personal Firewall

OFFICE & PRODUCTIVETY
602 PC Suite - A free alternative to MS Office
OpenOffice.org 1.1

POP-UP KILLERS
iRejectTrash - Internet advertisement blocking software.
PopupPopper - A very nice and effective popup stopper.
POW
PopupKiller
Free Surfer
Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition
SurfGhost - A new popup blocker that not only blocks popups, but will erase your cookies and cache.
AdBuster - Blocks popups, video ads and spyware.

REFERENCE MATERIAL
e-Sword

REGISTRY TOOLS (Be Careful)
RegCleaner
RegscrubXP - XP only (cleans erroneous registry entries).
RegSeeker - Utility designed to manage your Windows Registry.
RegCool - Registry editor and manager
EasyCleaner
Registry Explorer

SCREENSAVERS
Electric Sheep - My current favorite. You just have to see it to understand.
Stereogram Screensaver

SECURITY TOOLS
Private Eye - See what private info is hidden on your hard drive.
Safe XP - Improves your system performance and makes Windows to run faster, more secure and more stable!
XP-Antispy - Let's you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP.
Hijack This
CWShredder
Browser Hijack Blaster - Prevent malicious scripts and app's from hijacking your homepage.
SpoofStick - Makes it easier to spot a spoofed website. Invaluable
Password Construction Kit
Web Tunnel - Anonymize your browsing habits! (NOTE: Download WebTunnel Free)

SPAM TOOLS
Spamunition
xTerminator 4.2
SpamBayes
Spamihilator

SPYWARE CLEANERS
Windows AntiSpyware
Ad-Aware
SpyBot
WinPatrol 5.0 - sniff's out Worms, Trojan horses, Cookies, Adware, Spyware and other malicious programs that may attack your computer
SpywareBlaster 3.2
HijackThis
CWShredder

SYSTEM INFO
Belarc Advisor
PC WIZARD 2004
SIW

SYSTEM MONITORING
Samurize - Win 2K/XP only!
Sysmetrix - A nice skinnable system meter.
Task Manager - 98/ME only.
Netstat Live
GKrellM
CoolCPU
Winsonar - A program specifically designed to monitoring new processes that permanently install into memory while system is working.

TOOLBARS
eBay Toolbar
Amazon Toolbar
Google Toolbar
Yahoo Toolbar
Earthlink Toolbar
AOL Toolbar
Dogpile Toolbar
Myspace Toolbar


TWEAKING TOOLS - USE CAUTION WITH THESE TOOLS.
TweakUI
XP Powertoys
XTEQ X-Setup - The "Blackbelt" of system tweakers. Be careful
Cachebooster - Tweak your system's cache.
MaxMem - Free up used memory

WEATHER
***Not available at the moment***HoverWeather - Get your local forcast delivered to your desktop. A very nice app!

[Diofan]

Originally Posted by Shakey

Thanks, I like both of those as well but this thread is for individual freeware app's, not the sites that host them.

Yeah I reread that after I had already posted, missed the individual files portion. Me bad. Here's my list of good freeware Programs.

Text/HTML Editors
NoteTab_light
Anti-Spam
spamihilator
Spyware tools
Spybot Search & Destroy
Cleans up Spyware files
Spyware Blaster

[Shakey]

I already had Spybot and Spyware Blaster on the list, but I have added both NoteTab_light and spamihilator. Thanks! This list gets better and better all of the time.

[Diofan]

Most of the stuff I get are Web Design related. I've made a few clips used by notetab, but only uploaded the javascript one to their servers. the other one is still in the works which enables you to use notetab to create DOS based Batch files.

[Glenn Gulia]

You guys know of a free app that will let you print labels?

[Diofan]

Originally Posted by Glenn Gulia

You guys know of a free app that will let you print labels?

A while back I downloaded a Template in Word that will let you print labels. I forgot the URL, but I got the Template on my computer at work. Let me know if you'd be interested and I'll upload it to my web server and give you the link.

[Glenn Gulia]

Originally Posted by Diofan

A while back I downloaded a Template in Word that will let you print labels. I forgot the URL, but I got the Template on my computer at work. Let me know if you'd be interested and I'll upload it to my web server and give you the link.

I don't have Word

[Diofan]

Try looking over at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware or http://www.freewarehome.com They may have what you are looking for Glenn.

[Shakey]

Did you try the Avery Design software form the list above? They are under MISC. APPLICATIONS and I believe that you have to register, but they may do what you need.

[Diofan]

More stuff for the list Shakey:


HTML EDITORS
1stpage2000
htmlbeauty
EasyHTML

REGISTRY TOOLS
regxplor

[Shakey]

Thanks, but do you have the links to the web sites themselves? I like to post those instead of the executables in case they change.

[Diofan]

Oh, Okay here ya go:

HTML EDITORS
1stPage2000
htmlbeauty
EasyHTML
REGISTRY TOOLS
regxplor

[Shakey]

Thanks, I have added them.

[walvis]

The is a site where you can find a lot of freeware. It also contains freeware for Mac.

http://www.softpedia.com/

Another Mac freeware site is:

http://membres.lycos.fr/macfreeware/menu.html

It contains any kind of freeware. Net Browsers, Games, Database software. Plugins etc

[TopCat]

I am guessing this is where to post this..

Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web?
Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more...

FoxyTunes

I have yet to try it but it looks good.

and..

Fasterfox - performance and network tweaks for Firefox.

[Dude111]

WEB BROWSERS:

Maxthon (MyIE2) -- The best www.maxthon.com

WEATHER

Hoverweather (I found it about 5 months ago,YES it is very nice -- I got rid of it though because Yahoo changed thier page around and as a result,HOVERWEATHER was not able to get the data correctly (And it wasnt serving its purpose anymore)

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...her/1038403438

Download link (HWeather.zip) > http://anonym.to?http://softodrom.ru...et.php?id=3428

[Dude111]

New DOWNLOAD LINK for Hover Weather (I cant edit my post above)

http://anonym.to?http://soft.softodr...et.php?id=3428

EXCELLENT FREE SOFTWARE PORTALS

46 Best Freeware Utilities Ever - Great Portal for Selected Utilities
AnalogX - Very good utilities - Good Tool Sets absolutely Free
Free Downloads Center - Tons of Stuff
More from Free Downloads Center - Screensavers and Screensaver Makers
GNUWin II - A collection of a variety of applications - A treasure chest of free software

Great Stuff + Query App - Over a dozen free tools for you
Jeh's Freeware - Lots of Variety - Some has spyware, so beware.
KarenWare - Karen Cares - good stuff here
Last Freeware version - Last free version of many programs that are now "commercial" ($$$)

NirSoft Free Utilities - Windows Utilities - including an Uninstaller for things that don't show up in the Add/Remove list.

No nonsense Software - Some Nice Tools
Nonags Free Software - More Nice Tools
Older Versions - Cause newer is not always better!
Only the BEST Freeware - You be the judge.
PricelessWare - Lists compiled much as this one was - from user's inputs
More pricelessware - Get it all on CD
Radified Freeware - Seems to have chosen his list well.
Shell Extention City - Some of their own stuff and List of Recommended sites of their own.

Snapfiles - Great Selection
Sourceforge - Professional FREE software
SysInternals - Great set of tools by Sysinternals
Select Freeware - Dont worry - it's all online.
100 Top Downloads.com - "Essential" Downloads for WinXP
Ask the Econsultant - Over 400 freeware apps listed

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Dude111

New DOWNLOAD LINK for Hover Weather (I cant edit my post above)
http://anonym.to?http://soft.softodr...et.php?id=3428

I just tried Hweather again since last year when i deleted it cause it wasnt working anymore and IT WORKS WONDERFULLY!!

I had to use a DIFFERENT YAHOO WEATHER page,the one it had as default wasnt working anymore.......... (Which is why i deleted it)

Such a nice program!!!!!!!!

[Dude111]

Here is a nice free clock proggy

http://www.mirage1.u-net.com/clox.htm

[Dude111]

This program performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for:

- Software (Operating System, Installed Programs and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Product Keys, Serial Numbers, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Passwords hidden behind asterisks, Installed Codecs),

- Hardware (Motherboard, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers),

- Network (Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections), as well as real-time monitors for CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.

SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode.

SIW is a standalone tool that does not require installation - one less installed program on your PC you may also run the program directly from a USB flash drive (Portable Freeware).


http://www.gtopala.com