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|
| Name |
URL ADDRESS |
NOTES - WARNINGS |
| Strokeit |
Strokeit |
|
| Weather Watcher |
www.metalforums.com/sing...tions/Index.html |
|
| Free email retriever |
ezpop.hoverdesk.net |
|
| Mozzila Firebird |
www.mozilla.org |
|
| Avant browser |
www.avantbrowser.com |
|
| Utilities for NT/2K/XP/2K3 |
www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml |
|
| AD-AWARE |
www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html |
|
| MSN |
www.messenger.msn.com/Download/ |
|
| MSN Plus |
www.msgplus.net/download.php |
|
| GOOGLE TOOLBAR |
www.google.com |
|
| The Quintessential Player (alt. to winamp) |
www.quinnware.com/ |
|
| CDEX |
www.cdex.n3.net/ |
|
| Avast! Antivirus |
www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html |
|
| Isobuster |
www.snapfiles.com/get/isobuster.html |
|
| JV16 Powertools (older version) |
www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22765,00.asp |
|
| WackGet (basic download manager) is a
minimalist application. |
www.millweed.com/projects/wackget/ |
|
| Mailwasher |
www.mailwasher.net/download.php |
|
| Samurize |
www.samurize.com |
|
| OpenOffice |
www.openoffice.org/ |
|
| JEdit |
www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download |
|
| Eudora Lite |
www.lonestar.texas.net/apps/elite.html |
|
| Cygwin |
www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html |
|
| db Poweramp Music Converter |
www.dbpoweramp.com/ |
|
| Spy Bot Free |
www.safer-networking.org |
|
| Opera Free |
www.download.com/3000-2356-10005498.html |
|
| Crimson Editor -prof. source code editor for
Windows. |
www.crimsoneditor.com/ |
|
| Pricelessware list for 2004 |
www.pricelessware.org |
|
| Winamp 2.x |
www.classic.winamp.com/player/ |
|
| Crazy Browser (tabbed browsing in IE + popup
blocking) |
www.crazybrowser.com/download.htm |
|
| Exactaudiocopy (best audio ripping app +
burning audio) but a bit hard to configure properly. |
www.exactaudiocopy.de/ |
|
| Lame (Lame Is Not an MP3 Encoder) but it is,
the best one. |
www.lame.sourceforge.net/links.html |
|
| Burnatonce (small burning app, burn cue/bins
by just double clicking on them) |
www.softpedia.com/public/cat/3/1/3-1-13.shtml |
|
| OpenOffice (free) |
www.openoffice.org/ |
|
| IrfanView |
www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm |
|
| Miranda Instant Messenger (ICQ/MSN/IRC/Yahoo
etc etc) |
www.miranda-im.org/release/ |
|
| 7zip (very good free winzip replacement) |
www.7-zip.org/download.html |
|
| Kerio Personal Firewall (free for personal
use) |
www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html |
|
| AVG virus scanner |
www.free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php |
|
| DLExpert as a download manager |
www.yanew.com/english.htm |
|
| Putty (very good telnet/ssh and tunnel
client) |
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html |
|
| TightVNC (if you have XP you might as well
use Remote assitance) |
www.tightvnc.com/download.html |
|
| Windows Mailserver - Free |
Mercury/32 Mailserver . |
|
| Thunderbird |
Thunderbird
Mail Client |
|
| The Ultimate Boot CD |
www.ultimatebootcd.com |
|
| BUNCHES of handy little apps |
www.karenware.com |
|
| WebCam2000 |
www.webcam2000.info |
|
| Apache |
www.apache.org
( mirror.pacific.net.au for IX/PIPEians) |
|
| Grab-it…...A leeching news reader |
www.shemes.com |
|
| BSPlayer. |
www.bsplayer.org |
|
| SmartFTP |
www.smartftp.com |
|
| Pegasus Mail |
www.pmail.com |
|
| FTP |
FileZilla |
|
| StarOffice 7 for free download if you sign up
to their free newsletters. |
see.sun.com/Apps/DCS/mcp?q=ST4W21TFZydO63 |
|
| Belac Inventory Tool |
www.belarc.com |
|
| Smart Boot Manager |
www.btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=download.html |
|
| Startup Control Panel |
www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7976,00.asp |
|
| Audacity |
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/windows.php |
|
| Context Editor |
www.context.cx/download.html |
|
| Coolmon |
www.coolmon.org/download/ |
|
| Download Express |
www.tucows.com/preview/252208.html |
|
| eMule |
www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download |
|
| WinHTTrack |
www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,20520,00.asp |
|
| WinSCP3 |
www.myopensource.org/internet/winscp3/download-review |
|
| Kmeleon 0.8 |
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14285 |
|
| Treesize |
www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml |
|
| Video Editing
Encoder |
Virtualdub |
|
| Media Editor |
http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/ |
|
| Peer Guardian block unwanted isps for file
sharing |
xs.tech.nu |
|
| Adia 32. benchmark tool. |
www.aida32.hu/aida32.php |
|
| free but requires registration |
www.freshdevices.com |
|
| Calypso email client |
www.rosecitysoftware.com/calypso |
|
| AnalogX |
www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm |
|
| iTunes - from Apple |
www.apple.com/itunes |
|
| Sygate Personal Firewall |
www.smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm |
|
| Diskeeper Lite (for win98) |
www.diskeeper.com |
|
| FreeRAM XP PRO |
www.yourwaresolutions.com |
|
| Quicktime |
www.apple.com/quicktime/download |
|
| Stuffit Expander |
www.stuffit.com/cgi-bin/...i?standardwinexp |
|
| htTrack Web site copier |
www.httrack.com |
|
| Notetab |
www.notetab.com |
|
| ws-ftp |
www.ipswitch.com |
|
| Perl & Python for windows |
www.activestate.com/Prod...ge_Distributions |
|
| DHCP Server (shareware but never expired) |
www.hanewin.de/e-dhcp.htm |
|
| |
www.eclipse.org |
|
| Smoothwall |
smoothwall.org |
|
| Spam Filter - Spampal |
www.spampal.org |
|
| Quick Folder Selection - Dirkey 2 |
www.freedownloads.be/downloaddetail/432 |
|
| Postit Notes - AtNotes |
www.atnotes.free.fr/download.html |
|
| Archiving - ZipGenius |
www.zipgenius.altervista.org/dlc/index.htm |
|
| Mail Checker - PopTray |
www.poptray.org/downloads.php |
|
| FTP Server - Guildftpd |
www.tucows.com/preview/195555.html |
|
| Bit Torrent - ABC Bit Torrent |
www.bittorrent.com/download.html |
|
| Media Editor - Virtual Dub |
www.virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ |
|
| Media Editor - Xmpeg |
www.softpedia.com/public/cat/11/2/2/11-2-2-66.shtml |
|
| Firebird |
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/ |
|
| Email Stripper - Gets rid of all the
">" and other formatting characters from you emails |
www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm |
|
| PowerMenu (49KB) |
www.veridicus.com/tummy/...amming/powermenu |
|
| YahooPops |
yahoopops.sourceforge.net |
|
| K9 - Spam filtering software |
keir.net/k9.html |
|
| go down little and get deep delete 3. simply drag and drop a
file and the you have two options. 1. write over the file with two radom
write types. 2. let it do its job properly and write over it 35 times, making
it unrecoverable. |
xs.tech.nu |
|
| Prefetch Clean and Control -If you're running
XP, then you can't go past . |
www.voodoofiles.com/8193 |
|
| Weatherstats |
www.birdcagesoft.com |
|
| Exact Audio Copy - for high quality CD
ripping. Reconstructs CD damage etc. |
www.exactaudiocopy.de/ |
|
| Download
Manager |
www.LeechGet.de |
|
| Network info
lookups |
www.samspade.org |
|
| Flashget |
www.amazesoft.com/download.htm |
|
| Getright - exellent download manager |
www.getright.com |
|
| Daemon Tools - basically inserts CD images
(virtual CDs) into a virtual drive |
www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?sid=7a93024e6544ca73816bac3a6d7e8410 |
|
| POPFile...best bayesian logic spam filter out
there |
www.popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl |
|
| Freeware
Video Player |
www.videolan.org |
|
| ePrompter, which checks ALL your pop3 &
webmail a/c's without having to open your email client OR browser. |
www.eprompter.com |
|
| Launchmate - for those like myself who like
an uncluttered desktop |
launchmate.sourceforge.net |
|
| Hotmail
Popper |
www.boolean.ca/hotpop |
|
| Gspot - Codec Informtion Appliance |
www.headbands.com/gspot |
|
| Fusionsoft
FREE Dvd Player |
www.users.on.net/neerav/..._dvdplayer_5.zip |
|
| Wallpaper Changer |
www.wallpaperchanger.de |
|
| Eremover - Removes unewanted email from ISP's
Server and then opens your email program and downloads the remainder. |
www.snip.net/help/eremove.htm |
|
| Startup
Control Panel |
www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml |
|
| SatScape
Satellite Tracker |
www.satscape.co.uk |
|
| Synergy |
synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html |
|
| WorldTime.
GET VERSION 5. 6 |
www.pawprint.net/wt |
|
| Palm Desktop. You don't need a Palm to enjoy it. |
www.palmone.com/us/support/downloads |
|
| JetAudio |
www.jetaudio.com/download/index.html |
|
| Magic Mail
Monitor |
www.geeba.org/magic |
|
| Abyss - its a free ghost surfer or sorts |
www.pichunter.com/abyss |
|
| Desktop Calendar - a simple &
compactgreat features and can sync with Outlook if you wish. |
vapaa.dc.inet.fi/~rainy/index.html
. |
|
| Tweak Ui |
www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui |
|
| Miranda connects to just about all IM
protocols out there, if you want text-only messaging, it's hard to beat. |
miranda-icq.sourceforge.net |
|
| Stinger - For virus emergencies and fast
scanning speeds, it is by far the best. Detects and removes all the major
ones in one program. |
vil.nai.com/vil/stinger |
|
| Replicator - here's one I use for backing up
from one Hard Drive to another. |
www.karenware.com/powert...ptreplicator.asp |
|
| Tarylynn (get it at tucows) for syncing my
mp3 collection to your mp3 player. |
www.tucows.com/preview/294132.html |
|
| NetAnts v1.25 - general purpose,
throttleable, resumable, prioritisable, parralellisable, schedulable, hangup
and/or shutdownable, FTP & HTTP download manager |
www.netants.com |
|
| ddcrypt. - A small program that lets you
encrypt sensitive documents etc. |
www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000010030 |
|
| Password Safe |
www.schneier.com/passsafe.html |
|
| PC Wizard
2004 |
www.cpuid.com/pcw.php#download |
|
| Adobe Photoshop Album - Starter Editon -
great for managing digital pics and images. Its got *most* of the features of
the full version... and its FREE! |
Adobe Photoshop Album - Starter Edition |
|
| Lavalys
EVEREST Home Edition & Pro Edition |
www.lavalys.com |
|
| Motherboard
Monitor by Alex van Kaam |
mbm.livewiredev.com |
|
| Panopsys
CPU-Z |
www.cpuid.com |
|
| ScienceMark 2 |
www.sciencemark.org |
|
| Futuremark
PCMark04 |
www.futuremark.com |
|
| HWiNFO &
HWiNFO32 Hardware Analysis |
www.hwinfo.com |
|
| SiSoftware
Sandra 2004 |
www.sisoftware.net |
|
| Nullsoft SafeSex - SafeSex allows you to have
some notes that are easily accessible, but relatively secure. |
www.nullsoft.com/free/safesex |
|
| If you play
guitar this will help you improve so much |
www.power-tab.net |
|
| Jalbum - easy peasy html Photo album maker! |
jalbum.net |
|
| Music Tagger and Renamer for WMA, MP3 &
OGG |
www.mp3tag.de/en |
|
| The Gimp (Free alternative to Photoshop and
Kicks Photoshops ass) |
www.gimp.org/downloads/ |
|
| Neatimage (Better than Photoshop for removing
digital noise from images) |
www.neatimage.com/download.html |
|
| DVD Decrypter (Decrypts faster and better
than AnyDVD) |
www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm |
|
| DVD Shrink (Better than CloneDVD). |
www.dvdshrink.org/where.html |
|
| SKYPE |
www.skype.com |
|
| xitami web server: the fastest, simplest and
best |
www.xitami.com/download.htm |
|
| scribe email client: small fast - does
everything including preview on server |
www.memecode.com/scribe.php#download |
|
| atlantis wordprocessor: fast, reads and
writes doc files |
www.bykeyword.com/downloads/word_processor.html |
|
| dynamicIP: ip poster - to email and web,
excellent |
www.no-ip.com/services/page/free/dynamic/dns |
Requires FREE Sign-up |
| xtyFTP: small fast efficient ftp client |
www.download.com/xTyFTP/3000-2160-10260296.html |
|
| Wbiff: email notifyer |
http://tucows.mundofree.com/winnt/preview/6187.html |
|
| ObjectDock. A great replacement for the
windows taskbar. |
www.stardock.com/products/objectdock |
|
| Player a alternative audio cd player and it's
freeware |
www.vuplayer.com/player.htm |
|
| IE SPell for
Internet Explorer and it's freeware... |
www.iespell.com |
|
| Spell Checker For OE - this handy if you do
not have any MS Office components installed and it's freeware |
www.geocities.com/vampirefo |
|
| GraphCalc - the ultimate Windows and Linux
graphing calculator and it's freeware |
www.graphcalc.com |
|
| Free World
Clock |
www.zada.com.au/worldclock.htm |
|
| mIRC - download anything |
www.mirc.com/get.html |
|
| Opera - comes with ads or pay a bit and ad
free, comes very close to firebird and uses mouse gestures which are good. |
www.opera.com/download/ |
|
| Mozilla Firefox - Very fast and small
footprint |
www.mozilla.org/ |
|
| SwishLite - for easy flash creation |
www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=downloads |
All other Swish
Program are paid versions |
| Zonealarm - Free Firewall |
www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/trial_zaFamily/trial_zaFamily.jsp?lid=2home_freedownloads |
|
| ICQ 2003b |
www.icq.com/download/ |
|
| Firedaemon
Lite - An easy to use service manager |
www.firedaemon.com |
|
| E107 - If you want a professional looking
website/portal in minutes |
www.e107.org |
|
| FlaskMPEG - DivX encoder |
www.flaskmpeg.net |
|
| Psi - an
awesome client for the Jabber network. |
psi.affinix.com |
|
| Restoration v2.5.14 - plus 6 other File
Recovery programs |
www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html |
|
| AVIchop - Video Editor |
www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=AVIChop |
|
| XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let`s you
disable some built-in update and authetication `features` in WindowsXP. |
www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/17/10-17-4.shtml |
|
| Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a
self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most
computers. |
dban.sourceforge.net |
|
| PrintKey-Pro is a system tray-based program
that can capture your screen or any part of it with the press of the
PrintScrn key (or any other key you configure). |
www.geocities.com/~gigaman/ |
|
| CutePDF Writer - Create professional quality
PDF files from almost any printable document. FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No popup Web
advertisements! |
CutePDF Writer |
|
| Bookmark Wizard - It will format your
favorites folder into a single html page of links. |
www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp |
|
| Cryptainer LE - Secure your data and ensure
absolute privacy with Cypherix's powerful encryption software Cryptainer
LE. |
www.cypherix.co.uk/crypt...sharewarejunkies |
|
| Eraser Tool - A program for those of you
wanting to securely erase data. |
www.heidi.ie/eraser |
|
| Photo Resizer (FREE!) 2nd Product down the page. |
www.showyourphotos.com/Bonus.html |
|
| AbiWord - Perfect "lite" word
processor for those who don't need the massive overheads of MS Office or
OpenOffice |
www.abisource.com |
|
| xint - a text editor. |
www.xtort.net/xtort/xtort.php |
|
| KeyNote - the most elaborately tabbed notebook
you'll ever find. |
www.findapp.com/fmgmt/PDetails.aspx?cmd=Prod&C=7&SC=7&PID=136 |
|
| Find File - Finds the file through the maze
of php and other scripts. Allows poor dialup users to use progz such as
Download accelerator and Getright etc. |
www28.brinkster.com/fwaaaawf/software.htm |
|
| Fraps can show your frame rate in games! Fraps performs video capture, screen
capture and can benchmark your fps! |
www.fraps.com/download.htm |
|
| Registry Cleaner - Fixes things that system
works can't, and offers a recovery option. |
www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,4666,00.asp |
|
| KeyTweak - Remapping of keyboards. This
freeware utility remaps any kep to whatever you need. |
webpages.charter.net/krumsick |
|
| Create Windows "Macros" - like the
old Win 3.1 days (but heaps better!), here is a nice macro recorder. |
www.autohotkey.com |
|
| AutoGK - Its the Best, easiest to use program
to convert DVD to DivX and XVid. |
www.autogk.net |
|
| PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) - email encryption |
www.pgpi.org |
If
PGP still includes the McAfee firewall rubbish, it should be noted that you
should be careful installing it on an XP machine. Installing the McAfee
firewall renders the XP TCP/IP stack useless and the only way to restore it
is to format and reinstall. |
| izArc - A very handy Zip tool. Supports 39
compression formats looks like a winzip and it is free. |
www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm |
|
| TrayIt - Minimises any program to system tray |
www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm |
|
| Online
Newsreader. Small and fast. |
xnews.newsguy.com |
|
| Macro Maker - Great for repetitive tasks |
members.ij.net/anthonyma...s/MacroMaker.htm |
|
| Audiograbber 1.83 - For ripping Cd's and
converting to mp3 |
www.audiograbber.com-us.net |
|
| Mail Enable Standard - an excellent freeware
SMTP, POP3 and List server. |
www.mailenable.com |
|
| WordWeb - a desktop dictionary |
wordweb.info/free |
|
| PDF995 - create .pdf files from anything you
can print. |
www.pdf995.com |
Upon
"printing" the free version will open the PDF995 webpage with an
offer to upgrade to the super-duper version - a small price to pay for a very
useful program |
| Conversion Program - Converts units of just
about anything into anything else. |
www.joshmadison.com/software/convert |
|
| Freeware program that'll force IE to maximise EVERY time. |
www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/index.htm |
|
| Screen Ripper32 - For taking screen dumps and
grabbing parts of screens with or without the cursor etc |
www.wramc.amedd.army.mil...wramcrad/DINPACS |
|
| DAP (download accelerator plus) - download manager |
www.speedbit.com/DAP7/Default.asp? |
|
| HideOE v1.1.1 - Now
you can! Hide Outlook Express creates a Tray Icon, and allows you to show and
hide Outlook Express by clicking the icon. It can also be set to hide Outlook
Express when you minimize it. |
www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=hideoe&PHPSESSID=182c11451ad10925f2ef74df08c26bf8 |
|
| PRTG Traffic Grapher 4 - PRTG Traffic Grapher
monitors network and bandwidth usage. |
www.paessler.com/products/prtg |
|
| The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of
codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. |
www.k-litecodecpack.com/ |
There
are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: The Basic version, who fits on a
single floppy disk, contains only the most essential codecs and related
tools. The Standard version
contains everything what is needed to play all the commonly used formats. The Full version contains even more
codecs and also has encoding support. It is highly recommended to uninstall
all existing codec related software before installing. This way your system
stays clean and potential problems will be avoided. |
| The GodFather is here
to put order to chaos and put you in control. |
users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf |
|
| Picasa - works with the digital photo files on
your PC to create a better, more organized viewing and editing
experience. |
www.picasa.com/google |
|
| NetMeter - is a customizable bandwidth
monitor, that runs in the system tray and displays a detailed statistics
graph when clicked. |
www.snapfiles.com/get/netmeter.html |
|
| Spyware
Blaster |
www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html |
|
| Bazooka |
www.spychecker.com/program/bazooka.html |
|
| Ranish
Partition Manager |
www.ranish.com/part |
If
you use Powerquest's Drive Image then you will need to remove PRM. Removal
and reinstallation of RPM is easy. So the solution when you want to image a
hard drive with DI is to remove RPM before imaging. Then re-install RPM. |
TrueCrypt -
|
www.freewebs.com/thinker2004 |
|
| Power
Calculator - for PC components |
www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply |
|
| Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.4.2
(J2SE) - For use with firefox in running java/javascript correctly |
java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html |
|
| Macromedia Flash & Shockwave Players -
Used with Firefox to run Flash and Shockwave Animations |
www.macromedia.com/downloads |
|
| Windows XP
PowerToys |
www.microsoft.com/window...xppowertoys.mspx |
|
| Real Alternative - will allow you to play RealMedia files
without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player. |
www.free-codecs.com/down..._Alternative.htm |
|