 Downloads Mentioned in Jesusfreak computergeek columns |
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Virtual Dust Bunnies - A computer ailment catch-all: June 2007
| Ad-Aware - Adware/Spyware removal utility. | Freeware/Other | Adware protection |
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Virtual Dust Bunnies - A computer ailment catch-all: June 2007
| Spyware Doctor - Adware/Spyware removal utility. | Freeware/Other | Adware protection |
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RSS - Really Simple Sindicate: April 2007
| RSS utility. Stream news to your desktop. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| FIle Transfer Server or client. | Freeware/Trialware | FTP Server or Client |
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| IZArc | Zip utility. Opens everything and has File Explorer support. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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Flock | Web browser based on Firefox with blogging utilities built in. | GPL | Web |
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Opera | Web browser. | Freeware | Web |
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| Putty | Telnet/SSH application. | GPL | Web |
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| 7Zip | Zip utility with File Explorer support. | GPL | Utility |
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| DVDShrink | DVD compression for burning DVD data to cdr. Also, you will need some things here. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Video |
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| ISOrecorder | ISO burn utility! Add an option to
Explorer to burn .iso file to cd. HIghly Recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
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| AB Commander | File explorer replacement. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| Flac | Lossless audio compression tool. Rips tracks without the quality loss like you find in mp3 format. | GPL | Audio |
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| Razorlame | Audio to mp3 ripper. Uses Lame Encoder | GPL | Audio |
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| VideoLan | Movie player, plays most everything including DVD! | GPL | Video |
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| Jahshaka | Video editor for Windows. Very nice. | GPL | Video |
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| ClipRex | DVD player with codex. | Freeware | Video |
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| AVI Maker | Makes avi video from images. | Freeware | Video |
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| Dorgem | Video/webcam capture. | GPL | Video |
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| Neuromixer | Neuromixer Innovative software solutions for visual artists and musicians for live video production. | Freeware/Other | Audio |
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| Cinepaint | Image editor geared for video production. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
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| Semagic | Blog clent for Live journal. Has the best features for Lj. | GPL | Web |
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| Chronicle Lite | Blog client that works with xmlrpc - works with Drupal and any other blogapi supporting blog. | GPL | Web |
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| W.Blogger | Blog client, the best ever imo. Supports Drupal, Word Press, Live Journal, and many other blog types and even FTPs files and tags them with either link or image. Too many features to list here, highly recommended application. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Web |
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| Ethereal | Packet sniffer. | GPL | Utility |
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| VNC | Remote desktop tool. | GPL | Utility |
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| TightVNC | Remote desktop tool. | GPL | Utility |
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| TeraTerm | Terminal. | GPL | Utility |
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| Bid O Magic | EBay bidding/selling utility. | GPL | Web |
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| Open SSH | SSH Remote administration. | GPL | Utility |
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| Adaware | Spyware removal tool. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| Crap Cleaner | Cleans up Windows, internet cache, temp files, registry entries, etc. Also has an uninstaller that works and a startup editor. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
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| Registry Fix | Fixes the Windows registry. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| Filseclab | Internet personal firewall - Nice | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| Kerio Firewall | Internet personal firewall. Highly recommended. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| Zone Alarm | Internet personal firewall. Highly recommended. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| AntiVir | Anti-virus. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| Open AntiVirus | Anti-virus framework. | GPL | Utility |
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| CD Image | ISO ripper. Like UltraISO, create convert disk images. Supports all the main images types. | GPL | Utility |
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| G4U ghost utility | Ghost a drive. I have not used this, but it says it supports win2k. | GPL | Utility |
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| Boot manager/partition manager | Partition magic like clone and boot manager. | GPL | Utility |
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| BitTorrent | Multipeer downloading! | GPL | Peer2Peer |
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| Burst | A bittorrent creation and management tool! Highly recommended. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
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| EMule | Peer2peer client for file sharing! | GPL | Peer2Peer |
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| EMule Plus | Peer2peer client for file sharing with added features! | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| FileZilla | FTP Server and client. Highly recommended. | GPL | Web |
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| Mozilla |
Web applications like Thunderbird mail client, Firefox web browser, and Sunbird Calendar. Highly recommended. | MPL | Web |
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| IM2 | Chat client. Works with
Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ, IRC. Features voice\video and encrypted chat. Skinnable :) | Freeware | Web |
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| Trillian | Chat client. Nice, Works with
Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ, IRC. Highly recommended. | Shareware | Web |
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| Rainlendar | Very cool skinnable calendar for windows, will set events from Outlook/Exchange! | GPL | Utility |
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| Sysmetrix | Very cool skinnable clock system meters with weather,
email, and trash indicators as well as music playback. | Freeware | Utility |
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| Samurize | Another skinnable clock, system meters,
weather, email, and trash indicators as well as music playback, but with so much more - like multiple machine support! Highly recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
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| Virtual Dimension | Multiple desktops in Windows. I love this app, it actually makes your desktop sessions separate and lots more cool features. Highly recommended. | GPL | Utility |
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| Skin Calc | Cool skinnable calculator. | Freeware | Utility |
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| PearPC | Run Mac OS X or Linux on Windows ! This works as I was running Mac OS X panther on my Windows XP laptop. | GPL | Virtualization |
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| Synergy | Synergy is like dual monitors, a kvm switch, and vnc on speed! If you want to operate multiple machines with one keyboard and mouse, move files between them, and have both screens at your disposal this is for you. Works between platforms also! | GPL | Utility |
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| Cygwin | Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. | GPL | Utility |
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| Cygwin/x | Cygwin/x allows x11 (Linux apps) to run on Windows. | GPL | Utility |
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| AbiWord | Word processor with all the bells and
whistles! Highly recommended. | GPL | Office |
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| Firebird database | Nice database. Like Access. | GPL | Database |
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| Jedi database | Database for Windows. | GPL | Database |
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| Open Office 2 | Office suite, like Microsoft Office and compatable with MS Office formats. Word processor, Spreadsheets, Publisher, Presentation, HTML, and Powerful database (like Access) products. Impress (Like Powerpoint) exports to many formats including SWF (Flash). All can be exported as PDF. Highly recommended. | GPL/LGPL/SISSL | Office |
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| Quasar | Nice replacement for Quickbooks. | GPL | Finance |
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| PDF Creator | Create PDF documents. | GPL | Office |
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| Sketchboard | CAD software. 3-D | GPL | 3D Graphics |
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| QCad | Autocad application. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
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| Dia | Basically Visio. | GPL | Office |
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| JMoney | Personal banking and accounting app. | GPL | Finance |
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| Eclipse | Eclipse java IDE for Windows. | GPL | Programming |
| OpenLaszlo | Flash creation, plus much more. Kind of like Macromedia Flex. For everything you need for this visit my Laszlo article. | CPL | Programming |
| GNUStep objective C | Objective C lib, compilers, etc. | GPL | Programming |
| Python programming language! | So much power and easy to
pick up! Has an included programming editor/IDE called
PythonWin.exe | ACL | Programming |
| Python Enthought edition | Scientific power packed
Python install! This has wxWindows installed by default. | GPL | Programming |
| Boa Constructor | A visual GUI designer and IDE for
Python | GPL | Programming |
| SPE | If your a Python programmer working on Mac or Windows and your looking for an IDE, Spe is for you! Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| WXWindows | BOA uses wxWindows backend | GPL | Programming |
| RUBY | Perl/Python like programming language. | GPL | Programming |
| RadRails | Ruby On Rails IDE. | CC | Programming |
| PEARL | Perl programming language. | ACL | Programming |
| Lazarus | Delphi/Kylix like programming environment using Pascal, compiles to exe, gui designer.! | GPL | Programming |
| Envelop VBasic | Visual Basic clone; compiles to exe, gui designer! | GPL | Programming |
| TSWebeditor | HTML/PHP IDE. Has FTP, projects, and css support built in. Very nice! Highly recommended. | Freeware | Programming |
| Crimson editor | Programmers text editor. Features tabbed interface, html, php, c, python syntax highlighting, code output window, and built in FTP! Highly recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
| NVU | HTML wysiwyg editor, supports CSS, Javascript, etc. Highly recommended. | MPL/LGPL/GPL | Programming |
| Webniac | HTML editor, CSS, ETC. | GPL | Programming |
| Balthisar Cascade 2.0 | CSS level 2 editor available for the Windows platform. | Freeware | Programming |
| SimpleCSS | CSS Editor. | Freeware | Programming |
| Photoshop Plugins | Photoshop plugin listing | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Python for Photoshop | Python Actions Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop | GPL | Programming |
| Hugin - Panorama Tools | Make panoramic photos out of normal images. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Fractal-Explorer | Fractal generator with landscape and script lib. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Xaos | Fractal generator. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Planet Genesis | Terragen clone - creates 3-d landscapes, planets, etc. | BSD | 3D Graphics |
| Genesis II | Creates 3-d landscapes. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| Gimpshop | Gimp restructured like Photoshop. Very nice and you only need install this one file as opposed to Gimp's GTK lib install. If your a Photoshop junky like me this will fit nie into your tools and may save you money down the road. Main page is here | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| The Gimp 2 | Very much like Photoshop, tons of great
plugins including a Flame fractal generator! Highly recommended. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| ArtRage | Natural Painting Application, like Painter. and so worth the download! | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Pixia | Painting/Image editing application. This reminds me of Open Canvas. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Serif Software | Several FREE apps - Desktop Publishing, Graphic Design, Image and Photo Editing, 3D Animation, Web Publishing | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Paint.Net | Cool Photoshop like application. | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Sodipodi | Illustration (vector) application. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Inkscape | Illustration (vector) application, similar to Illustrator. The interface may be more friendly to an Adobe person than Sodipodi. Get the latest win32.exe installer here. Highly recommended. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Blender 3-D | 3-D modeling, design\illustration, animation, game development. I like to call it the Free Maya 3-D! Highly recommended. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Truespace 3.1 | 3-D modeling, design\illustration, animation, game development. I've used this since version one, nicest 3-D app next to Cinema 4D. You must register for the free serial number. | Freeware/Other | 3D Graphics |
| Moonlight/3D | 3-D illustration, modeling, etc. A little easier learning curve than Blender.. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| PovRay | 3-D illustration - code based. Moray Interface for modeling, etc - not free, but cheap. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Anim8or | 3-D animation, modeling, rendering. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| 3D Canvas | 3-D animation, modeling, rendering. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| Arbaro | Make 3-D trees. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| PoseRay | So Nice! Poser like software, but much more with lots of 3-D file support. Also see
DazStudio | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Wings3d | Wings 3D is a 3-D subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Dusty | Dusty is a nice realtime 3D Smoke Simulator. It allowes to simulate smoke and fire in realtime. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| UVMapper | Map textures to 3-D objects. | Freeware/Other | 3D Graphics |
| Texture Processor | Create nice textures (seemless). | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| EZThumbs | Batch thumbnail creator. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Google Picasa | Download your images directly from your digital camera, share and organize photos on and off line, edit and print, post on-line, or create a cd. You can chat about your photos through Picasa also with Hello and works with Google blogger, which can be found here. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| White_Dune | White_dune is a low level VRML97 tool. | GPL | Programming |
| Black Box | Alternative Windows Shell. I found this to be more stable than XOBlite2. http://www.bb4win.org/news.php | GPL | Shell |
| XOBLite | Alternative Windows Shell. Screenshot of my machine running XOBLite (blackbox) here | GPL | Shell |
| Black Box Lean | Alternative Windows Shell. | GPL | Shell |
| Litestep | Alternative Windows Shell. | GPL | Shell |
| SharpE | Alternative Windows Shell. More info and screen shots Here. | LGPL | Shell |
| 3DNA | Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. I thought these were cool, well amusing so I listed a few. Here is a screenshot of 3dna in action. | Shareware | Shell |
| Clockwise3d | Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. | Freeware | Shell |
| Blueberry | Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. | LGPL | Shell |
| Sphere | Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. | Freeware/Unknown | Shell |
| VSpeech | Voice command your Windows computer. | GPL | Utility |
| Audacity | Wav editor with VST support and can export to mp3. Highly recommended. | GPL | Audio |
| Mixx | Dj software. | GPL | Audio |
| Acid Express | Digital sequencer and loop based music production software, this is a Sony free
download #B0( See Gungirl for a free alternative ;) | Adware | Audio |
| Jazzware | Midi sequencer | GPL | Audio |
| Zinf | Mp3/Ogg player, skinnable. | GPL | Audio |
| QCD | MP3/Ogg player and OGG encoder plugin Screw MP3
- rip to OGG!!! Better and free! Highly recommended. | Freeware/Other | Audio |
| Hydrogen | Drum and synth application like Fruityloops. | GPL | Audio |
| Konfabulator II | Desktop widgets and toys. Now owned by Yahoo. | Freeware | Utility |
| Gungirl Sequencer | Gungirl Sequencer is an easy to use Audiosequencer. It includes a simple Filemanager and uses Drag & Drop to arrange Audiosamples. | GPL | Audio |
| Jedit | Jedit is a mature and well-designed programmer's text editor with a big focus on Java. Has nice Jython support! | BSD/GPL | Programming |
| Sepy | Flash Actionscript IDE. This is really nice! Has class list, auto complete, and compiler. Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| RSS Owl | RSS news reader. | CPL | Web |
| Flame | Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| SFLphone | The SFLphone project aims to provide a multi-platform, multi-protocol (SIP/IAX2), and multi-GUI desktop VoIP phone. | GPL | Web |
| MegaTrack | MegaTrack is an application that tracks Atlantic and eastern Pacific tropical storms. It uses the HSQLDB engine and is updated from the tropical storm data repository from the Unisys weather center. | GPL | Web |
| Pegasus Mail | Email client, very mature and feature rich. | Freeware | Web |
| Grisbi | Personnal accounting application. | GPL | Finance |
| Dr Divx | Officially the unofficial DivX encoding tool to create DivX media files for playback on DivX hardware and software players. | LGPL | Video |
| BlitzMax IDE | Basic programming IDE for use with the Blitz game development environment. | Public Domain | Programming |
| Haste | Haskell TurboEdit - is an IDE for the functional programming language Haskell, written in Haskell. | GPL/Other | Programming |
| Spybot | Spyware removal tool. | GPL | Utility |
| Rec | Decompiler, breaks exe files into C/C++ code. | GPL | Programming |
| Frhed | Hex editor. | GPL | Utility |
| Virtualdub | Video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms. | GPL | Video |
| Avidemux | Video editor. | GPL | Video |
| UBCD4Win | UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem. Also see Win/Linux Version. | Freeware | Utility |
| Fontforge | Font creation application. Requires Cygwin. | GPL | Font |
| Doubletype | Font creation application. | GPL | Font |
| Ogg Vorbis | Ogg is like an open source version of mp3. They list many ripping, playing, and utilities on their site also for use with this format. I like it better than mp3. | GPL | Audio |
| Cdexos | CDex a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. Highly recommended. | GPL | Audio |
| Spyware Blaster | Blocks spyware/adware. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
| Ewido | Blocks spyware/adware and trojans. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Clam Win | Anti-virus program. | GPL | Utility |
| Mucommander | File Explorer replacement. If you liked Norton Commander you will love this. | Freeware | Utility |
| Free commander | File Explorer replacement. This is one of the best file explorer replacements I have ever used. Highly Recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
| Instantrails | Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. | GPL | Web |
| Apache2Triad | Installs a developer preconfigured environment with Apache, PHP,
mySQL with control panel/PHPMyAdmin, xMail, ftp, and a Apache Web based Control Panel, etc. Power packed with new cool things like Python/Pearl mods, ASP support, SSL and so much more. Highly recommended. | GPL | Web |
| EasyPHP | Really nice Apache install with PHP and mySQL included and configured. If you need a heavy duty Apache web development environment look at Apache2Triad. | GPL | Web |
| Apache Tomcat | Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (jsp) technologies. | ASF/GPL/Other | Web |
| SQLCC | GUI Frontend for mySQL. | GPL | Database |
| Apache Web Server | Web Server, the best imo. | ASF/GPL/Other | Web |
| MySQL | SQL Database. | GPL/Other | Database |
| Postgresql | SQL database. Heavy duty relational database. | BSD | Database |
| PHP | Web programming language used to make PHP
server pages. | PHP | Programming |
| Zoomify | Flash image gallery creation. | Freeware | Web |
| Gaim | Chat client. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. | GPL | Web |
| Skype | Internet phone. Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. Its free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers so your not limited to call friends using the same operating system. Skype also has other services that allow the calling of actual phone number and cells, plus video options for a small price. | Freeware | Web |
| Limewire | Peer2peer software. The servers generally contain a lot of viruses so be sure to scan zips, jpg, exe, etc before using or opening. | Freeware/Other | Peer2Peer |
| PGP | A free encryption software program that is the de-facto global standard for E-mail and file privacy. Pretty Good Privacy (or PGP) offers full-strength, 128-bit encryption. PGP has constantly been upgraded over the years and now offers loads of useful features, including secure file wiping; advanced keyserver searching; and seamless integration with Qualcomm's popular Eudora E-mail client | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Whisper32 | Password Manager with encryption. | Freeware | Utility |
| Outpost | Firewall. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| AVG | Anti-virus. (adware) | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Synfig | Cartoon animation - industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. Highly Recommended. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Winplanner | Project management application. | GPL | Office |
| ClamAV | Anti-virus program. | GPL | Utility |
| Vex | Vex is an editor for XML documents. The "visual" part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for "document-style" XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than "data-style" XML documents. | GPL | Programming |
| Celtx | Celtx is a comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the film, TV, theatre, and new media industries. It combines full-feature scriptwriting with media rich pre-production support and enables online collaboration. | MPL | Office |
| Foobar2000 | Audio player. | Freeware | Audio |
| Media Player Classic | Media player and codex of just about any kind. Get the CODEX here | Freeware | Audio |
| Tugzip | Zip/archive application. Really nice and opens most everything including rar. | Freeware | Utility |
| Irfanview | Photo manager with some editing and plugin ability. | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Skale | This is a Freeware Music Creation Program, This means you can create your own music with this software completely for free. All you need is your creativity and a big bunch of good sound samples to create all you want. | Freeware | Audio |
| Resolution AXS | AXS is a combination of an analog synthesizer, a sampler, two effect units and a sequencer. | Freeware | Audio |
| Cooktop | XML editor. | Freeware | Programming |
| Xerlin | XML editor. | GPL | Programming |
| GnuLedger | Open source financial solution. GnuLedger includes all of the functionality that home users need to manage their finances. | GPL | Finance |
| Scribus | Desktop publishing application similar to Pagemaker. Look here if you have trouble finding the exe installer. | GPL | Office |
| Unxutils | Linux/Unix command line tools, like grep, written natively for Windows. | GPL | Utility |
| Juice | If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. | GPL | Web |
| Deep-Paint | Painting application similar to Painter. Man, I remember when this sold for $800.00! | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Delineate | Raster to Vector coverter. Nice | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| WinMorph | Morphing app for video. Also look at Wax and Wink. | Freeware/Other | Video |
| ExplorerXP | Windows File Explorer replacement. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| OpenVMS | Defrag and hard drive utility. | Freeware | Utility |
| IE Password Uncover | Reveal web passwords in Internet Explorer. I haven't tried this one since I avoid IE like the plague. Maybe I will try it for Firefox or Opera. | Freeware | Utility |
| Dogwaffle | Natural painting application similar to Open Canvas. It limited, but pretty full featured at the same time. | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| TransCoder | Video\DVD ripping and conversion tools. | Freeware/Other | Video |
| SharpDevelop | IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform.. | GPL | Programming |
| TurboCash | Accounting personal finance software. | GPL | Finance |
| Kmelon | Web browser, very lightweight. | GPL | Web |
| Foxit | PDF reader and Adobe PDF reader replacement. Very fast and lightweight. | Freeware/Other | Web |
| Task Scheduler | Task Schedule replacement. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Daisy | Windows updater replacement that does not use IE settings. | GPL | Utility |
| Project Looking Glass | 3-d desktop. It reminds me of os x in three dimensions. Note: This is under development and requires lot's of Java setup. I would not use this unless you want to test and develop and arn't worried about your Windows installation. | GPL | Shell |
| Jap | Anonymous proxy. JAP makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably. | GPL | Web |
| Speak-freely | Voice over ip, Internet phone. | GPL | Web |
| Explore2fs | Let's you see and explore a Linux partition, and do file operations, from Windows. Highly recommended if you dual boot. | GPL | Utility |
| CD burner XP | CD Burner. | Freeware | Utility |
| Gourmet | Recipe Manager is a simple but powerful recipe-managing application. | GPL | Misc |
| Partition Utilities | Partition resize, delete, create, etc... | GPL | Utility |
| Freeguide-tv | FreeGuide is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings for lots of different countries. | GPL | Misc |
| Gizmoproject | Internet Phone. Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. | GPL | Web |
| SharpConstruct | 3D modeling program that paint depths on to polygon models in real-time. Like Z-Brush. Is being adding into Blender 3-D! | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| PyScripter | A very powerful, full featured, professional Python IDE written in Delphi. Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| AlienGuise | Theme engine like Windows Blinds, by the same guys, and brought to you from Alienware computer systems. | Freeware | Utility |
| Sketch It Up | 3-D design, illustration, and modelling brought to by Google. | Freeware/other | 3D Graphics |
| OpenFX | 3-D design, illustration, and modelling application. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Maxthon | Web browser, similar to Firefox, but uses the Internet Explorer backend and settings. | Freeware | Web |
| Selenium | Web application test tool. Tests run directly in a browser, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox. Supported platforms Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Languages include C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc. | GPL | Programming |
| Notepad-plus | Notepad replacement with tabs, plugins, no file size limit. Highlights many langauges included Python, Java, Html, etc. Highly Recommended. | GPL | Utility |
| Photofiltre | Photo editing application similar to Paint Shop Pro. Nice app. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Super | If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file SUPER © is all you need. I haven't used this, but it looks cool. | Freeware | Video |
| Mediacoder | MediaCoder is an open source universal audio/video batch transcoder (converter), which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution. | GPL | Video |
| BartPE | Windows live cd. Now you can boot Windows from a CD-Rom and have full read/write access to NTFS volumes!. | Freeware | Utility |
| VMWare | Run Windows, Linux, etc. in virtualization. Like Vitual PC, but 1000 times better! I am running Windows in Linux and it's absolutely flawless! | Freeware | Virtualization |
| FarPy | Awesome wxPython and .Net GUI designer. | GPL | Programming |
| Aptana | Development environment geared towards web development, Ajax style! Autocomplete and assistance for HTML, CSS, Java Script. | GPL | Programming |
| Feedreader | News aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. | GPL | Web |
| RSSBandit | News aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. Requires .Net | GPL | Web |
| Democracy Player | Play virtually any video-- Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more. Video blog, YouTube - it does everything including BitTorrent. | GPL | Video |
| BitTyrant | BitTorrent protocol compatible client. Faster than traditional BitTorrent, read more on their site. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| Truecrypt | Encryption software that locks down disks drives and storage devices on the fly. Best way to keep the bad guys out of your data. | GPL | Utility |
| PortableApps | Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer via USB Flash device, iPod, or portable hard disk, and it works like a start menu. Includes Firefox, Open Office, VideoLan, to name a few. | GPL | Utility |
| Hymn | The purpose of the Hymn Project is to allow you to exercise your fair-use rights under copyright law. The various software provided on this web site allows you to free your iTunes Music Store purchases (protected AAC / .m4p) from their DRM restrictions with no loss of sound quality. These songs can then be played outside of the iTunes environment, even on operating systems not supported by iTunes and on hardware not supported by Apple. | GPL | Audio |
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| EmailXT | EmailXT is an open, patent-free protocol that replaces your current email with a more secure, full-featured system. EmailXT is a relationship-based email system where unauthorized bulk emailing is no longer possible. No more spam and mass mailing viruses. You don't need spam filters or service subscriptions any more. | GPL | Web |
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| Fyre | Fyre is a tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions. If you wonder how those cool wispy blue OS X like backgrounds are made this will show you the way. I use this on Linux and it's excellent, but I haven't tested the Windows version. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
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| Shapeshop | 3-D modeling application that is a sketch-based 3D modeling tool for creating procedural hierarchical implicit volume models, also known as "BlobTrees", basically metaballs. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
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| MuteVJ | Mute is VJ software which aims to facilitate improvised, unique visuals. | GPL | Video |
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| Web-Dev. Server Suite | WAMP-based [Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP] web-server distribution for Windows that is fully configured and ready to run. This has every thing from a Web Application firewall to ASP.NET Host Interface. Security hardened and even includes some open source CMS software, like Joomla. | GPL | Web |
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| ActiveGrid Studio | ActiveGrid Studio enables developers to rapidly build enterprise-level Web 2.0 applications with a minimum of training, time, and effort. Supports Java, PHP, Python. Database supports is the best I've seen in an open IDE. Has built in Python and Java environments plus a built in running Apache web server. Highly recommended. | APL | Programming |
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| XAMPP | Apache, MySQL, PHP web development environment install. Takes care of most configs and setup issues so you don't have to. | APL | Web |
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| GSculpt | gSculpt is an open source, procedural subdivision modeller. It has a comprehensive set of polygon modelling tools, including most of those found in Wings 3D, and more. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
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| MegaPOV | MegaPOV is a custom unofficial version of POV-Ray with a lot of additional features. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
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| BRL-CAD | The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system with over 20 years development and production use by the U.S. military. Visit the project page for downloads. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
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| PDFCreator | Tool to create PDF files, like Adobe PDF Writer. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
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| Frostwire | Peer2Peer and BitTorrent client. | GPL | Web |
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| K-3D | 3-D animation, modeling, and rendering application. Uses multiple rendering engines including the renderman engine; Aqsis. Also see Yafray and Povray. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
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| Ivy Generator | Creates realistic ivy, including leaves. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
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| FS-driver | Mount Linux Ext2/Ext3 file systems on Windows. | Freeware | Utility |
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| Griffith | Movie collection manager, which fetches movie info, supports cover art, etc. | GPL | Video |
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| ConText | Programmers text editor, supports most languages, shell scripts, plugin support. | Freeware | Programming |
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| Flashdevelop | Actionscript 2 IDE with seamless swfmill and MTASC integration. FlashDevelop is the first alternative opensource IDE to feature AS3 & MXML completion, including Flex2 compiler integration (the best compiler integration after Adobe FB) and AS3 syntax checking. Highly recommended. Requires .Net. | MIT/Other | Programming |
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| XMM | MeD's Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. Info is automatically retrieved from IMDb and tv.com.
Technical info can also be retrieved from media files like AVI, OGM, MPEG and DVD (ifo). It's written in Java and should therefore run on most desktop systems supporting Java. | GPL | Video |
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| Avast | Anti-virus applcation. Free for personal use. I have not tried this software, but it works with Kerio so it can't be bad. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
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| UltraExplorer | File Explorer replacement. | Freeware | Utility |
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| RoughDraft | Really nice word processor geared towards authors created by an author. | Freeware | Office |
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| Snarfer | RSS with very powerful features, like search, web broswer, sharing, and embedded video playback. Highly Recommended. | Freeware | Web |
