FREE SOFTWARE (Now the pirates have no excuse)

[timaaarrreee]

I just lifted this straight from another forum I belong to.

Here's a list of some freeware programs that are available on the net for just about everything. It's not exclusive so feel free to add to this thread with any others worthy of inclusion.

3D Graphics:

Anim8or http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Now3D http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/


Anti spam programs:

K9 http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Anti Spyware:

Ad aware http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Diet K http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html


AntiVirus

AntiVir http://www.free-av.com/
Avast http://www.avast.com/
AVG http://www.grisoft.com/
BitDefender8 http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html#


Benchmark tools

3d mark 2001 / 3dmark 2003 http://www.futuremark.com/
Aquamark http://www.aquamark3.com/
Sandra http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/


Checksum Utilities:

fsum http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer http://www.md5summer.org/


Compression / Decompression:

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


Defrag Software:

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


Download managers:

Fresh Download http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Star Downloader http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/




Encryption and data security:

Axcrypt http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm



File repair and recovery:

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


Firewalls:

Kerio Personal Firewall http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1) http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/
Comodo http://www.comodogroup.com/


FTP Clients:

AceFTP http://freeware.aceftp.com/
Filezilla! http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP http://www.smartftp.com/


FTP Servers:

FileZilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD http://www.jgaa.com/




HTML Editors:

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

Internet Browsers

Avantbrowser http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Firebird http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
Firefox http://getfirefox.com
K Meleon http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/
MyIE2 http://www.myie2.com/
Netscape http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera http://www.opera.com
SlimBrowser http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Internet Filters:
NAOMI http://www.radiance.m6.net/

Instant Messenger:

Gaim http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda IM http://www.miranda-im.org/
Rhymbox http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian Basic http://trillian.cc/downloads


IRC Clients:

BersIRC http://www.bersirc.com/
*****X http://*****x.org/download.php
HydraIRC http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat http://www.xchat.org/



Mail programs:

i.Scribe http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Network Tools:

CMDTime NTP Utility http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer http://www.ethereal.com/
NMap http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RealVNC http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP http://www.winscp.com/


Office Suite:

Adobe Reader http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
602PC Suite free edition http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/
Open Workbench http://www.openworkbench.org

Partition Managers:

Partition Resizer http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html


PDF Utilities:

Free PDF http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php


Photo manipulation and image design:

ColorPic http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html
Pixia http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Sodiodi http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint


Programming:

ActivePerl http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Dev C++ http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal http://www.bloodshed.net/
Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
Freepascal http://www.freepascal.org/
jEdit http://www.jedit.org/
PHP Hypertext P****r http://www.php.net/
Python http://www.python.org/
Ruby http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/



System Information and monitoring:

AIDA32 http://www.aida32.hu/
CPU Z http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Gkrellm http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
WCPUID http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA00...c/download.html

Video codecs :

DivX Codec http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=topta...from_/index.php
FFDSHOW http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Kazaa Lite Codec Pack http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Nimo Codec Pack http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html
Quicktime Alternative http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Real Player Alternative http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/


Web servers:

Abyss http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar http://www.sambar.com/
Savant http://savant.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

 

[sunils]

Thanks for the links

 

[Jesse]

Thanks for the list.

 

[cr2112]

Thanks. How long it took u to do this?

 

[FalseHope]

Nice list, real long, lots of things Thanks, keep up the good work!

 

[Sohail]

Nice, does anyone here know about that site that gives away one free (paid) program daily but only for one day otherwise it expires...

 

[Spartan Erik]

Nope

But I do know that Gaim now goes under Pidgin as a multi-IM client.

 

[pgames]

Nice, does anyone here know about that site that gives away one free (paid) program daily but only for one day otherwise it expires...

giveawayoftheday.com

i made a post about it not too long ago

 

[Smith6612]

The only reasons pirate pirate is because they are too lazy to look around for an open source software, or they're people who are Limewire n00bs that download everything they come across.

 

[GreaseMonkeys]

Good list, you should add GIMP

 

[networker]

Audacity and kreatives make top rate music multi-track recording software.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/

 

[Smith6612]

Audacity is awesome! I've used it for over a year now and it hasn't failed me, ever.

And GIMP is useful as well, so is PAINT.net

 

[timaaarrreee]

There was GIMP BUT i had to knock a few off the list because of 1000 word limit
Edit:

Thanks. How long it took u to do this?

this list was just lifted of another site

 

[Symetrie]

Thank you for gathering all these links! I personally love Comodo Firewall

 

[coolv1994]

Thanks for the links and which html editor is most like Dreamweaver do you think?

 

[timaaarrreee]

i personally don't know all the software because i use sitespinner to build html.

 

[greeting]

gd list

 

[LHVWB]

Awesome list.

You can also Add

• Free Download Manager
• Xvid codec

I'm wondering which anti-virus is better, AVG or AntiVir.

 

[gazzamc]

Wow that is a really big list i might use some of them lol....You should add VLC media player that baby would play just about any codec

for the free audio software i prefer audacity it's great .....

And you should also add Winrar i know it's not free but the trial version goes forever lol

oh another is Quick media converter it converts just about any video file....I use it all the time it's great :drool:

 

[winlux]

Nice, does anyone here know about that site that gives away one free (paid) program daily but only for one day otherwise it expires...

Sounds a bit like the bar sign always saying free beer tomorrow