Comprehensive List of FREE Software :)

[Genome]

This is my first post here so I figured I should make it a good one.
Stop paying for software the open source movement is on! Here is a
little list for everyone.

3D Graphics:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-s...ple/index.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/

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
Hitmanpro2 - http://www.hitmanpro.nl/hitmanpro/content/view/3/9/lang,en/

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
mIRC - http://mirc.com
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

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

Desktop Enhancements:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

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 Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) -
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d...pplication=8334
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-kit/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

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

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

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/

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/

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
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthrea...=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.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/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
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 Parser - 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/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/


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 codes :
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/

Video players :
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=65889
xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

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

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

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/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net

You're welcome.

[Lisa Williams]

LOL - now THAT's what I call a POST!

 

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[Coalwater]

Thank you very much, what a lovely list :D lol

On Mar 14, 11:18 pm, Genome <MichaelWCl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my first post here so I figured I should make it a good one.
> Stop paying for software the open source movement is on! Here is a
> little list for everyone.
>
> 3D Graphics:
> Anim8or -http://www.anim8or.com/
> Blender -http://www.blender3d.org/

> gmax -http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

> Maya Personal Learning Ed. -http://www.alias.com/eng/products-s...ple/index.shtml
> Now3D -http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
> SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP -http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
>
> Anti-Virus:
> AntiVir -http://www.free-av.com/
> Avast -http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
> AVG -http://www.grisoft.com/
>
> Anti Spyware:
> Ad-aware -http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

> Diet K -http://www.dietk.com/

> Deepburner -http://www.deepburner.com/
> DVD Decrypter:http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
> Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD -http://www.paehl.de/cdr

>
> 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
>
> Desktop Enhancements:
> CursorXP -http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
> MobyDock -http://www.mobydock.com/

> tclock2 -http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

>
> 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 Managers:
> 2xExplorer -http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
> A43 -http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
> Gyula's Navigator -http://www.wanari.com/
> JExplorer -http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/

> MeeSoft Commander -http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/
>
> File repair and recovery:
> PC Inspector File Recovery -http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
>
> Firewalls:
> Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) -http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
> Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) -http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html

> Sygate (FREE for personal use) -http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
> Zonealarm Basic firewall -http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...reeDownload.jsp
>
> FTP Clients:
> Filezilla! -http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
> SmartFTP -http://www.smartftp.com/
>
> FTP Servers:
> FileZilla -http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

> GuildFTPD -http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d...pplication=8334

> 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-kit/
> Selida -http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
> Trellian webPAGE -http://webpage.vendercom.com/
> TSW WebCoder -http://www.tsware.net/
>
> Image viewers:
> Ahaview -http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
> Irfanview -http://www.irfanview.com/
> SlowView -http://www.slowview.at/
> XNView -http://www.xnview.com/
>
> 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

>
> Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
> Avantbrowser -http://www.avantbrowser.com/
> MyIE2 -http://www.myie2.com/
> SlimBrowser -http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
>
> 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/
>
> 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/

>
> 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

> RAS Graph & Stats -http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthrea...=&threadid=2400
> RealVNC -http://www.realvnc.com/
> TightVNC -http://www.tightvnc.org/
> UltraVNC -http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

> WinSCP -http://www.winscp.com/

>
> Office Suite:
> 602PC Suite free edition -http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
> AbiWord -http://www.abiword.com/

> Open Office -http://www.openoffice.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/

>
> Photo manipulation and image design:
> ColorPic -http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
> 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 Parser -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/

>
> Pop-up Blockers:
> Google Toolbar -http://www.google.com/
> NoAds -http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
> PopUp Stopper -http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
> Privoxy -http://www.privoxy.org/

> Proxomitron -http://www.proxomitron.info/

>
> 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 codes :
> 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/
>
> Video players :
> BsPlayer -http://www.bsplayer.org/
> Cygwin MPlayer -http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
> MaximusDVD -http://www.maximusdvd.com/
> Media Player Classic -http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303

> VideoLan -http://www.videolan.org/

>
> Video tools:
> DVD Shrink -http://www.dvdshrink.org/
> DScaler -http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
> FlasKMPEG -http://www.flaskmpeg.net
> GSpot -http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
> VirtualDub -http://www.virtualdub.org/
> VirtualDubMod -http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=65889

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