Freeware List Version 2 [Updated 7/4/06]

[omfg karl marx]

Another great MP3 ripper - AudioGrabber 1.83 - now freeware. After installing and going thru the options screen, it will direct you to a download of the Lame encoder to enable higher encoding rates (up two 320bps)

Mozilla Thunderbird, with built in spam filtering would be a great addition as well. Too many peeps using Outlook Express !!!

Keep 'em comin' !!

Now, if you get bored, you could link every program listed !!

I have already. >_>

[alpha]

don't forget virtual dub, if your doing video editing, this is a must

http://www.virtualdub.org/

[Tire{CLR}]

Everyone should download this.

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

Not only does it calculate real-time FPS and provides statistical benchmarks, but you can record a segment of your game in an uncompressed video format or better, take a screenshot of any game, at any time, under any condition. I was playing Oblivion, when I found that I can't take a screenshot if the anti-aliasing was on. With fraps you can. When I play UT2004, I get the correct FPS rather than some strange number give by UT. Also screenshots taken by fraps doesn't slow down the computer as much as taking it with the game.

[Trout of Doom]

PLEASE get the image resizer here, and USE It to resize screenies to something reasonable like 800x600
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

[Nomadicus]

Just found this
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Very handy.

[Grisu]

Flashget 1.73 - Downloadmanager (was Shareware now Freeware)!
http://www.flashget.com/

[Gremlin_flg]

Karl nice list Grisu thanks for the link

[darth_nevus]

Here's a link to a huge list of freeware alternatives as well, maybe we could incorperate some of it?

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=456913

[alpha]

few more to add

tightvnc - remote desktop http://www.tightvnc.com/

Xming - Xserver for windows, simple easy, clean http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming

rdesktop - linux remote desktop to windows http://www.rdesktop.org/

tortiousSVN - lazy man SVN http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

octave - OS matlab http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

qcad - OS autocad http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

DivX - supports many file types http://www.divx.com/

google desktop seach - google search your computer http://desktop.google.com/

Graphcalc - full 2-D and 3-D graphing calculator http://www.graphcalc.com/

K-lite Codec Pack - every codec you will ever need in one package http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

mmconvert - multimedia filetype converter http://mmconvert.sourceforge.net/en_us/

picasa - (made by google) finds and orgazines all pictures on your computer http://picasa.google.com/

startup inspector - control what starts when your computer boots up http://www.windowsstartup.com/startupinspector.php

freemind - brainstorm organizing "mind mapping" program http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki....php/Main_Page

[omfg karl marx]

I will get around to updating this sometime. I promise.

[alpha]

just to keep you on your toes, here is a similar list from another forum, it has some overlap

1.0 - Firewalls:
1.1 Zonealarm
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...&lid=dbtopnav_ pro
1.2 Steganos Internet Security http://www.steganos.de/
1.3 Kerio WinRoute Firewall http://www.kerio.com/
1.4 Sygate Personal Firewall http://www.sygate.de/
1.5 Securepoint Firewallsystem with VPN IPSec Client http://www.securepoint.cc/ (best FW atm)

2.0 - Anti virii: (2 good virii scanner ftw, some AV software slow down your system)
2.1 Norton Anti Virus 06 http://www.symantecstore.com
2.2 AntiVir PE Classic http://www.free-av.com/ (free)
2.3 AVG Anti-Virus http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti.../lng/us/tpl/v5 (free)
2.4 Comodo AntiVirus http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/
2.5 Kaspersky www.kaspersky.com / www.avp.ch
2.6 Avast Home Edit http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html (free)
2.7 AntiVirenKit (AVK) 2006 http://www.gdata.de/
2.8 BitDefender www.bitdefender.de
2.9 EZ AntiVirus http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/ (1year free)
2.10 NOD32 http://www.nod32.de/
2.11 Steganos AntiVirus 2006 http://www.steganos.de/
2.12 ClamAV http://www.clamav.net/
2.13 FProt http://www.fprot.org/

3.0 - Spy-/ Ad-/ Malware:
http://www.spywareremove.com/ (Manually remove, good Solutions if it?s too late)
3.1 Spybot - Search & Destroyhttp://www.safer-networking.org/de/index.html
3.2 Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal Editionhttp://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
3.3 SpyHunterhttp://www.enigmasoftware.com/affili...86&productid=4 (best)
3.4 SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html (Prevention only)
3.5 Ewido Anti Spware http://free.grisoft.com/doc/ewido-an.../lng/us/tpl/v5 (free)

4.0 - Firewall Test/ Port Scan Online/ Pinging IPs:
4.1 Free Firewall Tests http://www.auditmypc.com/
4.2 Broadband Port Scan http://www.dslreports.com/scan
4.3 Anti Hacker Online Community http://probe.hackerwatch.org/probe/hitme.asp
4.4 IP Pinging + chooseable No. of sending Packets: http://www.gulli.com/tools/net/ping/
4.5 Traceroute, Ping, NSLookup: http://www.gulli.com/tools/net/trace...-und-nslookup/
4.6 Anonomity instant check-up: http://www.gulli.com/tools/anonymitaetscheck/
4.7 Redirector Service: http://www.gulli.com/tools/redirector-service/
4.8 Whois: http://www.gulli.com/tools/whois/


5.0 - Browsers/ Add- Ons:
5.1 FireFox http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/
5.2 Mozilla http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/mozilla1x/
5.3 Opera http://www.opera.com/
SPECIAL: SeaMonkey: Browser, E-Mail, Editor, Chat; based on FireFox:
http://www.chip.de/downloads/c1_downloads_18048069.html

Add-Ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/themes/
5.4 NoScript https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
5.5 AdBlock http://adblock.mozdev.org/

6.0 - E-Mail:
6.1 Thunderbird http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/

7.0 - Open Source:
7.1 http://www.openoffice.org/ (free office products)

8.0 - Overclocking/ Tweaking:
8.1 Riva Tuner http://downloads.guru3d.com/download...t=163#download
8.2 NVIDIA Firmware Update Utility http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1425
8.3 nTune 5.00.06.06 Final http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1427
8.4 SiSoft Sandra 2005 http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=177
8.5 nVHardPage SE 3.4 http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=362
8.6 3DMark03 Build 3.6.0 (Full Version) http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=576
8.7 ATI Tray Tools http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733
8.8 ATi Tool http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=725

9.0 - System Proggies/ Others:
9.1 MemTest, Free/ Pro-Spell, Forever Connected, Lean CD Playerhttp://www.hcidesign.com/windows/

10.0 - Operating System Tools:
10.1 Internet Explorer and XP Cache Cleaner:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/CleanCache_d4122.html
10.2 Famous Black Viper DIY Page:
http://www.dead-eye.net/WinXP%20Services.htm

Majority Links: ...
Top 50 All-Time Downloads: http://www.chip.de/bildergalerie/c1_...57.html?show=1
Password Genreator: http://www.gulli.com/tools/krypto-passwort/passwort/


Tweaking/ Clocking atc pp:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/
http://www.tweakpc.de/tweaking/athlon_64_oc/s06.php

Links:
http://return.to/scheinsicherheit/ (de/ eng)
http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-fr...ies/index.html (Long list of Freeware)
http://www.stop-sign.com/downloads/ and http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/
http://www.ccc.de/hackerethics?language=en

[Faust]

Here is something I have been using for many years and have never had a problem with it or it causing a problem with something else.

http://www.iespell.com/

ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.

It's sits in the browser "tools" pulldown. It's small, simple and fast also well coded.

Good idea to start this thread in here as well.

[mapes]

One of the coolest programs out there is now free. Vmware server is now free. Vmware server allows your to emulate a hardware enviroment in software. It's very badass. For example I run a Linux server in my house. However I have replaytvs (tivo like device) theres a software tool for my replays that does a bunch of cool things but, It only runs in windows. No prob dig up vmware. Install it launch it. Then install windows. You can connect to the instance of the windows machine over the network or from the local desktop. It's just not for linux either. You can run it on Windows and install Linux as an instance too. This obviously isn't something you want running when your playing games but, it's a very handy tool.

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

As for network monitors theres the best packet capture for windows Wireshark (used to be Ethereal) at http://www.wireshark.org/
and of course netstumbler a wifi scanner http://www.netstumbler.com/

Actually if you want free network tools go to http://sectools.org/

compiled by the maker of nmap. It covers free, commercial, unix and windows based tools. Very informative.

[jaspurr]

Anyone have any good software for converting documents to pdf???

[alpha]

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

thats what i use