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noxtioN
10th September 2006, 15:10
Thought this might be useful to some people.

3D:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.autodesk.com/maya-ple
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Google Sketchup - http://sketchup.google.com/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
Windows Live Safety Center - http://safety.live.com/
Superantispyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
HijackThis - http://www.download.com/HijackThis/...4-10227353.html
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
XCleaner - http://www.xblock.com/download-freeware.php

IRC:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
Chatzilla - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
kVIRC - http://www.kvirc.net/
MIRC - http://www.mirc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/
Visual IRC - http://www.visualirc.net/

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/

Audio Player:
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/
Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/

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
Isorecorder - http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

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

Desktop addons:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Google Desktop - http://desktop.google.com
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/

Hosting:
X10 - http://www.x10hosting.com
FreeWebz - http://www.freewebz.com
SaveFile - http://www.savefile.com
RapidShare - http://www.rapidshare.de
FileFront - http://www.filefront.com
YouSendIt - http://s11.yousendit.com/
XS - http://xs.to/
UploadImages - http://www.uploadimages.net/
Putfile - http://www.putfile.com/
PictureHost - http://www.picturehost.co.uk/
PhotoBucket - http://www.photobucket.com/
ImageShack - http://www.imageshack.us/
Files - http://files.to/
Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/

Security / Encryption:
All-in-One Secretmaker - http://www.secretmaker.com
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/

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 (FREE) - Click here(really long URL)

FTP clients:
ACE FTP - http://software.visicommedia.com/en/...ceftpfreeware/
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
PuTTY (SSH) - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/de...plication=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/
nVu - www.nvu.com
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

Picture 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/
FastSTone - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Instant Messenger:
AIM - http://www.aim.com/
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Spark IM - http://www.jivesoftware.org/spark/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
MSN + Xfire (xfire plus) - http://xfireplus.com/news.php
Xfire - http://www.xfire.com

Internet Explorer shells:
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Crazy Browser - http://www.crazybrowser.com/
Maxthon Browser (Formely MyIE2) - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail:
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.getthunderbird.com

Maintenance & Tools
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/
EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

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

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

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

PDF Programs:
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/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/

PHP editors:
PHP designer 2006 - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php

Picture editing:
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
ConTEXT - www.context.cx
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
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 Designer 2006 - http://www.mpsoftware.dk
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org
Ruby on Rails - http://www.rubyonrails.org
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

Popup Blocker
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/

Sysinfo:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002.../download.html

Video codecs :
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab...rom_/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/
Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) - http://www.cccp-project.net/

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/showf...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/showf...group_id=65889
xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Voice/VOIP clients:
Teamspeak - http://www.goteamspeak.com/
Ventrilo - http://www.ventrilo.com/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
Flock - http://www.flock.com/
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Browzar - http://www.browzar.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
ZWMS http://www.xgarreau.org/zazouminiwebserver/en/

Webcam programs:
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/

noxtioN
10th September 2006, 15:10
Misc:
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

:thumbup:

noxtioN
10th September 2006, 15:11
This should probably be in the 'Web links' but I thought it will be O.K in General?

Martsax
10th September 2006, 15:14
We need a computers section.Good work mate Rep coming along

noxtioN
10th September 2006, 15:20
I do apologize if its in the wrong section, thought it would be more helpfull in General, :kiss:

sharpy24
10th September 2006, 18:40
very good list :)

oz_borne
10th September 2006, 18:48
but still over 90%of it is weblinks......so..........MOVED

:A:

Connor_scotland
10th September 2006, 19:28
Good call mate your getting a REP for this

vtrchris64
10th September 2006, 23:13
make it a sticky, will be handy for alot of people

noxtioN
11th September 2006, 00:26
but still over 90%of it is weblinks......so..........MOVED

:A:

:oops:

:kiss:

reevesy_vtr
11th September 2006, 22:39
So you computer bods what program do i use to convert avi files to a dvd format that doesn't have a time laps half way through. also how do i convert a sound file to mp3/wma so i can get it on to my zen micro???? sorry to:hijack: but i dont know a sodding thing about computers.:D: if you help me out i may through a rep your way.:thumbup:

potatopete
11th January 2007, 18:01
This is such a good list of free downloads, I thought I'd bring it back to the top for other members to see and use. I've used quite a few of the links myself over the past few weeks.

scotts
12th January 2007, 01:04
nice list mate rep for you !!!

djmartin
12th January 2007, 12:25
hahah no way how much software ok you soooooo getting REP for this my boy good find/share

Tupps
12th January 2007, 13:11
Very useful mate

Rep'd

chriswindy
4th March 2007, 19:07
just wondering if this could be made a sticky in the IT section???

Robbo
4th March 2007, 20:46
yup, needs to be stickied!

potatopete
9th November 2007, 19:48
I'm bringing this thread back to life, cos I'm sure many people wont have seen it and its really useful.

Could it be made a "Sticky" in the IT section?

potatopete
9th February 2008, 21:03
Bringing this back for others to use. I make use of this list loads.

weetz
19th February 2008, 21:09
Blender is mint I use just to mess about designing cars n stuff lol. (admitting im a sad bastard oops)

d4r3n
19th February 2008, 21:20
quality list rep coming your way, what photo editing programs are better then adobe 7 ??