boro_boy
22-12-2006, 19:50
Borrowed from Gizmos Site:)
Some good Free Programs
Mozilla FireFox Browser 2./0-
Great free internet browser that has a built-in popup blocker and tabs surfing. It is a faster alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Website (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5-
e-mail client makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with new features like intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, RSS support, privacy protection and much more.
Website (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/)
CodeStuff Starter -
Great programs that detects applications that are running in the background of your Windows operating system as well as startup items and is capable of removing them.
Website (http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/features.shtml)
Gimp 2.2-
Good open source imgae editor that has similar tools as Adobe's Photoshop. It can also be used to do advance image editing.
Website (http://www.gimp.org/)
Gaim -
A open source multi client IM program. Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/)
CDex -
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.
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/)
eMule -
eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/)
Audacity -
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems
Website (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
OpenOffice -
OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Website (http://www.openoffice.org/)
VirtualDub -
Desktop video processing, editing and capture application
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/)
MP3Gain -
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Website (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/)
SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4-
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover.
Website (http://security.kolla.de/)
AVG 7.5-
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). And AVG Anti-spyware 7.5 as well.
Website (http://www.grisoft.com/)
Windows Defender -
Windows Defender is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed.
Website (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx)
BSPlayer -
BSplayer is a Windows player that plays back all kinds of media files, AVI, MPG, ASF, WMV, WAV, MP3..., and specialises in video and DivX playback.
Website (http://www.bsplayer.org/)
WinAmp -
One of the best audio players. Also built in audio converting, audio streaming and more.
Website (http://www.winamp.com/)
VLC Media Player -
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Website (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
Sygate Personal Firewall -
FREE for personal use, Sygate Personal Firewall 5.x provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting your PC from hackers, trojans and DoS attacks. New features include full-ICS support, protocol driver level protection, enhanced logging, and more. Sygate Personal Firewall is the first FREE personal firewall to offer protection from malicious code intrusions, keeping the information on your PC safe and private.
Website (http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)
P4Merge -
A good program that allows you to compare to text files. It will highlight the differences between these two files and a few other options.
Website (http://www.perforce.com/)
Google Video -
Google's very own video player, able to play all sorts of formats plus many other cool features.
Website (http://video.google.com/playerdownload.html)
Daemon Tools -
A good program that allows you to have virtual CD/DVD drives to run CD/DVD images directy from your hard disk.
Website (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/)
TMPGEnc -
Converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality. TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate movie file depends on your purpose.
Website (http://www.tmpgenc.net/)
Virtual-Dub -
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Website (http://www.virtualdub.org/)
If you have any more that can be added here please do.
Some good Free Programs
Mozilla FireFox Browser 2./0-
Great free internet browser that has a built-in popup blocker and tabs surfing. It is a faster alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Website (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5-
e-mail client makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with new features like intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, RSS support, privacy protection and much more.
Website (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/)
CodeStuff Starter -
Great programs that detects applications that are running in the background of your Windows operating system as well as startup items and is capable of removing them.
Website (http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/features.shtml)
Gimp 2.2-
Good open source imgae editor that has similar tools as Adobe's Photoshop. It can also be used to do advance image editing.
Website (http://www.gimp.org/)
Gaim -
A open source multi client IM program. Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/)
CDex -
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.
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/)
eMule -
eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/)
Audacity -
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems
Website (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
OpenOffice -
OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Website (http://www.openoffice.org/)
VirtualDub -
Desktop video processing, editing and capture application
Website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/)
MP3Gain -
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Website (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/)
SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4-
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover.
Website (http://security.kolla.de/)
AVG 7.5-
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). And AVG Anti-spyware 7.5 as well.
Website (http://www.grisoft.com/)
Windows Defender -
Windows Defender is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed.
Website (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx)
BSPlayer -
BSplayer is a Windows player that plays back all kinds of media files, AVI, MPG, ASF, WMV, WAV, MP3..., and specialises in video and DivX playback.
Website (http://www.bsplayer.org/)
WinAmp -
One of the best audio players. Also built in audio converting, audio streaming and more.
Website (http://www.winamp.com/)
VLC Media Player -
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Website (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
Sygate Personal Firewall -
FREE for personal use, Sygate Personal Firewall 5.x provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting your PC from hackers, trojans and DoS attacks. New features include full-ICS support, protocol driver level protection, enhanced logging, and more. Sygate Personal Firewall is the first FREE personal firewall to offer protection from malicious code intrusions, keeping the information on your PC safe and private.
Website (http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)
P4Merge -
A good program that allows you to compare to text files. It will highlight the differences between these two files and a few other options.
Website (http://www.perforce.com/)
Google Video -
Google's very own video player, able to play all sorts of formats plus many other cool features.
Website (http://video.google.com/playerdownload.html)
Daemon Tools -
A good program that allows you to have virtual CD/DVD drives to run CD/DVD images directy from your hard disk.
Website (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/)
TMPGEnc -
Converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality. TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate movie file depends on your purpose.
Website (http://www.tmpgenc.net/)
Virtual-Dub -
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Website (http://www.virtualdub.org/)
If you have any more that can be added here please do.