Mega list of useful free software

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Here is a Mega list of useful free software for specific functions:
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3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - www.anim8or.com/
Blender - www.blender3d.org/
gmax - www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) - www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya _ple.shtml
Now3D - digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.h tm
OpenFX - www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - www.wings3d.com/
Inkscape - www.inkscape.org/
Art of Illusion - www.artofillusion.org/
[Fractal Flame Generator] Chaoscope www.btinternet.com/~ndesprez/
[Fractal Flame Generator] Apophysis www.apophysis.org/index.html


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

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Hijackthis - www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/de fault.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm l
SpywareGuard - www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Players:
1by1 - www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - www.zinf.org/

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

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

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - www.extractnow.com/ (can read Macintosh .SIT files with an extra DLL download)
FilZip - www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - www.tugzip.com/
UPX - upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
JK Defrag - www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk - www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17 372
CursorXP - www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download .html
Desktop Sidebar - www.desktopsidebar.com/
Dextop Window Manager - www.dexpot.de/
Glass2k - www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - kapsules.shellscape.org/
MobyDock - www.mobydock.com/
Panorama - www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject= rainlendar
Samurize - www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Weather Watcher - www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager - www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Star Downloader - www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget - millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - www.wellget.com/

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

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

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

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall - www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDo wnload.jsp
Comodo - www.comodo.com/

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplic ation=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD - www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit - www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida - www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - www.tsware.net/
Xaamp - www.apachefriends.org/

Image viewers:
Ahaview - www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - www.picasa.com/content/download.php
SlowView - www.slowview.at/
XNView - www.xnview.com/

Instant Messenger:
Gaim - gaim.sourceforge.net/
IM2: www.im2.com
Miranda IM - www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - www.pandion.be/
PSI - psi.affinix.com/
SIM - sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - trillian.cc/downloads
Ventrilo- www.ventrilo.com/http://www.ventrilo.com/[/url]

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser - www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon - www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - www.bersirc.com/
b#@!#$X - http://b#@!#$x.org/download.php
HydraIRC - www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:
Foxmail - fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - www.pmail.com/
PopTray - www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - www.ethereal.com/
hamachi - www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&thread id=2400
RealVNC - www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.h tml
AbiWord - www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - www.openoffice.org/

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

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

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Delineate - delineate.sourceforge.net/
Paint .NET - www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - www.photofiltre.com/
Sodiodi - www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming:
ActivePerl - www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Bazaar Version Control - bazaar-vcs.org/
Crimson Editor - www.crimsoneditor.com/
Context - www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.h tml
Eclipse - www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff - www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - www.jedit.org/
Metapad - www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - www.flos-freeware.ch/
Pelles C - www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - www.php.net/
PSPad - www.pspad.com/
Python - www.python.org/
Ruby - www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WinMerge - winmerge.org/

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

RSS Readers:
Ablion - www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.ht m
RssBandit - www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - www.rssreader.com/
SharpReader - www.sharpreader.net/

System Information and monitoring:
Aida32 - majorgeeks.com/download181.html
CPU-Z - www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=e n&pageid=1
Gkrellm - bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/downlo ad.html



Video & Audio codecs :
AC3 Filter - ac3filter.net/
CoreAAC - www.free-codecs.com/downlo...filter.htm
Although CoreAVC is not free, it is cheap
CoreAVC - www.coreavc.com/
DivX Codec - www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/in dex.php
FFDSHOW - sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Haali Media Splitter - haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/
Matroska Splitter - www.matroska.org/downloads/windows.html
MediaCoder - mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
OGG Codecs - www.xiph.org/dshow/
XviD - www.xvid.org/


Video players :
BsPlayer - www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downlo ads
Cygwin MPlayer - armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD - www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=82303
VideoLan - www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
The Film Machine - members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/
CamStudio - www.camstudio.org/
DVD Shrink - www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler - deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=65889
Trak Ax - www.trakax.com/software/pc/
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html
avidemux - fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Jahshaka Project - www.jahshaka.org

Web browsers:
Firefox - www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon - kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.j sp
Opera - www.opera.com

Web servers:
Abyss - abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - httpd.apache.org/
Sambar - www.sambar.com/
Savant - savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/s swww.htm
TinyWeb - www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
THTTPD - www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

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

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

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - www.ccleaner.com
Cygwin - www.cygwin.com
Daemon Tools - www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/a...ements.php
Dirkey - www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HTTrack - www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
KeyNote - www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Memtest-86 - www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - xs.tech.nu/
QuickPar - www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Restoration - www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
Stickies - finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox - www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TuneXP - www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc =txp_about
Turbo Pad - turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Vim - vim.sourceforge.net
Wink - www.debugmode.com/wink/ (presentation)

[joyful]

Great list!!!!!!!!

[marybutler2004]

thanks for all the freebies we wouldn't otherwise know about.
this is the best list i have come across so far.