• Free Software v2 - Unecessary Clutter Edition
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I created this because there are constantly great strides and new innovations in the Software industy, and the OP of the prior thread had been perma'd/ I aim to aim a spotlight on those little programs that can make your life easier. Of course, without your help this list will remain minute, so post that program you can't live without! OP Salvaged from v1, I'll update it on a daily basis with your recommendations and my discoveries. If it's in [b]Bold[/b] I can personally vouch for it being top-notch and trustworthy. 3D Graphics -------------------------- 3Delight Free - [url]http://www.3delight.com[/url] Anim8or - [url]http://www.anim8or.com/[/url] Blender - [url]http://www.blender3d.org/[/url] Now3D - [url]http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm[/url] OpenFX - [url]http://www.openfx.org[/url] POV-Ray - [url]http://www.povray.org/[/url] Softimage Mod Tool - [url]http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/[/url] Terragen - [url]http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/[/url] Toxic - [url]http://www.toxicengine.org/[/url] Wings 3D - [url]http://www.wings3d.com/[/url] Anti-Spam Programs ----------------------------- K9 - [url]http://www.keir.net/k9.html[/url] MailWasher- [url]http://www.mailwasher.net/[/url] POPFile - [url]http://popfile.sourceforge.net/[/url] SpamBayes - [url]http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/[/url] SpamPal - [url]http://www.spampal.org/[/url] Anti-Spyware ---------------------------------------- Ad-aware - [url]http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/[/url] Bazooka - [url]http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html[/url] Hijackthis - [url]http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html[/url] Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - [url]http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php[/url] Microsoft Defender - [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx[/url] SpyBot Search & Destroy - [url]http://spybot.safer-networking.de/[/url] SpywareBlaster - [url]http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html[/url] WinPatrol - [url]http://www.winpatrol.com/[/url] Anti-Virus ---------------------------------- Avast - [url]http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html[/url] Audio Players ----------------------------- Foobar 2000 - [url]http://www.foobar2000.org/[/url] - The Best Music Player (for minimalism). Super customisable, with minimal memory usage. Winamp - [url]http://www.winamp.com/[/url] - Some people prefer Winamp, due to it having a larger feature list. Audio Tools ---------------------------- Audacity - [url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url] AudioShell - [url]http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm[/url] CDex - [url]http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/[/url] dBpowerAMP Music Converter - [url]http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm[/url] EAC - [url]http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/[/url] Encounter 2003 - [url]http://www.waschbusch.com/[/url] GermaniXEncoder - [url]http://www.germanixsoft.de/[/url] K-MP3 - [url]http://www.katarncorp.com/[/url] KraMixer - [url]http://www.kramware.com/[/url] MP3 Book Helper - [url]http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/[/url] MP3 Tag - [url]http://www.mp3tag.de/[/url] mp3DirectCut - [url]http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/[/url] MP3Gain - [url]http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/[/url] mp3Trim - [url]http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/[/url] MusicBrainz - [url]http://musicbrainz.org/[/url] Rarewares - [url]http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/[/url] SoundEngine Free - [url]http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm[/url] TagScanner - [url]http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm[/url] The GodFather - [url]http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/[/url] TigoTago - [url]http://www.tigotago.com/[/url] Browsers ----------------- Chrome Opera Firefox CD/DVD Burning ---------------------------- InfraRecorder - [url]http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/[/url] ImgBurn - CD Burner and image reader Checksum Utilities ---------------------------- fsum - [url]http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/[/url] hksfv - [url]http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/[/url] md5sum - [url]http://www.etree.org/md5com.html[/url] md5summer - [url]http://www.md5summer.org/[/url] Compression / Decompression -------------------------------------- Peazip - [url]http://peazip.sourceforge.net/[/url] 7zip - [url]http://www.7-zip.org/[/url] Defrag Software ----------------------------- Auslogics Disk Defrag - [url]http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag[/url] Defraggler - [url]http://www.defraggler.com/[/url] MyDefrag - Defragmenter that also optimises the hard drive Desktop Enhancements ------------------------------- AveDesk - [url]http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372[/url] Blackbox - [url]http://xoblite.net[/url] CursorXP - [url]http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html[/url] Desktop Sidebar - [url]http://www.desktopsidebar.com/[/url] Glass2k - [url]http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml[/url] Kapsules - [url]http://kapsules.shellscape.org/[/url] MobyDock - [url]http://www.mobydock.com/[/url] Panorama - [url]http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html[/url] Rainlendar - [url]http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php[/url] Rocket Dock - [url]http://rocketdock.com/download[/url] Samurize - [url]http://www.samurize.com/[/url] SlickRun - [url]http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/[/url] TaskSwitchXP --- - [url]http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/[/url] tclock2 - [url]http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm[/url] Weather Watcher - [url]http://www.singerscreations.com/[/url] Widgets - [url]http://widgets.yahoo.com/[/url] WinRoll - [url]http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/[/url] Download Managers ------------------------------- jDownloader - [url]http://jdownloader.org/[/url] - THE Download manager. Unparalleled, with constant updates. DVD Rippers ------------------------- DVD Decrypter - [url]http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/[/url] DVD Shrink - [url]http://www.dvdshrink.org/[/url] Encryption and Data Security -------------------------------------- Eraser - [url]http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php[/url] TrueCrypt - [url]http://www.truecrypt.org/[/url] File Managers ---------------------------- 2xExplorer - [url]http://netez.com/2xExplorer/[/url] A43 - [url]http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/[/url] ExplorerXP - [url]http://www.explorerxp.com[/url] Free Commander - [url]http://www.freecommander.com/[/url] Gyula's Navigator - [url]http://www.wanari.com/[/url] JExplorer - [url]http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/[/url] MeeSoft Commander - [url]http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/[/url] NexusFile V - [url]http://xiles.net/[/url] File Recovery ---------------------------------------- Recuva - [url]http://www.recuva.com[/url] File Sharing ------------------------ uTorrent Firewalls: -------------------- COMODO Firewall Pro - [url]http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.c..._firewall.html[/url] Jetico Personal Firewall - [url]http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm[/url] Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - [url]http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html[/url] SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - [url]http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/[/url] Wyvern Firewall 2004 - [url]http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html[/url] ZoneAlarm - [url]http://www.zonealarm.com/store/conte...e_firewall.jsp[/url] FTP Clients ----------------------------- Filezilla - [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla[/url] HTML Editors --------------------------- 1st page 2000 - [url]http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml[/url] AceHTML - [url]http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html[/url] Aracnophilia - [url]http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/[/url] HTML-Kit - [url]http://www.chami.com/html-kit/[/url] Matrix Y2K - [url]http://www.crystalfibers.com/index.php?topicid=20[/url] NVU - [url]http://www.nvu.com/index.html[/url] Selida - [url]http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/[/url] Trellian webPAGE - [url]http://webpage.vendercom.com/[/url] TSW WebCoder - [url]http://www.tsware.net/[/url] Image viewers ----------------------------- FastStone Image Viewer - [url]http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm[/url] - While the interface seems overwhelming at first, this beats the standard image viewer by a mile Irfanview - [url]http://www.irfanview.com/[/url] - Reads pretty much every image format. Nice, simple interface to boot. This should be 1st choice to replace Window's built in Picture Viewer. Instant Messenger ---------------------------- Pidgin - [url]http://www.pidgin.im/[/url] - The best Multi-platform chat program, working with pretty much every network. You can even install more plugins for extra functionality. IRC Clients ----------------------- mIRC - [url]http://www.mirc.com/[/url] - Nagware. It'll ask you to purchase it to use it, but If you decline you can use it anyway without repurcussion. TinyIRC - [url]http://www.tinyirc.net/[/url] - All you want to do is chat? Don't need the surplus shit you'll never use? TinyIRC's got you covered. Mail Programs ------------------------ Thunderbird - [url]http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/[/url] Network Tools ---------------------------- CMDTime NTP Utility - [url]http://www.softshape.com/download/[/url] Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - [url]http://www.ethereal.com/[/url] Gencontrol - [url]http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html[/url] hamachi - [url]http://www.hamachi.cc/[/url] NetMeter - [url]http://readerror.gmxhome.de/[/url] NetProfiles - [url]http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/[/url] NMap - [url]http://www.insecure.org/nmap/[/url] Ntop - [url]http://www.ntop.org[/url] PingPlotter - [url]http://www.pingplotter.com[/url] PuTTY - [url]http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty[/url] RAS Graph & Stats - [url]http://www.trvx.com/rasgs[/url] RealVNC - [url]http://www.realvnc.com/[/url] TightVNC - [url]http://www.tightvnc.org/[/url] Ultr@VNC - [url]http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/[/url] WinSCP - [url]http://www.winscp.com/[/url] BitMeter II - [url]http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeter2[/url] - A bandwidth meter that shows you how many GB's you've wasted streaming porn. Office Suite ----------------------------- LibreOffice - The devs of OpenOffice have moved on to develop the far superior LibreOffice. Less system intensive and generally better. Partition Managers ----------------------------- Partition Resizer - [url]http://zeleps.com/[/url] Ranish Partition Manager - [url]http://www.ranish.com/part/[/url] TestDisk - [url]http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html[/url] PDF Utilities -------------------------- Foxit PDF Reader - [url]http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php[/url] - A polished Acrobat-alternative that cleanly displays PDF's with a minimal interface, and also has a host of handy features. SumatraPDF - [url]http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html[/url] - A really awesome light-weight PDF Reader. No Frills, mind. It's just a straight up reader. Photo Manipulation and Image Design -------------------------------------------- GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)- [url]http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html[/url] - The most able image manipulator short of buying PhotoShop. Paint .NET - [url]http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/[/url] - A somewhat simpler alternative to GIMP. Programming ---------------------- jEdit - [url]http://www.jedit.org/[/url] Notepad++ - [url]http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm[/url] RSS Readers ----------------------- Snarfer - [url]http://www.snarfware.com/[/url] - Lightweight Feed Reader FeedDemon - [url]http://www.feeddemon.com/[/url] - Feature-packed Feed Reader. Syncs with your Google Reader account, too. System Information and Monitoring ------------------------------------------- CPU-Z - [url]http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php[/url] Everest - [url]http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...t-program.html[/url] Filemon - [url]http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Filemon/filemon.html[/url] Gkrellm - [url]http://bill.nalens.com/[/url] GPU-Z - [url]http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/[/url] HWMonitor - [url]http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php[/url] Motherboard monitor - [url]http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311[/url] RockXP - [url]http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/RockXP/rockxp.html[/url] Sisoftware Sandra - [url]http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/[/url] SpeedFan - [url]http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php[/url] Sysmetrix - [url]http://www.xymantix.com[/url] WinAudit - [url]http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/WinAudit/winaudit.html[/url] WCPUID - [url]http://www.download.com/WCPUID/3000-...-10071294.html[/url] Video Codecs ------------------------- Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) - [url]http://www.cccp-project.net/[/url] - Uses VLC. K-Lite Media Pack - [url]http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm[/url] - Uses MPC. Opinion is split 50/50 on which of these is better. In my opinion, neither is necessary. You won't need either unless you're downloading some weird-ass formats. Video Players ------------------------- Media Player Classic - [url]http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/[/url] VLC Player - [url]http://www.videolan.org/[/url] - Both are great. Imo, MPC edges it because it starts up faster. Video Tools ----------------------- DVD Shrink - [url]http://www.dvdshrink.org/[/url] DScaler - [url]http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/[/url] FlasKMPEG - [url]http://www.flaskmpeg.net[/url] GSpot - [url]http://www.headbands.com/gspot/[/url] VirtualDub - [url]http://www.virtualdub.org/[/url] VirtualDubMod - [url]http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/[/url] Zwei-Stein Video Editor - [url]http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html[/url] Other Lists: [url]http://fileforum.betanews.com/browse.php[/url] [url]http://www.apphit.com/[/url] [url]http://aveapps.com/[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software[/url] [url]http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPFreeware.html[/url] Misc. ------------ CCleaner Everything F.lux FBReader John's Background Switcher Peerblock Speccy TeraCopy WinCDemu It's a WiP!
Checksum utility: Hashtab. Adds a tab to file properties. Has Mac and PC versions.
holy shit godlike OP it's not really free software, but put ninite on there, it's a VERY nifty tool
[QUOTE=wlzshroom;34153607]holy shit godlike OP[/QUOTE] its copied from v1 which was copied from this list that's all over the internet [url]http://www.scribd.com/doc/10003033/gnu-soft-list[/url] and a lot of the links are broken, or they're just really shitty software
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;34153706]its copied from v1 which was copied from this list that's all over the internet [url]http://www.scribd.com/doc/10003033/gnu-soft-list[/url] and a lot of the links are broken, or they're just really shitty software[/QUOTE] They are indeed. My plan is to include ONE piece that fulfils all the functions of the others in it's category, a consolidation to stop it being a list of shit.
ImgBurn - CD Burner and image reader MyDefrag - Defragmenter that also optimises the hard drive 7zip - Compression/decompression. Also creators of the 7z archive format.
-snip, alright chill-
Since when does CCCP use VLC? It came with MPC-HC for me.
I don't see CIS (Comodo) on that list.
Add MSE, and don't just reject peoples additions because you feel they aren't needed
[QUOTE=myalt22;34154676][QUOTE=1solidsnake2;34154331]ImgBurn - CD Burner and image reader MyDefrag - Defragmenter that also optimises the hard drive 7zip - Compression/decompression. Also creators of the 7z archive format.[/QUOTE] No need, got all the necessary tools for that section.[/QUOTE] Those are all extremely useful, good quality and highly praised. What are you doing?
[QUOTE=myalt22;34154676]No need, got all the necessary tools for that section.[/QUOTE] What was the point of opening the thread then? If you create a thread you are [U][I]supposed [/I][/U]to update it
[QUOTE=myalt22;34154676]No need, got all the necessary tools for that section.[/QUOTE] In that case, feel free to remove 50% of your list, already got "all the necessary tools" in each of the sections...
Peazip is a pile of shit with a broken UI and asshole shell integration 7-zip is much better and mature
Alright, shit. I'm trying to reach a middle ground without throwing around 50 programs that all do the exact same thing in the exact same way. [editline]11th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;34155128]Since when does CCCP use VLC? It came with MPC-HC for me.[/QUOTE] Does it? Shit, my bad.
So much for this thread [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1154528?p=34153626&viewfull=1#post34153626[/url]
VoIP: Mumble SQL GUI: HeidiSQL Media player: PotPlayer
Don't forget jzip. And what is it with everyone and Avast! ?
It'd be nice if some actual distinction would be made between free as in beer software and actual Free or Open Source software.
[QUOTE=gparent;34160751]It'd be nice if some actual distinction would be made between free as in beer software and actual Free or Open Source software.[/QUOTE] And also which ones come with bundled crap, like Foxit.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;34153590]Checksum utility: Hashtab. Adds a tab to file properties. Has Mac and PC versions.[/QUOTE] I LOVE that application. Saves me uploading files to VirusTotal. Grab the hash and enter it into the hash search box. :eng101:
Did not see this on there but check out Flu.x [url]http://stereopsis.com/flux/[/url] Really helps and you wont notice it after a few days (Set it to 60 mins) I forget its even there only downside is on reddit the links look purple but you can change the settings a bit to make that less annoying
[QUOTE=ineedateam1;34163047]Did not see this on there but check out Flu.x [url]http://stereopsis.com/flux/[/url] Really helps and you wont notice it after a few days (Set it to 60 mins) I forget its even there only downside is on reddit the links look purple but you can change the settings a bit to make that less annoying[/QUOTE] It affects video games too so I don't use it. The warm yellowness ruins STALKER.
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;34181469]It affects video games too so I don't use it. The warm yellowness ruins STALKER.[/QUOTE] There isn't a way to disable it temporarily?
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;34181469]It affects video games too so I don't use it. The warm yellowness ruins STALKER.[/QUOTE] you're supposed to turn it off when playing games or doing colour sensitive work. why wasn't this obvious? edit: hell, there's even a "disable for an hour" button.
When you get unbanned, add Rainmeter and Fences to Desktop Enhancements and then add Notepad++ to HTML editors [editline]12th January 2012[/editline] Oh, and Sculptris to 3D
I like WinRAR better then 7Zip.
OpenFX looks like it could be a bit of fun to mess with.
For programming don't forget to add Visual Studio and Code::Blocks.
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;34181469]It affects video games too so I don't use it. The warm yellowness ruins STALKER.[/QUOTE] you're supposed to turn it off when playing games or doing colour sensitive work. Theres even a little box that says this when you click it
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