Sofware List for a Better Computing

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  • 7-Zip - File archiver (Open Source).
  • Ad-Aware - Deletes unwanted Software
  • ATnotes - Stickies for your Desktop (Freeware)
  • Avast Anti-Virus - One of the best Virus Scanner around
  • Avant Browser - Another Web Browser (Freeware)
  • Apache HTTP Server - HTTP server (Open Source).
  • Audacity - Audio editor (Open Source).
  • AutoGK - DVD to DivX/Xvid Converter (Freeware)
  • AxCrypt - Encryption Software (Open Source)
  • Azureus - BitTorrent client (Open Source).
  • BB4Win - Alternative shell for Windows (Open Source).
  • BitComet - BitTorrent client (Freeware)
  • Blender - 3D graphics creation suite (Open Source).
  • Bosskey - Virtual Desktop Program (Freeware)
  • Cain & Abel - All-in-one Security Tool (Freeware)
  • CDex - MP3 ripper (Open Source).
  • Celestia - Real-time 3D space simulation (Open Source).
  • CCleaner - Cleans Crap on your Computer (Freeware)
  • Chaos Manager - Free Organizing Software (Freeware)
  • Context - powerful text editor (Freeware)
  • CVSNT - Versioning system (Freeware).
  • Cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows (Open Source).
  • Dia - Drawing program (Open Source).
  • DIManager - Desktop Icon Manager (Freeware)
  • DVD Shrink - DVD Decrypter Software (freeware)
  • Eclipse - Java IDE (Open Source).
  • Econsole - Customizable Cmd Alternative (freeware)
  • EditPad Lite - Source code & Text Editor (Freeware)
  • Everest Home Edition - System Diagnostic Tool (Freeware)
  • Feedreader - Easy to use Feed Reader
  • Fiddler - HTTP Debugger (Freeware)
  • FileZilla - FTP client (Open Source).
  • Firefox - Web browser (Open Source).
  • Foxit PDF Viewer - Fastest PDF Viewer around (Freeware)
  • Stellarium - Open Source Photo-Realistic Sky Generator in Real Time
  • foobar2000 - Audio player (Freeware).
  • FreeMind - Mind-mapping tool (Open Source).
  • Gaim - A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client (Open Source)
  • GhostMouse - Mouse Recording Program (Freeware)
  • Gizmo - IP telephone (Freeware)
  • GMail Drive - Gmail shell extension (Freeware).
  • gnuplot - Plotting utility (Freeware).
  • Google Earth - imagery and other geographic information program
  • Hottnotes - Another sticky notes reminder program (Freeware)
  • HTML-Kit - Create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts. (Freeware)
  • HTTrack - Offline browsing utility (Open Source).
  • Icon Sushi - Icon editor (Freeware).
  • Inkscape - Vector graphics editor (Open Source).
  • IrfanView - Image viewer (Freeware).
  • Izarc - Another compression utility (Freeware)
  • Java - Programming language/platform.
  • Konfabulator - Widgets Software (Freeware)
  • Keepass - light-weight and easy-to-use password manager (Open Source)
  • Kerio Personal Firewall - Firewall (Freeware).
  • mIRC - IRC client (Nagware/Commercial).
  • Media Monkey - Jukebox Software (Freeware)
  • MWSnap - Screen Capture Utility (Freeware)
  • MySQL - Database server (Open Source/Commercial).
  • NetHack - Game (Open Source).
  • Notepad++ - A source code editor (Open Source)
  • NVU - Web editor (Open Source)
  • OpenOffice - Office suite (Open Source).
  • Opera - Web browser (Freeware).
  • PDFCreator - PDF Creator (Open Source)
  • Process Explorer - Useful tool for tracking Programs and dll’s running on background (Freeware)
  • PHP - Programming language.
  • PuTTY - Telnet/SSH client (Open Source).
  • PSPad - all-in-one programmers editor (Freeware)
  • Quicktime Alternative - Play Quicktime files w/o Quicktime Player
  • Ras Monitor - Monitors bandwidth usage
  • Rainlendar - Desktop calendar (Open Source).
  • Real Alternative - Play RealMedia Files w/o Real Player
  • Restoration - File undelete software (Freeware)
  • RSS Bandit - News aggregator (Open Source).
  • Samurize - advanced sytem monitoring and desktop enhancement (Freeware)
  • SciTE - Text editor (Open Source).
  • ShellExtension - Adds nifty functions for explorer (Freeware)
  • ShellON v2 - Shell manager for Windows (Freeware).
  • Spybot SAD - Deletes unwanted Software
  • SQLyog - Database management tool (Freeware/Commercial).
  • Sunbird - Standalone Calendar
  • TaskMaster - Another To-do manager (freeware)
  • TextPad - Text editor (Nagware/Commercial).
  • The GIMP - Graphics editor (Open Source).
  • The Regex Coach - Regular expression tool (Freeware).
  • Thunderbird - Mail client (Open Source).
  • Trillian - Instant Messaging client (Freeware/Commercial).
  • TSWare - Web Editor
  • Vim - A Free text editor (Open Source)
  • Virtual Dimension - Virtual Desktop Software (Open Source)
  • VirtualDub - Video processing and capture (Open Source).
  • VOIP Buster - Internet Telephony Software
  • Winamp - Media player(Freeware).
  • WinMerge - Diff utility (Open Source).
  • World Wind - Free Satellite Viewing Software
  • XMLSpy Home Edition - XML Development Tool (Freeware)
  • ZipGenius - File compression tool (Freeware)
  • Zone Alarm Firewall - Stops hackers from getting into your PC

Update: thanks to Bugmenot2, mrpeaches, tearor, dig.it for the the useful comments on digg.com. Also, thanks to simon, zapada, sridhar, kingofsf, runningsystem, kevin, ebjcoat, chris, vuzman, ChrisD, Erick, h198x, Rolandog, James Deville, mizo, enredando, gul, Wyzyrd, and Federico for the comments on my article.

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  1. wow thank you this is really awesome!!!

    Comment by Paul — September 14, 2005 @ 3:37 am

  2. Could you add Google Earth? That’s one that everyone should know about =D

    Comment by asdf — September 14, 2005 @ 4:03 am

  3. You should have Gizmo - Internet Telephony Software it rules

    Comment by kingofsf — September 14, 2005 @ 4:14 am

  4. You should add Gizmo fantastic open source Internet Telephony Software.

    Comment by kingofsf — September 14, 2005 @ 4:15 am

  5. Would replace the versioning system CVSNT with Subversion

    Comment by Jamk — September 14, 2005 @ 4:50 am

  6. very nice website

    Comment by Ed — September 14, 2005 @ 4:53 am

  7. Great list of software. BTW, are you using a Wordpress theme for your site? If so, which one are you using?

    Thx,
    JH

    Comment by Jermi — September 14, 2005 @ 5:15 am

  8. Why linux isn’t listed :)

    Comment by Ccx — September 14, 2005 @ 5:59 am

  9. Notepad++ is great too. Should be included in this list.

    Comment by sridhar — September 14, 2005 @ 6:28 am

  10. i hope i can have it all

    Comment by karma — September 14, 2005 @ 9:46 am

  11. Wow, some of that stuff is really cool.

    Nice job.

    Comment by Dan — September 14, 2005 @ 10:40 am

  12. Wow, some of that stuff is really cool.

    Nice job.

    Comment by Dan — September 14, 2005 @ 10:41 am

  13. You forgot Gaim. gaim.sourceforge.net

    Comment by zapada — September 14, 2005 @ 11:19 am

  14. Homecoming

    Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … Homecoming Wednesday!

    Trackback by NIF — September 14, 2005 @ 12:00 pm

  15. I can’t live without a real text edit like vim.

    Comment by Simon — September 14, 2005 @ 4:16 pm

  16. come ti this site

    Comment by damian — September 14, 2005 @ 5:42 pm

  17. Una lista di software utili (molti free)

    Una lista di software utili (molti free) da tenere da conto.Link: Sofware List for a Better Computing :: September :: 2005.

    Trackback by SKY TG24 Pianeta Internet — September 14, 2005 @ 6:23 pm

  18. Nice list. I’m a freeware junkie, too. You might want to take a look at my list at http://nedwolf.com/Freeware.htm

    Comment by nedwolf — September 14, 2005 @ 6:24 pm

  19. Nice list. I’m a freeware junkie, too. You might want to take a look at my list at nedwolf-Absolutely Best Freeware

    Good job!

    Comment by nedwolf — September 14, 2005 @ 6:25 pm

  20. test

    Comment by Admin — September 14, 2005 @ 6:27 pm

  21. Thanks for putting my name up :) Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/ is another desktop widget program similar to konfabulator, but far superior IMO. Also, AutoGordianKnot is a pretty useful divx/xvid encoder used to compress DVD format to 700meg divx/xvid format with virtually no quality loss - http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/

    Comment by zapada — September 14, 2005 @ 7:39 pm

  22. thanks nedwolf for your awesome site

    Comment by Admin — September 14, 2005 @ 7:45 pm

  23. How about:
    Camstudio
    Hoversnap
    Media Player Classic

    Comment by Brian — September 14, 2005 @ 8:02 pm

  24. thanks brian, but media player classic is included in both real and quicktime alternative.

    Comment by Admin — September 14, 2005 @ 8:11 pm

  25. Lista software utili - free e/o open

    Essendo appassionato del freeware e dell’open source, vi segnalo questa interessante lista (quasi tutti Freeware o Open Source)

    Trackback by Blog ingenuo — September 14, 2005 @ 8:22 pm

  26. great stuff you have here, amazing how much of this stuff is already on my PC

    Comment by gash26 — September 14, 2005 @ 9:51 pm

  27. Great idea to write that list!

    I would add few more applications: GIMP, Altova XMLSpy Home Edition, Xine media player.

    Comment by runningsystem — September 14, 2005 @ 9:55 pm

  28. please add Context www.context.cx it is a great text editor

    Comment by Kevin — September 14, 2005 @ 9:56 pm

  29. Take a look at my list…
    http://plentz.org/2005/02/14/programas-inuteis/

    Comment by Diego Pires Plentz — September 14, 2005 @ 11:54 pm

  30. zapada is right www.Samurize.com should be on there, it’s an excellent program, especially when combined with motherboard monitor 5

    Comment by ebjcoat — September 15, 2005 @ 1:48 am

  31. Great Software Collection!!!

    Thank You!

    Comment by xqqqme — September 15, 2005 @ 2:27 am

  32. Virtual Dimension is the best Window’s virtual desktop program I’ve found:

    http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/

    Comment by chris — September 15, 2005 @ 5:02 am

  33. Take a look at as a TextPad replacement. It has almost the same features (and more) and is freeware.

    For encoding movies there’s also the open source .

    And, IMO is a much better archive utility than 7-zip.

    Comment by vuzman — September 15, 2005 @ 10:42 am

  34. Take a look at PSPad as a TextPad replacement. It has almost the same features (and more) and is freeware.

    For encoding movies there’s also the open source Dr. Divx.

    And, IMO IZArc is a much better archive utility than 7-zip.

    Comment by vuzman — September 15, 2005 @ 11:02 am

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    Trackback by iamz — September 15, 2005 @ 12:48 pm

  36. For a really secure password manager, I highly recommend keepass.

    Comment by ChrisD — September 15, 2005 @ 1:24 pm

  37. You can get keepass from http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

    Comment by ChrisD — September 15, 2005 @ 4:36 pm

  38. Are Jabber clients good enough to be on the list? (Psi is a very good one).
    http://psi.affinix.com/

    Comment by rolandog — September 16, 2005 @ 12:30 am

  39. There is also a free source code editor called TSW WebCoder(but you have to go through some registration processes).
    http://www.tsware.net/download.php

    Comment by rolandog — September 16, 2005 @ 12:32 am

  40. Lista programmi

    Su The x2o Dimension c’e’ una selezione di programmi freeware / open source.
    Al lavoro dell’autore, che segnala attualmente 91 programmim si sono poi aggiunti i commenti che ne hanno aggiunto molti altri.
    …

    Trackback by Skylog — September 16, 2005 @ 9:04 am

  41. instead of tsw webcoder, I would rather recommend NVU. Its Open source and easy to use. You don’t have to go to all the pain in registering.

    Comment by Admin — September 16, 2005 @ 10:09 am

  42. Great Free Software

    I came across an excellent list of software. I’ll try to add to it at a later date.

    …

    Trackback by Motion Blur Studios — September 16, 2005 @ 2:39 pm

  43. You might consider adding ColorWrite 1.1, too. Colorwrite is freeware.

    Comment by Paul — September 17, 2005 @ 7:47 pm

  44. My favourite text editor is Editpad Lite
    http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
    I’d also reccomend AntiVir
    http://www.free-av.com/

    Comment by Erick — September 19, 2005 @ 12:34 pm

  45. Here are a few apps I find useful:

    HTTrack Site Copier
    Fiddler HTTP Analyzer
    PuTTY SSH/Telnet client

    Have fun!

    Comment by h198x — September 20, 2005 @ 1:17 am

  46. Dont’t forget Mplayer!
    www.mplayerhq.hu

    Comment by Bur — September 20, 2005 @ 7:52 am

  47. I prefer the features of TSW to NVU. Especially if you plan on hand coding

    Comment by James Deville — September 20, 2005 @ 12:48 pm

  48. www.qsoftworld.com has
    Taskmaster - Free Todo program
    Backgroung Boss - Free background manager

    both are pretty good.

    Comment by mizo — September 20, 2005 @ 8:18 pm

  49. Opera now is freeware

    Comment by enredando — September 22, 2005 @ 11:12 am

  50. Software libre imprescindible para Windows

    … que a su vez leyó en el de Javi Moya, una lista del software libre imprescindible para Windows, creo que al menos un 30% del software de esa lista lo uso desde hace tiempo…

    Trackback by Bichos y Fotos — September 24, 2005 @ 12:01 am

  51. thanks for this list! add ZipGenius

    Comment by gul — September 24, 2005 @ 9:33 am

  52. http://www.chami.com has a freeware product called HTMLKit that has saved me an unbelievable amount of time doing html/php development - it’s worth checking out
    (I’m not affiliated with the company, btw)

    Comment by Wyzyrd — September 25, 2005 @ 5:31 pm

  53. Opera is not adware any more. :)

    Comment by Federico — September 26, 2005 @ 1:56 am

  54. Posted Earlier!!
    by Brendon Kozlowski

    Startup Control Panel:

    http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

    StartupMonitor:

    http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

    They’re easy to use tools to STOP unwanted programs from starting when Windows95/98/2000/XP/2003 startup. (Note, they don’t catch services.)

    A comparable (to ConTEXT) color-coded text editor

    http://www.crimsoneditor.com

    PHP Designer 2005: (popular free PHP IDE-like tool)

    http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php

    Pegasus / Mercury Mail (client/server, respectively) FREE Win32 mail server and client

    http://www.pmail.com/

    Color chooser tools:

    http://www.adaptiveview.com/cw/overview.html

    http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/index.aspx

    Free Virus Scanner:

    http://free.grisoft.com/

    FREE ColdFusion Server:

    http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/

    Win32 FREE Server for Home/Personal Use: (link’s hard to find, it’s there)

    http://www.blackmoonftpserver.com/

    Nullsoft Installer Package:

    http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

    Free (and paid) FTP Client:

    http://www.coreftp.com/

    Memtest86+ (free updated bootable memory checker)

    http://www.memtest.org/

    Open Workbench (OpenSource Microsoft Project Replacement)

    http://www.openworkbench.org/

    Free/Paid really nice UML creation program:

    http://www.gentleware.com/index.php

    URL Checking for Website Links (Xenu Link Sleuth):

    http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

    Free Non-Commercial registry cleaner:

    http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

    Tutorial Creation Software:

    http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

    http://www.camstudio.org/

    …..should I keep going? :)

    Comment by Admin — September 28, 2005 @ 11:00 am

  55. I must say I agree completly, it is nice to see people have blogs where they spread the same opinion you got.

    Comment by Luniquer — October 10, 2005 @ 7:33 pm

  56. Ah, and for Eclipse, take a look at my article, Eclipsed

    Comment by Diego Pires Plentz — November 15, 2005 @ 4:21 am

  57. Lets not forget one of the best firewalls out there: Sygate Personal firewall (free)

    AWESOME LIST by the way!

    Comment by Mindstormer — November 18, 2005 @ 7:24 am

  58. Lets not forget one of the best firewalls out there: Sygate Personal firewall (free)

    AWESOME LIST by the way!

    Comment by Mindstormer — November 18, 2005 @ 7:29 am

  59. Nice list, but you Need to put VLC on there!
    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    also there are many other good suggestions you should consider posting!

    Comment by S2 — May 25, 2006 @ 5:26 pm

  60. 3D mindmapping is good for information management and should be on the list.
    See Topicscape (www.topicscape.com)

    Comment by Argey — September 17, 2006 @ 4:13 pm

  61. Love ur list–

    Cupla great free MP3 manipulating tools:
    MP3DirectCut: http://mpesch3.de1.cc/
    MP3TagTools: http://sourceforge.net/projects/massid3lib

    Comment by EnderEd — December 28, 2006 @ 7:21 pm

  62. Joomla is not in your list. My favorite CMS. :)

    Comment by Toutatis — December 31, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

  63. nice list m8! must have taken a bit of time to compile.
    you should try the freeware version of 3dna, found it by accident the other day!

    http://www.3dna.net/

    this impressed me because i didnt have to look at the dull windows desktop anymore!!!
    thanx for the links.
    kev

    Comment by Rev Kev — February 19, 2007 @ 5:20 pm

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  66. Thank you for this nice list :-)
    I would suggest to add the database sqllight ()

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  69. Anti-Boss Key - All in one bosskey application. Hide windows quickly.
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