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Old 2006-09-18, 05:23   Link #2
felix
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This is a filtered list. More information is contained in the original software-list.xml (XSLT BBCode Transformation) file from which the following was generated.


Office Suite
OpenOffice.org aka OO.o
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage Wiki
Description: The program is a free alternative for Microsoft Office (Xp or earlier).
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh Linux
Alternatives: ~Microsoft Office ~Abiword


File Archiver
7-Zip
¤Free
Homepage Wiki
Description: 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), except for the RAR plugin. By default, the program creates 7z archives (.7z), using the LZMA algorithm for compression. This relatively new format allows the program to achieve a very high compression ratio, comparable to other popular high compression formats such as RAR (which is based on proprietary algorithms).
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh Linux

Features
  1. Packing/Unpacking 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  2. Unpacking Only RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
Alternatives: ~Winrar(pay) ~WinZIP(pay)


BitTorrent Client
µTorrent aka µT
¤Free
Homepage Wiki
Description: Small, efficient, reliable and stable. Well known for it's low resource consumption.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Alternatives: ~Azureus ~BitTornado ~ABC


Audio - Player
Winamp
¤Freeware
Homepage Wiki
Description: The BASIC Package contains almost everything the average user would need (support for skins, radio support etc). The PRO Package contains several features for ripping and burning music.
Supported Operating Systems:

Resources:
  1. Winamp.com (plug-ins/skins)
Alternatives: ~foobar2000


Audio - Processor
Audicity
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage Wiki
Description: Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. And more...
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh Linux
Alternatives: ~SoundForge(pay) ~Adobe Audition(pay) ~Cakewalk(pay) ~Jazz++ ~Ableton Live(pay)


Video Player
Media Player Classic aka MPC
¤Free

Description: Comes with Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP). Supports almost every type of video file, including : .mkv and .mp4. Other formats like .mov, .rm and .rmvb etc are supported through 3rd party vendors.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows

Resources:
  1. CCCP (includes MPC)
  2. Real Alternative
  3. QuickTime Alternative
Alternatives: ~VideoLan Cross-Platform Media Player ~MPlayer


Internet Browser
Mozzila Firefox
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage
Description: Fast, simple, easy to use, fully custumizable, Firefox is among the most popular browsers. While lacking strict or fully compliance with certain standards firefox has been known to quickly adopt and even develop web standards. Loved by devolopers, Firefox users rest happy in the though that 99.99% of sites they browse will work flawleslly; certain sites have been known to be even firefox-only.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh Linux
Uninstall: The program will delete most of it's runtime compoinent but settings and other files are likely to be kept.

Features
  1. Popular Capabilities Available Through Extentions Ad-Blocking, Full Macro and Key-Binding Options, Syncronazation, Adv. Web-Developement ToolsSets, Adv. AddressBar Customizations, Adv. Tab Options, Adv. History Options
Resources:
  1. Themes Addons and Extentions
Alternatives: ~Opera


Graphics - Raster
GNU Image Manipulation Program aka GIMP
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage Wiki
Description: The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor application with some support for vector graphics. GIMP can be used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, changing colors, combining images using a layer paradigm, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create animated images using an improved layers method. The full capabilities of the GIMP extend much further, however, and include advanced image editing, manipulation, and professional graphics creation. If you have animation in mind install Gimp Animation Packege (aka GAP).
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh Linux
Uninstall: Has a clean easy uninstall.

Resources:
  1. Tutorials
  2. GIMP On Macs
  3. GimpShop - GIMP with Photoshop Layout
  4. Psip - Gimp host plugin to support Adobe Photoshop plugins
Paint.NET
¤Free
Homepage Wiki Dependency: .NET Framework
Description: Paint.NET is a bitmap graphics editor for the .NET Framework. Very similar in design and capabilities with Photoshop.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Uninstall: Has a clean easy uninstall.

Resources:
  1. Screenshots
Alternatives: ~Photoshop Elements(pay) ~Adobe Photoshop(pay)


Graphics - Vector
Inkscape
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage Wiki
Description: Inkscape is a simple to use vector graphics editor, well known for it's very good SVG capabilities.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh
Uninstall: Has a clean easy uninstall.
Alternatives: ~Adobe Illustrator(pay) ~Xara Xtreme(pay)


Graphics - Drawing/Painting
Open Canvas aka oC
¤Payed

Description: Open Canvas, popularly abbreviated as oC, is an art program for Microsoft Windows, popular among Japanese digital artists. Open Canvas is known for its unique blending style, something of a cross between Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Unlike many similar programs, Open Canvas is specifically designed for use with pressure-sensitive drawing tablets, like the popular Wacom's digitizing tablets. It is designed from the bottom up to be a sketch program rather than a graphic design program.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Alternatives: ~ArtWeaver


RSS/Atom/RDF Reader (Aggregator)
RSSOwl
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage Wiki Dependency: Java Runtime Environment
Description: Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators." RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It's easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It's platform-independent.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh Linux
Uninstall: Has a clean easy uninstall.
Alternatives: ~SharpReader ~GreatNews ~FeedDemon(pay) ~Akregator (linux)


IRC Client
mIRC
¤Freeware
Homepage
Description: mIRC is a simple and popular irc client with scripting support and gui interface for most irc needs.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows

Resources:
  1. Manual
  2. IRC Client Comparison
Alternatives: ~konversation (Linux) ~Colloquy (Mac) ~IceChat (Win) ~Irssi ~KVIrc ~IceChat


Code Editor
Notepad++
¤Free ¤Open Source

Description: Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Linux
Uninstall: Has a clean easy uninstall.

Features
  1. Support ASP, Ada, ASCII art, Assembly, AutoIt, BAT, C, C#, C++, Caml, CSS, doxygen, FORTRAN, HTML, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, KiXtart, Lisp, Lua, makefile, Matlab, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Unix Shell Script, Smalltalk, SQL, Tcl, TeX, Verilog, VHDL, VB/VBScript, XML.
  2. Common Features Auto-completion (language and file), Bookmarks, Syntax highlighting (and brace and indent highlighting), Regular expression find and replace, Split screen editing, Zooming, Spell checker (built in but requires Aspell), Hex editor (plug in available), Tabbed document interface. It has support for macros and plugins. A user-written plug-in called TextFX, which provides many text transformation options, is included by default.
Resources:
  1. Download Linux Version
Alternatives: ~Komodo Edit


Tools
PDFCreator
¤Free ¤Open Source

Description: PDFCreator integrates into windows and offers support for applications to print to the PDF format. Some patented variations of PDF are not supported. At the time of this writing, the Windows Vista OS is not supported.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
InfraRecorder
¤Free ¤Open Source

Description: CD and DVD Burning Tool
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
SubRip
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage Wiki
Description: SubRip is an optical character recognition program for Windows which rips (extracts) subtitles and their timings from video files or DVDs, recording them as a text file. Subrip is also the name of the subtitle format created by this software. The caption files are named with the extension .SRT. This format is supported by most software video players and subtitle creation programs
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
MPEG Streamclip
¤Free
Homepage
Description: MPEG Streamclip is a converter for QuickTime files, MPEG-1/2/4 files and transport streams (.ts and .m2t). It provides high-quality conversion of movies and MPEGs into several useful formats. It is compatible with most editing applications and DVD authoring tools. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Machintosh
WinSCP
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage
Description: WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Uninstall: Has a clean easy uninstall.
DVD Flick
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage
Description: DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
VisiPics
¤Free
Homepage
Description: If you get too many pictures on your harddrive, downloaded or photographied, from several different sources, it may happen that you have many duplicates. In that case you need a quick and easy to use program that finds and deletes all your duplicates. VisiPics does more than just look for identical files, it goes beyond checksums to look for similar pictures and does it all with a simple user interface. First, you select the root folder or folders to find and catalogue all of your pictures. It then applies five image comparison filters in order to measure how close pairs of images on the hard drive are.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Alternatives: ~OmniGraffle(pay)


Maintanance
PageDefrag
¤Free

Description: A free software that defrags your pagefile allowing windows to bootup and shutdown faster.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Auslogics DiskDefrag
¤Free

Description: Disk Defrag utility.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
HD Tune
¤Free

Description: Hard Drive Benchmark and Error Cheker.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
DriveImage XML
¤Free

Description: Image and Backup of Logical Partitions.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows

Resources:
  1. “Ghost” Windows XP for free
Darik's Boot and Nuke aka DBAN
¤Free

Description: Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and spyware. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Linux
RIVAtuner
¤Free
Homepage
Description: RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters. The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options, flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware access modes, unique diagnostic and realtime hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner's feature set absolutely unmatched.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Partimage
¤Free
Homepage
Description: Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem to an image file. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported. The image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to save disk space, and they can be splitted into multiple files to be copied on CDs / DVDs
Supported Operating Systems: Linux
Crap Cleaner aka cCleaner
¤Free
Homepage
Description: CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Alternatives: ~Registry Mechanic(pay) ~TuneUp Utilities(pay) ~Acronis TrueImage(pay) ~CrystalDiskMark ~Cobian Backup


Other
AutoKeys
¤Free ¤Open Source
Homepage Wiki
Description: Autokeys is a program designed to create a shortcut key including mouse shortcuts for everything you want.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
RainMeter and Rainlendar 2
¤Free ¤Open Source

Description: Desktop Widget
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Linux 64bit Architecture

Resources:
  1. Skins
Unlocker
¤Free

Description: Access Lock Breaker
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Created on: 2006-09-18. Last modified: 2008-04-07
Last edited by felix; 2008-04-07 at 12:27.
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