A main list of Freeware I use

Free software. Everything listed on this post is software I use to get the job done or out the window(s) it goes… and its all free! Ratings 1 simile = poor, to 5 simile’s = excellent. If you see a light bulb that is a title I use often. A means in use at Vistronic’s and evaluating. (Blue= My comments)

FTP client FileZilla http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
Does not time out! Wow! dump that demo stuff this is it.
Name:FileZilla Type:Free open source (UPDATE: I FTP uploaded a PHP program and it had some errors in auto detect mode )I still use it all the time, but on large files I do one folder at a time

OFFICE Suite www.openoffice.org
Lots of features save to PDF! Open/save MS office files. Has whole suite.
Make sure you down load Java first and install www.java.com as this is run off Java. (this may be optional but I don’t think so) Because of the java it takes 3-5 seconds to load but Hey its free! (note do not run openoffice in sys tray is my advice) Type: Free open source (UPDATE- a little buggy put I use it all the time, don’t forget to use the great Drawing program for flow charts, and block diagrams!)

Image viewer IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/
It’s a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer and much more.
This program, transforms images, thumbnail viewer, thumbnail HTML builder, slide show and on and on. Great at crunching your digitial photos for email web use. ( Works Great, for resize, print, file conversion, and webpage publishing, I gribe is to use *.DWG files (autocad) you must buy plug in!)

CAD Free Cad software http://www.cadstd.com/ (Good but a little to much) 

TigerDraw http://peterhoward42.blogspot.com/2008/07/tigercad.html   ( Just great! simple fast and fun) A completely free, simple technical drawing software (CAD).

Calculator http://www.calculator.org
The Calculator Home Page at calculator.org is a collection of resources related to calculators. Over a million PC users are using Calc98, our popular engineering, scientific and financial calculator for Windows.

Spelling http://www.iespell.com/
ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries).

Spell Checker for OE 2.1
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952
Spelling in Outlook express email, without the need to
purchase other software, such as MS Word,Works, or Office.

Dictionary’s http://wordweb.info/free/
WordWeb is a cut-down version of the WordWeb Pro that is free for personal use. It includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs.

The Sage http://www.sequencepublishing.com/
TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and a multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.

PDF Files http://www.cutepdf.com/
CutePDF Writer enables you to create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. It contains no watermarks or annoying pop-up advertisements. (note you must download 2 files)

Screen Capture
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm
ScreenHunter 4.0 Free is a completely free screen capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. “”I’ve been using ScreenHunter for ages, it’s the BEST! I tried lots of other progs but none compared for ease of use, sharpness of image and tiny size of file produced.”

ZIP http://www.7-zip.org/
Highest compression ratio in new 7z format 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB ….For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip ( It just works and no eval pop up!)

Anti-virus software:
AVG Anti-Virus FREE Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Anti-Virus FREE is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
OK it works. I use it. But email scanner is buggy for OE at least. Also limited scheduling options.

AVAST : avast! Home is now free of charge for HOME users for NON-COMMERCIAL use. http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
Works and found 2 viruses norton did not but….. NO Scheduling for full scan!!! You must push buttons !

ONLINE Free virus scannerGive your PC a FREE check-up! Make sure you have no virus .http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

(NEW) NORTON Test your computer’s exposure to online security threats and learn how to make your computer more secure.
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/

(NEW) Check if you are safe from viruses and spyware free with Panda ActiveScan* Scans, disinfects and eliminates over 90,000 viruses, worms and Trojans from all system devices, hard disks, compressed files and all your email folders. View more features.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/

Anti-spyware
Spybot-Search & Destroy, the best (according to PC World, PC Mag, …) privacy software available!
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
Has great system tools in advanced mode also! Like startup editor in win 2000!

Ad-Aware® Personal http://www.lavasoft.de/
Ad-Aware® is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level.
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button

(New) Microsoft® Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/

Prevention: Shields up block Spyware
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

POP up blockers:
http://companion.yahoo.com/
YAHOO toolbar, POP UP block and SPYWARE scanner

Google toolbar popup blocker and google search window http://www.toolbar.google.com/

Audio: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, (Edit waveforms for free great! But can not save in MS-ADPCM issue for me)

Winamp media player http://www.winamp.com/
“Winamp is more than just a player. It’s your window to the multimedia world. From MP3s to streaming video, Winamp is the one place you go for your audio/video playback ( I use it to stream and play back radio stations in shoutcast for that it is great)

mp3Trim is a simple and easy to use MP3 editor.
Use it to clean-up and improve your MP3 collection.
http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
(Trim out silent open and close with out rendering!)

Bible: http://www.e-sword.net/
e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible.
e-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. (Great program very in depth)

OCR (from image) http://www.simpleocr.com/
SimpleOCR is the only OCR application that is completely free. It contains no adware or spyware, you do not need to sign up for our mailing list and SimpleOCR will never expire. This is one of the greatest deals in freeware–others charge $100-$600 for OCR applications.

 

WEBSITE PROGRAMS TOOLS
This whole website is based on free programs.

WEB Page construction
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.  (Great way to learn about webpages and HTML, build pages in WYSIWYG, it just works)

Old Knowledgebase is powered by http://www.phpbb.com/
“phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.”

INDEX PAGE BLOG powered by http://www.wordpress.org
Great PHP base web page blog and more. You can make it into what you need like this website!

Code Editor http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm  Notepad++ is a free  source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Free Web mail and website
http://mail.yahoo.com/?.intl=us
Get a free Yahoo! Mail account – it’s a breeze to stay connected and manage your busy life. 100MB of email storage.

http://geocities.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! GeoCities Free
Publish your resumé, share family photos, or connect with others who share your interests. Choose the point-and-click PageBuilder or step-by-step PageWizards for easy web pages.

 

In THE HOPPER! to be checked out!

Icons from File 2.1 NEW
Extracts icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.) with ability to scan folders to search for EXE, DLL, OCX files, which contain icons. Extracted icons can be printed, copied or saved to ICO, BMP, JPEG, EMF files. High color icons supported too. http://www.vlsoftware.net/
Date: 09/18/2004 License: Freeware Size: 303K

Font Viewer,
http://www.styopkin.com/details_free_and_easy_fonts_viewer.html

CalcTime – Time Calculator 1.7
http://tucows.banetele.com/preview/249455.html

Screen Capture Video,
http://www.tudogs.com/surftools1.php?pass=set

Quad-Lock Unit Converter 5.0 pop
Convert hundreds of units of measurements.
http://www.download.com/Quad-Lock-Unit-Converter/3000-2054-10254064.html?tag=lst-3-1

Resource Hacker is a freeware utility for viewing, modifying, renaming, adding, deleting, and extracting resources in 32-bit Windows executables and resource files (RES). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler. http://www.download.com/Resource-Hacker/3000-2352-10178588.html?tag=lst-3-2

From the developer: “yBook is a freeware ebook reader which will load text files and display the contents on side-by-side pages just like an open book. (Supports TXT, TEXT, HTML and RTF files) http://www.download.com/yBook-Reader/3000-2125-10152492.html?tag=lst-3-4

From the developer: “Icon ripper from exe,dll,scr,sys and other executables. Is fast, small, powerful and easy to use! Just select directory (even whole disk) and then click on search. After some time you will get many icons in destination directory. It’s freeware. http://www.download.com/GetIcon/3000-2195_4-10124295.html?tag=stbc.gp

IMAGE EDITING
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. http://www.download.com/The-GIMP/3000-2192-10321103.html

Pixia
Description: Pixia is the English version of the famous Japanese graphics program. It allows for working with masks, layers and many other editing functions. http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

Standard Freeware Edition
ImageForge provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html

Whatever you dreamt of doing anything with images, Oriens Enhancer GOLD have the solution in just a click. From Support for 40 popular formats and saving in 20 formats, +40 Filters, +40 Effects, + 40 Artistic Colorizing,
http://www.oriens-solution.com/enhancer/default.htm

FREEWARE WEBSITES LINKS: downloads, reviews…

http://www.freewarehome.com/
http://www.freewarearena.com/

http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm

Good site with links to AV and Anti-spy
http://www.zone-x.com/