Free Programs - Listing

Asterix · 02-01-2003, 07:11 AM

This is the list of some really useful Free programs initially compiled by Blackspawn and Lion7718 :thumbs up

I'll try my best to keep this list updated don't post any comments or suggestions here u can do that in original thread here. This is done to keep the listing continuous.
- Asterix

PS: New additions are marked in RED

Browsers | Download Managers

Crazy Browser
Tabbed interface, full Windows XP theme support, popup filter, multiple engine searching and more...
MyIE2
A browser based on IE (IE5.x or IE 6.0 required). Some of it's features: auto-hide panel, customize skins, mouse gestures, news group browsing mode, plug-ins support, form auto-filling auto scroll (scroll web pages down with no mouse use).
Opera [AD]
A fast web browser, with an integrated email client, multiple document interface (tabbed interface), etc. An excellent alternative to Internet Explorer.
Phoenix
A browser based on Mozilla but stripped of all its extra components to make it small and fast.... Features include, popup blocking, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures (has to be installed additionally), image blocking from specified servers, etc.

LeechGet
A powerfull download manager, very simple to use.
Star Downloader
Yet another download manager, very nice this one, if you don't have a download manager you must try this one out. If you do have one... well try it anyway!
Net Pumper[$]
A small download manager compatible with Anti-Leech Content Protection,http redirection,ftp passive mode other usual features...
Media Players | Rippers

BS Player
Plays all kinds of media files, avi | mpg | asf | wmv | wav | mp3 etc. Specialises in video and divx playback.
Foobar2000
An all around player, supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD (needs foo_mod.dll), SPC (needs foo_spc.dll).
JetAudio
All-In-One media player, rips, encodes, and burns various types of files (also plays realmedia files!!).
Light Alloy
All around media player. Plays AVI, MPEG, ASF, MP3, WAV, MID and other types of files, good alternative to Windows Media Player.
MusicMatch
Play, Rip (record), Burn MP3s and audio CDs. Transfer music with the Portable Device Manager. Excellent music library!
n.Player
Supports divX, DVD, audioCD, avi, mp3, wma, s3m, mod and more.
Quintessential Player
Supported audio formats include MP3, CD Audio, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, VQF, MP+, Windows Media and streaming audio including SHOUTcast and ICEcast. Fully skinnable, has CDDBv2 integration.
Sonique
Cool player with some awesome skins, winamp "arch-enemy"...
Winamp 2.xx
Considered by many the best music (only) player there is, with LOTS of skins and visualization available.
VLC
open source, free, excellent player that can play anything you throw at it faster than any other player. including .dat avi files without compilining or whatever virtual dub does

CDex
Rip and convert several types of audio media files like WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE, etc. Supports CDDB, ID3 V1 and V2 tags, normalization of audio files and much more.
dBpowerAMP
Must have utility, indispensable for converting audio files from one format to another. Can convert to and from Wave, Mp3 and from CD Audio (CDA) files, Codec downloads add Windows Media Audio v8 (WMA) , Ogg Vorbis and many more types to the table. Definantely worth checking out!
Exact Audio Copy
A ripper, has many feature so check out the link to see if this is for you... (hasn't been updated in a long time though...)
musicCutter
musiCutter is an MP3/OGG joiner and splitter (no reencoding or deencoding needed).In order to find cue points manually, you will need to play Winamp (sorry, doesn't automatically 'grab' Winamp times). Once you find the times, enter it in the format [M:S:F].(Also, you can use http://www.Freedb.org to find XMCD files, or even http://www.regeert.nl/cuesheet/ for CUE's.)
GSpot
This little app, it scans the movie or sound file and displays several info about it (including the codec used when the file was encoded). Pretty neat! All you have to do next is type that codec in you fav search engine, download it, install it and your good to go!
MOOsic
A nifty tag editor with support for FreeDB lookup as well as partial FreeDB and AMG lookup.An easy interface to edit ur tags
AntiVirus | Firewalls | Security

AVG AntiVirus
Probably the best free antivirus out there.

Kerio Personal Firewall
Protection against: information theft, modification or destruction, trojan horse applications, spyware, unauthorized access from within the local network, denial of service attacks to applications or services.
Sygate Personal Firewall
Protecs PC from hackers, trojans, DoS attacks and malicious code intrusions.
ZoneAlarm
Monitor and protects incoming and outgoing traffic, user-friendly interface (not compatible with Win95).

SpyBot
Search and destroy those little pesky (spy/ad)bots with this handy utillity. Spyware and similar, keyloggers, dialers, usage tracks, hijackers, trojans... Kick all of them out of your system!
Ad-Aware
Comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components.
SwatIt Trojan Scanner
SwatIt Trojan Scanner detects and removes Trojan horses, worms, IRC DDOS, and GT bots. Signatures are updated on a regular basis to remain current with the latest threats, such as SubSeven and DDOS Bots such as EvilBot or GT Bot.
CookieWall
Protect your privacy online by controlling which cookies are allowed to stay and which ones go...
System Utilities

Diskeeper Lite
Can analyze, detect fragmentation levels and run a manual defragmentation on a single disk volume at a time. Requires you to create a profile in order to download, but it's still free.
jv16 PowerTools
Includes a registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, temp file finder and much more! An essential utillity!
MemDefrag
Simple console application to defragment windows memory, and increase performance on low memory machines...and higher ones as well.
RAM Def XTreme!
Defragments & cleans RAM, monitors RAM usage, full system tray support, complete documentation and on-line support.
Total Uninstall
Completely remove unwanted programs from your system.
Daemon Tools
A great tool for ur CD's
WinPatrol
It’ll display what’s in your Startup folder, plus, which is neat, lets you disable OR remove any of these without reboot. Also jumps up & tells you if anything has sneakily added restart commands & lets you override these. Displays running tasks & cookies collected too – its Scottie icon’s quite the little watchdog.
MoveOnBoot
Have a File that you can't delete? MoveOnBoot is for you.
Click the link above, click on File Utilities..than MoveOnBoot.
Startup Monitor
Will notify you of a new/old program trying to put itself into Windows Startup.
Startup Control Panel
Lets you have a little more control in MSCONFG, also works with systems that don't have MSCONFIG.
Hide Files
U have evil sisters or a bossy big bro with whoom u dont want to share ur files then this is for you.A password protected utility that hides files and folders frm all prying eyes
Image & Video Editing

The Gimp
Suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. File formats supported include gif, jpg, png, xpm, tiff, tga, mpeg, ps, pdf, pcx, bmp, and many others. Available for Windows & Linux
IrfanView
Simply the best free image editing program in existence, a must for everyone!
Unlead Utilities
A collection of freeware multimedia utilities, worth checking out.
VirtualDub
Video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (98/NT/2000/XP), streamlined for fast linear operations over video. Mainly geared toward processing AVI files, but can be extended with third-party video filters.
Miscelaneous

1st Page 2000
A powerfull HTML editor.
7-Zip
File archiver with highest compression ratio, supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO and RPM, some of the features include: self-extracting capability for 7z format,
integration with Windows shell, 2-10 % compression ration better when compressing in .zip format and more.
ieSpell
Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage.
NoAds
Stops Internet popup ads, works with Internet Explorer, AOL, Opera, and Netscape Navigator (4.x, 6.x, 7.x). Easy to use.
StatBar
Status bar which allows you to quickly get an overview of your system's condition (memory, CPU, uptime, and much more).
UltimateZip
Zip/Unzip utillity that supports up to 16 archive types (Ace, Arj, Cab, Lha,Rar, Tar, GZip, Zip and so on).
HJSplit
A Small program to split large files to deisred size.
To split, just type in the amount (kb) and number of files desired.To join, browse your directory for the file with the '001' ext. and the rest will be added together.
LaunchMate
The best program launcher bar none. No more cluttered desktop, it’s a “launcher bar” that can be docked anywhere, hidden from view, & holds up to 50 proggies.
ePrompter
This is a mailreader & “lite” email client.Checks up to 16 separate pop3 & webmail a/c’s [inc hotmail, yahoo & many others], does this automatically at your specified times, you don’t have to open your browser, no more time-wasting webmail logins.The only time you’ll need to open your regular email client is to d/load any attachments that you want to see.
Messenger Plus
An add-on to MSN Messenger and/or Windows Messenger. Features include: Hiding the advertisment banner, transparency effect, increase the number of characters per messages, quick texts (available through keyboard shorcuts), logging, boss protection (for when you want to quickly close messenger and hide it from you boss) , user defined status, POP for mails other than hotmail, an tons of other features... Definantely worth checking out!
Trillian
An all in one messenger which connects to IRC,MSN,Yahoo,AIM...u'll not need anything else most probably..
Miranda
An Open Source messenger for ICQ with great support for plugins to support other messenger services,Plugins are available for Yahoo,MSN,etc....
GAIM
Another Open source Messenger with support for multiple protocols as well as Multiple operating systems
Gadwin PrintScreen 2.5
Gadwin PrintScreen lets you capture images from your computer screen. For example, you can capture the entire screen, individual windows to use as an illustration in a manual or on a Web site.

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02-01-2003, 07:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
Asterix Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 824	Free Programs - Listing This is the list of some really useful Free programs initially compiled by Blackspawn and Lion7718 :thumbs up I'll try my best to keep this list updated don't post any comments or suggestions here u can do that in original thread here. This is done to keep the listing continuous. - Asterix PS: New additions are marked in RED Browsers \| Download Managers Crazy Browser Tabbed interface, full Windows XP theme support, popup filter, multiple engine searching and more... MyIE2 A browser based on IE (IE5.x or IE 6.0 required). Some of it's features: auto-hide panel, customize skins, mouse gestures, news group browsing mode, plug-ins support, form auto-filling auto scroll (scroll web pages down with no mouse use). Opera [AD] A fast web browser, with an integrated email client, multiple document interface (tabbed interface), etc. An excellent alternative to Internet Explorer. Phoenix A browser based on Mozilla but stripped of all its extra components to make it small and fast.... Features include, popup blocking, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures (has to be installed additionally), image blocking from specified servers, etc. LeechGet A powerfull download manager, very simple to use. Star Downloader Yet another download manager, very nice this one, if you don't have a download manager you must try this one out. If you do have one... well try it anyway! Net Pumper[$] A small download manager compatible with Anti-Leech Content Protection,http redirection,ftp passive mode other usual features... Media Players \| Rippers BS Player Plays all kinds of media files, avi \| mpg \| asf \| wmv \| wav \| mp3 etc. Specialises in video and divx playback. Foobar2000 An all around player, supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD (needs foo_mod.dll), SPC (needs foo_spc.dll). JetAudio All-In-One media player, rips, encodes, and burns various types of files (also plays realmedia files!!). Light Alloy All around media player. Plays AVI, MPEG, ASF, MP3, WAV, MID and other types of files, good alternative to Windows Media Player. MusicMatch Play, Rip (record), Burn MP3s and audio CDs. Transfer music with the Portable Device Manager. Excellent music library! n.Player Supports divX, DVD, audioCD, avi, mp3, wma, s3m, mod and more. Quintessential Player Supported audio formats include MP3, CD Audio, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, VQF, MP+, Windows Media and streaming audio including SHOUTcast and ICEcast. Fully skinnable, has CDDBv2 integration. Sonique Cool player with some awesome skins, winamp "arch-enemy"... Winamp 2.xx Considered by many the best music (only) player there is, with LOTS of skins and visualization available. VLC open source, free, excellent player that can play anything you throw at it faster than any other player. including .dat avi files without compilining or whatever virtual dub does CDex Rip and convert several types of audio media files like WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE, etc. Supports CDDB, ID3 V1 and V2 tags, normalization of audio files and much more. dBpowerAMP Must have utility, indispensable for converting audio files from one format to another. Can convert to and from Wave, Mp3 and from CD Audio (CDA) files, Codec downloads add Windows Media Audio v8 (WMA) , Ogg Vorbis and many more types to the table. Definantely worth checking out! Exact Audio Copy A ripper, has many feature so check out the link to see if this is for you... (hasn't been updated in a long time though...) musicCutter musiCutter is an MP3/OGG joiner and splitter (no reencoding or deencoding needed).In order to find cue points manually, you will need to play Winamp (sorry, doesn't automatically 'grab' Winamp times). Once you find the times, enter it in the format [M:S:F].(Also, you can use http://www.Freedb.org to find XMCD files, or even http://www.regeert.nl/cuesheet/ for CUE's.) GSpot This little app, it scans the movie or sound file and displays several info about it (including the codec used when the file was encoded). Pretty neat! All you have to do next is type that codec in you fav search engine, download it, install it and your good to go! MOOsic A nifty tag editor with support for FreeDB lookup as well as partial FreeDB and AMG lookup.An easy interface to edit ur tags AntiVirus \| Firewalls \| Security AVG AntiVirus Probably the best free antivirus out there. Kerio Personal Firewall Protection against: information theft, modification or destruction, trojan horse applications, spyware, unauthorized access from within the local network, denial of service attacks to applications or services. Sygate Personal Firewall Protecs PC from hackers, trojans, DoS attacks and malicious code intrusions. ZoneAlarm Monitor and protects incoming and outgoing traffic, user-friendly interface (not compatible with Win95). SpyBot Search and destroy those little pesky (spy/ad)bots with this handy utillity. Spyware and similar, keyloggers, dialers, usage tracks, hijackers, trojans... Kick all of them out of your system! Ad-Aware Comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components. SwatIt Trojan Scanner SwatIt Trojan Scanner detects and removes Trojan horses, worms, IRC DDOS, and GT bots. Signatures are updated on a regular basis to remain current with the latest threats, such as SubSeven and DDOS Bots such as EvilBot or GT Bot. CookieWall Protect your privacy online by controlling which cookies are allowed to stay and which ones go... System Utilities Diskeeper Lite Can analyze, detect fragmentation levels and run a manual defragmentation on a single disk volume at a time. Requires you to create a profile in order to download, but it's still free. jv16 PowerTools Includes a registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, temp file finder and much more! An essential utillity! MemDefrag Simple console application to defragment windows memory, and increase performance on low memory machines...and higher ones as well. RAM Def XTreme! Defragments & cleans RAM, monitors RAM usage, full system tray support, complete documentation and on-line support. Total Uninstall Completely remove unwanted programs from your system. Daemon Tools A great tool for ur CD's WinPatrol It’ll display what’s in your Startup folder, plus, which is neat, lets you disable OR remove any of these without reboot. Also jumps up & tells you if anything has sneakily added restart commands & lets you override these. Displays running tasks & cookies collected too – its Scottie icon’s quite the little watchdog. MoveOnBoot Have a File that you can't delete? MoveOnBoot is for you. Click the link above, click on File Utilities..than MoveOnBoot. Startup Monitor Will notify you of a new/old program trying to put itself into Windows Startup. Startup Control Panel Lets you have a little more control in MSCONFG, also works with systems that don't have MSCONFIG. Hide Files U have evil sisters or a bossy big bro with whoom u dont want to share ur files then this is for you.A password protected utility that hides files and folders frm all prying eyes Image & Video Editing The Gimp Suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. File formats supported include gif, jpg, png, xpm, tiff, tga, mpeg, ps, pdf, pcx, bmp, and many others. Available for Windows & Linux IrfanView Simply the best free image editing program in existence, a must for everyone! Unlead Utilities A collection of freeware multimedia utilities, worth checking out. VirtualDub Video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (98/NT/2000/XP), streamlined for fast linear operations over video. Mainly geared toward processing AVI files, but can be extended with third-party video filters. Miscelaneous 1st Page 2000 A powerfull HTML editor. 7-Zip File archiver with highest compression ratio, supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO and RPM, some of the features include: self-extracting capability for 7z format, integration with Windows shell, 2-10 % compression ration better when compressing in .zip format and more. ieSpell Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. NoAds Stops Internet popup ads, works with Internet Explorer, AOL, Opera, and Netscape Navigator (4.x, 6.x, 7.x). Easy to use. StatBar Status bar which allows you to quickly get an overview of your system's condition (memory, CPU, uptime, and much more). UltimateZip Zip/Unzip utillity that supports up to 16 archive types (Ace, Arj, Cab, Lha,Rar, Tar, GZip, Zip and so on). HJSplit A Small program to split large files to deisred size. To split, just type in the amount (kb) and number of files desired.To join, browse your directory for the file with the '001' ext. and the rest will be added together. LaunchMate The best program launcher bar none. No more cluttered desktop, it’s a “launcher bar” that can be docked anywhere, hidden from view, & holds up to 50 proggies. ePrompter This is a mailreader & “lite” email client.Checks up to 16 separate pop3 & webmail a/c’s [inc hotmail, yahoo & many others], does this automatically at your specified times, you don’t have to open your browser, no more time-wasting webmail logins.The only time you’ll need to open your regular email client is to d/load any attachments that you want to see. Messenger Plus An add-on to MSN Messenger and/or Windows Messenger. Features include: Hiding the advertisment banner, transparency effect, increase the number of characters per messages, quick texts (available through keyboard shorcuts), logging, boss protection (for when you want to quickly close messenger and hide it from you boss) , user defined status, POP for mails other than hotmail, an tons of other features... Definantely worth checking out! Trillian An all in one messenger which connects to IRC,MSN,Yahoo,AIM...u'll not need anything else most probably.. Miranda An Open Source messenger for ICQ with great support for plugins to support other messenger services,Plugins are available for Yahoo,MSN,etc.... GAIM Another Open source Messenger with support for multiple protocols as well as Multiple operating systems Gadwin PrintScreen 2.5 Gadwin PrintScreen lets you capture images from your computer screen. For example, you can capture the entire screen, individual windows to use as an illustration in a manual or on a Web site. [AD] - ad supported [$] - spyware included Week - 28th Feb - 7th Mar __________________ We all are practical in our interests but, idealist when it concerns others....

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