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Freely available and legal software Master List
Nemesis:
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All discussions and proposed additions should be made in the original thread.
We also now have a website with the list on it.
Link to the whole list. This copy only lists names, categories and links, no descriptions.
Links to sublists:
The sublist will include a quote about each program from the authors where possible and may in individual cases include commentary from myself or others.
Audio, Video and Graphics Software
Educational Software
File transfer programs
Games
Miscellaneous
Networking
Office Software
Operating Systems: Divided into 3 posts.
- BSD Unix Variants
- Linux Variants
- Other Operating Systems
Programming tools and source code
Security Software
Utilities A - M
Utilities N - Z
Web Tools
Websites with collections of software
My thanks to all the contributors.
Age, Anthony Scott, Bonk, Czar Mohab, Death Merchant, Dracho, GermzSlap, Iconoclast::toasty0, Jack Morris, Javora, KBF-Kurok, Lepton, manitoba1073, Midnight Tech, MrCue, Musashi NCC-BR549, NJAntman, NuclearWessels aka "Evil Dave", Pestalence_XC, The Postman, psytce, Redshift the Kook, Rondo_GE The OutLaw, Sarek, Stephen NCC -73070, Mr_Tricorder
One contributor does single himself out for the sheer bulk of his contributions - Bonk. So a very special thankyou to Bonk for his efforts.
Before including a link here I verify it as accurate as of this time. Any link whose software is not freely available (at the time of update) I remove, limited time free trials are not included on this list. Free for home or academic use programs I do include. Any whose link was invalid and an update not easily found I also do not include. Some exceptions may be made, this is a guidline only.
If there are any errors, ommisions or corrections not covered by my comments above feel free to either post a correction/update in the original thread (Links Below) or PM it to me and I will edit it in at my earliest convience. This thread is kept locked to allow people to find the updated list easily without having to search a multipage thread to find the list (as suggested by Javora). Any post relavent to this list should be posted to the original thread (Links below)
If you need/want a program type that is not listed here post a request for it in the original thread (Links Below) and I (or others) will endeavor to find it. A number of the links above came from such requests already.
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This list is periodically updated to reflect postings.
Audio, Video and Graphics Software: Link to sublist
64 Studio - digital content creation on x86_64
A9CAD - 2D CAD program
A9Converter - convert to and from AutoCAD format
Art of Illusion - 3d modelling
Audacity - Sound Editor
Autostitch™
Blender - 3d modeling
BRL-CAD - CAD program (U.S. Military origin)
CadStd Lite - CAD program exports to AutoCAD format
Cornice - a cross-platform image viewer
Daz Studio - 3D figure design and 3D animation tool
DESI-III - CAD program
Draft IT - 2D CAD program
DVD43 - DVD43 is a free DVD decrypter.
DVDFab Decrypter - cache DVD on HD
DVDShrink - Movie DVD Copying. Legal? - check locally.
ExpressSCH & ExpressPCB - electronics CAD programs
Fracplanet
FreeMusicSoftware . org - Collection of music software
Fresh View - free multimedia manager
Frinika - complete music workstation software
The Gimp - Image editor
Google SketchUp - create, modify and share 3D models.
ImageMagick - create, edit, and compose bitmap images
irfanview - image viewer
Jahshaka - a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system
JATC - Just Another Tour Creator
JMCAD - modeling of dynamic systems - modeling and simulation of dynamic systems
Kicad - creation of electronic schematic diagrams
MeshLab
Mixxx is an open source DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike.
MO3
Picassa - find, edit and share pictures
POV-Ray - Persistence of Vision Raytracer 3D Graphis creation
PURE Player for Java
QCad - 2D CAD system
REAPER - Sound Editor
SeaSolution v1 - CAD for ships
Switch - Audio File Converter
t@b ZS4 Video Editor - video editing and compositing software
trueSpace - 3d modelling tool
Videohelp - Help site about making videos
Videolan - media player
VirtualDub - is a video capture/processing utility for Windows
VOCALOID - a vocal-synthesizing software that enables song writers to generate authentic-sounding singing
Wax - video compositing and special effects software
Wings 3D - modelling program
XMPlay
Educational Software: Link to sublist
AMDIS - Automated Mass Spectral Deconvolution and Identification System
Avogadro - an advanced molecular editor
BKChem - a free chemical drawing program
Celestia - The free space simulation
Chemical Structures - a complete set of 3D molecular structures in CML format
Computers & Internet - E-Books
Edubuntu - is a version of the Ubuntu (Linux) operating system suitable for classroom use.
ElectronicLab Spin - high-end hardware design and simulation platform
GCompris - is an educational software suite (multi language)
GNU Octave - is mostly compatible with MATLAB
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) - libraries for developing scientific software
The KDE Education Project -
Moodle - is a course management system
NIST scientific and technical databases -
OpenEducationDisc - windows educational software collection
R - free software environment for statistical computing and graphics
SAGE - Open Source Mathematics Software
SOFA - Statistics Open For All - statistics,
analysis, and reporting package
Sugar on a Stick - an educational software platform
World Wind - from NASA
Wubi - Ubuntu installer for Windows users
File transfer programs: Link to sublist
Bit Torrent - Peer to Peer downloading
Filezilla - FTP download program. Allows stops and restarts
Fresh Download - free download manager
Getright - FTP download program. Allows stops and restarts
Star Downloader - Download accellerator
Games: Link to sublist
Allegiance - Game open sourced by Microsoft (license?)
The Battle for Wesnoth - A turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
BZFlag - Battlezone clone
C-evo - Civilization style game
Cube 2: - Games based on the Cube and Cube 2 game engine
Cube 2: Sauerbraten - FPS based on the Cube Engine
Doomsday Engine
THE ELDER SCROLLS: ARENA™
THE ELDER SCROLLS II: DAGGERFALL
Eternal Lands is a FREE MMORPG Windows, Mac, and Linux
Flash based games -
FlightGear - is an open-source flight simulator.
Freeciv - Civilization clone (network playable)
FreeCol - Clone of Colonization
Freedroid - Paradroid clone
FreeOrion - Master of Orion style game
Frozen Bubble bubble bobble (?) clone
Globulation 2 - real time strategy game
GLtron TRON lightcycle style game
LBreakout2 - Advanced Breakout clone
NetHack - (ASCII graphics) a single player dungeon exploration game
NetRacer - a simple racing game
Neverball - miniature golf game
Nexuiz a 3d deathmatch game Windows, Mac, and Linux
Pingus - a free Lemmings clone
Planeshift - MMORPG
ScummVM - run LucasArts and other games based on the Scumm engine
Sokoban YASC - Yet Another Sokoban Clone Game
Space Invaders OpenGL - based on the arcade game
Starport: Galactic Empires massively multiplayer action strategy game
Stella - Atari 2600 Emulator
Super Star Trek - Classic DOS Trek game
The TA Spring Project- Total Annihalation clone
Thunder&Lightning - a futuristic 3D action flight simulator and realtime strategy game
TrueCombat:Elite - Derived from Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
UFO: ALIEN INVASION - strategy game
VegaStrike - game
Vega Strike Mod - Privateer - Wing Commander Privateer clone
WinUAE - Amiga Emulator
Xultris - tetris for firefox
101 Free Games - Collection site
Miscellaneous: Link to sublist
Asterisk® - the Open Source PBX!
CCS64 - A Commodore 64 Emulator
Celestia - The free space simulation
Free Clipart
Free-Clipart.Com
FreePBX Configuration tool for Asterisk (see above)
Plone - a content management framework
Virtual Dimension - a virtual desktop
World Wind - from NASA
Networking: Link to sublist
Samba - Networking software
Virtual Server 2005 - R2 Enterprise Edition for Free
WinTC - Traffic Controller is an NT service program that controls outbound network bandwidth.
Office Software: Link to sublist
AbiWord - Word Processor
Antiword - MS Word reader
GnuCash = personal and small-business financial-accounting software
Gnumeric - spreadsheet
Lotus Symphony - Office suite
MySQL - database
The OpenCD - windows software collection
OpenDisc - windows software collection
Openoffice. org - Office Suite
Oracle - Database 10g Express Edition
PDFCreator - Sets up as a printer and allows any program that can print create a PDF.
PDFSam - PDF splitter and joiner.
Scribus - Desktop Publishing
Tesseract - OCR
WordPress - is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform
Operating Systems:
Note: Due to the sheer number of BSD and Linux versions all links for them are on their sublist.
BSD Unix Variants BSD Unix links
Linux Variants Linux links
Other Operating Systems Link to Sublist for other systems
Distrowatch - links to many Linux versions
FreeDOS - MS-DOS compatible OS
GNU - OS and tools.
Haiku - Open Source version of BeOS
MenuetOS - 64bit OS
ReactOS Windows XP clone in Alpha
QNX - Realtime OS - membership required for download
Syllable - Posix (mostly) compatible OS similar to BeOS
Programming tools and source code: Link to sublist
AntiCutAndPaste
ClanLib - cross platform C++ framework
Crystal Space - portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++
Doxygen - Source code documentation generator tool
FlashDevelop - code editor
FMSLogo - A Logo programming environment
FreeBASIC - MS-QuickBASIC compatible for DOS Linux and Windows
Free Pascal - programming language
GIT - distributed version control system
GLBasic - portable flexible BASIC
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) - libraries for developing scientific software
The Irrlicht Engine - high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++
MASM32 - Assembler
Microsoft .NET Framework SDK
OGRE - open source real time 3D rendering engine.
PLIB - libraries for realtime interactive and portable applications
Quake 1-3 Source Code - open sourced by ID Software
Scintilla - a free source code editing component
SCons
Sharp Develop
Visual Studio 2005 - Prerelease Software
VPatch - a free patch generator
WinMerge - text file differencing and merging tool
XBasic - Programming Language
Security Software: Link to sublist
AbsoluteShield File Shredder
a-squared Free- antispyware
AVG Anti-Virus - Anti-Virus
Avira AntiVir - Anti-Virus
CCleaner - a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool
ClamAV - Antivirus Native Win32 Port
Clamwin - Free Antivirus program for Windows
Comodo Firewall - free firewall
GnuPG - encryption software
iSafer Winsock Firewall - free firewall
Lavasoft Ad-Aware- antispyware
Mailwasher - anti-spam
Microsoft Windows Defender (Beta 2) time limited.
PC Decrapifier - clean junk off a new PC
RootkitRevealer - anti rootkit software
Security Toolkit 0.6.37 Beta
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - free firewall
Spybot- Search & Destroy - antispyware
Trinity Rescue Kit - recovery and repair operations on Windows and Linux machines
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source Disk Encryption Software
Zonealarm firewall Note: This software did have a "call home feature".
Utilities: Link to sublist A-M
Link to sublist N-Z
BartPE - bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD
Boot Disks- and utilities and tweaks
Cdrtools: - CD burning tools
Circle Virtual CD - creates a virtual CD-ROM drive on your Windows PC
Clonezilla - ghost-like imaging solution/rescue suite.
Context - Text editor
ConvertAll - another unit converter
CPU-Z - gathers information on your system.
DAEMON Tools - a virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator
Dead-Disk-Doctor - Recover files from "dead" disks
Deepburner - CD/DVD Burner software
DOSBox - Use DOS programs.
Emerge - a replacement windows "shell"
Ext2 Installable File System For Windows - Ext2 and Ext3 read/write on windows
FOG - is a free open-source ghost-like imaging solution/rescue suite.
Folder2Iso - creates an iso from folders
Fresh Diagnose - free diagnostic tool
Fresh UI - free tweaking tool
G4L - a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool.
g4u - Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs
GCPUID - provided CPU info.
GeoShell - a replacement windows "shell"
GhostScript - Postscript interpreter
GNU Emacs - Text editor
Gnome Partition Editor (aka GParted)
GpsDrive - GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system.
Hard Disk Tools - Partition, Imaging and Backup Software
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - Make USB Flash Drives bootable.
InfraRecorder - a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows
Input Director - control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer
ISO Recorder - tool to burn CD and DVD ISOs and copy disks.
JCalculator
JExplorer
JMount - mount folders as virtual drives
JOCR
KpyM Telnet/SSH Server
Litestep - a replacement windows "shell"
MagicISO - creates a virtual CD-ROM drive on your Windows PC
Memtest86 - A Stand-alone Memory Diagnostic
Notepad++ - ource code editor and Notepad replacement
Notepad 2 - Notepad replacement
NoteTab - Tabbed note pad with extensive abilities
Nullsoft - Scriptable Install System
pdftk - pdf manipulator
PuTTY
QEMU
QEMU Manager
Screen Hunter - Screen Capture utility
SciTE - a SCIntilla based Text Editor.
7-Zip - Winzip replacement
SISoft - benchmarking utility
TeamSpeak - Voice over IP (VoIP) group communications software.
The Ultimate Boot CD - CD of recovery and repair tools
TightVNC - a free remote control software package
The Ultimate Windows Boot CD - You need an installed XP to make this one.
Unlocker - A handy tool to release unwanted file or folder locks, use with care.
UTF-8 TeraTerm Pro with TTSSH2 - terminal emulator
UPX - Executable packer
VIM 7 - Text editor
VMWare - Virtual machine
VMware Server
Ventrilo - Voice over IP (VoIP) group communications software.
Windows XP Powertoys
XEmacs - Text editor
Xena - Software for Digital Preservation
Web Tools: Link to sublist
Abyss - web server
Accessify.com - Tools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility
AltME -
AOLServer - web server
Apache - web server
Coppermine - Photo Gallery
CreaText - XHTML Text Editor
CSS Validation Service
Democracy Broadcast Machine
Democracy PlayerWatch Internet TV with Democracy Player
eAccelerator - PHP accelerator
Firebug is a Firefox plug in for Web page develping.
Firefox - web browser
Firefox extensions - extended functions for Firefox browser.
Geeklog - application for managing dynamic web content
Gnash - is the GNU Flash movie player
ieSpell - A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer
InspIRCd - a modular C++ IRCd (IRC daemon)
Iron - brpwer derived from chrome
JAlbum - gallery software makes web albums of your digital images
Link Checker - online utility that checks links in a web page.
Lynx - text based web browser.
Markup Validation Service - a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
Maxthon - Tabbed Browser IE Extension
MoinMoin - Wiki Engine
NVU Web - authoring
Onlinetools.org - This is a collection of scripts, tools and software add-on
Opera - Web Browser
PHP - web scripting language
Roxen - Webserver
Safari - Web Browser
Sambar Serve - an all-in-one web operating system
Seamonkey - web browser suite Formerly Mozilla.
Simple Machines - Forum software
Thunderbird - E-Mail program
Thunderbird - Extended functions for Thunderbird E-Mail program
TinEye - reverse image search engine
wikiCalc
Wiki on a Stick
XAMPP - easy to install Apache distribution
xitami - webserver
Zend Optimizer - PHP accelerator
Websites with collections of software: Link to sublist
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
CleanSoftware - source of further software
Download.com
thefreecountry - Free Programmers', Webmasters' and Security Resources
Free Software Directory - a project of the Free Software Foundation
Freesticky
Gizmo Reviews - freeware review site
Newfreeware
Nonags
OSDir - lists of stable free software
Pricelessware - source of further software
Snapfiles - collection
Software driver collection - is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform
Tucows
Tutorialized.com - Free tutorials in 515 categories
ZDNet
Nemesis:
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Security Software
AbsoluteShield File Shredder
--- Quote ---Why do you need a File Shredder?
Windows does not physically remove deleted files from your hard disk. Emptying your Recycle Bin does NOT protect you at all. Your sensitive files can be recovered, even after you format your hard disk! When you delete a file from Windows, the OS just marks the file as deleted in the file allocation table, but the data of the file is still on your hard disk. There are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive files even after you format your hard disk.
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OS: Windows?
a-squared Free- antispyware
--- Quote ---Security must not be a privilege. Under this motto, Emsi Software provides the Malware scanner a-squared Free completely free of charge for private use. But it is not a very limited version, it is a full tool to clean your computer from Malware. Not only Spywares, as detected by classic Anti-Spyware programs, but also especially Trojans, Backdoors, Worms, Dialers, Keyloggers and a lot of other destructive pests, which makes it dangerous to surf the web.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
AVG Anti-Virus
--- Quote ---AVG Anti-Virus Free and ewido anti-spyware Free is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only.
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OS: Windows (versions?), Linux
Avira AntiVir
--- Quote ---Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic reliably protects your private computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.
More than 15 million users worldwide trust in the reliable protection of Avira AntiVir. And this is no coincidence at all: Avira has gained several awards. The product combines first-class detection rates and ease of use with a top performance that protects your computer safely and hardly burdens older PC
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris
CCleaner - a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool
--- Quote ---CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning 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. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)
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OS: Win98 - WinVista. Win64 XP-Vista
ClamAV - Antivirus Native Win32 Port
--- Quote ---Unofficial native port of the well known ClamAV Antivirus, this port is used in ClamWin Antivirus
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OS: Windows
Open Source
Clamwin - Free Antivirus program for Windows
--- Quote ---ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.
ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.
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OS: Win98 - WinVista
Open Source
Comodo Firewall - free firewall
--- Quote ---Unfortunately, most firewalls leak. But Comodo's Firewall is unique in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put our firewall through all kinds of sophisticated tests to ensure our firewall is powerful enough to ward off these attacks with default settings. No other firewall has had to work this hard. Take this test yourself.
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP
GnuPG - encryption software
--- Quote ---The GNU Privacy Guard
GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC2440 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries are available.
GnuPG is Free Software . It can be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License .
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OS: Win95 - Win XP, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD,
Open Source
iSafer Winsock Firewall - free firewall
--- Quote ---iSafer firewall is used to protected your PC against spywares, spamwares. It is also a good example for software developers to understand the basic knowledge about firewall. NOTE: Visit http://winsockfirewall.sourceforge.net to see more...
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OS: Win95 - Win XP
Open Source
Lavasoft Ad-Aware- antispyware
--- Quote ---Lavasoft is the industry leader and most respected provider of anti-spyware solutions. Lavasoft develops and delivers the highest quality antispyware solutions to keep your computer or network free of compromising and intrusive threats to your privacy
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
Mailwasher - anti-spam
--- Quote ---MailWasher Free is a spam detection and mail preview tool that allows you to check the mail on the server and delete any spam before you download it to your local computer. It can notify you when new mail arrives and automatically mark suspicious messages, so you can preview and delete them. There are 3 levels of spam detection, and you can specify your own filters. MailWasher also offers the option to exclude your friends from spam checking and check mail against public blacklists. The program requires you to create your own spam filters, without them, the spam detection is poor. If you want to create your own mail filters, give MailWasher a try. However, if you are looking for effective out-of-the-box spam filtering, you should look elsewhere. The free version is limited to one POP3 email account, and has several features disabled.
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OS: Windows (all?)
Microsoft Windows Defender (Beta 2) time limited.
--- Quote ---Windows Defender (Beta 2) is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. It features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected, and a new streamlined interface that minimizes interruptions and helps you stay
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OS: Win2000 (SP 4) - Win XP
PC Decrapifier - clean junk off a new PC
--- Quote ---The PC Decrapifier is a program designed to remove or uninstall
a specific list of unwanted software in an unattended fashion.
It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with new PCs.
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OS: WinXP - WinVista
RootkitRevealer - anti rootkit software
--- Quote ---RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects many persistent rootkits including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender (note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don't attempt to hide their files or registry keys). If you use it to identify the presence of a rootkit please let us know!
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OS: Windows?
Security Toolkit 0.6.37 Beta
--- Quote ---The Security Toolkit allows you to create encrypted virtual drives, encrypt your hard drives, USB (flash) drives and CD/DVD’s. Also included is a secure file shredder, Internet & Application History shredder, encrypted password manager, random password creator, spyware remover and more. You can even create your own deletion algorithms and spyware removal routines with the fully scriptable deletion engine. Freeware for non-profit use.
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SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - free firewall
--- Quote ---The SoftPerfect Personal Firewall is a free network firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet or via a local area network. SoftPerfect Personal Firewall offers customizable security using user-defined rules for packet filtering. It works at a low level and also allows you to create rules based on non-IP protocols such as ARP.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP
Spybot- Search & Destroy - antispyware
--- Quote ---Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies.
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OS: Windows (versions?)
Trinity Rescue Kit - recovery and repair operations on Windows and Linux machines
--- Quote ---Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues.
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OS: Linux
Open Source
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source Disk Encryption Software
--- Quote ---Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux
Main Features:
* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
* Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive.
* Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
* Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).
2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
* Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent, Triple DES, and Twofish.
Mode of operation: LRW (CBC supported as legacy).
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP, Linux
Open Source.
Zone Alarm Firewall
Note: This software did have a "call home feature".
--- Quote ---Firewall Protection
Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats.
* Systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts
* Automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP
Nemesis:
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Link to master list
Audio, Video and Graphics Software
64 Studio - digital content creation on x86_64
--- Quote ---64 Studio develops a distribution of native free software for digital content creation on x86_64 hardware. It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other tweaks.
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OS: Linux
Open Source
A9CAD - 2D CAD program
--- Quote ---A9CAD is a general purpose two-dimensional CAD program. It supports industry standard DWG & DXF drawing formats.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
A9Converter - convert to and from AutoCAD format
--- Quote ---A9Converter is a bi-directional DWG/DXF conversion program. It supports up to Autocad 2006.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
Art of Illusion - 3d modelling
--- Quote ---Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later.
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OS: Java Virtual Machine
Open Source
Audacity - Sound Editor
--- Quote ---The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Autostitch™
--- Quote ---Autostitch™ is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical).
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OS: Windows (works on Wine)
Demo
Blender - 3d modeling
--- Quote ---Blender is a cross plaform 3D creation suite, allowing fully integrated modeling, animation, rendering, post production and interactive 3D creation and playback.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, Mac OS X (intel and PPC), Irix, Solaris, BSD
BRL-CAD - CAD program (U.S. Military origin)
--- Quote ---The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system with over 20 years development and production use by the U.S. military. BRL-CAD includes an interactive geometry editor, parallel ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, image-processing and signal-processing tools. The entire package is distributed in source code form.
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Since it it distributed in source code you must have the compiling tools and knowledge to make an executable program out of it.
OS: ?
Open Source
CadStd Lite - CAD program exports to AutoCAD format
--- Quote ---CadStd is a general purpose, easy to learn CAD/drafting program for creating professional quality mechanical designs, house plans, blueprints, schematics and charts utilizing ANSI drawing standards. The Lite version is free and can read any drawing created by the Pro version. CadStd Lite can export files as DXF so you can share your drawings to your friends with other CAD programs like Autocad.
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OS: Windows
Cornice - a cross-platform image viewer
--- Quote ---Here is a list of the main features of Cornice:
* Fully cross-platform: it should run wherever wxPython does;
* Detail and thumbnail view for images;
* Image preview;
* Automatic recognition of images, with a variety of formats supported;
* Bookmarks;
* Full-screen view;
* Zooming and rotation;
* Slideshow;
* Good keyboard navigation (still not perfect, but this is true for all the features ;-);
* Image loading from zip archives;
* i18n support (with Italian and French translations available);
* EXIF data support;
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OS: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Daz Studio - 3D figure design and 3D animation tool
--- Quote ---DAZ Studio is a free, feature rich 3D figure design and 3D animation tool that enables anyone to create stunning digital imagery. This is the perfect tool to design unique digital art and animation using virtual people, animals, props, vehicles, accessories, environments and more. Simply select your subject and/or setting, arrange accessories, setup lighting, and begin creating beautiful artwork.
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OS: WinXP - Win Vista (32 or 64bit) and Mac OS X
DESI-III - CAD program
--- Quote ---DESI-III uses a real database for the organisation of the drawings and drawing entities: which allows to use any stored drawing as a symbol in any other drawing. Symbols (drawings) can be composed of entities and symbols, which are composed of entities and symbols, which...: DESI-III uses a level structure in a drawing.
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OS: Win95 (via DOS), Linux (Via DOSemu), OS/2
Draft IT - 2D CAD program
--- Quote ---Draft IT is a powerful and easy-to-use 2D CAD software for suitable for all users, in the office or at home. You can create, print and save your own drawings and designs.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
Open Source
DVD43 - DVD43 is a free DVD decrypter.
--- Quote --- DVD43 is a free decrypter. This site will help you find DVD43 so you don't have to pay money for a decrypter. At the bottom of this page you will find links to several sites which host DVD43, a list of software that works well with DVD43 and a list of DVD copy review sites in case you are looking for a DVD copy program. DVD43.com does not host DVD43 and is not affiliated with the authors of DVD43.
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OS: Win2000 - Win Vista (32)
DVDFab Decrypter - cache DVD on HD
--- Quote ---DVDFab Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Platinum. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying.
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OS: Win2000 - Win7(32-bit/64-bit)
DVDShrink - Movie DVD Copying. Legal? - check locally.
--- Quote ---DVD Shrink enables you to copy a DVD very easily. Copying a DVD doesn't get much simpler than this. Put DVD into DVD-ROM or DVD burner. Choose either either a Full Disk (1:1) copy or a main movie only. It'll analyze DVD, encode video files , and finally burn a copy of the dvd to DVD±R media. Thus you have a excellent quality dvd copy of your original DVD.
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OS: Windows (versions?)
ExpressSCH & ExpressPCB - electronics CAD programs
--- Quote ---Both programs are completely free, fully functional and easily installed with a single InstallShield setup program. They run with Windows 98 through XP.
Learning to use our software is fast because of its standardized Windows user interface. After spending the few minutes to learn one, the other takes almost no time because it works the same way.
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Note: ExpressPCB offers a service manufacturing PCBs designed with this software.
OS: Windows?
Fracplanet
--- Quote ---Fracplanet is an interactive tool for creating random fractal planets and terrain areas with oceans, rivers, lakes and icecaps. The results can be exported as models to POV-Ray and to Blender, or as texture maps for more general usage. The code is licensed under the GPL. It uses Qt and OpenGL.
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OS: Linux and Mac OS X (Java)
Open Source
FreeMusicSoftware . org - Collection of music software
--- Quote ---Here you will find a collection of various software tools for Audio & Music creation, editing, and performance
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OS: Various
Fresh View - free multimedia manager
--- Quote ---Fresh View
free multimedia manager
v 7.80: September 27, 2009
Fresh View is a multimedia browser that makes organizing image, audio and video files much easier. Use it to watch movies, listen to music, view graphics in a slide show, print, create an HTML album, and more. This software is 100% free, no ads, no spyware.
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OS: Windows? - free for personal use - must register
Frinika - complete music workstation software
--- Quote ---Frinika is an open source (GPL), for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX Tiger and other operating systems running Java 1.5 (J2SE5.0). It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.
Frinika is compact, self-contained and simple - yet powerful enough to boost your musical creativity.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Java, Open Source
The Gimp - Image editor
--- Quote ---GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. The terms of usage and rules about copying are clearly listed in the GNU General Public License.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Mac OS X (with X11), Linux, BSD, Solaris
Open Source
Google SketchUp - create, modify and share 3D models.
--- Quote --- Create 3D models and share them with the world
Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like.
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OS: WinXP - WinVista, and Mac OS X
ImageMagick - create, edit, and compose bitmap images
--- Quote ---mageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
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OS: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
irfanview - image viewer
--- Quote ---IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows
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OS: Win9x - Win XP
Jahshaka - a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system
--- Quote ---Imagine if you could...
* Edit with flexibility and speed
* Create Effects in real time
* Animate with unlimited features
* Paint and design on moving video
* Create music with all the tools the pros use
* Work in any format at any resolution
...all while sharing files, projects and clips with users on your network or around the world, and all using a single, open source application where the code is yours… that runs on practically any workstation…
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OS: ?
JATC - Just Another Tour Creator
--- Quote ---JATC is a free tool to help you creating virtual tours from your panoramas.
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OS: Windows .NET 2
JMCAD - modeling of dynamic systems - modeling and simulation of dynamic systems
--- Quote ---JMCAD is an program for the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems. This includes the ability to construct and simulate block diagrams. The visual block diagram interface offers a simple method for constructing, modifying complex system models.
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OS: Windows?
Open Source?
Kicad - creation of electronic schematic diagrams
--- Quote ---Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork.
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP, Linux
Open Source
MeshLab
--- Quote ---MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.
The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes.
The system is heavily based on the VCG library developed at the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI - CNR, for all the core mesh processing tasks and it is available for Windows, Linux (src) and MacOSX (intel only).
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OS: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Mixxx is an open source DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike.
--- Quote ---Mixxx allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix: Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.
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OS: WinXP - WinVista, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
MO3
--- Quote ---MO3 is a file format, encapsulating the features of several "MOD" formats (IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD), but with one big difference - MP3 and OGG compressed samples. A lossless codec is also incorporated for any samples that don't like lossy encoding, and the whole file structure is compressed too.
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OS: Window?
Open Source
Picassa - find, edit and share pictures
--- Quote ---Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
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OS: Win200 - Win XP
POV-Ray - Persistence of Vision Raytracer 3D Graphis creation
--- Quote ---The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.
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OS: Win9x - Win XP (IE 2 or later), Mac OS (9.2+), Mac OS X (10.2.8+), Linux (x86)
PURE Player for Java
--- Quote ---PURE Player for Java viewer lets you load panoramic images onto a Website without having to install a plug-in. Display can be full-screen, regardless of resolution, and even for very large panorama image sizes. The display quality and the fluidity of control are perfectly maintained.
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OS: Java applet
QCad - 2D CAD system
--- Quote ---QCad is a free open-source 2D CAD system for Linux, various Unices and Windows. The developers' main goals are to build a stable, fast and easy to use CAD for everyone. One doesn't need any knowledge of a CAD program to start working with QCad.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Mac OS X, Linux
Open Source
REAPER - Sound Editor
--- Quote ---Windows application designed for the recording, arrangement, editing, mixing and rendering of audio. REAPER provides a flexible but easy to use interface that is equally suited to amateurs and professionals alike.
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OS: Windows (all?)
SeaSolution v1 - CAD for ships
SeaSolution v1 - download link
--- Quote ---Sea Solution is a CAD system for shipbuilding.
Sea Solution is a comfortable tool for geometrical simulation and design, especially for fairing lines and shell plates development.
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Note: Current version is 6.x they allow give away V1.x as a free intro
Switch - Audio File Converter
--- Quote ---Switch sound file conversion software is an audio file format converter for windows. It can convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3 or wav files, including wav to mp3, au to mp3, aiff to mp3 and much more.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP, Mac OS X, Linux (under Wine)
t@b ZS4 Video Editor - video editing and compositing software
--- Quote ---ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).
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OS: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
trueSpace - 3d modelling tool
--- Quote ---Caligari's trueSpace7.6 is a complete modeling, texturing, animating, rendering, and 3D collaboration tool, used by everyone from 3D enthusiasts to illustrators, researchers to teachers, architects to design engineers, and more. The immersive real-time interface allows users to intuitively and directly manipulate objects in a fully-rendered 3D space, enhancing and accelerating the design process.
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OS: Windows?
Videohelp - Help site about making videos
--- Quote ---What is this site about?
This site will help you to make your own DVD, Blu-ray, DivX, XviD, HD etc that can be played on your standalone DVD Player, Blu-ray Player or Media Center from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, DV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, Flash, etc.
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Videolan - media player
--- Quote ---VLC media player 0.8.5
* It is a free cross-platform media player
* It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
* It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
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OS: (Win9x and ME - maybe), Win 2000 - Win XP, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS
Open Source
VirtualDub - is a video capture/processing utility for Windows
--- Quote ---VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP
Open Source
VOCALOID - a vocal-synthesizing software that enables song writers to generate authentic-sounding singing
--- Quote ---VOCALOID is a vocal-synthesizing software that enables song writers to generate authentic-sounding singing on their PCs by simply typing in the lyrics and music notes of their compositions.
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OS: Windows?
Wax - video compositing and special effects software
--- Quote ---Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP
Wings 3D - modelling program
--- Quote ---Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
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OS: Windows (OGL), Mac, Linux, Unix
Open Source
XMPlay
--- Quote ---XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. When XMPlay was first released in 1998, only the XM format was supported, hence the name "XMPlay".
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OS: Windows?
Open Source
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File transfer programs
Bit Torrent - Peer to Peer downloading
--- Quote ---BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet. With an installed base of over 160 million clients worldwide, BitTorrent technology has turned conventional distribution economics on its head. The more popular a large video, audio or software file, the faster and cheaper it can be transferred with BitTorrent. The result is a better digital entertainment experience for everyone.
BitTorrent is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.
BitTorrent 6 is a client. A 'client' in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. For example, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used to download web pages and other content - like this page - and your HTTP client (or browser) is the program you use to get those web pages. Some popular browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Opera. To an extent, they all work the same way because they follow the same set of rules. The BitTorrent 6 client will give you access to the world of content on the protocol in a lightweight, fast and reliable package
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OS: Windows, Linux and Mac
Filezilla - FTP download program. Allows stops and restarts
--- Quote ---FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
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OS: WinNT - Win XP
Open Source
Fresh Download - free download manager
--- Quote ---Fresh Download
free download manager
Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite mp3 files, software, picture collections, video, etc. Unlike other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no banners, no spyware.
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OS: Windows? - free for personal use - must register
Getright - FTP download program. Allows stops and restarts
--- Quote ---GetRight® Download Manager
The award winning Download Manager and Download Accelerator software for Windows. GetRight simply improves and optimizes your downloads. Never have an incomplete or lost download again.
* Accelerate speeds - download a file from several servers at once.
* Manage downloads better - no more lost files, easily see what is in progress and find your finished downloads.
* Recover downloads that are interrupted for any reason - lost connections, crashes, etc.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP
Star Downloader - Download accelerator
--- Quote ---Star Downloader is a download manager that accelerates your downloads by splitting the files into several parts and downloading them simultaneously. Download speeds are increased further by choosing the fastest mirror sites. Version 1.45 has Firefox 1.5 support and Internet Explorer Toolbar for fast searching.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP
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