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See links below to some really handy Freeware Applications for PC users. More links for MAC OS and LINUX users coming soon. These links are derived from an original list compiled by 'dgrigley' whom we thank.
Before you visit any links please note: SystemCore Ltd is NOT repsonsible for the content or any software that may be available from external internet sites. We offer no support nor accept any liability for any of these links; they are offered as is. Use at your own risk.
3D Graphics
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-s...ple/index.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Animation (Simple)
DollySoft - http://www.dollysoft.com/index.htmAnti-Virus
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
Anti Spyware
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/CWShredder - http://www.download.com/CWShredder/...4-10301586.html
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
HiJackThis - http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
MS Anti-Spyware(beta) - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
IRC Clients
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/
Audio Players
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~peschFoobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
Flam Player - http://www.flamplayer.com/
Audio Tools
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
ModPlug Tracker http://www.modplug.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
CD/DVD Burning
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
CLONE DVD - (NOT Freeware) - http://www.clonedvd.net/
Colour, Palette and Themes - Reference
Kuler Adobe - http://kuler.adobe.com/Compression / Decompression
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
Vallen Zipper - http://www.vallen.de/freeware/
Defrag Software
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Desktop Enhancements
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.htmlMobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Yahoo Desktop Widgets - http://widgets.yahoo.com
Download managers
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.htmlLeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
Free Download Manager - http://freedownloadmanager.org
Encryption and data security
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm
Enigmail - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
WinPT - http://wald.intevation.org/projects/winpt/
GPGee - http://gpgee.excelcia.org/
TrueCrypt (On the Fly) - http://www.truecrypt.org/
File Managers
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/
File repair, delete and recovery
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htmDelete Doctor - http://www.soft32.com/download_25933.html
Firewalls
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.htmlOutpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...reeDownload.jsp
FTP Clients
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezillaSmart FTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
Core FTP - http://www.coreftp.com
Blaze FTP - http://www.flashpeak.com/blazeftp/
FTP Servers
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/
HTML / Code Editors
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtmlAceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
Flos Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
Crimson Editor - http://crimsoneditor.com/
VIM Editor - http://www.vim.org./about.php
MatrixY2K Editor - http://www.crystalfibers.com/index.php?topicid=20
Image viewers
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exeIrfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
Image Resizer - http://www.virtualzone.de/resizer/
Fast PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
OCR (Optical character recognition) - http://www.simpleocr.com/
Instant Messenger
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads
Internet Explorer Front-Ends
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
Internet Connection Speed Monitors
For an Online Test
Internet Links Monitors
wholinks2me.com - Who links to my website?For your Desktop
MyVitalAgent - Lucent - http://www.thefatpipe.co.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads
Mail programs
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Anti-spam programs
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.htmlMailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Network Tools
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthrea...=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/
MyVitalAgent - Internet Connection Speed Monitor - http://www.thefatpipe.co.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads
Office Suites
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.htmlAbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/
Partition Managers
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
PDF Utilities
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htmGhostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Fast PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Photo manipulation and image design
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Paint.NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Image Resizer - http://www.virtualzone.de/resizer/
OCR (Optical character recognition) - http://www.simpleocr.com/
Programming
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerlDev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
Pop-up Blockers
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/
Screen Capture / Screen Grabs / Screen Shots
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.htmlWinSnap - http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/winsnap/winsnap.html
FastStone Capture - http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/FastStone_Screen_Capture/FastStone_Screen_Capture.html
ScreenRip32 - http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/ScreenRip32/ScreenRip32.html
Scripts & Reference
The JavaScript Source - http://javascript.internet.com/Dynamic Drive JavaScripts- http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
Hot Scriptshttp://www.hotscripts.com/
PHP Resource Index - http://php.resourceindex.com/
PHP Freaks - http://www.phpfreaks.com/scripts.php
Flashkit - http://www.flashkit.com/
CSS Reference - http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
ASCII / HTML Refrence - http://www.ascii.cl/
System Information and monitoring
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA00...c/download.html
MyVitalAgent - Internet Speed Monitor - http://www.thefatpipe.co.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads
Video codecs
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=topta...from_/index.phpFFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Kazaa Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Nimo Codec Pack - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html
Quicktime Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Real Player Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Video players
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/
Video tools
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=65889
xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html
Web browsers
Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/Internet Explorer - http://www.Mcft.com/ie
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Web servers
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/Aprelium Abyss - http://www.aprelium.com/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Webcam Software
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/
Checksum Utilities
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
General Utilities / Other Apps
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
TClockEx - http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/
more coming soon...