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 Open Source Software - Shareware - Freeware Sites |
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| download.com for the PC | Searchable, categories. |
| DownloadCollection.com/ | Home of lots of FREEWARE Software. Searchable, categories. |
| Softpedia.com | Program descriptions, rated, searchable. A new competitor in the freeware/shareware repository domain. |
| Fileforum | Searchable, categories. |
| Sourceforge.net | "The world's largest Open Source software development website, with the
largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet." |
| filehippo.com | Free software downloads |
| SnapFiles | Formerly WebAttack, no longer limited to Internet related software |
| Pass The Shareware | New shareware |
| Internet Browsers |
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| Firefox Browser | Available for Windows, IOS, Android.
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| Chrome from Google | Has a lot of features to like, including improved handling of Javascript-heavy sites, like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Google Docs. No need for the Google toolbar - it's built-in! Just type search terms in the address box and press enter! |
| File Formats/File Compression |
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| jZip | "Create, extract and manipulate Zip, RAR, TAR, GZip, 7-Zip and other file archives, absolutely FREE for everybody, home and enterprise users, easy to use and fast archiving software." |
| The File Extension Source | "A detailed database of file extensions and programs that use them" |
| "Every File Format in the World" | "This
is a list of file name extension or suffixes that indicate the format or usage of a file and a brief description of that format." |
| Audio/Video Players & Files |
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| VideoLAN | "A free cross-platform media player, 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, ...)" Highly recommended - much simpler and easier to use than Windows Media Player - with a much smaller system resource footprint. |
| free-codecs.com | Great source for Codecs |
| mp3Trim | Freeware - "This software cleans up and removes unwanted parts of your MP3s." |
| Anti-virus Software - Virus References/FAQs |
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| Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition | Sets a new technological standard for virus/spyware/malware protection. See the PC Mag review. I now recommend Cloud over all other anti-virus products. Requires free and easy email registration. |
| Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware | "Can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect." Highly recommended - a fast and powerful anti-malware application. |
| Avast Home Edition | "The product combines first-class detection rates and ease of use with a top performance that protects your computer safely and hardly burdens older PCs." |
| AVG Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware Free Edition Version 9 | "Get your free copy of the AVG Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware System - AVG Free Edition and you will be able to use it without any limitations for life of the product. You can download free updates to get the latest program virus/spyware databases." |
| Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition | "The product combines first-class detection rates and ease of use with a top performance that protects your computer safely and hardly burdens older PCs." |
| SUPERAntiSpyware FREE Edition | "Can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect." |
| Spyware Terminator | Fast spyware scanning 100%, real-time protection, HIPS protection, Antivirus protection. All in one free package! Does excellent analysis of running and installed programs to show you potential threats. Highly recommended. |
| ClamWin | "ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine." Works on W2K3 server. Much slower than commercial products, but you can't argue with the price! |
| Spybot - Search & Destroy | "Can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer." Donationware. |
| McAfee | Virus info. |
| Virustotal | "A free service of suspicious file scanning, using several antivirus engines." |
| Symantec Virus Encyclopedia | Symantec's
AntiVirus Research Center's Online Encyclopedia offers the most up-to-date information on recent threats, detailed in their threat list. You may search their encyclopedia for a comprehensive description of viruses. Also you may consult their info on Virus Hoaxes. |
| HouseCall | Trend Micro's free on-line virus scanner |
| Some useful Windows shareware/freeware |
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| Advanced SystemCare Free | "Advanced SystemCare Free has a one-click approach to helping protect, repair, clean, and optimize your PC. With over 20,000,000 downloads since 2006, this fantastic, award-winning, free program is a "must-have" tool for your computer, 100% safe and clean with no adware, spyware, or viruses." Wow!!! What a terrific product! Free and highly recommended. The best utility of its type I have ever seen. |
| Glary Utilities | "Offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more." Now superceded in my estimation by Advanced SystemCare. |
| OpenOffice 3.1 | "OpenOffice.org was designed from the start as a single piece of software - not bolted together from separate software packages. This makes it very consistent and easy to use - what you learn in one application is immediately usable in another. The context-sensitive help works across all applications, unobtrusively providing the precise help you need. You can even open any type of document from any application - OpenOffice.org 3 is really one piece of software. It also runs on all major computing platforms - Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Apple Mac." Free and highly recommended. |
| PortableApps.com | "Now you can carry [on your flash drive many useful] computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind." Includes portable Firefox and Thunderbird, OpenOffice, and much more. Free and highly recommended. |
| Java VM for Windows | Java Runtime Environment to support Java in IE, etc. |
| CamStudio | "CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)." Free! |
| Acrobat/PDF |
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| Adobe Acrobat Reader | Update for popular plug-in/ActiveX control viewer for displaying inline PDF files. This is a link to the Adobe FTP server which lets you get the stand-alone installer (without installing/using Adobe's Download Manager). |
| PlanetPDF | All about Adobe Acrobat and PDF files, tips, tricks, other add-in conversion software. |
| Kinati 2PDF Converter | "This web-based file conversion service allows you to submit your document and retrieve the converted file back as a PDF document." |
| AcroTips | 50+ tips on using Adobe Acrobat and PDF files. |
| Optimizing PDF Files | "Here are nine rules for optimizing your files." |
| Software for Web Page Development |
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| Paint.NET | "Free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins." I now use it in preference to my old favorite Paint Shop Pro - great for simple tasks like cropping/resizing/optimizing - highly recommended. |
| Gimp.org | "The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages." |
| HTML Kit | "HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. ...
The previous generation of HTML-Kit goes by the name HTML-Kit 292, and is available for free for personal, educational and even commercial use. >Download HTML Kit here. |
| Notepad++ | "A free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment." |
| Filezilla FTP Client | FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. |
| Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.3.8 | "Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) is a spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, backgrounds and local image maps. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time." - A great little program and its free! |
| CamStudio | "CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)." Free! |
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