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AUDIO

AudioEditor  Wavosaur  Portable. Sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files.

AudioExtractor  AoA  Easily extract audio tracks from video files and save them as MP3, WAV and AC3 formats.

AudioExtractor  VideoMP3Extractor  Simple and fast way to rip audio from video and make an MP3.

AudioStudio  WildVoiceStudio (xp)  Create MP3, podcast, editing, mixing and publishing software.

AudioStudio  IcoolPlayer  Audio Player and studio with a lot of nice tools, but the neat part is it's ability to create Karaoke songs. Easy to remove lyrics (right and left channels.)

Burner  Burrrn  Create audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets.

Catalog  LibraBearpaw  Library software to organize your stuff. Turns your webcam into a barcode scanner and much more.

CDplayer  OrangeCDPlayer  Classic tray-based CD player, featuring a complete set of playback functions.

CDrecorder  CDex  Extract data directly from an Audio CD as a WAV file useful for making compilation audio CDs.

CDrecorder  AudioGrabber  Grabs perfect quality digital audio from CDs, LPs, and more.

CDrecorder  ExactAudioCopy  Uses a new technology that performs DAE almost perfectly.

CellPhone  Pix2Phone  Free service or FireFox/IE extension that lets you make custom cell phone wallpapers, backgrounds and logos.

Editor  AudacityBearpaw  Record live audio or convert/edit tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.

GuitarTuner  PitchPerfect  Tune your guitar strings quickly and easily to any note you want.

Karaoke  KaraFunKaraokeBearpaw  Turn your PC into an interactive karaoke machine with the KaraFun free karaoke software for Windows.

Mixer  Pacemaker Editor  State-of-the-art music player as well as a complete music library managing application, and is all about creating mixes.

MP3download  Clickster  Searches and downloads mp3 files from the Internet and not, from other P2P users.

MP3editor  MP3DirectCutBearpaw  Fast and extensive audio editor, recorder or change the volume losslessly with MP3 files.

MP3editor  MPTrim  MP3 editor that can trim, adjust volume, fade-in/out, clean up MP3s, and is lossless.

MP3manager  GodFather  Intelligent MP3 renamer/organizer.

MP3mixer  TPlayer  Music player and mixer for mp3, wma, ogg, and wav audio files.

MP3tag  MP3tagBearpaw  Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats.

MP3volume  MP3GainBearpaw  Analyzes and adjusts MP3 files so they have the same volume..losslessly.

MusicManager  TeenSpirit  Audio-Video player and organizer that can retrieve info from internet such as lyrics, album reviews etc.

MusicManager  MediaMonkeyBearpaw  Organize music, play lists and edit tags in your audio library, Auto Disc Jockey for parties.

MusicMixer  Mixxx  DJ tool to mix music, beat estimation, import playlists, drag and drop.

Player  FooBar  Advanced audio player for most audio formats, tagging and transcoding capabilities.

Player  Billy  A no nonsense audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3, WAV, or OGG files.

Player  VLC  Portable. Multimedia player for various audio and video formats and various streaming protocols.

SoundCardRecorder  oPcode  Record anything you can get into your sound card.

StreamRecorder  ASFRecorder  Downloading streaming files to your hard-drive.

URLfinder  URLSnooper  Locate the urls of audio and video files so that they can be recorded.

DVD/CD

Autorun  AutoPlayRepair  Modify, create or remove items from a autoplay list or autorun section of the registry.

Autorun  ShellExe  Create Autorun inf files for CD, DVD, USB etc. Also launches HTML files.

Burner  ImgBurnBearpaw  Burn an ISO image to a CD. Excellent CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application.

Burner  BurnAwareBearpaw  Easily perform the most common disc burning tasks: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and much more. (Replaces StarBurner)

Burner  StarBurn  Powerful way to create your own data, audio and video CD/DVD and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD.

Burner  DVDFabBearpaw  Copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections.

Burner  CDBurnerXPBearpaw  Burn CD-R CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW, Rip Audio-CDs to harddrive, create ISO-files etc.

Burner  InfraRecorder  CD/DVD burning solution that supports recording to dual-layer DVDs with many features.

Compression  DVDShrink (xp)  DVD Shrink has great compression capabilities and makes excellent quality dvd copies.

ContactSheet  Xorax Contact Sheet  Generates a contact sheet (index file) from selected photos.

CoverPrinter  UnderCoverXP  Easily print CD and DVD front covers, back covers, front plus inside, inlays, and more.

EDUCATION

Astronomy  CelestiaBearpaw  Awesome astronomy program...leave earth.

Bible  E-Sword  Fast and effective way to study the Bible.

Books  FullBooks  Thousands of full-text free books.

EarthSimulation  GoogleEarthBearpaw  A 3D interface to the planet.

Mathmatics  SpeQ Mathmatics  Portable. Very easy to use as a simple calculator, or for advanced complex math calculations with save functionality.

Recipe  GourmetBearpaw Download  Collect, search and organize your recipes, shopping lists, nutrition information.

StudyGuide  StudyGuide  An educational public service helping learners to succeed.

Typing  RapidTyping  Excellent typing tutor with many features. Also acceptable for children.

EMAIL

Anonymous  S.Y.M.P.A.  Send Your Email Privately and Anonymously.

AntiSpam  Spamato  Spamato uniquely has six different filters that run at the same time.

AntiSpam  Junkanoo  Simple rule-based options and white/black list filtering to reduce spam.

AntiSpam  SpamAid  Spamfilter - radical but spam is gone forever. Allows email from those only in your address book.

BulkEmail  Sympa  Open source bulk emailer.

Client  OperaEmailBearpaw  Email interface within the Opera Web Browser.

Client  ThunderbirdBearpaw  Email most used with Firefox.

Client  PegasusBearpaw  Great email program (Longest serving PC email system.)

Client  i.Scribe  Portable. A fast email client with an integrated contact database and calendar.

ContactsBook  OpenContacts  Universal CONTACT book.

ContactConverter  Dawn  Dawn will convert your CONTACTS from one programs format to another.

FakeEmail  SpamGourmet  Protect your personal email account from spam using a disposable email account.

FakeEmail  BugMeNot  Use disposable email addresses or the shared service when forced to register for services.

FakeEmail  SneakEmail  The original disposable email service. Use this to catch the spammers.

MultipleAccounts  ePrompter  Automatically checks and retrieves your email messages from up to 16 email accounts.

MultipleAccounts  PopPeeper  Email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email.

OutlookAddon  Xobni  Effortless email management with blazing fast email search, automatic phone number discovery, threaded conversations, and more. (Inbox spelled backwards)

Redirector  ChimeraERC  Email redirecting client.

VoiceEmail  JDVoiceMail  Record and send compressed voice mail messages, using your default email program.

Yahoo  YPops  Now Open Source: Manage Yahoo email in your POP email program.

FILE MANAGEMENT

DirectoryPrinter  Karen's Directory Printer  Print the name of every file on a drive, along with the file's size, date and time of last modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive)! And now, the list of files can be sorted by name, size, date created, date last modified, or date of last access.

Drivers  DriverMaxBearpaw  Easily save and reinstall all your Windows drivers. It displays a complete report of all drivers (versions, release dates) installed on your system.

Duplicates  DuplicateFilesFinder  Searches for duplicate files by comparing the contents of the files. It reads as little as it needs for determining whether two files are the same or not, very fast.

Encryption  TrueCryptBearpaw  Portable. Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.

FileBackup  CobianBackup  Portable. Excellent backup program. To make portable: install it, then copy the folders to your USB stick.

FileCleaner  CcleanerBearpaw  Optimizer, file cleaner, history cleaner, cleans registry, temp files, and more.

FileEraser  Eraser  Securely erase unused Hard Drive space.

FileEraser  UltraShredder  Portable. Deletes files by overwriting them with random characters, saving it to disk each time, and then bypasses the recycle bin.

FileExtractor  UniversalExtractorBearpaw  Extract files from .exe, .msi, installation programs or zip files.

FileManager  Q-DirBearpaw  Portable. Excellent four pane file manager. Save the file to your desktop. Unzip it and rename the installer file to Q-Dir.exe (you do not need to install it. That is the portable file. In the file menu, you can convert it to English.

FileManager  Piky BasketBearpaw  Select files/folders into a basket from different locations. Once you are done selecting, you can paste them all at once to the target folders.

FileMapping  Xinorbis  Displays a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk (or directory).

FileMover  FileTargets  Adds a sub-menu so you can copy or move selected files to pre-defined folders.

FileRenamer  Metamorphose  Mass file and folder renaming program that combines great flexibility with an intuitive interface.

FileSplitter  GSplit  Split your large files even more than 4 GB into a set of smaller files and later rejoin them.

FileSync  Allway SyncBearpaw  Portable. Flexible, and quite powerful backup and synchronization program.

FileUndelete  RecuvaBearpaw  Restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.

FileUndelete  UndeletePlus  A quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files.

FileUndelete  PCInspector  File recovery that finds partitions automatically even if erased or damaged.

FileUnlocker  UnlockerBearpaw  Popular program to deletes those files or folders that do not want to be deleted.

FolderFilePrinter  FolderPrinter  Print or save a text file of all files in a folder.

FolderMarker  Magic Folder Icon  Set an individual icon for all your folders on your computer,making every folder different and change informational text when the cursor hovers over the folder.

Font  FontPage  View and or print samples of installed fonts on your machine.

Index.dat  Index.dat Suite (xp)  Delete or view the index.dat files, temporary internet files, temp files, cookies and history.

InstallClone  InstallRite  Monitors an installation, then copies it by selecting Build an Install Kit which can be used to clone an application from one PC to another.

Installer  ZipInstaller  Installs and uninstalls applications and utilities that do not provide an internal installation program. Ideal for portable program set ups.

KeyFinder  MagicalJellyBean  Retrieve your Windows Product Key from your registry. Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office 97, Office XP, and Office 2003.

ModuleManager  DependencyWalker  Builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules and their functions.

Registry  RegSeekerBearpaw  Excellent registry tool.

Registry  RegMon  Registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry.

Registry  RegShot  Quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one.

Search  Xsearch  Portable. File search program utilizing a variety of methods. Keyword searches within the files themselves and much more.

StartMenu  PStart  Portable. Start Menu.

Uninstaller  RevoUninstallerBearpaw  Excellent uninstall utility that includes additional system clean-up tools after the uninstall.

Uninstaller  ZSoftUninstallerBearpaw  Snapshots before and after installations enabling complete removal.

Uninstaller  Add/RemoveProgram  Cleans off programs you can not un-install.

Uninstaller  PC De-Crapifier  Removes a specific list of software that comes bundled with new computers.

Zip  ZipGeniusBearpaw  Excellent File compression utility.

Zip  IZArc2Go  Portable. Archiving (zip) program.

GAMES

Chess  Pawn  Excellent chess program that has network capability and nice level of play adjustments.

DiceGame  OpenYahtzee  Portable. Open-source version of the classic dice game Yahtzee.

Games  XPGames  List of free XP games.

Games  CaimanGames  This site has a lot of free games.

GamesOnline  FreeOnlineGames  Large free online games list.

Pinball  FuturePinball  Design and play your own pinball game.

Poker  PokerTHBearpaw  Texas Holdem poker that plays against up to six computer opponents or play network games.

Pool  BillardGL  Great billiards engine but no applied english.

Pool  BillardSimulator  Great 8 ball pool game. Choose the language from the menu after you install and start the game.

Risk  Risk  Classic RISK board game, with map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and more.

RolePlayer  KnightOnline  Multiplayer online role-playing game that utilizes a party system where you help your fellow players to advance.

RolePlayer  SecondLife  Virtual second life (Real millionaires are made here.)

RhythmGame  FretsOnFire  Open Source clone of Guitar Hero. Use your keyboard to tap out the rythm of the song.

SpaceGame  Flight Commander  A space combat simulator in the style of Wing Commander.

StrategyGame  Spring  This is an open source project developing a new realtime strategy game.

Superstition  Magic8Ball  Remember Mattels Magic 8 Ball. This is it for your desktop. Ask it any yes or no question.

Tank  Battle Tank  Portable. Sometimes you run across a game that just makes you say Wow. The effects, graphics, sound scheme, and fluidity of gameplay, is simply astounding.

WarGame  UnificationWars  Unification Wars is a free Massively Played Online Game with over 700,000 members.

WarGame  AmericasArmy  Great War Game similar to Call of Duty and sponsored by the United States Army - They really do recruit from this game.

GRAPHICS

3DEditor  POV-Ray (xp)  Tool for creating stunning 3D graphics.

3DEditor  Blender  3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production.

3DEditor  OpenFX (xp)  Open-Source 3D modeling, animation, and rendering suite.

3DEditor  BoxMaker (xp)  Easy 3D virtual packaging design tool.

3DEditor and CAD  GoogleSketchUpBearpaw  Easy but powerful 3D design and CAD Program.

3DModeling  Art of Illusion  3D modeling and rendering studio powerful enough to be used for serious, high end animation work.

3DModeling  3DCanvas  Real time 3D modeling and animation tool-drag and drop.

3DPortrait  Faceworx  Faceworx creates a 3D head out of two standard 2D photos

3DText  FontMagic (xp)  Easy-to-use tool for creating 3D text.

ASCII editor  JavE  Draw diagrams by using ASCII characters.

CameraEditor  CamToPC  Transfer from digital camera to PC and has excellent management functionality.

DVDCoverPrinter  UndercoverXP  Easily create and print CD and DVD covers.

GifAnimator  BenetonMovieGif (xp)  GIF editing and animation tool. It is simple, quick, and effective and supports 48 formats.

GraphicsEditor  TheGimpBearpaw  Powerful Open Source Graphic Editor.

GraphicsEditor  TheGimpPortable  Portable. Photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities.

GraphicsEditor  IrFanViewBearpaw  Great graphics viewer and editor. The most popular.

GraphicsEditor  PixelToolbox  The complete solution for designing desktop graphics.

IconEditor  Greenfish Icon Editor Pro  Portable. A professional and easy to use tool for creating icons, cursors, and other small pixelgraphic images with a wide range of features.

IconEditor  IcoFX  Create, capture, extract, import, retouch and edit icons.

ImageEditor  PhotoFiltreBearpaw  Amazing complete image editing and effects package.

ImageEditor  Paint.netBearpaw  Image editing and photo manipulation that supports layers, and special effects.

ImageEditor  PhotoscapeBearpaw  Photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

InteriorDesign  Sweethome3D  Interior design application that helps you place your furniture in a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

Morph  SqirlzMorph  Morph two, three or more images together, and save your animation as a Flash movie, AVI video clip, or bitmap/jpeg files.

Morph  WinMorph  Professional quality warping and morphing tools. Advanced keyframing, blending and distortion tools for total control. Dynamic morphing.

Paint  ArtWeaver  All of the artistic effects which you need for creative painting.

PhotoEditor  msrGroupShot  Create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos. You can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and automatically build a composite image.

PhotoEditor  Hugin  Panorama photo stitcher. Assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

PhotoEditor  AutoStitch  Automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever. Just select a set of photos, and Autostitch does the rest.

PhotoOrganizer  Picasa  Very good photo organizer.

PhotoWarp  CartoonistBearpaw  Create funny caricatures or realistic images applying creative warping effects in a matter of minutes. Free registration is required.

PosterMaker  PosterForge  Make and print big size inspirational, motivational, movie or old west Wanted posters.

ScreenCapture  GadwinPrintScreenBearpaw  One-click screen capture tool, that captures the contents of your screen.

ScreenRuler  RulerForWindows  Allows you to layer one or more vertical and horizontal rulers on your screen at once.

ScreenSaverCreator  InstantStorm  Create Flash based screensavers with many advanced features.

Viewer  FastStoneIV  Fast Stone Image Viewer. Best image viewer in its class.

HARD DRIVE

Boot  UltimateBootCD  Create a boot CD with recovery tools.

CustomInstall  nLite  Windows Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 and 2003 x86/x64 Installation Customizer.

CustomInstall  vLite  Windows Vista Installation Customizer.

Defrag  JkDefragBearpaw  Disk defragment that also handles floppies and USB disks and sticks.

Defrag  IObitSmartDefrag  Uses the most advanced defragmentation technologies in the industry.

Defrag  Defraggler  Portable. Defrag entire drives or select individual files and folders to defrag. Very fast. After analysis Defraggler lists all the fragmented files on the drive. Selecting one or many will highlight their location on the disk. Allowing you to visually see the location of files on the disk.

Defrag  PageDefrag (xp)  Defrags your event log files, paging files and Registry hives.

HDeraser  Darik'sBootNuke  Erase your entire hard drive. Very useful when you dispose of one.

HDhealth  HDTune  Test your hard drives health, temperature, errors, and benchmark performance.

Partition  GpartedBearpaw  Create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy partitions, and the file systems on them.

Partition  CutePM  Advanced hard disk partition management utility.

Shutdown  SlawDog  Commercial-quality shutdown utility for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista.

SystemBackup  CopyWipe (xp)  Utility for copying, disk imaging, or securely overwriting (wiping/erasing) entire hard drives.

SystemBackup  DriveImageXMLBearpaw  Easy to use and reliable program for disk imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.

SystemBackup  HardDriveClone (xp)  Copies the complete contents of hard disks and other media on a physical level.

VirtualMachine  VmWare  Run, share and evaluate pre-built applications and beta software in virtual machines.

VirtualMachine  EasyVMX  Easy way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player (use with VMWare.)

INTERNET

Bookmarks  AMDeadlink  Detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files.

Bookmarks  BookMarklets  These bookmarklets help you deal with annoying web pages.

Bookmarks  URLExtractor  Extract URL links from web pages or files.

Bookmarks  Dir2URL  Make a text file of your favorites URL directory.

Chat  PidginBearpaw  The best multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows the most IM accounts.

Chat  Pidgin-EncryptionBearpaw  Open Source software to transparently encrypt your Pidgin instant messages with RSA encryption. Easy-to-use, but very secure.

Chat  PidginPortable  Portable. Excellent multi-protocol portable chat client.

Chat  ChatWithMeNow  Add-on to Outlook, Outlook Express, Webmail or embed in a webpage that lets your email recipients see when you are online and start chatting/video with you.

Chat  Y!Lite  Yahoo Skinable Chat Client written in Delphi.

ChatVideo  SightSpeed  Unlimited voice and video chat, Video and Voice Calling, Video Mail and Blog Recording.

ChatVoice  LoudTalks  Push to talk on a PC using F7 button, Group or private communication, Real-time, and Voice history to re-play later. Peer 2 Peer VOIP.

DownloadManager  OrbitDownloaderBearpaw  The best download accelerator with tons of features like Grab+.

DownloadManager  OrbitPortable  Portable. File and media downloader that supports supports most protocols, as well as P2P technology.

FTP  FileZillaBearpaw  Highly recommended powerful Open Source FTP SFTP client.

FTP  FileZillaPortable  Portable. The popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you.

FileTransfer  CivilNetizen  Data transfer for files up to 4GB in size through a simple drag-and-drop interface.

FileTransfer  HFS~HttpFileServer  Use HFS (Http File Server) to send and receive files.

InternetProvider  Show My IP  Shows your external IP address within 3 secs. Reveals most of the network information. Ping tool to ping another IP address or URL.

InternetRadio  RaimaRadioBearpaw  Listen to and record multiple stations simultaneously, Create a schedule for automatic recording.

InternetRadio  NexusRadio  Full featured Internet Radio Player/recorder with 6000+ stations, and audio editor.

InternetTV  AnyTV  Watch 2630+ Online TV, 6910+ Video clips. Listen to 4750+ Online Radio.

OffLineViewing  WebReaper  Crawler that downloads websites for offline viewing.

OffLineViewing  HTTrack  Crawler that downloads websites for offline viewing.

Optimizer  TCPOptimizer  Tune and optimize your Internet connection.

Organizer  NoahBearpaw  Powerful new-age productivity Internet/email/desktop organizer/browser. View the video tutorial to get the full grasp of its power.

Peer2Peer  LimewireBearpaw  The best and fastest P2P file sharing program, though the free version has an upgrade nag screen.

Proxy  Proxy Switcher  Proxy Switcher provides proxy settings management solution and anonymous surfing capabilities.

Proxy  JAP  Makes it possible to surf the Internet anonymously and unobservably.

RemoteComputing  LogMeInBearpaw  LogMeIn Free gives you the flexibility to access and control your PCs or Macs from anywhere. It's safe, easy and completely free.

RemoteMeeting  MikogoBearpaw  Online meetings, 10 users, screen sharing, change presenters, FTP, application selection, 256 AES secure with tutorials. (Use LoudTalks for voice.)

RSSreader  FeedDemonBearpaw  Award winning RSS news reader with a free account to NewsGator's online service.

RSSreader  GreatNews  Intelligent RSS news reader.

Usenet  GravityBearpaw  Popular full-featured Usenet news client for Win32 platforms.

VPN  WallCooler  VPN made Easy, Simple and Free.

WebBrowser  OperaBearpaw  Simply the best web browser, email client, newsreader, bittorent, RSS reader, and much more.

WebBrowserPortable  OperaUSB  Portable. Excellent web browser, email, RSS, Usenet, bittorrent and more.

WebBrowser  FireFoxBearpaw  Most popular web browser beyond Internet Explorer.

WebBrowserPortable  FireFox  Portable. Fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use.

WebBrowser  SleipnirBearpaw  Portable and Desktop. Browser that specializes in customization - for advanced users.

WIFI  Easy WIFI Radar  Connects to open hotspots automatically and represents that activity on a radar screen. Opens your web browser when the connection is made.

WIFI  NetStumbler  Detection of Wireless LANs using WLAN standards. Verify network configurations, detect causes of wireless interference, and detect unauthorized access points.

Wiki  WikiServer  A WikiEngine that is completely self-contained and includes its own HTTP server.

LINKS

CarolsVault My goal now is to gather all the useful information and freeware I can in one place and make it easy to find what you need, just like a vault with goodies.

Download.com One of the power sites, great reviews, and tons of software. Go to the downloads and keyword search freeware.

CliffNotes Clif Notes Newsletter - freeware reviews, website reviews, tips and tricks.

DavesComputerTips A bi-weekly newsletter and online resource for computer users.

DonationCoder The official home for tons of exclusive professional-quality freeware/donationware programs where you can request custom-made software.

FreewareBox A nice freeware site with current selections, and nice layouts for top rated, top downloads, ratings, categories and descriptions.

FreewareFiles A nice freeware site with a good site search feature, site categories, Editor picks, essential downloads, most popular, and todays new files.

FreewareGenius One of my favorite sites webmastered by Samer with a large listing of great freeware in many categories, RSS feeds and very active.

FreewareGuide Excellent freeware website with RSS feeds and a large listing of great freeware in many categories.

LoopList This is a wiki list of the best open-source applications that run on Windows. Feel free to edit this list and add any programs that meet the criteria below.

OssWinProject Open Source for Windows! A large great collection of open source programs with a lot of categories.

PricelessWare Some of the best freeware to be found and chosen by yearly vote from alt.comp.freeware newsgroup participants.

RemlapSoftware This software developer has offered several great freeware programs.

RoadToKnowWhere Quick nuggets of technical information in an easy to understand format. Very nice site with loads of information.

SixFiles This site has everything, but you can filter to only Freeware. It offers RSS feeds for only Freeware as well.

SnapFiles The power sites with great reviews, and tons of software with great RSS feeds on freeware.

SourceForge The power site for Open Source Projects. With 130,000 registered projects and over 1,000,000 subscribers. This is the place to get to know your way around.

TechSupportAlert I'm always searching the Web for new sources of technical information, new support sites, great resources, and the best applications and tech utilities.

TopFreeware The best freeware downloads and tips to optimize. This is a very good site.

TopQualityFreeware Your one stop source for Drivers, DLL's, and Windows software. They have an excellent RSS freeware feed, a help forum, web hosting, email accounts, etc.

Wikipedia List of open-source software packages: computer software licensed under an open-source license.

WorldsBestFreeware Bob lists one great program for each category in an easy to view list. It makes the job of the person who is looking for good freeware so much easier.

XTORT.NET A collection of choice freeware applications which, when combined, make for a computer software package to meet any and all of your day to day software needs.

LINUX

Distro  Ubuntu  Best Linux starter OS (test run from a Live CD or perform a full install to a partition or clean hard drive.)

Distro  Wubi  Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows and easiest way to test Ubuntu.

Distro  AndLinux  A complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly inside Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only). This is still in Beta but stable.

Distro  PCLinuxOS  Awesome Linux Distro...with best driver support.

Distro  Sabayon  Awesome Linux Distro...desktop on a cube.

FileManager  Krusader  Krusader bills itself as the twin panel file manager for KDE.

Forum  UbuntuForum  Need help with Ubuntu, this is the place.

LinuxSoftware  LinuxEQ  Windows software and the Linux equivalents and alternatives.

PortableLinux  LinuxUSB  These portable Linux versions can be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device.

Tutorial  LinuxReality  A podcast for the new Linux user.

Tutorial  LinuxHowTo  20 how to guides for Linux.

Tutorial  PCLinuxGuide  PCLinux walk through.

Tutorial  LinuxOnlineClasses  We will provide you with the latest content for the Linux Operating system.

Tutorial  UbuntuGuide  A comprehensive guide to using Ubuntu in a desktop environment.

Tutorial  Official Ubuntu Book  Includes troubleshooting advice contributed by Ubuntu users from around the world.

Tutorial  UbuntuLinuxEssentials  Online book with everything you need to know for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu  Firewall Article  About Ubuntu Firewalls.

OFFICE

Accounting  GnuCashBearpaw  Personal and small-business financial-accounting software to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses.

Accounting  FrontAccounting  Web Based Accounting systems for small companies, simple but powerful.

Accounting  NolaPro  Flexible world-class free web-based accounting system designed for any size business.

Accounting  Delta60  Full Blown Business Accounting Software.

Accounting  BananaCashBook  All any small business owner, or family needs to record their daily income and expenses.

Accounting  AceMoneyLite  Account-management software.

Accounting  MoneyManagerEX  Open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software.

FinanceManager  Monex  Portable. Personal finance manager based on double entry bookkeeping principles.

Calendar  SunBirdBearpaw  Sunbird lets you manage your schedule and reminders easily, and store it where you want to.

Calendar  SunbirdPortable  Portable. Take your schedule and to-do lists with you on your USB flash drive, CD, iPod, etc and use it on any computer.

Calendar  RainLendar  Multiple calendars, import and export, to-do list, alarms, recurrence, scripting, and search.

Database  DBDesigner (xp)  Database design, modeling, creation and maintenance in a single, seamless environment.

Database  KnowledgeBase (xp)  A free-form text, images and objects organizer, with multi-user/network support.

DeskTopOfficeSuite  TheFifthElementBearpaw  Compatible with MS Office, MS Works, Star-Office and Open-Office and includes over 30 applications. Very comprehensive...visit the site to learn about it.

DeskTopPublisher  ScribusBearpaw  Professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops.

Diagrams  Dia  A program to draw diagrams much like Visio.

Dictionary  WordWebBearpaw  Excellent English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows, and performs pronunciation.

Dictionary  Transfz  Online web searches from any document, dictionary lookup, custom query, clipboard manager.

DocConverter  PaperlessPrinter (xp)  Virtual Printer to publish virtually any document in many formats and graphics.

DocConverter  TextMakerViewer  Open, view, and print documents from many common office file formats.

FaxReceive  eFax  Webservice providing you a free fax phone number and the fax is received in your email.

FaxSend  faxZERO  Webservice for you to send a fax for free anywhere in the U.S. or Canada via Internet connection.

FileComparison  AptDiff  A text or binary files comparison and merging utility that allows for color coded comparisons whether each line or byte is added, deleted, or changed.

GraphPaper  GraphPaperPrinter  Print graph, ruled, polor, log, music, custom and much more.

HumanResources  OrangeHRM  HR Information Systems(HRIS) that assists you in managing companies human resources.

IncomeTax  TaxACTBearpaw  Includes the forms, plus the interview steps you through completing your return. (U.S.A.)

Invoice  Nevitium  Create Professional Invoices, Quotes and Statements for customers.

Maps  MapCreator  Create maps and animated maps of the highest quality as often required for presentations.

NotePad  NotePad++  Portable. Source code editor and notepad replacement.

OCR  SimpleOCR (xp)  Optical character recognition up to 99 percent accurate. Relatively good free OCR program.

OfficeSuite  OpenOfficeBearpaw  Multiplatform complete office suite compatible with all other major office suites.

OfficeSuite  OpenOfficePortable  Complete OpenOffice.org office suite packaged as a portable app.

PDF  PDF-XChange ViewerBearpaw  Portable. Enables you to view and annotate PDF files and extract text/images.

PDF  FoxItReader  PDF document viewer and printer, interactive form filler, annotation tool, and text converter.

PDF  BullzipPDFprinter  Write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application. GPL Ghostscript installation is also required.

PIM  EssentialPIMBearpaw  Portable. Personal information management system for any desktop or USB flash drive.

PIM  SEO NoteBearpaw  Portable if you copy the files to a portable USB drive. A great personal information manager with tabbed folders and tree structured notes. You can also set up various style template for your folders.

PhraseAutomation  ZoomIt  Organize your frequently used text snippets and paste them into any application. Expand abbreviations and common phrases as you type. Launch applications by entering text shortcuts. Autocomplete phrases with the predictive text recognition. Quickly handle email responses.

Presentation  ZoomIt  Screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations.

Presentation  PowerBullet (xp)  Easily create presentations in the Flash format and self running swf or exe files.

ProjectManager  Open Workbench  Robust project scheduling and management functionality. Free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project.

ProjectManager  GanttProject  Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool.

RemotePrinter  PrinterShare  Easily share your printer and you can print to it from anywhere, or print to your friends or families printer. Very very easy.

Spreadsheet  Gnumeric  The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet.

Thesaurus  Mobysaurus  Off-line comprehensive, feature-rich, easy-to-use English thesaurus for Windows.

TimeTracker  Rachota  Portable. Time tracking for various projects.

Translator  GoogleTranslator  Excellent multilingual translation interface.

WordProcessor  yWriter  Excellent free novel writing software.

WordProcessor  AbiWord (xp)  Powerful word processor.

PARENTAL CONTROL

Browser  KidSafeBrowser  Full featured childrens web browser.

ControlAdultMaterial  ParentalLock  Prevent kids from viewing adult material.

ControlChat  ChatController  Control childrens instant messaging for most IM sites.

ControlContent  IProtectYou  Control email, chat, instant messages, ads, web sites, newsgroups, keywords, and more.

ControlSurfing  CrawlerParentalControl  Perfect control of websites your children browse, software they use, and folders they access.

Filtering  K9WebProtectionBearpaw  One of the best Internet filtering and control solutions for the home.

Filtering  NaomiBearpaw  One of the best Internet filtering program able to constantly monitor all internet connections.

ParentingAdvice  KidSafe.com  Free parenting advice, tools and services.

Suite  Kidz CD SuiteBearpaw  Program suite for child safe surfing.

SECURITY

AntiSpyware  Threatfireimg alt="Bearpaw" src="images/bearpaw15x15.gif" height="12" width="12">  Protection against all types of internet threats - both known and unknown - spyware, adware, keyloggers, viruses, worms, Trojans, rootkits, buffer overflows, and other malware.

AntiSpyware  ComodoBOClean  Excellent antispyware with real time scanner.

AntiSpyware  SpywareTerminator  Anti-spyware prevention, real time scanner with HIPS, and removes infections.

AntiSpyware  DriveSentry  Control which programs can have access to your drives.

AntiSpyware  SpyBot  Adware and spyware detection and removal tool.

AntiSpyware  SpywareBlaster  Prevents spyware from being installed silently in real time.

AntiSpyware  SpywareGuard  Enhancement of Spyware Blasters real time protection.

AntiSpyware  AdvancedWindowsCare  One-click approach to help protect, repair, and optimize your computer.

AntiSpyware  WindowsDefender  Excellent real time protection against spyware.

AntiVirus  AntiVirBearpaw  Excellent antivirus that now has HIPS incorportated. Recommended freeware antivirus.

AntiVirus  ClamWinPortable  Portable. Antivirus with high detection rates for virus and spyware.

DriverViewer  ServiWin (xp)  Lists installed drivers and services.

EULA  EULAlyzer  Quickly analyze End User License Agreements (EULAs).

Firewall  ComodoFirewallProBearpaw  Simply the best firewall for XP and Vista. (Note, Windows 2000 users should download Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4)

HiddenMessages  Bon Kyu Bon  Write hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message; this is in contrast to cryptography, where the existence of the message itself is not disguised, but the content is obscured.

HIPS  SystemSafetyMonitorBearpaw  Powerful HIPS host intrusion prevention system.

HIPS  WinPatrolBearpaw  Takes snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes.

HostFile  HostFileChecker (xp)  Search through your systems host file and remove duplicate entries.

KeyLoggers  KeyScrambler  Defeats keyloggers by encrypting your keystrokes at the keyboard level.

OnlineVirusScan  ESET  Allows to remove detected infections (Requires Internet Explorer with an ActiveX download).

OnlineVirusScan  Kaspersky  Deep scan but does not remove what it finds (Requires Internet Explorer with an ActiveX download).

OnlineVirusScan  Etrust  Deep scan but does not remove what it finds (Requires Internet Explorer with an ActiveX download).

PacketViewer  WireShark  Enables you to capture and examine data/packets from a live network.

PasswordManager  AccessManager  Keeps all your passwords in one, simple to use list.

PasswordManager  KeePass  Portable. Password Safe so you can securely carry your email, Internet and other passwords with you.

PasswordRecovery  Cain&Able  Powerful password recovery tool.

PasswordViewer  AsteriskKey  Reveals passwords hidden under asterisks and works with dialog boxes and web page login forms.

PortsViewer  CurrPorts  View or manage a list of ports that are currently in use, and the application that is using it.

ProcessDefine  ProcessQuickLinkBearpaw  Adds an information button next to running processes in the Task Manager and when clicked takes you to the process library page which defines that process.

Processviewer  ProcessMonitorBearpaw  Shows real time file system, Registry and process thread activity.

ProcessViewer  WhatsRunning  Process viewer, startup manager and port enumerator.

ProcessViewer  ProcessExplorer  Shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

ProcessTerminator  KillProcess  Create kill lists that can terminate multiple running processes at the same time.

Rootkits  GMERBearpaw  Detects and removes rootkits. It also monitors processes creating, drivers loading, libraries loading, file functions, registry entries, and TCP/IP connections.

Rootkits  IceSword  A sophisticated discovery tool that can protect against sinister rootkits if used before they infect a machine.

Rootkits  Panda AntiRootkitBearpaw  Capable of deactivating known and unknown rootkits and deletes registry keys transparently.

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