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We have scoured the Internet for years looking for great free software that you can use in your everyday computer use. This is a page that you are going to want to bookmark because we have comprised our picks of the best, most effective and useful free applications in the areas of Graphics, Disk Utilities, Security, Audio, and Productivity software.
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| Security Software |
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| AVG Antivirus Free Edition |
| AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is a free anti-virus protection tool developed by GRISOFT for home use. We invite you to join the millions of satisfied customers worldwide who have downloaded the software and now enjoy the benefits of AVG Anti-Virus Free. |
| F-Secure Blacklight - Rootkit Dedection |
| F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology detects objects that are hidden from users and security tools and offers the user an option to remove them. The main purpose is to fight rootkits and all kinds of malware that use rootkits. The F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology works by examining the system at a deep level. This enables BlackLight to detect objects that are hidden from the user and security software. |
| RootkitRevealer |
| 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 all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, 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! |
| Spybot Search & Destroy |
| This little application scans and fixes spyware programs off of your computer. |
| Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall |
| The #1 Firewall Choice of IT Pros. Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall is the Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Award winner for best desktop firewall! It was also the least expensive firewall among the top three contenders, proving that affordability doesn't have to compromise quality. SKPF4 offers the hacker-proof security of a leading firewall for half the cost of the competition. |
| Zone Alarm Free Software Firewall |
| This program helps to keep malicious intruders out of your computer system while you use the Internet. |
| Productivity Software |
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| AbiWord |
| AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. |
| Automatix |
| Automatix2 is a free graphical package manager for the installation, uninstallation and configuration of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems. Currently supported are Ubuntu 6.10, 6.06 and Mepis 6. Thanks to Mr. Jason Pittman |
| Keynote |
| Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always accessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application. |
| Mozilla Backup (Backup Firefox and Thunderbird Settings, Bookmarks, and Emails) |
| MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles. |
| Mozilla Firefox |
| The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we have added powerful new features that make your online experience even better. |
| Mozilla Firefox Extensions |
| Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to Firefox, from a simple toolbar button to a completely new feature. They allow you to customize Firefox to fit your own needs and preferences, while letting us keep Firefox itself light and lean. |
| Mozilla Thunderbird Free Email Client |
| Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better. |
| Open Office Free Office Suite (Microsoft Office Alternative) |
| OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. |
| Opera Web Browser |
| It's a fast, fun and easy way to browse the Web. Opera 9 comes loaded with the tools to keep you productive and safe. Try it today, it's absolutely free! |
| PDFCreator |
| PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. |
| Skype - Free Phone Calls and Chat Software |
| Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. And even though the calls are free, they are really excellent quality. If you and your friends, family or business contacts are using webcams, you can also make free video calls. You can even call landlines and mobile phones at really cheap per minute rates (and there’s no setup or subscription fee). |
| SmartFTP |
| SmartFTP is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client which allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet. With its many basic and advanced features SmartFTP also offers secure, reliable and efficient transfers that make it a powerful tool. |
| TaxGeek 2006 |
| TaxGeek is a Mozilla-based US income tax program that includes Form 1040, Schedules A, B, C, C-EZ, D, E, K-1 (1065), SE (Short and Long), W2, Form 8880, Form 8863, Form 3903, and Form 2441 with access to most other files as PDFs. It is also intended to be extensible so that developers can easily add other forms that are needed without affecting the existing file formats and stored data. |
| Ubuntu Linux |
| Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to. |
| X-CD Roast |
| X-CD-Roast tries to be the most flexible CD-burning software ever. It allows even the unexperienced user to create or copy a CD with a few mouse clicks in a intuitive and nice looking graphical user interface. |
| Graphics Software |
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| GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) - Free Photoshop Alternative |
| 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. |
| Inkscape |
| Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. |
| Audio and Video Software |
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| Audacity |
| Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. |
| Blender |
| Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. |
| Handbrake |
| HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. |
| Infra Recorder |
| Infra Recorder is a high quality CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. |
| Media Coder |
| MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet. |
| VLC Media Player |
| VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. |
| Disk Utilities Software |
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| 7-Zip |
| 7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. |
| VOPT Disk Defragmentation for Windows |
| Free, small disk defrag program for Windows. Works much better than the included Disk Defrag program that installs with Windows. |
| Games Software |
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| BZFlag |
| BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. The name originates from "Battle Zone capture the Flag". It runs on Irix, Linux, *BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. It's one of the most popular games ever on Silicon Graphics machines and continues to be developed and improved to this day. It's one of the most popular open source games ever. |
| Marathon: Aleph One |
| Aleph One is a game engine currently in development by the Open Source community. It is based on the source code of Marathon 2: Durandal, a game created by Bungie Software in 1995. Since Bungie released the source code, Aleph One has matured to include a variety of new features and improvements. |
| Zombies |
| Zombies is a turn-based game where the only goal is to outlast and destroy the zombies before they do the same to you. Can you save humanity from being overrun? |
