MP3 Direct Cut Non-destructive MP3 editor Download
http://mpesch3.de Audio
Cdex Ripper / MP3 coder Download
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net
Audacity >>TIP<< Audio recorder / editor Download
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
AudioGrabber CD ripper Download
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net
Cheetah Audio Converter Converter, ripper & burner Download
http://www.cheetahburner.com
Exact Audio Copy (beta) Audio grabber for CD-ROM drives Download
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de
iPod shuffle Database Builder No need for iTunes anymore Download http://sourceforge.net/projects/shuffle-db/
dbPowerAMP Music Converter CD ripper / coder / converter Download
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
IrfanView Image viewer Download
http://www.irfanview.com Imaging
IrfanView plugins (requires IV) Plugins for the viewer Download
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
AutoStitch Automatic image stitching Download http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/a
Jalbum (requires Java VM) Web photo album generator Download
http://jalbum.net
DrawPlus Graphic design & vector drawing Download
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/D
3DPlus 3D Animation and Modeling Download
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/3
FastStone Image Viewer Image viewer, converter, editor Download
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
MS RAW Image Viewer Thumbnails, previews & printing Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
Acrylic Graphic Designer (beta) Illustration, painting & graphics Download
http://www.microsoft.com/products/express
Picasa >>TIP<< Find, edit and share photos Download
http://www.picasa.com
Photoshop Album Starter Edition View, find and share your photos Download
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopal
Photo Plus Image and photo editing Download
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus
Paint.NET Image and photo manipulation Download
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net
GIMPShop Image editor similar to Photoshop Download
http://gimpshop.blogspot.com
The Gimp (requires GTK+) Photo and graphics editor Download
http://www.gimp.org/windows
GTK+ for Windows Required by The Gimp Download
http://www.gimp.org/windows
Spybot Search & Destroy Anti spyware utility Download
http://www.safer-networking.org Security
Ewido Security Suite Spyware & virus protection Download
http://www.ewido.net
Ad-Aware SE Anti spyware utility Download
http://www.lavasoft.com
Microsoft AntiSpyware >>TIP<< Anti spyware utility Download
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s
CWShredder Cool Web Search removal Download
http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder
SpywareBlaster Anti spyware utility Download
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com
Malware Destroyer Malware removal tool Download
http://www.emco.is/malwaredestroyer/featur
Sygate Personal Firewall Firewall Download Development discontinued
Kerio Personal Firewall Firewall Download
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html
ZoneAlarm Firewall Download
http://www.zonelabs.com
Spamihilator Spam filter Download
http://www.spamihilator.com
Hijack This Hijackers detection / removal Download
http://www.merijn.org
CleanCache Browser & Windows cleaner Download
http://www.buttuglysoftware.com/CleanCach
Hitman Pro (Dutch) All-in-one spyware solution Download
http://www.hitmanpro.nl
AVG Antivirus Anti virus utility Download
http://www.grisoft.com
avast! Home Edition Anti virus utility Download
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
Daemon Tools Virtual dvd player Download
http://www.daemon-tools.cc System
Google Pack (beta) >>TIP<< Collection of essential software Download
http://pack.google.com
EasyCleaner Registry & disk cleaning solution Download
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/eclea
Ultr@VNC Control PC's via a web browser Download
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net
Yahoo! Widget Engine Run Widgets on your desktop Download
http://widgets.yahoo.com/download
MS Shared Computer Toolkit Manage shared computers Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/share
DirectX Enhance games & multimedia Download
http://www.microsoft.com/directx
Sisoft Sandra Lite Information & diagnostic utility Download
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk
Google Desktop Access to info on your computer Download
http://desktop.google.com/en
MSN Search Toolbar Toolbar with Desktop Search Download
http://toolbar.msn.com
Isobuster CD and DVD data recovery Download
http://www.isobuster.com
Fresh UI (registration) Tweaking tool Download
http://www.freshdevices.com/freshui.html
Fresh Diagnose (registration) Diagnostic tool Download
http://www.freshdiagnose.com/freshdiag.ht
Regcleaner Get rid of old registry entries Download
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download460.h
KillCopy Smart, fast & reliable copying Download
http://killprog.narod.ru/killcopye.html
MaxBlast (bootdisk version) Partition copy & installation Download
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/download
MaxBlast (bootable cd version) Partition copy & installation Download
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/download
Partition Saving (CMD line) Hard disk imaging utility Download
http://www.partition-saving.com/
CDBurnerXP Pro Burn & copy CD's / DVD's Download
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
DVD Backup Xpress DVD backup software Download
http://www.dvdbackupxpress.com
DVD Decrypter DVD backup software Download
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DVD
DVD Shrink DVD backup software Download
http://www.dvdshrink.org
ratDVD DVD movie download format Download
http://www.ratdvd.dk/download.htm
CPU-Z Information on system devices Download
http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php
MacroMaker Simple Windows automation Download
http://members.ij.net/anthonymathews
AutoIt Advanced Windows automation Download
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3
Notepad++ Professional source code editor Download
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.h
TweakUI Customize Windows Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Deep Burner CD / DVD burning Download
http://www.deepburner.com
Cobian Backup Powerful file back-up tool Download http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbac
CCleaner System optimization tool Download
http://www.ccleaner.com
Unknown Devices Hardware identifier Download
http://www.halfdone.com/Development/UnknownDevices
Eraser Secure data removal tool Download
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php
PC Inspector File Recovery File recovery Download
http://www.pcinspector.de
Handy Recovery Data recovery Download
http://www.handyrecovery.com/download.sh
Media Player Classic Audio / video player Download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli Multimedia
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack All available codecs Download
http://www.k-litemegacodecpack.com
Media Portal (Beta) Turns your PC in a Media Center Download
http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net
RadioAgent24 Record music from internet radio Download
http://radioagent24.com
VLC media player >>TIP<< DVD player / video streaming Download
http://www.videolan.org
DivX DivX Codec and Player Download
http://www.divx.com/divx/download
Xvid MPEG-4 compliant video codec Download
http://www.xvid.org
Fresh View (registration) Multimedia browser Download
http://www.freshdiagnose.com/picture_slide
Winamp Multimedia player Download
http://www.winamp.com/player/
Winamp iPod plugin Use your iPod without iTunes Download
http://www.mlipod.com/
RealPlayer Multimedia player Download
http://www.real.com
iTunes + Quicktime Player Multimedia player Download
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download
Virtualdub Video capture / processing Download
http://www.virtualdub.org
The Film Machine Convert AVI to DVD / (S)VCD Download
http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine
Net Transport Best stream ripper available Download
http://www.xi-soft.com
Windows Media Player 10 Multimedia player Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10
TMPGEnc Multi-purpose encoder Download
http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html
Stoik Video Converter AVI / MPEG / WMV conversion Download
http://www.stoik.com
Windows Movie Maker 2.0 Video compiler / editor Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
Avid Free DV (registration) Professional video editing Download
http://www.avid.com/freedv
Windows Media Encoder Media converter Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download
Kazaa Lite Resurrection P2P utility without adware Download
http://filesharingplace.com P2P
eXeem BitTorrent client Download Website offline
BitTorrent Official BitTorrent client Download
http://www.bittorrent.com
eMule P2P file sharing client Download
http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download
Shareaza >>TIP<< P2P client Download shareaza.sourceforge.net
Azureus (requires Java VM) BitTorrent client Download
http://azureus.sourceforge.net
WinMX File sharing program Download Website offline
Ares File sharing program Download
http://www.aresgalaxy.org/download.html
Grouper Private community file sharing Download
http://www.grouper.com
Another BitTorrent Client Improved client for BitTorrent Download
http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net
Rufus BitTorrent client Download
http://rufus.sourceforge.net
µTorrent Efficient BitTorrent client Download
http://www.utorrent.com
Firefox >>TIP<< Browser Download
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox Internet &
e-mail
Netscape Browser Download
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8
Opera Browser Download
http://www.opera.com/download
Internet Explorer (installer) Still the most popular browser Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie
Download Accelerator Plus Download manager Download
http://www.speedbit.com
HTTrack Website Copier Download
http://www.httrack.com
Fresh Download (registration) Download manager Download
http://www.freshdiagnose.com/freshdown.ht
Google Earth Search through satellite images Download
http://earth.google.com
Google Web Accelerator (beta) Load web pages at light speed Download
http://webaccelerator.google.com
URL Snooper (registration) Locate URL's of audio & video Download
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/urlsnooper
NVU Web Authoring / HTML editor Download
http://www.nvu.com/download.html
WebPlus Web Site Design & Publishing Download
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/W
Java Virtual Machine Browser add-on Download
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Flash player (installer) Browser add-on Download
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
RoamDrive (beta, bannerware) Store files on Hotmail & GMail Download
http://www.roamdrive.com
GMail Drive Use GMail for storage Download
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
Xenu's Link Sleuth Link validator Download
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
PuTTY Telnet and SSH client Download http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
SSH Secure Shell Client File transfer over SSH (+ GUI) Download https://lists.aas.duke.edu/pipermail/ntgroup/2003-October/001699.html
WinSCP SFTP and SCP client Download http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
Coffeecup HTML Editor Web page design tool Download http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor
FileZilla Fast and reliable FTP client Download http://filezilla.sourceforge.net
CoffeeCup Free FTP FTP client Download http://www.coffeecup.com
GuildFTPd FTP Server Daemon Download http://www.guildftpd.com
Eudora E-mail client Download http://www.eudora.com/products/eudora/do
Thunderbird Excellent e-mail client Download http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird
Pegasus PC e-mail system Download http://www.pmail.com
Exodus Jabber client Download http://exodus.jabberstudio.org Instant
Messaging
Trillian All-in-one IM client Download http://www.ceruleanstudios.com
Gaim >>TIP<< All-in-one IM client Download http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
MSN Messenger Internet messaging service Download http://messenger.msn.com/
AOL Instant Messenger Exchange messages online Download http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.
Yahoo! Messenger (installer) Send instant messenges Download http://messenger.yahoo.com
ICQ The mother of all IM software Download http://www.icq.com/download
Adobe Reader PDF reader Download http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Office
Foxit PDF Reader PDF reader (smaller & faster) Download http://www.foxitsoftware.com
AbiWord Word processor Download http://www.abiword.com
Calculator Plus Converting calculator Download http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/outreac
Ragtime Desktop Publishing Download http://www.ragtime-online.com
PagePlus Desktop Publishing Download http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/softw
Acerose Password Vault Store all your passwords safely Download http://www.dexadine.com/acerose.html
SimpleOCR Optical Character Recognition Download http://www.simpleocr.com/
PDF ReDirect PDF creator Download http://www.exp-systems.com
Pdf995 (requires Converter) Pdf995 Printer Driver Download http://www.pdf995.com/download.html
Pdf995 Converter Required by Pdf995 Download http://www.pdf995.com/download.html
EasyOffice+PDF Filter Office suite Download http://www.e-press.com/downloads_freewar
OpenOffice >>TIP<< Office suite Download http://www.openoffice.org
Skype Voip client Download http://www.skype.com/go/getskype VoIP
IVE Turns your pc into a video phone Download http://sony.glowpoint.com
Google Talk (beta) Call or send instant messages Download http://www.google.com/talk
VoIP Buster >>TIP<< Free calls to land lines Download http://www.voipbuster.com
Phonegaim Voip client Download http://www.phonegaim.com
Gizmo Free Phone for Your Computer Download http://www.gizmoproject.com
Jajah (beta) Webphone Download http://www.jajah.com
FireFly Softphone with IM & voicemail Download http://www.freshtel.net/firefly
GloPhone Softphone Download http://www.glophone.com
Woize Digital telephony made simple Download http://www.woize.com
Grabit Easy newsgroup reader Download http://www.shemes.com/index.php?p=down News &
RSS readers
Powergrab Simple newsgroup reader Download http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive
Xnews Newsgroup reader Download http://xnews.newsguy.com
Binary News Reaper >>TIP<< Advanced newsgroup reader Download http://www.bnr2.org
Feedreader Light RSS/Atom aggregator Download http://www.feedreader.com
RssReader Displays RSS & Atom news feeds Download http://www.rssreader.com
RssPublisher Create, edit & publish RSS feeds Download http://www.rsspublisher.com
RSSOwl RSS/RDF/Atom newsreader Download http://www.rssowl.org/download
Rss Bandit RSS/Atom aggregator Download http://www.rssbandit.org/ow.asp?DownLoad
Juice (f.k.a. iPodder) Capture Podcasts Download http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net
7-Zip >>TIP<< Multi-format file archiver Download http://www.7-zip.org Com-
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FreeExtractor SFX-archives + wizard builder Download http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor
ZipGenius File compression suite Download http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm
IZArc Archive utility Download http://www.izarc.org
Tugzip Powerful archiving utility Download http://www.tugzip.com