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 Shareware - Freeware Sites
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| ZDnet Downloads |
Program descriptions, rated, searchable. The Best! |
| Softpedia.com |
Program descriptions, rated, searchable. A new competitor in the freeware/shareware repository domain. |
| PCMag's Shareware Library |
Searchable, categories of shareware and freeware. |
| TUCOWS Home |
The Ultimate Collection of Windows & Internet Software (fast downloads, updated daily, rated, includes Mac shareware) |
| Fileforum |
Searchable, categories. |
| Simtel.Net |
A worldwide distribution network for Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain software. |
| 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." |
| Download.com for the PC |
Searchable, categories. |
| WinPlanet |
Completely new look and content, formerly Stroud's list. |
| MS's Free Downloads |
Free software, mostly Internet-related software & add-ons to MS-Office products - if you use MS Office, you will probably find several desirable items here. |
| filehippo.com |
Free software downloads |
| Jumbo's Shareware Collection |
Nicely classified, with program descriptions |
| SnapFiles |
Formerly WebAttack, no longer limited to Internet related software |
| PCWorld's downloads |
Searchable, categories. |
| Nonags Freeware/Shareware |
"A collection of Windows software that has no nags, no time limits, no disabled features or any other tricks" |
| Pass The Shareware |
New shareware |
| SoftwareOutlet |
Not shareware, but very good prices on commerical software. |
| Internet Browsers |
| Find Browsers |
Links to commonly used browsers, sorted by version and OS |
| Firefox Browser 3.5 |
Highly recommended! You may be interested, especially if you have a modem connection to the internet. Totally free. HTML and Javascript rendering is quite good. This browser is based on the same code as Mozilla and appears to be the fastest browser available. Has integrated pop-up blocking and other useful features missing from IE. See this article about the dangers of using Microsoft's Internet Explorer! |
| Internet Explorer 8 |
Microsoft's latest internet browser |
| Opera 9.64 |
"Already regarded as the world's fastest, most secure browser, Opera speeds up your Web browsing with these features:
Navigate quickly using intuitive mouse gestures and browser tabs
Start from where your last browsing session ended or save your entire session
Access downloaded files quickly with the transfer manager
Protect against identity theft and phishing with integrated security features
Shop Amazon, browse Ebay, and search the web with Google right from the address bar
Set reminders for Web pages you visit with the notes feature" |
| File Formats/File Compression |
| Wotsit's Format |
"File format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc." |
| Graphics File Formats |
Definitions, links to articles, software on graphics file formats - excellent! |
| A Manual to Graphic File Formats |
Short guide to the most common graphics file formats |
| The File Extension Source |
"A detailed database of file extensions and programs that use them" |
| Audio/Video Players & Files |
| Windows Media Player |
MS's media players. |
| Winamp |
"By far the best MP3 audio player on the 'net -- and it's free!" - according to some |
| RealPlayer |
Home of RealPlayer streaming multimedia |
| Shockwave and Flash Players |
Plug-in for viewing streamed multimedia content |
| QuickTime |
QuickTime for Windows Home Page |
| BBC Radio 4 |
Great audio content - streaming audio programs - Arts and Drama, Comedy, Religion/Ethics, History |
| BBC4 Science |
Great science content - including streaming audio programs - wonderful stuff |
| The Connection.org |
"The Connection with Dick Gordon website" - interesting interviews/call-in programs on many topics |
| Science Friday |
"An online companion to Science Friday, a weekly science, technology, and environment news radio program." - including many archived programs |
| WCPE.org |
WCPE (Classical) streams audio over the Internet 24 hours a day in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Real Audio, Windows Media & QuickTime! |
| RealGuide |
Comprehensive links to live broadcasting from: ABC Hourly News, CBC World Report, PC Week Radio, etc. |
| WindowsMedia.com |
MS media content |
| www.last.fm |
"Last.fm recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to." |
| mp3Trim |
Freeware - "This software cleans up and removes unwanted parts of your MP3s." |
| Roger McGuinn |
Incredibly beautiful folk music on 12-string in RealAudio/MP3 - former leader of the Byrds of "Mr. Tamborine Man" and "Turn, Turn, Turn" fame. Here is a video of Roger singing/playing "Turn, Turn, Turn." |
| Webreference Multimedia |
Audio, Video, Watermarks |
| MPEG Pointers & Resources |
Many links to MPEG resources |
| Virus References/FAQs |
| AVG Anti-Virus Free edition |
"Get your free copy of the AVG Anti-Virus 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 databases." |
| 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! |
| AntiVir PersonalEdition freeware |
"Protection and security against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and spyware, including dialers." |
| McAfee |
Anti-virus info & DOS, Windows, Mac versions of their software. |
| McAfee FreeScan |
McAfee's Free Online Anti-virus Scanner. You must be using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or higher. |
| VirusPortal |
"A free portal dedicated completely to the phenomenon of computer viruses. It contains information and solutions that can prevent these malicious programs from attacking. VirusPortal is a Global Virus Observatory that allows you to monitor, in real-time, the virus status worldwide." |
| Anti-Virus Course |
Free "two-hour basic course, through which you will acquire a basic knowledge on viruses and on how to be protected against them." Part of Panda's Anti-Virus Encyclopedia. |
| 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 |
| Virus Encyclopaedia |
"Written by the famous virus researcher, contains detailed info about more than 30,000 known viruses, along with virus classification, and common methods of virus detection and disinfection." |
| Hoax warnings |
"This page is considered the industry standard information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts." |
| Of interest to MS Office users |
| MS Office Tools on the Web |
From MS - Office updates, "how-to" articles, and tips |
| MS Office Templates |
From MS - Office templates - for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access |
| Design Gallery Live |
From MS - clipart & photos for use in Office |
| vitalnews.com |
Home of WordTips and ExcelTips |
| MS Office 2003 Service Pack 2 |
"Office 2003 Service Pack 2 contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements." |
| PowerPoint 2003 Add-in: Microsoft Producer |
Free add-in for PowerPoint users. "Producer 2003 provides users with many powerful new features that make it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and images to create engaging and effective rich-media presentations." |
| MS Office File Converters and Viewers |
"Converters allow you to open files created by people using different versions of your Office programs. Viewers provide a means for people who don't have Office programs to see your work. You can provide them with the appropriate viewer along with your Office files." |
| Some useful Windows shareware/freeware |
| OpenOffice 3.1 |
"Mission Statement: To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format." Available for Windows and Linux. Now includes a database (named BASE) that stores its data in XML (reads and writes Access, DBase, and MySQL files). |
| CCleaner |
"A freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less that a second to run) and FREE! :)" |
| Ad-Aware |
New version finds a lot more junk - "designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. |
| Java VM for Windows |
Java Runtime Environment to support Java in IE, etc. |
| Vuze |
"Vuze implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users." |
| IsoBuster |
"Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD!" |
| CDInterface |
"CDInterface is a free tool to create autorun cd menu for your software collection.Will organize your softwares and have all the informations you want - title,description,serial number,updates,etc...An easy to use interface.No programming language is required." |
| Google Toolbar |
Search the web with Google from any site:
New! Eliminate pop-up ads
New! Fill in forms with one click
New! Restrict your search to pages located in a specific country
Search just within the pages of a site
Highlight search terms on a page
Free and highly recommended! |
| Thunderbird |
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive email experience... designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. From Mozilla.org - complements Firefox. Highly recommended. |
| MozBackup |
"MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc." |
| Tweak UI |
The Windows shell-development team did some extra programming and put together a set of tools, called Power Toys. If you're a power user, go ahead and try them out, but be forewarned that Power Toys aren't supported by MS, because they are not part of Windows. This group of "toys" lets you adjust your Windows User Interface, including menu speed, window animation, and MS Internet Explorer. |
| Tweak UI for XP |
Everything in the standard Tweak UI plus ten more individually downloadable power toys |
| PowerArchiver v6.11 |
Full-featured ZIP program provides you with the power you need to do anything you can imagine with ZIP files and many other archive file types -- easier to use than WinZip, it's totally free, so you can use it wherever you want. Also you make copies of it for as many friends and computers as you want!" |
| PC Inspector File Recovery |
"A data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. It recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available." Free. |
| EXPERVISION |
They advertise themselves as having created "The next generation of OCR technology" - one is tempted to believe it. The demo version - good for scanning 15 pages - was impressively fast and accurate. |
| Rsync client and server for Windows |
"cwRsync is a yet another packaging of Rsync and Cygwin. You can use cwRsync for fast remote file backup and synchronization." |
| Acrobat/PDF/Flash |
| Adobe Reader |
Update for popular plug-in/ActiveX control viewer for displaying inline PDF files. |
| FlashPaper |
New FlashPaper app can create both Flash documents that load quickly and PDF files. Recommended. |
| PlanetPDF |
All about Adobe Acrobat and PDF files, tips, tricks, other add-in conversion software. |
| PDF to HTML conversion |
"With access.adobe.com PDF to HTML conversion by form, all you have to do is type in a URL to an Adobe PDF document into an electronic form and select the Get This Adobe PDF Document As HTML button. The Adobe PDF document will be converted on-the-fly to HTML, and will be returned to you immediately in your browser application." |
| 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. |
| pdf995 |
Free download - create PDFs from any application. "The free versions of pdf995 products will display a sponsor page in your web browser each time you run the software." |
| PDF Research Companion |
"A designer's guide to the Portable Document Format" |
| Optimizing PDF Files |
"Here are nine rules for optimizing your files." |
| Software for Web Page Development |
| 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." |
| PHP Designer |
"A PHP editor designed to provide you with the complete set of tools you need for PHP coding. The development environment combines many powerful features such as customizable syntax schemes for PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, and SQL, a class/include browser, test and debug your scripts with the PHP interpreter, and integration of the PHP manual, parameter hint. It also features the ability to autoindent brackets, automatically close brackets, and grants access to common code/script libraries all combined in this one unique program." FREE! |
| Arachnophilia 5.2 |
New version written in Java! Excellent freeware HTML editor - multi-file find/replace (now supports regular expressions), large files, multi-undo, color-coded HTML tags, full drag & drop editing. Those familar with the old Arach 4.0 may be taken aback by the new interface. Requires the installation of the Java Runtime. |
| Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.2g |
"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! |
| Nvu |
"A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver." |
| HTML-Kit |
"HTML-Kit is a full-featured, highly customizable and free development environment that can be used to create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts." Here is an overview. |
