User:Callumgw/GoodFreeSoftware

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Introduction

This page presents some good free software tools that may be handy for both work and play. These tools have not been assessed for use on any of our restricted or higher security networks, so seek appropriate approvals or use on stand alone and home terminals only.

It is worth noting first that some of these require the Microsoft ".net framework", so you'll need to install [1]. Similarly, some require Java runtimes (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html). Some others listed as "Firefox plug in" install into the Mozilla Firefox web browser, so to use these you will need to use Firefox (don't worry that’s free too).

The list is broken up into categories and the more generalist ones are listed first, with the engineering-related ones further down the list.

Other sources of good freeware information are http://www.techsupportalert.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages, which provide descriptions of the software on offer.

If you find any more reliable ones, then please get them on this wiki!

Windows Software List

Operating System Disk Creation

• nLite: http://www.nliteos.com/index.html
• vLite: http://www.vlite.net/

Security

Firewall

• ZoneAlarm: http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/anti-virus-spyware-free-download.htm
• Comodo Firewall Pro: http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Virus Protection

• avast! 4 Home Edition: https://www.avast.com/index
• Avira AntiVir Personal: http://www.free-av.com/
• AVG Anti-Virus Free: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/au/tpl/v5
• Comodo Firewall and Antivirus: http://www.comodo.com/products/free-products.php

Spyware Tools

• Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
• Microsoft Windows Defender: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
• TrendMicro free clean up tools: http://free.antivirus.com/clean-up-tools/
• Startup Inspector: http://www.windowsstartup.com/index.php
• Sysinternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb795534.aspx
• TCP View: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
• Autoruns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

IP Blockers

• PeerGuardian: http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ (helps prevent adware tracking your internet use)

Network Monitoring

• Ethereal: http://www.ethereal.com/

General Desktop Programs

Office Applications

• Open Office: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
• PDFill PDF Writer: http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_writer.html
• PDFFill PDF Tools: http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html (e.g. converts bitmaps to PDF and vice versa)
• doPDF (creates PDF documents, doesn't use GhostScript): doPDF
• Adobe Reader: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
• Mind Mapping: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• Project Planning and management: http://www.openworkbench.org

Web Browsing

• Mozilla Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Email Programs

• Mozilla Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
• hMailServer: http://www.hmailserver.com/ (supports IMAP, SMTP and POP3 e-mail protocols)
• MailEnable: http://www.mailenable.com/ (support Anti-Spam, MAPI, ActiveSync, SMTP and POP3)
• Xobni (Microsoft Outlook improvement tool): http://www.xobni.com/

CD/DVD Burning

• CD BurnerXP Pro: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php
• DeepBurner: http://www.deepburner.com/?r=products
• InfraRecorder (recommended by Ubuntu): http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Mapping Software

• Google Earth: http://www.google.com/earth/
• Google Maps: http://maps.google.com.au/
• Microsoft LiveLocal: http://maps.live.com/

Graphics/Image Editors

• FastStone Image Viewer: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
• PaintDotNet: http://www.getpaint.net
• Artweaver: http://www.artweaver.de
• IrfanView: http://www.irfanview.com
• Inkscape (vector graphics drawing tool): http://www.inkscape.org
• GIMP (tricky to download, but powerful): http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net
• GIMPshop (GIMP dressed as Photoshop): http://www.gimpshop.com/download.shtml
• Opanda IExif (displays exif, gps and iptc data): http://www.opanda.com
• Picasa (a Google product): http://picasa.google.com
• PhotoScape: http://www.photoscape.org (free for non-commercial use)

ScreenSaver/Desktop manager

• WebShots: http://www.webshot.com

Windows Enhancements

• Power Toys: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx (including a good calculator with unit conversion)
• RJH Extensions: http://www.rjhsoftware.com/rjhextensions/
• Microsoft Process Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Kids Programs

• Tux Paint: http://www.tuxpaint.org/
• Tux Math Scrabble: http://www.asymptopia.org/staticpages/index.php?page=TuxMathScrabble
• Multiplication Station: http://www.asymptopia.org/staticpages/index.php?page=MultiplicationStation
• Tux Wordsmith: http://www.asymptopia.org/staticpages/index.php?page=TuxWordSmith

Games

• Live For Speed (restricted numbers of cars/tracks in free version): http://www.liveforspeed.co.uk
• Flight Gear: http://www.flightgear.org/
• Racer: http://www.racer.nl/
• OpenArena: http://openarena.ws/about.html
• FreeDroid: http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/download.php (read the windows installation instructions, quite easy)
• Nexuiz: http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/downloads.php
• SuperTux: http://supertux.lethargik.org/
• Pingus: http://pingus.seul.org/download.html
• TuxRacer: http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/download.html
• FreeCiv: http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
• Wormux: http://www.wormux.org/wiki/download.php?/en/
• Frozen Bubble (for windows): http://fb-win32.sourceforge.net/
• Lincity: http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Download/Installation

File Management Tools

Computer Search Tools

• WindowsGrep: http://www.wingrep.com/download.htm
• Copernic Desktop Search: http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html

File Renaming Tools

• Rename Master: http://www.joejoesoft.com
• LupasRename: http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/download.php

File Compression Tools

• 7Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/
• FilZip: http://www.filzip.com/ (doesn't do ".iso")

File/Folder Size Checking

• WinDirStat: http://windirstat.info/
• SpaceMonger: http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php

File/Folder Synchronisation and Backup

• SyncBack: http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
• Cobian Backup: http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
• SyncToy: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx

Disk Imaging and Partitioning Tools

• Macrium Reflect: http://www.macrium.com/ (32-bit/64-bit disk imaging)
• EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition: http://www.partition-tool.com/
• DriveImage XML Private Edition: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

Partition Recovery Tools

• FindPart and FindNTFS: http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm (works reasonably well)
• NTFS Partition Repair Tool: http://windows-daily-hard-disk-tips.blogspot.com/2007/04/free-ntfs-partition-repair-tool.html
• TestDisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Miscellaneous

• Ketarin: http://ketarin.canneverbe.com/ (automatically updates setup packages)
• SuperCopier: http://supercopier.sfxteam.org/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=1
• UltimateDefrag: http://www.disktrix.com/UDFree.htm (defragments files on disk drives)
• Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/#description (unlocks files that are access locked)

Web Tools

Download Managers

• NetLeech: http://www.netleech.com/
• DownThemAll (a plug-in to Firefox): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201 or http://www.downthemall.net/

Torrent Clients

• uTorrent: http://www.utorrent.com
• BitComet: http://www.bitcomet.com
• Azurius: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php

FTP transfer

• Filezilla: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558
• CoreFTP: http://www.coreftp.com/
• Fire FTP (Firefox plug-in): http://fireftp.mozdev.org/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684

MD5 Checksum

• winMD5Sum (recommended by Ubuntu): http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/winmd5sum
• Fastsum: http://www.fastsum.com/download.php

Web Editors

• KompoZer: http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/
• Web Developer (Firefox plug in): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 or http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

Website Content Management Tools

• Pluck (PHP): http://www.pluck-cms.org/
• KustomPage (ASP): http://www.kustompage.com/

Link/Favourites Checker

• AM-Deadlink: http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm

Usenet News Readers

• XanaNews: http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/xananews.htm

Web Servers

• Uniform server: http://www.uniformserver.com
• XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Media Tools

Media Players

• Miro: http://www.getmiro.com/download
• Media Player Classic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
• VLC Player: (a little clunky): http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
• WinAmp: http://www.winamp.com/player

Audio Editors

• Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Video Codecs

• XP Codec Pack: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

Media Centres

• Media Portal: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/download.html
• GB-PVR: http://www.gbpvr.com/

DVD Authouring

• DVDFlick: http://www.dvdflick.net

Music Tools

• Karaoke and Midi player: http://www.vanbasco.com/
• Music sheet notation and midi player: http://www.musescore.org/

Specialist Editors And Developers

Text Editors

• Notepad++: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
• CrimsonEditor: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
• NoteTab Light: http://www.notetab.com/
• PSPad: http://www.pspad.com/
• Emacs (tricky to download): http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

Hex/Binary Editors

• HexEdit (hex editor): http://www.expertcomsoft.com/
• HxD (binary Hex Editor): http://mh-nexus.de/hxd/ (includes Checksum-Generator: Checksum-8, Checksum-16, Checksum-24, Checksum-32, CRC-16, CRC-16 CCITT, CRC-32, *Custom CRC, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD-2, MD-4, MD5)
• XVI32 (Hex editor): http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#overview
• Frhed (Binary Editor): http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html

Digitisers

Used to convert graphical line plots into collections of data points.

• Engauge Digitizer: http://digitizer.sourceforge.net
• WinDig: http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chifi/cpb/windig.html

Software Development

• Netbeans: http://www.netbeans.org/
• CYGWIN (run Linux in Windows): http://www.cygwin.com/
• Eclipse (General IDE): http://www.eclipse.org/
• Visual MinGW: http://visual-mingw.sourceforge.net/ + MinGW (gcc, g77, etc): http://www.mingw.org/
• Qdevelop (IDE for Qt): http://qdevelop.org/ + Qt Open Source Edition (windows libraries): http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/windows

Engineering tools

Mathematics

• The R Project: http://www.r-project.org/
• Octave: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
• Scilab: http://www.scilab.org/

Modelling

• Wings3d: http://www.wings3d.com/

Circuit Design

• Eagle: http://cadsoft.de/download.htm
• KiCAD: http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/index.html
• VeeCad: http://veecad.com/index.html
• TinyCad: http://tinycad.sourceforge.net/

Linux Software List

Operating Systems

• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/

File Servers

• FreeNAS: http://www.freenas.org
• SME Server: http://www.smeserver.org
• Amahi Home Server: http://www.amahi.org/

Media Tools

Media Centres

• Mythbuntu: http://www.mythbuntu.com/
• KnoppMyth: http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
• MythDora: http://g-ding.tv/
• LinuxMCE: http://www.linuxmce.org/
• GeeXBoX: http://www.geexbox.org/