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Title: Freeware applications
Post by: HybridZero on February 26, 2007, 06:52:16 pm
Well, the old list had fallen into a state of extreme disrepair, so I thought I'd take over and maintain the topic. I'll be gradually updating the list over the next couple of days.

-HZ

This topic exists to provide a list of useful freeware or open-source software that GW members use. The software will be broken into categories, and listed by name, with a brief description of what the software does.  Whenever someone posts a new program, I'll add it to the list.

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Office Applications
Computer/Internet Tools
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Chubby Skelly on February 26, 2007, 08:45:31 pm
Paint.NET is a moderately powerful freeware graphics application with an interface that is probably easier to figure out than GIMP's.

http://www.getpaint.net
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Luvdisc on February 26, 2007, 10:31:30 pm
Visual Studio Express is a free download for those interested in C++, J#, Or Visual Basic...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

AVG Free is an antivirus program, though not as powerful as Avast (which has free registration for its home edition)

http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10596553.html?tag=lst-0-1


Jetico Personal Firewall is a powerful, easy to use, configurable firewall program for your PC. It interrupts incomming and outgoing connections and asks to accept, deny, or handle as a trusted application zone. Configurations can be saved for individual users.

http://www.download.com/Jetico-Personal-Firewall/3000-10435_4-10634841.html?tag=lst-0-4
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Zeratul on April 12, 2007, 04:45:25 am
Anvil (http://www.anvilstudio.com/) is an excellent free program for creating and editing MIDIs.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Ocean's Dream on April 12, 2007, 04:55:29 am
Music Sculptor for working with midis.
http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Windows/musculpt.html

Pixen for the Mac, pixel art program.
http://opensword.org/Pixen/

UnFreez for making gifs.
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

Synth font for playing midis using soundfonts, can also convert midis to mp3s
http://www.synthfont.com/
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: NeoGear on May 09, 2007, 02:45:18 am
StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ (http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/)
Set your own mouse gestures to do just about anything, just draw a circle with your mouse and a program opens.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Aten on May 11, 2007, 11:34:07 pm
Does anyone know some good firewalls?
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: HybridZero on May 13, 2007, 07:11:01 pm
Just an FYI - I'll update the master list this week. I've been going through the old topic and updating things and removing dead links, and adding the new apps from this topic.

So yeah, look for an update soon.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: tsimehC on May 29, 2007, 03:46:43 pm
You don't have CCleaner!? That's the best Temp Folder cleaning tool that's free!

www.CCleaner.com

@googlebaby: Have you tried ZoneAlarm? That's the only one I can think of. : /
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: HL on June 10, 2007, 12:44:29 pm
Avant Browser - http://www.avantbrowser.com
An explorer based upon the IE shell with several improvements. Runs faster than IE, has better pop up blocker, and many other features. Works on sites that FF just won't work on, espically foreign sites.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Sredni Vashtar on June 29, 2007, 08:37:02 pm
You might also want to include

Jedit (http://www.jedit.org/), an incredibly awesome programmer's text editor.

I've been using it for Java (although many other languages are supported), it's really, really convenient.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: 2beers on July 08, 2007, 03:38:29 pm
http://www.dvdflick.net/

Converts your videos to DVD compatible files to be burned with any DVD burning software. Fucking awesome program. Get it or die.

btw im stealing this layout for the direct downloads thread  :ninja:
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Happy HELLoween on July 10, 2007, 12:36:35 am
Quote from: Sredni Vashtar on June 29, 2007, 08:37:02 pm
You might also want to include

Jedit (http://www.jedit.org/), an incredibly awesome programmer's text editor.

I've been using it for Java (although many other languages are supported), it's really, really convenient.

jedit is pretty krazy

speaking of code editors, if anyone wants my scite that I use: http://www.leafo.net/scite/
It has got a lot of functionality (snippets, chained hotkeys, etc made by some dude (http://caladbolg.net/scite_st.php)), I just changed the colors very slightly, added more keywords and some more languages to his scripts setup. It is kind of like a make your own text editor type deal.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: blood hell on July 15, 2007, 09:21:11 am
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

Terrific, free drum machine
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Lord Kamina on July 20, 2007, 09:45:15 pm
I don't want to start a war here, but you should probably specify that even though Opera has almost no extensions, a lot of firefox's extensions are supported natively.

Also...

uTorrent --  http://www.utorrent.com/ -- Freeware (orly) torrent software that weight 250kb and requires no installation.

Mp3tag -- http://www.mp3tag.de/en/  -- Awesome program for tagging music, allows for Tag to filename, filename to tag, text file to tag and more conversions.

CDex -- http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ -- Lightweight program for conversion and ripping of audio. Open source, supports most commonly-used formats and lots of in_* plugins for winamp.

Subtitle Workshop -- http://www.urusoft.net/home.php?lang=1 -- Freeware subtitle editor and adjuster, supports just about every subtitle format out there and has a great interface.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: goldenratio on July 20, 2007, 09:52:54 pm
is that CDex any good? I was actually looking for a program like this because they are surprisingly hard to find!
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Lord Kamina on July 21, 2007, 12:21:10 am
I use it all the time. It's not so good for FLAC and those gay formats but it works fine with most regular formats(APE, OGG, MP3, WAV, etc) and it can rip CDs very nicely.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: 2beers on July 28, 2007, 09:13:38 am
If you just dump the CD into WAV files you can compress them into FLAC or whatever you like. Although it would entail using an external program for the conversion process.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Lord Kamina on July 28, 2007, 07:47:07 pm
Quote from: Dos Cervezas on July 28, 2007, 09:13:38 am
If you just dump the CD into WAV files you can compress them into FLAC or whatever you like. Although it would entail using an external program for the conversion process.

Yeah, anyhow I don't know. I hate FLAC anyway so maybe I'm doing something wrong but I think there IS a flac encoder for CDex. (In fact I think it comes with it)
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: dueledge on August 11, 2007, 11:21:22 pm
Ultimate Boot CD -- http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm -- its based on Bart PE but it has a lot of plugins already set up, which is useful if you are having trouble with BartPE (or can't be bothered).
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: AlexTheGreat on August 29, 2007, 06:44:59 am
SphereXP isn't free. I just tried it because it sounded good.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Iaman on August 30, 2007, 06:02:14 am
Open-Source means that the source code is available, and does not have anything to do with whether or not the program is free.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: 2beers on September 09, 2007, 11:27:30 am
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Kole on October 26, 2007, 06:31:10 pm
ATF Cleaner- An easy to use, TEMP file removal tool that allows you to remove all temporary files including cookies, web cache, recycle bin files, and more.  The best part is you can specify which ones to remove weather it be Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or just your computer.  All done within a few seconds of time unlike the traditional disk cleanup method.

Windows XP/2000
http://www.atribune.org/public-beta/ATF-Cleaner.exe
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Fahrenheit Jr, Mr on October 31, 2007, 02:25:01 am
I'm with Sredni on JEdit

Noteworthy Composer (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/) is a good, free MIDI maker.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Ihateyou on November 11, 2007, 07:56:43 pm
I third jEdit.
I use it for Ruby on Rails and some other stuff.

Also, Xara Xtreme for Linux (and OS X when they get around to it) is open source and it's pretty good (works like Inkscape, but less SVG oriented).
The Windows version hasn't been open sourced though.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: 2beers on November 12, 2007, 09:51:51 pm
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Lord Kamina on December 13, 2007, 03:36:09 pm
Quote from: DosCervezas on November 12, 2007, 09:51:51 pm
  • Movica - http://sourceforge.net/projects/movica/ - A graphical editor for Windows Media (.wmv), MPEG files and FLV movies.
This sounds pretty cool.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: feaddict92 on February 27, 2008, 10:13:40 pm
LiquidIcon-- http://www.x2studios.com/index.php?page=products&id=11     This is an awesome, yet completely free icon maker/editor!
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: theHunter on April 15, 2008, 11:37:24 am
GW is an incredibly useful community.
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: SlyzertVoltrond on May 19, 2008, 07:58:34 am
This topic need this: http://www.techsupportalert.com/dr/best_46_free_utilities.htm
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Chubby Skelly on June 25, 2008, 04:52:15 pm
WinDirStat

This program goes through all the directories on your drive(s) and shows you what files and directories are taking up the most space. It has a handy visualization called a "treemap" that makes it easy to identify huge files and directories.

http://windirstat.info/
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: ailema on July 01, 2008, 05:24:14 am
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Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Luvdisc on August 09, 2008, 12:40:08 am
www.defraggler.com - Disk Defrag, made from the makers of CCleaner... I really like it, it works better than the one Vista uses.. and much faster..
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: WillyFourEyes on April 10, 2009, 12:19:15 am
Quote from: Doozer on February 26, 2007, 08:45:31 pm
Paint.NET is a moderately powerful freeware graphics application with an interface that is probably easier to figure out than GIMP's.

http://www.getpaint.net

I love Paint.NET. I have that for my photo-manips, so I barely use Photoshop anymore. Just remember that you need to have the latest version of Microsoft's .NET framework installed on your computer, or it won't run at all (the only real downside I could think of for it).
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Ragnar on April 21, 2009, 08:30:08 pm
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

JKDefrag

I'm trying this now - it's a defragmenter but I think it does a lot of special stuff that other defragmenters don't do, like you can try to rearrange the stuff on your hard drive in some kind of logical way (like by file size or most used, but it seems like option 7, by filename works the best)

if anybody else wants to try it I think it's increased my speed a lot but I might just be imagining it/placebo effect

I haven't tried Defraggler, can somebody tell me if it works better than Defraggler or not

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx this is another free defragmenter I don't think anybody mentioned

is Movica better than Windows Movie Maker please tell me it is

Edit: There's a new version of JKDefrag if you search for "MyDefrag", but apparently it's still in beta - but it has new features to move/defragment files Windows normally won't allow or something (which are system files that you would want to move around, I think)
Title: Freeware applications
Post by: Ragnar on April 07, 2010, 09:56:56 pm
http://www.wavosaur.com/

it's an audio editor that's a little wonky compared to Audacity but it supports ASIO so it might be desirable for some people. Or you can record your shit on here and switch to Audacity for touching it up
Title: Freeware applications
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Title: Freeware applications
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Title: Freeware applications
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Title: Freeware applications
Post by: everyclear on May 06, 2010, 05:06:44 pm
how about we make a new topic kind of like this but is up to date and specifies things such as the operating systems that each application supports and stuff that is important like that?  I mean, I would probably be the one doing that since I'm mentioning it now, but whatever. 
Title: Freeware applications
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