Freeware Software...

[spiderhole]

Another great, free, and highly versatile media player is VLC, which has a small footprint, plays just about anything, and runs on just about any operating system...check it out:

/>http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[zer0buRn]

NOD32 only has a trial version therefore its not freeware

[Guest ChromeX]

This app looks abandon (lastversion: 29. v. 1.0.1.61 Freeware, 19th July, 2005. ;
/>http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm)

according to Firewall Leak Tester, (http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests.php)

Jetico is first in "Global firewalls 'outbound application filtering' ranking" and second in % of leaktests BLOCKED.

Maybe the development of the app itself is stopped, who knows, but it's still very good

[zer0buRn]

I'm gonna sticky this for a while... Lot of good alternatives here.

Great post Ted

[Fungus]

Music CD ripping : Exact Audio Copy

Mp3 Encoding : Lame

I forgot these, how could I??? How could anyone???

[GaBoR]

a-Wall Firewall:

http://www.sphinx-soft.com/download/a-Wall-Setup.exe

CD-Ripper: CDex

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cdexos/cdex_151.zip?download

Mp3 Editing:mp3DirectCut

http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

Movie Players: Kmplayer

http://www.kmplayer.com/kbbs/

Mplayer

http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

RSS Reader:KlipFolio 3.0

http://www.serence.com/files/klipfolio/current/KlipFolio-3D.exe

Edited April 29, 2006 by GaBoR

[Guest Tundra]

Audio Playback: foobar2000!

/>http://www.foobar2000.org/foobar2000_0.9.1.exe

[Teddy Rogers]

Some more freeware alternatives:

ExtractNow:

http://www.extractnow.com/

Supports ZIP, RAR, ACE, JAR, ISO, IMG, IMA, IMZ, BIN, MP3 (MP3>WAV), LHA, LHZ, & SIT formats.

PDFTools:

http://www.sheelapps.com/

PDFTools is a useful PDF management application that can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp and rearrange a PDF file.

Ted.

[Guest Hawk7]

Wow Teddy. This really turned in to a pretty cool post.

Here is a freeware "tool" to update your dvd or cd writer.

http:/www.drvupdate.com

Edited May 1, 2006 by Hawk7

[Fungus]

another usefull freeware tool.

TCPOptimizer.

from http://speedguide.net

[Teddy Rogers]

I have just been trying out Online Radio Tuner:

http://www.bassictech.com/

It seems pretty good so far, I am happy with playback and recording however just some minor bad points; AAC+ seems to crackle a little at times and another is you need to have .NET Framework 2 installed to be able to use it. Apart from that its a pretty cool freeware application...

Ted.

[hosiminh]

Just got this good link from one other forum:
/>http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-open-source-software/index.html

[Guest Hawk7]

Here's another good one...

/>http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/free-mpc-to-wav.html

Hey Blah, check this one out. I'll also see what I can find when I get back.

Edited May 10, 2006 by Hawk7

[Guest ChromeX]

_http://www.comodogroup.com/

Free Antivirus/Firewall/Password Manager

[Guest Tundra]

I just realized yesterday that I could also use foobar2000 for audio converting as well, it's quite a versatile program You can convert from pretty much any audio format to the other, along with tag handling/converting as well. FreeDB CD tagging is also available with a plugin.

The list of supported audio formats for decoding (some require a plugin, you can download these at foobar2000.org) include:

MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, APE, MOD, S3M, XM, IT, 669, PTM, PSM, MTM, and UMX.

And for encoding:

APE, FLAC, MP3 (Lame), MP4, Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, and WavPack

[Teddy Rogers]

Here is a nice and freeware IRC client I've been trying out, AdiIRC:

http://www.adiirc.com/

It is not mass featured but its pretty good so far and does the job for IRC very well. I've taken quite a liking to it, check it out...

Ted.

[Sigma]

I suppose I'll add something

About Screamer Radio

There is little reason to listen to commercial FM radio anymore, it is an old medium that provides little choice of music and is saturated with ads. For the last couple of years there has been an alternative, streaming internet radio. An alternative that has been somewhat complicated to use.

Screamer Radio attempts to remedy this problem by bringing most of the required steps into a single, easy to use, freeware program.

I find its quite fantastic!

http://www.screamer-radio.com/

As well

JBuilder 2006 Foundation

Get going with Java development on the Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Solaris,™ platforms. Foundation Edition provides you with the basics for speed coding and debugging with an integrated, powerful source code editor, graphical debugger, compiler, tutorials, and sample applications. Extend JBuilder using the included OpenTools API. JBuilder Foundation delivers a standards-based environment and integrated productivity features, including refactoring, code formatting, CodeInsight,™ ErrorInsight,™ Ant support, unit testing, Swing designer, and CVS version control. Best of all, it's free – even for commercial use.

http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_jbuilder.html

Edited May 15, 2006 by Sigma

[Guest ChromeX]

@Sigma, [color=#FF0000]http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_jbuilder.html is a trial download.

Edited May 15, 2006 by Teddy Rogers

[Guest Tundra]

For coding / text editing - Crimson Editor

From Wikipedia:

Crimson Editor is a freeware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. Many of the features and user interfaces are similar to that of EditPlus, most noticeably Windows shell integration, tabbed document interface, syntax highlighting, multiple undo/redo, column mode editing, bracket matching, auto-indentation, spell checking, direct editing of text files in FTP and the integration with compilers. Unicode and various newlines are supported.

In addition, Crimson Editor supports the use of macros, which can be found in applications like Microsoft Office. The built-in calculator can avaluate simple expressions. Basic mathematics functions, like those found in the standard C library, and date functions are also available.

Syntax files for pretty much every language there is are available on the website

>http://www.crimsoneditor.com

[Teddy Rogers]

ChromeX, you should know very well by now that hot-links are not tolerated in this forum. Just in case you missed anything please can you recap on the forum rules:

http://www.tuts4you.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5171

Many thanks...

Ted.

[GaBoR]

XstreamRadio is one of the most extensive radio players of this moment. Besides listening to your favorite radio stations it also allows you to record music.

http://www.xstreamradio.co.uk/download.html

[tHRALL]

Trillian is very good freeware messenger like gaim , some very nice plugins.

(but it uses lot of resources)

Ultimate Speech

very good text to speech engine.

[mia]

These are some of the freewares i am regularly using

SmartClose ---- Close windows programs and services
/>http://www.bm-productions.tk/

Gadwin print screen ------ Screen Capture
/>http://www.gadwin.com/products.htm?prnscr

SwitchOff ----- Windows Shutdown, Restart, Hibernate etc
/>http://yasoft.km.ru/eng/switchoff/

KGB Archiver ----- For very high compression
/>http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/

[Teddy Rogers]

CDBurnerXP Pro is a really cool freeware burning application:

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php

Ted.

[Guest leezarobin]

One of my favorite freeware apps is FreeRAM XP Pro. It allows you to instantly free up RAM and a lot of other options that are, as of yet, beyond my beginner's grasp but the the thing I like best is that you can minimize it to the system tray and it sits there displaying the amount of free RAM. Cool, huh?

Lisa