Feb 27
A huge list of freeware programs including the following types: graphic and DTP, internet, multimedia, office applications, security and privacy protection, and more. This list completes all your needs without spending a penny.
Page 1: Graphic and Desktop Publishing
Page 5: Security and Privacy Protection
Page 6: Other Tools and Utilities
Graphic and Desktop Publishing
Blender
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Useful for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation, and playback. |
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GIMP
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A great image retouching and authoring program. An excellent alternative to Photoshop. |
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Inkscape
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Cross platform vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. |
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PhotoFiltre
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Excellent image retouching program, which allows you to do simple adjustments to images and apply many different filters on them. |
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Paint.NET
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Everything that Microsoft Paint should be. Great for image authoring and editing. |
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Scribus
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Desktop publishing application. Much better than Microsoft Publisher and has high end page layout features similar to those found in Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and Adobe InDesign. |
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40 Responses to Freeware Applications for Your Every Need
x_Katie_x
Cool list - and its all free
:)
SJ86
Good collection here… I didn’t know about some of these
Evan
Cool. I didn’t know about Inkscape.
Rich
Evan: Inkscape is a great piece of software. A lot of us use it at work.
anil sharma
To be honest with you, I have never written any comments or posts in the Internet. This is my first time. Why did I decide to post? The answer is simple – all information here is so amazing and interesting that it’s hard to imagine someone wouldn’t comment it.
Ravi
Wow,
I like this site and i am very happy to download so many softwares.
Angad
Yeah @ Anil Sharma, Ravi. I agree with you Guys.
Rich
I second that
Ashutosh
Hey,
Great list. Good to see a compilation of computing essentials (essentials should be free, dont you think?)
A
Ashutosh
Hey,
I would also recommend,
FreeCommander (Utility - Great replacement to the lame Windows Explorer)
And TrueCrypt (Security - Free open-source disk encryption software)
A
Harry Anchan
Here are a few more awesome freeware:
1. Encode music from analog as well as digital sources:
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
2. No advertising being forced on you by Real Player. Light, small and plays all your RM/RA files:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm
3. VERY small, unobtrusive CD player:
http://www.amberror.lt/
4. Multi ID3 Tag Editor allows you to manipulate ID tags to display properly on your iPod:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Tag-Editors/Multi-ID-Tag-Editor.shtml
6. MagicTransfer to back up critical files and OS settings:
http://www.download3k.com/Install-Magic-Transfer.html
7. VAIOSoft Recovery Manager. Excellent recovery software that worked for me:
http://vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html
8. DVDShrink. A FREE software solution for shrinking original DVDs onto recordable media:
http://www.dvdshrink.org/
9. DVD Decrypter. The Definitive DVD Backup Resource:
http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/
10. IrfanView. Probaly the best image viewer out there:
http://www.irfanview.com/
11. RegCleaner. A great registry cleaner/ Use it with CCleaner:
http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm
12. OverDisk, an amazing freeware utility that displays folder sizes in a multiple level pie:
http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html
13. DriveZ is a very small, standalone program that comes useful if you need to list or copy the contents of folders or drives:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/drivez.html
14. LookDisk can search for files using various parameters:
http://www.fxsearch.com/ldw_eng/
15. TaskPrompt is a small task reminder utility:
http://www.skynergy.com/taskprompt.html
16. Eml2html is a program to restore/convert script back to html from eml and nws files:
http://home.chello.no/~cato.salid/Eml2html/Eml2Html.htm
17. Qlock is the leading *FREE* deskop World Clock especially designed for Windows PCs:
http://www.qlock.com/
18. UMark: Watermark freeware for images:
http://www.uconomix.com/Products/uMark/Default.aspx
Rich
Thanks for the recommendations Ashutosh and Harry.
YozDude
Great list!
Rich
Thanks for stopping by YozDude!
Jarret
Couldnt agree more with this list. Thank you
Zelda
If anyone knows of a freeware that’s similar to eBoostr, I’d be happy to hear.
The rest of the list is nice. Freeware makes computers available for more people..
Sarah Byrd
seen all these before…
Strickland
thx for sharing
DRIFTKING
HEYYY……..LOVE THIS SITE AND ADORE THESE FREEWARES
Kennith Gamble
Good programs thanks
HARI143
good softwares
jona
i think they are very usable
thenetguruz
These are good apps, I have used most of them. You forgot to mention Open Office, Thunderbird and many others…
Rich
@thenetguruz — thanks
Page 1 is just ‘Graphic and Desktop-publishing’ freeware.
The other pages have Open Office, Thunderbird and more…
Page 2: Internet
Page 3: Multimedia
Page 4: Office Applications
Page 5: Security and Privacy Protection
Page 6: Other Tools and Utilities
Angie
Just downloaded Photo Filtre. It includes a lot of features that PSP has. The great thing about is that it’s free! Thanks, Rich.
Gloria
Free is better than cheap!!!!!
Aviator365
Harry Anchan nice add up to the freebie freewares.thanks.
William Throop
Paragon Drive Backup Express is a great free program to back up entire disks or partitions. It’s free too. Paragon has quite a few other free programs too.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/free_downloads.html
William Throop
Better than Belarc.
http://www.gtopala.com/
SIW - System Information for Windows
Everything you want to know about your computer
SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for Asset Inventory Tracking, Computer (Software and Hardware) Inventory, PC Audit, Software Audit, Software License Compliance Management).
The system information is divided into few major categories:
* Software Information: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Software Licenses (Product Keys / Serial Numbers / CD Key), Secrets (Password Recovery).
* Hardware Information: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers.
* Network Information: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.
* Network Tools: MAC Address Changer, Neighborhood Scan, Ping, Trace, Statistics
* Miscellaneous Tools: Eureka! (Reveal lost passwords hidden behind asterisks), Monitor Test, Shutdown / Restart.
* Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.
SIW is a standalone utility that does not require installation (Portable Freeware) - one less installed program on your PC as well the fact that you can run the program directly from an USB flash drive, from a floppy, from a network drive or from a domain login script.
Platform: Microsoft Windows 98 / Me / NT4 / 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Media Center / Tablet PC / Windows 2003 Server R2 / Vista / Windows Server 2008 / Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 / WinRE / Bart PE / Winternals ERD Commander
Rohit Bansal
Very good Job,
Keep it up guys!!
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