Ultimate List of Free Essential Software
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Free software can save you hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars. The software listed below is completely free, doesn’t have malware or adware, is completely legal, and I use each of them personally. Most of them are Open Source. If you aren’t familiar with what Open Source is please read The Free Software Definition.
This list includes the most popular software within their categories. You’ll find a software solution for all of your daily needs. If you have any suggestions or ways to improve the list please leave a comment.
Operating System
Ubuntu - Designed as a Linux alternative to Windows or Mac operating systems. A free operating system makes really cheap PC’s possible. Like the one offered by WalMart for $130. They are running an operating system like Ubuntu to get the cost down. The best part of buying a computer like that is you won’t be sacrificing any of the major things you’re used to.
If you are thinking about upgrading to Windows Vista or getting a new computer Ubuntu is a great alternative. Ubuntu is designed for everyday use. The biggest downside is that it can’t run much of the software written for Windows. The good news is there are many many Linux based free software that is just as good or better than the expensive Windows alternative.
Ubuntu is gaining momentum and becoming more popular each day. If you use Ubuntu and like it please share what you know with your friends and family.
Anti Virus
AVG Anti-Virus - the most popular free solution available at no cost to home users and provides the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.
- Easy to use, low system resources
- Automatic update functionality
- Real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
- AVG’s Virus Vault for the safe handling of infected files
Note: Avast also offers top rated anti virus protection
Personal Firewall
Comodo - The Award-Winning Free Firewall Software
- Complete protection from Hackers, Spyware and Identity theft
- Secures against internal and external threats
- Host Intrusion Prevention System stops malware ever being installed
- Delivers total end-point security for Personal Computers and Networks
Web Browser
FireFox - I’m an avid fan of Firefox for many reasons. Between the design, usability, and lack of features Explorer had me unsatisfied. Explorer has tried to update their browser but it looks like a thinly veiled ripoff of Firefox. In addition, the new Explorer froze up more often. Works with Windows, Linux, OS X
Most people that start using FireFox can’t live without it. The tabbed browsing and the customizations are very hard to beat. These other features are icing on the cake:
*Improved Tabbed Browsing
*Spell Checking
*Session Restore
*Web Feeds (RSS)
*Pop-up Blocker
*Phishing Protection
*Protection from Spyware
FireFox also has over 1,000 add-ons to choose from. You are sure to find something to make FireFox your own.
IM Chat
IM all your friends in one place! This little power house is compatible with everything. All your chat accounts will work here. It supports: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Zephyr.
Note: Try the ‘Off the Record’ plugin for added security. Everyone you chat with needs to have the OTR plugin installed too. For offices and regular conversations this added bit of privacy is nice.
Mozilla Thunderbird - It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
Office Software
OpenOffice - Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. Includes a robust word processor (Word), spreadsheet (Excel) , presentation (PowerPoint), and database (Access).
Photo Organizer
Google’s Picasa - The easy way to share and manage your photos.
Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:
* Locate and organize all the photos on your computer.
* Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
* Share your photos with others through email, prints, and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free.
Take your photos further with Picasa from Google.
Direct link: Picasa for Linux
Music Player & Organizer
A big thanks to Brian for leaving a lot of great suggestions in his comment. He’s right, iTunes can make me crazy sometimes. I guess I have a soft spot for it because it helped me get into podcasting. But one of his suggestions is a downright winner (sorry iTunes).
SongBird - Not only does Songbird have everything you’d want in an audio program it also comes with a full library of add-ons. Customize your player ’til your hearts content.
Drawing & Photography
Gimp - 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.
If you’re used to Photoshop Gimp takes some getting used to. I still use it regularly because there is such a strong community providing great help and resources.
Screen Capture/Recording
CamStudio replaces expensive Camtasia recording software.
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer
and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in
SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly
Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Here are just a few ways you can use this software:
- You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
- Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most
frequently asked questions? - You can create video tutorials for school or college class
- You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer
so you can show technical support people - You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
- You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover
on your favourite software program, before you forget them
CD & DVD Burning
CDBurnerXP - a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Media Player
VideoLAN - VLC media player - Thanks to Steele in the comments for suggesting this one. From the short time I’ve used it VLC supports a huge amount of video and audio formats. The interface is simple and clean. I know this will be a program I use for a very long time. Thanks again Steele!
From VLC’s website:
* It is a free cross-platform media player
* It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
* It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, …)
Audio Recording
Audacity - a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
* Record live audio.
* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
* Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
* Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
* Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
* And more!
3D Modeling
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
Features include:
- Revolutionary non-overlapping and non-blocking UI delivers unsurpassed workflow
- A range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts (TrueType, PostScript, OpenType)
- Fast skeleton creation mode
- Automated walkcycles along paths
- Diffuse shaders such as Lambert, Minnaert, Toon, Oren-Nayar, Lambert
- Realtime 3D/Game Creation
- View all the features
Video Editing
Avidemux - a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
Video Capture
Virtualdub - a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
File Compression/Zip
- Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS - For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
FTP Software
FileZilla - a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Drag & drop support
- Configurable Speed limits
- Filename filters
- Network configuration wizard
December 29th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
iTunes?! Give me a break. There are better alternatives that aren’t made by the morons at Apple.
Amarok - Linux
Banshee - Linux
Floola - Linux, Mac, Windows
gtkpod - Linux
MediaMonkey - Windows
RhythmBox - Linux
SharePod - Windows
Songbird - Linux, Mac, Windows
Winamp - Windows
YamiPod - Linux, Mac, Windows
December 29th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I agree with brian
December 29th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
…
You kind of missed XMPlay.
http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
December 30th, 2007 at 12:03 am
What about foobar2000 or Xion or Quintessential Player?
December 30th, 2007 at 1:21 am
I agree with brian, unless you’re stuck on it, iTunes is a resource PIG. XMPlay, Foobar3000, QCD, there are tons of great free players out there that won’t sink your system.
December 30th, 2007 at 5:22 am
Yo Bry. I’m down with that shit.
December 30th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Personally I would suggest separating the list into what’s available for various operating systems. The problem is that you recommend Ubuntu from the start (a great OS - I use it daily on my laptop, more than XP nowadays) but the very next entry is for Windows.
Two other entries are for Windows only too.
December 30th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Thank you so much for this list. I am so excited to use some of these.
Thanks again!
December 30th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Thank you for the great comments. Adding more software for additional operating systems is a great idea (thanks Kouros).
If anyone has any further suggestions for any of the categories let me know. Thanks again.
December 30th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Anything (like iTunes) for Vista?
December 30th, 2007 at 8:35 am
@Anthony, songbird will work with Vista http://www.songbirdnest.com/download
It also works on Mac OS and Linux systems.
December 30th, 2007 at 8:44 am
I love the post. I agree with Brian too. Thanks to people like us, we can stick it to the Big Corps that prey on uneducated consumers. OPEN SOURCE Revolution!
December 30th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Excellent list; been using some of these for years.
December 30th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
VLC Player
what about it?
December 31st, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Great site m8 but why even mention Windows in it?!
We all know Vista is rubbish!
http://www.vistaisrubbish.com
December 31st, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Hey VLC is really good but due to lack of updates it cant play many new codecs. An extremely good alternative is combined community codec pack with media player classic. It plays nearly anything!
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 am
3D modeling: Blender
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
It should be pointed out that clamwin does not have the option of scanning files as they are accessed (it only runs batches). This means it doesn’t slow down your computer, but it does reduce effectiveness.
ClamAV is probably the best option to put on a server or gateway, but not for the average user.
AVG has a free antivirus scanner that will scan files as they are accessed, for those that care about the higher level of security.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I use SpywareTerminator. also free and it integrate with clamwin. Gives realtime anti-spyware protection
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
CDBurnerXP and Picasa are NOT really free software, However:
InfraRecorder is a Free CD burning program for windows, and there are quite a few for linux: K3b, Brasario, brasero, Nautilus (file manager with CD-Burning built in), gnome baker…and several others.
F-Spot and digiKam are both great 100% free alternatives to picasa on linux. I’m not aware of any free software for windows that does the same.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 am
Nice. Also Consider the FTP software Filezilla
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
I prefer Paint.NET over GIMP
January 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
This article is a mess. Stick with one operating system or only include programs that run on all operating systems.
Ubuntu is my only real recommendation. Even then I still use OSX more than my Ubuntu computer because of its ease of use.
January 6th, 2008 at 10:46 am
How about Comodo Firewall Pro 3? Very good personal firewall and it’s totally free.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Hands off of Clamwin! It’s an interesting project, but regularly fares very badly indeed in all virus scanner tests. It detects lots of false positives and misses up to a whopping 30% of in-the-wild viruses. Get Avira (free for personal use) or virtually any other free virus scanner but this one.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Give GOM player a go. It has it’s own embedded codec system. If you have a file that uses a different codec, it will take you to a place where you can get an open source version of it. Best of all, it will play broken files as you are downloading them.
January 8th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
For those who use photoshop, GIMPshop might be easier to use. It has a better interface than the standard GIMP. http://www.gimpshop.com/
January 9th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I use KMPlayer for Windows. It plays almost any format you throw at it, and it is compatible with Winamp plugins. The level of customization on this player is incredible.
Picasa is good, but I prefer FastStone Image Viewer. Lightning fast viewing, and some great, basic editing options.
I agree w/Mel re: Clamwin, but would suggest AVG or Avast! if you want email scanning.
You can add (for Windows) Online Armor free firewall. Great support as well.
A few other Windows proggies:
KeePass password manager
Spyware Blaster or IE-SPYAD
Autoruns, Process Explorer, and TCPView from Sysinternals
January 9th, 2008 at 7:45 am
A free anti virus program? I always thought AVG was the best.
January 9th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Excellent post, but how about listing a CD/DVD burner for OS X? I can live with iTunes for music playback and organizing, but it sucks when it comes to burning DVDs.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Check your facts next time. The gPC that Wal-Mart sells doesn’t run Ubuntu. It runs another distribution called gOS.
It’s based on the lightweight Enlightenment environment and is setup to use many webservices. Contrary to popular belief the “g” stands for “Green” and not “Google”.
But if you buy it there’s nothing stopping you from reformatting it and installing any OS of your choice. Ubuntu runs just fine on it.
January 9th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
What about GOM media player… it can even play files that arent completely downloaded… plus its lightweight and fast plus most codecs already downloaded. GOM music player is good too
January 9th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
itunes is horrible with every update more problems are apparent. I work on both MAC and PC platforms both professionally and personal. I recommend to all my friends delete itunes and take back your music collection. Otherwise I have don’t have problems with about 90% of Mac operations or software.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I get a kick of how people who don’t know what the hell are doing, knock Vista.
If they knew how to run it, they would find it fantastic, Damn Dummies.
January 11th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Good list and I am in agreement with AVG. I paid for it, so I didn’t know there was a free version?
January 12th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I know how to run Vista SUPERPUPPY, I really do, and it’s still a worthless waste of time. A blind hog will eventually root up a mushroom, chain a monkey to a word processor long enough and he’ll write a novel, give a puppy a Vista box and sooner or later it’ll run well. No offense SUPERPUPPY, but one success does not a trend make.
And by the way, maybe you’d like to actually read your posts before you submit.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Well said Doug, Vista is truly rubbish.
http://www.vistaisrubbish.com
January 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Brian - what a tosser! iTunes was designed for Mac and doesn’t sink the system! - Only when designed for Windoze (cos all the whiny PC f*!#s wanted it) did it become the poor relation to the Mac version.
Get a grip man!
January 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Thank you for the post.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
will someone do something about getting data USB modems to work on ubuntu …pleaseee……need internet…
January 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
SUPER - Ultimate video & audio encoder. Converts video n audio from any format to the desired format…
http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html
January 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Mike, don’t be a wanker. iTunes is still a crappy piece of software, Mr. Fanboy.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I agree with TheWakeUpCall about GIMPshop.
I’d also like to recommend Inkscape for vector drawings.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Anti-Virus - aVast personal version is free and preferred over AVG
Burning software - ImgBurn is considered by many to be the best
Firewall - don’t see it, but Comodo is tops
January 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Great list! I’ve been using most of these for quite some time. Keep up the great work.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Pidgin (previously known as Gaim) is a very good tool, worth mentioning under IM category.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I’d add Processlibrary.com’s ProcessScanner tool. Nifty freebie that tells you exactly what’s running on your PC, what it’s associated with and if it’s a threat
http://www.processlibrary.com/processscan/
January 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am
What about Comodo antivirus? it’s supposed to be 100% better than AVG or McAffee…
January 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
imgBurn is great except it wont burn video to dvd unless you pay for the premium version.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
this isn’t the ultimate list of freeware… not even close, (maybe because im such a software nerd, i would know
) the clean interface is easy to use, so i can recommend this as a starting point.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I know another fullproof way of gaining free software!
Torrents.
Kthxbye.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
um… Ubuntu isn’t that great. Granted, it’s pretty dumbed-down for non-intelligent users, but it’s a bit to dumbed down for my tastes. the programmers had their own special way to sort everything, which means that you MUST go to Ubuntu forums in order to get any information(unlike almost every other Linux distro). then there’s the fact that it’s Gnome based, which is great for some people, but the package system is sorted in a weird way and it’s not that customizable. KDE(either 3.58 or 4.x) is the better choice over Gnome(imho). but as for the overall system, you’re better off with Fedora or OpenSUSE, and both of them can run on either Gnome or KDE(unlike Ubuntu).
January 19th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Good compilation!
January 21st, 2008 at 8:23 am
Paint.net (not paint) is easier to learn than gimp. more similar to photoshop as well. Also, although i agree that blender is very good and all, it is known to be difficult to learn. For those of you are new to 3D stuff, i would recommend using ani8or for the modeling and animating. This is a nice list, although very small.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
truecrypt!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
This is a great website. I have all macs at home and I hate iTunes for a huge range of issues. It is sooo good to find alternatives. I have downloaded Songbird but have yet to try it. I am a little nervous about the bugs but it seems that everyone here is helpful about such things.
So good to have the community working to help one another…. Thanks y’all.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Great list! Thank you.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I think Firefox is the best but GIMP is such as great Photoshop competitor
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Pretty good list . some are very ordinary and easy to get but some I will use . Thanks for the post.
January 24th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Thanks so very much! These things rock! Who said free can’t be quality? Well, they were as wrong as the Rupublukans. Keep up the super job all.
January 25th, 2008 at 5:29 am
nice listing, and i love mozilla product.
January 26th, 2008 at 6:05 am
It to speak about Firefox I think you need to add Seoquake in this list. It’s rather useful to track the progress of you site or blog or any other Internet software project.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Thanks for comodo suggestion, I have been looking for a good freebie firewall for ages
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Anybody know a freeware alternative to Adobe Flash that I could use? I would like to switch to Ubuntu. It looks the shiz.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
nice list — I have most of these on my site, and the ones that I get from here will be added.
thanks -
dennis@reliableSource.org
“Give your two cents on free software at Reliable Source - a community driven site where users can share and discover reliable open source alternatives to proprietary and commercial software.
*Site is not purely foss and not limited to open source. No adware, no spyware, no malware and no shareware–strictly free. “
March 11th, 2008 at 4:46 am
haix!!
anybody know where can i get a freeware same function as autocad..
please..
March 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I don’t kmow about you guys but Winamp is a pretty good Audio/Video Player.
winamp.com
March 17th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I don’t know about you guys but Winamp is a pretty good Audio/Video Player.
winamp.com
Post Script: You can find a whole bunch of freeware at freewebs.com/freewarefull
March 19th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I already use a majority of these and love them.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:42 am
really it is great ,having fun
April 5th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Great list of software. Beautiful.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 am
Bunch of bullshit. Ubuntu was never designed to be ‘an alternative’ to anything. If money is the only reason you use linux- please, go back to windows…
May 15th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
This list is way too short and not thought out at all.. It’s very clumsily organized, and there’s a great deal missing.
This is, by no means, an “ultimate” list of free software.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 am
Do you know of any decent free scanning software, especially one which will convert scanned docs straight into Word format (or make it easy to convert once captured)? All the ones I have (not free) convert only to pdf, bmp, tif etc.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Dave,
I don’t know of anything that would scan straight to a Word format but this list of PDF alternatives will give you a lot of flexibility in changing the file once it’s scanned in.
http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/pdf-editing-creation-50-open-sourcefree-alternatives-to-adobe-acrobat/
November 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Great list of free software and good to see people are still talking about it.
Anyone who uses Vista (or any Windows) needs their heads tested.
http://www.vistaisrubbish.com
Also, if you are of a sound head then you’ll use Linux!
http://www.ilovelinux.co.uk
rg
December 14th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I know there are tons of IM clients out there that are all free, but in my humble opinion, no list is complete without the all in one im clients
pidgin - linux, windows, (mac?)
digsby - windows
December 18th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
[...] beat me to the punch. I use about 80% of the stuff they have over at monetipcentral.com in their Ultimate list of Free Essential Software list. I highly recommend Firefox (call me a fanboy if you like), 7-Zip, Picasa, Gimp, Open [...]
December 19th, 2008 at 8:32 am
[...] beat me to the punch. I use about 80% of the stuff they have over at monetipcentral.com in their Ultimate list of Free Essential Software list. I highly recommend Firefox (call me a fanboy if you like), 7-Zip, Picasa, Gimp, Open [...]
March 17th, 2009 at 11:48 am
foobar2000 is a must have.
April 8th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Sometimes antiviruses fail to repair the computer and I have to resort to checking processes on my system one by one to see if there’s any process that could be a virus or a trojan. A nifty web site http://www.fileinspect.com comes in handy. Its still in beta, but has a lot of info already.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I have read the imformation which I think is very valuable. But, I am not a computer geek. How do I go about creating or transfering those programs to my computer, that runs on lousy Vista. In what logical order? when do I delete the programs that are being replaced? Or is it better to clean the computer completely and then start downloading and installing the new ones? Please help unravel this quagmire.
Thanks Leslie Lopez
May 12th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
To install the programs first you’ll need to download them. Follow the links from the list above. After they’ve downloaded open them and they will automatically start installing. Thanks for the comment!
May 15th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
COMODO not only offers a free firewall but also offers a free security suite that consists of Firewall, Anti-Virus and Safe surfing software. In the past, I used AVG and Zone Alarm but Zone Alarm doesn’t work with Vista. On one system I use AVG with COMODO firewall only and on another just the COMODO suite. When tested, both gave me great security.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:47 am
I love your site and I shall use it a lot in future.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Leslie, for folks who are just getting started at selecting software, sites like this one really do provide a useful service. When you are reading the reviewer comments, keep in mind that every software has its supporters and detractors. Also, there are two kinds of write-ups: write-ups that are well considered and genuinely useful to help the reader make a choice; and write-ups that are nothing more than whining, not helpful at all. If you’ve read the reviews down to this point, you know which ones are the whiners. They want us to know they are smarter than the rest of us, which of course they’re not. Just ignore them. If a product is listed on this site, that means a fair number of folks think it is a good product.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Great list….dont no if it is in the comments already but ProgeCad 2008 Smart is an excellent alternitive to autocad. Its free for private use and contains nearly all the features of the €3000 autocad. Plus its cross comapatible.
June 27th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
As far as it comes to Windows, foobar2000 and GOM Player are the only choices for multimedia files.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I’m using all these free software, but there are a lot more, can also be installed in windows platform and don’t forget wamp, komodo and lots of add-ons on mozila firefox, very useful of course…
December 4th, 2009 at 11:48 am
I suggest replacing 7 zip with IzArc.
It supports all kinds of archiving formats.
Check it out!
http://www.izarc.org/