| OpenOffice Writer (F) | The Open Source powerhouse (Writer) with a universal file format and great usability. |
| TextMaker | The best word processor you've never heard of. Now you have. Get this; be productive. |
| Zoho Writer (F) | Zoho brings never-seen-before tools to the word processor. I love this. |
| Google Docs (F) | Fast, responsive, and doesn't let you make a mistake. No footnotes yet, though! |
| LaTeX (F) | A typesetting program for technical and scientific documentation. |
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| EmEditor Pro | Well-designed for power, dazzling speed, and ease of use. Get this. |
| UltraEdit | Standard setting in almost every way, and great for writers, not just coders. |
| E Text Editor | Exciting, unique, powerful, and customizable. Wow. |
| PSPad (F) | The favorite freeware alternative that packs a full, advanced feature set. |
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| Microsoft OneNote | The best outliner to date. More people should discover this gem. |
| Calendarscope | Broad options and print abilities define this app. |
| Google Calendar (F) | An online calendar that goes where you go. |
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| Algebrus Calculator | A sophisticated scientific calculator for both general and science work. |
| MoffSoft Calculator | Simple, powerful, flexible, customizable. Does every damn thing. |
| Karen's Time Cop (F) | General countdown/count up timer for every use. |
| Master Converter | Now I know that kbps is a measure of bandwidth! |
| Visual Thesaurus | Oh god, this app will make you a word smackfu master. |
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| OpenOffice Calc | The spreadsheet with the best file format. It's so good it knocked MS Excel off the list. |
| ASAP Utilities | Makes you an expert with Excel and accesses its database features. |
| Power Utility Pak | Adds functionality to Excel that Microsoft forgot. |
| statistiXL | Forget all the rest, this is the best statistical app you'll find for college or grad school. |
| Math911 | Are you math-stupid? Math911 will cure that right fast. |
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| Autoruns (F) | Lets you control what programs run during system boot. |
| Chameleon Startup Manager | Fully controls startup by selecting the programs to be launched. |
| Process Explorer (F) | Shows you info about which handles and DLLs processes are opened or loaded. |
| VMWare Workstation | Virtualization app that allows you to evaluate software safely or use when needed. |
| Total Uninstall | Bulletproof uninstaller to keep your system safe and clean from crappy installers. |
| Your Uninstaller Pro | Combine this with Total Uninstall and you're in great shape. |
| Everest Diagnostic Utility | Incredible system diagnostics and benchmarking app. |
| TuneUp Utilities | Corrects problems and optimizes your system. |
| BartPE (F) | Helps you build a bootable Window CD or DVD. |
| nLite (F) | For permanent Windows component removal and pre-install Windows setup. |
| HDD Temperature | Protects your hard drive from melting. |
| Karen's Registry Pruner (F) | Removes ghosted and orphaned entries in your Registry. |
| Find and Run Robot (F) | Rapidly find programs or documents with one key press. |
| UltraMon | Software for running two or three monitors on one system. |
| ShellExView (F) | Removes those damn useless and unwanted context or right-click menu items. |
| ClearTweak (F) | Improves text display with ClearType and font smoothing. |
| TreeCopy (F) | Copies your folder structure, but not the files, to another location. Very handy. |
| BGInfo (F) | Quickly displays system info on any computer at a glance. |
| Quick Access Infobar (F) | Provides definitions of the processes running on your system. |
| BootIt NG | Powerful partition and boot manager, including managing multi-boot OSes. |
| CopyWipe | Securely overwrite data when retiring a HD or prevent data from being recovered. |
| Eraser (F) | Wipes clean all the free space on your computer, truly erasing all deleted files. |
| TreeSize Pro | Returns deep and detailed reports on the size and space of your system drives. |
| JDiskReport (F) | Somewhat similar to TreeSize Pro, only a light, free version. |
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| FinePrint | Virtual printing utility that saves you a ton of paper every year. |
| PDF Factory Pro | Damn fine and highly accurate PDF printer utility. You'll love it. |
| Nitro PDF | If you need standard scale PDF creation and management, then Nitro is it. |
| Cfont Pro Font Manager | Super flexible and well-designed font manager loaded with features. |
| Foxit PDF Reader (F) | Small, clean, fast, and free, Foxit renders PDF files with great speed. |
| MainType Font Manager | A well-coded advanced font manager with full Unicode support. |
| X-Fonter Font Manager | A traditional powerhouse font manager that can hang with anyone. |
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| ACDSee 10, ACDSee Pro | The best photo viewer, graphic converter, and image management tool. Period. |
| XnView (F) | Freeware viewer and editor that holds its own against anyone. |
| FastStone MaxView (F) | Fantastic little app for opening photos for a customizable quick views. |
| PicaJet FX | An image management and organization tool that is similar to ACDSee. |
| IrfanView (F) | A perennial crowd favorite for good reason — it works very well with any format. |
| VuePrint (F) | Versatile viewer with some editing capabilities. Great for sifting through collections. |
| FastStone Image Viewer (F) | A strong browsing and editing features have quickly made FastStone a leader. |
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| PhotoFiltre Studio | Solid image editor that can do most of the tasks you'll need every day. |
| GIMP Image Editor (F) | A high-end image editor that runs on multiple platforms. Excellent! |
| Noiseware | Makes digital photos better by filling in grain or smoothing out rough spots. |
| Screenshot Captor (F) | Incredible donationware screen capture utility that will instantly impress you. |
| SnagIt Screen Capture | Sets the standard for all other screen capture utilities. Takes some setup. |
| Multiple Image Resizer (F) | Easy, fast, accurate — that's what I like! |
| AutoStitch | Allows you to stitch together many photos in wide angle to create a panorama. |
| Pixeur (F) | Finds and displays the RGB, Hex, and Long value of any color you select. |
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| VirtualDub (F) | Extremely efficient video capture and processing program. |
| ConvertXtoDVD | Converts any video file format (DivX, AVI, WMV, etc.) to a DVD-compliant video. |
| TMPGEnc (F) | MPEG-1,2 encoder that can convert and compress your video file in high quality. |
| GSpot Codec Info App (F) | Allows you to see what codecs you need installed to watch a video. |
| ProShow Gold | Allows you to create stunning and professional slide shows. |
| GOM Media Player (F) | Media player to die for. Highly customizable. |
| Media Player Classic (F) | You can't go wrong with this one; it plays every damn thing out there. |
| Video Edit Magic | Video editing tool that includes advanced features, but is easy to use. |
| AudioGrabber (F) | Useful tool for CD-ripping and producing MP3s. |
| Exact Audio Copy (F) | Advanced tool for CD-ripping and producing MP3s. |
| Audacity audio editor (F) | Solid audio editor that makes editing easy. |
| Nero Burning ROM | Highly reliable CD/DVD burning utility. I love it because it works every time. |
| DVD Shrink (F) | Tool for fitting a DVD-Video disc on a single DVD. |
| AnyDVD | Allows you to decrypt CSS-encrypted DVDs and remove their region codes on the fly. |
| ImgBurn (F) | Enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. |
| IsoBuster Pro | Powerful utility that can extract, create, edit, and convert CD/DVD image files. |
| UltraISO | Powerful utility that can extract, create, edit, and convert CD/DVD image files. |
| MagicScore Maestro | Music notation software for musicians. Great for collegers. |
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| AutoHotkey (F) | Scripting utility to create your own macros and hotkeys. Get this. Learn this. |
| HotKeyz (F) | Excellent utility for creating Windows-wide hotkeys, expanding your keyboard. |
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| Colour Contrast Check (F) | Helps determine the whether colors for your website are correctly contrasted. |
| Color Coordinator (F) | Helps determine the right color scheme for your website. |
| MetaLink Creator (F) | Allows users to connect to different download sources for your programs. |
| Lorem Ipsum generator (F) | A site that generates greek text in various fonts. You'll see it's use. |
| Google Calendar (F) | Simple but highly useful online calendar. |
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| KompoZer (F) | An excellent HTML/CSS editor built on the NVU architecture. |
| Style Master CSS editor | Updated frequently and following the latest W3C standards, this is the one. |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Much better than its given credit for being, and damn easy to use. |
| Feed Editor | Build any RSS feed using this well-designed tool. |
| Opera browser (F) | The most accurate CSS browser ever built, to a fault, and my personal favorite. |
| Mozilla Firefox (F) | Wildly popular browser that is extensible, customizable, and updated frequently. |
| GreatNews RSS Reader (F) | Simple, elegant RSS reader that does no wrong. |
| Website-Watcher | Allows you to monitor changes in any website, while doubling as an RSS reader. |
| EmFTP Pro | Small, tight, well-designed FTP client. |
| FTPRush | Great FTP client that has set a new standard for all. |
| AI RoboForm Pro | A password utility and automatic form filler for your browser. Get this. |
| PADGen (F) | Creates perfect PAD files (Portable Application Descriptions) for your programs. |
| AM-DeadLink (F) | Detects dead links in your browser's bookmarks or favorites folders. |
| REL Link Checker Lite (F) | Detects dead links in your website's external links. |
| Xenu's Link Sleuth (F) | Also detects dead links in your website's external links. |
| XSite link extractor (F) | Load and parse any webpage into a simple structured view, seeing every link. |
| Search Engine Buddy (F) | Creates the best meta tag combinations for search engines to find your site. |
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| USENET, P2P/FILE SHARING TOOLS Some of these apps are also listed in other categories | |
| NewsLeecher | Top-of-the-line newsreader that downloads anything via Usenet. |
| Giganews | The proven best Usenet server you'll find. Get the Unlimited account, too. |
| WinRAR | The master of all archive tools, WinRAR can do almost everything. |
| QuickPAR (F) | Utility for creating, checking, and extracting Parity Volumes (PAR files). |
| NetLimiter Pro | Limits your download/upload bandwidth speed during peak times per app. |
| PowerPost-A&A (F) | An app for consistently and intelligently posting files to Usenet. |
| FastStone MaxView (F) | Fantastic little app for opening photos for a customizable quick views. |
| ArtCine NFO Creator (F) | The best NFO creation app available, hands down. |
| SFV Checker | Tool that ensures your multi-volume file archives are complete and accurate. |
| QuickSFV (F) | A tool for SFV (simple file verification) checking and creation. Just wonderful. |
| File Splitter and Joiner (F) | Allows you to quickly split and rejoin large text or binary files. |
| Miranda IM client (F) | A flexible, modular open-source multi-protocol instant messenger. |
| ImgBurn (F) | Enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. |
| HFS, HTTP File Server (F) | Fantastic file-sharing software which allows you to send and receive files. |
| μTorrent (F) | Efficient, feature-rich BitTorrent client. |
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| XYplorer File Manager | Best all-around customizable file manager with great support and offers a Lifetime license. |
| Directory Opus | Advanced and highly customizable file manager that can do virtually anything. |
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| Locate File Search Utility (F) | Saves the names of all files in your hard drives to a small file database. |
| FileLocator Pro | Excellent tool for searching your documents in numerous ways. |
| Advanced Find and Replace | Make global changes across many files and folders to any file. |
| Directory Lister (F) | Generates listings of files from user-selected folder in HTML, TXT or CSV format. |
| Beyond Compare | Essential utility for comparing text files, folders, archives, and FTP sites. |
| Bulk Rename Utility (F) | A well-designed fast, easy renamer with all its functions on one screen. |
| Flash Renamer | Flexible tool for renaming any file or folder. |
| CloneSpy Duplicate Finder (F) | I've tried and used many, but CloneSpy is my favorite. |
| Unlocker (F) | Tool to help delete locked files and folders. |
| KillBox (F) | A tool to delete in-use files or processes that won't close. |
| Copy It Anyway (F) | Tool that allows you to copy locked files and folders. |
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| Super Flexible File Sync. | Advanced, full of high-end features, and is the class of the category. |
| DirSync | A highly accurate synching and backup tool. You can rely on DirSync. |
| SyncBackSE | Allows you to backup or synchronize your files and directories. |
| WinRAR | The master of all archive tools, WinRAR can do almost everything. |
| 7-Zip (F) | Nifty little archiver that lets you move to 7z format if you choose. |
| Squeez archiver | The most feature-rich archiver available. |
| Image for Windows | Backup and restore entire partitions/volumes for any hard drive. |
| UltraISO | Image utility for creating, editing, and converting CDs/DVDs. |
| File Splitter and Joiner (F) | Allows you to quickly split and rejoin large text or binary files. |
| Teleport Pro | High-end, easy-to-use tool for getting (leeching) data or entire websites. |
| Star Downloader Pro | Accelerates your downloads by splitting the files into several parts. |
| Free Download Manager (F) | Download files and whole web sites from any remote server. |
| NewsLeecher | Premier newsreader to download anything posted on Usenet. |
| NeoDownloader | Download photos, music, movies, and walk away. |
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| TrueCrypt disk encryption (F) | Keeps your secrets secret and tell snoops to bugger off. |
| CCleaner (F) | Removes unused and temporary files from your system. |
| Spybot Search & Destroy (F) | Remove spyware and adware from your computer. |
Labels: Freeware Software