Monday December 14 2009
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Our thanks to consumer advocate Clark Howard:
This is a list of software and services available for FREE on the internet. Some are scaled-down versions of more expensive software. Some are full-featured, but have ads in them to help pay for the service. Either way, here is a list of useful things you can download that won’t cost a cent:
Need some help sorting through the mass of freeware out there? Gizmo’s Freeware offers a wealth of user-generated reviews.
Accounting
Anonymous Surfing
Torrify: Torpark
TheAnonymousEmail.com
Torrify: Professional Privacy for Everyone
Anonymizer: free web proxy, CGI proxy list, free anonymizers and the list of web anonymizers list
Anti-Spam
Anti-Spyware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
SUPERAntiSpyware – Free Version
Anti Malware – Comodo BOClean
Free spyware removal and spyware protection – Spyware Terminator
Anti-Virus
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5
ClamWin Free Antivirus.
Windows Antivirus
Audio Books
LearnOutLoud.com Free Audio & Video – Free Audio Books, Lectures, & Speeches on MP3 Download and Streaming Video
Gutenberg:The Audio Books Project – Gutenberg
AudioFile, the Magazine for People Who Love Audiobooks
The Spoken Alexandria Project – Free Audio from…
AudioBooksForFree.com
Simply Audiobooks – Free_Book_Download
Main Page – Gutenberg
OTR.Network Library (The Old Time Radio Network)
LibriVox
The Online Books Page
LibriVox
Hour One: Encyclopedia of Life / Digital Libraries
Audio Burner
REAPER | Download
Free Audio Extractor
Easy CD-DA Extractor
imgburn.com
Audio Download
Archive.org
Grooveshark
(Editor’s note: EMI Records has filed suit against Grooveshark over the issue of licensing agreements for the use of EMI’s catalog. We’ll keep you updated on this pending litigation.)
GarageBand.com : GarageBand.com
Wildman Steve Radio
Radio Paradise – eclectic online rock radio
Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
Audio Editor
SoundEditor
hymn — decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files (m4p –> m4a)
Wave Repair
Audio Player
OrangeCD – download record and catalog CDs
Songbirdnest.com
Quintessential Player
Slim Devices : Support : Downloads
Audio Recorder
Backup
FileHamster – A Personal Revision Control Solut…
Miray Software -HDClone
Cobian’s site – The home of Cobian Backup
Books
The Online Books Page
Free e-books
Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide
Main Page – Gutenberg
A P R E S S . C O M
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online — Encyclopedi…
FullBooks.com – Thousands of Full-Text Free Books
manybooks.net – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook Reader
Floodle.net Free ebooks – Free eBay Information
eBookSpyder
Boot Disk
Bart’s Boot disks
Darik’s Boot and Nuke hard drive disk wipe
Super Grub Disk Webpage
Ultimate Boot CD – Overview
Broadband Speed
Browser
Epiphany: The web browser for the GNOME desktop
Flock – the social web browser
Avant Browser :: Home
Maxthon Browser – Tabbed Internet browser software
Swiftfox
Conference Calling
Powwownow
Free Conference Call, Phone Conferencing, Teleconferences – FreeConferenceCall.com
Yugma
FreeConferenceCalling.com
Talkcasts
FreeConference.com
LiveOffice Conferencing
Raindance
DVD Burn
imgburn.com
InfraRecorder
burn4free freeware
DVD Flick
ProtectedSoft
Database
PostgreSQL:
ORACLE UNVEILS FREE DATABASE ?ORACLE(r) DATABAS…
Decrapifier
Defragmentation
Disk Defrag – Reclaim the Speed Of Your Disks
defrag on the fly
JkDefrag v3.15
Desktop Publishing
WordPress – Blog Tool and Weblog Platform
Portable Scribus
Scribus :: Open Source Desktop Publishing for Linux, Mac OS- X and Windows
Diagnostic
Difference / Merge Text Files
Download Manager
Network Downloads : FastCache /// AnalogX
Best Download Manager – FlashGet
Download Youtube Videos
Explorer
minimalist /// Explorer Breadcrumbs Documentation
Last Freeware version: ScramDisk, SpaceMonger, Switch Off, XYplorer
File Manager
File Searching
Dave’s Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar
Agent Ransack – home
Copernic: Software to search, find, and manage information
File Transfer
CoreFTP Lite
Civil Netizen Official Download Site – A free, personal file transfer program for your large files and folders
Firefox
BrowseAtWork
Fasterfox – Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
Download videos
GTDInbox
IE Tab
Clippings
termBlaster with Firefox
Bandwidth Tester
New Firefox Extension: X-Ray | Design Meme
Home – MozillaZine Forums
People Search and Public Record Toolbar
Turbo-Charge FireFox with FasterFox
Alice Hill’s Real Tech News – Independent Tech
Sourceforge Direct Download
Hack Attack: Firefox extension packs – Lifehacker
mozdev.org
Firefox Extension Development Tutorial :: Overview
McAfee SiteAdvisor – Firefox Extension Download
Fast Video Download :: Firefox Add-ons
Firewall
Personal Firewall Reviews
Free Firewall comparable with commercial firewalls
SSL Certificate Free Firewall Anti Virus Internet Attacks Online Banking File Backup Network Security Solutions
Firewall Leak Tester
Ashampoo FireWall FREE (1.10, 09/13/2006) – Heavy-duty Protection for Everyone
Firewall Leak Tester
Free Firewall Download – Kerio Personal Firewall
PC Tools Firewall Plus – Free Personal Firewall for Windows
Free Personal Firewall Software (thefreecountry.com)
Filseclab Personal Firewall, Free firewall, Open source code
Free Firewall Software – Comodo? Firewall
Firewall Leak Tester
Flash Cards
Memorize word Flashcard System
Pauker – Flash Card Learning
About
Fonts
Free Website
GPS
EasyGPS – FREE GPS Software for your Garmin, Magellan, or Lowrance GPS
Graphics & Images
Paint.NET – Photo Editing
Royalty Free Stock Photos: Fotolia.com
everystockphoto.com
BubbleShare – Easy Photo Sharing
Yotophoto | Find free photos… fast!
Public Domain images
Open Clip Art Library Drawing Together
Pixenate – Online Photo Editor
Photobie
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
Photo-Freeware.net
FastStone Image Viewer
Home Design
How To
eHow | How To Do Just About Everything!
5min – Life Videopedia
Home Tips: Home Improvement, Home Repair and DIY
FixYa.com
How Do I?
Learn How To! – The Best Collection of How-To Videos on the Internet!
VideoJug – Life Explained. On Film.
HTML Editor
Image Fixer
MP3 Editor
Mac
Macfreewares: Freeware only, for Macintosh and Apple computers
Make Music
Media Center
Media Converter
Old SoftwareVersions
PC Care
Belarc Advisor – Free Personal PC Audit
Advanced WindowsCare Personal
IObit – Care For Your PC WindizUpdate
PDFTools 1.2 – SheelApps
Tracker Software Products Ltd
PDF reDirect
FREEWARE GUIDE – Utilities – PDF
Omniformat image conversion freeware
Parental Control
TrustFile -a collection of Kid Safe sites…
K9 Web Protection – Free Internet Filter and Parental Control Software
WRAAC.org – Internet Parental Control Tool
Project
Open Workbench – Open Source Project Management and Project Scheduling for Windows – Home
GanttPV – Open Source Software for Project Management
QuickTime Alternative
Real Alternative
Recovery and Repair
Registry
Dial-a-fix – TechWiki
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner: Safely scan and repair registry problems.
Registry Cleaner Software Downloads at RegSofts.com
Sandbox
Screen Recorder
Spreadsheets
Startup Monitor
System Information
Text Editor
Text Snippet Paster
Themes
USB
VPN
SSL-Explorer: The World’s First Browser-Based, Open Source SSL VPN
Video Tools
Download and/or Embed YouTube Videos
bbMPEG
Essential Video Resources
MediaCoder – more than a universal audio/video transcoder
TMPGEnc Net
Wax – [ Homepage ]
Welcome to virtualdub.org! – virtualdub.org
VideoHelp.com
Virtual Desktop
Visual Studio
Volume
List of content-control software – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FreewareWiki – freeware & free info / BGone
Volumouse – control the sound volume with a wheel mouse
Final Builds Site
Naomi – freeware internet filter
ZSoft Software: Software Details
Web Copy
[object HTMLImageElement]
Net Picker download and review – save snippets of web information from SnapFiles
Web Design
Web Monitor
Windows Utilities
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