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kahat

Your Favorite FREEWARE Programs? I'm a huge user of freeware programs. I hate paying for things, and if i can get it for free, i'm gonna use it

Here's a list of my current favorites.

GAIM consolidate all your msn/aol/icq/yahoo instant messaging into one client. better than miranda and the other freeware ones i've tried.

7-Zip support for most major compression schemes, and adds one of its own, .7z. 7zip makes smaller .zip files compared to pkware, and if you use .7z format, it compresses even smaller! i love it.

DC++ for all your programming needs.

WinMerge compare files/directories quickly and easily, with a visual summary. very nice if you need to do this.

Notepad Replacements:
Notepad++
Programmer's Notepad
TextPad (this is shareware, but runs forever. just have to look at the splash screen) i only put it here since it is definitely worth the few bucks to purchase.

PHP Designer 2005 very powerful and free - just takes a little whlie to learn the software.

FileZilla open source FTP / SFTP client. couldn't live without this. speed limit capability, queues, etc.

XnView freeware image viewer. slide show, multi-convert, handles every image format i've ever needed.

The GIMP! THE only image editing tool i've ever needed.

I hope you like these, and will at least try some of 'em out

If you have any favorites, please list them for us!

Mon Jun 6, 2005 Reply

rvalkass

I also use a lot of freeware programsn as many do just as well as paid versions from leading software companies. It may take a little time to find what you are looking for, but its worth it in the end!

Mon Jun 6, 2005 Reply

lastlegion

I like the Gimp, its a great image editing program. It has features almost like Photoshop or any other programe. The script-fu is great if you dont know how to make stylish banners.
I also like Nvu. Its a freeware WYSIWYG. Its a little buggy but its the best freeware WYSIWYG editor.
I like programmers notepad.
And of course Firefox, the best free browser and Avant browser's pop-up blocker is also nice.

Tue Jun 7, 2005 Reply

imran

I think almost everybody use free ware programs.
I also use a lot of GOOD free ware programs. On top of my list is

TEXTPAD (Try this out if you like to write hard code)
Ad-aware (perhaps best adaware FREE program)
Mozilla Firefox(Best free browser)
PHP Designer 2005
Thunderbird (Great free Email Client)

Try them out.

Tue Jun 7, 2005 Reply

dodomi

i like flashget,Get files(include stream file) fast. Resume broken downloads. Organize.
Do it all with FlashGet.

i like MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger also,Yahoo Messenger got more powerful chatting Features!!!

i like windows media player!it is useful and got powerful Features.the great media player in this world

Tue Jun 7, 2005 Reply

jose_a1

Same here I hate paying for things so I do best to scour the internet for free stuff.

1. Antivir - my anti-virus, I'd say better than mcafee.
2 .Mozilla Firefox - browser, I've said my goodbye to all those annoying ads that popped up while I was using Internet Explorer
3. Limewire - where I get the latest music and video files for FREE!!! I just can't get it. Original CDS are too expensive for me.
4. Mozilla Thunderbird - e-mail client definitely better than Outlook.
5. Adaware - Thanks to you my computer is spyware safe.
6. JCreator - Java IDE I use to study Java
7. Yahoo Messenger -

Tue Jun 7, 2005 Reply

Sprnknwn

VLC (Videolan Media Player), that suports a lot of formats without needing to download codecs continually.

By the way... are messengers and windows media player freeware??

Tue Jun 7, 2005 Reply

Becca

GIFFY!!! All the way man! This is heavy!

One delightful day I happen to come accross this fantabulous thing.. and well it made my web site a whole lot easier to manage and store.

It just like kind of compresses bitmap files and turns them into .GIFs
It doesn't lose that much quality either.. unless the image is REALLY detailed.. it also can make ONE color transparent if you get me.

Tue Jun 7, 2005 Reply

OhMyBosh

Some freeware programs taht I like would be.

Firefox: I'm sure all of you have heard of this.

MSN Messenger: I can't remember people's phone numbers. So with MSN Messenger I could get people to add me and then talk.

ShareAZA: Since I decided that it'd be much better to download music (also because it's legal here in CanadA) I needed this program. Also it has no bugs, viruses, or spyware.

Microsoft Anti Spyware: I like this better then Ad-aware mainlyy because this one looks cooler. It gets teh job done and works well.

DBPowerAmp: One of the best and probably the only (freeware) mp3 to wav and other audio format converters. It can do almost anything audio wise adn the quality isn't half bad.

Tue Jun 7, 2005 Reply

mama_soap

I love the GIMP. It's wonderful.

That apart, I like Firefox a lot, although I use Opera more these days, because I've fallen in love with it's integrated mail client. Very neat. It's freeware except for a little banner ad that's not even distracting. I'll stop here, though, don't want to begin another firefox v/s any-other-browser argument right now.

Don't think anyone has mentioned emacs yet - very powerful text editor with syntax highlighting, runs on Linux and Windows.

LaTeX for mathematical typesetting.

Acrobat Reader for the pdf files.

That's all I can remember right off...
Cheers!

Wed Jun 8, 2005 Reply

CroMan

Mozilla firefox is my best freeware software
for me he is better than oppera.

Wed Jun 8, 2005 Reply

shigajet

My favourite freeware programs are...

Filezilla - One of the best FTP programs around!
Firefox - The browser that I use on a regular basis these days.
FTP Commander - Like Filezilla, only on a basic level.
AceHTML/1st Page 2000 - Before I got a hold of Dreamweaver, I used these programs quite often.
Shareaza - Great program to download those music files - and no viruses and/or spyware!
The GIMP - Awesome graphics program. Say no more!
AntiVir - One of the better antivirus programs available.

Wed Jun 8, 2005 Reply

killerbichon

DC++ is not a programming tool, it is a P2P file sharing tool.

GCC however is an excellent programming compiler for C

Shareaza is another good P2P that connects to eDonkey, Gnutella (1 and 2) and bittorrents. It is open source and adware free too which is nice.

OpenOffice is really great.

Thu Sep 7, 2006 Reply

Danny

Mozilla FireFox
Ad-Aware SE

and some others i got free but not

Thu Sep 7, 2006 Reply

ProtoMan

I really love these freeware program :

File Zilla : The best FTP Program out of them all
Internet Explorer 7 : A very easy to use and really good explorer for the internet
Window Media Player 11 : It is the best for sure , can play all of my media file
Ad-Adware Personal (I don't remember the exact name) : A good Anti-Spyware program

And more but tose are my favorite. Off the topic a little : Do you know where I can find a good free Anti-Virus Program ? Thanks

Fri Sep 8, 2006 Reply

jlhaslip

QUOTE

Do you know where I can find a good free Anti-Virus Program ? Thanks

Try AVG. Google on it.

Fri Sep 8, 2006 Reply

karthika

yup.....
mozzila, yahoo messanger,
i think that heheh

Tue Sep 12, 2006 Reply

Horranus

QUOTE

FireFox - Best web browser on the 'net

Thunderbird - Email client by Mozilla (same people who make FireFox)

Spybot S&D - Spyware protection

Ad-Aware - Adware protection

AVG Free - Anti-virus

Notepad++ - Notepad on steroids... syntax highlighting, etc

Trillian Chat - AIM, ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, and MSN messengers all in one program

WinRAR - Compression and uncompression (trial version.. but you can just click cancel when they ask for money...)

All these programs are essential to my daily computer usage, so I can't just pick one favorite...

[note=BuffaloHELP]Learn to use bbcodes when just listing URLs without any original contribution.[/note]

Tue Sep 12, 2006 Reply

franz see

here's a few of mine

QUOTE

Anti Virus: AVG (Free)
Browser: Firefox
Chat: X-Chat
Codec: Combined Community Codec Pack
Compression: WinRar
EMail Client: Thunderbird
IDE: Eclipse
Issue Tracker: Jira
Messenger: Trillian, Y!M (Still use y!m for some compatibility issues..and still on my way migrating to GAIM)
Office: Open Office (though i still use MS from time to time to maintain compatibility with reciepients using MS)
Operating System: (on my way to Ubuntu)
Project Management / Build Tool: Maven2
Revision Control: Subversion (SVN)
Spyware Protection: Ad-Aware

[note=BuffaloHELP]Learn to use bbcodes.[/note]

Sat Sep 23, 2006 Reply

delivi

I use a lot of Freeware softwares.

I usually get a lot of freewares from the various magazine cover CDs and DVDs I subscribe.

Sat Sep 23, 2006 Reply

SNiped

Easy Thumbs has been a life saver recently. I have been working with about 5000+ pictures and needed them all thumbnailed and until i found this little beuty i was doing it all manually. Really is a great peice of kit, simple but effective. You can get it at Fookes.

Also i have recently found a site for lots of freeware programs, it basically has databased lots of really useful programs and linked to them. Really simple site to use aswell. Here it is Digital Dark net

Sat May 12, 2007 Reply

hitmanblood

My favourite freeware program is Windows XP really this is my favourite freeware program and I will keep using it.

Also I would like to say that I prefer several more like NVU then GoogleEarth and some more. But these two are the greatest and not to forget Firefox And ThunderBird they rule.

Sun May 20, 2007 Reply

j44p

My top 5 freeware programs:

1. iTunes. Only for use with my iPod.
2. Amarok. For those things that iTunes doesn't do.
3. openssh.
4. apache.
5. firefox.

Mon Aug 18, 2008 Reply

Albee1337

These are probably my top 5 favourite freeware programs. This list is going from most favourite to least favourite by the way (most-least vertically)

1) Mozilla Firefox - Possibly the best internet browser ever. Very reliable, and customizable as well. Very nice interface too!
2) iTunes - Great for adding songs in my iPOD.
3) Limewire - Very efficient, and downloads songs at a rate that I perfer to be normal.

4) Internet Explorer - Just as customizable as firefox, but not good. This is just needed if Firefox is not working correctly, and is ticking me off!
5) Paint - To do any kind of art during my spare time such as recoloring. Also, I try my best to attempt making shades with this, but doesn't always go too well.

Mon Aug 18, 2008 Reply

armondtimesbelize

I also think that almost everyone with internet has some sort of freeware program. Like most people, once it's free i'm free to try it. Some of my favorite freeware programs are filezilla, limewire, mozilla, windows live messenger and the real player. There are many other i have, but these i mainly use.

Mon Aug 18, 2008 Reply

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Spybot also can cleans your browser, which is especially useful if you share your computer. It's gives you the possibility to make full system scan, and delete directly files with problems.

For advanced users, it allows you to fix Registry problems related to adware and to malicious program installations.

It includes and update feature that ensures Spybot always has the most current and complete listings of adware and spyware.

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Fri Aug 22, 2008 Reply

xpress

For me,
VLC media player, and KLC codecs for Multimedia.

Ashampoo firewall, its very light and using very small resources in my pc,
and Avira Antivirus personal to protect my pc from viruses.
Avira is also very good and using low system resources.
and AdAware for spyware cleaning.

Power defragmenter for my system performance.

Fri Aug 22, 2008 Reply

curtis07

Lets see....

Firefox, gParted, Audacity, Songbird, Amarok, Rosegarden, VLC, Handbrake, Schoolhouse, OpenOffice, Nexuiz, Scribus, SciTE, phpBB, Wordpress MU, Gimp, Metamorphose, 7-zip, Spybot S&D, Clamwin, to name a few on the top of my head.

Sourceforge all the way, baby! I love using open source stuff (though some of these aren't open source). I am always looking for a free and less bloated alternative.

Sat Sep 6, 2008 Reply

room2593

I always use VLC, Mozilla Firefox, and Open Office instead of their retarded Windows counterparts.
Go Richard Stallman! I love you for making the copyleft!

Sat Sep 6, 2008 Reply

Stridr

GIMP, MSN Messenger, Skype and Opera are among my favourites. I love surfing the CNET downloads site for software too. Most importantly is that its truly a well developed software with a commited development team to back their software faliure and improvements. Also, the possiblility of virus has to be considered, before downloading a software that destroys your computer. Cheers.

Sun Sep 7, 2008 Reply


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