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Audio

Audacity - Download - Home Page
A free Sound Recorder and Editor. 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.

MediaCoder - Download - Home Page
A free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices.

Songbird - Download - Home Page 
 A free software media player. Songbird is a combination of a desktop web player, a digital jukebox and web browser. It is an alternative to proprietary media players such as iTunes.

TagScanner - Download - Home Page
A free Powerful MP3 Tag Scanner and Editor. It can edit tags of several progressive audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments and APEv2 tags. TagScanner Features:

- Advanced TAG editor with batch functions
- Supports MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkeys Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, Wave Pack files
- Supports ID3 1.0 / 1.1 / 2.2 / 2.3 / 2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments
- Supports for ID3v2 Lyrics and Attached pictures
- Import tag information from an online database (freedb)
- Powerful playlist editor
- Write extended playlists like Winamp or Sonique
- Playlists export to HTML, Excel and CSV (for MySQL)
Winamp - Download - Home Page
A free Streamlined Music and Video Player that is simple to use. Besides high-quality sound, it sports a smart playlist editor, 10-band graphic equalizer with user-definable presets that can automatically load specific files and a mini-browser for tuning into web radio and TV (be warned: certain channels are for adults only). Its four resizeable sections give you control over how the player looks, while you can customize it further using the thousands of available skins, color schemes and visualization plug-ins.
 

CD/DVD

CDBurnerXP Pro - Download - Home Page
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.

DVD Flick - Download - Home Page
A free tool to convert various PC video formats to a DVD that can be played on pretty much any standalone DVD player. Supported file container formats are, amongst others, AVI, MPG, MOV, WMV, ASF, FLV, Matroska and MP4. Supported codecs are amongst others, MPEG-1\2\4 (XVid, DivX, etc.), Windows Media Audio\Video. MP3, OGG Vorbis, H264, and On2 VP5\6.

ImgBurn - Download - Home Page
A free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can be found in the ImgBurn context menus.

VLC Media Player - Download - Home Page  
WinDVD]
A free Multimedia DVD Player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG, ...) as well as VCDs and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. Supports Full Region Free DVD playback with a RPC1 compatible DVD drive.

Games

XP Games - This guide covers the better Freeware games from Independent Developers and Commercial Publishers. The games are free full games, not Demos or Shareware. None have any Adware or Spyware. It is not intended to be an all inclusive Guide but a reference to target the better freeware titles. Get over 100 quality games without having to spend a dime.

Graphic

Blender - Download - Home Page
A free fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, real-time interactive 3D, and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility.

BRL-CAD - Download - Home Page
A free powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) system with over 20 years development and production use by the U.S. military. It includes an interactive geometry editor, parallel ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed frame buffer support, image-processing and signal-processing tools.

CDisplay - Download - Home Page
A free CBR/CBZ (Comic Book Archive file) Viewer. It allows sequential image viewing one at a time, or two at a time just like comic pages.

GIMP - Download - Home Page
A free Image Manipulation Program for Photo Retouching, Image Composition and Image Authoring. It is not a replacement for Adobe Photoshop but currently is the best free alternative.

Inkscape - Download - Home Page
A free vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

IrfanView - Download - Home Page
A free Simple Image Viewer, Editor and Converter that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multi-page TIFF, TGA, and more. In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications such as, resize, color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen. Includes support for Adobe Photoshop Filters. Do not install the Google Toolbar or Google Desktop Search during installation

Paint.NET - Download - Home Page
A free image editing and photo manipulation software. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

Picasa - Download - Home Page
A free Picture organizer and editor that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips.

SketchUp - Download - Home Page
A free 3D modeling program designed for architects, civil engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and related professions. It also includes features to facilitate the placement of models in Google Earth. It was designed to be easier to use than other 3D CAD programs.

Internet

AM-DeadLink - Download - Home Page
A free tool that detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can verify it in the internal preview and delete it from your Browser. Additionally you can download Favicon for all your Favorites and Bookmarks. AM-Deadlink works with Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Firefox.

Feedreader - Download - Home Page
A free RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust, state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment.

Freeware Browsers
This is a freeware graphical web browser guide for Windows. It compares the most popular features between each browser. All of the following web browsers are 100% free, not Shareware. None have any Adware or Spyware. All have been installed and tested for basic compatibility with Windows XP. Most should work with other versions of Windows, just check the requirements. However, Internet Explorer 7 will only work in Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista.

Pidgin - Download - Home Page
A free multi-protocol Instant Messaging Client formerly known as 'Gaim'. Users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and adds tabbed conversations. It is compatible with the following protocols:

- AIM
- Google Talk
- ICQ
- IRC
- MSN
- Yahoo!
- Other (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, MySpaceIM, QQ, Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, XMPP and Zephyr)
GMail Drive - Download - Home Page
A free Internet based file storage system. GMail Drive creates a virtual file system on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to. Utilize the 2.5GB+ of GMail storage like an attached drive. A GMail account is required.

Notes - If you are using the ZoneAlarm Security Suite (Not just the Standard or Pro versions of the Firewall), Web Filtering (Parental Control) has to be disabled for Windows Explorer or the drive will not be accessible. There are some limitations since this interacts with Google's GMail system, such as the total filename size must be less than 40 characters and the maximum file size that can be transferred is 10 MB. Changes in the GMail system may break the tool's ability to function. Make sure you are using the latest version, otherwise be patient and wait for a new version to be released. This usually only takes a few days.
PuTTY - Download - Home Page
A free SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP client.

Thunderbird - Download - Home Page
A free e-mail client. Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more.

Music

Cabos - Download + - Home Page
A free Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. No Spyware, No Adware, Guaranteed. Cabos provides a simple sidebar user interface, firewall to firewall transfers, proxy transfers, Universal Plug and Play, iTunes + iPod integration and more.

Mixxx - Download - Home Page
A free DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike. Mixxx allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Furthermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix: Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.

Office

OpenOffice - Download - Templates - Extras - Home Page  
Microsoft Office]
A free Office Suite, compatible with all other major Office Suites, including Microsoft Office.


AbiWord - Download - Home Page
A free standalone word processor that is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.

FreeCalc - Download - Home Page
A free replacement for the existing Windows Calculator. Adds a printable/savable transaction tape, sizable display, tray icon, digit groupings, color schemes, double and triple zero keys, visible memory value, and an always-on-top setting.

HomeBank - Download - HomeBank
A free personal finance application to manage your personal accounts that is easy to use. Analyze your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs. Supports data import and export in the Quicken (QIF) file format.

Hott Notes - Download - Home Page
A free sticky notes reminder program for your desktop. Not only can you post sticky note reminders, you can make checklists, set alarms, draw on your notes, and archive.


Notepad++ - Download - Home Page
A free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages (C++, HTML, Java, Javascript, VB/VBS, SQL ect..) running under the MS Windows environment.

Office Converters and Viewers - Download - Home Page
Free converters and viewers for Microsoft Office files. Converters allow you to open files created by people using different versions of your Office programs. Viewers provide a means for people who don't have Office programs to see your work. You can provide them with the appropriate viewer along with your Office files.

PDF Creator - Download - Home Page
A free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application by simply printing to the PDFCreator printer driver.


Tax Software - Home Page
A list of free file US Tax Software. If the amount is not specified, free file services are limited to taxpayers with an adjusted gross Income of $52,000 or less; or otherwise as noted fees for state tax returns may apply; however, some companies offer free state tax return preparation and e-filing.

TypeFaster Typing Tutor - Download - Home Page
A free typing tutor that teaches you how to touch-type. Once you can touch-type you will not need to look at the keyboard to find the letters you want to type.

Windows Fax - Home Page
A free fax service built into Windows XP. Although you don't need a fax machine, you'll need a phone line, a modem, and a scanner to send and receive faxes from your computer.
 

Scientific

Google Earth - Download - Home Page
A free 3D virtual globe that combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Do not install the Google Toolbar during installation

NASA World Wind - Download - Home Page
A free graphically rich 3D virtual globe with advanced atmosphere and sun shading effects. World Wind combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.
Power Calculator - Download - Home Page
A free Graphing Calculator that allows you to evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.