I got this list from another Forum, and it's pretty good! - Think some of you guys might appreciate it!
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/me may update this list every now any then, so check back occasionally!
Love in Christ!
Chris
- Browsers | Download Managers
Crazy Browser
Tabbed interface, full Windows XP theme support, popup filter, multiple engine searching and more...
MyIE2
A browser based on IE (IE5.x or IE 6.0 required). Some of it's features: auto-hide panel, customize skins, mouse gestures, news group browsing mode, plug-ins support, form auto-filling auto scroll (scroll web pages down with no mouse use).
Opera [AD]
A fast web browser, with an integrated email client, multiple document interface (tabbed interface), etc. An excellent alternative to Internet Explorer.
Phoenix
A browser based on Mozilla but stripped of all its extra components to make it small and fast.... Features include, popup blocking, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures (has to be installed additionally), image blocking from specified servers, etc.
LeechGet
A powerfull download manager, very simple to use.
Star Downloader
Yet another download manager, very nice this one, if you don't have a download manager you must try this one out. If you do have one... well try it anyway!
- Media Players | Rippers
BS Player
Plays all kinds of media files, avi | mpg | asf | wmv | wav | mp3 etc. Specialises in video and divx playback.
Foobar2000
An all around player, supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD (needs foo_mod.dll), SPC (needs foo_spc.dll).
JetAudio
All-In-One media player, rips, encodes, and burns various types of files (also plays realmedia files!!).
Light Alloy
All around media player. Plays AVI, MPEG, ASF, MP3, WAV, MID and other types of files, good alternative to Windows Media Player.
MusicMatch
Play, Rip (record), Burn MP3s and audio CDs. Transfer music with the Portable Device Manager. Excellent music library!
n.Player
Supports divX, DVD, audioCD, avi, mp3, wma, s3m, mod and more.
Quintessential Player
Supported audio formats include MP3, CD Audio, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, VQF, MP+, Windows Media and streaming audio including SHOUTcast and ICEcast. Fully skinnable, has CDDBv2 integration.
Sonique
Cool player with some awesome skins, winamp "arch-enemy"...
Winamp 2.xx
Considered by many the best music (only) player there is, with LOTS of skins and visualization available.
CDex
Rip and convert several types of audio media files like WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE, etc. Supports CDDB, ID3 V1 and V2 tags, normalization of audio files and much more.
dBpowerAMP
Must have utility, indispensable for converting audio files from one format to another. Can convert to and from Wave, Mp3 and from CD Audio (CDA) files, Codec downloads add Windows Media Audio v8 (WMA) , Ogg Vorbis and many more types to the table. Definantely worth checking out!
Exact Audio Copy
A ripper, has many feature so check out the link to see if this is for you... (hasn't been updated in a long time though...)
musicCutter
musiCutter is an MP3/OGG joiner and splitter (no reencoding or deencoding needed).In order to find cue points manually, you will need to play Winamp (sorry, doesn't automatically 'grab' Winamp times). Once you find the times, enter it in the format [M:S:F].(Also, you can use http://www.Freedb.org to find XMCD files, or even http://www.regeert.nl/cuesheet/ for CUE's.)
- AntiVirus | Firewalls | Security
AVG AntiVirus
Probably the best free antivirus out there.
Kerio Personal Firewall
Protection against: information theft, modification or destruction, trojan horse applications, spyware, unauthorized access from within the local network, denial of service attacks to applications or services.
Sygate Personal Firewall
Protecs PC from hackers, trojans, DoS attacks and malicious code intrusions.
ZoneAlarm
Monitor and protects incoming and outgoing traffic, user-friendly interface (not compatible with Win95).
SpyBot
Search and destroy those little pesky (spy/ad)bots with this handy utillity. Spyware and similar, keyloggers, dialers, usage tracks, hijackers, trojans... Kick all of them out of your system!
- System Utilities
Diskeeper Lite
Can analyze, detect fragmentation levels and run a manual defragmentation on a single disk volume at a time. Requires you to create a profile in order to download, but it's still free.
jv16 PowerTools
Includes a registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, temp file finder and much more! An essential utillity!
MemDefrag
Simple console application to defragment windows memory, and increase performance on low memory machines...and higher ones as well.
RAM Def XTreme!
Defragments & cleans RAM, monitors RAM usage, full system tray support, complete documentation and on-line support.
Total Uninstall
Completely remove unwanted programs from your system.
- Image & Video Editing
The Gimp
Suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. File formats supported include gif, jpg, png, xpm, tiff, tga, mpeg, ps, pdf, pcx, bmp, and many others. Available for Windows & Linux
IrfanView
Simply the best free image editing program in existence, a must for everyone!
Unlead Utilities
A collection of freeware multimedia utilities, worth checking out.
VirtualDub
Video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (98/NT/2000/XP), streamlined for fast linear operations over video. Mainly geared toward processing AVI files, but can be extended with third-party video filters.
- Miscellaneous
1st Page 2000
A powerfull HTML editor.
7-Zip
File archiver with highest compression ratio, supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO and RPM, some of the features include: self-extracting capability for 7z format,
integration with Windows shell, 2-10 % compression ration better when compressing in .zip format and more.
ieSpell
Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage.
NoAds
Stops Internet popup ads, works with Internet Explorer, AOL, Opera, and Netscape Navigator (4.x, 6.x, 7.x). Easy to use.
StatBar
Status bar which allows you to quickly get an overview of your system's condition (memory, CPU, uptime, and much more).
UltimateZip
Zip/Unzip utillity that supports up to 16 archive types (Ace, Arj, Cab, Lha,Rar, Tar, GZip, Zip and so on).
HJSplit
A Small program to split large files to deisred size.
To split, just type in the amount (kb) and number of files desired.To join, browse your directory for the file with the '001' ext. and the rest will be added together.
MOOsic
A tool to make tagging and organising MP3 and Ogg files easy.
Messenger Plus! 2
An add-on to MSN Messenger and/or Windows Messenger. Features include: Hiding the advertisment banner, transparency effect, increase the number of characters per messages, quick texts (available through keyboard shorcuts), logging, boss protection (for when you want to quicly close messenger and hide it from you boss), user defined status, POP for mails other than hotmail, an tons of other features.
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/me may update this list every now any then, so check back occasionally!
Love in Christ!
Chris
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