Best Freeware

 

Best freeware and open source software

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List updated on May 2′nd 2007

Best Desktop Tools and Office

  1. free productivity suite

  2. enhanced version of original OpenOffice.org.

  3. Online file-sharing and collaboration tool

  4. Free Word processing

  1. Desktop Notes

  2. -Notes

  3. - Sticky notes

  4. - Sticky notes

  5. - Sticky notes

  6. -Notes

  1. Database

  2. PDF Software

  3. project management

  4. Financial Management

  5. personal finance manager

  6. Personal Information Manager

  1. text editor for coders

  2. Notepad Replacement

  3. text editor

  1. Full Text Search for OpenOffice.org documents.

  2. Unit Conversion program

  3. Wiki-like notebook

  4. Free Word processing

  1. Spelling Tools

  2. Thesaurus

  3. Thesaurus

  4. Text Tools

  7. -the best site around

  11. Create, edit, and share documents in your browser

Desktop Enhancement

  1. Change the color of your folders

  2. Shell replacement

  3. Replace explorer

  4. Application launch
  5. - Application launcher

  6. Desktop enhancement

  7. Freeware

  8. Free version

  9. Freeware

  10. Freeware version

Best Browsers - Best Email clients - Best FTP - Proxy-P2P- Best News readers

  1. ftp

  2. Ftp

  4. Ftp

  5. - Network monitoring software

  2. -offline browser utility

  4. -downloader

  6. -Check for software updates

Proxy tools

  1. -web proxy + - anonymous Internet communication system

File Sharing

  1. p2p

  2. p2p

  3. sharing

RSS Readers Freeware

  3. - RSS Reader

  4. - rss reader

  5. - RSS Reader

Best Antivirus - Best Firewall - Best Adware/Spyware

Best Antivirus Freeware

  1. (antivirus)

  2. Home Edition (antivirus)

  3. (antivirus)

Best Free Firewalls

  1. (firewall)

  4. (firewall)(after 30 days becomes freeware)

  5. (firewall)

Best Free Antispyware

Best Online Antivirus scanners

  1. (requires ActiveX)

  5. (scanner requires ActiveX)

  8. RAV Antivirus (scans a file)

  9. (scanner requires ActiveX)

  10. (requires use of a setup program for Netscape browsers)

  11. (scans a file)

Best Web based mail

Best Burning Software

  2. -Burn videos to dvd

  9. CD disk image virtual drive

Best Graphics

  4. 3D Home Design

  13. - image capture

  14. -Image resizer

  15. -Image resizer

  16. -Image conversion

Best Html Editors - Best CSS Editors - Best PHP

  1. -HTML, CSS, PHP editor

  3. - Html editor

Best Blog desktop publishers
  3. Z
Best Sound - Best Video Players - Best Music Organizers

Best sound editing and recording freeware

  1. Free sound editor *****

  2. - Sound recording

  3. - Audio editor

  4. Sequencer

  5. Advanced Drum Machine

  6. VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility

Best music and video players, Media Center, Music organizers

  1. Music “library” application similar to iTunes

  2. Audio Player similar to Winamp

  3. Media Player Classic is an all-in-one video player

  4. An open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library

  5. Media player

  6. -Media Center

  7. -Media Player

  8. -Media Player

  9. - Media Player

  10. - Media flash player

  11. -Media Player

  12. - Music and Video player

  13. -Find video and music clips

  14. -Download Video Clips

  15. Player/Organizer

  3. Rip music from cd

  4. Listen music online

  5. Listen music online

Best Calendars - Best Organizers

  1. Organizers

  2. Photo organizer

  3. Photo Organizer

  4. -Document organizer

  5. ( browser,converter,editor)

  6. Calendar

  9. -Outlook calendar on desktop

  12. bookmarking

  14. -mapping

  15. bookmarking

  16. organizer

Best IM and Telephony

Best Blogging tools

Best System Tools

Windows Tweaking Freeware

  2. (repair and fix windows)

  3. - tweak and manage xp

  4. TuneXP - system tuneup (all in one speedup)-Working download link

  5. -tweaking

  6. PCTuner - Over 550 windows tweaks

  8. -Tweaker

  9. -Tweaker

  1. ip file archiver
  3. file archiver
  4. Z file archiver
  5. ip file archiver

Encryption Freeware

  1. encryption
  2. encryption
  3. disk encryption
  4. password storage

File Manager Freeware -Startup -System Information

  1. -file manager
  2. - memory management
  3. -system monitoring
  5. screen magnification
  6. disk usage statistics
  7. -startup
  8. -startup
  9. -startup
  10. - Windows system utility
  11. - System information
  12. - System Information

Registry Cleaners Freeware - Registry Optimisation

  1. -reg. editor

  2. -reg tools

  4. - Registry cleaner

  5. -reg cleaner

  6. reg cleaner

  7. -registry optimization

  8. - Defragment registry

Disk Cleaner Freeware - Driver Backup Freeware

  1. disk cleaner

  2. - Disk Cleaner

  3. - reg cleaner, disk cleaner ,uninstaller

  5. - driver backup

  6. CD disk image virtual drive

  7. - Hardware identifier

File Delition and Recovery Freeware

  1. -secure deletion
  3. recover lost files

Best Backup Freeware

  3. -Backup

  4. - backup

  6. backup

  8. -move content from your hard drive

Best Defragmentation freeware

  1. - defragmentation tool

  2. Defrag

  3. + Defrag

  4. Disk Defragmentation

  5. -Disk Defragmentation

  6. file synchronization and backup

Context Menu Enhancement

  1. SendTo menu enhancement

  2. - Contex menu enhancement

  3. (Works with Xp as well)

Best Content Management System - Web Tools

  5. (cms)

  6. (cms)

  7. (cms)

  10. (shop e-commerce)

  11. WordPress

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33 Comments to “Best Freeware”

  1. JohnTP | November 22nd, 2006 at 1:48 pm

    Carol- Have you tried Digging this page? It has a good chance of making to the frontpage :)

  2. carol | November 22nd, 2006 at 7:21 pm

    Oh no!I don’t want to make it to their front page.
    Not that i am shy or anything but i rather have normal traffic.
    I don’t think my site will handle it.

  3. Bear Bottoms | November 23rd, 2006 at 5:21 pm

    Hi Carol

    You have chosen many of the truly great programs listed on your site. It seems the good ones actually do stand out. Your site is very interesting as well; you have the “touch.” Links to sites are beneficial (as you know) and I would like to trade links with you to each others site. I have some nice links already, but yours, well it stands out, and I like it very much.

    Bear

  4. carol | November 23rd, 2006 at 5:45 pm

    Hey Bear,
    Thank you very much and happy to know that you like my web site.
    I would love to trade links with you.

  5. Srinivasa Ramanujam | November 27th, 2006 at 8:20 am

    Its a worthy compilation. Thanks a lot for saving my time carol :).
    BTW, it will be good if you rate each of your listings and allow us to override the ratings. In that way, you can update the list in live time (probably some widget will do this I think) with the best freeware.

  6. carol | November 29th, 2006 at 10:27 am

    I wanted to make the list with rating stars but then i changed my mind because these are good freeware and already used and reviewed as good by many people.

  7. Bear Bottoms | December 9th, 2006 at 10:01 pm

    Hi Carol

    Thanks for becoming my mutual Stumble friend. I have put a link to your awesome website on mine. I just love what you’ve done and it is extremely well worth sharing with my viewers.

    Bear

  8. carol | December 10th, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    I put a link of you web site as well on my bloggers link.

    Good to know you Bear.

  9. jean | December 12th, 2006 at 9:37 am

    nice compilation of programs.

    www.irin.co.uk

  10. 2Kewl | December 17th, 2006 at 11:19 pm

    Hey, how about WebAPP - Network Edition at www.web-app.net as a terrific fully featured Website Content Management system? Maybe this could make your list???

  11. carol | December 17th, 2006 at 11:34 pm

    Sure it can. Any freeware or open source can make it on the list as long as they are clean and they’re working.

    Is there any place where we could see a admin demo, Kewl?
    I couldn’t find it on the web site.

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  13. kamal | December 23rd, 2006 at 6:10 am

    well done,
    very good collection ,
    keep it up,

  14. web2web | December 23rd, 2006 at 3:05 pm

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  16. Srinivasa Ramanujam | January 10th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    Hi carol, i’m searching for a splitter software to split giant sized files to fit in several CDs. Can you suggest me a best freeware which will do this?

  17. carol | January 10th, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    Use Regtoy Srini. This one can split them and rejoin them after.

  18. Jose | January 20th, 2007 at 7:17 am

    Hello Carol, I really like your blog. I found it on a whim. I wasn’t really looking for it, but I’m glad I found it. Your recommendation of Qumana is right on point. I’m just getting started with this blogging thing, and I like it. I sort of caught the blog bug by accident too. Hey, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but would you exchange links with me. I’ve got a few links back to you on my blog already. If not, I’ll understand. Pay me a visit when you get the chance. Thanks. Take care.

  19. carol | January 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Hello Jose,

    I will add your link as soon as possible to my Bloggers page.

    For some reason my comment to your blog didn’t go through.

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  21. Jose | January 21st, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    Hello Carol, thanks for responding and letting me know about my issue with the comments section of my blog. That was kind of you to link back to me. Even though I’ve been a web surfer for some time now this is my first “real” attempt at blogging. I made an attempt at it once a long time ago, but the bug didn’t bite me then. Opening a blogger account and putting up a single post was as far as I got. Now the blogging bug has bitten a chunk out of me. I think I’m hooked already, but I’m still a newbie at it, so any advice you might have would be much appreciated. Thanks once again for the link, and I’ll see you around the sphere.

  22. Jose | January 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 am

    Hi Carol,

    I see you’ve made a 3rd comment. I guess that once I approved your previous comments any subsequent comments you make will be automatically posted. I also may have an issue with my mail server, because I think I should have received an email notification after your posted. Thanks for the advice about Qumana. I’ve updated the ping preferences. I still have to figure out how to insert Technorati tags. I’ll check out the other blogs that you mentioned as well. Thanks again.

  23. syahid ali | February 19th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    great to link up to you carol. nice list. i’ve linked to your site via http://coolware.blogspot.com

  24. syahid ali | February 19th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    great to link up to you carol. nice list. i’ve linked to you from my site.

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  27. Shama Hyder | April 8th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    Fantastic Information. Thank you Carol!

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  31. mmj | June 19th, 2008 at 7:21 am

    The best CD/DVD burning software in my opinion is Infrarecorder.

    It is free and open source software, and as well as burning files, music and DVD video, it can copy from a disc to an ISO file (and vice versa).

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