Free Software Thread

[ninja fetus]

IfranView

http://www.irfanview.com/

Well, in WinXP, I hate the picture and fax viewer. I just hate it. It doesn't view many filetypes either! So I went hunting! I found a VERY light, fast, image viewer!
Views images, and so much more! Check it!

"IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003."

Some IfranView Features:

• Many supported file formats (click here for the list of formats)
• Multi language support
• Thumbnail/preview option
• Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
• Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
• Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
• Drag & drop support
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• Email option
• Multimedia player
• Print option
• Change color depth
• Scan (batch scan) support
• Cut/crop
• IPTC editing
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• Capturing
• Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
• Lossless JPG rotation
• Many hotkeys
• Many command line options
• Many PlugIns
• Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
• No registry changes without user action/permission!
• and many more

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Dia is a free, open-source diagraming tool similar to Visio. You can use it to map out networks, draw flow charts, street maps, diagrams, schematics, etc. It's quite powerful and simple to use.

Get it:
For Linux or Windows.

Image pictured below: A simple diagram I worked up in 5 mins. for my local community center using Dia.

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Audacity -- http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is a free, open-source audio program with which you can record, edit, and play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files. It also features level meters, multi-file export, and low-latency multi-track recording. This program is available for Linux, MacOS-X, and Windows.

[ninja fetus]

http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml

Another media player you ask? psh, no! not JUST a media player, but THE media player. I use this with winamp, windows media player classic, and divx player and zoom player is my favorite out of all of them and it looks nice! of course, free too!

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http://www.ccleaner.com/

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.

[Waffle]

Speed up Mozilla!!!

I can't actually believe how much this sped up my internet.

And for a free download, its insane.

This site was taking me about 5 seconds to access ten minutes ago. I used this, and it did it instantly. Same for all pages I've come across.

Get it.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/B...ptimizer.shtml

[Sniper]

PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL it shows full path and version information. PrcView comes with a command line version that allows you to write scripts to check if a process is running, kill it, etc.

http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm

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OpenOffice.org (OOo)

http://www.openoffice.org/

A free, open-source office suite which is designed to compete directly with the pricey Microsoft Office. It is cross platform (Linux, Unix, BSD, BeOS, MacOS, Windows...), has international language support, dictionary, thesaurus, and an equivilent to each and every program in the MS Office suite. The quality is incredible, and it is even compatible with existing MS Office formats. In addition, it has its own, non-proprietary, XML-based format which is actually superior to MS' own, which can even be read by advanced web browsers (so even if OOo goes away 10 years from now, you can still read your old files). Why pay $600 for Office when you can get OOo for just the cost of bandwidth?

P.S. - It's a good idea to install the Sun Java client prior to installing OOo, since it uses Java to do macros and other advanced functions. Java is strongly recommended, but not required.

[phaedrus]

Cheetah Audio Converter:

and also free Cheetah DVD Video v1.0 http://www.cheetahburner.com/

CdBurnerXP Pro: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

[phaedrus]

yep, i've been using CD BurnerXP Pro for 12 months and had no problem with it

here's another freebie for mpeg/dvd ripping and converting (obviously for those with their own home movies )

http://go.to/flaskmpeg

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Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

The best BitTorrent client I know of. It's fast, cross-platform, has many cool features, and you can potentially add many more by using plugins. Setup wizards and an intuitive interface make Azureus one of the most user-friendly trackers out there. It even has some very slick ways of graphically monitoring traffic (see attached screenshots). Requires Sun Java to run, but don't be fooled, this thing is no resource hog (at least on Linux; I've never used it in Windows).

Get it!

[phaedrus]

cdivx a free dvd player, only 2.3 mb download

http://www.cliprex.com/cliprex_video...er_-_free.html

also some free codecs for it same site

http://www.cliprex.com/free_dvd_vide...desc,DESC.html

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JAHSHAKA



"The worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. We currently support Linux, OsX, Irix and Windows, and Solaris is on the way! Jahshaka is licenced to the public under the GNU GPL agreement."

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Komposer



"Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Komposer makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML."

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Inkscape



"Inkscape is an Open Source 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 Creative Commons 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 Postscript, EPS, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats."

Inkscape is free (as in both gratis and libre), open-source, and cross platform. It currently runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows.