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Instant Messenger

AMSN – http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim – http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger – http://www.mercury.to/
Miranda IM – http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion – http://www.pandion.be/
PSI – http://psi.affinix.com/
qip – http://www.qip.ru/
Skype – http://www.skype.com/
SIM – http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM – http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic – http://trillian.cc/downloads

Programming

ActivePerl – http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Crimson Editor – http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks – http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context – http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ – http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse – http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff – http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal – http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE – http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit – http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad – http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 – http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom – http://www.openwatcom.org/
Pelles C – http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser – http://www.php.net/
Programmer’s Notepad – http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad – http://www.pspad.com/
Python – http://www.python.org/
Ruby – http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop – http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WinMerge – http://winmerge.org/

Anti-Virus

AntiVir – http://www.free-av.com/
Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG – http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender – http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin – http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware

Ad-aware – http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka – http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder – http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr…r_download.html
Hijackthis – http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Mcft AntiSpyware – http://www.Mcft.com/athome/security/s…re/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy – http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster – http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard – http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol – http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Creation

Gungirl Sequencer – http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
Jesusonic – http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine – http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox – http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 – http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Players

1by1 – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy – http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer – http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 – http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic – http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik – http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube – http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player – http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique – http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp – http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay – http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf – http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools

Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AudioShell – http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
CDex – http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter – http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC – http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 – http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder – http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 – http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer – http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper – http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag – http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain – http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim – http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz – http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares – http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free – http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner – http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather – http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago – http://www.tigotago.com/

CD/DVD Burning

Burn4Free – http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce – http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn – http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP – http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO – http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend – http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner – http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD – http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression

ExtractNow – http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip – http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip – http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc – http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip – http://www.quickzip.org/
UPX – http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Download managers

Free Download Manager – http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download – http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet – http://www.leechget.net/en/
Star Downloader – http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager – http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget – http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget – http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet – http://www.wellget.com/

File Managers

2xExplorer – http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 – http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP – http://www.explorerxp.com
Gyula’s Navigator – http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer – http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander – http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

FTP Clients

CoreFTP – http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla – http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles – http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP – http://www.smartftp.com/
TYPSoft FTP Server – http://en.typsoft.com/

FTP Servers

FileZilla – http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server – http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD – http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v…pplication=8334
Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server – http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd – http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD – http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors

1st page 2000 – http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML – http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia – http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit – http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU – http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida – http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE – http://webpage.vendercom.com/

Image viewers

Ahaview – http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer – http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview – http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa – http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
SlowView – http://www.slowview.at/
XNView – http://www.xnview.com/

Internet Explorer Front-Ends

AM Browser – http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser – http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser – http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon – http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser – http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients

BersIRC – http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX – http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC – http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC – http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC – http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat – http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs

Foxmail – http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe – http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail – http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail – http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray – http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird – http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs

K9 – http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile – http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes – http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal – http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools

CMDTime NTP Utility – http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer – http://www.ethereal.com/
Gencontrol – http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi – http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter – http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles – http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap – http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop – http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter – http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats – http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC – http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC – http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC – http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP – http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite

602PC Suite free edition – http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord – http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org – http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot – http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php

Partition Managers

Partition Resizer – http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager – http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk – http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities

CutePDF – http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader – http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF – http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView – http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 – http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF – http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design

ArtRage – http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
ColorPic – http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Deep Paint – http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21…tml?tag=lst-2-7
Delineate – http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
iIco – http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product…duct.php?p=iico
JPEGCrops – http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
Paint .NET – http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia – http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie – http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre – http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodipodi – http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp – http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint – http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Pop-up Blockers

Google Toolbar – http://www.google.com/
NoAds – http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper – http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy – http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron – http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers

Ablion – http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
Feedreader – http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT – http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews – http://www.curiostudio.com/
RssBandit – http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl – http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader – http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress – http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader – http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Information and monitoring

CPU-Z – http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest – http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p…ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm – http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor – http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan – http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix – http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID – http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html

Video codecs

DivX Codec – http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW – http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD – http://www.xvid.org/

Video players

AC3Filter – http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter
BsPlayer – http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player – http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer – http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player – http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD – http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan – http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools

DVD Shrink – http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler – http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG – http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot – http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub – http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor – http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers

Firefox – http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon – http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape – http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera – http://www.opera.com

Web servers

Abyss – http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache – http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar – http://www.sambar.com/
Savant – http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW – http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
TinyWeb – http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Xitami – http://www.xitami.com/

Webcam Software

booruWebCam – http://www.booru.net/
Pryme – http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

3D Graphics

3Delight Free – http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis – http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender – http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax – http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) – http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. – http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services…_maya_ple.shtml
Now3D – http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX – http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray – http://www.povray.org/
Terragen – http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic – http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D – http://www.wings3d.com/

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