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Recommended PC Freeware
12/05/2010
Media:
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IfranView |
A very nice photo editor/viewer with batch ability. |
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GOM Player |
Another media player with support for many types. |
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Bonk Encoder |
A MP3 encoder with CDDB lookup abilities.
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Audacity |
Nifty Audio Editor with plug-in support. |
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Jaangle
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A compact fast media player.
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Misc:
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IZArc
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A file unzip and zip program with support for many file types. |
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Sticky Pad |
A nice utility which allows you to have stickies on your desktop.
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Foxit Reader
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An alternate PDF reader. |
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Softmaker Office 2006 |
An Excel-like and Word-like editor. |
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SUMo |
A software update checker. |
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FileHippo Updater
Checker |
Another software update checker. |
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Toucan |
A software that can sync/backup to various means of storage devices. |
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Dropbox
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A no-hassle sync program with 2 GB of free online file storage. |
Development:
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InnoSetup |
A clean well designed setup creator. |
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FxCop |
A code analysis and metrics tool.
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Scrawlr |
A simple SQL Injection scanner. |
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Xenu |
A broken link analyzer. |
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WinMerge |
A tool that makes merging files a lot easier than the default tool included in TFS. |
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Fiddler2
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A web debugging proxy.
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Internet:
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Opera
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A very fast and compact browser available for multiple platforms. It also
includes a basic RSS Feed Reader and email client. |
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Firefox |
Another browser with extensive plug-in support.
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ThunderBird |
A fairly nice POP3 email client developed by the Mozilla team.
Notice: It is advisable to use Outlook instead, if you have a large inbox. (>500MB) |
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Pidgin |
A multi-protocol IM program. |
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HTML Shrinker |
A nifty utility that can reduce the pageload size of your HTML.
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System Optimization/Cleaning:
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JKDefragGui |
A really nice defrag utility
with an nifty defrag screensaver and scheduling features. |
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CCleaner |
A nice new system
cleaner. |
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RegSeeker |
A fairly nice registry cleaner. |
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EasyCleaner |
Another older but still nice, system cleaner. |
Virus Scanners:
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Antivir
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A free virus scanner. |
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AVG
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Another free virus scanner
with a nice built-in autoupdate utility. |
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Avast
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Another virus scanner that is quite a bit more cpu intensive but also a lot
more thorough, its also compatible with older OS's. |
Malware/Spyware Scanners:
| SpyBot Search & Destroy
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One of the better spyware cleaner programs. |
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Malwarebytes |
Another good
malware removal program. |
| HiJackThis |
A more
advanced spyware removal tool which does not need pattern file updates. (For advanced
users only.) |
