Essential freeware collection for download

This list aims to be a valuable and easy to use resource for free software available on the Web. Feel free to contribute with your software suggestions, but keep in mind some simple rules:

* Must be freeware.

* Must provide name and homepage URL and not links to tutorials or freeware/shareware sites.

* If the software you want to suggest cannot be in any of the existing categories, please also suggest a new category.

3D Modeling

Blender - http://www.blender.org/

Google SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com/download/

Anti Virus

AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/

Avast - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/

BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com/

ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009 - http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...uite-cbe-2009/

Anti Spyware

Ad-aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-a...e_personal.php

ComboFix - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/comb...-use-combofix/

Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Microsoft Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx

Ninja Pendisk - http://nunobrito.eu/ninja/

SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Archive Managers

7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/

Compress it - http://www.rg-software.de/

KGB Archiver - http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/

QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/

SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/

TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/

Audio Creation and Manipulation

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

Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

MediaInfo - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

MIDI Pattern Generator 64 - http://www.gradywerks.com/mpg64/

MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php

Smart PC Record - http://www.voiceemotion.com/smartrecorder.htm

Audio Players

AIMP2 - http://www.aimp.ru/

Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/

iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Jet Audio Basic - http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/

musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/

Songbird - http://getsongbird.com/

Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

BitTorrent Clients

µTorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/

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

Deluge - http://deluge-torrent.org/

CD/DVD Burning

Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/

Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/

CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/

ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

InfraRecorder - http://infrarecorder.org/

Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - http://www.mispbo.com/burner.htm

Checksum Utilities

fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/

HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/

ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html

md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/

QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/

QuickSFV - http://www.quicksfv.org/

Defrag Software

Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Desktop Customization

AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372

CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html

Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/

Rainlendar - http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

RKLauncher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/

RocketDock - http://rocketdock.com/

Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/

TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/

WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Yahoo! Widget Engine (Formerly Konfabulator) - http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Download Managers

Flashget - http://www.amazesoft.com/index_en.htm

Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/

LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/

wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Email Clients

Evolution for Windows - http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/

Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com/.**/

Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/

Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Zimbra - [url]http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html[url]

Encryption and Data Security

Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm

ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_l...oad_center.htm

Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/

PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html

TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

File Managers

2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/

CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/

ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com/

freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

File Repair and Recovery

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools - http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/index.html

Avira UnErase Personal - http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassi...a_unerase.html

FreeUndelete - http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

VAIOSoft Recovery Manager - http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

Firewalls

Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...eeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients

CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/

Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers

FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd

TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/

WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

Image Capture

MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

Image Editors

GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/

Paint.net - http://www.getpaint.net/

Image Viewers

FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/

Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/

XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers

AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php

Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/

Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/

Pidgin - http://www.pidgin.im/

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Trillian Basic - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/

Yahoo! Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/

IRC Clients

BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/

BitchX - http://bitchx.org/

Clicks&Whistles - http://i42.co.uk/stuff/

HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/

NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/

TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/

XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Maps

Goggle Earth - http://earth.google.com/

NASA World Wind - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasa-exp/

Misc Tools

Evernote - http://www.evernote.com/

Network Tools

Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/

Fomine NetSend GUI - http://www.fomine.com/net-send-gui.html

Free IP Switcher - http://www.eusing.com/ipswitch/free_ip_switcher.htm

FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/

Hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/

NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Ntop - http://www.ntop.org/

PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com/

PRTG Traffic Grapher - http://www.paessler.com/prtg

PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/

TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/

Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Applications

AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/

OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers

GParted LiveCD - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Partition Logic - http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/

PDF Utilities

Adobe Reader - http://get.adobe.com/reader/

CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/awki

PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Sumatra PDF - http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Programming

ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl

BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html

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/

Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm

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/

PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/

Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm

PHP Designer 2007 Personal - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php

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.ruby-lang.org/

Screenweaver - http://screenweaver.com/download

SE|PY ActionScript Editor - http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php

SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/

WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

XML Copy Editor - http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/

RSS Readers

klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php

RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/

SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Info and Monitoring

AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html

ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/

CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

GPU-Z - http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

HWiNFO - http://www.hwinfo.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/VA002.../download.html

System Tools

AutoHotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/

CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/

Video Codecs

Real Alternative - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...lternative.htm

k-lite codec pack - http://www.codecguide.com/

Combined Community Codec Pack (cccp) - http://www.cccp-project.net/

Video Players

BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/

Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads

DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/

KMPlayer - http://www.kmplayer.com/

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303

VLC - http://www.videolan.org/

Gom Player - http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

Video Tools and Converters

AVIDemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/

DVDx - http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/

GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Handbrake - http://handbrake.fr/

MobileVideo For iPod - http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo...converter.html

Movica - http://vani.bhargav.googlepages.com/movica

Personal Video Database - http://www.videodb.info/

PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/

RatDVD - http://www.ratdvd.ca/

Super - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_main.html

VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

VirtualDubMod -http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=65889

Web Browsers

Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com/

Flock - http://www.flock.com/

Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome

K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/

Netscape - http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/

Opera - http://www.opera.com/

Web Servers

Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/

HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/

TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software

booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/

Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/

grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/

Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Splitcam - http://www.splitcamera.com/index.html


Hope you all are enjoy it very much.... :)