Free Software Thread

[whatsgoingon]

I was on another forum recently and found a section called downloads very useful. It contains a bunch of links to open source or other free programs that are useful. While I don't think we need a whole section for this it might be nice to link something off the FAQ or start a sticky with this stuff.

Some Programs off the bat would be stuff like Open Office, thunderbird, Filezilla, winscp, gimp/gimpshop, free antivirus & firewall stuff, databases, IDEs, clean up programs, and other cool programs downloads people might find useful. If anybody cares I can compile an initial list of stuff. At least then when people are like I need this program to do this we can be like look in this topic.

Later,
WGO

[Daliman]

www.openoffice.org

[CaucasianAsian29]

bump, because if it's free it's for me!
I'm blanking on being helpful, but something good will come to me and i'll post later

[whatsgoingon]

ANTI-SPYWARE
<ul type="square">[*] A whole bunch of tools for removing spywares and hijackers http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php[*]Ad-aware http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Pers...dl&amp;tag=top5[*]Windows Bit Defender http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx[*]AVG Anti-Spyware http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng...i-spyware-free[/list]ANTI-VIRUS
<ul type="square">[*] AVG Anti-Virus http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/...nti-virus-free[/list]DATABASE PROGRAMS
<ul type="square">[*] Postgres http://www.postgresql.org/download/ [*]PhpPgAdmin http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ [*]MySQL http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ [*]PhpMyAdmin http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php[/list]FIRE WALLS
<ul type="square">[*]Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/co...=US&amp;lang=en[/list]FTP CLIENTS
<ul type="square">[*]Filezilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/[*]WinSCP http://winscp.net/eng/download.php[/list]IDEs
<ul type="square">[*]Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org[/list]MEDIA APPLICATIONS
<ul type="square">[*]Windows Media Classic Player http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=84358[*]VLC Media Player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/[*]Winamp http://www.winamp.com/[*]Media Coder (This is still in beta but might be cool when it’s actually stable)
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.htm[/list]OFFICE / GRAPHIC TOOLS
<ul type="square">[*]Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/[*]Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/[*]The Gimp http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
If you are used to Photoshop try GIMPSHOP
http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294[*]FPDF - PHP/PDF Generator http://www.fpdf.org/[/list]REMOTE COMPUTING
<ul type="square">[*]RealVNC http://www.realvnc.com/download.html[/list]UNZIP/ZIP/RAR/UN-RAR PROGRAMS
<ul type="square">[*]Zipper http://www.7-zip.org/[/list]WEB-BROWSERS
<ul type="square">[*]Opera http://www.opera.com/[*]Fire Fox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/[/list]WINDOWS ENHANCEMENTS
<ul type="square"> [*]Windows-XP Power Toys http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx[*]ReForce http://www.gotfrag.com/portal/files/81/[*]Folder Size Expander http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/ [*]Object dock http://www.stardock.com/products/obj.../downloads.asp[*]BootSkin http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/[*]LogonStudio http://www.stardock.com/products/logonstudio/[*]CleanUp http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/[/list]WINDOWS RE-INSTALL APPS
<ul type="square">[*]AutoStreamer http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562[/list]
I will add more when I think of them

Later,
WGO

[agt]

Not meaning to be a dick (too late?) but

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=522081

is one of the most comprehensive lists of free software around. Mebbe a link to this is all that is needed.