Archive - Compress Files into a Single File |
| 7-zip | Makes turns many files into a single file, taking up much less space |
Calendars |
| Sunbird | |
CD / DVD Creators |
| DeepBurner | Write Data and Audio CDs and DVDs |
Geography - Earth / Space Viewers |
| Google Earth | Travel around the earth, zoom in and see places (can see in 3D) |
| NASA World Wind | Travel around the earth and other planets, zoom in and see places (can see in 3D) |
| NASA World Wind (Data) | |
| Celestia | Travel around the universe in 3D |
Images |
Editors |
| Gimp (Windows) | Advanced Image Editor |
| Gimp (General) | Advanced Image Editor |
| Paint.Net | Advanced Image Editor |
| Photo Filtre | Image Effects |
| AutoStitch | Automatically stitch images into a single big image |
| Inkscape | Words and Shapes |
| Blender | 3D Drawing |
| WinMorph | Bend images or transform one image into another |
Viewers |
| IrfanView | Very small and fast image viewer |
| XNView | Opens anything IrfanView can't |
Messages |
Email |
| Thunderbird | Send and receive emails |
Messaging (chatting) |
| MSN Messenger | Chat with friends in Text, Sound and Video |
| Skype | Chat with friends in Text, Sound and Video |
| Miranda | Chat with friends in text - very fast and uses few resources |
| Trillian (Basic) | Chat with friends - fast and uses few resources |
Office |
Spreadsheets |
| OpenOffice | Sophisticated Office Suite |
Wordprocessing |
| OpenOffice | Includes Sophisticated Wordprocessor |
| Abiword | Sophisticated Wordprocessor |
| KeyNote | Keep track of notes and information in a tree-like form |
| WinMerge | See how two files differ |
OCR (Turn image into editable text) |
| SimpleOCR | Turns an image into editable text |
Notepad / Syntax Editors |
| Notepad++ | Edit plain text (and automatically colour when computer code) |
Publishing |
| Scribus | Compose a document for publishing |
Operating Systems (like Windows) |
| Linux Live on Disk | Runs Linux from a CD without installing anything |
| Linux and Windows | Installs Linux along with Windows |
PDF |
| FoxIt Reader | Very fast at opening files (writing quality less good) |
| Adobe PDF Reader | Slow to open (but good quality results) |
| PDFCreator | Create your own PDF files for sharing with others by printing from a program |
| PDF-T-Maker | Create PDF files from Microsoft Word complete with side navigation panel and clickable hyperlinks - more advanced users |
| Scribus | This Publisher program is also good for creating PDFs |
Protection |
Malware Removal |
| Ad-Aware | Find and remove spyware |
| Spybot | Find and remove spyware |
| IE-SpyAd | Block spyware sites |
| Avast | Anti-Virus Program |
Firewall - control programs accessing the web |
| Comodo Firewall | Very advanced firewall |
| ZoneAlarm | Make your computer invisible on the web |
Remote Viewers (Log onto a friend's machine visually) |
| MSN Messenger | |
| UltraVNC | |
Sacred Works |
| Ocean | General Sacred Texts of religions |
| e-Sword | Electronic Bible |
Sound |
Edit / Compose |
| Anvil Studio | Edit and Play Musical Scores |
| Audacity | Edit Recorded Sound |
| Encounter | Edit Recorded Sound |
| Kristal | Multi-track sequencer |
Play / Record |
| Exact Audio Copy | Get Audio CD to a file |
| Foobar2000 | Play sound/music - fast loading, light on resources |
| Hard Disk Ogg | Record sound, has auto-volume adjust |
Convert |
| dbPowerAmp | Convert from one Format to another |
| Monkey | Compress Sound without loss |
| WavPack | Compress Sound without loss |
| Ogg Vorbis | Compress sound with loss |
System |
| Erunt | Backup your computer settings |
| CC | Cleanup your computer |
Utilities |
| Process Explorer | Discovers what's running on your computer |
| WinKeyLock | Lock your keyboard or mouse so children can't cause havoc |
| SysExporter | Copy lists you see on screen |
Video |
| VirtualDub | Record from your video/webcam etc |
| Home Movie Maker | Record from your video/webcam etc and edit |
| XVid | Allows video to be recorded into a small file |
| DivX (Recording) | Allows video to be recorded into a small file |
| CatSpy | Automatically record from video/webcam when motion or sound is detected |
| UBroadcast | Broadcast video on a network |
| VLC | Play Videos and Movies |
VPN |
| OpenVPN | Connect to your office computers |
Websites |
Browsing/Viewing |
| Opera | most accurate at rendering web pages |
| K-Meleon | very lightweight on resources |
| Firefox | Generally good over all |
HTML (Writing WebPages) |
| Visual Web Developer | |
| Nvu | |
FTP (for uploading websites manually) |
| FileZilla | Simply the best! |
Webserver (test your website locally) |
| Aprelium | Tiny and easy to use |
| Apache | Large and complex |
Databases (provide database of info for your website) |
| MySQL | Data Server, widely used on Internet |
| PostGreSQL | Data Server |