Free Software List

From cAn's Crew

• Internet
  • Firefox: web browser
  • Thunderbird: email client
  • FileZilla: FTP Client
  • Pidgin: Instant Messaging
  • ssh.com's client: ssh client
  • Putty: ssh client

• Office Software
  • OpenOffice: office suite; replacement for Microsoft Office
  • Nvu: HTML/Web authoring
  • Abobe Acrobat Reader: Adobe's native PDF reader
  • Foxit: Lightning fast PDF reader
  • PSPad: Great text editor, mainly for developers

• Drawing/Photo/Image Software
  • GIMP: alternative to photoshop
  • GIMPShop: modification to GIMP to replicate Adobe Photoshop
  • Picasa: Photo organizing/viewing
  • Inkscape: Vector Art (like Adobe Illustrator)
  • TuxPaint: Fun drawing program (mainly for kids...they LOVE it)

• PC Health
  • Antivirus: AVG Free
  • Antivirus: Avast

• Multimedia
  • VLC Media Player, plays just about everything
  • HandBrake: convert DVDs to MPEG4
  • XBMC: full featured media center
  • Songbird: plays your music, iTunes-like music manager
  • foobar2000: plays your music
  • WinFF: converts video from one format to another
  • Audacity

• Development Tools
  • MS Visual Studio Express Microsoft C++, Visual Basic, C#, and Web
  • Python

• Benchmarking
  • 3DMark03: Graphics
  • 3Dmark05: Graphics
  • 3dmark06: Graphics
  • HDTach
  • HD Tune: Hard Drive
  • Super Pi: CPU/RAM

• Misc
  • Keepass
  • Truecrypt
  • Dropbox
  • Google Earth: whole earth mapping
  • Microsoft Powertoys for Windows XP
  • Lego Digital Designer: Playing with legos, seriously
  • VirtualBox: Run another operating system in a window
  • Putting stuff on cell phones: bitpim