Hi There,
Long time no post…
This time something a little bit different. There’s a list of some free (as in freedom)
and free (as in free beer) software that my dear friend Idan and myself have been
maintaining for some time now.
The idea began as a list of s/w, divided by category, to install once you format your
computer. However, I think you might find it interesting – so here it is:
– Security –
AVG Antivirus
Ad-aware
Spybot
Zonealarm Firewall
– Utils –
7-Zip
SIW – System Information for Windows
Hashcalc – Calculate MD5/SHA1/CRC32 ….
RealVNC Server / Viewer – remote desktop
– PDF/PS –
FoxitReader (PDF reader)
CutePDF Writer (PDF Printer)
pdftk – pdf manipulator
Ghostscript – for viewing postscript files
– File Manipulation / Documentation Tools –
TKDiff – Excellent linux/windows application for comparing files
Scite (Enhanced Text Editor)
Notepad++ (Supports almost every language)
OpenOffice
Dia
KHexEdit (Linux) (Binary file editor)
Kompozer (HTML editor)
Lyx (Latex editor)
– Internet –
Firefox + Thunderbird (Browser + Mail)
- Firefox Addons: Noia 2 extreme (theme); fireFTP; DownThemAll; FlashBlock; Gmarks; Greasemonkey; Xmarks; Answers.com
- Thunderbird Addons: Nioa 2 extreme (theme); Enigmail; Lightning
NVU (Website editor/WYSIWYG)
GPG4Win
Free Download Manager
WinSCP – GUI for scp (copy files via SSH)
PuTTY – SSH client
KeePassX – Manage passwords for websites
– Chat –
Skype
Pidgin
– Development Accessories –
Wireshark/Ethereal (Network Sniffer)
Visual Studio Express 2008 – The microsoft free version of VS
Poderosa (Terminal supposting COM/Telnet etc.)
– Backup Tools –
CDBurnerXP – CD/DVD burning program (also compatible with Windows Vista)
Daemon Tools (load an ISO to a virtual CD drive, as if you’ve just burned that CD and put it into your CD drive)
– Video / Sound –
Avidemux – Manipulate video files (very useful if you need to convert formats, or some basic editing)
Audacity (Greate Audio editing program)
Gom player / VLC player (both are MP3 / movies players. Quite good)
VLC media player – Cross Platform media (also DVD!) player
Bytessence MPxConverter 1.1 (MP4 to AMV converter – for MP4 player)
HandBrake – Ripping video DVDs and converting them
IsoBuster – Also rips video DVDs, but can also handle problematic DVDs (e.g. if you didn’t finalize the disc)
– Image Manipulation –
Gimp – Photoshop replacement
IcoFX – Icon editor
– Cad –
KiCad (Linux) (Schematics + PCB Editor)
