Free software alternatives

System Tools - to keep your PC running and fast!

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JKdefrag
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ A tool to simply defragment your Windows-PC. Why this one? its free, fast, and can be implemented as a screensaver - even under Vista*.

*With UAC turned off.

Admin-Tools

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Remote access tools

mRemote
is a powerful open-source Remotedesktop-client. Supports RDP, ICA, PuTTY and VNC. Tabbed sessions and saving credentials possible.
mRemote (open-source)

TeamViewer - Free for private use

http://www.teamviewer.com/de/download/changelog.aspx

CD- / DVD-Tools

2007-07-05T13:30:00.002+02:00

Burning
ImgBurn (free)
http://imgburn.com/

CDburnerXP Pro (free)
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Ripper
Audiograbber (free)
http://www.audiograbber.de/

CDex (os)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

DVDshrink (free)
http://www.dvdshrink.org/

Tools
Daemon Tools (free)
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/

CD Bremse (free)
http://www.cd-bremse.de/

Unstoppable Copier (free)
http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html

os: open-source; free: freeware [mostly for non-commercial use];
trial: evaluation version, mostly limited to 30 days;
share: shareware [1. free to use with all features for a short period of time, or 2. free to use with limited features - or nag-screens(winzip)], both kinds have to be paid to become the full versions

Network

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AngryIP (free)
http://www.angryziber.com/

The Network Toolkit (2 Versions, free and full)
http://www.cacetech.com/products/toolkit.htm

Networking Tools (free)
http://roadkil.net/listing.php?Category=4

Network Supervisor
Admin's Port Scan
...
http://www.freeware.de/autoren/Autor_Hoffmann_Timo_1874.html

Ethereal, Wireshark (os/free)
http://www.ethereal.com/
http://www.wireshark.org/

Cain and Abel (free, be careful!)
http://www.oxid.it/
Can be used for illegal purposes, which is forbidden!

os: open-source; free: freeware [mostly for non-commercial use];
trial: evaluation version, mostly limited to 30 days;
share: shareware [1. free to use with all features for a short period of time, or 2. free to use with limited features - or nag-screens(winzip)], both kinds have to be paid to become the full versions

System Information, Testing

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Benchmarks
3dMark (shareware)
http://www.futuremark.com/

Prime (free)
http://www.mersenne.org/

Super-PI (free)
http://superpi.ilbello.com/

System Stability Tester (os)
http://systester.sourceforge.net/

Information
Everest (free, discontinued)
http://www.google.com/search?q=everest&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t

SiSoft Sandra (free)
http://www.sisoftware.net/

CPU-Z (free)
http://www.cpuid.com/

Motherboard Monitor (free, discontinued)
http://www.ocinside.de

Speedfan (free)
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Testing
Memtests
http://hcidesign.com/memtest/ (free)
http://www.memtest.org/ (os)

HDD-Tests
http://www.hdtune.com/ (free)
http://www.datec.de/down_hd.html (free)

Windows XP Customizing / Cleaning

2007-07-05T12:48:00.001+02:00

UXtheme patcher (free)
http://www.windowsxlive.net/?p=604

Themes
Flyakite OSX (free)
http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

Zune Theme (free)
http://go.microsoft.com/zune

TweakUI (free)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Autostart
...

CCleaner (free)
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Linux / Live-CDs / Customizing XP-CDs

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SuSe Linux
http://opensuse.org/

Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Support (de)
Help (en)

Debian
http://www.debian.org/
Forum (de)
Manual (de)

CentOS
http://www.centos.org/

Live-CDs
Knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/

Kanotix
http://www.kanotix.net/

Knoppicillin
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppicillin

Damn Small Linux
http://damnsmalllinux.org/

gParted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

WinPE
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

nLite
http://www.nliteos.com/

Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Security and related tools

2007-07-05T12:35:00.001+02:00

IPsec-Tools (win)
http://vpn.ebootis.de/ (os)

Adware
Ad-Aware (free)
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Spybot (free)
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Anti-Virus
AVG (free)
http://free.grisoft.com/

Avira AntiVir (free)
http://www.free-av.com/

Personal Firewalls
Sygate (discontinued, plz google!) (free)

Ashampoo (free, reg.req.)
http://www2.ashampoo.com/webcache/html/1/product_1_0050__.htm

Outpost (discontinued)

Anti-Spy
XP-AntiSpy (free)
http://www.xp-antispy.org/

XPy (os)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpy/

Design and Development [Web and Software]

2007-07-05T12:29:00.004+02:00

Editors
PSpad (free)
www.pspad.com/

Emacs (os)
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Java / more
Eclipse (os)
http://www.eclipse.org/

Java SDK, JDK Standard Edition (SE) (free)
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

NetBeans
is a powerful Java-IDE especially for creating GUI's.
NetBeans (open-source)

JCreator (free)
http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm

Java Editor (free, de)
http://lernen.bildung.hessen.de/informatik/javaeditor/index.htm

C / C++
Bloodshed Dev C++ (free, gnu)
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

HTML/Web
NVU (os)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer

XAMPP [Includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl] (free)
http://www.apachefriends.org/

Apache (free)
http://www.apache.org/

MySQL (os)
http://mysql.com/

PHP (free)
http://www.php.net/

TeX

kile (for *nix)
kile

Texnic Center
Texnic Center

Internet 1: SSH, FTP

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Putty (free)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

FTP
filezilla (os)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

ws_FTP (free)
http://www.ipswitch.com/

PSPad (free, Editor with FTP-Client)
http://www.pspad.com/

web2ftp (free, only de)
http://www2ftp.de/
http://www.webftp.de/

Internet 2: Browsing

2007-07-05T12:02:00.004+02:00

Opera (free)
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/

Safari
http://www.apple.com/de/safari/download/

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

Mozilla Firefox (os)
http://www.mozilla.com/

Extensions for Firefox:
adblock plus (free)
http://adblockplus.org/

ietab (free)
http://ietab.mozdev.org

download manager tweak (quite old)

down them all (free)
http://www.downthemall.net/

GMarks (free)
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2888

Google Notebook (free)
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/index.html

Office Tools

2007-07-05T12:00:00.001+02:00

Open Office (os)
http://www.openoffice.org/

PDFcreator (os)
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

FreePDF XP (free)
http://www.shbox.de/freepdf.htm

Adobe Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Foxit Reader [Alternative to Adobe]
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

Multimedia 4: Player & Codecs

2007-07-05T11:56:00.002+02:00

MediaMonkey
The Most Valueable Audio Player with an excellent Database and powerful managemant features. Worth to buy, 2 Thumbs up!
MediaMonkey (free or gold available)

Winamp

Video Lan Client

K-lite mega codec Pack [includes ffdshow]

ffdshow

Lame mp3 Codec

QuickTime Alternative

Real Alternative

Media Player Classic

Multimedia 3: Video Editing

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VirtualDub

Cuttermaran

Multimedia 2: Audio Editing

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Audacity

Multimedia 1: Picture-, Photo-, Imaging Tools

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Irfanview

Artweaver

Paint 2.0

The Gimp

"Andy Warhol"

360 Degree Images

Internet 3: Communication

2007-07-05T10:34:00.002+02:00

Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird

Addons for Thunderbird:
Lightning:
Lightning for Thunderbird

Provider for Google Calendar:
Google Calendar for Thunderbird

Trillian Basic (free)
http://ceruleanstudios.com/

Miranda IM (os)
http://www.miranda-im.org/

Pidgin - formerly known as Gaim (os)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/

Skype (free)
http://www.skype.com/download/

Teamspeak
Teamspeak

os: open-source; free: freeware [mostly for non-commercial use];
trial: evaluation version, mostly limited to 30 days;
share: shareware [1. free to use with all features for a short period of time, or 2. free to use with limited features - or nag-screens(winzip)], both kinds have to be paid to become the full versions

Virtualisation

2007-07-05T09:47:00.000+02:00

Virtualbox (os)
http://www.virtualbox.org/

VMware Workstation (trial)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/eval.html

VMware Player (free)
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

VMware Server (free)
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

VirtualPC
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en

os: open-source; free: freeware [mostly for non-commercial use];
trial: evaluation version, mostly limited to 30 days;
share: shareware [1. free to use with all features for a short period of time, or 2. free to use with limited features - or nag-screens(winzip)], both kinds have to be paid to become the full versions