What and where to find programs.

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: What and where to find programs.

Internet Apps
Web Browsers
Recommended:
Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (addons)
Opera - http://www.opera.com/
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/

-Others:
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Crazy Browser - http://www.crazybrowser.com/
Links - http://links.sourceforge.net/

E-Mail Clients
Recommended:
The Bat! ($35) - http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Eudora (freeware/$39.95) - http://www.eudora.com/

-Others:
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
FoxMail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm

IRC Clients
mIRC - http://www.mirc.com
X-Chat - http://www.xchat.org/
XiRCON - http://www.xircon.com/

Gaming Tools
The All-Seeing Eye - http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2/index.html
Xfire - http://www.xfire.com/xf/index.php

-Others
Gametiger - http://www.gametiger.net/ (player Search)

FTP Servers
Recommended:
BulletProof FTP Server ($34.95) - http://bpftpserver.com/
GuildFTPd - http://guildftpd.com/

-Others:
RaidenFTPd ($12.95) - http://www.raidenftpd.com/en/
War FTP Daemon - http://www.jgaa.com/index.php?menu=154
Serv-U ($39.95) - http://www.serv-u.com/

FTP Clients
Recommended:
WS_FTP Pro - http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WS_FTP/index.html
FlashFXP ($25) - http://flashfxp.com/
SmartFTP - http://smartftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

-Others:
LeapFTP ($30) - http://leapware.com/leapftp.html
CuteFTP ($39.95) - http://www.cuteftp.com/cuteftp/

Instant Messaging
Recommended:
MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com/
AOL Instant Messenger - http://www.aim.com/

-Others:
DeadAIM ($4.99) - http://jdennis.net/
AIM+ - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/aimplus/
Trillian (freeware/$25) - http://trillian.cc/trillian/index.html
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
GAIM - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Telnet/SSH
PuTTy - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
SecureCRT ($99) - http://vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html

Remote Control
Recommended:
Remote-Anything ($92/master - $23/slave) - http://www.twd-industries.com/en/ra_index.htm
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
Radmin ($35) - http://www.radmin.com/

-Others:
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.com/
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
RemotelyAnywhere ($89) - http://remotelyanywhere.com/
VNC - http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

Bandwidth Monitoring/Controls
Recommended:
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetLimiter ($34.95)- http://www.netlimiter.com/
DU-Meter ($19.95) - http://www.dumeter.com/
Bandwidth Monitor Pro - http://www.bandwidthmonitorpro.com/

-Others:
RRDTool - http://www.RRDTool.org/
Cacti - http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/
MRTG - http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

Newsgroup Donwloaders
Newsleecher ($34.95) - http://newsleecher.com/
GrabIt - http://www.shemes.com/
XNews - http://xnews.newsguy.com/
NewsBin Pro ($35)- http://www.newsbin.com/

BitTorrent
Recommended:
ABC - http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/
Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Shad0w's Experimental Bittorent Client - http://www.bittornado.com/

-Others:
TorrentStorm - http://torrentstorm.com/
burst! - http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/
BitTorrent Experimental - http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/
BT++ - http://btplusplus.sourceforge.net/
BitTorrent (official)- http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
Personal Torrent Collector - http://ptc.sourceforge.net/

Office/Productivity
OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
AbiWord - http://abisource.com/

Text Editors: (usable for html/php editing)
EditPlus ($30) - http://www.editplus.com/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/index.html
metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
OmniPad - http://godfather.arsware.org/OmniPad/

HTML Editors:
Recommended:
(WYSIWYG) Dreamweaver ($399) - http://www.macromedia.com/go/gnavtray_dwmx_home
(Text) HomeSite ($99) - http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/

-Others:
(WYSIWYG) DHE Editor - http://www.hexagora.com/home.htm
(Text) PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/index.html

CD Burning:
Recommended:
Nero ($59.57) - http://ahead.de/en/index.html
burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/

Others:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
DeepBurner - http://www.deepburner.com/
CDBurnerXP Pro - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

CD Copying
Alcohol 120% ($49.95) - http://alcohol-software.com/
CloneCD ($39) - http://slysoft.com/en/clonecd.html
BlindWrite ($29.99) - http://www.vso-software.fr/

CD Imaging Tools
Daemon Tools - http://daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php
Alcohol 120% ($49.95) - http://alcohol-soft.com/
Virtual CloneDrive - http://www.elby.ch/fun/software/index.html
IsoBuster - http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/

CD Ripping
ExactAudioCopy - http://exactaudiocopy.de/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

Defragmentation
O&O Defrag Pro ($44.90) - http://www.oo-software.com/en/produ...defrag/pro.html
Diskeeper ($49.95) - http://consumer.execsoft.com/diskee...eper.asp?RId=50

Image Viewers
Slowview - http://www.slowview.at/
Irfanview - http://irfanview.com/

Image Editors
Recommended:
PhotoShop ($649) - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html
GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/index.html

-Others:
PhotoPlus - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/ph/ph5/index.asp
Pixia - http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/download.htm

Spyware Removal
Microsoft Antispyware (Beta!) - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot S&D - http://www.safer-networking.org/

Anti-Virus
Recommended:
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition ($varies) - http://enterprisesecurity.symantec....uctID=155&EID=0
NOD32 ($39) - http://www.nod32.com/home/home.htm

-Others:
AVG FREE Edition - http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
AntiVir Personal Edition - http://www.free-av.com/
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.net/
avast! Home Edition - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_153.html
BitDefender Free Edition - http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=24

Stand-Alone cleaners:
Stinger - http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
avast! Virus Cleaner - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html

Online cleaner:
Housecall - http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Software Firewalls
Recommended:
SyGate (free/$47.95) - http://smb.sygate.com/download_buy.htm
Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

-Others:
ZoneAlarm (free/$49.95) - http://www.zonelabs.com/

Media Players
Recommended:
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
BSPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/

-Others:
ZoomPlayer - http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
VideoLAN - http://www.videolan.org/

DVD Specific
PowerDVD - http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/...n.jsp?ProdId=28
WinDVD - http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/WinDVD_Download.jsp

mp3 Tools
Tag&Rename ($29.95) - http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
mp3Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
The Godfather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Codecs
ffdshow - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Koepi's XviD - http://roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
DivX - http://www.divx.com/
OggDS - http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm
AC3Filter - http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/
defilerpak - http://hellninjacommando.com/defilerpak/ (the only pack i can recommend)
QuickTime Alternative- http://www.free-codecs.com/download...Alternative.htm
Real Alternative â€“ http://www.free-codecs.com/download...Alternative.htm

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:52 am Post subject:

Does anyone know of anyone who uses this "Pixia"?

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject:

just curious

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject:

Great list [Smile]

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject:

You should add Adium to instant message clients. It is what I use, and it combines AIM and MSN messenger and whatever else you chat on together.

Another way to do this is on Meebo, which has it all on a webpage, so you can connect without downloading things onto whatever computer you are on.