The Official List of Free Internet Programs.

[CharlieH]

If anyone can add to this list, then post a link.

Windows

Old Version (http://www.oldversion.com/) Site with old versions of windows programs.

Video Card Tweaking
ATITool - Allows you to fiddle with your radeon card. (http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool)

General System Sensor and Overclocking tools
CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) - Tells you things about your cpu that your bios won't.
Sys Tool (http://www.techpowerup.com/systool) - Allows you to overclock almost everything but your case.
PowerStrip (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm) - optimise your display and GPU.
ClockGen (http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php) - Quick way of overclocking your pc through windows.
Sandra 2005 (http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/) - Probe your system for information, benchmark your components.
Throttle Watch (http://www.panopsys.com/downloads.html) - Detect throttling in your pc.
Speed Fan (http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php) - Monitor your fans and adjust the voltage applied to them.

Game Session Recording Tools
FRAPS (http://www.fraps.com/download.php) - record videos of your games, benchmark while playing games.

Game Server Bookmarking
HLSW (http://www.hlsw.org/) - Bookmark gameservers you like, and find details of said servers.

System Utilities
Pagefile Defragmenter (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html)
Office
Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/)
Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) Notepad, but with extra tools and such.
Programmer's Notepad (http://www.pnotepad.org)
Win32Pad (http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/)
AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/)

Shell Replacements (full)
LiteStep (http://beyondconvention.net/ohussain/lsinstaller/)

Theming Programs
Boot Skin (http://www.bootskin.com/) - Change the windows welcoming screen for the better.
WindowBlinds (http://www.windowblinds.net/) - Make your Desktop look all fancy,

Expanded Panels
Object Dock (http://www.objectdock.com/) - Scrolling icon dock, similar to the Mac OS X, but with useful applications.

Online Antivirus scanners:
Panda Active Scan (http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm)
Trendmicro Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/)

AntiVirus
AVGfree (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5) (recommended)
avast! (http://avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html)

AntiSpyware
Spybot S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/) (caution: it is possible to remove important system information with Spybot)
HijackThis (http://www.spywareinfo.com/%7Emerijn/downloads.html) (caution: it is possible to remove important system information with HijackThis)
Adaware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/)
Ewido (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5) - from GRIsoft (recommended)

Graphics Editors:
Paint.NET (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/)
GIMPshop (http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241)
Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/)
Ifranview (http://www.irfanview.com/)

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Xchat2 (http://www.silverex.info/news/) - Free and Legal Xchat Build.
HydraIRC (http://www.hydrairc.com/)

Instant Messengers
Trillian Basic (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/)
Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/)

Browsers
Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/) andMozBackup (http://www.mozbackup.org/) Web browser and a back up program for it. - Recomended
Opera (http://www.opera.com/) - Recomended
Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com/)

E-Mail Clients
Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/)
Outlook Express (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/oe/) - Free with internet Explorer

VoIP/Telephony:
Skype (http://www.skype.com/)
Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/)

Game Messaging Services
Xfire (http://www.xfire.com/)

Audio Editing
WavePad (http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/)
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

Media Players
VideoLAN Codec (http://www.videolan.org/) (aka VLC)Recomended
Media Player Classic (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm)
Media Portal (http://www.team-mediaportal.com/)
Winamp (http://www.winamp.com/)
Foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/)
JetAudio (http://www.jetaudio.com/) Basic, good Audio Player for windows
xmplay (http://www.un4seen.com/) lightweight media player.

Codec Pack
K-Lite (http://www.klitetools.com/comments.php?catid=96&shownews=218&themeid=6)

Multiple Monitor Utilities
Multimon (http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm)

FTP programs:
FileZilla (http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/)
SmartFTP (http://www.smartftp.com/)

3D Rendering Programs:
Blender (http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html)

File conversion
Super (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html)

BitTorrent Clients
uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/)Recomended
Bittorret (www.bittorrent.com) (Heavyweight Program. For the supernerds only. Comes with lots of fancy shite)
Azureus "Vuze" (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/)
ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/)

Web Development
Apache (http://www.apache.org/)
Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/)
MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)
PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/)

Misc
RocketDock (http://rocketdock.com/)

Linux:

Web Browsers:
Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/)
Flock (http://www.flock.com/)
Opera (http://www.opera.com/)
Ephipany (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/)

Email Clients:
Mozilla Thunderbird (http://mozilla.com/thunderbird)

Graphics Editors:
The GIMP (http://gimp.org/)
Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/)

Instant Messaging:
Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/)

VoIP/Telephony:
Skype (http://www.skype.com/)
Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/)

Compilers:
GCC/G++ (http://gcc.gnu.org/)

Productivity Suites
Open Office (http://openoffice.org/)

Music Players/Downloaders:
amaroK (http://amarok.kde.org/)

Mac OSx

Web Browsers
Shiira (http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en)
Firefox (http://getfirefox.com)
Safari (http://apple.com/safari) - Recomended
Flock Browser (http://flock.com/)

E-Mail Clients
Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/)
Mail.app (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/) - Recomended

Instant Messeging
AdiumX (http://adiumx.com/)
aMSN (http://amsn.sourceforge.net/)
Microsoft Messenger (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx)
Fire (http://fire.sourceforge.net/)

Media Players
VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
Flip4Mac (http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm)

Anti-Virus
ClamXav (http://www.clamxav.com/)

BitTorrent Clients
Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/)

Music Players
iTunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/)

Graphic Editors
GIMPshop (http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241) - Recomended
The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)

Office
NeoOffice (http://www.neooffice.org/)

FTP
Fetch FTP (http://fetchsoftworks.com/) - 15 day trial, with nag screens afterwards.
One Button FTP (http://www.onebutton.org/) - Kinda hard to use, and it don't save your FTP password.

Other Miscellaneous Programs

Juice (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/) Streams Video to your PS3.

Tversity (http://tversity.com/home) Turns your PC into a media server.

Auto Gordian Knot (AutoGK) (http://www.autogk.me.uk/) Good DVD Ripping Software

Alarm (http://bluefive.pair.com/updates.htm) Turns your PC into an alarm clock.

Python IDLE (http://www.python.org/download/)
Great light weight little IDE for python, allows you to run individual bits of code without needing a main.

Dev-C++ (http://www.bloodshed.net/download.html)
For C/C++

JCreator LE (http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm)
It's lightweight doesn't take long to boot and is free.

Vixy.net (www.vixy.net) - Downloads YouTube videos and can convert them into any audio format.

[Rob]

Links would be great, yeah.

[Tweek]

Are the BitTorrent clients allowed to be listed? I thought discussion of torrents was against forum rules.

[CharlieH]

Success. I hope find that list as useful as i did when i first found it.

EDIT: Tweek, you are probably right. I'll remove them.

[Jallen]

Just a quick question: Is there any torrent for Mac OSX?

Also, there is also Microsoft messenger (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx), iChat (comes standard on any OSX), Fire (http://fire.sourceforge.net/) all instant messengers for OSX.

I prefer Microsoft messenger.

[CharlieH]

Anything about torrents is a no no on here, so you would have to find that yourself. There were, but i figured it be best to take them off. Sorry.

Edit: Links Added.

[Rob]

Torrents are fine, just not talking about illegal ones like music and movies.

[Axidos]

These programs are all windows.

File conversion:
Super (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html)
This thing converts between pretty much any multimedia file at all, along with formatting options (resolution, sound quality, etc where applicable).
But it's delicate - no guarantees you'll be able to make it work - I couldn't get it to convert something, but a friend of mine did exactly what I was trying to do just fine. Might have just been my computer.

Media Players:
Media Player Classic (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm)
Fairly simplistic media player which can deal with a whole variety of formats.

VideoLAN Codec (http://www.videolan.org/) (aka VLC)
This plays just about anything, has subtitle support, a playlist, streaming and media device support, etc etc. It might not look like much at first but it's a terrific.

Networking of some sort:
Hamachi (https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp)
I'm not sure if this one belongs on this list.
This creates a virtual LAN connection on your computer, then you connect with other people via servers, so basically it just lets an internet connection masquerade as a LAN connection. Filesharing is optional (and disabled by default).
It's really only useful where you want to connect to someone over the 'net, but a program will only recognise LAN connections. Like in games. Which is why I'm not sure it belongs.

[Rob]

To get us started on torrent stuff, I use uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/). It's insanely low on resources which is great if you like, actually use your computer for other things.

[Matterialize]

Azureus "Vuze" (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) is quite the opposite of uTorrent - it eats a lot of resources, but it has a a hell of a lot of nice features.

Yet Another Bittorrent Client (ABC) (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/) is another one, but like uTorrent, it's very easy on your system. A simple and easy to use bittorrent program.

RocketDock (http://rocketdock.com/) is basically the same thing as Object Dock. Just another alternative, if for some reason one of them doesn't work, download and use the other.

EDIT: All for Windows. Not sure if versions of these exist for other operating systems.

[Antisaint]

Old Version (http://www.oldversion.com/)
Older versions of programs, all for windows, all free and all legal. Lots of useful programs in there.

[Rob]

If you're a Mozilla fan:

MozBackup (http://www.mozbackup.org/):
One stop shop for backing up your Mozilla and Thunderbird settings, emails, bookmarks, etc. Creates a snapshot of everything web/email related if you ever get a new computer or reformat. I love it to death.

[SODA]

For downloading podcasts, I use:
Juice (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/)
it works great in conjunction with what I use to stream video to my PS3:

Tversity (http://tversity.com/home)
I use it to stream to my ps3 but it could just as easily stream to a 360 or another computer. It basically just turns your pc into a media server.

For ripping DVD's onto my computer I use:
Auto Gordian Knot (AutoGK) (http://www.autogk.me.uk/)
It works great, it takes a DVD and shrinks it down to a .avi file of the size you specify.

Ok this is kind of a silly one, but I have found it so freaking useful I thought I would include it:
Alarm (http://bluefive.pair.com/updates.htm)
Yeah so, it lets you use your computer like an alarm clock and allows you to use your own mp3's as the alarm. Nothing complex just really useful.

As far as free developing tools, I use:
Python IDLE (http://www.python.org/download/)
Great light weight little IDE for python, allows you to run individual bits of code without needing a main.

For C/C++ I like:
Dev-C++ (http://www.bloodshed.net/download.html)
There is also a Dev-Pascal on that site, though I have never used it.

For Java:
JCreator LE (http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm)
It's lightweight doesn't take long to boot and is free.

Other than that, I use alot of the software already mentioned, uTorrent, WinRar, VLC, FireFox Etc.

[CharlieH]

I'm not putting Hamachi on that list. Purely because i don't like it. You can't bloody well get rid of it when you don't want it anymore. :mad:

Cheers for the links here people. Eventually, i'll give it back to the CtrlAltDel Forums with our improvements :).

[SODA]

I'm not putting Hamachi on that list. Purely because i don't like it. You can't bloody well get rid of it when you don't want it anymore. :mad:

Cheers for the links here people. Eventually, i'll give it back to the CtrlAltDel Forums with our improvements :).

That's a shitty reason to not add it. :indiff: I know at least 3 people who use it regularly, I personally don't because I use www.logmein.com but nonetheless I know it is a good piece of software.

[sparta47]

GOM Player (http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html) is a pretty good video player that can play just about any video file, I use it all the time and really like it.

[BKS]

Autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx)- Its essentially a program that allows you to turn on and off what programs load on startup.

[Idioteque]

I'm assuming that most of those you would not advise to a computer newbie e.g. Overclocking programs, correct?

[Matterialize]

I'm assuming that most of those you would not advise to a computer newbie e.g. Overclocking programs, correct?

Good rule of thumb: if you don't know what it is and what it does, don't use it.

Also, update the damn list.

[SODA]

I'm assuming that most of those you would not advise to a computer newbie e.g. Overclocking programs, correct?

Yeah, I consider myself a serious computer user, but even I have no interest in overclocking because of the complications and the inherent risk.

[Jallen]

Just a quick question: Is there any torrent for Mac OSX?
Torrents are fine, just not talking about illegal ones like music and movies.

So now that that's cleared up...

[opn4bzns]

So now that that's cleared up...

Pretty sure he meant "is there a torrent program for OS X?"
Re that, I don't own a Mac, so I'm not sure if it's any good, but Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/) seems to be pretty popular.

[Johnny]

Vixy.net (www.vixy.net) - Downloads YouTube videos and can convert them into any audio format.

[Seriodor]

Ccleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/download) Is really good for opening up memory on your computer.

Also if you have an plication need, chances are that sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/) has a freeware application for it.

[BurgerKueen]

MacOsX FTP - CyberDuck (http://cyberduck.ch/)
Pretty straightforward to use, has a help forum and available in a bunch of languages.

[Beefynick]

For those of you who have Linux, Ephipany (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/)is one of the best browsers out there.

Just a side note under Linux in the list Gaim is now Pidgin which is also downloadable for windows.

[gimp]

Web development:
Apache (http://www.apache.org/)
Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/)

MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)
PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/)

... (There are about ten million different downloads - languages, frameworks, etc. I'm just starting the category.)

All-in-one setup (for beginner users - very simple, very easy) XAMPP (http://apachefriends.org)

All of these links have the proper downloads for each OS.

[Spastic]

You should not be dictating what does and does not go onto the list Charlie, Hamachi is an awesome app, it allows you to lan over the internet. I have had no problems with it, and just because you have does not mean it should not be added.

[CharlieH]

Apologies about my prejudice about hamachi. :(

All links updated soon. I haven't had the time of late.

EDIT: O.K, I elbowed in the time. Links Updated. :)

[The Super Hannah]

For Mac OS X there's AIM for instant messaging.

http://www.aim.com/get_aim/mac/latest_macosx.adp

[SODA]

Apologies about my prejudice about hamachi. :(

All links updated soon. I haven't had the time of late.

EDIT: O.K, I elbowed in the time. Links Updated. :)

You got all of mine wrong, and not to mention they are windows applications not just "Misc"... Juice downloads video podcasts through RSS feeds, it has nothing to do with streaming video. :indiff:

[MistyTehMoose]

Just a quick question: Is there any torrent for Mac OSX?

Do you mean a torrent program or an actual torrent for the OSX?

I use a program I use, I can't remember what it is called... Not as awesome as utorrent, but still pretty nifty.

Edit: Its called Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com). I highly reccomend it.

[SODA]

I just remembered this one because of the other thread, Ifranview (http://www.irfanview.com/) it is for viewing pictures and making minor adjustments supposedly a favorite of photographers because it can open a ton of thumbnails using very little memory.

[BurgerKueen]

For Mac OS X there's AIM for instant messaging.

http://www.aim.com/get_aim/mac/latest_macosx.adp

You could just use iChat for AIM though.

[Axidos]

You never added Super (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html). It has a free version which can be downloaded at the bottom of the page (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload).

[littleteapot]

Shouldn't you just stick them into one list, and put the platform(s) in brackets? It saves having to put the same item down 3 times; and why isn't Blender under the Linux list, too?

[Alex191]

There is about 2000 programs on this list.
http://download.ir/archives.html

[Pud]

Just note, a bit of a look through the above link reveals some dodgy stuff too. Scan your downloads before running them!
Speaking of scanning, Adaware (www.lavasoft.de) is awesome for a free malware/spyware/virus scanner.

[burningtoad]

Camino

"Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users."

http://caminobrowser.org/

[OoooF4LiFe]

RenameMaster (http://www.joejoesoft.com/cms/showpage.php?cid=108) - File management. Prefixes, suffixes, lists... Everything you could want for renaming multiple files at once.

Powerdesk (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,3491-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html) - File management. Windows Explorer alternative with a lot of very useful tools. Demo, but it's an unlimited trial.

RivaTuner (http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner) - Video card tweaking. NVIDIA's equivalent to ATITool. Overclocking, setting refresh rates, fan speeds... Ability to tweak everything video card related.


A lot of useful stuff on the list so far. Gonna save the favorite in my backup folder. These should probably go up there as well, tried to follow your format.

[Shadow Fyre]

Also there are these desktop transformation packs. http://www.kevinsblog.net/?p=199

Like windows blinds, though it also changes the boot up screen, windows, sound effects, etc. I'm using the mac skin, and it works really well and doesn't eat too many resources. And it's actually entirely free, you don't have to pay anything. (unlike windows blinds and object dock which cost $20 for the full versions.)

[thsabbath]

can you include Wax 2.0 for video editing? It's really cool and easy + free.

[Spastic]

Daemon Tools http://daemon-tools.uptodown.com/en/

A free program that let's you set up a virtual drive, mount virtual CD's/DVD's, and ISO files for free. I personally like this virtual the best out of all out there, just for it's simplicity.

[Axidos]

can you include Wax 2.0 for video editing? It's really cool and easy + free.

You're meant to give us a link to it, too.

[Hunnter]

How about AutoHotkey?
http://autohotkey.com/

Basically, it lets you remap keys to any other key very easily
'a::b' will send b when you press a
More advanced stuff, you can create hotstrings
'::fyi:: for your information' will exchange fyi for whatever you place after it
Even more advanced stuff includes: scripting, GUI creation, file management, memory management, message sending/receiving between windows.

For Windows only, sadly.

I've written several useful scripts, some being a mouse macro recorder / player, a web scraper and a small text editor (adding a calculator into that soon)
Going to attempt a simple image editor as well, or just steal Paints GUI...

[Spastic]

This thread hasn't been updated in over a month, even with so many suggestions. Someone else can feel free to create a thread like this again if you can frequently update it.