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Microsoft Image Resizer
Get this useful free utility from Microsoft to add right-click image resizing capability to Windows. If your photos are too large (high-res) to upload, this is the answer. |
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Inkscape
A free, open source vector graphics editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. |
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OpenOffice
A complete replacement for "that other" office product, this suite maintains full compatibility and functionality while not being plagued with macro viruses. |
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JEdit
Java based programmer's text editor. Many useful functions whether you're a programmer or not, and because it's java based it runs on virtually any operating system. |
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TurboCash
Great open-source accounting program that has been around for many years. |
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GnuCash Personal Accounting
Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses, and is as quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register. |
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Pidgin Universal IM Client
Do you use more than one chat or instant messenger application? Tired of maintaining multiple user accounts and having to log in to each one separately? Ever wish for just one application that would work for ALL your messenger accounts? It's here! |
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Any Password
AnyPassword is a very handy utility if you have many passwords to remember. Instead of struggling to remember all of them, just save the passwords and corresponding details to an encrypted file. Now, all you have to remember is ONE strong password! |
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KeePass Password Safe
My favorite multi-platform open-source password manager. If you have lots of accounts and passwords to keep track of, this is absolutely what you need! |
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Nvu Web Editor
Finally! A complete Web Authoring System to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. |
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Miro Media Center
Miro is a very capable and easy to use media center. It can search, preview, download, play, and much more. Miro supports many formats. |
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MediaMonkey
Free media jukebox & music manager for serious music collectors. Listen, organize and play almost any kind of music file. Many great features - definitely worth a look! |
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Kompozer Web Editor
Kompozer is a derivative of Nvu and offers the same web authoring features plus more! |
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HD Clone
Another very capable program to create image backups of your hard drive. There are paid and free versions; the free version will do full images only - not partition based backups, but it's very easy to use. |
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Autoruns
Originally produced and offered by well-known security company SysInternals, this handy utility gives you a peek into what's happening when your computer starts up. SysInternals has now been acquired by Micro$oft but amazingly, this is still free! |
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Easeus To-Do Backup
Great backup program! Allows you to make a backup of a partition or an entire disk and save it to an image file. That image file can then be mounted as a virtual disk, or restored in its entirety. Also check out their partition tool. |
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DriveImage XML
If you've ever used Ghost but didn't like the price tag, then DriveImage XML might be what you're looking for. This program creates image backup files of your hard drive. |
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BareGrep
Frustrated by the slowness and poor search capabilities of the built-in Windoze file search utility? Try BareGrep - similar to the Unix 'grep' utility, but graphically presented, this program is lightning fast and offers a multitude of search options |
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HoverSnap Screen Capture
Ever need to capture a portion of your screen graphics? This free utility will do it for you. HoverDesk also offers free registry and IP tool utilities. |
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AVG AntiVirus and AntiSpyware
Yes, you can still get free protection for your PC that works! |
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Audacity
A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems |
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PSpad Editor
PSPad - a very capable freeware HTML, PHP, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, C, and HEX editor. |
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The Gimp!
Can't afford those fancy graphics editors? Then try The Gimp! You'll be surprised at what you can get for free! |
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FileZilla FTP Client
One of the best FTP clients I've ever used - FileZilla is fast, stable, and offers all the features you will ever need for transferring files. |
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Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
The fastest growing browser on the planet! And I mean in popularity, not file size (the latter is that "other" browser). One of the first to offer tabbed browsing, Firefox has dozens of capability-enhancing plug-ins to extend its functionality |
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Thunderbird Email
From the Mozilla foundation, this email client is lean and stable, and offers a huge array of extensions to customize it to your liking. |
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Scribus Desktop Publishing
A very capable desktop publishing suite. If you need to mix and manipulate text and graphics, this is your tool! |
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More Free Software - thefreecountry.com
If you haven't found what you want yet, try this site for much more free software. Caveat: not tested by yours truly :) |
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More Free Software - portableapps.com
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More Free Software - opensourcewindows.org
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More Free Software - sourceforge.net
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