My Favorite Smallware :: MarkTAW.com. Free Help Desk Software. Freeware Downloads - The Freeware Network. The Web's best free stuff | IDGSister | News | March 24, 2008 | By Preston Gralla and Erik Larkin, PC World, IDG News Service. Free: It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services.
Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk. That's where we come in. We surfed, clicked, and installed to find sparkling free gems capable of planning your time, keeping you in touch, and tuning and securing your PC, not to mention glitzing up your desktop, helping you stay productive, and entertaining you with music, videos, photos, and games.
We paid special attention to programs and services you may not have heard of before. We also singled out two free offerings--one download and one online service --as the best of the bunch. Productivity AbiWord (download)Tired of expensive, slow, bloated word processors? TrackMyShipments (service)If you place orders often via the Web or phone, here's a site for you. ThinkFree Online (service)Don't want to fork over several hundred dollars for Microsoft Office? The Road to Know Where: Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft.
Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows XP, Windows Vista & Office Programs available for download — finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now. Alt-Tab Replacement in addition to the icon of the application window you are switching to, you see a preview of the page. ConferenceXP enables you to see & hear others in a virtual collaborative space, called a venue. You collaborate on an electronic whiteboard or PowerPoint presentation, send messages and more. Feeds Plus is an Internet Explorer 7 add-on for RSS pop-up notifications. FolderShare keeps important files at your fingertips – anywhere. All file changes are automatically synchronized between linked computers, so you always access the latest files.
GroupBar desktop tool offers enhanced window management capabilities in a taskbar-like setting. Optional Reference & Dictionaries Bootvis – Microsoft states this tool is not available, but they still “support it”. Like this: Like Loading... Best Freeware Blog. MaxxBlade's JavaScripts :: [ Clock v2.0d ] :: Build custom JavaScript clocks. Best Free Software 4 Download - search freeware and shareware downloads. DiamondCS Freeware Console Tools for Windows. GetFreeSofts.com - Best Source to get freeware and shareware programs. Carols Vault. Dubber's Computer Resources. 9 Great, Free Applications that Work with Vista. This is a list of my favorite Windows applications that I honestly couldn’t live without that also work on Microsoft Windows Vista RC as well, much to my surprise. All of the software is free to download and use, and in fact most of them are open source. ConTEXT – ConTEXT is a free and lightweight editor for programming or can be used as a notepad replacement.
ConTEXT supports find and replace in multiple files at once so changing one method in loads of files is no longer an issue. Works in Vista with no problems whatsoever. Synergy – Synergy is like a software KVM, but only shares keyboard and mouse capabilities. Synergy is multiplatform, and I currently use it to have my keyboard and mouse work in Ubuntu, Vista, and my Mac Mini running Leopard with no problem at all! VLC – VLC has been my favorite media player for years now. FileZilla – I use FileZilla to interface with clients that still haven’t moved to SCP. IMGBurn – I love IMGBurn. The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. (Official site of the table)
The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.Last update: 16.07.2003, 31.01.2005, 27.05.2005, 04.12.2006, 07.07.2007, 25.11.2007, 29.12.2011 (in progress) You can always find the last version of this table on the official site: This page on other languages: Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Polish. One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don't know too much about Windows :). This table is not static since new application names can be added to both left and the right sides.
Notes:1) By default all Linux programs in this table are free as in freedom. You can read more about it in the book "Linux and the Unix Philosophy". Attention! Credits: Valery V. FREEWARE GUIDE - Your Guide to the Best Free Software and Freeware Sites! New Freeware Today. News. S4SEs Free Software Resources. Free Software - Windows Freeware. Freeware Files - Free Software Downloads. Free Software - Windows Freeware. Free Download A Day. Internet Tools.
FreeWare Site. All Tools. The joeware utilities... Saving administrators around the world time and frustration for over twelve years... All joeware utilities have a very simple warranty which you can find here. Please feel free to use these tools as you like, if you do something cool with them, let me know, I like hearing what things people find to do with them. For each utility I try to keep a current list of what platforms it will or won't work on. The mapping for the symbols are + for runs, - for doesn't run, and † for it runs but not perfectly. The last is specific to Windows Server 2008 and is due to the granular password policy. If the granular password policy is not being used, you will have no issues. CSV file with utility versions, release dates, and MD-5/SHA-1 Digests Note about digests. Already know the name of the tool you want? Active directory specific tools AdFind Command line Active Directory and ADAM LDAP query tool. [+2K][+XP][+K3][+Vista][+Windows7][+K8] more...
AdMod more... AdQueueLoop more... more... Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List. Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week. For me, util means utilitarian and it means don't clutter my tray. If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it's the bomb. Here are most of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. This is the Updated for 2005 Version of my Original Tools List and subsumes all my other lists. NOTE: Please don't reproduce this in its entirety, I'd rather you link to this post. The Big Ten Life and Work-Changing Utilities Notepad2 (Scite also uses the codebase) - A great text editor. A Developer's Life Reggie - Not a regular expression tool, it's a BETTER RegSvr32.exe from Shawn Van Ness. The Angle Bracket Tax (XML/HTML Stuff) VisualXPath - A nice GotDotNet project that runs XPath Queries interactively and displays the results.
Regular Expressions Stuff I Just Dig Low-Level Utilities Browser Add-Ins. The Extended Best-ever Freeware Utilities List. AlwaysFreeware. File Hippo.