Free Software, Programs And Games To Download
Programs with
next to them, are programs that I highly recommend.
Programs with [M] next to them means the program has a Mac
version and [L] for Linux.
Internet Security
Optimization And Tweaking Tools
Browser, E-mail Office ect.
Image and photo manipulation And Viewing software
Media Players And Tools
Burning, Ripping And Encoding Tools
RSS Readers
- FeedReader ( Simple, lightweight
aggregator. )
- RSSOwl [L][M]( Solid cross-platform RSS
client. )
IM & VoIP Programs
- Pidgin [L]
( All-in-one IM
client )
- Miranda
( All-in-one IM
client )
- Trillian ( All-in-one
IM client )
- Exodus (
Jabber Powered Client )
- ICQ ( IM software FREE )
- Skype [L][M]
( Voip client )
- Gizmo [L][M](
Free Phone for Your Computer )
- Phonegaim [L](
Voip client )
File Transfer and P2P Programs
- Azureus
Classic
[L][M]
(
Bittorrent client FREE ) Click here
for an install guide.
- µtorrent
( Bittorrent client FREE ) Good for low end PC's
- Wyzo [M]( Bittorrent web browser built
on firefox for integrated
torrent downloads )
- Alt.Binz
( Usenet/Newsreader client FREE ) Click here
for an install guide.
- Pando (
File Transfer Program BETA )
- Ares
(P2P
FREE)
- eMule (P2P
FREE)
- Gnucleus ( A very good
Gnutella search and download filesharing program. )
TV Software
- MediaPortal
a very advanced Media Center software that can run rings
around MCE 2005.
- XMLTV GUI Grabber [L] Grabs Tv
listings from Radio
Times
- GB-PVR Pretty good if
you can get it installed, but its not the easiest of programs to get
working.
- MythDora
A MythTV distribution built on Fedora.
- LinuxMCE Very
easy to install but needs to be installed on a PC running Ubuntu,
click here for the demo video
- TVUPlayer brings you programs from
around the world using P2P technology. There are some good channels
like Sci-fi, Comedy Central and Fox
- ORB Stream your content
through
any internet-connected device like a mobile phone, PDA, or any other
computer
- Joost[M]
you
can watch more than 15,000 shows, with more added
daily.
- ted:
torrent episode downloader [L][M]
Downloads Tv shows from torrent sites and opens them
with your default Bittorrent client.
Web Authoring
- NVU [L][M](
Web Authoring FREE ) click HERE
for NVU Manual or HERE
to watch an video
- 1st
Page 2000
is an extremely popular, easy-to-use editor for web pages that allows
for either direct code editing or a design view.
- KompoZer [L][M]
(A
more up-to-date
bugfix release of NVU FREE)
- FileZilla
[L][M]
( FTP client FREE
)
- Wordpress
( Web Blog Software )
- web.py
( web framework for
python )
- List of free web hosts
Games
3D Software
Other
Operating System's With Pre-Installed Software
- PCLinuxOS
If you are NEW to linux I highly recondmend you
to use this distro as it is the easiest to use.
- Dream
Linux
A good simple OS that looks a lot like Mac OS X with a
good selection of software pre-installed.
- Sabayon Linux
This is the Best Linux OS around just a bit hard to use
if you have never used linux before.
- Freespire
Offers optional use of the CNR™ Service to
install software and a very nice easy to use distro.
System Monitoring and Information
- SpeedFan 4.31
monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures.
- CoolMon
- CPU-Z
allows you to get some information on your system hardware.
- WinAudit reports on virtually
every aspect of computer inventory and configuration.
- WinDirStat
is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool. It is extremely
useful for figuring out where your hard drive space is going.
Programing Tools
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