Page 1: Graphic and Desktop Publishing
Page 2: Internet
Page 3: Multimedia
Page 4: Office Applications
Page 5: Security and Privacy Protection
Page 6: Other Tools and Utilities
Internet Freeware
eMule
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p2p file sharing client, is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client. Great for sharing large image archives with friends around the world. |
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FileZilla
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FTP client that supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). The main features are the site manager, message log, file and folder view, and a great transfer queue – I use this to upload to whitespace.freeweb7.net. |
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Free Download Manager
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Great download accelerator and manager. |
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Miro
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Internet television application that automatically downloads videos from RSS-based channels, manages them, and plays them. |
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Mozilla Firefox
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Excellent cross-platform browser with features including tabbed browsing, live bookmarking, a download manager, themes, thousands of add-ins etc. |
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Mozilla Thunderbird
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Cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird aims to be a simple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client and is a lot less bloated than Microsoft Outlook – in fact, it’s like Outlook Express without the limitations. |
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Opera
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Use Opera to browse web sites, send and receiving e-mail messages, manage contacts, chat with IRC, download files via BitTorrent, and read web feeds. |
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Nvu and Kompozer
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WYSIWYG HTML editors. It is intended to be an open source equivalent to proprietary software like Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Nvu and Kompozer is designed to be easy for non-technical computer users. |
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Pidgin
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Instant messaging program that allows you to chat with your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Yes all these in one! |
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RSSOwl
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RSS, Atom, and RDF Newsreader, which lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any source in a convenient list. |
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Screamer Radio
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Internet radio client with recording abilities. It is able to play back streams using WMA, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or ACC streams. Is able to record these streams into many formats. |
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Skype
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Allows you to make telephone calls from your computer to other Skype users free of charge or to landlines and cell phones for a fee. There are other features including instant messaging, file transfer, SMS, video, and more. |
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Vdownloader
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Download and convert videos into AVI of MPG format. Use with Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace, DailyMotion, Yuvutu, and more. |
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WinSCP
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SFTP and FTP client for use in Windows. |
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I wish all essentials were free…but, alas! I don’t think photoshop will ever come free and nothing quite matches up to it… :(
I wish all essentials were free…but, alas! I don’t think photoshop will ever come free and nothing quite matches up to it… :(
It always amazes me what I can find on the internet if I just search for it. Like – I’ll just think, “it would be cool if there was a program that did ___” and I’ll search and find some freeware that does it! Just amazing to see how big the world really is.
I wish all essentials were free…but, alas! I don’t think photoshop will ever come free and nothing quite matches up to it… :(
I rather that you should try GIMP! It is a good substitute to Photoshop.
To author, thank you for sharing the download link. I will also download other freewares in this article and study how to use them properly.