| MPEG Streamclip | Video converter/editor. | Freeware | Video |
| OpenVPN | VPN clients. | GPL | Network |
| Nessus | The Nessus® vulnerability scanner is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. | GPL | Security |
| Scite | A free source code editor for Win32 and X. | GPL | Programming |
| IZArc | Zip utility. Opens everything and has File Explorer support. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Flock | Web browser based on Firefox with blogging utilities built in. | GPL | Web |
| Opera | Web browser. | Freeware | Web |
| Putty | Telnet/SSH application. | GPL | Network |
| 7Zip | Zip utility with File Explorer support. | GPL | Utility |
| Buddi | Financial and banking app. | GPL | Finance |
| Tor | Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. | BSD | Security |
| Freemind | FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. | GPL | Utility |
| ISOrecorder | ISO burn utility! Add an option to Explorer to burn .iso file to cd. HIghly Recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
| Burn4Free | CD/DVD burner application, works oh so well! p.s. Run Adaware after installing to remove the spyware piece ;) | Freeware | Utility |
| Flac | Lossless audio compression tool. Rips tracks without the quality loss like you find in mp3 format. | GPL | Audio |
| Razorlame | Audio to mp3 ripper. Uses Lame Encoder | GPL | Audio |
| VideoLan | Movie player, plays most everything including DVD! | GPL | Video |
| Jahshaka | Video editor for Windows. Very nice. | GPL | Video |
| AVI Maker | Makes avi video from images. | Freeware | Video |
| Dorgem | Video/webcam capture. | GPL | Video |
| Neuromixer | Neuromixer Innovative software solutions for visual artists and musicians for live video production. | Freeware/Other | Audio |
| Cinepaint | Image editor geared for video production. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Semagic | Blog clent for Live journal. Has the best features for Lj. | GPL | Web |
| W.Blogger | Blog client, the best ever imo. Supports Drupal, Word Press, Live Journal, and many other blog types and even FTPs files and tags them with either link or image. Too many features to list here, highly recommended application. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Web |
| VNC | Remote desktop tool. | GPL | Network |
| TightVNC | Remote desktop tool. | GPL | Network |
| TeraTerm | Terminal. | GPL | Network |
| Bid O Magic | EBay bidding/selling utility. | GPL | Web |
| Open SSH | SSH Remote administration. | GPL | Network |
| Adaware | Spyware removal tool. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Crap Cleaner | Cleans up Windows, internet cache, temp files, registry entries, etc. Also has a kick ass uninstaller that works and a startup editor. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
| Registry Fix | Fixes the Windows registry. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Filseclab | Internet personal firewall - Nice | Freeware/Other | Security |
| Kerio Firewall | Internet personal firewall. Highly recommended. | Freeware/Other | Security |
| Zone Alarm | Internet personal firewall. Highly recommended. | Freeware/Other | Security |
| AntiVir | Anti-virus. I have been using this for awhile and it kicks ass. Beats the shit out of Norton and it's free! Highly recommended. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Open AntiVirus | Anti-virus framework. | GPL | Utility |
| G4U ghost utility | Ghost a drive. I have not used this, but it says it supports win2k. | BSD | Utility |
| Boot manager/partition manager | Partition magic like clone and boot manager. | GPL | Utility |
| BitTorrent | Multipeer downloading! | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| Burst | A bittorrent creation and management tool! Highly recommended. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| EMule | Peer2peer client for file sharing! | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| EMule Plus | Peer2peer client for file sharing with added features! | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| FileZilla | FTP Server and client. Highly recommended. | GPL | Server |
| Mozilla | Web applications like Thunderbird mail client, Firefox web browser, and Sunbird Calendar. Highly recommended. | MPL | Web |
| IM2 | Chat client. Works with Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ, IRC. Features voice\video and encrypted chat. Skinnable :) | Freeware | Chat |
| Trillian | Chat client. Nice, Works with Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ, IRC. Highly recommended. | Shareware | Chat |
| Rainlendar | Very cool skinnable calendar for windows, will set events from Outlook/Exchange! | GPL | Utility |
| Sysmetrix | Very cool skinnable clock system meters with weather, email, and trash indicators as well as music playback. | Freeware | Utility |
| Samurize | Another skinnable clock, system meters, weather, email, and trash indicators as well as music playback, but with so much more - like multiple machine support! Highly recommended. | Freeware | Utility |
| Virtual Dimension | Multiple desktops in Windows. I love this app, it actually makes your desktop sessions separate and lots more cool features. Highly recommended. | GPL | Shell Enhancement |
| Skin Calc | Cool skinnable calculator. | Freeware | Utility |
| PearPC | Run Mac OS X or Linux on Windows ! This works as I was running Mac OS X panther on my Windows XP laptop. My screenshots Mac on win 1 Mac on win 2 | GPL | Virtualization |
| Synergy | Synergy is like dual monitors, a kvm switch, and vnc on speed! If you want to operate multiple machines with one keyboard and mouse, move files between them, and have both screens at your disposal this is for you. Works between platforms also! | GPL | Utility |
| Cygwin | Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. | GPL | Utility |
| Cygwin/x | Cygwin/x allows x11 (Linux apps) to run on Windows. | GPL | Utility |
| AbiWord | Word processor with all the bells and whistles! Highly recommended. | GPL | Office |
| Firebird database | Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. | GPL | Database |
| Jedi database | Database for Windows. I haven't played with this one. | GPL | Database |
| OpenOffice.org | Office suite, like Microsoft Office and compatable with MS Office formats. Word processor, Spreadsheets, Publisher, Presentation, HTML, and Powerful database (like Access) products. Impress (Like Powerpoint) exports to many formats including SWF (Flash). All can be exported as PDF. Highly recommended. | GPL/LGPL/SISSL | Office |
| Quasar | Nice replacement for Quickbooks. | GPL | Finance |
| PDF Creator | Create PDF documents. | GPL | Office |
| Sketchboard | CAD software. 3-D | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| QCad | Autocad application. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Dia | Basically Visio. | GPL | Office |
| JMoney | Personal banking and accounting app. | GPL | Finance |
| Eclipse | Eclipse java IDE for Windows. | EPL | Programming |
| OpenLaszlo | Flash creation, plus much more. Kind of like Macromedia Flex. For everything you need for this visit myLaszlo article. | CPL | Programming |
| GNUStep objective C | Objective C lib, compilers, etc. | GPL | Programming |
| Python programming language! | So much power and easy to pick up! Has an included programming editor/IDE called PythonWin.exe | ACL | Programming |
| Python Enthought edition | Scientific power packed Python install! This has wxWindows installed by default. | GPL | Programming |
| Boa Constructor | A visual GUI designer and IDE for Python | GPL | Programming |
| SPE | If your a Python programmer working on Mac or Windows and your looking for a kick ass IDE Spe is for you! Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| WXWindows | BOA uses wxWindows backend | GPL | Programming |
| RUBY | Perl/Python like programming language. | GPL | Programming |
| PERL | Perl programming language. | ACL | Programming |
| Lazarus | Delphi/Kylix like programming environment using Pascal, compiles to exe, gui designer.! | GPL | Programming |
| Envelop VBasic | Visual Basic clone; compiles to exe, gui designer! | GPL | Programming |
| TSWebeditor | HTML/PHP IDE. Has FTP, projects, and css support built in. Very nice! Highly recommended. | Freeware | Programming |
| Xinha | HTML editor also has a Firefox extension. | BSD/Other | Programming |
| Crimson editor | Programmers text editor. Features tabbed interface, html, php, c, python syntax highlighting, code output window, and built in FTP! Highly recommended. | Freeware | Text/Programming |
| NVU | HTML wysiwyg editor, supports CSS, Javascript, etc. Highly recommended. | MPL/LGPL/GPL | Programming |
| Webniac | HTML editor, CSS, ETC. | GPL | Programming |
| Balthisar Cascade 2.0 | CSS level 2 editor available for the Windows platform. | Freeware | Programming |
| SimpleCSS | CSS Editor. | Freeware | Programming |
| Photoshop Plugins | Photoshop plugin listing | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Python for Photoshop | Python Actions Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop | GPL | Programming |
| Hugin - Panorama Tools | Make panoramic photos out of normal images. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Fractal-Explorer | Fractal generator with landscape and script lib. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Xaos | Fractal generator. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Planet Genesis | Terragen clone - creates 3-d landscapes, planets, etc. | BSD | 3D Graphics |
| Gimpshop | Gimp restructured like Photoshop. Very nice and you only need install this one file as opposed to Gimp's GTK lib install. If your a Photoshop junky like me this will fit nie into your tools and may save you money down the road. Main page is here | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| The Gimp 2 | Very much like Photoshop, tons of great plugins including a Flame fractal generator! Highly recommended. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| ArtRage | Natural Painting Application, like Painter. and so worth the download! | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Pixia | Painting/Image editing application. This reminds me of Open Canvas. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Serif Software | Several FREE apps - Desktop Publishing, Graphic Design, Image and Photo Editing, 3D Animation, Web Publishing | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Paint.Net | Cool Photoshop like application. | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Sodipodi | Illustration (vector) application. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Inkscape | Illustration (vector) application, similar to Illustrator. The interface may be more friendly to an Adobe person than Sodipodi. Get the latest win32.exe installer here. Highly recommended. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Blender 3-D | 3-D modeling, design\illustration, animation, game development. I like to call it the Free Maya 3-D! Highly recommended. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Truespace 3.1 | 3-D modeling, design\illustration, animation, game development. I've used this since version one, nicest 3-D app next to Cinema 4D. You must register for the free serial number. | Freeware/Other | 3D Graphics |
| Moonlight/3D | 3-D illustration, modeling, etc. A little easier learning curve than Blender.. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| PovRay | 3-D illustration - code based. Moray Interface for modeling, etc - not free, but cheap. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Anim8or | 3-D animation, modeling, rendering. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| 3D Canvas | 3-D animation, modeling, rendering. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| Arbaro | Make 3-D trees. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| PoseRay | So Nice! Poser like software, but much more with lots of 3-D file support. Also see DazStudio | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Wings3d | Wings 3D is a 3-D subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Dusty | Dusty is a nice realtime 3D Smoke Simulator. It allowes to simulate smoke and fire in realtime. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| UVMapper | Map textures to 3-D objects. | Freeware/Other | 3D Graphics |
| Texture Processor | Create nice textures (seemless). | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| EZThumbs | Batch thumbnail creator. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Google Picasa | Download your images directly from your digital camera, share and organize photos on and off line, edit and print, post on-line, or create a cd. You can chat about your photos through Picasa also with Hello and works with Google blogger, which can be found here. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| White_Dune | White_dune is a low level VRML97 tool. | GPL | Programming |
| Black Box | Alternative Windows Shell. I found this to be more stable than XOBlite2. http://www.bb4win.org/news.php | GPL | Shell |
| XOBLite | Alternative Windows Shell. Screenshot of my machine running XOBLite (blackbox) here | GPL | Shell |
| Black Box Lean | Alternative Windows Shell. | GPL | Shell |
| Litestep | Alternative Windows Shell. | GPL | Shell |
| SharpE | Alternative Windows Shell. More info and screen shots Here. | LGPL | Shell |
| 3DNA | Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. I thought these were cool, well amusing so I listed a few. Here is a screenshot of 3dna in action. | Shareware | Shell |
| Blueberry | Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. | LGPL | Shell |
| Sphere | 3-D effects in Windows similar to Beryl, Compiz/Metisse. | Shareware | Shell |
| VSpeech | Voice command your Windows computer. | GPL | Utility |
| Audacity | Wav editor with VST support and can export to mp3. Highly recommended. | GPL | Audio |
| Mixx | Dj software. | GPL | Audio |
| Acid Express | Digital sequencer and loop based music production software, this is a Sony free download #B0( See Gungirl for a free alternative ;) | Freeware/other | Audio |
| Zinf | Mp3/Ogg player, skinnable. | GPL | Audio |
| QCD | MP3/Ogg player and OGG encoder plugin Screw MP3 - rip to OGG!!! Better and free! Highly recommended. | Freeware/Other | Audio |
| Hydrogen | Drum and synth application like Fruityloops. | GPL | Audio |
| Konfabulator II | Desktop widgets and toys. Now owned by Yahoo. | Freeware | Utility |
| Gungirl Sequencer | Gungirl Sequencer is an easy to use Audiosequencer. It includes a simple Filemanager and uses Drag & Drop to arrange Audiosamples. | GPL | Audio |
| Jedit | Jedit is a mature and well-designed programmer's text editor with a big focus on Java. Has nice Jython support! | BSD/GPL | Text/Programming |
| Sepy | Flash Actionscript IDE. This is really nice! Has class list, auto complete, and compiler. Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| RSS Owl | RSS news reader. | CPL | Web |
| Flame | Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Pegasus Mail | Email client, very mature and feature rich. | Freeware | Web |
| Grisbi | Personnal accounting application. | GPL | Finance |
| BlitzMax IDE | Basic programming IDE for use with the Blitz game development environment. | Public Domain | Programming |
| Haste | Haskell TurboEdit - is an IDE for the functional programming language Haskell, written in Haskell. | GPL/Other | Programming |
| Spybot | Spyware removal tool. | GPL | Utility |
| Rec | Decompiler, breaks exe files into C/C++ code. | GPL | Programming |
| Frhed | Hex editor. | GPL | Utility |
| Virtualdub | Video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms. | GPL | Video |
| Avidemux | Video editor. | GPL | Video |
| UBCD4Win | UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem. Also seeWin/Linux Version. | Freeware | Utility |
| Fontforge | Font creation application. Requires Cygwin. | GPL | Font |
| Doubletype | Font creation application. | GPL | Font |
| Ogg Vorbis | Ogg is like an open source version of mp3. They list many ripping, playing, and utilities on their site also for use with this format. I like it better than mp3. | GPL | Audio |
| Cdexos | CDex a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. Highly recommended. | GPL | Audio |
| Spyware Blaster | Blocks spyware/adware. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Security |
| Clam Win | Anti-virus program. | GPL | Utility |
| Mucommander | File Explorer replacement. If you liked Norton Commander you will love this. | Freeware | Utility |
| Instantrails | Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. | GPL | Server |
| Apache2Triad | Installs a developer preconfigured environment with Apache, PHP, mySQL with control panel/PHPMyAdmin, xMail, ftp, and a Apache Web based Control Panel, etc. Power packed with new cool things like Python/Pearl mods, ASP support, SSL and so much more. Highly recommended. | GPL/Various | Server |
| EasyPHP | Really nice Apache install with PHP and mySQL included and configured. If you need a heavy duty Apache web development environment look at Apache2Triad. | GPL/Various | Server |
| Apache Tomcat | Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (jsp) technologies. | ASF/GPL/Other | Server |
| SQLCC | GUI Frontend for mySQL. | GPL | Database |
| Apache Web Server | Web Server, the best imo. | ASF/GPL/Other | Server |
| MySQL | SQL Database. | GPL/Other | Database |
| Postgresql | SQL database. Heavy duty relational database. | BSD | Database |
| PHP | Web programming language used to make PHP server pages. | PHP | Programming |
| Skype | Internet phone. Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. Its free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers so your not limited to call friends using the same operating system. Skype also has other services that allow the calling of actual phone number and cells, plus video options for a small price. | Freeware | Web |
| Limewire | Peer2peer software. The servers generally contain a lot of viruses so be sure to scan zips, jpg, exe, etc before using or opening. | Freeware/Other | Peer2Peer |
| PGP | A free encryption software program that is the de-facto global standard for E-mail and file privacy. Pretty Good Privacy (or PGP) offers full-strength, 128-bit encryption. PGP has constantly been upgraded over the years and now offers loads of useful features, including secure file wiping; advanced keyserver searching; and seamless integration with Qualcomm's popular Eudora E-mail client | Freeware/Other | Security |
| Keepass | Password Manager with encryption. | GPL | Security |
| Outpost | Firewall. | Freeware/Other | Security |
| AVG | Anti-virus, free for non-commercial use. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Synfig | Cartoon animation - industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. Highly Recommended. | GPL | Video |
| Winplanner | Project management application. | GPL | Office |
| ClamAV | Anti-virus program. | GPL | Utility |
| Vex | Vex is an editor for XML documents. The "visual" part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for "document-style" XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than "data-style" XML documents. | GPL | Programming |
| Celtx | Celtx is a comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the film, TV, theatre, and new media industries. It combines full-feature scriptwriting with media rich pre-production support and enables online collaboration. | MPL | Office |
| Foobar2000 | Audio player. | Freeware | Audio |
| Tugzip | Zip/archive application. Really nice and opens most everything including rar. | Freeware | Utility |
| Irfanview | Photo manager with some editing and plugin ability. | Freeware/Other | 2D Graphics |
| Skale | This is a Freeware Music Creation Program, This means you can create your own music with this software completely for free. All you need is your creativity and a big bunch of good sound samples to create all you want. Project is dead, get what you can while you can. | Freeware | Audio |
| Resolution AXS | AXS is a combination of an analog synthesizer, a sampler, two effect units and a sequencer. | Freeware | Audio |
| Cooktop | XML editor. | Freeware | Programming |
| Xerlin | XML editor. | GPL | Programming |
| GnuLedger | Open source financial solution. GnuLedger includes all of the functionality that home users need to manage their finances. | GPL | Finance |
| Scribus | Desktop publishing application similar to Pagemaker. Look here if you have trouble finding the exe installer. | GPL | Office |
| Unxutils | Linux/Unix command line tools, like grep, written natively for Windows. | GPL | Utility |
| Juice | If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. | GPL | Web |
| Delineate | Raster to Vector converter. Nice | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| WinMorph | Morphing app for video. Also look at Wax and Wink. | Freeware/Other | Video |
| ExplorerXP | Windows File Explorer replacement. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| OpenVMS | Defrag and hard drive utility. | Freeware | Utility |
| SharpDevelop | IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform.. | GPL | Programming |
| TurboCash | Accounting personal finance software. | GPL | Finance |
| Kmelon | Web browser, very lightweight. | GPL | Web |
| Foxit | PDF reader and Adobe PDF reader replacement. Very fast and lightweight. | Freeware/Other | Web |
| Task Scheduler | Task Schedule replacement. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Daisy | Windows updater replacement that does not use IE settings. | GPL | Utility |
| Project Wonderland | 3-d desktop. It reminds me of os x in three dimensions. Note: This is under development and requires lot's of Java setup. I would not use this unless you want to test and develop and arn't worried about your Windows installation. Used to be called project looking glass. | GPL | Shell |
| Jap | Anonymous proxy. JAP makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably. | GPL | Web |
| Speak-freely | Voice over ip, Internet phone. | GPL | Web |
| Explore2fs | Let's you see and explore a Linux partition, and do file operations, from Windows. Highly recommended if you dual boot. | GPL | Utility |
| KDE | KDE, a popular Linux Desktop/Window manager series of software released for Windows. Office, Graphics, you name it is covered. | GPL | Shell/Multi |
| CD burner XP | CD Burner. | Freeware | Utility |
| Gourmet | Recipe Manager is a simple but powerful recipe-managing application. | GPL | Misc |
| Freeguide-tv | FreeGuide is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings for lots of different countries. | GPL | Misc |
| Gizmoproject | Internet Phone. Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. | GPL | Web |
| SharpConstruct | 3D modeling program that paint depths on to polygon models in real-time. Like Z-Brush. Is being adding into Blender 3-D! | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| PyScripter | A very powerful, full featured, professional Python IDE written in Delphi. Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| Sketch It Up | 3-D design, illustration, and modelling brought to by Google. | Freeware/other | 3D Graphics |
| OpenFX | 3-D design, illustration, and modelling application. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Maxthon | Web browser, similar to Firefox, but uses the Internet Explorer backend and settings. | Freeware | Web |
| Selenium | Web application test tool. Tests run directly in a browser, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox. Supported platforms Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Languages include C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc. | GPL | Programming |
| Notepad-plus | Notepad replacement with tabs, plugins, no file size limit. Highlights many langauges included Python, Java, Html, etc. Highly Recommended. | GPL | Utility |
| Photofiltre | Photo editing application similar to Paint Shop Pro. Nice app. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Super | If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file SUPER © is all you need. I haven't used this, but it looks cool. | Freeware | Video |
| BartPE | Windows live cd. Now you can boot Windows from a CD-Rom and have full read/write access to NTFS volumes!. | Freeware | Utility |
| VMWare | Run Windows, Linux, etc. in virtualization. Like Vitual PC, but 1000 times better! I am running Windows in Linux and it's absolutely flawless! | Freeware | Virtualization |
| FarPy | Awesome wxPython and .Net GUI designer. | GPL | Programming |
| Aptana | Development environment geared towards web development, Ajax style! Autocomplete and assistance for HTML, CSS, Java Script. | EPL | Programming |
| Feedreader | News aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. | GPL | Web |
| RSSBandit | News aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. Requires .Net | GPL | Web |
| Miro | Internet video aggregator. Play virtually any internet video-- Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more. Video blog, YouTube, hell it does everything including BitTorrent. | GPL | Video |
| BitTyrant | BitTorrent protocol compatible client. Faster than traditional BitTorrent, read more on their site. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| PortableApps | Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer via USB Flash device, iPod, or portable hard disk, and it works like a start menu. Includes Firefox, Open Office, VideoLan, to name a few. | GPL | Utility |
| Hymn | The purpose of the Hymn Project is to allow you to exercise your fair-use rights under copyright law. The various software provided on this web site allows you to free your iTunes Music Store purchases (protected AAC / .m4p) from their DRM restrictions with no loss of sound quality. These songs can then be played outside of the iTunes environment, even on operating systems not supported by iTunes and on hardware not supported by Apple. | GPL | Audio |
| EmailXT | EmailXT is an open, patent-free protocol that replaces your current email with a more secure, full-featured system. EmailXT is a relationship-based email system where unauthorized bulk emailing is no longer possible. No more spam and mass mailing viruses. You don't need spam filters or service subscriptions any more. | GPL | Web |
| Fyre | Fyre is a tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions. If you wonder how those cool wispy blue OS X like backgrounds are made this will show you the way. I use this on Linux and it's excellent, but I haven't tested the Windows version. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Shapeshop | 3-D modeling application that is a sketch-based 3D modeling tool for creating procedural hierarchical implicit volume models, also known as "BlobTrees", basically metaballs. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Web-Dev. Server Suite | WAMP-based [Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP] web-server distribution for Windows that is fully configured and ready to run. This has every thing from a Web Application firewall to ASP.NET Host Interface. Security hardened and even includes some open source CMS software, like Joomla. | GPL/Various | Server |
| ActiveGrid Studio | ActiveGrid Studio enables developers to rapidly build enterprise-level Web 2.0 applications with a minimum of training, time, and effort. Supports Java, PHP, Python. Database supports is the best I've seen in an open IDE. Has built in Python and Java environments plus a built in running Apache web server. Highly recommended. | APL | Programming |
| XAMPP | Apache, MySQL, PHP web development environment install. Takes care of most configs and setup issues so you don't have to. | APL | Server |
| GSculpt | gSculpt is an open source, procedural subdivision modeller. It has a comprehensive set of polygon modelling tools, including most of those found in Wings 3D, and more. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| MegaPOV | MegaPOV is a custom unofficial version of POV-Ray with a lot of additional features. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| BRL-CAD | The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system with over 20 years development and production use by the U.S. military. Visit the project page for downloads. | LGPL | 3D Graphics |
| PDFCreator | Tool to create PDF files, like Adobe PDF Writer. | GPL | Office |
| Frostwire | Peer2Peer and BitTorrent client. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| K-3D | 3-D animation, modeling, and rendering application. Uses multiple rendering engines including the renderman engine; Aqsis. Also seeYafray and Povray. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Ivy Generator | Creates realistic ivy, including leaves. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| FS-driver | Mount Linux Ext2/Ext3 file systems on Windows. | Freeware | Utility |
| Griffith | Movie collection manager, which fetches movie info, supports cover art, etc. | GPL | Video |
| ConText | Programmers text editor, supports most languages, shell scripts, plugin support. | Freeware | Text/Programming |
| Flashdevelop | Actionscript 2 IDE with seamless swfmill and MTASC integration. FlashDevelop is the first alternative opensource IDE to feature AS3 & MXML completion, including Flex2 compiler integration (the best compiler integration after Adobe FB) and AS3 syntax checking. Highly recommended. Requires .Net. | MIT/Other | Programming |
| XMM | MeD's Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. Info is automatically retrieved from IMDb and tv.com. Technical info can also be retrieved from media files like AVI, OGM, MPEG and DVD (ifo). It's written in Java and should therefore run on most desktop systems supporting Java. | GPL | Video |
| Avast | Anti-virus applcation. Free for personal use. I have not tried this software, but it works with Kerio so it can't be bad. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| UltraExplorer | File Explorer replacement. | Freeware | Utility |
| RoughDraft | Really nice word processor geared towards authors created by an author. | Freeware | Office |
| Snarfer | RSS with very powerful features, like search, web broswer, sharing, and embedded video playback. Highly Recommended. | Freeware | Web |
| Infrarecorder | CD/CDR burner. | GPL | Utility |
| Zipgenious | Zip utility that supports all the major archive types, zip, s7, gz, etc. Skinnable. | Freeware | Utility |
| RocketDock | Rocket dock is a Mac OS X like launcher complete with fisheye effect, taskbar features, and even themes well with other engines. They also have a cool icon enhancer for your desktop and file explorer with cool effects, plug-in based. | Freeware | Shell Enhancement |
| XMPlay | Really nice music player with plugin support. Supports all the major formats. | Freeware | Audio |
| Media Player Classic | Media Player Classic looks like the original Windows Media Player, but with more codex support. Tons of other downloads can be found here also, audio and video... | GPL | Audio |
| WinRoll | Lets you shade your windows like in Linux. | GPL | Shell Enhancement |
| TaskSwicthXP | Task switcher (alt+tab) replacement. | Freeware/Other | Shell Enhancement |
| Stickies | Post it notes for your desktop. | Freeware | Utility |
| GPG4Win | File, email encryption and other encryption utilites, like a file shredder. | GPL | Security |
| Password Gorilla | Password manager. | GPL | Security |
| DAVIDLaserscanner | DAVIDLaserscanner is too cool not to mention! DAVID-Laserscanner is a freeware software for 3d laser range scanning. All you need to build a 3d scanner is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser that projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| Uniformserver | The Uniform Server is a WAMP package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server. Developers also use The Uniform Server to test their applications made with either PHP, MySQL, Perl, or the Apache HTTPd Server. | BSD/Various | Server |
| Groovy | Groovy is an agile, dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Groovy includes features found in Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk, but uses syntax similar to the Java programming language. | APL | Programming |
| Console | Terminal enhancement. Ever wanted a transparent background in the command prompt window like in Linux? | GPL | Utility |
| WinSCP | SCP for Windows. I have need for this on my Windows machine so I haven't used it, but I ran across it tonight and it looks good, plus it's open. | GPL | Network |
| DoISO | Create and burn ISO disk images. | GPL | Utility |
| VirtualWin | Virtual desktops in Windows. | GPL | Shell Enhancement |
| Download Checker | The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download. | Freeware | Utility |
| Madotate | 3-D effects for Windows similar to those found in Project looking glass. This is a direct download link and is the english version. | Freeware | Shell Enhancement |
| RRDTool | The industry standard data logging and graphing application. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python or PHP bindings. RRD is the acronym for Round Robin Database. It is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average). | GPL | Network |
| Cream | A modern configuration of the powerful and famous Vim, with full GUI. | GPL | Programming |
| Wavosaur | Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert. Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing. | Freeware | Audio |
| Kristal | Powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio. KRISTAL Audio Engine is free for personal, educational and non-commercial use. | Freeware/Other | Audio |
| Pidgin | Multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once, used to be Gaim. Supports all the major IMs | GPL | Chat |
| Spket | IDE for JavaScript, XUL/XBL and Yahoo! Widget development. It provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting and content outline that helps developers productively create efficient JavaScript code. Supports Laszlo and Silverlight. Requires Java. | Freeware/Other | Programming |
| Creatoon | 2D cartoon animation application. | Freeware | Video |
| Songbird | Desktop Web player, digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source. Reminds me a bit of Amarok. Also runs on OS X and Linux. Very nice player indeed! | MPL/Other | Audio |
| Resource Hacker | Utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems. | Freeware | Utility |
| Pitaschio | Pitaschio is the essential tool to use windows efficiently. Adds some interesting features. | Freeware | Shell Enhancement |
| Gcad3D | 3-D CAD design. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| BlockCAD | BlockCAD is a freeware program for building virtual models with Lego-like bricks. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| Komodo Edit | Free, feature-rich editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. | Freeware | Programming |
| Launchy | Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes! Similar to Quicksilver on OS X and Katapult on Linux. | GPL | Utility |
| K-Lite Codec Pack | Just about every codex you will ever need in Windows XP (Vista?). Also provides DVD (encrypted) playback in Windows Media Player. Highly recommended! | Freeware | Video |
| Netstumbler | Network Stumbler is a neat little program that allows you to see all the available Wi-Fi access points and networks that are in range of you and your active Wi-Fi computer. Network Stumbler is for desktop and laptop machines, and Mini Stumbler is the equivalent for the Wi-Fi enabled PDA. | Freeware | Utility |
| DVDStyler | DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. | GPL | Video |
| DVDFlick | DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice. Highly recommended. | GPL | Video |
| VeohTV | VeohTV is a free specialized video browser that turns online video into Internet Television. Watch video from thousands of web sites, in one easy-to-use full screen application. Watch streaming video from major television networks such as Fox and CBS, to independently-produced content available on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Veoh.com and MySpace. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Video |
| Movica | Video editor. | GPL | Video |
| UTorrent | Bittorrent. Highly recommended. | Jabber | Peer2Peer |
| Videora iPhone | Convert video to iPod/iPhone format. Cues to iTunes for easy syncing. Highly recommended. | Freeware | Video |
| Ephpod | Copy iPod music to your PC. | Freeware | Audio |
| Ekiga | Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting. | GPL | Web |
| StopMojo | StopMojo is cross-platform stop-motion animation suite designed to aid in the creation of stop-motion animations. Currently it includes a capture program supporting capture of image files from various video capture devices, overlay of previous frames (onion skinning), and export to AVI and QUICKTIME video formats. | GPL | Video |
| Floola | Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). Floola supports all common used iPod features including artwork, podcasts and smart playlists! It's also able to convert audio or video incompatible with the iPod so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding youtube and myspace videos just entering the page url! | Freeware | Utility |
| IronPythonStudio | IronPython Studio is a free full IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the Python programming language. It is based on the existing IronPython example that is included in the VS SDK. IronPython Studio is based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell runtime (royalty free) and can be installed without requiring any version of Visual Studio. Read up on or download IronPython. | Ms-PL | Programming |
| IronPythonIDE | IronPython IDE is a GUI application written in C#. It is dedicated to the IronPython language which is a .NET implementation of the Python language. It is aimed at providing a nice, easy, full featured development environment for IronPython. Read up on or download IronPython. | Free | Programming |
| Yamipod | YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing. | Freeware | Utility |
| Freyja | Freyja 3d is a modeler and animator focusing on low polygon game content with wide range of model import/export plugins. Freyja has some unique features such as Lua macros, tools for reverse engineering, and use of GLSL shaders while editing. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| VirtualBox | VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. | Freeware/Other | Virtualization |
| HomeBank | HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs. | GPL | Finance |
| Zipeg | Zipeg allows you to open and explore content of zip, rar and other archives, preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only the files you want. Zip thru photo archives. See image thumbnails. Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract. You can choose what to extract and where to put extracted files or just drag and drop them. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Entice | Entice Designer is a Form Designer for DFL and a rich code editor, and is on the path to becoming an IDE. D programming language | Freeware/Other | Programming |
| Comodo | Firewall, Anti-virus, anti-spam, malware utilities. | Freeware | Security |
| Netbeans | IDE with the following features and language support Ajax | C/C++ | Databases | Debugger | Desktop | Editor | GUI Builder | Java EE | Java ME | Java SE | Javascript | Mobile | Profiler | Refactor | REST | Rich Client Platform | Ruby | SOA | SOAP | UML | Web | WSDL | XML. | GPLv2/CDDL | Programming |
| Traverso | Cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It's suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW. | GPL | Audio |
| Hotspot Shield | Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over a wireless network. Which means you remain anonymous and protect your privacy. | Freeware | Security |
| Truecrypt | Open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP , Mac OS X, and Linux. TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g.., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc). | GPL | Security |
| My Lockbox | My Lockboxâ„¢ is a security software enabling you to password protect any folder on your computer. The protected folder (lockbox) is hidden from any user and application of your system, including Administrator and System itself. It is impossible to access the lockbox not only from the local computer, but also from the net. | Freeware | Security |
| OpenWorkbench | Open Workbench is an open source Windows-based desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality and is free to distribute throughout the enterprise. Like MS Project. | MPL | Office |
| Pencil | Pencil is an animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| MediaPortal | MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. | GPL | Multimedia |
| FeedDemon | RSS Feed reader. Get your news and information instantly. Customize the way you read and organize feeds. Feeds are stored on NewsGator. I highly recommend this and NewsGator. | Freeware | Web |
| UltraVNC | UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it. | GPL | Utility |
| SesamTV | SesamTV is an freeware application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. | Freeware | Multimedia |
| LyX | LyX combines the power and flexibility of the TeX typesetting system with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content and structured documents. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well designed document layouts are built in. | GPL | Office |
| Code:Blocks | The IDE with all the features you need, having a consistent look, feel and operation across platforms. | GPL | Programming |
| XBMC | XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub. | GPL | Multimedia |
| Eyeline | Professional Video Surveillance Software with multiple camera support. | Freeware | Security |
| FoxTerm | FoxTerm is a free multi-session terminal emulation application. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Lilypond | Music notation for everyone. | GPL | Audio |
| Musescore | Music notation with midi support and plugins. Highly recommended. | GPL | Audio |
| Qumana | Blog editor supporting most blogs. | Freeware | Utility |
| Task Coach | Nice Task/ToDo tool created in Python. Also has a commercial iPhone app. | GPL | Utility |
| Calibre | EBook manager, converter. Syncs with Stanza. | GPL | Utility |
| Langover | A language helper. Aids when you're switching between languages. | Freeware | Utility |
| Wireshark | Network protocol analyzer, packet sniffer, etc. Used to be called Ethereal… | GPL | Network |
| Wavemaker | WaveMaker lets everyone visually & rapidly build great-looking open source web & cloud applications that deploy to a standard Java .war file. | APL | Programming |
| NoloPro | Quickbooks replacement with Payroll and Quickbooks to Nolo conversion, which isn't free. Software client for Windows and web-based version, which works for OS X, Linux, and Windows using Apache, PHP, etc... | Freeware | Finance |
| Mumble | Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. | BSD | Utility |
| Hulu Desktop | Hulu client. | Freeware | Video |
| Quisple | Small streaming music player that plays any song from Youtube by quickly searching for it. Builds play lists, links to video in your favorite browser, and i'm sure we'll see some more cool features as the project progesses. | Freeware | Audio |
| ZenOk | Anti-Virus and other free security related tools. | Freeware | Utility |
