Free Software Selection


This page is a selection of some of the most useful and best freeware and open source software available for download on the Internet.

Highlight Open Office 3
How much would you pay for a complete full-featured office software? You don't have to pay hundreds of $ for MS Office: you can download Open Office for free! OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. Open Office includes: Writer - A Professional Word-Processor ; Calc - A Calculation and Analysis Specialist, similar to MS Excel; StarImpress - Impressive Presentations in No Time, similar to MS PowerPoint ; StarBase - a powerful tool for the management of your data ; Draw - a vector-oriented draw module, with a 3-D engine ... and more!
All MS Office documents in any format OpenOffice.org without losing anything because all Microsoft functions can be fully reproduced thanks to the extensive functionality. You can, of course, continue to exchange documents with Microsoft Office users without any loss of quality, and you can edit and save documents in Microsoft Word or Excel format (for example if you use MS Office at work and Open Office at home).
Open Office is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Solaris, in numerous languages.

 

Security

Areca Backup
Areca Backup is an open source, easy to use and reliable backup solution for Linux and Windows. It has been designed to be as simple as possible to set up and be as versatile as possible.

Avira Free Antivirus Software
Light and full-featured free antivirus software for Windows. Includes FREE software updates and FREE virus signature updates. Takes up minimum resources on your computer, unlike most commercial counterparts.

Comodo Personal Firewall
Get prevention-based protection for your PC with this award-winning free firewall. Comodo Personal Firewall defends your PC from Internet attacks and prevents malware from being installed.

TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk, encrypt an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive, or encrypt a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication). Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
 

Email software

Mozilla Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and loaded with great features. It can be customized to your needs with numerous free add-ons that can be downloaded and installed in a snap.

Pegasus Mail
Pegasus Mail is one of the most powerful, secure and generally best email programs available for Windows.
 

Text utilities

NoteTab Light
NoteTab Light is a freeware texteditor you can use to replace the deficient Windows Notepad. It features an amazing number of functions, like editing multiple files at once (in tabs), multiple undo and redo commands, system-wide searches, multi-line global replacements, a lot of additional formatting commands, and many more!

CSDiff
ComponentSoftware Diff (CSDiff) is a free advanced file difference analysis tool for Windows. Use it to analyze what has changed between two revisions of the same file or folder. CSDiff is usually used to analyze program source files, HTML documents and MS-Word documents.
CSDiff can be used as a free stand-alone program or as a part of ComponentSoftware RCS (CS-RCS) - Revision control system for Windows. Based on GNU RCS, it is fully integrated with Windows, providing robust and intuitive configuration management and change control. CS-RCS is free for individuals and inexpensive for workgroups.

 

Graphics/Animation utilities

IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast freeware graphic viewer for Windows, and one of the most popular viewers worldwide! It supports image, video and sound files.
Features:Thumbnails, Preview, Drag & Drop Support, fast Directory View (fast moving through directory), Print Support, Scan (TWAIN) Support, Slideshow, Batch conversion, change the color depth, audio CD player, Capturing, Cut/Crop, Effects (Blur, Sharpen etc.) and many many more ...
Supported File Formats: BMP, DIB, RLE, JPG, GIF, PNG, PCX, DCX, TIF, TGA, RAS, ICO, CUR, ANI, PSD, AVI, MPEG, MOV, WAV, MID, RMI, AIF, WMF, EMF, IFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, EPS, LWF, CLP, CAM, G3, PCD.
Multiple (animated) GIF support, multipage TIFF support, multiple ICO support.

The Gimp - GNU Image manipulation program
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. It runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Sun OpenSolaris or FreeBSD.

Hugin
Hugin is a multi-platform panorama photo stitcher. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more. It runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Inkscape
Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

POV-Ray
POV-Ray - the Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects. is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can be modified so you do not have to start from scratch. In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a large library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided that can be included in your own scenes.
 

Sound utilities

Audacity
Audacity is a free, open source, cross-platform software for recording & editing sounds. Audacity is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more!

foobar2000
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support, native support for several popular audio formats (MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more), support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.

fre:ac
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats. With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

Audiobook Cutter
Audiobook Cutter allows you to easily split your MP3 audio books and podcasts in a fast and user friendly way. The split files can easily be used on mobile MP3 players because of their small-size. It allows smooth navigation through the book and let you continue from where you stopped listening. The files are not re-encoded, allowing for a fast file splitting and 100% quality.


 

Web browsing/Internet utilities

qBittorrent
The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. It is open-source, lightweight, devoid of useless toolbars or apps, and provides a well-integrated and extensible Search Engine. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD).

Tixati
Tixati is a new Bittorrent P2P client. It is 100% Free, simple and easy to use, and contains no spyware and no ads. It features ultra-fast downloading algorithms and DHT, PEX, and Magnet Link support. Windows and Linux native versions are available.
 

Web page creation

Arachnophilia
Arachnophilia is a feature-rich and powerful Web page development workshop and general programming tool. Its lot of features make it easy for you to create great web pages.

BlueGriffon
BlueGriffon is a free open source WYSIWYG HTML editor. It replaces Nvu, an earlier program that was also written by Daniel Glazman. It is based on Gecko, the rendering engine inside Firefox. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
 

Misc. Utilities

7-Zip
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. It supports not only the 7z and ZIP formats, but can also unpack a number of archive formats, like RAR files, LZH, CAB, ARJ, GZIP or TAR files.
 

Games

Click here for our short list of some of the best free and open source games available for download.
 

Development/programming

LCC-Win32
LCC-Win32 is a C compiler and environment for Windows. It features an integrated environment with the editor, the compiler, an utility to help you create GUI programs for Win95/98 easily, and a very complete documentation.
 


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