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AVG is a free Antivirus that offers pretty good protection against viruses and spyware. It comes with an e-mail scanner.

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Avast is a free, yet extremely powerful Antivirus. It has realtime protection and is a good Antivirus. The Avast interface has a learning curve but is easy to use once you become more familiar with it.

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Comodo is an Antivirus Suite that comes with a Competent antivirus and software firewall. If you're looking to ditch the Windows Firewall, Comodo is your go to choice for a free alternative. Expect some hassle at first, Comodo's firewall is set to "annoy" by default.

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Spybot Search & Destroy detects spyware, adware as well as rootkits and removes them from your computer. It scans your harddrive and memory. Spybot S&D can also immunize your browsers so it makes it more difficult for spyware to enter your system. It comes with a program called TeaTimer which monitors your computer and prevents programs from adding themselves to the startup or services with your permission.

"Spybot-S&D can repair (Registry), Winsock LSPs, ActiveX objects, browser hijackers and BHOs, PUPS, computer cookies, trackeware, heavy duty, homepage hijackers, keyloggers, LSP, tracks, trojans, spybots, revision, and other kinds of malware. It can also to some extent protect a user's privacy by deleting usage tracks like tracking cookies." - Wikipedia

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MalwareBytes is a fantastic spyware, adware, and malware remover. It's best to use this in conjunction with Spybot Search and Destroy for maximum protection. MalwareBytes gained its fame by being the first program to remove the malicious "Antivirus XP 2008". -Wikipedia

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Detects adware and removes it from your PC.

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Scans and removes unreferenced registry entries which can wreak havoc on any modern system if left untreated.

Rkill is a small, freeware and portable tool designed to terminate active malware processes allowing you to use other removal tools. Rkill is made by a Microsoft MVP “Lawrence Abrams” and is available in 4 different file types: .EXE, .COM, .SCR and .PIF.

The reason why Rkill comes in 4 different versions is because some malware will block .EXE files in an attempt to prevent you from running other malware removal tools. This gets around that problem.

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The fastest, feature rich, standards abiding browser for Windows. Google Chrome uses the Webkit rendering engine, the same one Apple's Safari uses. It supports extensions and is constantly being improved. Google Chrome provides the most lag free web browsing experience, and is great for watching Youtube videos without stuttering.

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Mozilla Firefox is a great alternative to Internet Explorer. Firefox keeps up to date with web standards, protects you from dangerous websites and offers a plethora of third party extensions for added functionality.

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Opera is a great contender in the alternative browser market. It keeps up with standards, it's fast, and it works great out of the box. It doesn't have the same extension capabilities as Firefox and Google Chrome, which is a big negative, but otherwise it's a solid browser.

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Apple's Safari is a fast alternative browser, based on the Webkit rendering engine. It doesn't have extension support, otherwise it's a good browser.

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Maxthon is another alternative browser that has lots of features. As of version 3.0, it now supports the Webkit engine, making it a standards abiding browser and fast.

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A Free, lightweight note program. CintaNotes lets you easily create notes with a title, a tag, or a link. CintaNotes has a great search filter so that you can quickly find your notes. Cinta can be minimized or closed to your system tray and can be accessed via hotkey. You can even automatically create a CintaNote by selecting some text in any application and then pressing a special hotkey.

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A super simple, free online file backup and synchronization tool. Dropbox creates a folder on your harddrive and all files in that folder will be automatically uploaded to your Dropbox account on the internet. You can then access your files from any computer or portable device that supports Dropbox. This is great for streaming videos, music or pictures to your iPhone, or working on a document from any computer. Dropbox will replace the need for a USB thumb drive (unless an internet connection is unavailable, of course). To make matters even better, Dropbox gives you 2GB of free space to start and you can get up to 8GB by inviting others to Dropbox.

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free alternative to Outlook and Outlook Express. It works great, it's fast, it handles IMAP folders better than outlook, and is more efficient than Outlook at handling large amounts of messages.

Mozilla provides a good calendar program for managing your schedules. It comes in 2 flavors: Sunbird, a calendar program without a lot of bells and whistles and Lightning, an e-mail / calendar program.

Total Text is a free, open source personal information manager for all things text related. It stores documents, notes, passwords, images, bookmarks, contacts, spreadsheets, calendars, CD/DVD catalogs all from an easy to backup, portable database.

"SwizzTool allows you to create personal reminders and automated tasks that can play a sound, display a message or launch a program at a specified date/time, weekday or after a countdown has elapsed. From the built in hotkey-editor you can create global hotkeys that can execute programs and alarms, hotkeys can also be set to control the volume among other things. SwizzTool also contains a memo to save notes. From this Memo you can also create new alarms and search on the Internet. " - I couldn't have said it better.

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A great, free download manager & accelerator. It gives you downloading control like bandwidth speed, default download locations and can integrate with popular browsers like Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera and Chrome. Also includes great torrent support and some FTP support too.

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A fast, very sophisticated, yet, user friendly Bit Torrent program for downloading and sharing files.

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FileZilla is a very easy to use and user friendly FTP client. It's free, open source, and even comes with a very competent FTP Server.

A free and easy to use file downloader for Usenet. With Grabit, you can search and download anything you want on Usenet news servers without downloading the headers first, saving time and bandwidth. It supports SSL encryption for privacy concerns, NZB files (similar to torrents) for quickly downloading collections of files. It can automatically repair and extract multiparted files, a common annoyance for any Usenet user!

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For FTP and SSH directory access, WinSCP is a free, open source program and works great.

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CD Burner XP Pro is a free alternative to Nero. It allows you to burn CDs, DVDs, Blu Ray Discs, HD-DVDs, or .iso image files to any of the listed disc types. It lets you create .iso images as well.

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ImgBurn lets you create or burn images of CDs and DVDs. ImgBurn lets you verify a burned disc. You can also use it to build DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Video discs from their respective folder structures with ease.

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Daemon tools is the free and lightweight disk image mounting CD Emulator. It can circumvent common anti-mounting techniques employed by PC game developers so that you can play your games without the DVD in your CD Drive. Daemon Tools supports .iso, .bin, .mds, and many more formats.

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Pismo File Mount is a program that lets you mount a highly compressed file as a folder. This lets you create, edit or remove files in realtime with encryption for security or compression to reduce harddrive space. Pismo also lets you convert your CDs and DVDs into a highly compressed disc image that you can mount or burn later.

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If you have a lot of programs in your startup folder, it's probably unhealthy to have them starting up all at the same time. This saturates your CPU, Memory and harddrive making programs take a long time to start up. Startup Delayer allows you to create delays for your startup programs from just a few seconds to minutes or even hours later. You can even show a graphical loader at the top of the screen at startup which gives you a visual and a countdown timer for programs waiting to start. As an added bonus, you can choose to pause or stop the startup altogether from buttons right on the graphical loader.

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A free, easy to use screen sharing program that is able to work even with Firewalls and Routers. The simplest and easiest to use I have ever found.

LogMeIn is a very good alternative to common screen sharing programs like VNC. It is maintained and improved regularly and everything takes place right inside of your web browser.

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UltraVNC is the free, feature rich screen sharing program.

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"Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives." Areca Backup is free, open source and cross platform.

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CDCheck is useful for determining if a CD or DVD you have burned is still good to use. Lets say you have a copy of Windows that you burned a while back, but since then it has been scuffed up or scratched. If any of those scratches is deep enough, you may run into issues during the installation or files might be corrupt when they are installed. If you need to be absolutely certain a disk is still good to use, especially in critical instances like that, you should check your CD for read errors using CDCheck. CDCheck can also offer to recover the data if it's possible.

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A lightweight defrag alternative to Windows Defragger.

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A free partition manager that lets you create and resize existing partitions. It also lets you delete, format and hide partitions as well as change drive letters and set active partitions. For being completely free and installable, this is quite a steal.

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A free drive backup program similar to Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost or Paragon Drive Backup, except completely free. It lets you create backups of your drives or partitions and store them to a compressed file so that you may restore your computer, or roll the clock back in case your computer suffers from viruses or slowness over time. It takes less than 20 minutes to restore as opposed to hours to reinstall Windows and get everything back to normal again. You decide which is better.

I have also written a guide which covers in detail exactly how to use EASEUS Todo Backup to make backups of Windows, as well as how to create a rescue bootable CD and restore Windows. Check it out: Create Backups & Recover Windows for Free with EASEUS Todo Backup

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EasyBCD is a graphical user interface for modifying the Windows Bootloader, the screen that allows you to choose which OS you would like to boot during startup. If you have several operating systems installed, you can change the name, reorder, or create new entries for installed Operating Systems. This tool is useful for adding Windows 7 to the boot screen if you installed an older OS after installing Windows XP.

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EasyBCD is the ultimate bootloader modification tool created to give end users complete control over everything from that happens before and during Windows startup. With EasyBCD, adding Windows 7/Vista entries, legacy Windows entries, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, and more to the boot menu is truly a one-click experience. It gives you the power to easily create and manage bootable USB devices, boot from ISO images or virtual hard disks, boot from network paths and usb devices, and much, much more. With EasyBCD, users can make and restore backups of BCD settings, set up the MBR, repair boot files, change the boot drive, diagnose system boot problems, disable driver verification, create safe mode entries, limit CPU and memory usage, create multiple boot files and so much more in a snap. Just point, click, and watch as your boot loader automatically does magic.

A free, lightweight, yet very sophisticated automatic backup solution for scheduling and creating backups of files and folders. It has tagging for generating names with the date and time and wildcard filters for including and excluding files or folders.

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A free, lightweight and easy to use data recovery program.

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SeaTools is a tool for determining the condition of your harddrives. Unlike the default Windows Diskcheck, it includes various stress tests that can more accurately determine if your harddrive is still in good condition or if it's on its way out, or if it needs to be replaced immediately.

Hard disk maker Seagate's SeaTools for Windows scans your disk drives for driver corruption, broken master boot records, viruses and Trojans, spyware, and any hardware conflicts. -CNet Download.com

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TrueCrypt is free open-source cross platform disk encryption software. TrueCrypt lets you create a virtual harddrive that is encrypted, password protected, and can be hidden to protect your personal files quickly and efficiently.

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A free, extremely good harddrive defragger with scheduled defragging. Similar to Defraggler except it lets you choose between several different defrag methods. You can perform a regular defrag, consolidate free space to prevent fragments and defrag based on folder structure to improve load times in games. Other defrag methods include Recency, Volatile and Auto. Read further to find out more.

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Discover which files are taking up the most space, visually--great for freeing up harddrive space.

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7-zip is a free, opensource compression utility meant as an alternative to Winrar or Winzip. 7-Zip can unzip most archive types including Rar, Zip, and 7-Zips very own superior 7z format.

A free, open source clipboard manager that keeps a record of everything you copy. It is very sophisticated and works nicely.

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"Everything" is a simple file searching program that works in an extremely advanced way. Unlike other search programs, it doesn't create a gigantic index file that takes 8 hours to make, it simply searches files and folders based on their name. It's like a giant filter more than a search, it narrows the list down in real time.

Everything's main goal is to provide a quick and easy way to search your files without having to wait around while it gobbles up CPU cycles or waste time accessing the harddrive for hours, it's extremely fast. You can even configure it as a server so you can search other computers on the network.

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Fences is a great way to organize your desktop icons into groups. Fences are boxes with titles that you can create on your desktop wallpaper. These boxes can be customized to be any size, color and transparency. These boxes allow you to drag and drop your icons into them for easy sorting. Fences even gives you the ability to quickly hide and show all of your desktop icons by double clicking your desktop wallpaper. Best of all, Fences is free.

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FlashFolder Tool is a small utility that puts a toolbar at the top of "Open/Save" and "Browse" dialogs. This toolbar includes buttons that let you access a history of folders you've recently saved to. It has a really good favorites menu which you can customize with submenus and common folders you browse. It even comes with an address bar, which is useful for copy and pasting the address of an explorer window into for quickly navigating to it. It can also make non resizable dialog boxes resizable. You can choose a minimum width and height for dialog boxes and set their default position on the screen. This is a pretty cool gem that shouldn't be overlooked!

FolderRedirector is a small standalone utility for easily changing the location of special folders on Windows XP. It lets you change the location of special folders such as:

Desktop, Favorites, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, Send To, Shared Documents, Shared Music, Shared Pictures, Shared Video, Start Menu, Startup, Temporary Internet Files, Common Startup, Common Desktop

FolderRedirector was last updated in 2006, however it still works fine on Windows XP SP3. It can even make a backup of your special folder paths in case you want to rollback the changes.

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Free Launch Bar lets you create custom your own custom Quick Launch toolbar on your taskbar. You can make popup menus out of quicklaunch icons for easy access to programs or games.

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Gyazo is an incredibly simple and fast screenshot program. Run it, drag a box, paste a link. It's a 3 step process that makes taking and sending screenshots to people require only a few seconds.

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This is a free open source app that lets you launch programs using keystrokes. Unlike Vista's start menu search bar, this program lets you customize the directories for which your applications may reside and the file extension to search for. It can also be customized with skins and plugins.

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Listary simulates the linux "find as you type" text box that appears when you begin typing in a file explorer. When you begin typing, a box appears in the lower right corner of your explorer window with a list of suggested files and folders that reside in that folder. It will automatically select the closest match so that you can literally browse your entire harddrive using only your keyboard. It supports regular expressions, and you can tab through the list if you need to choose a different file or folder.

Listary is an excellent find-as-you-type search utility that makes searching items in large unmanageable lists of Windows applications a breeze. Items in Windows Explorer, Task Manager, Registry Editor, Windows Desktop, file Open/Save dialogs and numerous other components and third-party applications can be found instantaneously with this free utility that allows you to type any part of the item name to be searched.

Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.

An advanced control panel for modifying settings for nVidia video cards. nHancer can enable experimental modes, force Anti aliasing and give you greater access to SLI functions. A must have utility for all nvidia owners.

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A very good, free alternative to the Task Manager that comes with windows. Some of the key features include individual process CPU history, process trees and the ability to suspend and resume processes. Process Explorer can even become the default task manager.

A very good, free ping traceroute program that can trace the route of an IP address or website and give you a very good idea of how low or stable your pings are. It can monitor an IP address as many times as you like. It's great for proving to your ISP that you have a crappy connection so that maybe they can do something about it.

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Useful for creating repair files for files. These repair files can be used to fix damaged files. For example, if you have a video that you plan on burning to a DVD, but you're afraid that DVD will get scratched and damaged, you can include PAR files. These PAR files can be used to fix the video in case it becomes damaged. Par files usually take up 10% of the file. If a file is 100MB, the par files will be 10MB. You can create more PAR files for repairing highly damaged files, but the more PAR files, the more disk space.

PAR files are popular for download programs such as Usenet readers. Files downloaded from usenet consist of multipart zip or rar files. Sometimes, these zip files do not upload entirely and are therefore incomplete (i.e. damaged). Files uploaded to Usenet servers that do not fully propogate are useless and therefore PAR files are useful for reconstructing the missing data.

Another use for Par files is for repairing very large files sent over instant messaging programs. If the file becomes damaged or does not complete successfully during transit, rather than resend the entire file, you can simply send that person a few Par files. QuickPar will tell you how many blocks are required in order to reconstruct the missing data and since Par files are small, only a few small Par files may be required.

The perfect utility for renaming files. Automatically add or remove numbers and words from filenames with a preview.

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Revo Uninstaller is an alternative uninstaller program for Windows. Revo Uninstaller works by performing additional tasks after an application has been uninstalled to remove all traces of it from your computer. It does this by searching your registry and harddrive for leftover files.

RivaTuner is a CPU and Video Card temperature monitoring tool. It will let you adjust the fan speeds of your hardware and overclock. Use extreme caution when using RivaTuner, it's possible to choose really bad settings and damage your hardware.

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Shotty is a free screenshot tool made specifically for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, but will also work on Windows XP and older OSes. It is able to take screenshots of Windows while capturing the Aero glass transparency effect and shadows. It can save the screenshots as PNG files with transparency. I use this tool for the tutorials I create, it is extremely handy. Also, it allows you to edit the image by adding highlights or text.

Allows you to rearrange the buttons on your taskbar, but it's more than that. It adds middle click functionality for closing or maximizing windows. You can middle click the taskbar to quickly reveal the desktop. A single click on the desktop wallpaper can toggle hide all visible windows making it easier to access your desktop icons. You can scroll through your tabs with the scroll wheel and it even has multiple monitor support.

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TeraCopy is a Windows Copy replacement. When moving large amounts of data, the built in copy method in Windows XP can be a major inconvenience. TeraCopy copies your files faster, lets you pause and resume transfers, shows you an interactive list of queued items to be copied and has built in error recovery. Best of all, it's free.

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"Gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more."

Optimizes TCP connections for faster internet.

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Unlocker will unlock those pesky files that refuse to delete, so that you can delete, move or rename the file. It will show you which programs have a handle on your files so you can unlock them or kill the process. If the file still won't delete, Unlocker will offer to delete it at startup before Windows can get a lock on the file.

A tool that can analyze your connection to find out if UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) is working correctly on your computer.

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WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate.

WinSplit is especially useful for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions because it helps you to efficiently manage many active windows. For example WinSplit is useful for owners of the Dell 2407FPW monitor. As you can see in the screenshots below, the advantages of using WinSplit is that it saves you from having to drag and drop windows by allowing you to snap windows into specific tiled configurations using simple keyboard hotkeys.

An English Dictionary and Thesaurus program. It can look up the definition of any highlighted word in any program. It has Wikipedia, Wiktionary and other online references integrated into the program. You can bind Word Web to a global hotkey for faster access. Word Web is a great tool to have.

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AbiWord is a free, open source, extremely lightweight, yet competent document editor. AbiWord can open and save .doc files and with an optional plugin, you can open and save .odt files. AbiWord is great for quickly viewing and editing documents without having to load up Open Office.

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Adobe Reader is required for viewing PDF Files downloaded from the internet.

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Foxit PDF Reader is a lightweight, free alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader. It's very competent and manages to keep up with the latest innovations from Adobe.

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CutePDF is a free alternative PDF printer that lets you print anything to a PDF file--very similar to PDF creator.

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A free alternative to the notepad that comes with Windows. It supports tabbed sessions and can easily replace the default notepad in Windows.

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An open source, free alternative to Microsoft Office.

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PDF Creator is a free, open source program that lets you print any webpage or document to PDF. If a program doesn't allow you to export to PDF, yet will allow you to print, then you can simply print to PDF with this handy program.

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Scribus is a free, open-source program that allows you to make all kinds of different documents. Scribus is for making professional looking page layouts.

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

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Allows you to compare 2 text files or folders to easily see the differences and make changes to each text file if necessary.

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Similar to VirtualDub, but supports more input and output modes. It's a free, open source, cross platform, minimalisic video editing program for modifying and encoding videos.

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VirtualDub is a free, minimalistic video editing program for modifying and encoding videos.

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A great drag and drop program for converting almost any video to almost any video format of your choice.

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The best H.264 GUI for editing and creating high quality H.264 videos.

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A great batch video conversion program for converting videos to various formats.

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Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) A free, cross-platform open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Gimp is great for removing red eye and touching up photos etc.

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An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X

Inkscape Video Tutorials - at the tutorial link there will appear to be only a few vids. There are in fact many tutorials located at the right in links indicating the month and year. Two of my favorites are Episode 059 and especially Episode 009 Just sit back and watch like a TV show.

A free, online image editing program. It loads right in your browser, no need to install anything. A great alternative to MS Paint.

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XnView is similar to IrfanView in the sense that it is a lightweight alternative image viewer. It has pretty much everything IrfanView has including basic image editing capabilities, batch processing and an image browser and support for hundreds of different image types, but it has so much more.

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IrfanView is a powerful, yet lightweight alternative to the default picture viewer in Windows. It has basic image editing and support for hundreds of image types.

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Picasa is a great program for organizing and viewing your picture collection. It even has good support for viewing videos. For best results, use FFDShow Tryouts to playback nearly any video file in Picasa.

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This is, hands down, the best music player ever. It's lightweight, visually attractive and packed with features. It has an extremely feature rich, tabbed playlist. It can display album art, allows you to rate your songs, supports crossfading between songs, shows technical info about each file in your playlist, has a visualizer and an equalizer. AIMP2 works right out of the box and has plenty of preferences for fine tuning and can be upgraded to do and play just about anything with plugins.

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A lightweight media player with a very competent media library. No bells and whistles, just efficient gapless media streaming.

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The ultimate music player with support for nearly a hundred different audio formats. Winamp has a very competent library for organizing your music but can be painfully slow even on the fastest of systems.

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A very simple, fast and efficient music player. XMplay is regarded as the best mod player and comes with a decent library.

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A good alternative to Windows Media Player.

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Audacity is a basic audio editing program that lets you modify or add audio effects to music or audio files.

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A free audio ripper for CDs. EAC is regarded as the best audio ripper due to itserror correction capabilities.

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A free, open source CD Ripper. BonkEnc lets you rip your audio CDs to many popular formats including WAV, (LAME) MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG and more. BonkEnc is maintained and updated frequently which makes it a great first choice among CD ripping programs.

BonkEnc can automatically add titles and track information to the resulting files, create playlists and grants you the power name files based on variables. It has a feature called "CDParanoia Mode" which fixes glitches caused by drive errors or scratched cds.

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MP3Tag is a free universal tag editor for audio files. MP3Tag allows you to create or modify tags for your collection of music. MP3tag fixes tags with incorrect tags on the massive scale for keeping your music collection organized. Great for keeping your iPod or MP3 player organized.

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An open source, cross platform messenger. It is very much like Miranda IM; for instance, multi protocols, lightweight, and is very configurable.

An AJAX, multi protocol web messenger. Meebo is much like Trillian, however, no installation is necessary. Everything takes place in the browser. Remember to use the secure login

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A great, high quality voice ip program for calling other skype users or landline phones.

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A gaming messenger similar to X-Fire, but is also an online store where you can buy PC games and download them to your computer. Steam can also automatically patch your games and eliminate the need for CDs and nasty DRM.

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The number one voice chat program for gamers. It has very little CPU use which makes it the best choice.

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The gamer messenger of choice boasting features like game detection, in-game messaging, voice chat, video recording and automatic patch downloading.

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A free HTML editor with WYSIWYG capabilities. Previously known as Nvu.

The UXTheme Patcher will patch your UXTheme.dll so that you can have custom themes. This is the Windows XP SP3 version. You can download themes at deviantART.com or neowin.net forums.

Linux tools under windows. More Info and valuable usage examples.

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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

A free 2D shooter, similar to games like Quake and Unreal Tournament, but small enough to put on a thumb drive and play anywhere. It is meant to be played online or via lan with other players and has a thriving online community. Users can amend the game with custom content like maps and additional gametypes. It is also cross platform so it works on Linux and Mac as well.

Pronounced "Nex-ee-us", Nexuiz is a free first person shooter available for Windows, Mac and Linux and is based on the Quake engine. It has a decent online community and has plenty of custom content to keep you entertained.

Description:
- arcade style game for Unix, Mac OS X, Windows and DOS in the tradition of:
+ "Boulder Dash" (C 64)
+ "Emerald Mine" (Amiga)
+ "Supaplex" (Amiga/PC)
+ "Sokoban" (PC)
Other features:
- network multiplayer games (upto 4 players) for Unix platform
- local multiplayer games (upto 4 players) for all supported platforms
- soft scrolling with 50 frames per second
- freely customizable keyboard and joystick support
- stereo sound effects and music
- music modules and fullscreen in SDL version
- contains levels to play Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Sokoban
- lots of additional levels available (over 10.000)
- distributed with full source code under the GNU General Public License
- available for Unix (all flavors), DOS and Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)