Free Applications Zone

Filezilla

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:12:00 +0000

Filezilla an excellent FTP program

FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows

Check it out:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558

Juice

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:48:00 +0000

Juice a solid podcasting client.

Juice Receiver is Free Software licensed under the GPL

Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.

If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.

Available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux

Check it out: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

Audacity

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Audacity a simple sound recording tool

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, 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.

Check it out: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download

OpenOffice.org

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:06:00 +0000

OpenOffice.org A big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.

OpenOffice.org is an office application suite available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2 and IRIX. The current primary development platforms are Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris.
Support for Mac OS X exists for OS X's native Aqua user interface, as of version 3.0. Previous versions require the X Window System component to be installed.

Operating system compatibility

* FreeBSD: v3.0.1 v2.4.1
* Linux
* Solaris
* Mac OS X 10.2: up to v1.1.2
* Mac OS X 10.3: up to v2.1
* Mac OS X 10.4–10.5 (PowerPC): up to v2.4.1 (v3.0 under test)
* Mac OS X 10.4–10.5 (Intel): v3.1
* Windows 95: up to v1.1.5
* Windows 98–ME: up to v2.4.2
* Windows 2000–Vista: v3.1
* OS/2 and eComStation: up to v2.4.0 (v3.0 under test)

Components
OpenOffice.org is a collection of applications that work together closely to provide the features expected from a modern office suite. Many of the components are designed to mirror those available in Microsoft Office. The components available include:Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, and Math.

Check it out: http://www.openoffice.org

Media Coder

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:18:00 +0000

MediaCoder A great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from all over the planet.

Features
* Converting to between most popular audio and video formats in batch
* Multi-threading design, optimized for multi-core processors (average CPU utilization on quad-core processors over 90%)
* Full control over transcoding parameters
* Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (e.g. PSP, iPhone/iPod)
* Fully standalone, no dependancy on system codecs/splitters
* Media Transcoding Platform to expand UI and improve user experience

Typical Applications

* Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files
* Converting for audio/video playback devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
* Extracting audio tracks from video files
* Ripping audio/video discs
* Reparing corrupted or partial downloaded video files

Supported Fomats

* MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/HE-AAC, AAC+v2/HE-AAC v2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, WMA, RealAudio, mp3PRO*
* FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, TTA, WAV/PCM, Waveform
* H.264, XviD, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, Theora, Flash Video, Dirac, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media Video
* AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, PMP, RealMedia*, ASF, Quicktime*, OGM*
* CD, DVD, VCD, SVCD, CUESheet*, HTTP^, FTP^, RTSP^, UDP^

^ supported as input only

Software Requirements
# Windows XP/2003/2000
# Windows XP/2003 x64 Edition
# Windows Vista(most features work)
#
# Linux with Wine (most features work)
# Mac OS X with Darwine (some features work)

Check it out: http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.htm

Eraser

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Eraser Delete files securely off your hard drive utilizing DoD standards

Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.

Check it out: http://www.heidi.ie/node/6

Blender

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:50:00 +0000

Blender a Powerful 3D Modeling software

Blender is a 3D graphics application released as free software under the GNU General Public License. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.
Blender is available for several operating systems, including GNU, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris with unofficial ports for AmigaOS, BeOS, MorphOS , Pocket PC and SkyOS. Blender has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to other high-end 3D software such as Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Lightwave and Maya. These features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a node based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting.

Check it out: http://www.blender.org

Notepad ++

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:35:00 +0000

Notepad ++ an Open Source programmers notepad for Windows

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

Check it out: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Drupal

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:20:00 +0000

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.

It is used as a "back end" system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites.

The standard release of Drupal, known as "Drupal core", contains basic features common to most CMSs. These include the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts, administration menus, RSS-feeds, customizable layout, flexible account privileges, logging, a blogging system, an Internet forum, and options to create a classic "brochureware" website or an interactive community website.

Drupal was also designed to allow new features and custom behavior to be added by third parties. For this reason, Drupal is sometimes described as a "Content Management Framework".[2] Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration

Drupal can run on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP version 4.3.5+ (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, and nginx) and a database (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL) to store content and settings.

Operating system: Cross-platform

Check it out: http://drupal.org

Skype

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:32:00 +0000

Skype Free Skype-to-Skype calls. Buy some credits and you can call any phone number in the world, cheap.

License Freeware (with some paid features)

Skype is a software application that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.

So, Skype call to Skype is free just like MSN call to MSN, any computer call to computer is free.

To make SkypeOut calls to landlines/cellphones you naturally need to pay for these as they are terminated by a PSTN carrier - not Skype.

And also, free instant messaging and free video call.

Skype available for:
Windows
Windows (Business version)
Windows (Beta)
Mac OS X
Mac OS X (Beta)
Linux
Windows Mobile
WiFi phones
Cordless phones
3 Skypephone
Nokia N800/N810
Skype on PSP®
iPhone

Check it out: http://www.skype.com

VLC

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:17:00 +0000

VLC The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server. Pretty good interface.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Available for Windows, MAc OS, Linux and others

Check it out: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

ImgBurn

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:22:00 +0000

ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording (Burning) of many types of CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray images to recordable media (i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony) (.cue files are supported as of version 2.4.0.0).

Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary (where possible).

ImgBurn created by Lightning UK! the author of DVD Decrypter after it was forced to stop development of DVD Decrypter in response to a cease and desist order from Macrovision.

ImgBurn is based on the optical disc burning engine of DVD Decrypter; however, it does not have the ability to circumvent copy protections of encrypted DVDs. As of version 2.3.0.0, ImgBurn can create image files from unencrypted CDs/DVDs. It cannot, however, remove CSS encryption or any other copy protection. It is possible to use third-party software such as DVD43, an intermediate driver that operates between the hardware and software, for such purpose.

Features

* Supported formats: BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG, PDI and more.

* Ability to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder).

* Full unicode folder/file name support.

* Supported environments: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 (including all the 64-bit versions). It also officially supports Wine.

* Image queue provides support for burning several images with minimum interaction.

* ImgBurn is relatively lightweight (compared to similar programs); under 1.8MB for all installed features.

Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Wine

Check it out: Website

GIMP

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:02:00 +0000

GIMP is a Photo editing application that rivals Adobe Photoshop in features.

GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program previously General Image Manipulation Program) is a free software, raster graphics editor used to process digital photographs and other graphics. Primarily GIMP is used for photo enhancement. Uses include resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image components, and converting between different image formats as well as creating graphics and logos. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format

Supported Platforms

* GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)
* Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
* Mac OS X
* Sun OpenSolaris
* FreeBSD

Check it out: Website

YouTube Downloader

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:22:00 +0000

YouTube Downloader is a free software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, DailyMotion, and many others and convert them to other video formats.

The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!

It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3.

You can use YouTube Downloader to download the videos of your choice from home, at the office or in school.

Features:

* Download videos from YouTube, Google Video, MySpaceTV and many others
* Allows you to download YouTube videos for which you need to be 18+ years of age
* Converts video for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3
* Provides the ability to cut and select the output quality of converted videos
* Uses the FFmpeg engine to convert the videos
* Plays videos downloaded in Flash
* Extremely easy to use

System Requirement:

* Intel Pentium 233 Mhz (or equivalent processor, such as AMD) or better
* Windows 2000/XP/Vista
* Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
* 64 MB of RAM
* Adobe Flash Player
* Visual Basic 6.0 Run-Time Files

Check it out: Website

Safari

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:31:00 +0000

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc.. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3, commonly known as "OS X Panther." Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone OS.

The current stable release of the browser is 3.2.3 (Macintosh) and 3.2.3 (Windows), but the Apple website more prominently displays the Safari 4 Beta, a pre-release version, for users to download.

On June 11, 2007, a version of Safari was released for the Microsoft Windows operating system, supporting both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Safari has a 8.23% market share as of March 2009.

Check it out: Website

Operating system
Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows
iPhone OS

IZArc

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:25:00 +0000

IZArc File archiver

IZArc supports the following archive formats: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, and ZOO. It has Windows shell integration, can create multiple archives spanning disks as well as self-extracting archives. It also has the ability to repair damaged zip archives, convert archives from one type to another, view and write comments, etc. Supported systems include Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003.

Website

7-Zip

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:49:00 +0000

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

7-Zip compresses / packs to the .7z format with LZMA compression. It can also compress to the ZIP format, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. It has the ability to decompress or unpack to RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. For Windows versions, it integrates with the Windows shell (explorer), so (for example) you can right click any file to pack or unpack it. Supported systems include Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and BeOS. 7-zip is released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public License).

Website

PeaZip

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:39:00 +0000

PeaZip is a fantastic archiving utility to extract and pack archives of an extensive amount of formats.

PeaZip handles the 7Z (7-zip), ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX and ZIP archive formats. It can also extract files from ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG/HFS, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, ISO, LHA, JAR/EAR/WAR, DEB, RPM, NSIS, PAK/P3/PK4, Z/TZ, etc, archives. Other features include secure deletion, the ability to verify file checksums and hashes, two-factor authentication (password and keyfile), encryption, etc. Versions are available for Windows and Linux. The program is open source and licensed under the GNU LGPL (which means that the program's source code is available and can be modified).

Website

X-Chat

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:24:00 +0000

X-Chat is a popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Windows, it's an open-source and licensed under GPL

Features:
X-Chat has two good features of usability: colored nicknames and alignment by text as opposed to alignment by nicks. When you read text, it's enough for eyes to notice the colors of nicknames, which they can do when they are focused to somewhere else near, and you may know at once who is writing. Colors are inobtrusive and there just 6 of them—not to burden your short-term memory. And eyes don't have to search for ends of nicknames, they can start reading text at once when text is aligned by the beginning.

This X-Chat for Windows version features:

* 42 language translations;
* encrypted connections using OpenSSL 0.9.8j;
* native IPv6 support on Windows with IPv6 stack;
* Perl, Ruby and Tcl language interface plugins for scripting;
* Winamp, DNS and EXEC binary plugins;
* various themes with graphical theme and font utility.

Website:

Pidgin

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:02:00 +0000

Pidgin: Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.

Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.

Supported chat networks:

* AIM
* Bonjour
* Gadu-Gadu
* Google Talk
* Groupwise
* ICQ
* IRC
* MSN
* MySpaceIM
* QQ
* SILC
* SIMPLE
* Sametime
* XMPP
* Yahoo!
* Zephyr

Website

Mozilla Thunderbird

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:56:00 +0000

Mozilla Thunderbird is a Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.

Thunderbird 2 includes many new features to help you manage your inbox. With Thunderbird 2, it’s easier to prioritize and find your important email with tags and the new find bar helps you find content within your email faster.
Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

Website

RSSOwl

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:31:00 +0000

RSSOwl is a solid cross-platform RSS client.

It is available for several platforms so you just have to select which one you would like.
RSSOwl is open source, licensed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License.

NOTE: Make sure to have a working copy of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), preferably 1.5.x or 1.6.x installed.

Download Page

Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:43:00 +0000

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.
Ubuntu is a free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

Website

Panda Cloud Antivirus

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:09:00 +0000

Panda Cloud Antivirus protects you while you browse, play or work and you won’t even notice it. It is extremely light as all the work is done in the cloud.

Panda Cloud Antivirus provides you with the fastest protection against the newest viruses thanks to its cloud-scanning from PandaLabs’ servers.
Panda Cloud Antivirus is truly install and forget. Don’t worry about updates, configuration or complicated decisions ever again.

Website

LastPass Password Manager

noreply@blogger.com (Wind) — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:12:00 +0000

lastpass is an online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing easier and more secure.

LastPass will work across every modern browser, from Firefox and Internet Explorer through to Google Chrome and Apple Safari, whether it’s a Windows or Mac version of the browser. Better still, it’s not just limited to passwords or form information. You can create sticky notes for particular web sites and, once logged in, see the notes that apply to each site. This is particularly important for logging in to your credit card provider’s website where they often ask you for far more than username, passwords and other info.

Note that the download here is for the Windows version. A Mac and Linux version of the Firefox add-on is available from the LastPass homepage.

Website