Software
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The article Software List is being moved to this page (slowly). As entries are added to this list, they will be removed from that one. Until this migration is complete, please refer to both lists.
This is a collection of software, software lists and other related links that I find useful or have listed for another reason.
- The things in this list may be included due to their quality, cost or uniqueness.
- This list is not definitive and can be assumed to be at least a little out of date at any given time for any given entry.
- This list is frequently updated, usually to add a new entry, and on occasion to update old entries.
- When possible, the authors or websites description is quoted "in quotes and italicized". Opinion and marketing phrases tend to be removed from quotes.
- I tend to favor open source software, especially those released under the GPL → w, so a lot of the stuff on this list are released under that license.
Software
| Name | Cost | License | Runs on | Category | Description |
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| Firefox WP → w by Mozilla | $0 | Windows | Internet, Browser | Popular alternative to Internet Explorer. | |
| MozBackup | Windows | Internet, Browser, Bakcup | "simple utility for creating backups of [a bunch of browsers]." | ||
| Locationbar² | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Appearance | Can color, Highlight and seperate the URL segments in the location bar. Also can add links for each segment.
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| Tiny Menu | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Appearance | "Replace the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup." | ||
| Download Statusbar | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Download | View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. | ||
| Addblock Plus | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Privacy | Awesome ad-blocker. (Almost) Never look at advertisements again, unless you want to. | ||
| Undo Closed Tabs Button | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Tabs | "undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu." | ||
| Text Area Resizer & Mover | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Rendering | resize by right clicking [and dragging] anywhere inside of the [text-box] | ||
| XMarks | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Backup | Bookmarks and Password synchronization. Synchronizes with Foxmarks.com. Visit my.foxcloud.com to view your bookmarks | ||
| IE Tab | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Rendering | Open web pages using IE in a tab in Firefox. Some minor usability bugs, but otherwise awesome.
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| It's All Text | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Appearance | |||
| PDF Download | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Download | Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it! | ||
| FlashBlock | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Privacy | "Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on it." Flash sometimes plays sounds when I don't want to, and sometimes slows down my browser. This helps by allowing me to choose what sites can always show flash. | ||
| No Script | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Privacy | "allows JavaScript, Java and Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice" Excellent protection for the most used technologies for hijacking your browser. | ||
| OpenBook | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Bookmarks | "Allows for customization of the Add Bookmark dialog. The bookmarks tree can be automatically opened and elements can be hidden." more extensions by chuonthis.com | ||
| Grease Monkey | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Developer | Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. | ||
| Fire FTP | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Download | FTP Client integrated into Firefox | ||
| Download Embedded | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Download | "Downloads all or selected embedded objects ... movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, or other embedded files ... does NOT work on video embedded in flash." | ||
| DownloadHelper | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Download | Download embedded media like videos from YouTube and other websites. | ||
| DownThemAll | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Download | Download all the file links such as pictures on any page. | ||
| Password Export/Import | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Backup | Exports Firefox Passwords to an XML file. Can be encrypted (Weak). Extension homepage. | ||
| Googlepedia | Firefox | Internet, Browser, Rendering | "Shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results." Google results on left, Closest matching Wikipedia article on right. Can be useful or annoying. | ||
| Scribus | $0 | *nux, MacOS X, OS/2, Windows | Office Tools, Publishing | "... a... program that brings ... professional page layout to ... 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, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation." | |
| Audacity WP → w | $0 | Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux | Multimedia, Audio Editor | "Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds." Pretty good, but complicated. | |
| Transmission | $0 | Max OS X, Unix | Internet, Download Manager | Simple torrent application. | |
| JkDefrag WP → w by Kessels | $0 | Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64 | Drive, Defrag | "a disk defragmenter ..." Simple | |
| Ext2 Installable File System for Windows | $0 |
freeware | Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 | Driver, File System | Seems functional. |
| Chrome WP → w by Google | $0 |
Proprietary → w | Windows | Internet, Browser | Lots of useful features |
| Digsby WP → w by dotSyntax, LLC | $0 |
Proprietary → w | Windows, Mac, *nux | Internet, Communication | "... multiprotocol IM client ... email notification tool ... social networking tool ..." |
| Pidgin WP → w | $0 | many | Internet, Communication | Multi-Network Internet Chat (Previously called GAIM) | |
| Facebook Chat for Pidgin | $0 |
GPL v3 | Pidgin | Internet, Communication | |
| Skype Plugin for Pidgin | $0 |
GPL v2 | Pidgin | Internet, Communication | |
| Pidgin Extended Preferences | $0 | Pidgin | Internet, Communication | ||
| Encrypt | Pidgin | Internet, Communication, Security | Public Key Encryption for your chat. | ||
| Drive Manager | $0 | Windows | Drive, Manager | Alternative to My Computer. Lists info about drives. | |
| MyUninstaller by NirSoft | $0 |
Freeware | Windows | Installation, Manager | Alternative to Add/Remove programs |
| FileTypeMan by NirSoft | $0 |
Freeware | Windows | File, Manager | Alternative to the File Type Manager in windows. |
| Ac Browser Plus by konrad papala software | $0 | Windows | File, Manager | "Multi Window File Manager" Windows Explorer alternative | |
| FreeCommander | $0 |
Semi-free custom | Windows | File, Manager | Windows Explorer alternative |
| Inno Setup by jrsoftware | $0 |
Semi-free custom | Windows | Developer, Installer | free installer for Windows programs |
| Packsetup2 | Developer, Installer | "... a tool for making self-extracting installers." | |||
| IExpress by Microsoft | $0 |
Proprietary → w | Windows | Developer, Installer | A tool for making self-extracting installers. Built into most windows. Start -> Run -> "iexpress". Seems to be used for some distributions of Internet Explorer. 7-Zip is better. |
| Windows Installer XML (WiX) | $0 | Windows | Developer, Installer | "... a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code." | |
| grepWin | $0 | Windows | File, Search | "grepWin is a simple search and replace tool [for windows] which can use regular expressions to do its job. ... adds an entry to the shell context menu ..." | |
| Clam AV WP → w | $0 | *nux, BSD, Win32, Other | Anti-malware, Virus Scanner | ||
| Ventrillo | Intenet, Communication, Voice | Multi-user voice chat. Targets gamers. | |||
| TeamSpeak | Intenet, Communication, Voice | Multi-user voice chat. Targets gamers. | |||
| Mumble | Intenet, Communication, Voice | "Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming." Positional sound support (Voices come from their direction in game) | |||
| Samba | $0 | *nux | Inter-operating system compatibility | Allows Linux to access Windows shares and share files so Windows clients can access them.
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| Putty | $0 | Internet, Communication, Utility | "PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator." | ||
| WinSCP | $0 | windows | Internet, Communication, Utility | "WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows." | |
| Synergy | $0 | win32, *nux, mac | Networking, Utility | "Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s)." | |
| RealVNC | Internet, Connectivity | "RealVNC provides remote control software which lets you see and interact with desktop applications across the network." | |||
| SeamlessRDP | $0 | *nux, others? | Internet, Connectivity | "SeamlessRDP makes it possible to run individual applications rather than a full desktop. In this mode, rdesktop creates a X11 window for each window on the server side. The remote applications can be moved, resized and restacked." Remote into a Microsoft Windows computer and run single windows on the remote computer but display only the window on the local machine, not the whole desktop. | |
| OpenVPN | $0 | Internet, Connectivity, Security | "OpenVPN is a full-featured open source SSL VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, Wi-Fi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls." OpenVPN, VPN: Virtual Private Network. | ||
| MarkDown |
Custom BSD-style | Internet, Authoring | "Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)." Write simple, wiki-text-like code and convert to HTML. | ||
| Texttile | Internet, Authoring | text-to-HTML conversion. | |||
| Microsoft Office | Office, Authoring | This add-on adds a tool bar that contains the classic style menu to some of the Office 2007 applications.
There is another add-on by a very similar name here charging $15.99 for the same functionality. Direct download links: | |||
| OpenOffice.org | $0 | win32, *nux | Office, Authoring | "OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute." | |
| lyx | $0 | *nux | Office, Authoring | "LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance." * Lyx Wiki | |
| Tesserect OCR |
apache 2 | Office, OCR | Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software for converting pictures with text on them into text. This project is not ready for general use, but appears to be the best open source OCR software available. | ||
| EverNote |
Proprietary → w | Windows | Office, Tablet utilities | ||
| Remote Calendars | Outlook | Office | Sync with remote iCal files. Weather Underground provides weather iCals. Google Calendar also provides iCal. (Outlook 2003) | ||
| Memoranda | $0 | Windows, *nux | Office | Under development | |
| GanttProject | $0 | Windows, Others | Office, Project planning | Mostly GPL | |
| Open work bench |
unclear Claims open source | Office, Project planning | Under development? | ||
| Textpad | Office, Text editor | ||||
| Notepad++ | $0 | Windows | Office, Text editor | ||
| Epsilon | $0 | Office, Text editor | |||
| Dia | $0 | Office, Drawing | "Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program" | ||
| Freemind | $0 | Windows, Mac, *nux | Office, Brainstorming | "FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping → w software written in Java" | |
| XnView | $0 | Multimedia, Image viewer | "Multi graphic image viewer/converter" View a tun of image formats | ||
| GIMP WP → w | $0 |
multi | Windows, *nux | Multimedia, Image editor | "GNU Image Manipulation Program" Similar to Photoshop
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| InkScape | $0 | Multimedia, Image editor | "vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format" | ||
| Zinf | $0 | Win32, *nux | Multimedia, Audio player | Used to be called 'FreeAmp' | |
| Transcode | $0 | *nux | Multimedia, Audio/Video converter | "Transcode is a suite of command line utilities for transcoding video and audio codecs, and for converting between different container formats." | |
| Real player alternative | $0 | Windows | Multimedia, Audio/Video player | Real Player audio and video codecs only for playing Real Player files | |
| Quicktime Alternative | $0 | Windows | Multimedia, Audio/Video player | Quicktime audio and video codecs only for playing Quicktime files | |
| PDF Creator | $0 | Windows | Office, Document creator | "Create PDFs from any program that is able to print." | |
| pdftk | $0 | Windows, *nux | Office, Document manipulator | "If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses." Powerful and complicated command line tools. | |
| Foxit | Office, Document viewer | Product line of PDF viewers and manipulators. Some are free to use. | |||
| PDF Editor | $0 | *nux | Office, Document editor | ||
| Okular | $0 | *nux | Office, Document editor | "Okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents..." | |
| Taskbar Shuffle | $0 | Windows | Desktop | Homepage appears to be down. Rearrange taskbar items dynamically. | |
| SoftTH | win | 3D Rendering | "SoftTH allows using three monitor "triplehead" with Direct3D 8 and 9 games without special hardware. You need three monitors attached to PCI Express video cards. Only one card does all the rendering work, so secondary card can be a low end card, only Direct3D support is required." | ||
| Picard Tagger | Multimedia, Audio, Organization | Can Identify, rename, re-tag and move music files. Powered by Music Brainz | |||
| Nod32 | ~$40 | Anti-malware, Virus Scanner | Effective and low resource anti-virus. | ||
| AntiVir | Anti-malware, Virus Scanner | Effective free Anti-Virus. | |||
| Spybot search and destroy | Win | Anti-malware, Spyware Scanner | Excellent anti-spyware | ||
| Ad-Aware | Win | Anti-malware, Spyware Scanner | Another good anti-spyware. | ||
| Shoreline Firewall (ShoreWall | Linux | Security, Configuration Manager | "a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter." This tool takes network configuration on a Linux machine one step closer to the average user. Allows network configuration via configuration files and removes much of the complexity for some tasks. | ||
| TrueCrypt | Security, Encryption | "Free Open-Source Disk Encryption Software" Encrypt files, drives and partitions. | |||
| Password Safe | Security, Password Manager | "manage your old passwords and to easily and quickly generate, store, organize, retrieve, and use complex new passwords" Stores passwords. Handy. | |||
| KeePass | Security, Password Manager | Stores passwords. | |||
| Password Gorilla | Security, Password Manager | "A cross-platform Password Manager" Stores passwords. | |||
| Auto, Navigation | "Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine." | ||||
| GPS Drive | Auto, Navigation | "GpsDrive displays your position provided from your GPS receiver on a zoomable map." | |||
| LClock | Win | Desktop, Calendar | Reformat the system try clock and adds a click popup calendar.
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| VirtuaWin | Win | Desktop, Virtual Desktop | "VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces')." | ||
| Virtual Dimension | Win | Desktop, Virtual Desktop | "... virtual desktop manager for Windows platform." | ||
| Folder Size | Desktop | Adds a column to Explorer that calculates folder sizes. Slow, memory intensive and causes excess HD usage, but also helpful. | |||
| UltraMon | ~$40 | Desktop, Virtual Desktop | Very useful multiple monitor utility. | ||
| Google Book Downloader by adma | $0 |
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) | win | Internet, Download tool | "[a] small utility which allows you to save book as PDF from google to your local filesystem." Requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (offline installer here)
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| Clonezilla | $0 | Stand-alone (bootable ISO) | Drive, Backup | Partition imaging software like Norton Ghost corporate edition. Supports multi-casting. | |
| Partimage | $0 | Stand-alone (bootable ISO) | Drive, Backup | Partition imaging software like Norton Ghost. | |
| VCD Easy by delphi stuff | $30 |
? | Multimedia, Audio/Video converter | Good too to convert movie files to VCDs or SVCDs | |
| grepWin | $0 | Windows | Search | "grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces." |
See also
Finding software
Lists and categories
- Open Source Alternatives (osalt.com)
- Open Source List (opensourcelist.org)
- I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved
- Open Source Freeware : 400+ free applications and utilities
- Mohawke's Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection
- PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat
- Luigi Auriemma MYTOOLS - collection of what looks like personally written software. Mostly specific purpose tools.
- Free Software Directory - Good list of software, but no Windows software.
- Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat (list)
- Category:Free audio editors → w
- Category:Lists_of_software → w
Google search queries
Here are some examples of finding good alternatives to Microsoft Office.
