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Chat => Entertainment & Technology => Topic started by: Tongy on December 29, 2006, 15:07:25 PM
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We should have a sticky for software that peple have found that is free, in that no money changes hands.... perhaps a registration process, but nothing hard.
Ill start with what I believe to be the best products for free that a user running Windows XP would benefit from.
Antivirus - http://www.activevirusshield.com. Rebranded Kaspersky 6.0 with some of the extended features taken out but scans email, files and screens spyware/malware.
Firewall - http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1230_zl/zlsSetup_65_737_000_en.exe Israeli company that produces an excellent piece of firewall software.
Disk backup/imaging - Paragon Drive Image 8.0 SE http://ftp.paragon.eu.com/Nastya/DB8SE.zip - Cut down version of their for sale product which allows for live imaging to local disk *requires registration (name, surname, email address and country)*.
HDTune - Hard drive diagnostics and benchmarking - http://www.hdtune.com - Excellent for finding out more about your hard disk(s) Temperature, features and loads more about your drives performance and status.
VideoLAN - Media playback software (DVD etc) - http://www.videolan.org - Great software for playing DVD movies if you cant be arsed to stump up the 3 quid for PowerDVD :D
PDF creation - http://www.primopdf.com/
There are loads more and Ill add them as I remember them.
Thats just to start you off, if you want to add to this and make it a sticky, then great as Im sure that alot of people could benefit from it.
Cheers
Tongy
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I took the liberty of editing your title, Tongy, to make it a MS only thread, lest us geeky Linux and BSD nerds spam your thread. :lol:
Mac users should start a seperate thread, as it makes much more sense. ;)
Essential XP free proggies that I use on every XP box I ever own:
PDF reader: Foxit http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php uninstall Adobe and get this!
Trillian Messenger: MSN, AOL, IRC, etc http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
Media Player Classic and Quicktime Alternative (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm)
Abiword for basic letter writing. (http://www.abisource.com/)
Openoffice for orfice work. (http://www.openoffice.org/)
CD Burner XP Pro 3. (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/)
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Better Thumbnails in XP: http://xentient.com/products/thumbnails/
Ultra-Lite PDF reader:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
Irfanview : http://www.irfanview.com/
CDex, a great open source CD-Ripper, uses LAME for mp3 encoding:
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
A Bittorrent client in only 170kB + Tetris! :) :
http://www.utorrent.com/
Paint.net, MS Paint on steroids (and just about the only .net app Ive ever found to be useful :P):
http://getpaint.net/index2.html
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Free for personal or non profit use.
SmartFTP client http://www.smartftp.com/
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XP Powertools
All Free, some may require WGA validation: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
In particular the image resizer, the raw thumbnail plug in, and the powercalc :)
Virtual PC 2004
Free used to be paid only. Will likely require WGA but im pretty sure the download I have didnt require it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx
2007 with Vista support will also be free apparantly.
SQL Server and Visual Studio.net Express editions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
Visual Web Developer Express Edition
http://www.asp.net/downloads/essential.aspx?tabid=62
May also be linked to in the other link above.
BartPE
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Providing you have a valid windows licence you can create your own windows xp based live cd, with numerous free plugins. I use mine to do defrag on an entire drive without worrying about files being in use.
Sysinternals
Some Paid for... most free.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
Not so much a single app, but if you ever want to do something like remote shutdowns or other more technical bits and pieces you can pretty much guarantee these guys have already created an app for it.
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oh oh... and dont forget this one either max :)
Real Alternative: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm
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Academic Software:
Poseidon CE
Poseidon for UML is a great piece of software, can support quite detailed UML features and even allow you to export your models to Java programming code.
http://www.gentleware.com/download.html
Requires a licence to be registered on the site but requires minimal effort on your part. Licence needs to be renewed whenever a new version is released as I think its how they do some of their beta testing.
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Notepad Text Editor Replacement : ConTEXT (http://www.context.cx) Damned good little programming editor.
MP3 Ripping : Audiograbber (http://www.audiograbber.net) Though I also advise adding in the LAME Codec (http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php) for ripping MP3s.
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Total Commander (http://ghisler.com/) a shareware but the nag is not much of a nag.
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http://osswin.sf.net has loads of opensource software for Windows.
Cornet
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The Gimp (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/) for Photoshop replacement
MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html) is my media player of choice (Video)
Cute PDF (http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp) for PDF creation
Ill add more as i think of them :)
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Ermm, seems rather obvious but :
Firefox 2 (http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0.0.1&os=win&lang=en-US)....
Also:
My favourite fuss-free Unit conversion program (http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/). Its very small and will run on windows 95 even! There is an extension for Firefox that Max brought to my attention thats good too.
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Another text editor but can be used for basic letter writing. Especially good for writing books or if you are forgetful as it saves a notes .txt file with the .rtf main document.
http://www.antarctic-one.com/images/RDraft30.exe
Eraser: free disk cleaning software, something you should all have.
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/download.shtml
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EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/)
EAC is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives. The main differences between most other audio grabbers :
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The cost of registration is low (just a postcard and a stamp)
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It works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that cant be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player
FLAC frontend (http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm)
FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
Foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/)
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CDex (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/) - My CD ripper of choice :)
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Download Accelerator Plus!!!11 (http://www.speedbit.com/en/?)
The free version runs banner ads but it works so well. Been using it for years and it is proper awesome once you learn a few tricks like googling for filenames to get more dappable mirrors. Itll turn most 10-20kb/s dls into linespeed dls. Awesome.
Netmeter (http://readerror.gmxhome.de/) plots dl and ul speeds and logs totals.
finddups (http://geocities.com/hirak_99/goodies/finddups.html) compare 2 directories/drives and looks for duplicates which you can delete - saves tonnes of diskspace if youre a messy person.
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It looks like weve finished adding to this thread for now, wonder if one of the mods can sticky it? :| Or create a sticked closed thread to link to it in future? :)
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NP ;)
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http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
:-)
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http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
:-)
Nice Find :)
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http://locate32.webhop.org/ - Locate, its like windows search but once you update the database the search results are instant.
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http://www.geocities.com/shewitt_au/
Windows Enabler - it lets you select greyed out options in windows, like if you wanted to format a usb stick as a boot disk just enable Windows Enabler and click the greyed out "Create MS-DOS start up disk" box.
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3D:
3D Apartment Designer - http://creditsuisse.databecker.net/index.p...uage=en&s=4
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/
Anti-Virus:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Arovax Shield - http://www.arovaxshield.com/download.php
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Browser Hijack Retaliator http://www.zamaansoft.com/products/bhr/
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
ToolbarCop - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm
Watcher - http://www.donationcoders.com/kubicle/watcher/index.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/
Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/home/index.php
Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Reaper - http://www.*beep*.com/reaper/index.php
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html
Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Evil PLayer - http://evilplayer.server-host.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/
Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
iTunes Agent - http://ita.sourceforge.net/index.html[/b]
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
M4a/Flac/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player & Media Center 2005 - http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
opcode - http://www.opcode.co.uk/opd2d/default.asp
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/
CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/index.html
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
eCover - http://www.esoftware.it/eCover/index.html
GUI for dvdauthor - http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
ISO Recorder http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/AUDIO Burner - http://www.silentnight2004.com/NEW_Download.html
Smart CD-Menu Creator - http://www.cupidsystems.com/smartmenucreator.html
Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
KGB Archiver - http://www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/index.php?lang=en
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipfocus - http://www.skaro.net/zip-reader/index.html
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Whitney Defrag - http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag
Desktop Enhancements:
Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
Clocktrayskins - http://www.drive-software.com/windowsclock.html
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/#intro
Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/
Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
MouseIMP - http://www.mouseimp.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar
RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
StartEx - http://www.zalentino.com/startex/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/
Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/
CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
fseKrit - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyulas Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/
Firewalls:
Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVeda Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonealarm.com/store/co...?dc=56pus&ctry=GB&lang=en
FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
FTP Servers:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334
Quick n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/
HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
Elfima Notepad - http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Notetab light - http://www.notetab.com/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
PHP Designer 2005 and HTMLGate FREE - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
SuperEdi - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
MiniAIM - http://miniaim.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
qip - http://www.qip.ru/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads
Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
FastStone 4in1 Browser - http://www.faststone.org/FSBrowserDetail.htm
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
*beep* - http://*beep*.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/
Mail programs:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/
Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/
Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s...p;threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
Tango Dropbox - http://tangoftp.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/
Office Application:
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
Scribus - http://windows.scribus.net/
TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm
Partition Managers:
Dubaron - DiskImage http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/
Partition Logic - http://visopsys.org/partlogic/download.html
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
PDF Utilities:
Brava! Reader - http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/
Photo manipulation and image design:
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/
iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net
Recolored - http://www.recolored.com
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmers Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/
Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/
RSS Readers:
Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/
klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/
System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...en&pageid=1
Free Disks monitoring - http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/fr...oring-software/
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
HWiNFO - http://www.hwinfo.com/
K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html
WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx
WINAUDIT - http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm
Why Reboot? - http://www.exodus-dev.com/products/WhyReboot/
Video codecs:
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD - http://www.xvid.org/
Video players :
AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter
AVS DVD Player - http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
Flash Movie Player - http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/flash_movie_player/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/
Video tools & converters:
AVI2DVD - http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
FlowPlayer - http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/
GB-PVR - http://www.gbpvr.com/index.html
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
HDTVtoMPEG2 - http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/
iPod video converter - http://www.ipod-video-converter.org/
Mediacoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
MobileVideo For iPod - http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo-for-i...-converter.html
PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/
Riva FLV Encoder 2.0 http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?downloads&L=3
STOIK Video Converter - http://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/Video..._ScreenShot.htm
Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
The FilmMachine http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html
VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html
Video DVD Maker - http://www.videodvdmaker.com/
Video Tools - http://www.bobyte.com/
Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html
Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera - http://www.opera.com (< you want this one..)
Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/
Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/
Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/
QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Attribute Changer - http://webplaza.pt.lu/~rpetges/
AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/
BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
ClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/
Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
dd for windows http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm
Dir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
DM2 - http://dm2.sourceforge.net/
EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT - http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
EssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/
Everyday Auto Backup - http://www.backupsoft.net/everydayautobackup.htm
Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/
File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/download...re_fte_105.html
Folder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
Freeproxy - http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org/
Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/
HDCleaner - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secu...HDCleaner.shtml
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Language Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/
Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
Money Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.asp
Multi Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/
MV Reg Clean - http://www.velasco.com.br/mvregcln-installer-br.zip
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Notebook BatteryInfo http://www.batteryinfo.de.vu/
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Open Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.html
OpenWengo - http://www.openwengo.org/
Outlook Linker - http://www.teamscope.com/otherpro/utilities.asp#linker
PastIconsFlusher - http://www.prprogramsstudios.tk/
Peerguardian - http://www.methlabs.org/
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
RegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
ShellExView v1.14 - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
Space Monger - http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html
Starter - http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/
Startup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
SyncToy - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
TextHarvest - http://members.aol.com/getmydata/pc-sample.htm
Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.html
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
WeathAlert - http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermain
Windows Snapshot maker - http://www.ntwind.com/winsnap/index.html
WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/free/
XP AntiSpy - http://www.xpantispy.org/
YourDir - http://www.primeoption.com.au/FreewareYourDir.htm
ZoomIT - http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/zoomit.html
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amazing post m8 and doable thanks to the forum upgrade and not much hassle
Could you star or colour your pick of whats good in each section if you know of or used them m8?
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Re-stickied for awesomeness.
This will stay athe top now thanks to the forum upgrade :)
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Re-stickied for awesomeness.
This will stay athe top now thanks to the forum upgrade :)
OK, we all know whos to blame when it ends up on page six... :mutley:
Another text editor but can be used for basic letter writing. Especially good for writing books or if you are forgetful as it saves a notes .txt file with the .rtf main document.
http://www.antarctic-one.com/images/RDraft30.exe
Eraser: free disk cleaning software, something you should all have.
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/download.shtml
Just to update as these have been moved. Rough draft is available from the writer at
http://www.richardsalsbury.com/
And the latest version of eraser is at
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php
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cant believe that the following havent been specifically mentioned...
http://www.winamp.com for playing your mp3s
http://www.winrar.com for unraring your rars
http://www.daemon-tools.cc for mounting ISOs as virtual drives
http://www.mirc.com for IRC chat
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm for watching DVDs, XviD, DivX, MKV, etc. etc. etc.
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edited it for ya - needs http:// for clickable links ;)
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edited it for ya - needs http:// for clickable links ;)
cheers, i figured that out on the 3rd or 4th edit!
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soopahfly was Orbit in your list.
Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, support RTMP. And to make general downloading easier and faster.
http://www.orbitdownloader.com/
if you do download from Youtube, a independent FLV player is very handy, FLV Player 2.0.23
http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html
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Surprised these havent made it in this list.
VMWare Server (http://"http://www.vmware.com/products/server/")
Microsoft Visual Studio Express (C++, C#, VB.net, SQL Server, MSDN Express/MSDN Library, Visual Web Developer)
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
Oracle 10G Database (Express Edition)
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html
For those of you who use vmware and dont mind trial versions that last 180 days.
Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 with SP2, Windows 2003 Standard R2 with SP2 (http://"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/windowsserver/bb430831.aspx")
Windows Server 2008 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/cc137123.aspx)
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www.recuva.com - file recovery free.
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http://www.desksoft.com/BWMeter.htm - Monitor your WAN/LAN traffic speed & totals independatly, great if you want to keep an eye on how much youve downloaded when you have 1 network card and a router.
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Visual ToolTip 2.2 (http://"http://www.chrisnsoft.com/visual-tooltip/") - Brings thumbnail previews of taskbar programs (standard in aero on vista) to XP.
(http://www.chrisnsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/pictures/visualtooltip/apercuStick.jpg)
WinBiTs (http://"http://www.darvin.de/english/") - Allows you to use the same background intelligent transfer service that windows update uses to download files. I use it for large driver downloads that I dont necessarily need whoring my computer when im using it for other stuff at the same time. As its intelligent itll scale network usage as appropriate :)
(http://www.darvin.de/screen.gif)
Macrium Reflect Free (http://"http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp") - Creates full partition/drive image backups and provides a linux rescue cd to restore the images. The free version doesnt support incremental backups, so I use 2 old DVD-RWs to store my C: image.
(http://www.macrium.com/Images/screen_shots/main.jpg)
RemoveEmptyDirectories (aka RED) (http://"http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/red.htm") - Does what it says on the tin, scans your partitions for empty directories, and deletes them :) It tries to do this intelligently and attempts to not delete system stuff, but there is a disclaimer saying that some programs expect there to be an empty directory (for writing logs etc...).
(http://www.jonasjohn.de/img/red_screenshot4.png)
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http://www.filehippo.com/
Cant remember how i found this bookmark, but its useful :P
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So, when is someone gonna go through the thread and post a list of all these programs sorted by category? :D
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WGet for Windows (http://"http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm") - Yet another download manager, if any of you are familiar with linux youll likely have used this. Ive mainly used it to process text files of links (as shown below) for iso files to install various versions of linux. Its an absolutely storming program for this, and I basically just copy it into %Windir%\System32\ so I can call it from anywhere as its in the path.
Example input file
http://mirror.macs.psu.ac.th/RHEL/RHEL3/rhel-3-U4-i386-as-disc1.iso
http://mirror.macs.psu.ac.th/RHEL/RHEL3/rhel-3-U4-i386-as-disc2.iso
http://mirror.macs.psu.ac.th/RHEL/RHEL3/rhel-3-U4-i386-as-disc3.iso
http://mirror.macs.psu.ac.th/RHEL/RHEL3/rhel-3-U4-i386-as-disc4.iso
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So, when is someone gonna go through the thread and post a list of all these programs sorted by category? :D
May be worth knocking up a quick database of these links. Ill do it tonight if someone can spare me access to phpMyAdmin, and some filespace that supports php.
Edit: f**k it... think ill do one for myself anyway, will host it on my home computer for the time being :)
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or click this link http://www.filehippo.com/ has most of the general stuff on it already.
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http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
Useful program for those with messy desktops, which used to include me. Put some order into those icons.
basically a nifty use of folders that looks similar to something else I could mention.
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http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
Microsoft official tool for putting a Windows 7 ISO (any of them) on to a USB stick. Just used it for 64Bit and 32Bit Win7Pro. Works fine.
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CBA to go through them all again so will do an updated list of what I just put on my new netbook:
MPC-HC (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) One of the few video players that takes advantage of the ION gpu to play 1080 content without pissing about with codecs.
Battery Bar (http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/) - Very small and very awesome battery bar.
Virtual Clonedrive (http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html) My replacement for Deamon Tools, smaller and less ad-ware.
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Virtual Clonedrive (http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html) My replacement for Deamon Tools, smaller and less ad-ware.
cheers for this, was looking for something to mount the game disks with! Deamon Tools is a little annoying at times!
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Vista 64 bit & Win 7 64 bit.
Description & rating for each app.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows7-vista-64-bit-software.htm
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http://www.theoldcomputer.com/index.php
Seriously good site for retro gaming with the best collection of roms and emulators Ive ever seen...