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Free and Low Cost Software List

On the World Wide Web (WWW) there exists thousands and thousands of free and low cost items of software which you can download. Many of them compare well with equivalent expensive commercial products; many of them are complete and utter rubbish, or worse, dangerous to the health of your computer. On this page, I have attempted to list some of the better and more useful free items for you to download if you wish. If you do, it will be entirely at your own risk.

Free software is referred to as “Freeware” and low cost software as “Shareware”. The latter is almost always “try before buy” e.g. download for free and pay after 30 days if you want to keep it. Following the Freeware list is a list of both Freeware and Shareware library sources.

MAKE SURE YOUR COMPUTER IS PROPERLY PROTECTED BY ANTI-VIRUS AND ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD ANYTHING.

Freeware List

On some of the websites, the free version is well hidden - but it’s there somewhere! Don’t be lured into downloading the version that costs money, unless you really want the extra bells and whistles that the commercial version has. In these lists we are, in general, referring to Windows software, since Linux applications are, by definition, usually free.

Multimedia

Video/Audio

• Player - Realplayer 10 Free - http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=downloadcom1
• Player – Guliverkli - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
• Player – Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
• Video capture – VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
• Sound recorder and editor - Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Various video processing - http://www.bobyte.com/

Photo/Graphics

• Viewer - Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
• 3D Modelling – Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Home.2.0.html
• Image Editor – Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
• Screen Savers - http://www.reallyslick.com/
• Screen Capture - http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/?prnscr
• Screen Capture - http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm
• Photo Editor – Photo Plus - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/default.asp
• Drawing – Draw Plus - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/default.asp
• 3D Modelling – 3D Plus - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/default.asp
• Screen Zoom – Zoom+ - http://www.gipsysoft.com/zoomplus/
• Image processing – Faststone - http://www.faststone.org/
• Photo Manager – Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/
• Painter – Paint.net - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

Educational

• Explore Universe – Celestial - http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
• Encyclopedia Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Graph Drawer - http://www.padowan.dk/graph/
• Maths Functions – RF21 - http://members.aol.com/rf21exe/
• Vocabulary – VocabOne -  http://www.geocities.com/helmi79/software/vocabone.html
• Music Reading - http://www.mtbasics.com/
• Typing Tutor – Tuxtype - http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/
• Childrens Educational - http://www.humpherlinks.co.uk/educational.html
• Periodic Table - http://www.angelfire.com/ego/mjsoft/downloads2.htm
• Language tutor – http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000012437
• Language tutor – http://www.byki.com/

Office

• Office Suite – OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/
• Word Processor - Abiword - http://www.abisource.com/
• Organiser – MoinMoin - http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/DesktopEdition
• PDF Document Creator - http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm
• Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
• Desktop publisher  – Page Plus SE - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/default.asp
• Sticky Notes – StickyPad - http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/stickypad.html
• Organiser – Keynote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html

Reference

• English Dictionary & Thesaurus - http://wordweb.info/free/
• On-line Foreign Language Dictionaries - http://www.freedict.com/
• Encyclopaedia Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online - http://www.britannica.com/
• Oxford Online Dictionary - http://www.askoxford.com/
• Foreign Language Translation Online - http://world.altavista.com/

Security

Anti-Virus

• AVG Free - http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
• A-Squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
• F-Prot - http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/
• Ewido - http://www.ewido.net/en/

Anti-Spyware

• Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
• Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
• Adaware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Firewall

• Kerio - http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
• Zone Alarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

Anti-Spam

• Active Deterrence - http://www.bluesecurity.com/
• Spam remover – Mailwasher - http://www.mailwasher.net/
• Spam remover – Xterminator - http://www.artplus.hr/adapps/eng/xterminator.htm

Password

• Manager – Oubliette - http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html

Internet

Web Browsers

• Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
• Opera - http://www.opera.com/
• Kmeleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
• Faststone - http://www.faststone.org/
• Adult website blocker - http://weblocker.fameleads.com/

Web Site Creation

• Web Plus - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/WebPlus/default.asp
• Nvu - http://www.nvu.com/

E-Mail

• E-Mail Client – Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
• Instant Messenger – Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
• E-Mail Client – Sylpheed - http://sylpheed.good-day.net/en/download.html
• E-Mail Client – Eudora - http://www.eudora.com/download/

Search Toolbars

• Yahoo - http://toolbar.yahoo.com/ie
• DQSD - http://www.dqsd.net/
• Google - http://desktop.google.com/

Download Tools

• Speed meter – Netmeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
• Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm
• BitTorrent – Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Utilities

• Remote control - http://www.realvnc.com/
• FTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
• FTP - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
• Zipper – 7Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
• File Explorer – Explorer2 Lite - http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm
• Clipboard Recorder - http://www.lw-works.com/
• Unit Converter - http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/
• Online currency converter - http://www.xe.com/ucc/
• Expression calculator - http://www.allersoft.com/allercalc.htm
• Secure file eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
• CD/DVD Burner - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
• Desktop search - http://desktop.yahoo.com/
• Desktop search - http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html
• File Cleaner – Ccleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/
• Backup – Handy Backup Lite - http://www.handy-backup.com/
• Backup – EZBackup - http://www.rdcomp.net/

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Sources of Freeware and Shareware Software

BEWARE: Some sources of freeware and/or shareware include software that uses underhand methods of selling. A common trick is to offer a “free” scan of your computer for viruses and spyware. If you accept, the scan is carried out, but false reports of infestations of viruses and/or spyware are then given. You are then told these can only be removed by buying their removal software. Always reject any such unsolicited offers. If in doubt, ask GMC.

MAKE SURE YOUR COMPUTER IS PROPERLY PROTECTED BY ANTI-VIRUS AND ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD ANYTHING