The Best Free Tools and Softwares

Text and Word Processing:

http://www.openoffice.org

http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php

http://www.textpad.com

http://www.notetab.com

FTP Tools:

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net http://coreftp.com

Graphics Tools:

http://www.flashbuttons.com

http://www.datastic.com/tools/colorcop

http://www.vletter.com/design_visitor.htm

Graphics:

http://www.flamingtext.com

http://www.gifworks.com

http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Graphics

http://www.oswd.org

http://www.grsites.com

Image Editing Tools:

http://www.irfanview.com

http://www.photoedit995.com

http://www.gimp.org

http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com

Video/Screen Capture:

http://www.jingproject.com

http://www.swftools.com/tools-details.php?tool=8162413051

Video Upload Sites:

http://www.YouTube.com

http://www.video.google.com

http://www.video.yahoo.com

http://www.ifilm.com

http://www.dailymotion.com

http://www.stickam.com

http://www.gofish.com

http://www.revver.com

http://www.livevideo.com

http://www.blip.tv

http://www.metacafe.com/

Free Press Release Sites

http://www.free-press-release.com

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com

http://www.i-newswire.com

http://www.pr.com

http://www.pressmethod.com

http://www.1888pressrelease.com

http://www.prbuzz.com

http://www.prleap.com

http://www.clickpress.com

http://www.prfree.com

http://www.addpr.com

http://www.eworldwire.com

http://www.prurgent.com

http:///www.theopenpress.com

http://www.przoom.com

http://www.ecommwire.com

http://www.free-news-release.com

http://www.express-press-release.com

http://www.newswiretoday.com

http://www.press-base.com

http://www.press.arrivenet.com

http://www.pr9.net

http://www.pr-inside.com

http://www.free-press-release-center.info

http://www.prlog.org

http://www.pressreleaseforum.com

http://www.postafreepressrelease.com

http://www.pressexposure.com

http://www.bignews.biz

http://www.speedypr.com

http://www.sbwire.com

http://www.only2press.com

http://www.exactrelease.com

http://www.prwindow.com

http://www.openpr.com

http://www.press-world.com

http://www.mediasyndicate.com

http://www.webnewswire.com

http://www.prnuke.com

http://www.fastpitchnetworking.com

http://www.businessportal24.com

http://www.press.xtvworld.com

http://www.thepublish.com

http://www.newsblaster.com

http://www.pressexposure.com

http://www.pressreleasemonkey.com

http://www.pressreleasespider.com

http://www.usprwire.com

http://www.publicrelations.uk.com

http://www.ukprwire.com

http://www.freepressreleases.co.uk

http://www.pressbox.co.uk

http://www.PressFlow.co.uk

http://www.freepressindex.com

http://www.pressrelease.com.np

http://www.MediaSyndicate.com

Audio Recorder:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

http://www.powerbullet.com/swiffrec

http://www.grsites.com/sounds (free sound effects)http://internetmarketingblast.com/25musicalloops

Software:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com

http://www.vmware.com/products/player

Anti-Virus Protection/Firewall:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

http://housecall.antivirus.comhttp://www.virustotal.com

SEO Tools:

http://www.mohamadlatiff.com/social-power/bookmarks.php

http://www.googlerankings.com

http://www.keyworddensity.com

http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/free-marketing-tools.html

http://seodigger.com

http://tools.seobook.com

http://www.alexa.com

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com

http://www.iwebtool.com/tools

http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/top-web-directories.html

http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop

http://www.googspy.com

http://www.linkpopularity.com

http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html#link-popularity-tools

http://www.searchwho.com/sw5-spider.html

Keyword Tools:

http://www.nichebotclassic.com

http://www.goodkeywords.com

http://www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com

http://www.kwbrowse.com

http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html

http://www.quintura.com

http://www.technobloggie.com/keyword-tool/index.php

HTML Editor and Website Creators:

http://www.arachnoid.com

http://onlinewebcheck.com

http://www.nvu.comhttp://anweshrath.com/webbuilder.zip

HTML Tutorial:

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5074586.html

PDF Tools:

http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc

http://www.primopdf.com

http://www.ultrapdf.com

http://createpdf.adobe.com

Trial Version of Office

Survey Software:

http://www.phpsurveyor.org/index.php

http://www.surveymonkey.com

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=109356

Blogging Software:

http://wordpress.org

http://www.pmachine.com

http://www.blogger.com

http://www.freshpursuits.com/canvas

http://www.pingoat.com

http://www.pingomatic.com

http://blogsearch.google.com

http://www.onlywire.com

Free Ebooks:

http://www.floodle.net

http://ebook-maniacs.com/index.html

Market Research:

http://clickbank.com/marketplace

http://www.ebay.com

http://www.killerstartups.com

http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf

http://www.terapeak.com

http://www.amazon.com

http://www.magazines.com

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz_log

http://50.lycos.com

http://hotsearches.aol.com/search/hotsearch.jsp

http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Information:

http://www.faqs.com

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.congoo.com

http://www.encarta.com

http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb

http://adlab.msn.com/

http://www.contentrover.com

Internet Marketing Forums:

http://www.copywritersboard.com

http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum

http://www.howtocorp.com

http://www.im4newbies.com/forum

http://www.wilsonweb.com

http://www.work.com

http://www.conversionchronicles.com

http://www.knowthis.com/internet.htm

http://www.startupnation.com

http://www.entrepreneur.com

http://hardtofindseminars.com

http://www.clickz.com

http://www.marketingsherpa

http://www.jupiterresearch

http://www.dmnews.com

Various:

46 Free Utility Programs/

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

Get paid for your content

http://www.associatedcontent.com

Firefox Internet Browser

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

Mozilla Thunderbird email client w/RSS reader

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird

International Shopping Cart Software

http://www.oscommerce.com

Cam Unzip (zip utility)

http://www.camunzip.com

Copyscape

http://www.copyscape.com

Web stats

http://www.sitemeter.com

BackUp995

http://www.backup995.com

Press Release Creator

http://www.bmyers.com/public/539.cfm?sd=30

Pop-In maker

http://popinbuilder.icoder.com

Expired Domain Name Tool

http://www.odditysoftware.com

Mind mapping tool

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Copernic Desktop Search

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html

Print multiple pages to a single sheet of paper

http://www.fineprint.com

Million dollar pixel script

http://www.tufat.com/s_milliondollarhomepage.htm

Web research and article collection

http://onfolio.com

CSS stylesheet editor

http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdId=TopStyle&ProdView=lite

Wink Tutorial Creator

http://www.debugmode.com/wink

PowerBullet Presentation software

http://www.powerbullet.com

Free conference calling

http://www.FreeConferenceCall.com

Zip Codes

http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip

http://www.newsdirectory.com

Freeware alternatives for commercial software:

http://www.simplemachines.org

3D Graphics:

3Delight Free -

http://www.3delight.com/index.htm

http://www.anim8or.com/

http://www.aqsis.org/

http://www.blender3d.org/

http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

Houdini (Free Edition)

http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7639525

http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm

OpenFX 

http://www.openfx.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:

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

Windows Live Safety Center

http://safety.live.com

Anti Spyware: 

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ 

http://www.dietk.com/

HijackThis 

http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

SpyBot Search & Destroy

http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

SpywareBlaster

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SpywareGuard 

http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

XCleaner

http://www.xblock.com/download-freeware.php

Anti-spam programs:

http://www.keir.net/k9.html

MailWasher 

http://www.mailwasher.net/

POPFile

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

SpamBayes 

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Audio Creation: 

http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

HammerHead

http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/

http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php

KRISTAL Audio Engine

http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php

orDrumbox 

http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/

Tu2 

http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Player:

1by1 

http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch 

http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy

CoolPlayer -

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

DeliPlayer

http://www.deliplayer.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/page/main

QCD Player 

http://www.quinnware.com/

Sonique 

http://sonique.lycos.com/

VLC Media Player 

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Winamp 

http://www.winamp.com/

XMPlay 

http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html

Audio Tools:

AudioShell 

http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm

Audacity 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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/

K-MP3 

http://www.katarncorp.com/

KraMixer 

http://www.kramware.com/

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/

Rarewares 

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/

SoundEngine Free

http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm

TagScanner

http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm

TigoTago 

http://www.tigotago.com/

The GodFather 

http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/ 

CD/DVD burning:

Burrrn 

http://www.burrrn.net/

Burn4Free

http://www.burn4free.com/Burnatonce 

http://www.burnatonce.com/

CDBurnerXP 

http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/

CDRDAO 

http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/

CDR Tools Frontend 

http://demosten.com/cdrfe/

Deepburner 

http://www.deepburner.com/

Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD 

http://www.paehl.de

ImgBurn 

http://www.imgburn.com/

Checksum Utilities:

http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/

hksfv 

http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/

md5sum

http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

md5summer

http://www.md5summer.org/

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/

IZArc

http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/

QuickZip

http://www.quickzip.org/

TUGZip

http://www.tugzip.com/

UPX

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Zip&Go

http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm

Zipgenius

http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag:

DIRMS & Buzzsaw

http://www.dirms.com/

OpenVMS

http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

jkdefrag

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Desktop addons:

AveDesk

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372

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

Google Desktop

http://desktop.google.com

Kapsules

http://kapsules.shellscape.org/

MobyDock

http://www.mobydock.com/

Panorama

http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html

Rainlendar

http://www.rainlendar.net

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/

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

LeechGet

http://www.leechget.net/en/

Net Transport

http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm

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/

WellGet

http://www.wellget.com/

wget

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

File managers:

2xExplorer

http://netez.com/2xExplorer/

A43

http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/

freeCommander

http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

Gyula's Navigator

http://www.wanari.com/

JExplorer

http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/

MeeSoft Commander

http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

Firewalls:

Jetico Personal Firewall

http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm

Kerio Personal Firewall

http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

NetVida 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 (FREE for personal use)

http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

Zonealarm Basic firewall (FREE) 

FTP clients:

ACE FTP

http://software.visicommedia.com/en/products/aceftpfreeware/

Filezilla!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

PuTTY (SSH)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

SmartFTP

http://www.smartftp.com/