Best Freeware, Open source, Free resources

http://www.carolsvault.com/best-freeware/
Posted on April 11th, 2006 by Carol

Just for Referrence,thanks Carol,copy from www.carolsvault.com

Best Desktop Tools and Office

1. OpenOffice.org free productivity suite *****
2. AbiWord Free Word processing *****
3. PrestoNotes Desktop Notes
4. TurboNotes - Sticky notes
5. StyckyPad - Sticky notes
6. Stickies - Sticky notes
7. DBDesigner Database
8. CutePDF Writer PDF Software
9. GanttProject 2.0 project management
10. AceMoney Lite Financial Management
11. Grisbi 0.5.7 personal finance manager
12. NeoMem Personal Information Manager
13. Programmers Notepad 2.0.6.1 text editor with special features for coders
14. Notepad++ Notepad Replacement
15. Notepad2 1.0.12 text editor
16. o3find 0.82 Full Text Search for OpenOffice.org documents.
17. ConvertAll 0.3.1 Unit Conversion program
18. Wikidpad 1.1.6 Wiki-like notebook
19. TreeLine 0.14.1 Free Word processing
20. Tinyspell Spelling Tools
21. Wordweb Thesaurus*****
22. TheSage Thesaurus*****
23. ReplaceEm Text Tools
24. PagePlus SE - Free Desktop Publishing Software
25. Hyperwords *****
26. Wikipedia -the best site around
27. Google Desktop
28. Yahoo! Desktop Search
29. Copernic Desktop Search 1.63
30. WriteBoard Create, edit, and share documents in your browser
31. Groove Virtual Office Online file-sharing and collaboration tool
32. dotWidget 1.0
33. iColorFolder 1.4.2***** Change the color of your folders
34. BB4Win Shell replacement
35. A43 File Management Utility Replace explorer
36. Brico Packs Desktop enhancement*****
37. CursorXp Freeware****
38. WindowsBlinds Free version****
39. BootSkin Freeware****
40. ThemeManager Freeware version****
41. LogonXp****

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Best Browsers - Best Email clients - Best FTP - Proxy-P2P- Best News readers

1. Firefox *****
2. Avant ****
3. Maxthon*****
4. Opera *****
5. Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 *****
6. Pegasus Mail
7. FileZilla 2.2.18 ftp
8. SmartFTP 2.0.995.3 ftp
9. Hmailserver 4.1.1-Build-140
10. HTTrack Website Copier 3.40 -offline browser utility
11. FlashGot -downloader
12. Privoxy -web proxy*****
13. Tor - anonymous Internet communication system*****
14. LimeWire p2p
15. Bittorrent p2p
16. FolderShare (Windows) sharing
17. FolderShare (Mac)
18. Flickr *****
19. Feedreader ****
20. GreatNews Rss Reader

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Best Antivirus >> Best Firewall >> Best Adware/Spyware>>Popups

1. AVG free (antivirus)*****
2. Avast (antivirus)****
3. Bitdefender 8 Free Edition(antivirus)
4. ClamWin Free AntiVirus 0.88
5. Comodo AntiVirus
6. AntiVir PersonalEdition
7. ZoneAlarm free (firewall)*****
8. Comodo Personal Firewall
9. Kerio (firewall)
10. Sygate (firewall)
11. Outpost Firewall (firewall)
12. GRC Shields Up
13. AirDefense Personal Lite
14. All-in-One Secretmaker
15. Comodo AntiSpam
16. Lavasoft Ad-aware *****
17. Spybot *****
18. Windows defender ****
19. SpywareBlaster****
20. Trend Micro HouseCall
21. HijackThis 1.99.1

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Best Online Antivirus scanners

1. BitDefender Free Online Virus Scan (requires ActiveX)
2. Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Web Scanner
3. Freedom Online Virus Check
4. F-Secure Online Virus Scanner
5. Kaspersky Online Scanner (scanner requires ActiveX)
6. McAfee FreeScan
7. Panda ActiveScan
8. RAV Antivirus (scans a file)
9. Symantec security and virus checks (scanner requires ActiveX)
10. Trend Micro HouseCall (requires use of a setup program for Netscape browsers)
11. Virus Total (scans a file)
12. Pc Pitstop *****

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Best Web based mail

1. Gmail ****
2. Yahoo Mail *****
3. MSN Hotmail ***
4. AIM Mail ****
5. Inbox Mail *****
6. MyWay Mail**
7. Fastmail***
8. 30gigs**
9. HushMail
10. Walla Mail
11. Goowy Mail

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Best Burning Software

1. CDBurnerXP Pro
2. Deep Burner
3. BurnAtOnce
4. ImgBurn
5. DVD Shrink
6. LC ISO Creator

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Best Graphics

1. GIMP 2.2.10*****
2. Paint.NET 2.6*****
3. Blender 2.41 *****
4. Inkscape 0.43 *****
5. PhotoFiltre *****
6. PhotoPlus 6****
7. DrawPlus 4 - Free Graphic Design and Vector Drawing Software
8. 3DPlus 2 - Free 3D Animation and modeling Software
9. IrfanView
10. PhotoVista Panorama
11. Tux Typing 2 1.5.3
12. Fast Stone Capture - image capture
13. Fast Stone Photo Resizer

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Best Html Editors - Best CSS Editors - Best PHP

1. Nvu 1.0 *****
2. HTML-Kit*****
3. Cascade DTP
4. Dev-PHP IDE
5. DHE Editor
6. WebPlus 6 - Free Web Site Design & Publishing Software
7. Alleycode
8. TopStyle Lite 3.10****
9. 1stPage HTML Editor
10. PhpDesigner 2006

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Best Blog desktop publishers

1. Qumana
2. Windows Live Writer
3. BlogDesk

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Best Sound - Best Video- Best Music Organizers

1. Audacity 1.2.4b Free sound editor *****
2. Gungirl Sequencer 0.3.1 Sequencer
3. Hydrogen 0.9.4-svn Advanced Drum Machine
4. wxMusik 0.4.2.2 An open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library.
5. VirtualDub 1.6.14 VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility
6. MusikCube 1.0RC2 Music “library” application similar to iTunes
7. CoolPlayer build 215 Audio Player similar to Winamp
8. Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0 Media Player Classic is an all-in-one video player
9. Foobar2000 Media player
10. Audiograbber Rip music from cd
11. iTunes Player/Organizer
12. Yahoo! Music Jukebox
13. Kristal Audio Engine
14. Pandora Listen music online
15. Audiri Listen music online

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Best Calendars - Best Organizers

1. Chaos Manager Organizers
2. Google Picasa Photo organizer
3. Fast Stone Image Viewer ( browser,converter,editor)
4. Rainlendar 0.22.1 Calendar
5. Yahoo Calendar
6. Chandler calendar
7. Yahoo Widgets
8. Ta-Da List
9. Del.icio.us bookmarking
10. SyncNotes
11. FreeMind -mapping
12. Furl bookmarking
13. XnView organizer

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Best IM and Telephony

1. Trillian Basic
2. Skype
3. QNext
4. Google Talk
5. Gaim
6. Miranda IM
7. Yahoo! Messenger
8. MSN Messenger

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Best Blogging tools

1. WordPress*****
2. Blogger ****
3. LiveJournal
4. Xanga Classic
5. Blogsome
6. Typolis

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Best System Tools

1. PC Inspector File Recovery
2. Advanced Windows Care (repair and fix windows)
3. RegToy - tweak and manage xp
4. TuneXP - system tuneup*****(all in one speedup)
5. TweakUI -tweaking
6. WinDirStat 1.1.2 disk usage statistics
7. Virtual Magnifying Glass v2.36 screen magnification
8. TaskSwitchXP 2.09
9. 7-Zip 4.32 file archiver *****
10. Izarc file archiver
11. ZipGenious file archiver
12. TUGZip file archiver
13. TrueCrypt 4.1 encryption
14. AxCrypt 1.6.2.3 encryption
15. Cryptainer LE disk encryption
16. KeePass 1.04 password storage
17. Startup Control Panel -startup
18. Freecommander 2004 -file manager
19. Cacheman- memory management
20. Process Explorer -system monitoring
21. Registry Commander -reg. editor
22. Erunt -reg tools
23. TweakNow RegCleaner Standard
24. RegClean
25. Regseeker -reg cleaner****
26. Regcleaner reg cleaner ****
27. NTREGOPT -registry optimization
28. Eraser -secure deletion
29. X-Setup -last free version
30. Daemon Tools CD disk image virtual drive
31. CCleaner 1.27.260 - Crap Cleaner *****- reg cleaner, disk cleaner ,uninstaller
32. Advanced Disk Cleaner disk cleaner
33. WinDriversBackup - driver backup
34. Driver Cleaner
35. Starter-startup
36. Autoruns-startup
37. FullSync 0.9.1 file synchronization and backup
38. Comodo BackUp
39. SyncBack - backup
40. Replicator v3.3.4 backup
41. Diskeeper Lite 9 & NTI Backup Now
42. PageDefrag - defragmentation tool
43. GMail Drive 1.0.9
44. Free Download Manager
45. HDClone Freee Edition -move content from your hard drive
46. CPU-Z system information
47. Unlocker
48. SendToAny SendTo menu enhancement
49. Undelete recover lost files
50. Unknown Devices - Hardware identifier
51. XP Syspad Windows system utility

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Best Content Management System - Web Tools

1. Joomla (cms)
2. XOOPS (cms)
3. Php Wiki
4. Blog CMS
5. MODx (cms)
6. Drupal (cms)
7. JetBox (cms)
8. Simple Machines Forum
9. Php Shop
10. osCommerce (shop e-commerce)

Just for Referrence,thanks Carol,copy from www.carolsvault.com