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Graphics

OpenOffice.org 3.1 New Features

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/index.html

Download free Open office

http://download.openoffice.org/

Free Google Sketchup

A 3D software tool that combines a tool-set with an intelligent drawing system.

http://sketchup.google.com/product/gsu.html

 

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

Gizmo's Top Picks of the Best Utilities and Tech Resources
http://www.techsupportalert.com/ 
We are giving the people what they want: Software With Imagination... for Free!
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
Free. Picasa. Everything you need to enjoy your digital photos in a single software product:
http://picasa.google.com/
Free Image Viewer, Screen Capture, and much more.
Their Home Page. 
http://www.faststone.org/ 
I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved.
http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html
Create Online Photo Albums. Web Album Generator 1.8  http://www.ornj.net/software/webalbum/
Bring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
Save Hours of Time and Get Professional Results with Virtual Photographer.
http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
Firehand Ember Free is a graphics viewer.  http://www.snapfiles.com/get/firehandember.html 
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/paintnet.html
Simulate Kodak Wratten Filters on photos.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/filtersim.html 
JPEG Resizer - smart photo resizing.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/jresizer.html
PIXresizer is a free photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm
CDVista allows you to find quickly any kind of file on your disks (images, video files, audio files, ...)
http://www.gentibus.com/ 
Powerful image viewer
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/irfan.html
MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen.
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
Thumbawumba is a tool to generate thumbnail photo galleries for the Internet.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/thumba.html

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Internet

Free EasyRead. View webpages at the size you want.
http://www.iconico.com/easyRead/

Create a Calendar That You Can Access from Anywhere.
http://www.calendarhub.com/
Try the FREE AutoScreenRecorder and ScreenHunter.
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/
IE New Window Maximizer. This program will automatically maximize new Internet Explorer and Outlook Express windows.
http://www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/
Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc?
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
emailStripper is a free program for cleaning the ">" and other formatting characters out of your emails.
http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm
Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
http://nvu.com/index.html
A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. FREE.
http://www.blogger.com/start
Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Create Your Online Space with MSN Spaces -- FREE.
http://spaces.msn.com/
The newest feature of WinPatrol will greatly accelerate your system startup time
http://www.winpatrol.com/beta2007.html
Find broken links on web sites.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Shows the actual web site, with link, that the cookie came from. Delete if you want. (Also other great programs from here)
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcookie.asp
AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks.
http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm
Bookmark Wizard is a little free program with simple wizard-like interface, that generates an HTML page with all your links in your Internet Favorites folder.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/bmwiz.html
Are you sick of posting long URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place.
http://tinyurl.com/
For info on Netnews Newsgroups see
Netnews_Newsgroups.htm
Welcome to Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML scripts and components to enhance your web site!
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
Sam Spade is a network-query tool that can help you locate bulk mailers and maybe even make them answer for their transgressions.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,4709,00.asp
Wntipcfg.exe  Brief Description.  This GUI tool gives you information about your IP configuration.
Windows XP did not include WINIPCFG from previous versions.
Here is version for XP. Follow the instructions.
http://tinyurl.com/j9dch
FollowMeIP Lite is a plain and simple tool that displays your external IP address, even if you are behind a router or firewall.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/followmeiplite.html

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Utilities

EasyCleaner is a small program which searches Windows' registry for entries that are pointing nowhere. EasyCleaner also lets you delete all kinds of unnecessary files like temps, backups etc.
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

The Windows Task Manager provides a good start when you try to discover what programs are running on your system, but it's only a first step. For more-detailed data, you need another tool. Your best bet: Sysinternals Process Explorer (Microsoft acquired Sysinternals last year).
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx
Win Addons TOP 300 Freeware software!
http://www.winaddons.com/top-300-freeware-software/
Portable Apps
http://portableapps.com/
WinToolsXP is a freeware application that provides quick and easy access to Windows XP's built-in system utilities
http://www.kinyonsoftware.com/
ZipCentral is a free and easy to use zip file manager with all the utilities you need to manage your zip files.
http://zipcentral.iscool.net/
SmartClose is a handy tool that allows you to close all currently running programs.
http://www.snapfilespro.com/gnomeapp.php?id=108937
Burn4Free burn data (CD and DVD) and audio from different files types (WAV, FLAC, WavPack, WMA, M3U (mp3 winamp compilation) , MP3, MP2, MP1 OGG and CDA (normal cd audio tracks))
http://www.burn4free.com/
Our Free version of PowerDesk 5 provides a number of the features of our more powerful program. This is fully usable without any time-limits. While you are on this page, click on the link where it says "Click here to compare" the free version with the full version.
http://www.v-com.com/product/PowerDesk_Free_Trial.html
ExplorerXP is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE.
http://www.explorerxp.com/
Total Commander v6.02
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,6744,tk,wb061404x,00.asp
The program also includes a registry cleaning feature that finds invalid and unused registry entries, plus lots more.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html 
View all your fonts.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/fontglancer.html
View the details of your Drives and Folders to see what is taking up room.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/treesize.html
Like Notepad but save multiple files.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/editpad.html
Rename or renumber a list of files the way you want.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/rename4u.html
Slice large files into smaller to fit on floppies.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/slicensave.html
Exceptional free programs. Fresh UI, Fresh Diagnostics and Fresh Download.
http://www.freshdevices.com/  
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. Free.
http://www.belarc.com/Download.html
A free reader/viewer/printer for PDF documents. Unlike Adobe?Reader, our program is only 1megabyte and runs instantly without installation.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Free PDF Creator  http://www.primopdf.com/ 
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
Free Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format.
http://www.pdf995.com/
Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No popup Web advertisements!
http://www.cutepdf.com/
Unearths many Windows's most useful features
http://www.matirsoft.com/main/winuscon.htm
OpenExpert - Open With submenu for explorer's menu. Free.
http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html 
Run Linux Without Installing It.
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,114562,00.asp

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Miscellaneous

Free Office Suite -- Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/

Freeware programs that either went commercial after these versions or were discontinued, or are hard to find or just plain good:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32_freeware.html
Free dictionary and thesaurus.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wordweb.html 
Great Rhyming dictionary to go along with the dictionary above.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/rhyme.htm
Exceptional Free Midi and Karaoke player. Using it's search function, you can find hundreds of free midi and karaoke files by names, categories etc.
http://www.vanbasco.com/
Some Midi and Karaoke files at
http://dmiller900.com/music/index.htm
123 Free Solitaire is a 100% free high-quality solitaire games collection. Download and play now for free: Spider solitaire, FreeCell, Klondike and many other exciting solitaire games.
http://www.123freesolitaire.com/

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Browsers

Deepnet Explorer is the world’s first browser to offer fully integrated P2P file sharing capabilities and a built-in RSS/ATOM news reader. With features like tabbed browsing, pop blocking, auto login, form filler and P2P technology, Deepnet Explorer is the quick and easy way to browse the web, share files and read news simultaneously! Deepnet Explorer is also one of the most secure web browsers. NOTE! Take the TOUR with button on lower right of page.
http://www.deepnetexplorer.com/

(MyIE2 is now Maxthon) The most powerful and fully customized browser on earth. It can open multiple web pages in just one window, and comes with tons of other nice features.
http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm
The world's best browser just got better. The new Firefox Preview Release is the award winning preview of Mozilla's next generation browser.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Netscape. Enhanced Security, E-Mail Filters, Pop-up Blockers & More. Easier than ever to switch browsers - keep your favorites and browser settings
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/
Mozilla Email
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

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