A List of the best freeware

• Best freeware and open source 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****

• 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. Flickr *****

18. Feedreader ****

19. GreatNews Rss Reader

• 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. Ashampoo Firewall free

10. Sunbelt Kerio (firewall)(after 30 days becomes freeware)

11. Outpost Firewall (firewall)

12. SoftPerfect Personal Firewall

13. Jetico Firewall

14. GRC Shields Up

15. All-in-One Secretmaker

16. Comodo AntiSpam

17. Lavasoft Ad-aware *****

18. Spybot *****

19. Windows defender ****

20. SpywareBlaster****

21. Trend Micro HouseCall

22. HijackThis 1.99.1

• 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 *****

• 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

• Best Burning Software

1. CDBurnerXP Pro

2. Deep Burner

3. BurnAtOnce

4. ImgBurn

5. DVD Shrink

6. LC ISO Creator

7. Daemon Tools CD disk image virtual drive

• 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

• 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

• Best Blog desktop publishers

1. Qumana

2. Windows Live Writer

3. BlogDesk

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Best Blogging tools

1. WordPress*****

2. Blogger ****

3. LiveJournal

4. Xanga Classic

5. Blogsome

6. Typolis

• Best System Tools

Tweak,repair,delete recover,view, manage your Windows

1. Advanced Windows Care (tweak, repair and fix windows errors)

2. RegToy - tweak and manage xp

3. TuneXP - system tuneup*****(all in one speedup)

4. PCTuner 6.2.8 - pc tunning

5. Optimizer XP - tweaks and speeds up slow computers

6. TweakUI - computer tweaking

7. X-Setup -last free version -tweaking

8. Safe Xp - tweaks various security and privacy settings in XP

9. Freecommander 2004 -file manager

10. Cacheman- memory management

11. PC Inspector File Recovery

12. WinDirStat 1.1.2 disk usage statistics

13. Virtual Magnifying Glass v2.36 screen magnification

14. TaskSwitchXP 2.09

15. Startup Control Panel -startup

16. Advanced Disk Cleaner disk cleaner

17. Process Explorer -system monitoring

18. Eraser -secure deletion

19. Driver Cleaner drive cleaning

20. Starter-startup management

21. Autoruns-startup management

22. CPU-Z system information

23. Undelete recover lost files

24. XP Syspad Windows system utility

• Archive

1. 7-Zip 4.32 file archiver

2. Izarc file archiver

3. ZipGenious file archiver

4. TUGZip file archiver

• Encrypt

1. TrueCrypt 4.1 encryption

2. AxCrypt 1.6.2.3 encryption

3. Cryptainer LE disk encryption

4. KeePass 1.04 password storage

• Registry

1. Registry Commander -reg. editor

2. Erunt -reg tools

3. TweakNow RegCleaner Standard

4. RegClean

5. Regseeker -reg cleaner****

6. Regcleaner reg cleaner ****

7. NTREGOPT -registry optimization

8. CCleaner 1.27.260 - Crap Cleaner *****- reg cleaner, disk cleaner ,uninstaller

• Backup, Defragment,Syncronize,Unlock,Indentify

1. WinDriversBackup - driver backup

2. FullSync 0.9.1 file synchronization and backup

3. Comodo BackUp

4. SyncBack - backup

5. Replicator v3.3.4 backup

6. HDClone Freee Edition -move content from your hard drive

7. PageDefrag - defragmentation tool

8. IObit SmartDefrag - one of the best freeware defrag. tools

9. Diskeeper Lite 7 (last freeware version)

10. GMail Drive 1.0.9

11. Free Download Manager

12. Unlocker

13. SendToAny SendTo menu enhancement

14. Unknown Devices - Hardware identifier

• 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