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Other Software
AVG Anti Virus is a free anti virus program that provides all the features of the leading anti virus companies.AVG can download regular updates from the Internet to keep its Virus library up to date.
AVG Anti Spyware is a free spyware remover, together with a 30 day trial of the advanced features.
Note that AVG is free for home use, commercial versions are available from their website and offers 24/7 technical support and more advanced features than the free version.
Website: http://free.grisoft.com/
Startup Monitor
StartupMonitor is a small utility that runs transparently (it doesn't even use a tray icon) and notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup. It prevents annoying programs from registering themselves behind your back.
Startup Control Panel
Startup Control Panel is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It's simple to use and is very small and won't burden your system.
Startup Control Panel is available with an installer, or as a stand alone program.
Website: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
LiquidIcon is a small utility for creating icon files suitable for using on a website or replacing an icon on your desktop.
Website: http://www.x2studios.com/
IE Privacy Keeper is a utility for cleaning up your computer - removing history, temporary internet content, cookies, etc. It will also clean out your document history, Windows temporary files and empty the recycle bin for you.
Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder, you can:
Website: http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Deep burner is a free DVD/CD writing software, it provides a simple tool for creating audio and data CDs and DVDs.You can create and write CD and DVD images.
Note that Deep burner is free for personal use only, the pro version gives the ability to copy CDs and DVDs, create Photo CD/DVD albums and Video CDs as well as allowing commercial use.
Website: http://www.deepburner.com
Deep ripper is a free CD ripping program, it enables you to convert audio CD tracks into WAV, MP3 or OGG sound files. You can change the quality of the sound files by using presets.
Website: http://www.deepburner.com
The VideoLan Client is probably the most powerful media players and offers advanced streaming as well. It can be used as a DVD player, a multi video player, an audio player, you can save streams to your computer and broadcast your own content across the Internet.
Website: http://www.videolan.org
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Inkscape is a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards.
Website: http://www.inkscape.org
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips.
Website: http://picasa.google.com
SketchUp is a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.
Website: http://sketchup.google.com
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Note that Google Earth is dependent on a good Internet connection as it downloads each map area from the Internet.
Website: http://earth.google.com
Irfanview is a very fast, small, compact and innovative free graphics viewer and converter. With Irfanview you can:
- Crop an image to a set size
- Resize/resample an image
- Convert an image into a different format
- Apply filters to an image
- Create thumbnails of an image
- Process a batch of images with the above features
Website: http://www.irfanview.com
Celestia is a free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
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Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000 and XP. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Paint.NET makes an ideal free replacement for Adobe Photoshop.
Website: http://www.getpaint.net/
The Open Clip Art Library is a repository of freely usable clip art. The version on this CD contains 6900 SVG files packaged into an installer. You can download the full version in ZIP format from their website that includes the files in PNG format as well.
Website: http://www.openclipart.org/
Truecrypt is an on-the-fly disk encryption program. You can create a file on your computer to behave as a drive and the contents will be encrypted so you can store sensitive files inside and the contents is locked with your chosen pass phrase.
Website: http://www.truecrypt.org/
7zip is a free compression program. It can handle the popular compression formats such as ZIP, RAR and even ISO CD images.
Website: http://www.7-zip.org/
Celtx is a tool for media preproduction. Ideal for combining script, storyline, characters and actors. Celtx has inbuilt writing tools, story development tools, media rich breakdown, calendar, production reports and collaboration tools
Website: http://www.celtx.com/
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
Website: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Winmorph is a fun program to create a morphed or warped image from two images.
Website: http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
