Tcl/Tk A powerful scripting language that makes programming fun and easy.
Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions are free versions of the products of Microsoft Visual Studio - includes free versions of Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual Web Developer, Microsoft SQL Server, and Visual J#.
FreeBASIC is a free BASIC compiler.
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2.0 is a pre-integrated, lightweight Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 application server built on Apache Geronimo technology. Available at no charge.
DB2 Express-C 9 is a no-charge version of DB2 Express 9 data server. DB2 Express-C offers the same core data server features as DB2 Express Edition and provides a solid base to build and deploy applications developed using C/C++, Java, .NET, PHP, and other programming languages.
Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software is a trial version of Rational Application Developer that helps developers quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile, and deploy high-quality Web, SOA, Java, J2EE, and portal applications.
Alice is a free teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first experience in using object-oriented programming.
LunaRCP is an open source project providing very useful plug-ins to ease the development of Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications. It covers a broad range of RCP topics, e.g. application startup, file operations, jobs API, SWT/JFace, database integration using Hibernate, etc. LunaRCP is hosted on SourceForge.net.
Desktop Virtualization
Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs.
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use; it is the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), and runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts.
VMware Server will allow you to begin enjoying the benefits of server virtualization for free; it installs like an application on any existing server (or desktop) hardware and partitions a physical PC into multiple virtual machines. You can even use it to create virtual machines to use with VMware Player.
VMware Player is a free desktop virtualization software application that makes it easy to run any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC.
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use; it is the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), and runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts.
VMware Server will allow you to begin enjoying the benefits of server virtualization for free; it installs like an application on any existing server (or desktop) hardware and partitions a physical PC into multiple virtual machines. You can even use it to create virtual machines to use with VMware Player.
VMware Player is a free desktop virtualization software application that makes it easy to run any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC.
Miscellaneous
FreeMind is a mind-mapping software written in Java. The operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of Mind Manager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
iDailyDiary is a simple page-for-a-day diary. Providing a simple interface that immediately gets you started taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing and much more. iDailyDiary provides a "richtext" editor and the ability to insert graphics, URL's and Hypertext links.
nLite is a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows configuration. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on CD or testing in virtual machines.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Winkis 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.
ZScreen is a free open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. It supports automatic custom naming conventions with variables. It can also interface with image editing software.
Mikogo is a free desktop sharing tool where you can invite up to 10 participants to join a screen sharing web conference in real time and in true color quality. Mikogo is quick and easy to use. Simply start a meeting with a couple of mouse clicks, receive a unique Meeting ID, and your meeting participants can then join the desktop sharing session using the ID. There are no configurations or changes to network and firewall settings. There are absolutely no costs involved.
jSnake is the name of a video game, but of thing he treats? A half idea (if not all) is had, analyzing the title, that is composed from j + Snake; do you eliminate the "j", that stays you? Exact! Snake, if you have surely had a Nokia among the hands you have tried it. This is a version for PC, available free for operating systems: Windows, MAC, Linux and Solaris.
iDailyDiary is a simple page-for-a-day diary. Providing a simple interface that immediately gets you started taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing and much more. iDailyDiary provides a "richtext" editor and the ability to insert graphics, URL's and Hypertext links.
nLite is a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows configuration. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on CD or testing in virtual machines.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Winkis 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.
ZScreen is a free open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. It supports automatic custom naming conventions with variables. It can also interface with image editing software.
Mikogo is a free desktop sharing tool where you can invite up to 10 participants to join a screen sharing web conference in real time and in true color quality. Mikogo is quick and easy to use. Simply start a meeting with a couple of mouse clicks, receive a unique Meeting ID, and your meeting participants can then join the desktop sharing session using the ID. There are no configurations or changes to network and firewall settings. There are absolutely no costs involved.
jSnake is the name of a video game, but of thing he treats? A half idea (if not all) is had, analyzing the title, that is composed from j + Snake; do you eliminate the "j", that stays you? Exact! Snake, if you have surely had a Nokia among the hands you have tried it. This is a version for PC, available free for operating systems: Windows, MAC, Linux and Solaris.
Navigation
OkMap is an interactive software which allows you to work on your computer screen with digital maps that you have either bought or scanned. OkMap can also import vectorial data from the most common formats and DEM data relevant to height informations. Through these maps, OkMap lets you organize paths by creating waypoints, routes and tracks on your computer monitor, and upload this data to your GPS. To make it easier, OkMap provides you also with autorouting and geocoding functions. Data collected by your GPS can be downloaded on your computer, stored and displayed on the maps. They can also be used to create different types of statistics. By connecting a GPS to your laptop, you can plot your position on maps in real-time. If you are connected to the network you can constantly send your position to a remote computer, or receive the position of your companions on your computer and display the related tracks on maps in real time. OkMap can also interface Google Maps and Google Earth. With Google Maps you can get portions of maps immediately available in OkMap. With Google Earth you can view your paths and your maps also in 3D.
Pace & Place is a platform-independent application for managing and visualizing GPS and sports training data. It empowers the user to track training events and combine them with geographic data (e.g. GPS device records). Map, waypoint and track visualizations and associations with taken photos are frequent use cases as well.
Pace & Place is a platform-independent application for managing and visualizing GPS and sports training data. It empowers the user to track training events and combine them with geographic data (e.g. GPS device records). Map, waypoint and track visualizations and associations with taken photos are frequent use cases as well.
Servers
EFTP, based on the RFC 959 standard of FTP, it incorporates RSA encryption and Blowfish encryption to achieve fast and secure transfers of data over any TCP/IP network, including The Internet.
rndware psyBNC Server A version of psyBNC, a popular IRC bouncer/proxy with modifications. Ported to Windows.
FileZilla the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Windows Ident Server A free, stable IDENT server that can be used on IRC (psyBNC, mIRC) or FTP servers as an authentication method
rndware psyBNC Server A version of psyBNC, a popular IRC bouncer/proxy with modifications. Ported to Windows.
FileZilla the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Windows Ident Server A free, stable IDENT server that can be used on IRC (psyBNC, mIRC) or FTP servers as an authentication method
Education
KidZui is a fun, intuitive, easy-to-use kids’ browser and kid-safe social network with over a million games, websites, pictures, and videos. Kids can connect with their friends on KidZui, express their feelings and opinions, and share cool stuff they find online. It’s a fun, safe, and engaging internet experience that rewards curiosity and builds independence.
Celestia free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Medexam.net a free educational program for medical students and doctors. Medexam.net runs on Windows.
Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
Google Earth gives you a wealth of imagery, and geographic and astronomical information.
NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.
SpeQ Mathematics is a small, extensive mathematics program with a simple, intuitive interface. All calculations are entered in a sheet. In there you can freely add, edit and execute all calculations. You can define variables and functions, and plot graphs of your functions. You can save your calculations for later re-use.
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Celestia free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Medexam.net a free educational program for medical students and doctors. Medexam.net runs on Windows.
Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
Google Earth gives you a wealth of imagery, and geographic and astronomical information.
NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.
SpeQ Mathematics is a small, extensive mathematics program with a simple, intuitive interface. All calculations are entered in a sheet. In there you can freely add, edit and execute all calculations. You can define variables and functions, and plot graphs of your functions. You can save your calculations for later re-use.
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Hardware monitoring and Benchmarking
Central Brain Identifier is the solution, designed for AMD processor identification. This software recognizes more than 50 various models of the AMD processors and includes over 400 OPN numbers. It reports all the technical information and technical features you need on your processor, such as processor core name, core revision, nominal processor frequency, date of announce, OPN number, etc.
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
CrystalCPUID is a CPU utility software.
Memtest86 is a comprehensive, stand-alone memory diagnostic.
SiSoft Sandra is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips.
3Dmark 06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests.
Aquamark allows PC users to easily benchmark their current and next-generation PCs by measuring and comparing the performance of the systems.
rthdribl is a real-time high dynamic range image-based lighting demo.
Fraps - 3D benchmark, it is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology.
SuperPI It takes this program 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and 340MB available storage, to calculate 33.55 million digits.
CPU Rightmark - cpu overclock.
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
ATiTool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI and NVIDIA video cards.
ATI Tray Tools is a Full Featured Radeon Tweaker that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings.
aTuner is an easy-to-use tweak-tool for GeForce-, Quadro- and Radeon-graphiccards
RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters.
Nokia Monitor Test is a collection of test that can be used to check CRT monitor performance. The application contains test patterns for Geometry, Convergence, Resolution, Moiré, Brightness, Contrast, Focus, Readability, Color and Screen Regulation.
UDPixel helps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels.
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
CrystalCPUID is a CPU utility software.
Memtest86 is a comprehensive, stand-alone memory diagnostic.
SiSoft Sandra is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips.
3Dmark 06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests.
Aquamark allows PC users to easily benchmark their current and next-generation PCs by measuring and comparing the performance of the systems.
rthdribl is a real-time high dynamic range image-based lighting demo.
Fraps - 3D benchmark, it is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology.
SuperPI It takes this program 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and 340MB available storage, to calculate 33.55 million digits.
CPU Rightmark - cpu overclock.
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
ATiTool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI and NVIDIA video cards.
ATI Tray Tools is a Full Featured Radeon Tweaker that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings.
aTuner is an easy-to-use tweak-tool for GeForce-, Quadro- and Radeon-graphiccards
RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters.
Nokia Monitor Test is a collection of test that can be used to check CRT monitor performance. The application contains test patterns for Geometry, Convergence, Resolution, Moiré, Brightness, Contrast, Focus, Readability, Color and Screen Regulation.
UDPixel helps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels.
Archive
7-Zip is open source software. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. But you can make a donation to support further development of 7-Zip.
IZArc is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
TugZIP is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
Universal Extractor is a program that extracts files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.
IZArc is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
TugZIP is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
Universal Extractor is a program that extracts files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.
UI Enhancements
AveDesk is a tool that enables desklets on your desktop: desklets are small graphically pleasing mini-applications that are useful and fun to use. A desklet can be anything, a small sticky note, a weather foresight, a calculator, etc.
LClock is a Win32(64bit too now) Longhorn systray clock program.
MacSound a sound volume control in Mac OS X Style.
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.
Taskbar Shuffle - rearranges the programs on the taskbar by dragging.
Y’z Dock is a program launcher like the dock in MacOS X.
Y’z Shadow adds a shadow effect to the windows in pursuit of the "beauty of a shadow". It makes it possible to select one type of shadow effect in the active window and a different one in the inactive window. The user can also choose to have transparent menus. There is also the option of selecting the degree of transparency in the menus.
Y’z Toolbar - change the toolbar icons in Explorer and Internet Explorer
Visual Task Tips - thumbnail preview image for each task in the taskbar.
Icons and Folders
Badges the program that allows placing handy emblems upon familiar Windows icons.
Folderico allows to change icons of the chosen folder to any chosen by you. And even at connection of a hard disk to other computer of an icon will remain such what they were made by you.
Folder Markeris a tool to mark your folders.
Folder2MyPC - add favourite locations to My Computer.
Microsoft TweakUI - system settings.
Vize - Basic is a GUI enhancer for Windows Vista. It replaces most of the non-Vista icons, animations and bitmaps that Microsoft is still overlooking.
IcoFX is a free icon editor that supports Windows Vista icons also. It can extract icons from exe and dll files. Can convert images to icons. It can do also batch processing.
Shell Packs
BricoPacks - shell packs that make your XP look like Vista while staying fully compatible with Windows XP.
ShellPacks shell packs that change your Windows XP look.
Tango Shell Patcher is a graphical wizard designed to make simple the process of modifying your system files with resources developed and inspired by the Tango Desktop Project.
Vista Transformation Pack brings to your desktop the look of Microsoft's future operating system, Windows Vista.
With Vista Sound Scheme you cann upgrade your old sound scheme with the new Windows Vista sounds Karachi Exporters
LClock is a Win32(64bit too now) Longhorn systray clock program.
MacSound a sound volume control in Mac OS X Style.
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.
Taskbar Shuffle - rearranges the programs on the taskbar by dragging.
Y’z Dock is a program launcher like the dock in MacOS X.
Y’z Shadow adds a shadow effect to the windows in pursuit of the "beauty of a shadow". It makes it possible to select one type of shadow effect in the active window and a different one in the inactive window. The user can also choose to have transparent menus. There is also the option of selecting the degree of transparency in the menus.
Y’z Toolbar - change the toolbar icons in Explorer and Internet Explorer
Visual Task Tips - thumbnail preview image for each task in the taskbar.
Icons and Folders
Badges the program that allows placing handy emblems upon familiar Windows icons.
Folderico allows to change icons of the chosen folder to any chosen by you. And even at connection of a hard disk to other computer of an icon will remain such what they were made by you.
Folder Markeris a tool to mark your folders.
Folder2MyPC - add favourite locations to My Computer.
Microsoft TweakUI - system settings.
Vize - Basic is a GUI enhancer for Windows Vista. It replaces most of the non-Vista icons, animations and bitmaps that Microsoft is still overlooking.
IcoFX is a free icon editor that supports Windows Vista icons also. It can extract icons from exe and dll files. Can convert images to icons. It can do also batch processing.
Shell Packs
BricoPacks - shell packs that make your XP look like Vista while staying fully compatible with Windows XP.
ShellPacks shell packs that change your Windows XP look.
Tango Shell Patcher is a graphical wizard designed to make simple the process of modifying your system files with resources developed and inspired by the Tango Desktop Project.
Vista Transformation Pack brings to your desktop the look of Microsoft's future operating system, Windows Vista.
With Vista Sound Scheme you cann upgrade your old sound scheme with the new Windows Vista sounds Karachi Exporters
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