Freebies
Here’s an often updated list of (mostly) freeware programs that I use almost daily. Most of them are utilities that extend the functionality of Winodws and IE, others are development tools I use. Eventually the list will be better sorted and more complete but for now I just wanted to have the list handy in case I need it.
Ad-Aware
Detects and removes spyware components from you computer.
Apache
Open Source HTTP Server.
CDEx
Best CD Ripper out there, Lame/R3Mix encoding.
FeedReader
XML feed reader.
IESpell
Spellcheck forms in IE. Great for spellchecking webmail or blog entries.
Kazaa Lite
Spyware and ad free client for the Fastrack P2P network.
MailWasher
Email manager and spam filter.
MySQL
Open Source Database
PHP
HTML-embedded scripting language
Pop-Up Stopper
Kills Pop-ups dead
Putty
Free Telnet client
Send To Toys
Send To shell extension.
SmartFTP
Free FTP client.
TClock
TaskBar Utility.
The Font Thing
TTF Font Manager. Let me know if you know of a better one, one that uses both TTF and T1 fonts?
Transparent
This utility will turn your Windows desktop icon text
backgrounds transparent allowing your wallpaper to show through.
Trillian
Connect to ICQ, AOL IM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and IRC with one app.
Tweak UI
From the Windows development team. extends funcionality of the Control Panel.
UltraBar
Nice Multi-Search tool bar for IE. Searches Google, Netcraft, Domain Name availability and more.
VNCViewer & VNCServer
Remote Access tools.
Winamp
It really does whip the llama’s ass.
X-Setup
Take control of your Windows configuration.
Browserware
Favlets
Little tools for validating pages and development.
Bookmarklets
Lot’s of little tools for your browser.
WebApps
Shields Up
Port Scan They also have a Firewall Leak Test.
VisualRoute
Visual Route tool and IP lookup.
Whois Source
A better WhoIs domain lookup.