Cool Freeware
| Category | Name | Description |
| Anti-Virus | AVG AntiVirus | AVG Free edition is now available for all single home and non-commercial end users Worldwide! |
| Boot Manger | XOSL | Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL) is the world's only full-featured free boot manager with a real, easy-to-use and full-blown graphical user interface. |
| Chat | Skype | I've used this with a friend of mine who is in Alberta (I'm in Nova Scotia) and the sound quality was so good I thought we were talking on the phone. You gotta try it (while it is still FREE). NOTE: Windows 2000 & XP users only. |
| E-Mail Checker | ePrompter | ePrompter is a free email retrieval and notification program that now allows you to compose, forward and reply to the messages that have been retrieved for you. |
| E-Mail Client | Mozilla Thunderbird | Thunderbird is Mozilla's next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more. |
| Graphics | Blender Publisher | Blender Publisher is the commercial version of Blender Creator, the free 3D modeling, rendering, animation and interactive 3D creation package for Unix and Windows. |
| HTML Editor | 1st Page 2000 | From Australia to California to Germany, professional web builders are exploring 1st Page 2000, the world's free web builder to create and manage world-class Web sites. Its power and flexibility lets anyone create the web site they want. Ask any professional web builder and they'll tell you the sad stories behind using standard WYSIWYG editors. |
| IM | Miranda | Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It requires no installation and can be fitted on a single floppy disc. |
| Multimedia | IrfanView | IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP |
| Office | OpenOffice | To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. |
| Remote Desktop | TightVNC | VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view an office Linux machine on your Windows PC at home. VNC is freely and publicly available and is in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately. |
| Security | Sygate Personal Firewall | FREE for personal use, Sygate Personal Firewall 5.x provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting your PC from hackers, trojans and DoS attacks. New features include full-ICS support, protocol driver level protection, enhanced logging, and more. Sygate Personal Firewall is the first FREE personal firewall to offer protection from malicious code intrusions, keeping the information on your PC safe and private. |
| System Info. | Aida32 | AIDA32 is system information and benchmarking tool with full hardware & software information on 80 pages. It comes with a built-in hardware database and physical information for CPU, motherboard, hard disks, optical drives, chipset and much more. It can display the information on-screen, print it, or save it as a report in various formats including HTML, CSV and XML. |
| Utilities | SpyBot-S&D | SpyBot-S&D searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If SpyBot-S&D finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still runs fine after removing the spyware/adware. |
| Utilities | Boot Disk Images | Need a DOS bootdisk! (www.BootDisk.com) |
| Utilities | DVD Shrink | DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc. |
| Web Browser | Mozilla FireFox | Based on the Mozilla browser, this is a smaller, faster browser with some basic features for the common user. |