useful/interesting free software downloads?

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anyone know of any ?
i'm trying to make a compilation/directory

so far i've got:

FUN STUFF/TOOLS/ETC.
+Adobe Flashplayer
(http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/)
+Google Earth
(http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/)
+Paint.NET- better than microsoft paint program
(http://paint.net/)
+Faststone Image Viewer
(http://download.cnet.com/FastStone-Imag ... 64984.html)


SECURITY/PRECAUTIONARY
+McAfee Site Advisor
(http://www.siteadvisor.com/)
+Microsoft Security Essentials
(http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/)


BROWSERS
+Mozilla Firefox
(http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html)
+Google Chrome
(http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html ... _medium=ha)


OS RELATED
+Universal USB Installer - for booting Linux from USB drive
(http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal- ... -as-1-2-3/)
+GNU/Linux Ubuntu OS's
(http://www.ubuntu.com/)

Last edited by Seanmw on 28 Sep 2010, 12:46 pm, edited 6 times in total.

How about FireFox?

FASTSTONE IMAGE VIEWER

http://download.cnet.com/FastStone-Imag ... 64984.html

For a free program, this multipurpose image tool strikes us as a good find. Although the main interface looks too cluttered with buttons at first glance, the three main windows are intuitive enough once get your bearings. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows boasts a nice default design, but you can customize it to your liking with several skins.

Clicking a thumbnail puts a larger view of the shot in the lower-left pane, and you zoom in simply by dragging the mouse around. Though its image-editing tools can't compete with those offered by a full-featured suite, there's still enough here to make a decent amount of tweaks to your shots. You can resize, crop, remove red-eye, and adjust color, brightness, and contrast. You'll also find a few simple effects and filters, including Lens, Waves, and Morphs. Other nifty features include multiple folder slide shows, batch cropping and Windows Vista support.

FastStone Image Viewer for Windows can batch-convert files into a number of popular image formats including GIF, BMP, PSD, and PNG, and the slide-show creator allows you to apply transitions, specify the interval between images, and add your own MP3s as a soundtrack. We can recommend this program to everyone but professional designers.

good point, i'd forgotten the obvious free browser downloads xD
okay, just added firefox & google chrome to the list

Interesting. Sounds pretty similar to Paint.NET
but i'll still make a note of it and perhaps try it out sometime

thanks for the suggestion

GIMP - a free image manipulator. I use it to do art and resize pictures to use as avatars on WP. You can even download brushes and plugins for it!

http://www.gimp.org/

there are some that are missing from the list but I will have to post later.

Revo Unistaller so you can uninstall programs without leaving traces of them left over like normal uninstall works, and deletes those incriminating files without any trace.

LOL you are very kind - I now see you already had this listed under tools in your post...

Pixelmator is like GIMP but better (IMO anyway), but you can only get it on a Mac and even though it's easy to keep using the free trial version after the 30 day limit, you technically should pay for it

Microsoft Power Toys: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx

They also have them for 2000 and 9x if you know where to look, maybe other OSes too, dunno.

OpenCommandWindowHere and TweakUI are my favorites. Alt-TabReplacement is kind of neat but I could live without it. I've used the ImageResizer a couple of times.

I can't get that because I have a PC. I like using GIMP it because it's totally free - no need for trials. I know there's better stuff out there than GIMP, but I enjoy it because I've learned how to use it well, and it gets the job done.

GIMP's a good tool, but I've never got used to the UI myself.

It takes some time to get used to it. It made me really frustrated when I was first learning it. Now that I know how to use it, it's a breeze. I'm reluctant to learn how to use any other image manipulator because I don't want to go through the same frustration I went through while learning the GIMP.

added an OS section to the list

if anyone knows of any more, feel free to contribute your info

OPERA BROWSER
http://www.opera.com/

My browser. Very easy adblock, user friendly.