Applications

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Contents 1 Tools 2 Installers 3 Editors 4 Compression and Archiving 5 Internet 6 Chat and Instant Message 7 Burning 8 Multimedia 9 Office 10 Usenet 11 Graphics 12 Spyware clean up 13 Open Source

Tools

• md5sum.exe for Windows
• Chaos MD5 - the Free MD5 Generator
• Process Explorer - shows information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Installers

• NSIS - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.

Editors

• TextPad
• vi
• Emacs for Windows
• Notepad++ - code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

Compression and Archiving

• 7-Zip - a file archiver with high compression ratio. Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB

Internet

• FileZilla
• PuTTY
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer

Chat and Instant Message

• MSN Messenger
• X-Chat 2 - Features 36 language translations, encrypted connections using OpenSSL 0.9.7g, IPv6 support on Windows with IPv6 stack, support for ClearType font rendering, Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl language interface plugins for scripting, Winamp, Active Whois, DNS and EXEC, xTray binary plugins.
• Miranda IM - multi protocol instant messenger client.
• Trillian - muli protocol client.
• BitlBee - an IRC to other chat networks gateway.

Burning

• ImgBurn - burns images to CD/DVD
• How to Write ISO Files to CD - how to: ISO Recorder Power Toy (Freeware), Nero - Burning ROM (Ahead Software), EasyCD Creator (Roxio), and CDBurn.exe from the XP Support Tools

Multimedia

• MoviX - a series of 3 tiny -live CD- Linux Distros aimed at MultiMedia playing.

Office

• OpenOffice - comes close to Microsoft's Office. A very nice feature is the ability to export to pdf.
• Foxit Reader - a free reader for PDF (Portable Document Format) documents, much smaller then Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• PDFCreator - a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine.

Usenet

• XanaNews Newsreader - a free, powerful, fully featured newsreader for Windows

Graphics

• Xara
• Irfanview - Image viewer, but can also do some editing and converting.
• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• Blender - 3D Graphics creation
• Inkscape - Scalable Vector Graphics Editor
• XnView - image editor, free for non-commercial @ Windows, free: Linux/BSD
• Google SketchUp - an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program
• Gimpshop

Spyware clean up

• Spybot Search & Destroy

Open Source

• List of open source software packages (Wikipedia)
• Freshmeat.net