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• Title
  Owner Notes
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• IrfanView
  "I love the "create custom selection" feature, which I have preconfigured with the exact pixel dimension I need for one of the images I have to cut regularly." - Steven Rosenberg, LA Times Tech Talk
  
• Eudora
  "... essentially Thunderbird with a Eudora skin" - Duncan Riley, TechCrunch
  
• Miranda IM
  connect to multiple chat networks. "...does seem to start up faster than other multiprotocol IM clients such as Trillian." - PC World Review
  
• AMP Font Viewer
  "Amp Font Viewer can categorize fonts and even install certain types for a single session, or save uninstalled fonts into a particular folder for archiving and backup. " -- Lifehacker
  
• WinPatrol System Monitor
  "WinPatrol is a free tool you just must have on your computer: It gives you a way to stop unwanted programs from loading..." Steve Bass, Tech Bite
  
• 7-Zip (Older version)
  " handles RAR and CAB files and promises better compression with ZIP archives than competitors offer" -- PC Mag
  
• CyberShredder
  "Carrying your work on a portable USB drive is great, but you don't want to leave your files lying around. For added security, use a shredding application" - PC World
  
• Mozilla Thunderbird
  "Thunderbird has many fans. and yet what is a solid and mostly reliable program hasn’t grown at anywhere near to the rate Firefox has." - TechCrunch
  
• ClamWin Antivirus
  "Clam (both Win and AV) is particularly useful because it fully integrates with mail programs for attachment scanning." -- Lifehacker
  
• eMule Plus
  " a more consistent download which could mean you eventually download the file quicker." -- Softonic
  
• CDex
  Convert tracks from an audio CD to WAV and MP3 files.
  
• Sunbird
  "if you use the Thunderbird e-mail client, or if you need to access a calendar on a server from different computers running different operating systems...Sunbird is definitely worth a look" PC World
  
• PeaZip
  one of best free software of 2009. "It'll create ZIPs, 7Zs, TARs, ARCs, and more; it'll open those and many other archives too, including RAR. " PC Mag
  
• Pidgin
  "ou can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr." PC Mag
  
• OpenOffice.org
  My 70 y.o. mother installed this on her new netbook and doesn't notice any diff fro Office - 'nuff said
  
• Juice
  ". The powerful plugin automatically culls information from around the web whenever you search for or highlight a term, making it a handy reference tool that I could quickly get used to. " - TechCrunch.
  
• Paint.NET
  "If you use Photoshop, check out Paint.net" -- TechCrunch
  
• Blender
  "Blender has all the features you need to produce interactive 3D graphics and games that are compatible across platforms." PC World
  
• aMSN
  "A very nice MSN compatible messenger application" - Ostatic
  
• RedHat Fedora Linux
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• RogueScanner
  "Think your home or small office wireless network is safe? Do you have any idea whether there are any intruders on it? This free program is a great way to find out." -- PC World
  
• OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs
  Export and Import your documents to Google Docs from OpenOffice.org, and from OpenOffice.org to Google Docs
  
• Firefox browser
  The add-ons make it what it is
  
• oDC
  oDC is an acronym for Opera's DC which is based on the popular Direct Connect clone "DC "
  
• StrongDC++
  A free client for sharing files in DC network
  
• WinDirStat
  "Open source program WinDirStat is a hard drive analyzer that gives you a visual representation of what files are taking up the most space on your disk.... Very cool" -- Lifehacker
  
• Songbird
  Browser "offers a number of features that make it an appealing alternative to music players like iTunes, including a feature called mashTape will automatically cull the internet for relevant content for each song you play..." TechCrunch
  
• Miro
  Video Player "This beautifully designed freebie handles Web video feeds, downloads torrents, and is optimized for HD video playback. " -- PC World
  
• Camino
  Alternative browser for Mac OSX
  
• Adium
  IM for Mac OSX
  
• Prism for Firefox
  "culls data from the Web site of your choice and converts it into a desktop application." -- PC World
  
• Prism
  Desktop version of the FF plug in
  
• WinSCP
  "Supporting both SFTP and SCP protocols (upshot: secure transfers), WinSCP is fast and lightweight while still supporting advanced features like remote text editing. " -- Lifehacker
  
• GIMP 2
  "this free open-source program has matured into a powerful image editor." PC World
  
• Launchy
  "Control iTunes from the keyboard with a new script that adds Play, Pause, Stop, Next Song, ...." -- Lifehacker
  
• Zinf
  The goal of this project is to provide an open source framework, based on the Apache Struts project, for building PHP5 web applications.
  
• MP3Gain GUI
  "widely regarded as one of the best tools for "normalizing" MP3s. The software analyzes your tracks, then modifies them so they play at a consistent volume. " - Lifehacker
  
• PDFCreator
  "Don't want your PDFs marked with unsightly ads? Try the open-source PDFCreator." -- PC World
  
• KeePass-Old version
  "This program offers a simple way to keep track of all your passwords while keeping them safe." -- PC World
  
• VirtualBox
  Free and open-source virtualization tool. May be better than VMWare
  
• CamStudio
  "Camstudio is a free tool for recording either the whole screen or just a portion and then exporting the video in a variety of different formats." -- PC Mag
  
• VirtualDub
  "If you're involved in processing video, try this piece of open-source software. It's well suited for cleaning up, editing, and trimming.... VirtualDub does an excellent job of capturing video too." PC World
  
• Exact Audio Copy
  Audio grabber for CD Roms
  
• DVDStyler
  cross-platform DVD authoring application
  
• GParted Gnome Partition Editor
  partition your HD
  
• KompoZer
  combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing
  
• MediaPortal
  "a free application that's every bit as powerful as WMC. It can timeshift and record TV, play videos and music, run fancy slide shows, tune in radio stations (both FM and Internet)..." PC World
  
• SMPlayer
  a complete front-end for MPlayer
  
• Songbird Web Player
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• Audacity
  "It's one thing to listen to music, and it's another to create it, edit it, or mix it. If you're interested in creating, editing, and mixing you'll want Audacity." PC World
  
• KeePass-Old version
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• ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.95.1
  "Few things drive us more crazy than a one-month-old PC that shipped with pre-installed trial virus protection software.... Our advice? Uninstall 'em, and check out ClamWin." -- Lifehacker
  
• 7-Zip 4.65
  zip and unzip any file format -- the best
  
• PeaZip, file and archive manager
  " Our nod for file archive managers normally goes to previously mentioned 7-Zip, but with an attractive, user-friendly interface, customizable right-click options, and a standalone portable version you can add to your thumb drive, PeaZip has a charm worth checking out. " Lifehacker
  
• OpenOffice.org 3.1
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• Cobian Backup
  " Users love its rich feature set, as Cobian supports nearly every feature of its shareware alternatives. " - Lifehacker. Ver 9 no longer open source
  
• GIMP 2.6.6
  When you can't afford photoshop
  
• Eraser
  erase sensitive data from your HD