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| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | Outlook |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Mozilla | The best of the current lot. Good but missing a few advanced features I'd like. |
| Mahogony | Nice, feels a bit 'odd'. [CP] |
| Phoneix Mail | No install necessary, single exe, fast clean, easy to use nice UI, no HTML email, Poor filtering. |
| FTP | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments | Open Source |
| ♥Filezilla | The more I use it the more I love it. Windows only. |
| IM (Instant Messaging) | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | Gaim | Windows version has been stable for a while now. |
| P2P File Sharing | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Gnucleus | Accesses the Gnutella p2p network. Very nice program. |
| Lime Wire | Accesses the Gnutella p2p network. Current versions of Lime Wire include advertising banners. Since Lime Wire is open source there are ad-free versions available. |
| giFT | Uses the OpenFT p2p network. |
| Remote Access | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| PC Anywhere | |
| Open Source | |
| RealVNC | The original VNC developers returned. |
| TightVNC | VNC with compression and other features. |
| Telnet / SSH | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| PuTTY | Windows Only, hopes to port. |
| Web Browser | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Mozilla Firefox | Excellent web browser, with plenty of add-ons to custiomize it. |
| ♥Lynx | [CP] Text only. Good, but not for most people. |
| Webcam | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Dorgem | Simple but effective. |
| Fwink | Simple but effective. |
| Webgrabber | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Wget | Very handy. A GUI would be nice but is very powerfull as is. |
| ♥cURL | |
| HTTrack | Has a GUI. Looks ok, but I'm still using Wget for now. |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Speak Freely | Internet voice chat. |
| Auction watchers | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| JBidWatcher | Java based Bid watch program. I normally hate the ugly Java UI widgets but this one does it well. I don't do online auctions much but next time I do I'll be sure to use this program. |
| Firewall | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Coyote Linux | Small Linux distribution designed to act as firewall. |
| floppyfw | Small Linux distribution designed to act as firewall. |
| Link Checker | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Xenu | Xenu is execellent free software but not Open Source. |
| Open Source | |
| Link Checker | Requires Python. |
| Portscan | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Languard Network Security Scanner | Free. |
| Open Source | |
| Nmap | Windows port now available. Needs Winpcap. |
| Security Scanner | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Nessus | Needs client and server pieces. Server currently only made for Linux/Unix |
| Web Log Anlysis | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Analog | Analog is wonderful, very powerful. No GUI. Very good documentation. |
| ♥Report Magic | Report Magic makes the reports from Analog look prettier. Use them together. |
| Audio Editor | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Audacity | |
| Streamripper | Record streaming MP3s |
| Media Player | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Real Audio | |
| MS Media Player | |
| WinAmp | |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Zinf | Previously known as FreeAmp. |
| ♥CoolPlayer | MP3 / audio player focused on speed. I'm really begining to like this one. |
| Video capture / conversion | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| VirtualDub | Capture and edit video. Not meant to replace an editor but probably can for many uses. Does some things most video editors can't. |
| DScaler | Converts analog video for dispay on computer (?) |
| CD Ripping | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Real Jukebox | |
| Open Source | |
| CD-DA X-Tractor | |
| CDex | |
| CD Writing | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Easy CD Creator | |
| Open Source | |
| CDRDAO | Records Disk-at-Once. No Windows GUI. |
| Freeburn | Still in early development. |
| CD Record | |
| DVD player | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| VideoLan | Looks good. |
| VCD creation | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| GNU VCDImager | Create and analyze VCD and Super Video CD's |
| 3D | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Liquid | "Liquid it a tool for translating Maya scenes into another renderer's scene description" I don't understand it but looks useful to those who do. |
| Moonlight 3D | 3D modeler and renderer. |
| Blender 3D | 3D creation suite |
| Diagramming | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Visio | |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Dia, Dia | [CP] |
| Graphics Editor | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Paintshop Pro | |
| Photoshop | |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Gimp, Win Gimp / Win Gimp | [CP] Very confusing UI. |
| QCad | 2D CAD system. Looks good, I don't know much about CAD though. |
| Graphics Viewer | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| ACDSee | |
| Open Source | |
| JImageView | Written in Java. |
| SlideShow Picture Viewer | Project dead? |
| JavaExplorer | JavaExplorer is ok, not really for viewing large collections. |
| Java Image Browser and Sorter | Project dead? |
| JCDSee | JCDSee, nice and quick. Making good progress. Vanished? |
| imgv. portable image viewer | Unique image viewing program. Very nice but might be an acquired taste. Best of the lot. |
| Misc Graphics | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| GOCR/JOCR | OCR (Optical Character Recognition) |
| JImage Mosaic | Makes a mosaic image from other images. Java. |
| WinPhoto | Generates a static photo gallery. Creates thumbnails and html pages automatically. Generation is done before files are uploaded to server. |
| Office Suite / (Word processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation) | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Microsoft Office | Considered the standard by most. |
| Perfect Office | From Corel. Home of the aging, but still somewhat popular, WordPerfect. |
| Open Source | |
| ♥OpenOffice.org | [CP] Good, but not perfect, reading and writing of MS Office files. Can't currently read WordPerfect files. |
| StarOffice | Semi-closed source version of OpenOffice.org. |
| AstroGrep | Grep with GUI. Searches across files for text. |
| Tail For Win32 | Watches text files for changes. |
| Word Processor | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| MS Word | What everyone currently uses. |
| Wordperfect | Still has some die-hard fans. |
| Open Source | |
| AbiWord | |
| GNU Emacs | Loved by many. Not for your average user. |
| PDF Writing | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Adobe Acrobat | |
| Open Source | |
| GhostScript, xPDF | Ugh, needs GUI. |
| Database - desktop | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Microsoft Access | |
| Open Source | |
| JEDI Database Desktop | Not the MS Access replacement I was hoping for but it may be a start. I'm not sure if that is even what the developers are intending this to be used for. |
| Text / HTML Editor | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Notepad | |
| Open Source | |
| SciTE | Not specifically for HTML but works well. Includes syntax high-lighting. |
| Jext | Programmers editor. |
| jEdit | Programmers editor written in Java. |
| KeyNote | Tabbed notebook with Rich Text editor |
| PhpEdit | PHP IDE for Windows. |
| HTML Formatting | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥HTML Tidy | Automatically checks HTML files for common errors and can format the document for easy editing or to conserve disk space. |
| Tidy GUI | A GUI interface for HTML Tidy. |
| Typing Tutor | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| GNU Typist | Bland but effective. |
| Tux Typing | Spiffy. Targeted toward children. Not particularly challenging for adults. |
| Dungeon | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥NetHack, | No graphics. Dungeon adventure game. Classic. |
| Falcon's Eye | Falcon's Eye is literally Nethack with fancy graphics. |
| Egoboo | |
| 1st Person Shooter | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Doom / Heretic / Hexen | |
| Open Source | |
| Vavoom | Allows IP deathmatch. True Windows program. Runs Doom, Heretic, and Hexen |
| Wolfenstein GL | |
| Legacy Doom | |
| QBlood | Complete recreation of Blood. |
| Cube | Unique engine, fun, not finished. Full code not yet released. |
| Tenbrae | Modernized version of old Quake code. |
| Side scroller | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Donkey Kong | |
| Commander Keen | |
| Open Source | |
| VideoToons | |
| Abuse | |
| Cannon volley | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Scorched Earth | |
| Open Source | |
| Scorched Earth 2000 | Web based version of Scorched Earth |
| ♥Death Star Battles | Web based, addictive and fun. |
| Scorched 3D | |
| XScorch | No Windows version available but looks to be closest to the original Scorched Earth that I've seen. |
| Strategy | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Risk | |
| Open Source | |
| Java Risk | |
| Space simulation / Astonomy | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Celestia | Very nice. |
| Stellarium | |
| Worms | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Worms | |
| Open Source | |
| NiL | Real time worms |
| Space combat | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Vega Strike | |
| Orbit | space combat simulator |
| SimCity | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Sim City | |
| Open Source | |
| LinCity | |
| Chess | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| WinBoard | |
| Lemmings | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Lemmings | |
| Open Source | |
| Pingus | Lemmings clone |
| Pong | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Pong | |
| Open Source | |
| Tuxpuck | Nice, but hard! |
| Virtual Pool | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| FooBillard | |
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Misc Games | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Benny Kramek Games | Several nice looking games. Carterrain, Tank Wars 3D, Quack, Quandary |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Liquid War | No describing it. Wierd but fun. |
| SDL Sopwith | Port of classic side shooter. |
| LGames | Web site with several games inlcuding breakout and tetris clones. |
| WinPenguins | Little penguins that run all over your desktop. |
| PySol | Solitaire, needs Python |
| Onsight | Odd little game. Fun. Take your time it's all tactics. |
| Crack Attack | Addictive and fun game. Single or multiplayer over IP. |
| Minesweeper | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Minesweeper | |
| Open Source | |
| ♥XulMine | Minesweeper clone. Requires Mozilla / Netscape 6+ |
| Compression / ZIP | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Winzip | |
| Power Archiver | |
| Filzip | Not open source yet. Soon? Looks nice |
| Open Source | |
| ♥JZip | Looks good. Despite the name JZip is not Java. Simple clean interface. Does not support tar.gz |
| ♥7-Zip | Looks good. Different than I am used to but very easy to use. Integrates with Explorer. |
| NeonZip | Java. Looks ok. |
| ♥FreeExtractor | Creates Self-extracting archives. Excellent, but not a general purpose archiving program. |
| ♥Info-Zip, WiZ | Seems good enough. Could use a lot of work on the user interface. |
| Multiple File Search and Replace | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| BK ReplaceEm | |
| Open Source | |
| GSR Global Search and Replace | Dos based |
| Search and Replace | Written in Perl |
| Windows utilities | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Vitrite | Allows for transparency in Windows 2000/XP |
| GnuWin32 | A ton of small, mostly command line, utilities common to Unix and Linux systems. Too 'scary' for the average user. |
| Time Sync | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥NIST Time | Simple but effective. From the people who should know best. |
| Nettime | |
| Antivirus | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Fsecure | |
| McAfee | |
| Norton | |
| Open Source | |
| Open Antivirus | |
| Encryption | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| PGP | |
| Open Source | |
| ♥GnuPG | Open source version of PGP. |
| ♥WinPT | WinPT gives a nice interface to GnuPG. WinPT requires GnuPG. |
| File Shredding | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| ♥Eraser | |
| Password Management | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Password Safe | |
| PINs | |
| Unix environment for Windows. | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Cygwin | |
| Installers | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Inno Setup | Installer for Windows programs |
| Nullsoft Scriptable Install System | Create your own installers. |
| PC Emulator | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Bochs | Allows you to run any operating system 'inside' your current operating system. Very cool. |
| Network Packet Analyzer | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Etheral Network Analyzer | You need WinPCap to get Ethereal to capture packets. |
| Scheduling | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Sinc | Dead? |
| Cron | |
| Database - server | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| My SQL | I generally avoid Windows as a server, but since MySQL runs on so many platforms you can play with it on Windows before you go production on your real servers. |
| Firebird | |
| Perl for Windows | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Active Perl | |
| Novell utils | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Workstation Name | Especially useful for Zenworks. Allows admin to automatically change the workstation name to match the current logged on user. Many other options. Free but not open source. |
| ZEN Workstation Browser | Fast and easy way to launch Zenworks remote control of a workstation. Much better for it's specific use than Console One. Free but not open source. Holger Dopp has created a bunch of good utilities for Novell environments. |
| NJFSS | Netware sever based file synchronization utility written in Java. |
| Whoami | Customizes your desktop background image to display your currently logged on user. |
| Open Source | |
| Novell Application Launcher Tools | Several to manipulate AOT files. |
| Novell's own section on Open Source | |
| RConIP | A native windows replacement for rconj |
| Help Desk | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| IRM | RequiresPHP and mySQL |
| Personal Finance | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| MS Money | |
| Quicken | |
| Open Source | |
| JMoney | Although still in the early stages JMoney seems ok. Active devlopement. CP |
| JCash | Early stages. |
| CBB | Requires Perl and TCL/Tk. |
| GnuCash | No Windows version, but it's wildly popular on Linux. I couldn't just ignore it. |
| EBook reader for Palm | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| GutenPalm / Weasel Reader | My old Palm Pilot Pro can't run this but any reasonably modern Palm shouldn't have a problem. |
| Statistics and Mathematics | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Maxima | A "computer algebra system". I don't understand it but looks useful to those who do. |
| Octave | "a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations" I don't understand it but looks useful to those who do. |
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Open Source | |
| Personal Information Managers (PIM) | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Treeline | Tree structured outliner/PIM/small database. |
| Elephant Memory | System tray remider program. Pops up to remind you of meetings and such. |
| Mozilla Calendar | Early stages yet. You need to have Mozilla installed. |
| Screen Savers | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Open Source | |
| Matrix32 | Win32 port of xmatrix screen saver. |
| Vital desktop | Let screen savers run as your desktop background. |
| KISS Image Screen Saver | Simple photo gallery screen saver. |
| Really Slick Screensavers | Several very nice OpenGL screen savers. |
| Unorganized | |
|---|---|
| Apps | Comments |
| Closed Source | |
| Partition Resizer | Resizes partitions without destroying data. Free but not Open Source. |
| Open Source | |
| Lifelines | Geaneaology program. No GUI. |
| VirtuaWin | A virtual desktop manager. |
| Snort | Intrusion Detection System |
| NMapWin | Windows version of the most popular portscanner. |
| Memtest86 | Stress test system memory. Also comes with an self booting ISO, so no install necessary. |
| PfaEdit | Edits and creates postscript fonts. Requires Cygwin. |
| Xchat | Popular IRC client. |
| piXfloW | Possibly a replacement for ACDSee? Haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Requires Java. |
| Netrek | A online only two dimensional battle game with a Startrek theme |
| Magic Mail Monitor 3 | Handy little POP3 new mail notification program. You can preview the subject and delete messages before you download them. |
| Sodipodi | Vector based drawing program. Uses SVG as it's native file format. |
| Blender 3D | 3D creation, modeling, and animation suite. |
| RconIP | Windows native Rconag6 client for remote conosole access of a Netware server. |
| NeoCrypt | Nice, easy to use, file encryption. |
| AClean | Cleans out the Temp folder and the Recycle Bin. |
| PDFCreator | Lets you print to a PDF file. |