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#1 User is offline   OsiX 

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Posted 05 October 2005 - 09:09 AM

Feel free to contribute to the list, you will be credited for submitting. Your submission will be updated into this first post for simplicity. Now I hope everyone can stop asking what they need to download tongue.gif Or the very least look at this list and Google what they need..

-Last Updated: 2006-04-13 by submission from aznboi387

If you want to add to this list, it is recommended that you use the format d3ni4l used:

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System Maintenance Utilities (#AX1000003)
-jv16 PowerTools: http://www.jv16.org/

Compression Tools (#AX1000008)
-PowerArchiver: http://www.powerarchiver.com/

Peer 2 Peer (P2P) File Sharing Software (#AX1000013)
-Soulseek: http://www.slsknet.org/
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Dead link? Software that contains adware/spyware please, if any, please list them off and it will be removed.


INDEX:
(#AX1000001) - Antivirus
(#AX1000014) - Spyware/Adware/Malware Removal
(#AX1000002) - Software Firewalls
(#AX1000003) - System Maintenance Utilities
(#AX1000004) - System Tweaking/Monitoring Utilities
(#AX1000005) - Download Managers
(#AX1000006) - Audio Players
(#AX1000007) - Video Players
(#AX1000008) - Compression Tools (including Encoders)
(#AX1000009) - CD/DVD Burning/Writing Software
(#AX1000010) - Image & Proprietary Format Viewers
(#AX1000011) - Web Browsers
(#AX1000015) - Video Codecs
(#AX1000012) - Instant Messengers
(#AX1000013) - Peer 2 Peer (P2P) File Sharing Software
(#AX1000016) - Image Editors
(#AX1000017) - Linux & other OSs (Excluding Windows) - Entire category submitted by mei_yee_chan


Antivirus (#AX1000001)
•AVG Antivirus | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for prevention
•Avast! Antivirus | Homepage – FREE – Recommended
•ClamWin | Homepage - FREE
•Bitdefender | Homepage - FREE
•Kaspersky Antivirus | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended for detection
•Panda Antivirus | Homepage - TRIAL
•NOD32 | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended for prevention
•F-Secure | Homepage - TRIAL
•eTrust Antivirus | Homepage - TRIAL
•McAfee | Homepage - TRIAL
•Norton Antivirus | Homepage - TRIAL
•PC-cillin | Homepage - FREE
•Sophos Antivirus | Homepage - TRIAL


Software Firewalls (#AX1000002)
• Sygate Personal Firewall | Homepage - FREE - Recommended - (Recently bought out by Symantec, may only be good until version 5.6)
• Zone Alarm Free | Homepage - TRIAL
• Kerio Personal Firewall | Homepage - FREE
• Tiny Firewall | Homepage
• McAfee Personal Firewall | Homepage - TRIAL
• Norton Personal Firewall | Homepage - TRIAL
• NOD32 (IMON) | Homepage - Recommended for prevention
• Kaspersky Anti-Hacker | Homepage - TRIAL


System Maintenance Utilities (#AX1000003)
•Crap Cleaner | Homepage - FREE
•Advanced Disk Cleaner | Homepage - FREE
•Diskeeper | Homepage - TRIAL
•Raxco Perfect Disk | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended for defragmenting
•O&O Defrag | Homepage - TRIAL
•Registry Mechanic | Homepage - TRIAL
•JV16 PowerTools | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by d3ni4l


System Tweaking/Monitoring Utilities (#AX1000004)
•Microsoft PowerToys TweakUI | Homepage - FREE for Windows
•EVEREST (formerly AIDA32) | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•CPU-Z | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•X-Setup Pro | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended for tweaking Windows
•Power Strip | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by BboyOrion


Download Managers (#AX1000005)
•Free Download Manager | Homepage
•Flashget | Homepage - ADS - Recommended, the retail version
•Net Transport | Homepage
•Download Accelerator Plus | Homepage - Free - Submitted by mei_yee_chan
•TCP Optimizer | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by Mikey


Audio Players (#AX1000006)
•foobar2000 | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for quality, MP3 organization tools, customization and unicode
•Winamp | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for ease of use, skins, and huge community support
•Apple iTunes | Homepage - FREE
•Windows Media Player | Homepage - FREE with Windows - Submitted by mei_yee_chan
•Audioactive | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by cabe474


Video Players (#AX1000007)
•BSPlayer | Homepage - FREE
•Media Player Classic | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for every kind of video file
•VideoLAN | Homepage - FREE
•Windows Media Player | Homepage - FREE with Windows - Submitted by mei_yee_chan
•Real Player | Homepage - ADS (Recommendation: Real Alternative, in Video Codecs Section)
•QuickTime | Homepage - FREE
•GOM Player | Homepage - FREE? - Submitted by xiLLeNtz
•Crystal Player | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by mei_yee_chan


Compression Tools (including Encoders) (#AX1000008)
•WinRAR | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended
•WinZip | Homepage - TRIAL
•7 Zip | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for having one of the highest compression
•PocketDivXEncoder | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by mei_yee_chan
•PowerArchiver | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by d3ni4l


CD/DVD Burning/Writing Software (#AX1000009)
•Nero Burning ROM | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended
•Clone CD | Homepage - TRIAL
•Clone DVD | Homepage - TRIAL
•Alcohol 52%/120% | Homepage - TRIAL - Submitted by siliconrex


Image & Proprietary Format Viewers (#AX1000010)
•Irfanview | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for viewing images
•Picasa | Homepage - TRIAL
•XnView | Homepage - FREE
•ACDSee | Homepage - Recommended for image management
•Adobe Reader | Homepage - FREE – Submitted by mei_yee_chan


Web Browsers (#AX1000011)
•Mozilla Firefox | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•Opera | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•Internet Explorer | Homepage - FREE with Windows
•Avant Browser | Homepage - FREE
•Netscape | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by cabe474
•MaxthonHomepage -FREE - Submitted by CoCoGirl886


Video Codecs (#AX1000015) - AwDark's Audio/Video Help Thread
•XviD | Homepage
•DivX | Homepage
•AC3 Filter | Homepage
•Real Alternative | Homepage - Recommended
Alternative to Real Player
•Quicktime Alternative | Homepage - Recommended
Alternative to Quicktime
•Matroska | Homepage
•FFDShow | Homepage
•K-lite Codec Pack | Homepage
•DefilerPak | Homepage


Instant Messengers (#AX1000012)
•ICQ | Homepage - FREE
•Yahoo! Messenger | Homepage - FREE
•MSN Messenger | Homepage - FREE
•Messenger Plus! (Add-on for MSN)| Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•AOL Messenger | Homepage
•Trillian | Homepage - FREE
•Miranda Instant Messenger | Homepage - FREE
•Gaim | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•Skype | Homepage - FREE
•Google Talk | Homepage - FREE - Recommended


Peer 2 Peer (P2P) File Sharing Software (#AX1000013)
•Official BitTorrent Client | Homepage - FREE
•ABC | Homepage - FREE
•Azureus | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•Bitcomet | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•BitTornado (shad0w's)| Homepage - FREE
•G3Torrent | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by K-PopChink
•DC++ | Homepage - FREE
•eMule | Homepage - FREE - Recommended
•Ares | Homepage - FREE
•Limewire | Homepage - FREE
•FileZilla (Client&Server) | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for easist FTP Server to setup - Submitted by djjoshep
•Clubbox | Homepage - FREE Recommended for asian media files - Soompi Clubbox Tutorial
•Bearshare | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by cabe474
•Frostwire | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by aznboi387
•Soulseek | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by d3ni4l


Image Editors (#AX1000016)
•GIMP | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for free alternative to Photoshop
•GIMPshop (GIMP with Photoshop-like navigation/hotkeys | Homepage - FREE (Having a hard time switching from Photoshop to GIMP, not anymore!)
•Adobe Photoshop | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended, his is like industry standard - Soompi Photoshop Tutorial
•Paint Shop Pro | Homepage - TRIAL - Submitted by suicidal_glamour
•Animation Shop | Homepage - TRIAL - Submitted by suicidal_glamour


Spyware/Adware/Malware Removal (#AX1000014) - Awdark's Spyware Thread
•Ad-Aware | Homepage - FREE
•Spybot - Search and Destroy | Homepage - FREE
•Webroot Spysweeper | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended
•Microsoft AntiSpyWare | Homepage - BETA
•Hijackthis | Homepage - FREE
•Spyware Blaster | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by femaki84
•EULAlyzer™ 1.1 | Homepage - FREE - Submitted by aznboi387

Linux (#AX1000017) - Entire category submitted by mei_yee_chan
•Ubuntu | Homepage - FREE - Recommended for beginners, very desktop orientated with huge community support
•Mandriva | Homepage - TRIAL - Recommended for beginners
•SuSe | Homepage - TRIAL
•Slackware | Homepage - RETAIL
•Gentoo | Homepage - FREE
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#2 User is offline   mei_yee_chan 

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Posted 06 October 2005 - 08:55 AM

Microsoft Download Center
Someone gave it to me in the forum before it was closed. I don't remember who, though.

AVG Free

Make screensavers using a video or music. Must be using Windows XP.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/xpvss.htm
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Posted 06 October 2005 - 11:05 AM

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.ph...60&page=1&pp=15
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Posted 06 October 2005 - 11:11 AM

GOM Player rocks!
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Posted 23 October 2005 - 02:17 AM

why is google talk recommended? you cant use it to talk to anyone on different IM clients... its useless right now... maybe after they add new features will it be useful (now that they have one of the gaim guys now), but until then, USELESS...
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#6 User is offline   OsiX 

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Posted 23 October 2005 - 01:50 PM

Alright, I added an explaination to it. I'm recommending it because of its VoIP is far superior to anything else I've tried
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Posted 23 October 2005 - 02:48 PM

G3 Torrent
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#8 User is offline   djjoshep 

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Posted 24 October 2005 - 11:22 PM

FileZilla (ftp client)
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 04:29 AM

Paint Shop Pro 9 is pretty good 2, and so is Animation shop 3, they are like brother-sister thing. if u get wot i mean.

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pag...d=1047023911984
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 06:22 AM

Audio Player:\ Audioactive (simple player)

Web Browsers:\ Netscape 7.

P2P:\ Bearshare
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 07:31 AM

Linux

QUOTE(cabe474 @ Oct 28 2005, 10:22 PM) View Post

Audio Player:\ Audioactive (simple player)

Web Browsers:\ Netscape 7.

P2P:\ Bearshare


Links for the above applications
Bearshare
Audioactive
Netscape

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#12 User is offline   mei_yee_chan 

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Posted 31 October 2005 - 07:05 AM

Video player:
Crystal Player - Needs registration for free download.

Adobe Reader - for reading PDF files.
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Posted 06 December 2005 - 08:47 PM

I use Maxthon for a web browser happy.gif. It has tabbed windows as well and u can just double click on it to close it. And if u press alt and ~ at the same time, it minimizes the browser into ur taskbar icons. I'm not sure if the other browsers u have listed support these functions as well unsure.gif.

http://www.maxthon.com
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 05:36 PM

im not sure what this goes under but Powerstrip...quick, ez brightening and darknening of the screen...I use it for counterstrike or just anything...xP

http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm
Hi there =).
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Posted 16 December 2005 - 05:29 PM

does anyone know a player for a rar file?
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and never takes too long ._________________©me.
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Posted 16 December 2005 - 05:40 PM

^Winrar...?

Rar files aren't meant to be "played" they're meant to be "extracted"

I miss soompi :<

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Posted 02 January 2006 - 02:32 PM

Why aren't any Trend Micro products there?

They make the best internet security suite. Better than norton for mcaffee. sleep.gif
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Posted 07 January 2006 - 02:19 PM

ummmm frostwire is a good p2p file sharing program.
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Posted 15 January 2006 - 05:57 AM

Encoding videos to avi format.
PocketDivXEncoder

Download manager
Download Accelerator Plus (works with Mac too)
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Posted 05 February 2006 - 09:16 AM

Im not sure which category to classify this..coz it looks like it falls under Spyware/Adware/Malware Removal but it doesnt REMOVE....it totally blocks spyware from installing into the com...And I'd say it's realli realli effective...

Spyware Blaster from:
www.spywareblaster.org

It is:
-free for downloads
-offers manual updates
-does not have expiry dates
-no registration required

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