Freeware Replacements for Common Commercial Apps

PocketDivXEncoder
PocketDivXEncoder allows you to encode any video clip with optimized parameters for handled devices (landscape mode, 240x320, low CPU usage, increased brightness, ...). The video output standards are directly playable on PMP devices (Archos,...) but also on your PocketPC, Smartphone or Palm thanks to the player The Core Pocket Media Player. The clips are created thanks to the fast encoder mencoder.,,


Subtitle Workshop
Subtitle Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want from a subtitle editing program. Subtitle Workshop makes subtitle creating/editing/converting tasks almost a pleasure, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes easy to access menus & must have features with advanced functions and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle editing time. It includes spell check function and an advanced video preview feature which will ease the task even more. The best choice for the beginner, expert or the fansubber. Have a try, and you'll forget the rest!

Edited by pete@21, 23 July 2009 - 05:21 PM.

Spark, Open Source, cross-platform IM client

May I suggest one I use:
FileHamster

I use it for Word/Writer docs but it's main aim is for photo editing.
FileHamster provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified. It also enables you to store notes about the changes that have been made, allowing you to quickly locate a specific revision or provide a detailed account of the work you've done on a project.

http://www.mogware.com/FileHamster/

Graphics Design & Editing

G3D Innovation Engine The G3D Innovation Engine is a commercial-grade C++ 3D engine available as Open Source (BSD License). It is used in commercial games, research papers, military simulators, and university courses. G3D supports hardware accelerated real-time rendering, off-line rendering like ray tracing, and general purpose computation on GPUs.

WinSplit
What is WinSplit Revolution?
What is it for? WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate. Video demonstration

Jasc Animation Shop
Jasc Animation Shop is a powerful yet easy-to-use program that creates animations from one or more graphic images and offers a wide variety of effects and transitions for enhancing animations. Used as a standalone application Animation Shop allows users to easily create animations for use on a Web site or in a presentation..

Lyrics Plugin
Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself



MP3 tag
This batch MP3 tag editor is, in the words of a user, "simply indispensable." If you're looking for a freeware ID3 tag editor with an auto-tagging feature sourced from FreeDB, Amazon, or discogs, you could do much, much worse than Mp3tag..

bing
microsoft/yahoo search engine

Edited by pete@21, 29 July 2009 - 01:19 PM.

Flock Web Browser Visit Website

DAVID-laserscanner 2.4.3
a free and easy-to-use software for low-cost 3D laser scanning!
What do I need to build a 3D scanner?

- A camera (e.g. web cam)
- A hand-held line laser (starting at €19.90)
- Two plain boards in the background
- A Windows PC
- Our free software DAVID-laserscanner

http://www.david-laserscanner.com/


Zipeg
Zipeg allows you to open and explore content of zip, rar and other archives, preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only the files you want. Zip thru photo archives. See image thumbnails. Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract. You can choose what to extract and where to put extracted files or just drag and drop them. Windows: XP and Vista, Mac OS X: Tiger and Leopard.
http://www.zipeg.com/


Traverso DAW
Is a GPL licensed, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It's suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW.
http://traverso-daw.org/


Hydrogen
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

Edited by pete@21, 19 August 2009 - 05:44 PM.

i found this for someone on another site ,
so i thought i would give it a go ,
result
it found all the main stream songs i played into it ,
the only ones i had problems with were up front dance tracks ,
it does not work for classical tracks ,
states it is for win200/xp but i ran it on vista no probs
so if you hear a song and you want to know its name try this ,
i sang 3 songs into the mic and it only named one of them ,but hey im tone deaf ,so it did well


http://www.wildbits.com/tunatic/
Ever thought ‘what is this song?’ Let Tunatic hear it and you will get the artist's name and the song's title within seconds. Tunatic is the very first song search engine based on sound for your computer. All you need is a microphone and Internet access.

Office Applications

Sigil Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

# Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
# Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16
# Full EPUB spec support
# WYSIWYG editing
# Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View
# Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
# Table Of Contents editor
# Multi-level TOC support
# Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec
# SVG support
# Basic XPGT support
# Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode

i did not see this in your online scanners


SUPERAntiSpyware Online Scan. The scanner will detect AND remove over 1,000,000 spyware/malware infections. The scanner does NOT install anything on your Start Menu or Program Files and does NOT need to be uninstalled.

The SUPERAntiSpyware Online Safe Scan is free for personal use.

"Our new online scanner is a critically important tool for computer users and technicians," said Nick Skrepetos, founder of SUPERAntiSpyware.com. "The new breed of infections we are seeing simply block most, if not all, anti-spyware and anti-virus products from running. This leaves users and technicians in a desperate situation. We have answered the call with our stand alone online "Safe Scan" which will run when other products are blocked.

Website Development

Podcast Generator http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net/index.php?lang=en

* Very easy to install (Web Setup Wizard);
* Free and open source;
* Supports ANY media filetype (mp3, ogg, mpg, m4v, mov, pdf, etc...) and allows to create mixed audio and video podcasts;
* The XML feed automatically generated is fully compatible with aggregators (e.g. Juice and iTunes), meets the w3c standards and supports iTunes specific tags;
* Organize your episodes by thematic categories (every category features its own podcast feed!);
* User friendly web administration interface: upload, edit, delete episodes and fully customize your podcast;
* Dynamically created "Recent podcasts" and "Podcast Archive" web pages;
* Themes Support;
* Multilanguage support;
* Web or FTP upload of audio/video episodes;
* Web mp3 streaming player;

Edited by CoolCatBad, 20 September 2009 - 05:56 AM.

http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/

Also available is a Firefox plugin, and it is fast!

"The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. It renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on screen.

MuPDF has a small footprint. A binary that includes the standard Roman fonts is only one megabyte. A build with full CJK support (including an Asian font) is approximately five megabytes.

MuPDF has support for all non-interactive PDF 1.7 features, and the toolkit provides a simple API for accessing the internal structures of the PDF document. Example code for navigating interactive links and bookmarks, encrypting PDF files, extracting fonts, images, and searchable text, and rendering pages to image files is provided."

this is now free outside the usa and china
ive been testing it and it works well

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Edited by pete@21, 30 September 2009 - 03:30 PM.

u guys forgot to add comodo firewall in firewall list.


gamebooster from iobit.com is freeware. for those who into gaming.

Edited by TechDisciple, 30 September 2009 - 11:12 PM.

Found this little gem today. Different wallpapers for multi monitor setups in Vista. http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/