3D Canvas 3-D animation, modeling, rendering. Freeware 3D Graphics
3DNA Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. I thought these were cool, well amusing so I listed a few. Here is a screenshot of 3dna in action. Shareware Shell
7Zip Zip utility with File Explorer support. GPL Utility
AB Commander Lite File explorer replacement. Freeware/Other Utility
AVG Anti-virus, free for non-commercial use. Freeware/Other Utility
AVI Maker Makes avi video from images. Freeware Video
AbiWord Word processor with all the bells and whistles! Highly recommended. GPL Office
Acid Express Digital sequencer and loop based music production software, this is a Sony free download #B0( See Gungirl for a free alternative ;) Freeware/other Audio
ActiveGrid Studio ActiveGrid Studio enables developers to rapidly build enterprise-level Web 2.0 applications with a minimum of training, time, and effort. Supports Java, PHP, Python. Database supports is the best I’ve seen in an open IDE. Has built in Python and Java environments plus a built in running Apache web server. Highly recommended. APL Programming
Adaware Spyware removal tool. Freeware/Other Utility
AlienGuise Theme engine like Windows Blinds, by the same guys, and brought to you from Alienware computer systems. Freeware Utility
Anim8or 3-D animation, modeling, rendering. Freeware 3D Graphics
AntiVir Anti-virus. I have been using this for awhile and it kicks ass. Beats the shit out of Norton and it’s free! Highly recommended. Freeware/Other Utility
Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (jsp) technologies. ASF/GPL/Other Server
Apache Web Server Web Server, the best imo. ASF/GPL/Other Server
Apache2Triad Installs a developer preconfigured environment with Apache, PHP, mySQL with control panel/PHPMyAdmin, xMail, ftp, and a Apache Web based Control Panel, etc. Power packed with new cool things like Python/Pearl mods, ASP support, SSL and so much more. Highly recommended. GPL Server
Aptana Development environment geared towards web development, Ajax style! Autocomplete and assistance for HTML, CSS, Java Script. GPL Programming
Arbaro Make 3-D trees. GPL 3D Graphics
ArtRage Natural Painting Application, like Painter. and so worth the download! Freeware 2D Graphics
Audacity Wav editor with VST support and can export to mp3. Highly recommended. GPL Audio
Avast Anti-virus applcation. Free for personal use. I have not tried this software, but it works with Kerio so it can’t be bad. Freeware/Other Utility
Avidemux Video editor. GPL Video
BRL-CAD The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system with over 20 years development and production use by the U.S. military. Visit the project page for downloads. GPL 3D Graphics
Balthisar Cascade 2.0 CSS level 2 editor available for the Windows platform. Freeware Programming
BartPE Windows live cd. Now you can boot Windows from a CD-Rom and have full read/write access to NTFS volumes!. Freeware Utility
Bid O Magic EBay bidding/selling utility. GPL Web
BitTorrent Multipeer downloading! GPL Peer2Peer
BitTyrant BitTorrent protocol compatible client. Faster than traditional BitTorrent, read more on their site. GPL Peer2Peer
Black Box Alternative Windows Shell. I found this to be more stable than XOBlite2. http://www.bb4win.org/news.php GPL Shell
Black Box Lean Alternative Windows Shell. GPL Shell
Blender 3-D 3-D modeling, design\illustration, animation, game development. I like to call it the Free Maya 3-D! Highly recommended. GPL 3D Graphics
BlitzMax IDE Basic programming IDE for use with the Blitz game development environment. Public Domain Programming
Blueberry Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. LGPL Shell
Boa Constructor A visual GUI designer and IDE for Python GPL Programming
Boot manager/partition manager Partition magic like clone and boot manager. GPL Utility
Burn4Free CD/DVD burner application, works oh so well! p.s. Run Adaware after installing to remove the spyware piece ;) Freeware Utility
Burst A bittorrent creation and management tool! Highly recommended. GPL Peer2Peer
CD Image ISO ripper. Like UltraISO, create convert disk images. Supports all the main images types. GPL Utility
CD burner XP CD Burner. Freeware Utility
Cdexos CDex a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. Highly recommended. GPL Audio
Celtx Celtx is a comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the film, TV, theatre, and new media industries. It combines full-feature scriptwriting with media rich pre-production support and enables online collaboration. MPL Office
Chronicle Lite Blog client that works with xmlrpc - works with Drupal and any other blogapi supporting blog. GPL Web
Cinepaint Image editor geared for video production. GPL 2D Graphics
Clam Win Anti-virus program. GPL Utility
ClamAV Anti-virus program. GPL Utility
ClipRex DVD player with codex. Freeware Video
Clockwise3d Alternative Windows Shell in 3-D. Freeware Shell
ConText Programmers text editor, supports most languages, shell scripts, plugin support. Freeware Programming
Cooktop XML editor. Freeware Programming
Crap Cleaner Cleans up Windows, internet cache, temp files, registry entries, etc. Also has a kick ass uninstaller that works and a startup editor. Highly recommended. Freeware Utility
Crimson editor Programmers text editor. Features tabbed interface, html, php, c, python syntax highlighting, code output window, and built in FTP! Highly recommended. Freeware Utility
Cygwin Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. GPL Utility
Cygwin/x Cygwin/x allows x11 (Linux apps) to run on Windows. GPL Utility
DVDShrink DVD compression for burning DVD data to cdr. Also, you will need some things here. Highly recomm ended. Freeware Video
Daisy Windows updater replacement that does not use IE settings. GPL Utility
Deep-Paint Painting application similar to Painter. Man, I remember when this sold for $800.00! Freeware/Other 2D Graphics
Delineate Raster to Vector coverter. Nice GPL 2D Graphics
Democracy Player Best damned video player! Play virtually any video-- Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more. Video blog, YouTube, hell it does everything including BitTorrent. GPL Video
Dia Basically Visio. GPL Office
Dogwaffle Natural painting application similar to Open Canvas. It limited, but pretty full featured at the same time. Freeware/Other 2D Graphics
Dorgem Video/webcam capture. GPL Video
Doubletype Font creation application. GPL Font
Dr Divx Officially the unofficial DivX encoding tool to create DivX media files for playback on DivX hardware and software players. LGPL Video
Dusty Dusty is a nice realtime 3D Smoke Simulator. It allowes to simulate smoke and fire in realtime. GPL 3D Graphics
EMule Peer2peer client for file sharing! GPL Peer2Peer
EMule Plus Peer2peer client for file sharing with added features! GPL Peer2Peer
EZThumbs Batch thumbnail creator. Freeware 2D Graphics
EasyPHP Really nice Apache install with PHP and mySQL included and configured. If you need a heavy duty Apache web development environment look at Apache2Triad. GPL Server
Eclipse Eclipse java IDE for Windows. GPL Programming
EmailXT EmailXT is an open, patent-free protocol that replaces your current email with a more secure, full-featured system. EmailXT is a relationship-based email system where unauthorized bulk emailing is no longer possible. No more spam and mass mailing viruses. You don’t need spam filters or service subscriptions any more. GPL Web
Envelop VBasic Visual Basic clone; compiles to exe, gui designer! GPL Programming
Ethereal Packet sniffer. GPL Utility
Ewido Blocks spyware/adware and trojans. Freeware/Other Security
Explore2fs Let’s you see and explore a Linux partition, and do file operations, from Windows. Highly recommended if you dual boot. GPL Utility
ExplorerXP Windows File Explorer replacement. Freeware/Other Utility
FS-driver Mount Linux Ext2/Ext3 file systems on Windows. Freeware Utility
FarPy Awesome wxPython and .Net GUI designer. GPL Programming
Feedreader News aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. GPL Web
FileZilla FTP Server and client. Highly recommended. GPL Web
Filseclab Internet personal firewall - Nice Freeware/Other Security
FireFox Tune This will automatically tune Firefox for speed. Damn, I tuned manually, but this thing sped it up three times as much. It worked wonders on verion 1.04 of Firefox. Freeware Web
Firebird database Nice database. Like Access. GPL Database
Flac Lossless audio compression tool. Rips tracks without the quality loss like you find in mp3 format. GPL Audio
Flame Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. GPL 2D Graphics
Flashdevelop Actionscript 2 IDE with seamless swfmill and MTASC integration. FlashDevelop is the first alternative opensource IDE to feature AS3 & MXML completion, including Flex2 compiler integration (the best compiler integration after Adobe FB) and AS3 syntax checking. Highly recommended. Requires .Net. MIT/Other Programming
Flock Web browser based on Firefox with blogging utilities built in