Best Freeware on the Web

[bandit]

MajorGeeks - Pretty much everything you see here PLUS more. Its like an archive of anti-virus, diagnostics, spyware tools, firewalls, BIOS, back-ups, etc.

[gamevet]

I have'nt tried it yet, but you can play a 2d version of Half-Life titled Codename: Gordon

www.halflife2d.com

[Jeremy]

www.irfanview.com - Irfanview, a great image browsing program that loads stuff quickly, and allows for some editing, just no creating.
www.freedownloadcenter.com - Lots of great freeware available, although I got some nasty spyware from one of the programs they recommended, had to do a system restore to rid the system of it.

[kabuki]

Text Editing:

TextPad - possibly the best text editor available for Windows.

The huge array of plug-ins for syntax highlighting allow me to do all of my web coding with this program. I use it for general text editing as well -- I've virtually killed any need for MS Word except for the cases where I need to graphically format a document.


BTW, fantastic thread.

[AstroBlue]

JWPce - Kawaii nihon-go wapuro ^________^

FTP Explorer - Extremely user friendly FTP client which emulates the feel of Windows Explorer.




P.S. The GIMP suxors!

[arjue]

freeware games: www.gamehippo.com

Great thread, but I recommend Filezilla for FTP. Its an open source project, so no silly restrictions, and from what I can see its as powerful and easy to use as CuteFTP or that Bullet one.

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

this ftp program kicks ass.

[MarkRyan]

www.irfanview.com - Irfanview, a great image browsing program that loads stuff quickly, and allows for some editing, just no creating.

Thanks for this recommendation--I've been looking for a quick image viewing program that would do targas. Having to load Photoshop everytime I want to view a damned screenshot from DOOM 3 SUCKS--thanks again, Jeremy.

[lithium]

Trillian Basic - Instead of having multiple chat clients with ads flashing all over your screen, you can use Trillian and run AIM, ICQ, Yahoo...

I wish you could use Yahoo with trillian. Yahoo is very adamant about keeping third party clients out

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Crimson Editor -- The best Windows style text editor there is, and it's completely free (unfortunately not open source). It's better than TextPad (which isn't really free anyway).

[Jeremy]

No problem, Mark, I've been using it for years, and the multimedia plug-ins are handy as well. For image browsing, it's very convenient, as you can see a thumbnail of it before opening, and can see what to keep, what to get rid of, etc., without having to open the full image.

[LOL]

I wish you could use Yahoo with trillian. Yahoo is very adamant about keeping third party clients out

Yahoo's worked for my Trillian Pro for a few weeks now. They patched Trillian the day after Yahoo changed their protocol, and Trillian says they'll keep doing it every time Yahoo changes it.

MusicBrainz - It's got a stupid name, but this program will look at all your MP3s and re-tag them for you from an online database of MP3 information. It's been about 90% accurate for me so far.