Programs
= Also available on Linux.
= Also available on Mac OS X.Every program listed here is free or has a demo verion available.
Graphics:
| Anim8or 0.95c | A 3D-modeling software. It has quite limited rendering possibilities but it's easy to use and learn. |
| Anvil Studio 2012.01.01 | A free MIDI composing and editing tool. |
| Audacity 1.2.6 | A well featured audio editor. Audacity has support for various audio formats and has a large scale of functions to edit them. |
| Blender 2.61 | A very advanced open-source 3D-software. It's able to produce commercial image quality free of charge. Blender Basics -Tutorial |
| Gimp 2.6.12 | A free professional level image manipulation program. |
| HijackThis 2.0.4 | A program to identify unwanted programs. |
| Paint.NET 3.5.10 | An easy-to-use image editing software. |
| Picasa 3.9 | A picture management and viewing software. It allows sorting, editing and viewing pictures without caring their physical location on hard drive. |
| PrintScreen 4.6 | A simple tool to take screenshots. It also can capture the mouse cursor. |
| Voodoo Camera Tracker 1.1.0 Beta | A simple camera tracking tool. You can also export the final camera path into Blender. |
Internet:
| Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 | A great HTTP -server software that is used in many Internet servers. |
| FileZilla 3.5.3 | A ftp client supporting a large scale of features. |
| Google Chrome 16.0.912.77 | Google Chrome is a fast Internet browser. |
| Google Earth 6.2 | A program that allows you to explore earth by using satellite and air images. |
| Google Talk 1.0 | An Instant Messenger by Google. |
| Mozilla Firefox 10.0 | A popular web-browser. |
| Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0 | An email client supporting spam-filtering and RSS feeds. |
| Opera 11.61 | A fast Internet browser. |
| Pidgin 2.10.1 | An instant messaging client that allows you to use multiple services. |
| Skype 5.6 | A software allowing VOIP calls and chatting. |
| Steam | A popular game distribution platform. Steam Store features thousands of games available for digital purchase to your Steam account. |
| Vuze 4.7.0.2 | A BitTorrent client. |
| Windows Live Messenger 2011 (15.4) | An instant messaging service by Microsoft. |
| Wireshark 1.6.5 | A program for monitoring and capturing network traffic. |
| X-Chat 2.8.7c | A well-featured IRC-client. |
| µTorrent 3.1 | A lightweight BitTorrent client yet filled with top features. |
Creativity:
| Adobe Reader X | A software used to view PDF-documents. |
| Carbide.c++ 2.7 | A C/C++ IDE for Nokia's S60 mobile operating system. Also supports the Open C library. |
| Code::Blocks 10.05 | A great C/C++ IDE supporting multiple compilers and platforms. |
| Game Maker 8.1 | An easy-to-learn game making program. |
| OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 | An open source office suite. |
Multimedia:
| DV_DateCode 1.4 | A program that extracts the datecode from a digital-camera file in .TXT, .SUB or .SSA format. |
| Fraps 3.4.7 | A screen-capturing program to capture video and audio from DirectX and OpenGL games and software. |
| iTunes 10.5 | A media player and Internet store by Apple. |
| Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 | A simple media player that supports a wide scale of media formats, video filtering and subtitles. |
| QuickTime 7.7.1 | A media player also capable of playing web content. |
| RealPlayer | A media player supporting also *.real -file format. |
| SMPlayer 0.7.0 | A very fast media player supporting massive amount of media file formats. |
| SUPER v2011.build.49 | A tool to convert video and audio files to different file formats. It supports almost every possible media format including mobile phone audio / video. SUPER Guide |
| The FilmMachine 1.6.3 | A software to convert .avi -files to a VideoDVD. |
| Time Adjuster 3.1 | A tool to adjust and edit video subtitles. |
| VirtualDub 1.9.11 | An AVI -video editing software. It has full capacity of compressing and filtering .avi files. |
| VLC media player 1.1.11 | A very fast media player supporting most media formats and doesn't need any codecs installed to play them. |
| WinAmp 5.623 | A music player. |
CD / DVD / Blu-ray:
| Avi2Dvd 0.6.4 | A program that allows you to make a VideoDVD with just a few clicks. It also supports DVD-subtitles. Avi2DVD Guide |
| CDBurnerXP 4.4.0.2905 | A program for creating and burning CD,(HD-)DVD and Blu-Ray discs. |
| DVDAuthorGUI 1.029 | A program that creates video-DVD from separate AC3, M2V files and optional subtitles. |
| ImgBurn 2.5.6.0 | A simple program for burning CD, DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc images. |
| Nero 11.0 | A software to burn CD, DVD and BluRay discs. |
| VobEdit 0.6 | A software to edit *.vob-files. |
| VOBMerge 2.5 | A program to merge multiple *.vob files into one. |
Tools:
| Ad-Aware 9.6 | A tool to remove spyware, adware and other unwanted programs. |
| AntiVir Personal Edition 12.0.0 | A simple virus scanner. |
| Avast! Home Edition 6.0 | An anti-virus software. |
| Bulk Rename Utility 2.7.1.2 | A tool to rename files. |
| CCleaner 3.15.1643 | A program that cleans Windows registry and temporary files. |
| Comodo Internet Security 5.9 | An effective firewall and antivirus combo. |
| Spybot S&D 1.6.2 | A tool to remove spyware. |
| UDPixel 2.2 | A tool to remove stuck pixels from LCD monitors. |
| VirtualBox 4.1.8 | VirtualBox is a free virtualization package. |
| Windows Defender 1.1 | A spyware removing tool. |
| ZoneAlarm 10.1 | A firewall and a network traffic analyzer. |
File management:
| 7-Zip 9.20 | A powerfull file archiver tool that supports dozens of file formats. It can also utilize multi-core processors. |
| MyDefrag 4.3.1 | An efficient disk defragmention tool. It defragments selected drives by the selected method. |
| SyncBack 3.2.26.0 | A file backup and synchronize. |
| WinRAR 4.10 | A file compression. |
| WinZip 16.0 | A file compression. |
Benchmarking:
| 3DMark Vantage 1.0.1 | A graphics card benchmarking tool testing your computer's real gaming performance. |
| CPU-Z 1.59 | Shows detailed information about your CPU, motherboard and memories. |
| GPU-Z 0.5.8 | Shows a detailed information about your video card. |
| SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2012.SP1c (18.28) | Sandra shows very detailed information about your computer's hardware and software. |
Drivers:
| ATI Catalyst | Drivers for ATI video cards. |
| Flash Player | A software required to view Flash content. |
| DirectX | DirectX 9.0. |
| Java Runtime Environment | A software needed to execute Java software. |
| nVidia Drivers | Drivers for nVidia graphics cards. |