What Freeware/Open Source Software Do You Use?

I ask mainly because I'm always looking for neat stuff to try out.

I use:

Mozilla 1.5
Xnews
XnView
Winamp
iTunes
more emulators than you can shake a stick at.

Winamp Classic
Powergrab

err thats about it..

I think almost everything I use is free or share...

Irfanview (image software)
Winamp
Panicware Popup Stopper
Xevil (stupid game addictive as crack)
Zsnes
Soulseek

and all kinds of music software...
Buzz
Stomper
Audiomulch
Granulab
DrumSynth
Leafdrums (shareware)
Goldwave (shareware)

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

Winamp
iTunes
Kazaa Light
Quicktime
DivX

602text-90% of Word, 0% of the cost

Thunderbird
Firebird
Irfanview
ZoneAlarm
Winamp
iTunes
Miranda (IM client)
LeechFTP
7-Zip (compression utility)
OpenOffice
Crimson Editor
MySQL
Apache
Crimson Editor
Eclipse

...and so many more!

Oh geeze...I've got over 60 gigs of freeware programs, most of which I downloaded for one use. I am a freeware-crackwhore.

Winamp3 (which I ultimately HATE)
RealOnePlayer
DivX Player
QuickTime
Popup Stopper (which is useless to me, since I don't use IE anymore)
Winram Booster
CDex
Mp3 to Wav converter
Netpumper
Winzip (not exactly freeware, but it never shuts down)
Screenprint32
StartUp Organizer
Power Defrag
UltraWin Cleaner 2000
Thumbsplus

If you're looking for something really neat, Check this out...

Don't know how I ever lived without it.

Mozilla.
I would like to start using thunderbird and firebird but I haven't made the jump yet.
gimp

Winamp 5 (still in beta. All the features of 3, built on the 2 engine (doesn't suck!) 2+3=5...those marketing geniuses!)
CDex
Burn To The Brim (when i'm backing up stuff)
Mozila Firebird
WinMX
eMule
RealAlternative
QuicktimeAlternative
AdAware
OpenOffice Suite
MP3Gain (normalizes the volumes of all yer mp3s )
Samurize
Avast! Antivirus
alot of Analog-X's software
X-Setup
jv16 PowerTools
XP Powertoys
CapsLockOff (cuz i cant pry it off of my "virtually indestructable keyboard")

Games:
Porrasturvat
Truckdismount
Zetris
GLtron
Armagetron
Icy Tower (anyone who guesses what the Main Menu song is a cover of gets a free cookie! )
noiz2sa
rRootage (yes, i spelled that right)
Doom Legacy (half-free...you need to have the original doom/doom2/hexen/heretic wad files.)

[Edited on Dec 04, 2003 by Velvetone_Fusion]

I don't use any commercial software other than Macromedia Studio MX 2004

My favorite free software:

all the iApps and Safari
OpenOffice.org
VLC
Mozilla Firebird
GIMP

I just tried out PowerGrab and Miranda and IrFanView. -- they work great!

ANT
MySQL
Tomcat ( for development )
JBoss
Linux
Resin ( though not free for commercial use )
AdAware
Snood!!!!!!! ( though I did wind up paying for a license )
Palm OS emulators
Samba
JUnit
log4j

Sorry, I just realized that most of this is not really useful on a Desktop...


[Edited on Dec 04, 2003 by desperatecomfort]

As far as windows software goes:

- putty
- cygwin (I can't believe nobody mentioned this yet)
- firebird blah blah blah
- mplayer (erm, mac or unix only. no windows port yet)

poppeeper - a great little prog that will grab and/or check for new email on multiple free accounts (ie, your 3 hotmail and 2 yahoo accounts). note that hotmail will be down for a little bit as he is recoding for the site change they just made.

mediamonkey - specifically designed to manage and handle huge mp3 collections. a complete success. the freeware version has everything you need, only some bonus stuff for the low shareware cost.

textpad- long time favorite - excellent feature-rich text editor.

open office - someone mentioned it already but it's still worth mentioning

bzflag - my friend plays it all the time, but i've sworn off games for now. it looks pretty good - think multiplayer battlezone

cdex - already mentioned but excellent ripper.

k lite codec pack - (i figure kazaalite k++ was too easy to reference, so i'll give their terrific codec pack a mention instead http://www.kazaalite.tk/)

i'm sure i'll think of more.

bump. can someone recommend:

cd burning software (mp3 to audio cd)
a good single player strategy game

oh, and:

the best operating system mod site i know of:
http://www.virtualplastic.net/

the best freeware site i know of, by far:
http://shellcity.net/

Metapad - best notepad replacement
OpenOffice
Filezilla - FTP
MozillaFirebird
Thunderbird
TinyWeb - Great web server for idiots like me
Trillian - AIM & Yahoo & MSN
Sygate Personal Firewall
WinHTTrack - for site leeching
BitTorrent - File sharing
Kazaa Lite - File sharing
Windows Media Player Classic - Fuck WMP9
FooBar2000 - Music player
CDex - CD Ripping
Daemon Tools - For making .img files look like CDs to your PC
IZarc - like WinZip
RenameIt - I use this all the time on music & pics
IrfanView - image viewer / light editor

So: is XView better than IrfanView?
is Mirnda better than Trillian?

I use Mozilla (Browser and ThunderBird), plus Debian Linux and FreeBSD both pretty heavily, which of course is all open source; too much to list individually.

Looks like I am going to be downloading a few things this evening.

See above.

All I can think of to add is the newsreader Pan. I use it to leech pr0n off Usenet.

I tried an early version of Trillian and I wasn't too pleased with it. I suppose it has gotten better since then, but you know what they say about first impressions...

I read about Miranda on the site formerly known as WonkoSlice and tried it out. It was small, fast, and suited my needs. I only wish it had support for AIM away messages.

But that's just me...

I lurved this thread, and I'd like to add Arachnophilia to it. A true retard-friendly webdev environment.

Reviving this thread because I like free software.

OpenOffice.org
Good office substitute. Doesn't seem to handle windows profiles though... but it's only me on my computer so whatever.

Filezilla
Free FTP client. Works for me.

Winamp 5
Classic.

Mozilla Firefox
I love this little animal for web browsing. I used to like Opera, but after installing a few good plugins to Firefox, I'm sold. Mouse Gestures are really great. Watch out, there are some crappy pluggins out there.

Kerio Personal Firewall 2.14
Note the version... I don't like the new one. This one is magic.... fully customizable rules. If you know anything about networking and like to be in full control, this one is simply an orgasm...

ePrompter and Thunderbird
ePrompter allows me to do a rapid manual read/screening of all my emails while they are still on the server, and then I use thunderbird to store, write, etc.

Miranda
Aim, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber and IRC in a box. I used to be with Trillian, but it was bugging me a little. Miranda is fun, plus you can hack it into working with dual MSN accounts better than Trillian. Works well for me. BUT backup your database file frequently because once this sucker gets corrupted, you'll loose everything. And get the MsgExport plugin to get your conversation logs stored in text files too, I hate having my logs only in the database.

Mandrake Linux 10.0
Works well for my small FTP/Web server.

Daemon Tools
Great CD emulator if you like turning your game CDs in .isos and loading them on the fly when you want to play (I hate CD swapping, plus I misplace CDs).


Non-free stuff I'm using (except games):
Windows XP Pro
Norton Ghost 8.0
MS Visual Studio .Net
Adobe Photoshop

GOD I still lurve this thread.

By the way, I meant to mention Bart PE. This is definitely not useful for the average joe, but Windows admins or people like me could enjoy this...

Basically it builds a pre-installed bootable windows CD. This means that with this CD, you can boot any computer in a "lite" Windows XP environment with full windows networking access and full read/write on ntfs partitions. The computer doesn't need to have any OS installed or anything, the OS is running off the CD. Obviously, it's a very limited environment and you can't install any software, BUT there's a variety of available plugins that will include software in the environment. For instance, Norton Ghost 8.0. And since the program actually builds the .iso, you can tell it to include any files you want in the iso.

This program is godsend for fixing corrupted installations of windows, salvaging files without reinstalling an OS, etc.

For example, in my case, I created a DVD containing the BartPE windows environment, Norton Ghost 8.0 and my a generic WindowsXP image that I created with Ghost.

If I feel the need to reinstall everything on one of my computers, I just pop the DVD in, let BartPE start, salvage the files to other computers on the network and then restore the image from the DVD to the hard disk with Ghost 8.0. Sublime.

Winamp 5
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
ZoneAlarm
Ad-Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy.
JavaCool's Spyware Blaster.

Oh yeah, and Trillian, because AOL can go to hell and die.

[Edited on Aug 26, 2004 by Cagi10]