Free development utilities (not a free trial, its all free)

[boettcher]

I know this thread is older than dirt, but I thought I'd contribute something with my first post ever on here. Linux Multimedia Studio is a great free music software comparable to Fruity Loops. Don't let the name fool you; it's available for both Linux and Windows.

[thbp]

3D:
3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-servi ... _ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
Windows Live Safety Center - http://safety.live.com

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
HijackThis - http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000 ... 27353.html
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
XCleaner - http://www.xblock.com/download-freeware.php

IRCi:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
Chatzilla - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
kVIRC - http://www.kvirc.net/
MIRC - http://www.mirc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/
Visual IRC - http://www.visualirc.net/

Audio Creation:

Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhe...roduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Player:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/page/main
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html

Audio Tools:
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

CD/DVD burning:
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Security / Encryption:
All-in-One Secretmaker - http://www.secretmaker.com
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

Recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVida Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall (FREE) - Click here (really long URL)

FTP clients:
ACE FTP - http://software.visicommedia.com/en/pro ... pfreeware/
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
PuTTY (SSH) - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detai ... ation=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
nVu - http://www.nvu.com
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.c...eb_builder.html

Picture viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
FastSTone - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Instant Messenger:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ - Oldiesmann's favorite IM client
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/ - HIGHLY RECOMENDED (by Trekkie)
Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com

Linux:
ubuntu - http://www.ubuntulinux.org
slax - http://slax.org

Mail:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - http://www.getthunderbird.com

Maintenance & Tools
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/

Network Tools
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.ph ... eadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Programs:
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/

PHP editors:
PHP designer 2007 (Personal Edition) - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodiodi - http://www.IPuKE.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

Popup Blocker
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info

RSS Readers
Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/

System information and monitoring:
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overvie ... n&pageid=1
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374 ... nload.html

Video codecs :
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_di ... /index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Kazaa Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Nimo Codec Pack - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html
Quicktime Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Real Player Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
XviD - http://www.xvid.org/

Video players:
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=65889
xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
Flock - http://www.flock.com/
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Opera - http://www.opera.com/download/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /sswww.htm
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam programs:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

Misc:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
ScreenHunter - http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/scr ... r_free.htm
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/show ... =txp_about
Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
ScreenHunter - http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/scr ... r_free.htm

from jasper on Jcink.ne (hope this helps)

[DeltaFolee]

3D modeling:
Google SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com/product/gsu.html

[OmegaGDS]

link: http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

I think that you can download the free Bloodshed C++ IDE here, its what I use

Likewise, you can just get eclipse for free at eclipse.org or .com or something like that for Java or C++ (the java one is nice, but i don't like the C++ one)

[jasongosen]

Netbeans isn't on the list. It's very similar to eclipse except I find it's more friendly to Java developers. It has a very nice GUI designer for Java Swing. You can install plug-ins that allow it to recognize C++, Ruby, some other ones too. I thought I'd throw this in here to keep the competition between Netbeans and Eclipse heated. I think it's only because they are such strong rivals that they are both so polished.

The MAIN reason I switched to Netbeans... like Visual Studio you can drag tabs from the code editor into a completely new window! Very useful for folks with more than one monitor.

[MrMorley]

Compiler:
Newen.net's precompiled Mingw32 gcc
The simplest way to get the latest gcc version that I've found and it actually updates regularly with the latest version of gcc, for that sweet sweet C++0x support it provides.

IDEs:
NetBeans
Cross platform and cross-language with C++ autocomplete support that rivals that of visual studio and works even with complicated templates (smart pointers and Code::Blocks do not get along) and doesn't throw a hissy-fit if I use C++0x functionality like variadic templates. Also you can use Project Kenai and/or a variety of source control systems (SVN, CVN, Mercurial...) from inside the IDE. Seriously, I like Visual Studio as an IDE but I can't say this one doesn't come close to rivalling it at least for C++. And since it can use compilers other than the MSVC compiler...yeah =)

CodeLite
As if you took Code::Blocks and added Visual Assist's functionality to it. A good IDE for C++.

[Ninico]

Here's a music program that I used. The Page is in Japanese put if you can find PXTone download it and delete the Japanese.ico file!
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[JGorard159]

Visual C++ is kind of cool, although I always disliked it's formatting for some reason. Dev C++ is basically just notepad with basic syntax highlighting and a compiler bolted on the back. Getting indentation to work on Dev C++ is a nightmare, whereas in VC++ it's all automatic . The only reason I used to use Dev C++ was because it was so easy to integrate with SDL and other libraries, because of the concept of DevPaks, which is an easy way to do addons in Dev C++. In fact, until recently, whenever I wrote a game in SDL I would write all the code in VC++, and then copy and paste into Dev C++ to actually compile it (this was back when I was way too lazy to actually install SDL with Visual Studio .)

[ismetteren]

In fact, until recently, whenever I wrote a game in SDL I would write all the code in VC++, and then copy and paste into Dev C++ to actually compile it (this was back when I was way too lazy to actually install SDL with Visual Studio .)

Wow... when dealing with more than a few files, that must have taken way longer than just setting VC up to use SDL.

[JGorard159]

Wow... when dealing with more than a few files, that must have taken way longer than just setting VC up to use SDL.

Yep, I was a lazy dumbass back then. Now I'm slightly less lazy ...

[JGorard159]

Qt is also fantastic tool, which I don't think anyone has mentioned yet in detail. Not only is the UI engine (which is the reason why most people use Qt) fantastic; it is also completely cross-platform, and the IDE itself, Qt creator, is one of the best I've ever used. It's also OpenGL based, which means it's really very quick and simple to create GL based games, without any of the hassle you would normally have with other IDEs to get it set up and building correctly. And, obviously, all input and window handling can be handled directly with Qt's GUI system, and not with some external system or library. I thought it ws pretty cool...

[eatcomics]

Hm yes, we've covered this much in other threads... I don't know why no one has posted it here yet... Good work :D

[JGorard159]

Yeah, I know. That's why I thought it was strange . Plus Marcel uses it, so it's automatically badass.

[eatcomics]

Indeed... I don't see why falco is still using that fail of an IDE that is XCode xD jk jk never even used it

I think he still uses Visual Studio on Windows though... but I don't know that for sure...

[christo]

What about bitbucket? You guys ever used it? What do you think about it?

https://bitbucket.org/

It's free for teams of 5.

Full disclosure: I work for the company that develops bitbucket.

It's a bit like github but I think that costs money for private code repositories.