All-In-One: Free Software You Can't Live Without

Evernote ... my other brain!!

1. Grabup
2. Google Talk
3. MSN
4. Yahoo
5. anti virus

and more..

Thanks for the reminder. The only one that I am hear8ng for the first time is Grabup..
Would love to know more about it. What is " Grabup?"
What is it useful for ?
How does it work?

1. NoteTab
2. ShortKeys


Harvey

I recommend Avast Free over AVG after working tech support for Comcast high speed internet.

Thanks for the usefu linfo. I have used and own Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Never used Filezila! Tho.!


Patrick Vassell.

Bill,

Thanks for the tip. I've been using Frontpage for years and have ALWAYS hated it. Kompozer is so much easier and FREE! Who woulda thought?

Randy

In my experience Gimp is more convenient than Photoshop for every day editing. The reason being that Adobe wants you to buy the whole suite so they make it hard to open PNGs in Photoshop so you will have to buy Fireworks. Gimp opens pretty much everything.

For Vector editing try Inkscape instead of Adobe Illustrator. It works in a format called .svg instead of .eps

There is a plugin that is supposed to allow you to import Adobe files to Inkscape but I couldn't get it to work. $5 on Fiverr is more affordable and convenient to get anything converted to an infinitely scalable SVG. Once you've scaled it to whatever size you want then you can convert it to a raster file such as .png for manipulation in other programs and printing.

I learned both of these programs after spending 20 minutes watching tutorials on Youtube.

In Gimp I mainly just resize, crop and color correct. When you first install it you don't need all the windows that pop up. Just the main file window and the tool box.

To resize an image go to "image" and "scale image."

This program was designed by a phd with some ideosyncratic tendencies.

Like starting you off with the brush tool so you accidentally paint all over your image. (Just go to edit and undo) I usually switch to the move tool first: a little cross with arrows.

And then you try to move a layer and the layer underneath moves instead. (in the tool box click "move active layer")

Or you do the paint bucket and only part of the intended selection is affected. (in the tool box click "fill whole selection"

Just a few pointers to prevent any unnecessary frustrations on your Gimp honeymoon.

The best logo program for a clean professional look is GreenBox Logomaker. It's not free ($29) unless you grab the old version on bit torrent. (not recommended)

Thank you for good information!
Sam

Agreed John. Great programs all of them. Camstudio is kinf od funny though in that it really does get a little tricky on the install (trying to install all kinds of extra stuff on your system), probably confuses a lot of people and deters them away from it.

I wish someone would post an audacity tutorial

Ccleaner
Firefox plus plugins
Notepad++
Filezilla FTP
GSA indexer
WordPress

AutoScreenRecorder
ScreenHunter

both free from Wisdom-Soft

1. Jing - great for screenshots
2. GIMP - ideal image editor alternative to Photoshop
3. HootSuite - free version
4. WordPress - to mention the obvious
5. Screenshot Captor - another screenshot tool but with more options
6. Small SEO Tools

Hi
For Screen Capturing and recording videos from my screen i can recommend jing.
Easy to use tool!

I like Xheader, only thing I find a prob is with the interface. This really becomes I problem when I want to create larger header or graphics. I can't resize the workspace, so I have to constantly scroll or constantly preview my work before I get my designs right. Is there a solution to this? I tried contacting them several times and no response at all.

I haven't seen Dropbox mentioned. It is remote storage that can be accessed from a browser or through the free filesystem integration. The 1st 2GB are free.

Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

Patrick

Also, don't forget about *Dark Room*, which is the software that's *just* like NotePad/TextPad, except because of the *green* color and *black* background, it makes concentration a lot easier!

You can download it here, guys/gals:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ncentrate.html

I can't live without WP but it's already been mentioned so I'll go with:-

Color Cop
Any Video Convertor
Market Samurai (I have the paid version but there is a free version as well)
Adwords Editor
Zone Alarm
Photoscape
Free Mind

Dreamweaver and Photoshop are not free.

So as not to repeat some of the tools mentioned above...

Google Keyword Ranking Monitor

Xenu Broken Link checker and way more

ScreenShot Captor

WS FTP LE - FTP program

Automatic IE / Outlook Express windows maximizer

Color mania - color picker

You won't believe how much time these little gems will save you!

There are so many.. where to start.

Roboform & Goodsync
Thunderbird (with Xnotes addon)
GIMP
Pixie
Camstudio
Miro
Xmind (mindmap)
Comment kahuna
Zip995
Ccleaner
Glary Utilities
Skype
xheader
Logmein - fantastic remote control ap with iphone
Defraggler
Paint.net
SugarSync - save me several times
filezilla
Toodledo sync todo's with iphone

Google Base

Memokeys...great for filling in forms fast.
MemoKeys II Lite Edition - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

Maybe it's listed already but I didn't see it. The Firefox plugin Firebug is invaluable for inspecting the code of websites.

Wink video creating software.

Wink - [Homepage]

I like it very much. Simple to use and edit the already created tutorials.

.

I have to get into the main forum more often, this is a great idea and I've bookmarked it.

I've already found some information mI was looking for.

Jing - screen capture
Kompozer - webpage editor
Skype - talk for free
Filezillia - ftp
Windows movie maker

Great idea for this thread.

Kevin

PrimoPDF

Irfanview

VLC Media Player

PDF Power Brand 3.3

1. Roboform
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. AVG Free edition
4. Google chrome
5. foxit pdf reader
6. pdf creator
7. skype
8. windows live messenger
9. google toolbar

PsPad Text Editor - I code all my Wordpress Themes with this
Firefox and all the great plugins
Chrome for speed
Filezilla - For me this is the best FTP
Webshot - grabs a photo of a website
Audacity
Wordpress - Made me a good living. But mostly I just have lot's of fun with it.
iTunes and Winamp - Keeps me sane when I am on the computer for many hours. I love internet radio.
RocketDock - Desktop Dock for Windows. Like the Mac Doc.
Bulk Rename - renames lots of files at once. Really handy.
Avira Antivirus - Saved my butt a few times.
Windows Movie Maker - Imagine, something useful and free form Microsoft.
Windows Music Maker
Quicktime
Real Player
xampp lite - Server for your computer. Test all my Wordpress Themes with this.

One of my favorites:

PDF exchange viewer. Even the free version lets you highlight, mark text, and many other things as well
.
After trying Acrobat Reader, and Foxit (free versions), I then tried this one, and it easily beats the others!

Here's a download link:

Download

David Bolton

For me:
Notepad (comes with Windows)
Thunderbird
Skype
Lastpass
Object Dock
Wordpress and all the plugins
Firefox + plugins
FileZilla

Firefox (free) - dozens of extensions to help development/seo work
Internet Explorer (free) - faster browser than my developer/seo'd out super extended Firefox
SyncBack (free/paid) - best synchronization program
SPB Wallet (paid) - password keeper, works on PCs and mobile phone
TrueCrypt (free) - encrypts entire drive, have to protect my precious code
JDownload (free) - best automated rapidshare/megaupload/etc downloader
Sandboxie (free) - sandbox to install/run software that keeps it seperate from other programs, easy to wipe it totally clean
Notepad++ (free) - best HTML/PHP/text editor
Filezilla (free) - best FTP client
Dropbox (free/paid) - great program to sync multiple PCs and provide online backup too

Firefox

IE

Google Chrome

Thanks

I'm using many of these:

- 25 Sites We Can't Live Without - TIME

(Disclosure: I have no commercial interest through this link)
Regards,
James Pateman

1: Bandwidth Vista
2: FireBug
3: Notepad
4:AlleyCode
5:Firefox


James

Animoto.com - turns photos into a video that transitions with music.

Screentoaster - free screen recordings & tutorials with no downloads

Sketchcast - draw out an idea on screen with audio

Picasa - google photo editing & sorting

Google Web Album - store and share photos online with slide shows, embed in other sites, etc.

Weebly.com - free wysiwyg editor and hosting of your own website - super easy and pro version
is super cheap with a few more features like password protected pages, etc.

TollFreeNumbers.com - search for available vanity numbers and purchase vanity numbers

PhoneSpell.com - find out what your number spells

TubeMogul.com - post videos on several video sites at one time

Craigslist, Postlets, Backpage - free online classifieds & great lead generators for products,
services, real estate or personal property.

Several others mentioned earlier:
Joomla, Skype, Jing

Firefox Add Ons
Search for the names in Google or https://addons.mozilla.org/

Google Global - switch the google SERP into a country specific results eg: Canada / UK / USA / Australia / Ireland so that you can see the adverts etc. as if you are googling from within the country.. excellent for non-residents!

SEO Quake - shows the stats for each site in the SERP

ScreenGrab - takes a screenshot of the entire webpage in one click

FireFTP - ftp client from within firefox

ShortenURL - shorten urls direct from firefox

TwitterBar - tweet right from your address bar in firefox

Last Pass - saves your passwords, form filler etc

Fast Video Downloader - Save whatever video was detected on the webpage

AdBlock Plus - block advertisements on a website

Shareaholic - share a site with numerous services

Flash Got Link - works with Free Download Manager

Copy as Plain Text - copy text without any formatting in firefox

Software

ClipX you can copy how every many things you want, and all are accessible from your taskbar [http://bluemars.org/clipx/]

Free Download Manager - Keeps track of all downloads, start / pause / resume downloads [http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/]

VLC - video player which plays almost any format [VideoLAN]

Universal Viewer - able to open many different types of files [ http://www.uvviewsoft.com/]

Disk Space Fan - Shows you which files / folders are taking up the most disk space on your computer in a pretty chart

Powertoy Clone – Free photo & image resizer

Oxelon Media Converter - converts media files to different formats

Cute PDF Printer - adds a PDF printer so that you can "print" anything into PDF

Services

http://www.Sendspace.com - easily send large files to other, no registration required

MediaFire save files online, accessible from anywhere

Zamzar - Free online file conversion + YouTube video ripper and converter -

Neevia - Online Document Converter, Batch Convert to PDF or Image, Doc Converter, PDF Printer

Splashup - Online Graphics Editor

http://www.picnik.com - Online Photo Editor

Screen Recorder + Audio Voiceover

Screenjelly

Screenr

Traffic geyser

InboxQ - Firefox and Chrome plugin feeds questions from Twitter based on Keyword campaigns - marvellous way to monitor and interact on Twitter

My Favorites are

• Joomla- the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems it boasts a fantastic extension base Home - Joomla! Extensions Directory and carries the spirit of free software.
• phpBB -PHP Bulletin Board is a leading Open Source forum software. (an alternative to vBulletin on which WarriorForum runs)
• WordPress - One of the best blogging apps around
• Moodle - a Course management system (CMS) that uses pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online learning communities. Scalable from single teacher to 50000 university

Some others that may be useful are

1. Site Analytics - gives you vital data about your visitors
2. SQLyog Enterprise - a MySQL management tool
3. Noah's Classifieds -PHP Mysql customizable classified ad application that allows users to post advertisements to unlimited categories and subcategories.
4. OpenX - ad server ,is a powerful ad serving solution that puts control over online advertising back in the hands of publishers.
5. BlogEngine.NET -is an open source .NET blog platform with less complexity, easy customization and one that is beat square by Word Press
6. dasBlog- is an ASP.NET 2.0 blogging application. It runs on ASP.NET 2.0, (all versions 1.9x and prior run on ASP.NET 1.1 & ASP.NET 2.0) and is developed in C#. dasBlog is an evolution of the BlogX weblog engine initially written by Chris Anderson and contributors.
7. Geeklog -a PHP/MySQL blogging tool that enables you to set up and manage a fully functional dynamic Web site.
8. LifeType -an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation.
9. reBlog - is an open source web-based RSS aggregator which allows you to filter and republish content within one application.
10. Serendipity - a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage.
11. anyInventory is the Web's most flexible inventory system. Features include categories and subcategories, user-defined fields, file uploads, and advanced search functionality.
12. DotNetNuke - an open-source Web Application Framework ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications.
13. Drupal - CMS software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website.
14. Mambo - a full-featured content management system (a predecessor to Joomla )
15. MODx - is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content.
16. Nucleus is a content management tool that enables you to set up and maintain multiple
17. Pligg is an open source CMS (Content Management System) that you can download and use for free. Pligg CMS provides social networking software that encourages visitors to register on your website so that they can submit content and connect with other users.
18. SilverStripe is an intuitive content management system atop a powerful programming framework.
19. Tandem Server CMS is a website management solution for small businesses and personal websites.It requires only a basic window's hosting plan.
20. XOOPS - is a content management system (CMS) that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.
21. Fotolia - not a software but becomes a great bundle with the above- offering millions of creative high-quality stock images some are free some are payaable.Its better to have royalty Free images on your blog before you infringe on copyrighted work.
22. Simply Hired-Job-a-matic is a great way to earn additional revenue from your existing website and provide valuable content for your users. It is a free, hosted and completely brandable job board for your website.
23. nopCommerce-an open source e-commerce solution(shopping cart) that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend.
24. osCommerce - a leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution(shopping kart)
25. Pinnacle Cart - an extremely powerful php shopping cart and website builder application. Designed from marketing perspective, this eCommerce application is feature-packed, robust, scalable and easy to use.
26. ShopSite - a shopping cart software for small to medium-sized businesses.
27. Zen Cart -free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system.
28. 4images is an image gallery management tool. Visitors can register and post comments about pictures in your gallery. 4images is free for non-commercial use;
29. Coppermine is a photo gallery tool that enables you to arrange pictures in categories and albums, create thumbnails of images, search for pictures, and view slideshows.
30. Gallery is the next generation of open source photo sharing Web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own Web site whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.
31. SMF - an advanced community software package that enables you to set up and manage
32. Vanilla Forums -a lightweight and extensible open source forum software using PHP scripting language and MySQL database management system.
33. YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET.
34. OpenDB (Open Media Lending Database) is a PHP/MySQL inventory application that allows you to easily catalog different media types such as DVDs, VCDs, CDs, VHS tape, games, books, and laser disks.
35. OrangeHRM aims to be the world's leading open source HRM solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing a flexible and easy to use HRM system affordable for any company worldwide.
36. phpFreeChat is a free, simple to install, fast, customizable and multi languages chat that uses a simple filesystem for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh (no flicker) and display the chat zone and the nickname zone.
37. Brim is a personal information manager which provides online management of your bookmarks/favorites, your calendar, tasks, notes, recipes, passwords and much more!
38. dotProject is a web-based project management application, designed to provide project layout and control functions. dotProject aims to provide the project manager with a tool to manage tasks, schedules, communication and sharing.
39. Mantis is a free popular web-based bugtracking system.
40. phpCollab is a collaboration and project management system that enables you to set up and manage a projects and share files.
41. PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and documents via the web.
42. Elgg is a social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application.The engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.
43. jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
44. script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
45. PHCDownload -content management and manipulation system with unique innovations, tools, design, customizing your database.
46. phpMyFaq - a multilingual, database-driven FAQ management system that you can use to create and manage a FAQ on your Web site.
47. phpMyVisites - an anlytics software for websites statistics and audience measurements. phpMyVisites gives a lot of information on websites visitors, visited pages, software/hardware utilization,
48. google analytics - dont need to tell you about this one. Recently real time analytics has been offered foc.
49. WebCalendar - a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.
50. WWW Paint Board (Wpb) is a tool where users can draw dynamically on the web with VML (Vector Markup Language) technology.
51. YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service.
52. MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.
53. PmWiki is a system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. Pages created with pmWiki look and act like normal web pages, except they have a link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website.
54. TWiki is a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system

Further there is a sea of applications at http://code.google.com/more my favorite is google friendconnect (there used to be labs.google.com seems to be restricted), it enables you to add social networking capability to your website. It also enables you to blast (read spam) your gmail contact base.

Firefox
Skype
Gmail
Wordpress

I use this Software.

Any calculator. Revenue - expenses = profit (at least we hope).
RB

Firefox
Ccleaner
Notepad++
Photoshop 04-16-2012 10:55 AM
gmail
Media player

These software is very much needed for a humane life..

1. Google Books Downloader

4. PDX Toolbar Lite
5. Google Chrome
6. Roboform
7. Jing
8. Microsoft Snipping Tool
9. Paint.net


2. DRM Remover
3. ABBYY Fine reader - removed when I noticed the "free" bit...

Open Office
Firefox

Google Chrome, Google, but the best I think is Skype.

I think till now no one has suggested

http://www.onlywire.com

It is for submitting your stuff to almost over 40 social media.It also has paid and free version.

I also use TubeMogul | Video Advertising Built for Branding for submitting videos.

- Pradeep

Jing !

Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith

Let's you grab images and videos from your screen and share instantly - really useful!

1). Notepad++
2). Photoshop
3). Skype
4). Ammy Admin
5). Roboform
6). Dropbox

I use LastPass. Can't live without it. Love it. saves me so much time.

FTP Manager Lite is one of the best free FTP and SFTP client software. It also supports FXP for superfast server to server transfers

Want to hear a stupid little secret? WINZIP can NOT work with ZIP files!

Yeah, I hear you saying WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!

What you THOUGHT was winzip was really INFOZIP!

Info-ZIP Home Page

SURE, you don't get the nice gui, but you get some more capability and it works on a TON of systems! Oh yeah, it is FREE!!!!!

Steve

Didn't work for me.

Several that have already been mentioned plus:

Domain Name Analyzer

Action Outline - outline software to organize your research & key bits of info in a tree outline format, with topics in the left window and details in the right window.

Topics are "drag-able" "nest-able." Very user friendly, very flexible.

Opens with two windows: outline description in the left pane and whatever details you want for that description in the right pane.

Besides flexible and user friendly - its strong points are these:

1) you can manage all actions from the key board;

2) hot keys for inserting date/time stamps (in any format your want);

3) hot key for inserting links to files on your hard drive or the internet;

4) topics in the left pane can be reorganized by moving them up, down, in,
or out with keystrokes (no need to be constantly reaching for the mouse);

5) website links in the right pane are hot and will open in your browser;

6) copy an image from a document and paste it into the right pane
(charts, graphs, designs, illustrations);

7) can nest topics at least 7 deep (more gets unruly);

8) SEARCHABLE!

9) topic contents can be highlighted, formated, and printed;

10) create unlimited outlines (I've got about 20 business & personal outlines)

The Lite version is free. I used it for awhile and then bought the full version. I use it to track all of my business research and personal topics of interest.

Download link: actionoutline[dot]com/lite/ao-lite[dot]exe

I use quite a bit of the software already mentioned but I also can't live without:

NoScript - Firefox plugin that blocks website scripts to prevent malware. You can optionally allow any script you chose. Can be annoying at times but I think it's worth the protection.

Malwarebytes - This will scan your drives thoroughly and remove viruses, rootkits, etc. It finds quite a bit more than other such programs that I've tried.

Yankee Clipper - A clipboard extender that stores the last 100 clipboard entries. It features a scroll area to allow viewing of each entry completely.

Fineprint - Printer software that let's you print up to 8 pages on a single sheet of paper, plus you can make booklets, etc.. The free version places an ad at the bottom of the paper.

Synchback - Fantastic back up program for archiving to external media. Very fast and accurate. Never had it fail.

Firefox addons...

All-In-One sidebar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027/

More documentation on All-IN-One Sidebar
All-in-One Sidebar :: Features :: firefox.eXXile.net


Use your imagination with the All-in-one sidebar for taking notes, calendar events, keyword adding to Google spreadsheets and so much more.

Mix All-IN-One Sidebar with....
- Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6937/

- Google Tasks
(bookmark in multi toolbar and change properties to load in sidebar)
- http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig

- Google Documents Spreadsheets
(bookmark in multi toolbar and change properties to load in sidebar)
- http://www.docs.google.com

- Gmarks - open, delete or rename Google bookmarks from the sidebar
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2888/

Other Firefox addons...

SEO Doctor - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/102178/

SEO Blogger - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12994/

Fox Splitter - OUTSTANDING for laptop screens
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4287/

SEO Quake - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036/

SenSEO - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9403/

Last but not least...
Extension List Dumper - So you can wipe out a install of Firefox or quickly duplicate what you want on another computer..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3746/



Enjoy!!

Advanced System Care 4 (tune up, clean up, optimise etc)

free download at download.com

keeps your system running really fast, safe and optimised for whatever tasks

highly recommended if you dont have cash to splash on tune up tools. I run mine everyday when I finish work.

Awesome list. Thanks Doug!

1) FileZilla FTP Program

2) Roboform

3) Symantec Antivirus

4) SnagIt 7

I trust the Comodo suite

hey ryan don't forget about JAM that is one fantastic program friend. free version available

-WD

I drive limos in Panama City Beach, and the other night, I picked up a bunch of "vacationers" and they were all wearing Wordpress gear. I had to ask.

It was THEM! The developers and customer service team members from Wordpress and the parent company, Automatik. I couldn't help but make an ass of myself, asking for pictures, and drilling them about stuff, LOL.

They're sending me a T-shirt in the mail. LOL

1. Kompozer (NVU) - WYSIWYG HTML editor
2. FileZilla - FTP client
3. All of the free Google apps.
4. Firefox and addons like NoScrip, Adblock plus....
5. AVG anti virus
6. Ad-Aware

I could probably list another 100 but they are the best