Usefull free programs

[Fox]

Wow, how did I completely miss this thread? Good stuff.

[Colorado Bulldog]

The Gimp - a free graphics app similar to Photoshop. Originally written for Linux, there is a port for winblows...

http://gimp.org/

[Colorado Bulldog]

Here is a free version of Avid called Avid Free DV. For those not familiar with Avid, it is used for video editting. It is a free version but if you want REALLY want to do video editing, i would suggest one of the Sony Vegas versions.

But anyway, this one is free
http://www.avid.com/products/tryout.html.

[Colorado Bulldog]

Blender is a free 3D graphics environment. It is a bit quirky but they don't expect you to pay $1000-$8000 US for a 3d app.

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

[elo]

Audiograbber:Convert music to MP3 with the best MP3 encoder LAME,formCD,platter or audiocassette.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/download.html

[elo]

SUPER 2007.Converts and shrinks video files in almost every container or codec.
Of course free.

http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html gowth the curser on freeware.

[OlenkaDC]

For Windows:

The PC Decrapifier
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

Tired of the crappy Notepad? ... try Notepad++, on install you can specify IE to load pages source in notepad++:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm


For Linux:
If you like doing development in Linux you'll love this editor:
Scribes: http://scribes.sourceforge.net/
now I edit pretty much everything using it: Java, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, RHTML, HTML, CSS, JS... etc etc ... I love it!

Automatix:
http://www.getautomatix.com/

MPlayer:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

[taniatv]

A free WYSIWYG web editor, ideal for beginners:

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

[Jennifer]

EAC (Exact AUdio Copy)

www.exactaudiocopy.de

Excellent audio grabber, can use external encoders such as LAME.

Jennifer

XXX

[Willie Escalade]

Lots of good shit in this thread!

Some I use already (CrapCleaner, IrfanView, Firefox)...; I'll have to try out some of the others!