My favourite FREE programs

Here is a collection of totally FREE programs, and when I say free, it means absolutely no hidden costs at all, no ADS, no SPYWARE or MALWARE. Try them out and I think you will agree with me when I say its amazing to see that freeware can be so much better then payware....

INTERNET BROWSER

Can a web browser really make the web better, yes it can! Firefox and the web are both innovation at their finest. Its top features are:

Private Browsing
Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.

Password Manager
Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.

Awesome Bar
Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).

Super Speed
View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory.

Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware
Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.

Session Restore
Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.

One-Click Bookmarking
Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.

Easy Customization
Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.

Tabs
Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.

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Spice up FIREFOX with a lot of incredible ADD-ONS

check out this page: FIREFOX ADD-ONS

  My Favourite add-ons, highly recommended (click here)

Speeddial Fancy startup page with thumbnail overview of your selected favourite pages.	Tabscope a small thumbnail window showing when mouse-over your opened tabs.

ANTIVIRUS

Comodo Antivirus has all the functionality as a paid Antivirus software EXCEPT the price.
It eliminates ALL known Viruses, Worms and Trojans from desktops and networks.
Has absolutely no license fees or hidden costs.
 NO RESOURCE HOGG OF WINDOWS!!

* Detects, blocks and eliminates viruses from desktops and networks
* Constantly protects with real-time On Access scanning
* Built in scheduler allows you to run scans at a time that suits you
* Isolates suspicious files in quarantine preventing infection
* Daily, automatic updates of virus definitions
* Simple to use: install and forget while CIS protects you in the background

NOTE: Comodo Firewall and Comodo AntiVirus are bundled together in the Comodo Internet Security package. You can select to only install one or both of them. The firewall program is one of the best ones that you can use, and the antivirus program is excellent.

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PHOTO/IMAGE SOFTWARE

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.

Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more.

It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats

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FotoSketcher is a program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.

PASSWORD MANAGEMENT

Still be worrying about so many passwords to remember? Then try Efficient Password Manager.

A completely free but powerful and unique password management package. She can not only help you remember general password information, but also record website login passwords, software registration codes, e-mail account passwords, or even passwords for your FTP accounts, etc. A random password generator is integrated which saves your time meditating for passwords.

Actually, the passwords generated by this tool are usually safer. Your private information is fully protected - the main login password is encrypted by the irreversible SHA algorithm, while the password information itself is encrypted by 256-bit AES algorithm, the encryption strength of which is among the highest in the world.

The software also offers many special features such as password management in hierarchical grouping, adding attachments to password entry, setting record importance, displaying record list in card view. The interface of the software looks fashionable and cute. It has up to 8 interface styles of different tones of color for you to choose from! With Efficient Password Manager, you only need to remember one password!

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HOME/HOBBY SOFTWARE

DIARY SOFTWARE

Efficient Diary is an elegant, easy-to-use and powerful electronic diary software package.

With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries! The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful.

The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected.

Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries, etc.

Time marches on, while with Efficient Diary, we can record our perceptions and experiences along the way. Spend some time with Efficient Diary each day - looking into today's feelings, recalling the memories of the past, and expecting the happiness in the future. A happy life can't be without Efficient Diary!

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RECIPE SOFTWARE

ReLiSimple is a software application to help you maintain recipes and shopping lists.

In addition, the ReLiSimple Web site has a shared library of recipes contributed by people all over the world. Feel free to register and share your own recipes. We are sure there are others that will enjoy them just as much as you do.

ReLiSimple Application Features

Recipes
Even professional chefs need to consult recipes now and then. With ReLiSimple, you can organize your recipes and even carry them with you on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With ReLiSimple Recipes you can:

- Store and categorize your recipes.
- Email recipes to a friend.
- Share your recipes with the world.
- Load shared recipes from the ReLiSimple Web site.
- Load a recipes ingredients into a shopping list.
- Synchronize your recipes with ReLiSimple on different interfaces.

Shopping list
There are two types of people. Those who go to the store with a shopping list and those who wish they had. How many times have you arrived home after shopping only to realize that you purchased everything except the main thing you went to the store for in the first place? With ReLiSimple, you can conveniently carry your shopping list with you on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With ReLiSimple Shopping Lists you can:

- Create multiple shopping lists.
- Indicate and easily view which items have been purchased.
- Load a shopping list with the ingredients of a recipe.
- Easily load a shopping list with items you have previously purchased.
- Receive a list of suggested items to add to your shopping list, based on past purchases.
- Synchronize your shopping lists with ReLiSimple on different interfaces.

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PERSONAL FINANCE SOFTWARE

iMoney helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily. It supports all the features required for home or even small-business accounting needs:

* iMoney Lite supports checking, savings, credit cards, loans, debt accounts.

* Create and manage categories
The program has more than 60 predefined spending categories.

* Track performance of investments
Track 401k, Stock options, Employee Stock Purchase Plans or any other investment activities.

* Do your financial math in multiple currencies
The software supports different currencies.

* Track your spending habits and see where the money goes
Generate any report by categories, including pie charts. Now you can see at a glance how much you spent on food last month. Find all your withdrawals and deposits by any parameter.

* Easy to Use
As powerful as the software is, it is easy to use. iMoney Lite provides clear navigation designed to help you switch to different financial operation interfaces quickly.

* Real-time Understanding of Financial Conditions:
After starting iMoney Lite, you will know about your current financial conditions at a glance: current assets, current liabilities.

* Organize and Manage Income and Expense by Category:
For each financial transaction, you can designate a category for it. The software provides predefined Categories that can meet the needs of most users, and you can also customize the categories.

* Secure Financial Information:
You can set up password for iMoney Lite document. Nobody can access your financial information if not knowing the password.

* Ensure You to Use Updated Version:
The software has the function of checking for updated versions at any time to ensure you use an updated version that is more powerful and easier to use.

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MULTIMEDIA

VideoLAN
VLC Multimedia Player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

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Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.

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PDF

doPDF

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

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FTP

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

* Easy to use
* Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
* Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
* IPv6 support
* Available in many languages
* Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
* Tabbed user interface
* Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
* Bookmarks
* Drag & drop support
* Configurable transfer speed limits
* Filename filters
* Directory comparison
* Network configuration wizard
* Remote file editing
* Keep-alive
* HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
* Logging to file
* Synchronized directory browsing
* Remote file search

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SYSTEM TOOLS

CCleaner

CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

Cleans the following:
* Internet Explorer
* Firefox
* Google Chrome
* Opera
* Safari
* Windows - Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
* Registry cleaner
* Third-party applications

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DeFraggler

File Defragmentation

DefragglerUse Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files - unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

Defragment exactly what you want
Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment.

Safe and Secure
When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows.

Small and lightweight
Defraggler's tough on your files – and light on your system.

Interactive drive map
At a glance, you can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler's drive map shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation.

Quick Defrag
Give your hard drive a quick touch-up with Quick Defrag.

Defragment free space
Organizes empty disk space to further prevent fragmentation.

Scheduled defragmentation
Defragment while you sleep - and wake up with a faster PC. Set Defraggler to run daily, weekly or monthly.

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BackUp Maker

Creating data-backups has never been that easy.

BackUp Maker is the professional solution for creation of data-backups. The ease of use as well as the range of functions enable you to create backup tasks for saving files and folders with a lack of time.

Once the backup task has been configured you may forget backup creation confidently - BackUp Maker saves your files fully automated, depending on time and interval settings or on system events like Windows log-on or log-off.

Reduce data capacity by using partial backups or limit data with the power of wide-ranging filter options. Go the secure way creating multiple backup generations.

An integrated CD/DVD driver enables you to write backups directly to CD/DVD. Additionally BackUp Maker supports writing to internal and external hard drives (local and network area), any USB devices as well as zip drives. Alternatively you can use the software's FTP support to upload your backup to a webserver, optionally with secure SSL connection (FTPS).

For spanned backups you can select several split types or just enter an individual split size which matches your personal needs.

BackUp Maker provides strong encryption with the means of AES. Using AES with 256-bit encryption strength you are able to prevent foreign access to your backup.

BackUp Maker compresses your data using the well-known zip compression algorithm. Since most of the current zip software supports pkZip standard v4.5 you can open your backup with BackUp Maker as well as any other zip compatible software.

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