Wednesday, December 5, 2007

◥◣◢ Best Freeware Guide - Computer Tools ◣◢◤


----Computer Tools----


Best Hard Drive Analyser

JDiskReport is an amazing program that provides many different graphs and information on what's stored on your computer.

JDiskReport



Best Software Collection

TheOpenCD includes many freeware programs and open source programs that are essential to anyone.

TheOpenCD



Best HTML Editor

Based off the firefox source, NVU, made by Linspire is a great HTML editor that is amazing for its price, much unlike the expensive Dreamweaver and Frontpage.

NVU
NVU Features



Best CSS Menu Designer

CSS Menu Designer is a good tool to automatically create beautiful CSS menus that you can customize to your every whim.

Best CSS Menu Designer



Compression Tool

Although there's many, a few stand out, mainly 7-Zip and IZArc. 7-Zip supports: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. IZArc supports many files including: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. Both also include many other features.

IZArc
7-Zip



Best Benchmarking Tool

EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users. It offers the world's most accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information. Sadly, this free version has been discontinued, since they want to make some money on their corporate version (Which is understandable).

EVEREST Home Edition



Best Office Suite

The best one out there is OpenOffice.org. It includes many of the same features as MS Office and more.

OpenOffice.org



Best Word Processer

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor. It has lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun.

AbiWord




Best Process Viewer

Process Explorer is a incredible program that shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Process Explorer



Best Multi-Coding Tool

For those computer programmers, PHP Designer 2005 and Notepad++ are great programs that include syntax highlighting and syntax folding. PHP Designer supports: PHP, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Perl, JavaScript, VB, C#, Java & SQL. Notepad++ supports C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file (extension .nfo), doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, TCL, Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, Properties, Diff, Smalltalk, Postscript and VHDL. And that's the tip of the iceberg for both programs, they contain tons of features.

Notepad++
PHP Designer 2005
Other good ones (That also work with AutoIt scripting):
PSPad



Best AutoIt Editor

This custom made version of SciTE has syntax highlighting and syntax folding, autocompleting, and intellisense.

SciTE



Best .pdf Reader

Foxit Reader is small (the download is less than 1MB), so it downloads quickly. It doesn't need any installation, so you can start to run it as soon as you've downloaded it.

Foxit Reader



Best Linux

Ubuntu and Kubuntu are two of best and most well known linux distros out there and include a barrage of programs. Another good one is Damn Small Linux, which is 50mb and can run off your USB flash drive.

Ubuntu
Kubunu
Damn Small Linux



Best Mouse Movement Capturer

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, mouse movements, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

Wink



Best Windows CD Creator

AutoStreamer works as a totally automated slipstreamer. Basically, all it really needs is a source that being an original Windows CD or a local share and a Service Pack file. Using this you can create another Windows CD that includes the newest service pack and all the hotfixes.

AutoStreamer


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