15 Most Useful Freewares for Windows
1. Firefox
HOME:http://www.getfirefox.com/
Firefox is a web browser .It is more reliable that Internet Explorer and it has got lot of amazing plugins that can make surfing better.If you have not used Firefox till now I suggest you to make a try and feel the difference. Firefox Replaces Internet Explorer
2. Thunderbird
HOME: http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
Thunderbird is a free full featured lightweight email client that has an unparalleled spam filter, and it protects you from those ridiculous phishing attacks by clearly indicating which emails send you to a bogus website. Thunderbird is a good alternative for Microsoft Outlook
3. Sunbird
HOME: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
Sunbird, is a extremely easy to use calendaring program from Mozilla Foundation’s. It’s easy to share your calendar with others. Sunbird Replaces Microsoft Outlook’s calendaring functions
4. Abiword HOME: http://www.abisource.com/
Abiword is a good alternative for Microsoft Word and it had got every feature that we use regularly in a word processor, Abiword can save files in formats that supported by Microsoft Word and WordPerfect.
5. OpenOffice
HOME: http://www.openoffice.org/
Open office a perfect alternative for Microsoft Office suite (Microsoft Excel ,Microsoft PowerPoint etc) It includes nice replacements for Microsoft office.
6. ClamWin
HOME: http://www.clamwin.com/
ClamWin is a anti-virus software that’s quite easy to use. It can replace expensive antivirus solutions and give strong protection to your system and keep you system free of viruses.
7.Gom Player
HOME: http://www.gomlab.com/eng/
Gom player, alternative for Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player . From their website, “GOM Player includes many codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more) so you won’t need to install separate codecs for most videos. For those videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download an open source version of the codec.”
8. BitTorrent
HOME: http://www.bittorrent.com/
From their website, “BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most efficient means of distributing, discovering, and consuming large, high-quality files on the Web. Our mission is simple: to deliver the content that entertains and informs the digital world.”
9. GIMP
HOME: http://www.gimp.org/
GIMP is a alternative for Adobe Photoshop
and does a pretty solid job of imitating Adobe Photoshop. Those user of who have strong Photoshop knowledge can adapt to it quite quickly. It’s has got lot of featured and runs quite
10. Gnucleus
HOME: http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/
Gnucleus is a alternative for LimeWire, BearShare, etc.
Gnucleus is much identical to those software packages but it is free from all that extra junk that slows down your computer.
11. VLC Media Player
HOME: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC Media Player,like Gom player it also a free media player and a good alternative Windows Media Player, Quicktime, RealPlayer, etc.
12. Juice
HOME: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
From their website, “If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.
13. Audacity
HOME: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Want to make your own voice recordings Audacity and a microphone are pretty much all you need to get the job done.
14. RSSOwl
HOME: http://www.rssowl.org/
RSSOwl is a open source RSS readers. It enables you to use one program to keep tracking the updates of your favorite blogs; if you want to read a lot of blogs, RSSOwl is the perfect solution.
15. Filezilla
HOME: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Filezilla is a free FTP client and alternative for Smart FTP, WinFTP,Cute FTP
Most of the Bogglers need FTP clients to make changes in ther Blog FileZilla will do the job slickly and quickly.
