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 Filezilla is IMHO the best free FTP client (and server for that matter) available. Version 3 began with a lot of drawbacks that it's predecessors (i.e. V2) had but quickly became a full featured client in a short time due to frequent updates. Drag 'n' drop functionality from windows and desktop is quick and easy, site management makes connecting quick and effortless, and it just works!
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 I absolutely love this program. Who's it for? Well I think it works great for anyone who wants a text editor that's better than the one that comes with Windows. For those who rarely edit text directly it's awfully feature rich, but it's lightweight enough that it won't really slow you down if you decide to install it anyway. I'll let the websites own text explain who it's useful for:
PSPad is a freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems, useful for people who:
- work with various programming environments
- like highlighted syntax in their source code
- need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
- are looking for a tool that handles plain text
- want to save time – PSPad offers rich text formatting functions
- need tool what offer user extension capabilities
- want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products because PSPad is free for commercial and government purposes too
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 For a standalone Microsoft Word-like word processor, AbiWord is hard to beat. It will open Word documents, but just as a caveat I will quote the developer’s own words:
"AbiWord does a reasonably good job opening most Microsoft Word documents. However, no non-Microsoft word processor can be 100% Word compatible. Developing good MS Word filters is a very difficult process. With each new Word release, Microsoft also makes considerable changes to the Word file format."
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 Hmmm… It does happen. You suddenly realize that you only have a few gigs left and your computer is slowing down to a grinding halt or you can't install that 8Gb game you just bought or…well, you get the point. WinDirStat is an ingenious little application that allows you to choose the drives you want to know how much space on each you're using and see it in a drill-down list mode – but even better, see it graphically.
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 There are a good number of to-do-lists available as free downloads available on the internet, but they are typically simple and shallow, more like text editors than functional task managers. I have yet to see anything that comes close to Abstract Spoon's ToDoList. It's really quite impressive. Although targeted at programmers (a super power app for that), it will work beautifully for any comprehensive project you need to tackle.
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 Enter Audacity. An extremely functional and easy to use audio recorder, editor, and converter. It's efficient enough to work on your laptop and powerful enough on your desktop to allow you to do a large number of tasks that expensive commercial software touts. It's free, open source, cross platform, and simply does it's job very well.
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 There's something to be said about some of the current password storing features that have now become common in web browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and others. And although they do the job pretty well they're not very portable, and the security is fairly low. Keepass is a free application that allows you to store any passwords you have in one place for any website or application securely, and is easily portable to mobile devices and USB devices as well. You can store URL's, your username and password, and any applicable notes in each record and then autotype your information into forms by placing your cursor at the username prompt in any app or website.
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 There are so many bloated image viewers out there and it seems that 80% of the people I see who add them to their machines use about 2% of the features on them. Picasa is nice but it's typically overkill. Windows own picture viewer is large, slow, and doesn't offer any real on-the-fly file manipulation. Then there's the endless slew of applications that come with equipment such as Kodak's EasyShare and the like. And most of these applications install services or tray items that just sit there and suck up memory whether you're using them or not. Irfanview offers a different experience than these excessive applications…
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 This HTML editor has gone through several incarnations but through each has been a proven contender to many commercial WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editors. Once known as Kompozer, Trellian Webpage not only provides web pages that look the way you create them, but also allows you to use Adobe Photoshop plugins which is a nice feature.
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 This is a great alternative to Techsmith's Snaggit that retails at $49. It does essentially the same thing and costs nothing. It's an older program but when it's already great how new does it have to be? I've been using it for years for every screen shot application I need. It does a great job, allows you to save your screen shots in multiple formats, and allows you to manually assign hot keys. You can set a fixed area, window or menu, snap your entire desktop, or drag a rectangle over what you want to capture and it provides a pixel based zoom that stays out of your way as you do.
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