Apps Comments Closed Source Outlook Open Source ♥Mozilla The best of the current lot. Good but missing a few advanced features I'd like. Mahogony Nice, feels a bit 'odd'. [CP] Phoneix Mail No install necessary, single exe, fast clean, easy to use nice UI, no HTML email, Poor filtering. FTP Apps Comments Open Source ♥Filezilla The more I use it the more I love it. Windows only. IM (Instant Messaging) Apps Comments Open Source Gaim Windows version has been stable for a while now. P2P File Sharing Apps Comments Open Source ♥Gnucleus Accesses the Gnutella p2p network. Very nice program. Lime Wire Accesses the Gnutella p2p network. Current versions of Lime Wire include advertising banners. Since Lime Wire is open source there are ad-free versions available. giFT Uses the OpenFT p2p network. Remote Access Apps Comments Closed Source PC Anywhere Open Source RealVNC The original VNC developers returned. TightVNC VNC with compression and other features. Telnet / SSH Apps Comments Open Source PuTTY Windows Only, hopes to port. Web Browser Apps Comments Open Source ♥Mozilla Firefox Excellent web browser, with plenty of add-ons to custiomize it. ♥Lynx [CP] Text only. Good, but not for most people. Webcam Apps Comments Open Source Dorgem Simple but effective. Fwink Simple but effective. Webgrabber Apps Comments Open Source ♥Wget Very handy. A GUI would be nice but is very powerfull as is. ♥cURL HTTrack Has a GUI. Looks ok, but I'm still using Wget for now. Misc Apps Comments Open Source Speak Freely Internet voice chat. Internet - Utilities Auction watchers Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source Java based Bid watch program. I normally hate the ugly Java UI widgets but this one does it well. I don't do online auctions JBidWatcher much but next time I do I'll be sure to use this program. Firewall Apps Comments Open Source Coyote Linux Small Linux distribution designed to act as firewall. floppyfw Small Linux distribution designed to act as firewall. Link Checker Apps Comments Closed Source Xenu Xenu is execellent free software but not Open Source. Open Source Link Checker Requires Python. Portscan Apps Comments Closed Source Languard Network Security Free. Scanner Open Source Nmap Windows port now available. Needs Winpcap. Security Scanner Apps Comments Open Source Nessus Needs client and server pieces. Server currently only made for Linux/Unix Web Log Anlysis Apps Comments Open Source ♥Analog Analog is wonderful, very powerful. No GUI. Very good documentation. ♥Report Magic Report Magic makes the reports from Analog look prettier. Use them together. Media - Audio / Visual Audio Editor Apps Comments Open Source Audacity Streamripper Record streaming MP3s Media Player Apps Comments Closed Source Real Audio MS Media Player WinAmp Open Source ♥Zinf Previously known as FreeAmp. ♥CoolPlayer MP3 / audio player focused on speed. I'm really begining to like this one. Video capture / conversion Apps Comments Open Source Capture and edit video. Not meant to replace an editor but probably can for many uses. Does some things most video editors VirtualDub can't. DScaler Converts analog video for dispay on computer (?) Media - CD / DVD/ VCD CD Ripping Apps Comments Closed Source Real Jukebox Open Source CD-DA X-Tractor CDex CD Writing Apps Comments Closed Source Easy CD Creator Open Source CDRDAO Records Disk-at-Once. No Windows GUI. Freeburn Still in early development. CD Record DVD player Apps Comments Open Source VideoLan Looks good. VCD creation Apps Comments Open Source GNU VCDImager Create and analyze VCD and Super Video CD's Media - Graphics 3D Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source "Liquid it a tool for translating Maya scenes into another renderer's scene description" I don't understand it but looks useful Liquid to those who do. Moonlight 3D 3D modeler and renderer. Blender 3D 3D creation suite Diagramming Apps Comments Closed Source Visio Open Source ♥Dia, Dia [CP] Graphics Editor Apps Comments Closed Source Paintshop Pro Photoshop Open Source ♥Gimp, Win Gimp / Win [CP] Very confusing UI. Gimp QCad 2D CAD system. Looks good, I don't know much about CAD though. Graphics Viewer Apps Comments Closed Source ACDSee Open Source JImageView Written in Java. SlideShow Picture Viewer Project dead? JavaExplorer JavaExplorer is ok, not really for viewing large collections. Java Image Browser and Project dead? Sorter JCDSee JCDSee, nice and quick. Making good progress. Vanished? imgv. portable image viewer Unique image viewing program. Very nice but might be an acquired taste. Best of the lot. Misc Graphics Apps Comments Open Source GOCR/JOCR OCR (Optical Character Recognition) JImage Mosaic Makes a mosaic image from other images. Java. Generates a static photo gallery. Creates thumbnails and html pages automatically. Generation is done before files are WinPhoto uploaded to server. Media - Text / HTML Office Suite / (Word processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation) Apps Comments Closed Source Microsoft Office Considered the standard by most. Perfect Office From Corel. Home of the aging, but still somewhat popular, WordPerfect. Open Source ♥OpenOffice.org [CP] Good, but not perfect, reading and writing of MS Office files. Can't currently read WordPerfect files. StarOffice Semi-closed source version of OpenOffice.org. AstroGrep Grep with GUI. Searches across files for text. Tail For Win32 Watches text files for changes. Word Processor Apps Comments Closed Source MS Word What everyone currently uses. Wordperfect Still has some die-hard fans. Open Source AbiWord GNU Emacs Loved by many. Not for your average user. PDF Writing Apps Comments Closed Source Adobe Acrobat Open Source GhostScript, xPDF Ugh, needs GUI. Database - desktop Apps Comments Closed Source Microsoft Access Open Source Not the MS Access replacement I was hoping for but it may be a start. I'm not sure if that is even what the developers are JEDI Database Desktop intending this to be used for. Text / HTML Editor Apps Comments Closed Source Notepad Open Source SciTE Not specifically for HTML but works well. Includes syntax high-lighting. Jext Programmers editor. jEdit Programmers editor written in Java. KeyNote Tabbed notebook with Rich Text editor PhpEdit PHP IDE for Windows. HTML Formatting Apps Comments Open Source ♥HTML Tidy Automatically checks HTML files for common errors and can format the document for easy editing or to conserve disk space. Tidy GUI A GUI interface for HTML Tidy. Educational Typing Tutor Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source GNU Typist Bland but effective. Tux Typing Spiffy. Targeted toward children. Not particularly challenging for adults. Games Dungeon Apps Comments Open Source ♥NetHack, No graphics. Dungeon adventure game. Classic. Falcon's Eye Falcon's Eye is literally Nethack with fancy graphics. Egoboo 1st Person Shooter Apps Comments Closed Source Doom / Heretic / Hexen Open Source Vavoom Allows IP deathmatch. True Windows program. Runs Doom, Heretic, and Hexen Wolfenstein GL Legacy Doom QBlood Complete recreation of Blood. Cube Unique engine, fun, not finished. Full code not yet released. Tenbrae Modernized version of old Quake code. Side scroller Apps Comments Closed Source Donkey Kong Commander Keen Open Source VideoToons Abuse Cannon volley Apps Comments Closed Source Scorched Earth Open Source Scorched Earth 2000 Web based version of Scorched Earth ♥Death Star Battles Web based, addictive and fun. Scorched 3D XScorch No Windows version available but looks to be closest to the original Scorched Earth that I've seen. Strategy Apps Comments Closed Source Risk Open Source Java Risk Space simulation / Astonomy Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source ♥Celestia Very nice. Stellarium Worms Apps Comments Closed Source Worms Open Source NiL Real time worms Space combat Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source Vega Strike Orbit space combat simulator SimCity Apps Comments Closed Source Sim City Open Source LinCity Chess Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source WinBoard Lemmings Apps Comments Closed Source Lemmings Open Source Pingus Lemmings clone Pong Apps Comments Closed Source Pong Open Source Tuxpuck Nice, but hard! Virtual Pool Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source FooBillard Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source Misc Games Apps Comments Closed Source Benny Kramek Games Several nice looking games. Carterrain, Tank Wars 3D, Quack, Quandary Open Source ♥Liquid War No describing it. Wierd but fun. SDL Sopwith Port of classic side shooter. LGames Web site with several games inlcuding breakout and tetris clones. WinPenguins Little penguins that run all over your desktop. PySol Solitaire, needs Python Onsight Odd little game. Fun. Take your time it's all tactics. Crack Attack Addictive and fun game. Single or multiplayer over IP. Minesweeper Apps Comments Closed Source Minesweeper Open Source ♥XulMine Minesweeper clone. Requires Mozilla / Netscape 6+ Utilities - File Compression / ZIP Apps Comments Closed Source Winzip Power Archiver Filzip Not open source yet. Soon? Looks nice Open Source ♥JZip Looks good. Despite the name JZip is not Java. Simple clean interface. Does not support tar.gz ♥7-Zip Looks good. Different than I am used to but very easy to use. Integrates with Explorer. NeonZip Java. Looks ok. ♥FreeExtractor Creates Self-extracting archives. Excellent, but not a general purpose archiving program. ♥Info-Zip, WiZ Seems good enough. Could use a lot of work on the user interface. Multiple File Search and Replace Apps Comments Closed Source BK ReplaceEm Open Source GSR Global Search and Dos based Replace Search and Replace Written in Perl Utilities - General Windows utilities Apps Comments Closed Source Open Source Vitrite Allows for transparency in Windows 2000/XP GnuWin32 A ton of small, mostly command line, utilities common to Unix and Linux systems. Too 'scary' for the average user. Time Sync Apps Comments Open Source ♥NIST Time Simple but effective. From the people who should know best. Nettime Utilities - Security Antivirus Apps Comments Closed Source Fsecure McAfee Norton Open Source Open Antivirus Encryption Apps Comments Closed Source PGP Open Source ♥GnuPG Open source version of PGP.