The purpose for this page is to create a list of "helpful" freeware apps - please feel free to add additional links and or more clear and precise definitions of the apps.

All Catagories

Bear Bottoms- great site that lists freeware apps by catagory

Photoediting apps:

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html (7.7MB)

http://www.gimpshop.net/ (7.4MB)

http://getpaint.net/index2.html Freeware, Win2K and later, 3.6MB

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/default.asp Freeware, all Windows, 19.4MB

http://www.photofiltre.com/ Free for personal use, Windows 98 and later, 1.6MB

http://picasa.google.com/

Word processing apps:

OpenOffice

This app package functions like MS Office - only it's free. Definitely one of the best freewares out there.

Abi Word

This is similar to using MS Word - really good; down saves/ exports to all document file formates too.

Internet apps:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (5.6MB) - Simply one of the best.

http://www.flock.com - Another great browser - let's you view and edit your photos while you browse.

http://www.opera.com/ (4.6MB)- A great browser that lets you read and compose email while you browse.

Design apps:

Ink Scape A great Adobe Illustrator like program (basically the Gimp of vector based image based programs.)

Scribus A great pagelayout program (like InDesign, but free).

Simple Viewer iPhoto Export

SimpleViewer produces Flash-based photo galleries from iPhoto for uploading to your web site. This freeware application requires iPhoto and Mac OS 10.4 and later.

SnapNDrag

SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off. Supports PNG and TIFF for times when image quality cannot be compromised. Or use JPEG with adjustable quality for smaller file sizes. SnapNDrag lets you take a screen shot by just clicking a button and dragging the image onto the desktop, email application, or folder of your choice.

Open Designs

A free website download design website and most of the sites are CSS based.

Programming apps/ WebDesign apps:

http://www.nvu.com/ 6.57MB

http://www.evrsoft.com

http://www.voodoofiles.com/4836 5.2MB

http://www.pspad.com/en/ 3.4MB

3D apps:

Blender

This is a great and very powerful 3D program - has a lot of the MAYA personality - steep learning curve - but it is the best 3D freeware app out there.

Google Sketchup

A really easy to use 3D drawing tool - better to use with landscape and architecture things.

Audio

Audacity

Audacity is a free audio editor that allows you to record and play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more! You can also edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.

Jeskola Buzz

An interesting way to put music together. You create machines that output sound (rhythms or melodies), or other machines that take input from sound machines and modify the output in some way (chorus machines, reverb machines, etc), then link them altogether and fill in when each sound machine should be playing. It takes a little getting used to, but it is a powerful way to synthesize music, and there are hundreds of machines made by fans that are also freely available from the site.

Video

HandBrake

HandBrake is a freeware DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter for OS X 10.3.9 and later (an earlier release is available for OS X 10.2.7 and later). Convert your DVDs into mp4, avi, or ogm format for storage and playback on your hard drive, or for playback on your video-supported iPod.

VLC

VLC is a multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

MacThe Ripper

Mac the Ripper extracts the video and sound files from a DVD.Although the site looks very technical, the application is accompanied by outstanding step-by-step instructions for users of all levels.

Newsreaders, Blogging, RSS, etc.

NetNewsWire Lite

This easy-to-use RSS web news reader for OS X fetches and displays news from thousands of different web sites and blogs.

FTP apps:

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ Free Open Source, Windows NT and later, 3.4MB

http://www.smartftp.com/ Free for non commercial use, Windows 2000 and later 3.3MB

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php Free GNU license, All Windows version, (1.4MB)

[www.coreftp.com/|Core FTP] My personal fav. - easy to use and has the drag and drop ability.

[fireftp.mozdev.org/|Fire ftp] A plugin for FireFox - works great - easy to use.

Concept/ Mindmap apps

Games

Mac Apps

A Bunch of Apps- Open Source Mac