Free Windows Software

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Office

AllMyNotes Organizeris a free program to capture all of your thoughts, ideas, and inspirations, into a single file. Supports Skins, Alarms, file access can be restricted by password, multilingual. Allows import and export from/to .trf, .html, and .txt files.

ATnotesis a free program which creates notes on the desktop. It lives in the system tray, takes very few resources, and supports a lot of languages.

Converberis a unit converter. It is a powerful software utility that will help make easy conversions between 1173 various units of measure in 32 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature.

Convertis a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions.

Doc Convertoris simple and fast way to export your source code or documents into various file formats. You will be able to quickly and easily export (10+ formats supported) and print your text-based documents, convert them to PDF, Excel, images and more.

OpenOfficeis a multi platform and multi lingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. Another OpenOffice.org distribution with more features and possibly more community support, along with direct support by Novell, is Go-OO. IBM distributes an entirely Java-based version of OpenOffice.org, for which they have resurrected the old product name Lotus Symphony.

LibreOfficeis a free software office suite developed by The Document Foundation that is compatible with other major office suites and available on a variety of platforms. Its developers’ goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements.

Sunbirdis a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Our goal is to bring Mozilla-style ease-of-use to your calendar, without tying you to a particular storage solution.

AbiWordis a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Adobe Readerallows you to securely view, print, search, sign, verify, and collaborate on PDF documents, online as well as offline, from your home or office.

PDFCreatoris a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine.

AutoHotkeyunleashes the full potential of your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. For example, in addition to the typical Control, Alt, and Shift modifiers, you can use the Windows key and the Capslock key as modifiers. In fact, you can make any key or mouse button act as a modifier.

AutoItis a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages, as for example VBScript and SendKeys.

Office Menu-2003 for Office-2007is a free addin to have the old classic menu back via the Addins TAB in Office-2007 but for all the new features you have to use the Ribbon.

OpenGoois an Open Source Web Office. It is a LAMP server application that provides tools for task management and sharing of all kinds of information such as documents, contacts, e-mail and calendars.

Uniсatallows you to create catalogs of almost anything – books, videotapes, CD-ROMs, music CD, documents, histories of diseases in hospitals, pedigree and so on with detailed descriptions – everything depends on your imagination!

CD/DVD

CDBurner XP Prois a free CD/DVD burning solution. With it you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs. It supports most IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives.

DVD Shrinkis software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.

ImgBurnis a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blue-ray burning application. It can perform a great variety of tasks : read a disc to an image file, create an image file from files on your computer, or network, or directly to a disc, write an image file to a disc, check a disc is 100% readable.

Nero CD-DVD Speedis a program for testing optical drives and media and is part of Nero Toolkit.

Codecs

AC3Filteris a high quality free audio decoder and processor filter. It allows media players to playback movies with AC3 and DTS audio tracks. Also it can process any audio track, much of processing options allows to adjust the sound in almost any way. It is possible to upmix any audio source to 6 channels.

GSpot– codec information. It establishes what video codecs (audio and video) are required to play an AVI file, determines whether these codecs are installed on your system, and isolates problems associated with these codecs.

K-Lite Codec Packis a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.

QT Liteis a lightweight version of QuickTime. It contains all the essential components and nothing more. This is an excellent replacement. It needs less disk space, has no background processes, has the ability to download HD trailers.

QuickTime Alternativewill allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install QuickTime Player from Apple. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. QuickTime Alternative Lite is QuickTime Alternative without Media Player Classic.

System Utilities

Logon Controllerto control background screen of login screen of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

allSnapis a small system tray app that makes all top level windows automatically align like they do in programs such as Winamp or Photoshop.

Ant Movie Catalogis a free program made to manage your collection of movies DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, etc.) and tapes.

Atomic Clock Synca tool to synchronize your clock. Atomic clock servers are operated by many governments and some large organizations. These atomic clock servers can be contacted to synchronize a local time with the server’s time. This is vital for applications like Banking or Airport Traffic Control, but is useful for our own computers as well.

CCleaneris a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. It contains no Spyware or Adware.

CodySafea free portable applications menu and launcher system. Manages portable drive, applications, documents, multimedia and pictures. Detects and prevents virus infection. Menu tool operates PortableApps Framework (PAF) and non-PAF applications. Best experiense with Wndows Vista and Windows 7.

Chaos MD5is a free MD5 generator for Windows. Input any file into this free program and it will generate a MD5 checksum for that file. That simply means it generates a unique signature for each and every file.

Citrus Alarm Clockis a software alarm clock. You can set as many different alarms as you’d like. It uses your existing media player. MP3, WMA, and any other media types are supported as long as you have the right media player installed. It is easy to use and free.

Dexpotturns your monitor into up to 20. It creates and manages virtual desktops and enables you to work far more efficiently and comfortably with many simultaneously opened windows on Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Disclibis a CD collection organizer program. It may be used as a catalogue of CDs. After creating the catalogue, disclib stores file and folder names and tree, allows user to categorize folders and files, and allows searching all the files from the collection CDs without need to place them in CD reader.

DriveImage XMLis an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to backup logical drives and partitions to image files, browse these images, view and extract files, restore these images to the same or a different drive, copy directly from drive to drive.

Eraseris an advanced security tool for Windows, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

FineRecoveryis a free utility to restore deleted files from hard disk. It uses a fast engine to quicky scan your PC for deleted files and get the files back to life.

Freeraseris a free utility to securely delete files and folders from hard disk by overwriting content of file by andom data. Tree levels of destruction (Fast, Forced and Ultimate) are available.

HashTabis a Windows shell extension which adds a tab called “File Hashes” to the Windows Explorer file properties. The tab contains the MD5, SHA1 and CRC-32 file hashes. These are common hashes that are used to verify the integrity and authenticity of files. Many download sites list the MD5 hash along with the download link. The HashTab makes it very simple for Windows users to check these hashes on any file on the system without using external tools.

Icons From Fileis a tool for extracting icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.) with ability to scan folders to search for EXE, DLL and OCX files, which contain icons.

Launchyis a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.

MozBackupis a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.

Net Profileseliminates the need to manually reconfigure your network settings when you move your desktop/laptop computer to another location. Once a profile is created, Net Profiles can configure your IP settings, proxy settings, mapped drives, default printer, wallpaper, and screen resolution with a click of a button; as well as run any number of user-defined applications upon activation of a profile.

PC Decrapifieris a program designed to remove or uninstall a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with newer PCs.

ReNameris a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. Program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in a logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded, and managed within the program.

ResourceHackeris a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.

Revealer Keylogger Free Editionis a free monitoring tool that logs everything that is typed on your computer. It records every keystroke even passwords behind asterisks and conversations in common instant messengers.

StrokeItis an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor. Mouse gestures are simple symbols that you “draw” on your screen using your mouse. When you perform a mouse gesture that StrokeIt can recognize, it will perform the “action” associated with that gesture.

Subtitle Workshopis an efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It makes subtitle creating/editing/converting tasks almost a pleasure, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes easy to access menus and must have features with advanced functions and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle editing time. It includes spell check function and an advanced video preview feature which will ease the task even more.

SyncBackis a multi-award winning freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronize your files.

Sysinternals Toolscontain various system tools, such as file and disk utilities, networking utilities, process, security utilities, system information.

TaskSwitchXPis an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to.

Undelete Plusis a completely free Software, which doesn’t contain adware, spyware, there’s no registration, popups. It recovers deleted files from NTFS/NTFS5, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 volumes, restores deleted files on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2003, Windows Vista.

Unlocker– a free lightweight program which is used for deleting the files.

Weather Watcherautomatically retrieves the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide.

WinIPConfigis a replacement for the command line tools “ipconfig.exe” and “route.exe”. This version also includes the “netstat.exe” tool. Win IP Configuration Manager shows you the IP settings of the installed network interfaces. IP addresses obtained by DHCP can be renewed by Win IP Config. Routes can easily be added, removed, changed or made persistent by this tool.

xp-AntiSpyis a little utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authentication ‘features’ in WindowsXP.

XP SysPadis a Windows system monitoring utility that allows easy access to Windows system information and Windows system utilities, such as the individual control panel applets, as well as putting the “hidden” applications in Windows at your fingertips.

Sublightis simple and easy to use freeware utility for downloading subtitles. It features auto subtitle find feature, manual searching, uploading new subtitles, auto updates, … See“Sublight application demo”for quick intro.

Archive

7-Zipis open source software. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip. But you can make a donation to support further development of 7-Zip.

IZArcis the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 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.

TugZIPis a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

Universal Extractoris a program that extracts files from any type of archive, whether it’s a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.

PeaZipis a cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP.

UI Enhancements

AveDeskis a tool that enables desklets on your desktop: desklets are small graphically pleasing mini-applications that are useful and fun to use. A desklet can be anything, a small sticky note, a weather foresight, a calculator, etc.

LClockis a Win32(64bit too now) Longhorn systray clock program.

MacSounda sound volume control in Mac OS X Style.

RocketDockis a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.

Taskbar Shuffle– rearranges the programs on the taskbar by dragging.

Y’z Dockis a program launcher like the dock in MacOS X.

Y’z Shadowadds a shadow effect to the windows in pursuit of the “beauty of a shadow”. It makes it possible to select one type of shadow effect in the active window and a different one in the inactive window. The user can also choose to have transparent menus. There is also the option of selecting the degree of transparency in the menus.

Y’z Toolbar– change the toolbar icons in Explorer and Internet Explorer

Visual Task Tips– thumbnail preview image for each task in the taskbar.

Icons and Folders Badgesthe program that allows placing handy emblems upon familiar Windows icons. Foldericoallows to change icons of the chosen folder to any chosen by you. And even at connection of a hard disk to other computer of an icon will remain such what they were made by you. Folder Markeris a tool to mark your folders. Folder2MyPC– add favourite locations to My Computer. Microsoft TweakUI– system settings. Vize– Basic is a GUI enhancer for Windows Vista. It replaces most of the non-Vista icons, animations and bitmaps that Microsoft is still overlooking. IcoFXis a free icon editor that supports Windows Vista icons also. It can extract icons from exe and dll files. Can convert images to icons. It can do also batch processing.

Shell Packs
BricoPacks– shell packs that make your XP look like Vista while staying fully compatible with Windows XP.

ShellPacksshell packs that change your Windows XP look.

Tango Shell Patcheris a graphical wizard designed to make simple the process of modifying your system files with resources developed and inspired by the Tango Desktop Project.

Vista Transformation Packbrings to your desktop the look of Microsoft’s future operating system, Windows Vista.

Hardware monitoring/Benchmarking

Central Brain Identifieris the solution, designed for AMD processor identification. This software recognizes more than 50 various models of the AMD processors and includes over 400 OPN numbers. It reports all the technical information and technical features you need on your processor, such as processor core name, core revision, nominal processor frequency, date of announce, OPN number, etc.

CPU-Zis a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

GPU-Zis a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

CrystalCPUIDis a CPU utility software.

Memtest86is a comprehensive, stand-alone memory diagnostic.

SiSoft Sandrais an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

SpeedFanis a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips.

3Dmark 06is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests.

Aquamarkallows PC users to easily benchmark their current and next-generation PCs by measuring and comparing the performance of the systems.

rthdriblis a real-time high dynamic range image-based lighting demo.

Fraps– 3D benchmark, it is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology.

SuperPIIt takes this program 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and 340MB available storage, to calculate 33.55 million digits.

CPU Rightmark– cpu overclock.

Core Tempis a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.

ATiToolis an overclocking utility designed for ATI and NVIDIA video cards.

ATI Tray Toolsis a Full Featured Radeon Tweaker that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings.

aTuneris an easy-to-use tweak-tool for GeForce-, Quadro- and Radeon-graphiccards

RivaTuneris a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters.

Nokia Monitor Testis a collection of test that can be used to check CRT monitor performance. The application contains test patterns for Geometry, Convergence, Resolution, Moiré, Brightness, Contrast, Focus, Readability, Color and Screen Regulation.

UDPixelhelps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels.

Education

KidZuiis a fun, intuitive, easy-to-use kids’ browser and kid-safe social network with over a million games, websites, pictures, and videos. Kids can connect with their friends on KidZui, express their feelings and opinions, and share cool stuff they find online. It’s a fun, safe, and engaging internet experience that rewards curiosity and builds independence.

Celestiafree space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Medexam.neta free educational program for medical students and doctors. Medexam.net runs on Windows.

Diais a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

Google Earthgives you a wealth of imagery, and geographic and astronomical information.

NASA World Windis a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.

SpeQ Mathematicsis a small, extensive mathematics program with a simple, intuitive interface. All calculations are entered in a sheet. In there you can freely add, edit and execute all calculations. You can define variables and functions, and plot graphs of your functions. You can save your calculations for later re-use.

Stellariumis a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Servers

EFTP, based on the RFC 959standard of FTP, it incorporates RSA encryption and Blowfish encryption to achieve fast and secure transfers of data over any TCP/IP network, including The Internet.

rndware psyBNC ServerA version of psyBNC, a popular IRC bouncer/proxy with modifications. Ported to Windows.

FileZillathe free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Windows Ident ServerA free, stable IDENT server that can be used on IRC (psyBNC, mIRC) or FTP servers as an authentication method.

Navigation

OkMapis an interactive software which allows you to work on your computer screen with digital maps that you have either bought or scanned. OkMap can also import vectorial data from the most common formats and DEM data relevant to height informations. Through these maps, OkMap lets you organize paths by creating waypoints, routes and tracks on your computer monitor, and upload this data to your GPS. To make it easier, OkMap provides you also with autorouting and geocoding functions. Data collected by your GPS can be downloaded on your computer, stored and displayed on the maps. They can also be used to create different types of statistics. By connecting a GPS to your laptop, you can plot your position on maps in real-time. If you are connected to the network you can constantly send your position to a remote computer, or receive the position of your companions on your computer and display the related tracks on maps in real time. OkMap can also interface Google Maps and Google Earth. With Google Maps you can get portions of maps immediately available in OkMap. With Google Earth you can view your paths and your maps also in 3D.

Pace & Placeis a platform-independent application for managing and visualizing GPS and sports training data. It empowers the user to track training events and combine them with geographic data (e.g. GPS device records). Map, waypoint and track visualizations and associations with taken photos are frequent use cases as well.

Miscellaneous

FreeMindis a mind-mapping software written in Java. The operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of Mind Manager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.

iDailyDiaryis a simple page-for-a-day diary. Providing a simple interface that immediately gets you started taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing and much more. iDailyDiary provides a “richtext” editor and the ability to insert graphics, URL’s and Hypertext links.

nLiteis a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows configuration. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on CD or testing in virtual machines.

Pivot Stickfigure Animatormakes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages.

Scribusis an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Winkis 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, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

ZScreenis a free open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. It supports automatic custom naming conventions with variables. It can also interface with image editing software.

Mikogo is a free desktop sharing tool where you can invite up to 10 participants to join a screen sharing web conference in real time and in true color quality. Mikogo is quick and easy to use. Simply start a meeting with a couple of mouse clicks, receive a unique Meeting ID, and your meeting participants can then join the desktop sharing session using the ID. There are no configurations or changes to network and firewall settings. There are absolutely no costs involved.

jSnakeis the name of a video game, but of thing he treats? A half idea (if not all) is had, analyzing the title, that is composed from j + Snake; do you eliminate the “j”, that stays you? Exact! Snake, if you have surely had a Nokia among the hands you have tried it. This is a version for PC, available free for operating systems: Windows, MAC, Linux and Solaris.

NorthScaleoffers a new solution for Memcached Software called Membase, which is supported on most platforms. Organizations using Membase can deploy a cloud-friendly data layer that expands dynamically as application needs change, delivering performance exceeding that of any other NoSQL solution.

Popppris a free, lightweight image/photo-based Feed Reader–puts content onto user’s desktop; new feeds can be added via URL drag&drop

Desktop Virtualization

Virtual PCallows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs.

VirtualBoxis a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use; it is the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), and runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts.

VMware Serverwill allow you to begin enjoying the benefits of server virtualization for free; it installs like an application on any existing server (or desktop) hardware and partitions a physical PC into multiple virtual machines. You can even use it to create virtual machines to use with VMware Player.

VMware Playeris a free desktop virtualization software application that makes it easy to run any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC.

Graphics

Picasais free photo editing and organizing software from Google.

Blenderis an open source 3d modeling and animation package.

The Gimpis a free “Photoshop” replacement.

Inkscapeis an open source vector drawing package similar to Illustrator and FreeHand.

Programming

Tcl/TkA powerful scripting language that makes programming fun and easy.

Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editionsare free versions of the products of Microsoft Visual Studio – includes free versions of Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual Web Developer, Microsoft SQL Server, and Visual J#.

FreeBASICis a free BASIC compiler.

WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2.0is a pre-integrated, lightweight Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 application server built on Apache Geronimo technology. Available at no charge.

DB2 Express-C 9is a no-charge version of DB2 Express 9 data server. DB2 Express-C offers the same core data server features as DB2 Express Edition and provides a solid base to build and deploy applications developed using C/C++, Java, .NET, PHP, and other programming languages.

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Softwareis a trial version of Rational Application Developer that helps developers quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile, and deploy high-quality Web, SOA, Java, J2EE, and portal applications.

Aliceis a free teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first experience in using object-oriented programming.

LunaRCPis an open source project providing very useful plug-ins to ease the development of Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications. It covers a broad range of RCP topics, e.g. application startup, file operations, jobs API, SWT/JFace, database integration using Hibernate, etc. LunaRCP is hosted on SourceForge.net.

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