Your Useful Freeware/Shareware

[veighser]

Software i would recommend is The Tor Browser Bundle. You seem to be hidden pretty well and it gets you around all the UK ISP blocks.

https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrows..._en-US.exe

Heres a tutorial video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BobJapSVDdU

[joew771]

Just found this today.

http://www.httrack.com/

From the site.

"HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

WinHTTrack is the Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Seven release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release."

Just tried it out and it works well. Just make sure you aren't trying to recreate ebay on your computer, or something else ginormously big. I did one with about 200-300 pages in around 20 minutes.

[inotyourdaddy]

TrueCrypt

Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.
Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.

http://www.truecrypt.org/

[crimsonswordx]

Freeware: Toolwiz Time Freeze, Toolwiz Time Machine

http://www.toolwiz.com/en/downloads/

[TOphotog]

Bulk Rename Utility

Great for photographers who like to catalogue all their images. You can sort by date and time created to keep all in order. Seems complicated at first, but it really gets pretty intuitive after a few uses.
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria.
Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!
- Rename multiple files quickly, according to many flexible criteria.
- Rename files in many ways: add, replace, insert text into file names. Convert case, add numbers. Remove or change file extensions.
- Check the detailed preview before renaming.
- Rename photos using EXIF meta data (i.e. "Date Picture Taken", "Resolution" and other information embedded in all JPG photo files) Rename your holiday pictures from a meaningless dsc1790.jpg to NewYork1.jpg in a flash.
- Rename MP3 files using ID3 tags (a.k.a. MP3 ID3 tag renaming).
- Change files' creation and modification time stamps.

[SectorVector]

https://justgetflux.com/

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun.
But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

f.lux

f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

[stormium]

X Lossless Decoder (xld) - OS X 10.3+

xld handles the vast majority of your mac related audio encoding and ripping needs.

supports most popular uncompressed lossless, compressed lossless and lossy encodes in a nice little lightweight package... supports even more file types with additional libraries.

it also supports error correction during ripping and even plays nicely with itunes.

[pilafut]

For Windows 7
People that use VHD and don't want to go through the hassle of opening disk management every time
VHD attach
I found it minutes ago and it works great

http://www.jmedved.com/vhdattach/

[RobertX]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/

Orwell Dev C++, an elegant, multi-featured C/C++ IDE

This version of the Dev C++ is an update of the Dev C++ IDE environment. For starters, there are C, C++, and GUI templates (mostly) for easy Windows program development. GNU/Linux users should just use Netbeans and QT4 for C/C++ GUI.

Hope this helps.

[anmisto]

GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML.
Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
Full Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts.
Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface.
A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available separately.

Vim
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.

ComicRack
ComicRack is the best eComic reader and manager for Windows computers. It is an all-in-one solution to read and manage your eComic library. It is actively maintained, has a strong user base and is FREE.

CDisplayEX
CDisplay Ex is the most used comic book reader. It is able to read all comic book formats (cbr cbz pdf etc..) and Manga. Everything is designed give you the best reading experience, it load comic books immediately, reading is fluid and comfortable even on slow computer. It uses advanced resize techniques to provide a smooth rendering.

XMBC Media Center
XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.

Plex Media Server
Plex organizes video, music and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices. It is a media player system and software suite consisting of many player applications for 10-foot user interfaces and an associated media server that organizes personal media stored on local devices.

mIRC
mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over a decade, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology. You can learn about mIRC here.

irssi
Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.
It is the best IRC client I have used, including one of the most configurable clients out there.