Best Windows Freeware – Programming

Programming

1. Frhed – Hex editor.
2. ActiveGrid Studio – ActiveGrid Studio enables developers to rapidly build enterprise-level Web 2.0 applications with a minimum of training, time, and effort. Supports Java, PHP, Python. Database supports is the best I’ve seen in an open IDE. Has built in Python and Java environments plus a built in running Apache web server. Highly recommended.
3. Aptana – Development environment geared towards web development, Ajax style! Autocomplete and assistance for HTML, CSS, Java Script.

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Best Windows Freeware – Network and Internet

Network

1. Open SSH – SSH Remote administration.
2. Putty – Telnet/SSH application.
3. RRDTool – The industry standard data logging and graphing application. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python or PHP bindings. RRD is the acronym for Round Robin Database. It is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average).

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Best Windows Freeware – Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

1. Doubletype – Font creation application.
2. Fontforge – Font creation application. Requires Cygwin.
3. Gourmet – Recipe Manager is a simple but powerful recipe-managing application.

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Best Windows Freeware – Finance

Finance

1. Grisbi – Personal accounting application.
2. HomeBank – HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyze your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.

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Best Windows Freeware – Databases

Databases

1. MySQL – Most popular SQL Database.
2. Postgresql – SQL database. Heavy duty relational database.
3. SQLCC – GUI Frontend for mySQL.

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Best Windows Freeware – Multimedia Tools

Multimedia Tools

1. Audacity – Wav editor with VST support and can export to mp3. Highly recommended.
2. Cdexos – CDex a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. Highly recommended.
3. Ephpod – Copy iPod music to your PC.

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