We do not accept any liability if you download or install any of the below, this is all done at your own risk as you should always check out anything before you install it on your computer; however you may find some of the below quite useful.
Below are links to where you can download some useful software, many of which can be downladed and used for free. If the developer is providing the software for free and asks for a donation, then send them something to encourage them to create some more useful things.
Anti-Virus www.grisoft.com - ideal integrated protection for your home and small office workstations www.avast.com - free integrated protection for your computer www.comodo.com - free anti-virus software, with extra features www.sophos.com - protect against a variety of web-based threats
Audio www.sourceforge.net - Audacity is free open source software for recording and editing sounds
Hide Files & Folders www.wisecleaner.com - Wise Folder Hider is free easy to use software to hide folders on a computer or usb stick www.cleanersoft.com - Free Hide Folder is a free computer security software to hide your private folders, a useful way to keep your personal data away from others
File Recovery Software www.z-a-recovery.com - ZAR is suitable for home users and small businesses who need a powerful data recovery solution, the free evaluation copy is ideal for lost images www.ccleaner.com - Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer
Firewall www.zonelabs.com - ZoneAlarm provides free basic PC protection for the home user, or pay and get the advanced firewall with identity and privacy protection www.comodo.com - Comodo's firewall monitors all internet traffic and lets you allow or deny applications which attempt to go online www.ashampoo.com - the Ashampoo FireWall Configuration Assistant guides you through every step of the simple set-up process. Easy Mode makes using it a breeze, you don't need any special technical knowledge and everything is explained clearly
Hash Value Generator www.karenware.com - obtain a unique number for the contents of a file or folder, to preserve its integrity, to show it has not been altered, added to or deleted www.slavasoft.com - SlavaSoft HashCalc is a free hash value generator but for files not folders www.nirsoft.net - Hash My Files is a free hash value generator www.md5calculator.com - md5 calculator is a free hash value generator www.softpedia.com - MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility is a free useful hash value generator
Hidden / Meta Data Documents www.brightfort.com - free software to view & strip out metadata in office documents www.evermap.com - AutoMetadata is a free application for exploring & editing metadata in PDF documents www.github.com - Foca is a free application for accessing metadata in a number of document types
Photographs www.gumroad.com - EXIFHound is a useful tool to display the available Exif Data in an image www.photome.de - PhotoME is a powerful tool to show and edit the metadata of image files www.tawbaware.com - basic exif viewer www.geosetter.de - free but powerful exif viewer with nice geo-locator display & IPTC data www.sourceforge.net - hide a file in a picture with hip2.1 www.softpedia.com - BartMark Bitmap Encoder allows you to encode text messages into bitmap images
Videos www.headbands.com - Gspot can access & display very basic metadata in video files but is a bit old and outdated www.mediaarea.net - MediaInfo is a newer tool which display very basic metadata in video files www.digininja.org - ivMeta appears to show meta data in iPhone videos, including geo-location, date & time
Internet History Eraser www.cnet.com - ScrubXP cleans a computer from temporary files and registry keys resulting from opening files and or using the Internet www.privacyroot.com - Wipe clears browsing history and many other tracks of PC activity
Network Tools www.majorgeeks.com - SamSpade a dated but great network investigators tool www.netstatagent.com - NetStat Agent is a powerful network toolkit that includes well-known tools like netstat, ping, traceroute, ipconfig, arp, route, whois, http checker and dns query www.nirsoft.net - IPNetInfo is a small utility that allows you to easily find all available information about an IP address
Odd Ones
Free Software www.sourceforge.net - a site with links to open source software www.osalt.com - a site with links to open source software www.opensourcemac.org - a site with links to open source software for apple macs www.oldversion.com - old / previous versions of popular software to download www.lampyre.io - is a useful tool for searching email addresses & mobile phone numbers, linking them to various online sites & accounts, with a handy guide produced by @henkvaness available Here
Software www.download.com - a site with links to all types of software www.snapfiles.com - a site with links to all types of software www.filehippo.com - a site with links to all types of software www.majorgeeks.com - a site with links to all types of software www.thedatalist.com - a site containing a large list of very useful software, much free to use www.ninite.com - an easy & fast way to automatically install & update popular applications www.downloadastro.com - a site with links to many popular & useful bits of software
Various Tools
NotePad www.notepad-plus-plus.org - Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement
Screen Brightness www.justgetflux.com - f.lux adjusts the colour of your computer's display to the time of day, making it appear dimer at night & brighter during the day www.skytopia.com - this free software lets you adjust the brightness of your computer screen depending on the time of day, so you can make it dimer at night & brighter during the day
Software Checker & Updates www.openwith.org - if you have been sent or downloaded a file that you don't recognize and can't open, this programme will tell which free programme you'll need to open it www.cleansofts.org - the Update Notifier is a small utility that scans your computer for installed software and displays a list of updates
Time Checker www.soft112.com - AtomTime Pro is a Windows based application which will connect to an atomic clock time server and display correct current atomic clock time value and then adjust your computers clock to the correct time if needed
Windows Start Up / Desktop Look www.the-sz.com - Spencer is free software which gives the classic Windows XP Start Menu to a Windows 8 system www.iobit.com - iobit's Start Menu 8 is free software, giving the Windows 7 start menu to Windows 8 systems
On-Screen Video Recorders www.techsmith.com - Camtasia allows you to record your onscreen activity but expensive www.nchsoftware.com - Debut Video Capture Software allows you to record video from a webcam, recording device or screen www.camstudio.org - Camstudio is open source software which allows you to record your onscreen activity www.sourceforge.net - RecordMyDesktop is an open source software for linux based systems, which allows you to record your onscreen activity www.pixelmetrics.com - CaptureWizPro is a professional tool for capturing anything on your screen www.screenpresso.com - free video screen capture for windows www.wisdom-soft.com - AutoScreenRecorder video screen capture www.atomisystems.com - Active Presenter provides both paid for & free version of screen capture software www.litecam.net - provides both paid for & free version of screen capture software for various devices www.srecorder.com - free video screen capture for windows www.bandicam.com - free video screen capture for windows www.airsquirrels.com - reflector allows you to wirelessly stream content from a smartphone to a desktop for recording www.x-mirage.com - x-mirage allows you to wirelessly stream content from a smartphone to a desktop for recording www.telestream.net - screenflow allows you to wirelessly stream content from a smartphone to a desktop for recording
Passwords Password Recovery www.lostpassword.com - reasonably priced software to recover lost passwords for MS Office documents www.elcomsoft.com - Advanced PDF Password Recovery is an easy to use tool that recovers passwords & removes restrictions from password protected PDF's
PDF Viewers & Others www.cutepdf.com - CutePDF Writer (Freeware) create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. Free for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No popup Web advertisements! www.primopdf.com - Primo PDF (Freeware) create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. Also offers a free on-line service changing files to PDF www.foxitsoftware.com - a small & fast PDF viewer / creator www.icecreamapps.com - as well as a having a PDF Converter they have useful free software that allows you to add or remove pages to a PDF or merge PDF files www.pdfcore.com - free advanced PDF utilities www.gonitro.com - free advanced PDF creator www.pdferaser.net - allows you to delete text, images and whole pages from a pdf document www.investintech.com - software which allows scanned pdf's to be converted to word documents www.cisdem.com - pdf converter software with a free trial feature
Screen Grab/Capture www.snapfiles.com - MWSnap is useful free Windows based program for getting screen captures of a desktop or a specified part of the screen
SpyWare Protection www.safer-networking.org - the home of Spybot-S&D, the best (according to PC World, PCMag.com) privacy software available www.malwarebytes.org - Malwarebytes is all about helping users remove malware from their computers and making sure their computers stay infection free www.superantispyware.com - detects and removes Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers and many other types of threats. Free home version and paid for pro version
Video Players www.videolan.org - VLC is a powerful media player, playing most of the media & video formats out there
Video Recoding / Downloading www.handbrake.fr - useful tool for downloading videos to play on mobile devices www.freemake.com - useful tool for downloading videos from different websites, which can then be saved in many different file types www.ytddownloader.com - YTD downloader allows you to easily download YouTube videos along with many other sites www.4kdownload.com - download from YouTube and other sites and convert to other file types
VOIP www.skype.com - free Skype to Skype calls & cheap calls to other phones www.voipcallrecording.com - MP3 Skype recorder is absolutely free and automatic Skype call recording tool for windows Skype users
Website Monitors & Scrapers Website Monitors www.aignes.com - WebSite-Watcher can be set to automatically check web pages for any updates or changes to save you regularly revisiting Website Scrapers www.scrapestorm.com - free & easy to use website scraper