Useful Free Software Updated 2022

Ever have a problem playing SWF files in your media player? This one should do the trick:

Flash Movie Player is a free stand-alone player for ShockWave Flash (SWF) animations, based on the Macromedia Flash Player plugin. In addition to all Macromedia Flash Player abilities, it has some extended features, such as animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, playlists, browser cache integration and exe projectors support.

Graphics Software - All free for windows.



Blender - Open Source 3D-Modeling/Graphics program

FastStone - A great free photo viewer / lightweight editor.

GIMP for Windows - An open source graphics editing program


Google's Picasa - Easy to use and has simple image editing abilities.


ImageJ - Java-based image editor, viewer and processor.

ImageWalker - allows you to manage your image files visually


Inkscape - A free Vector based graphics editor.


Irfanview - Very lightweight, small, and fast image viewer that supports over 30 image formate. Remember though, viewer, not editor. Even though it can resize and do some very basic editing, it's really best used just as your default viewer. Make sure to also download the plugin pack.


Paint.NET - an image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.


PrintKey - Allows you to capture the entire screen or any portion of it, then make changes to the screen capture and save in a variety of formats.


ScreenPrint 32 - Replacement for PrtScrn - Allows capture to clipboard, as well as printer and/or file.


Scribus - Page layout software.


ShellExtension - A Handy program that adds the option to "convert" or "print" your image files with a right click in Windows explorer


XnView - efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter

Tiny Apps is a simple list site for all kinds of freeware!


https://tinyapps.org/

Those are always good. Little sites that offer simple links to stuff. This link is nice in looking for specific task minded software...

Windows Download Hubs

Download Hubs help you to easily and quickly find software that performs a specific task. But here's the twist: we won't just recommend the "best apps ever" and force you to take our word for it.

Instead, our editors create a list of hand picked software titles that can accomplish the task and you can make a choice based on your own criteria.

http://www.softpedia.com/hubs/

Check to see if a website is running or is it just you....



Is down for everyone or just me?
 

http://www.isup.me/

Whenever you install a freeware or shareware always remember to use the 'custom install'. That way you can eliminate some extra toolbar or advertising bot from installing along with it.

f.lux

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.
 
Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. f.lux will do the rest, automatically.

https://justgetflux.com/

Browser software


A google clone without too much google

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code.



http://www.chromium.org/Home



D+ Browser


A graphical web browser with an emphasis on security, performance, and portability.


http://sourceforge.net/projects/dplus-browser/

IrfanView is a nifty little freeware graphics program. It's quick and doesn't fuck around when you have specific tasks in mind. Does everything you need to edit pics. It handles batch file support, optimizes, filters, etc. Allows for plugin support, too. Better than ACDSee and it's small and fast.

http://www.irfanview.com/

IrfanView is a nifty little freeware graphics program. It's quick and doesn't fuck around when you have specific tasks in mind. Does everything you need to edit pics. It handles batch file support, optimizes, filters, etc. Allows for plugin support, too. Better than ACDSee and it's small and fast.
http://www.irfanview.com/

Best of all....



Its fucking free!.