David's Freeware Collection!

µTorrent is a BitTorrent client. There are many on the market today, and most of them are free to use. What makes uTorrent special is the small amount of memory and CPU time that the application uses.



µTorrent

This is a very broad category. There are many browsers to choose from. I've probably tried all of them over the years, but I keep coming back to Firefox. I like it because it's fast, secure, and most importantly to me, is very customizable through the vast array of add-ons available. Opera is also a good choice if you're looking for a browser that won't suck up a lot of memory. A new one to watch is Google Chrome. It is very fast, but not very customizable. Given a year or two, it may surpass Firefox as my browser of choice.



Firefox



Opera



Google Chrome

If you decide to go with Firefox, let me strongly suggest you download MozBackup. Itbacks up your Firefox ot Thunderbird settings, bookmarks, etc. If something goes wrong you can restore your precious settings in only a few seconds.



MozBackup

Alternatively, if you decide Google Chrome is more to your taste, there's also a backup program for that, too. It's called, rather surprisingly, Google Chrome Backup.



Google Chrome Backup

TCP Optimizer is a great freeware tool that allows you to tweak your internet connection in order to get the most speed out of it.



TCP Optimizer

Free Download Manager is a fantastic open source download manager, with BitTorrent and FTP support, along with flash video downloads from Youtube and other video sharing websites.



Free Download Manager

Orbit Downloader is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, etc. And it also makes general downloading easier and faster.



Orbit Downloader

Gigaget is the next generation download manager which utilizes cutting-edge Net Grid technology that improves your download speed by 7-10 times.



Gigaget

Thunderbird is a powerful, lightweight, fast and highly customizable freeware email client. It is definitely one of the freeware programs I couldn’t live without.



Thunderbird

Postbox lets you work with email the way you've always wanted. Powered by an ultra-fast email engine and a sharp-looking, intuitive interface, Postbox will help you focus, save time, and get more done.



Postbox

HFS - HTTP File Server is an easy to use drag and drop file server for personal file sharing. It runs as a standalone executable and does not require any installation. The program is very easy to use, just drag a file into it to share it with the world.



HFS - HTTP File Server

Cabos is a free Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. No spyware, no adware, guaranteed. Cabos provides a simple sidebar user interface, firewall to firewall transfers, proxy transfers, Universal Plug and Play, iTunes + iPod integration and more.



Cabos

KompoZer is an easy to use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor, simple but powerful.



KompoZer

PSPad is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a hex editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, Code Explorer and much more. The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (VB, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, Python etc.) and you can further customize the syntax settings.



PSPad

Digsby is a very interesting instant messenger client. It supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts. But the great feature is that it supports multiple e-mail accounts, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP. It is also a great tool for social networking. It supports Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace accounts so far, with more of them coming up.

Digsby

Pidgin is definitely the best. It support virtually every IM protocol available: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Zephyr. If you add to that a nice interface and great functionality you can not choose anything else.



Pidgin

Angry IP Scanner is a very fast and small IP scanner. The program uses separate threads for each scanned address to reduce scanning speed. It can also display NetBIOS information: computer name, workgroup, currently logged user and MAC address.



Angry IP Scanner

Xenu's Link Sleuth is a very good freeware program for webmasters. Just type in your website adress and scan it for broken links.



Xenu's Link Sleuth

AM-Dead Link is a free tool that detects dead links and duplicates in your browser bookmarks. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify it in the internal preview and delete it from your browser.



AM-Dead Link

HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to transfer a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all structures, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your computer.



HTTrack

FeedDemon looks nice, works well and has a bunch of nice features that will make your RSS feeds reading better.



FeedDemon

Feedreader is a free RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust, state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment.



Feedreader

PuTTY is the classic SSH/terminal client. 'Nuf said.



PuTTY