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http://www.bittorrent.com/download

Bit torrent is an excellent tool to enable you to download files that are shared across a protocol known as “torrents”. This is currently the predominent method of P2P file sharing across the internet.

In order to download torrent shared content, firstly download the bit torrent client and install it. Secondly do a google search for “torrent search” and then select one of the results. You will then need to search for what you want to download and then open the torrent file relating to that file. This will start your torrent downloading through the bit torrent software.

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When you’ve finished checking out all that great free software, you might like to visit www.flame-warz.com.
Are you sick of getting kicked off your favorite forums just because you’ve entered into an innocent flame battle?  At www.flame-warz.com flame wars are encouraged and even provoked.

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Nice freeware screen capture utility!

http://www.gadwin.com/download/

Decent software for getting rid of nasty spyware / addware

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

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AVG are offering a version of their robust anti virus software FREE for non commercial users. Running a machine without anti virus software is madness.

For windows.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/

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 Handbrake is a great tool for converting your DVD’s to to MP4 files (and copying them to your hard disk drive).

http://handbrake.m0k.org/ 

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E-mule is a fantastic freeware P2P file sharing utility.
E-mule P2P file sharing allows you anonymously search for and download almost anything you can imagine, as long as someone else on the network is willing to share it.

http://www.emule.com/

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For lovers of mind maps, this is a great fully featured free mind mapping product. It even allows you to export your mind maps to HTML and display them on a website as a mind map! Definately worth checking out.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/

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GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

http://www.gimp.org

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CrudPHP is a CRUD code generator for PHP and MySQL.

Crud code comprises all code who’s function is to perform the basic database operations of creating, reading updating and deleting database records.
CrudPHP massively reduces the amount of effort required in writing CRUD code by generating a working skelliton / prototype of the code you need to work with a particular table within your MySQL database, leaving you to tackle the more intricate (and enjoyable) aspects of web application development like design and coding complex business logic.

www.crudphp.com

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JEdit supports pretty much everything that a developer would want out of a text editor including:

color syntax highlighing

auto indenting

buffer swtiching

split panel multi-buffer display

global search across open buffers or files on disk

global search and replace across all open buffers

powerful scripting language
Best of all there’s an extensible plug in architecture with an active community of plugin developers churning out gems such as JDiff, a side by side visual file comparison plugin, and some obscure things such as the Lazy 8 Ledger which turns JEdit into an accounting package. You can download JEdit for Mac OS X here.
http://www.jedit.org/

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Easily the best chess program I have seen. It supports many many different chess engines that you just download and plug in, and this results in the computer playing styles that are distinctive to those engines. This program plays chess strong enough to challenge grandmasters.

It is freeware!

Download it! It is called arena.

http://www.playwitharena.com/

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Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback (see the features and screenshots). Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X under the GNU Public License.

It is hard to believe that software like this exists FOR FREE!

http://www.blender3d.org/

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A Public Doman library of Vector Graphics.

This is the perfect companion to InkScape.

http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/index.php

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NVU is a wysiwyg web development tool similar to dreamweaver or frontpage.

It supports CSS and the full range of HTML formatting options and has facilities to automate the publishing of your website. Overall it is a good web development tool and is definitely worth trying before you consider frontpage or dreamweaver.

Available For : Unix, Windows and Mac

http://www.nvu.com/download.html  

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OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.”

This FREE product is a direct compeditor to Microsoft Office.

http://www.openoffice.org/

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“FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface”. FileZilla is as good or better than any of the top FTP programs on the market, and it is FREE!

This product is a direct compeditor (and is just as good as) commercial products like cute FTP.

Available For : Windows

http://filezilla-project.org/

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