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dynafx

23-08-2005, 12:07 PM

The ultimate "free download" tools that could prove useful for everyday use 
This list is compiled from CGTALK, of all the free downloads of 3D, paint, antivirus etc., 
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Spybot (anti spyware) 

<a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/</a> 

 

Adaware (see above) 

<a href="http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/</a> 

 

AVG antivirus 

<a href="http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01</a> 

 

Zonealarm Firewall 

<a href="http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/trial_zaFamily/trial_zaFamily.jsp?lid=home_freedownloads" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...e_freedownloads</a> 

 

McAfee Stinger (virus removal tool) 

<a href="http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/</a> 

 

Wings3d (boxmodeller) 

<a href="http://www.wings3d.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.wings3d.com/</a> 

 

ArtRage (paint/sketching app) 

<a href="http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html</a> 

 

FireFox (browser) 

<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html</a> 
 
open office - great open-source alternative for MS office product 

<a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.openoffice.org/</a> 
 
GNU emacs, The Editor 

<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html</a> 

 

TreeSize pro, Disk Useage and folder size calcuator (not free but you dont need the pay for version) 

<a href="http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/index.shtml" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/index.shtml</a> 

 

Google Earth ( best map tool) 

<a href="http://earth.google.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://earth.google.com</a> 

 

RK Launcher, best XP Dock bar. 

<a href="http://home.cogeco.ca/%7Eraduking/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://home.cogeco.ca/~raduking/</a> 

 

AlwaysOnTopMaker, ALT+CTRL+T makes the current window always on top 

<a href="http://www.fadsoft.net/AlwaysOnTopMaker.htm" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.fadsoft.net/AlwaysOnTopMaker.htm</a> 

 

AveDesk, Various Desktop widgets but most useful is FTP Dropper, drag any file on icon to send to your FTP. 

<a href="http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=23384" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=23384</a> 
 
<a href="http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Home.2.0.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">Blender</a> 

 

<a href="http://www.gimp.org/" target="_blank" target="_blank">GIMP</a> or if you're a Mac user, <a href="http://www.macgimp.org/" target="_blank" target="_blank">MacGIMP</a> 

 

<a href="http://www.inkscape.org/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Inkscape</a> (vector illustration) 

 

<a href="http://www.scribus.org.uk/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Scribus</a> (page layout) 
 
Linux OS: the stability, the style, the freeness <a href="http://linuxiso.org/" target="_blank" target="_blank">linuxiso.org</a> 
 
<a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">www.sysinternals.com</a> 

Great for little networking and system apps. Fantastic pagefile defragger. 

 

<a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://picasa.google.com/</a> 

Probably one of the best free image viewers around. I prefer it over ACDSee. 
 
VLC, the video player - <a href="http://videolan.org/vlc/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://videolan.org/vlc/</a> 

Abiword, the lightweight word processor - <a href="http://abisource.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://abisource.com/</a> 
 
<a href="http://www.irfanview.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">IrfanView</a>, better than any other viewer I know. 

 

<a href="http://www.smartftp.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Smart FTP</a>. 

 

<a href="http://www.avast.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Avast antivirus</a>. 

 

<a href="http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-2191_4-10398243.html?tag=lst-0-1" target="_blank" target="_blank">Deep Paint</a>, a paint program, used to be expensive, now free. 

 

<a href="http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Plant Studio</a>, a little program for botanical simulations, exports 3D models of plants. 
 
Media Player Classic - a very tiny, fast and vastly superior all-round player 

 

<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/project/show...ackage_id=84358</a> 
 
<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,5272,00.asp" target="_blank" target="_blank">Rname-It</a>
- "Rename your files--one or all--quickly, and preview the results
before they get committed to disk. This utility supports long file
names." 
 
<a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Quicksilver</a> (for OSX, Spotlight that works) 

<a href="http://www.konfabulator.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Konfabulator</a> (widgets for Windows and OSX) 
 

DHE Editor available at <a href="http://www.hexagora.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">www.hexagora.com</a> for website development

jayanta

23-08-2005, 12:21 PM

very very thanx for the links
jayanta

projectile

23-08-2005, 02:49 PM

great dynaFX 
 
here's my addition to the must have list 
 
tga thumbnail view in explorer, damn handy for us tantriks.<img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0"> 
 
<a href="http://greggman.com/pages/thumbplug_tga.htm" target="_blank">http://greggman.com/pages/thumbplug_tga.htm</a>

dynafx

24-08-2005, 01:16 AM

<A href="http://www.jedit.org/" target="_blank">Jedit</A>: A very good text editor <A href="http://toolbar.msn.com/" target="_blank">Windows Desktop Search</A>: Indexed search for Windows. Don't forget to add <A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.DesktopSearchIFilters" target="_blank">ifilters</A> and play with settings (like adding .mel and .py to the text files will be indexed to search for scripts) to extend it's indexing capabilities.
<DIV>JDisk Report (<A href="http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport" target="_blank">http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport</A>), to see which files take up all the diskspace</DIV>
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<DIV>image viewer  <A href="http://www.xnview.com/" target="_blank">xnview</A>. Among other things it shows alpha channels (hit "M"), handles XSI .pic files, and has a superb batch processor, from resizing images to much more advanced stuff (e.g. setting DPI on PNG files). If you work with Windows and hate it that you can't see thumbnails for .TGA and .pic files, get <A href="http://greggman.com/pages/thumbplug_tga.htm" target="_blank">Thumb Plug</A>!</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.1-4a.com/rename/" target="_blank">1-4a Rename</A> : Another small self-running program. (668KB) Rename files quickly, it'll even undo. Going to have to refer to their example page to see how to rename stuff specifically, but it's easy. You can replace words, add numbers, add leading numbers to existing numbers (turn pic2.jpg to pic02.jpg), preview the changes, etc.</DIV>
 
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dynafx

25-08-2005, 02:29 AM

"Friday or another day" : the first Belgian 35mm feature film with all special effects made with Blender on Linux workstations, a prize-winning film at Locarno Film Festival. We are very proud to announce that the Belgian 35 mm feature movie "Friday or another day / Vendredi ou un autre jour" - Director Yvan Le Moine have received last week the Independant Critic Prize at the 58th Locarno Film Festival. All special effects in this film are made with Blender on Linux workstations by Digital Graphics, Belgium (<A href="http://www.digitalgraphics.be/" target="_blank">http://www.digitalgraphics.be</A>). You can find some informations on web: SFX : <A href="http://www.softanim.com/vendredi/index.html" target="_blank">www.softanim.com/vendredi/index.html</A> (High bandwith recommended). Official : <A href="http://www.lefilm.net/vendredi.html" target="_blank">www.lefilm.net/vendredi.html</A> 
so, dont underestimate, free tools<IMG src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0">

dynafx

25-08-2005, 02:48 AM

Drag and drop file extension changer <A href="http://www.yehiaeg.com/extchanger/index.php?view=desc" target="_blank">http://www.yehiaeg.com/extchanger/index.php?view=desc</A> Tune the appearance of your fonts in windows... <A href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography...pePowerToy.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/typography...pePowerToy.mspx</A>
 Free sound editing software
<A href="http://nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html" target="_blank">http://nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html</A> 
Animation & Modeling Maya Personal Learning Edition <A href="http://www.aliaswavefront.com/" target="_blank">http://www.aliaswavefront.com</A> Silo Learning Version <A href="http://www.nevercenter.com/downloads/" target="_blank">http://www.nevercenter.com/downloads/</A> iLuac software Aeliom <A href="http://www.iluac.com/aeliom/" target="_blank">http://www.iluac.com/aeliom/</A> Gloodle <A href="http://www.wondertouch.com/gloodle/gloodle.asp" target="_blank">http://www.wondertouch.com/gloodle/gloodle.asp</A> ppModeler <A href="http://www.ppmodeler.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ppmodeler.com/</A> 3dPlus2 <A href="http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/" target="_blank">http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/</A> Houdini Apprentice Edition <A href="http://www.sidefx.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sidefx.com/</A> 3d Impact <A href="http://www.crystalgraphics.com/web/3dimpact.main.asp" target="_blank">http://www.crystalgraphics.com/web/3dimpact.main.asp</A> Wings 3d <A href="http://www.wings3d.com/" target="_blank">http://www.wings3d.com/</A> Amabalis <A href="http://www.amabilis.com/" target="_blank">http://www.amabilis.com/</A> Gmax <A href="http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=5562445&siteID=123112" target="_blank">http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servle...5&siteID=123112</A> Blender <A href="http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Home.2.0.html" target="_blank">http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Home.2.0.html</A> Terragen <A href="http://www.planetside.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.planetside.co.uk/</A> Rendering 3Delight <A href="http://www.3delight.com/" target="_blank">http://www.3delight.com/</A> PovRay <A href="http://www.povray.org/" target="_blank">http://www.povray.org/</A> LightFlow <A href="http://www.lightflowtech.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lightflowtech.com/</A> YASRT <A href="http://www.yasrt.org/" target="_blank">http://www.yasrt.org/</A> Video Edit CamStudio <A href="http://www.camstudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.camstudio.org/</A> AvidFreeDV <A href="http://www.avid.com/freedv/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www.avid.com/freedv/index.asp</A>
VirtualDub <A href="http://www.virtualdub.org/" target="_blank">http://www.virtualdub.org/</A>

dynafx

25-08-2005, 12:30 PM

ShellZip: 

<a href="http://www.menonsoft.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.menonsoft.com/</a> 

Very cool archiver/unarchiver. 

from the site..."Supports a variety of Archives: ZIP, 7z, SQX, LHA, BZ2, CAB, TAR, TGZ, GZ, GZA " 

 

 

 

Hoversnap: 

<a href="http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm</a> 

Hoversnap is great for grabbing custom
screenshots easily. Also, makes doing consecutive screenshots
back-to-back easy; simply creates a jpg, gif png, or bmp for each shot,
as you take it. 

Plus, someother cool utilities there. 

 

 

CDeX: 

<a href="http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" target="_blank">http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/</a> 

CD ripping, also convert. PLS and M3U creator, plus more. SUpports ID3 tags and all even.

dynafx

29-08-2005, 12:27 PM

Huge list of all the freeware here 
<a href="http://bakhter.com/html/freeware/3d_software.html" target="_blank">http://bakhter.com/html/freeware/3d_software.html</a> 
 
<a href="http://bakhter.com/html/freeware/paint_software.html" target="_blank">http://bakhter.com/html/freeware/paint_software.html</a>

dynafx

29-08-2005, 12:28 PM

<a href="http://www.artofillusion.org/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Art of Illusion</a> 
<img src="http://www.artofillusion.org/scrshots/main.jpg" alt="" border="0" border="0"> 
 
<a href="http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Etakeo/java/smoothteddy/index.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">SmoothTeddy</a> 
<img src="http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Etakeo/java/smoothteddy/smoothteddy.png" alt="" border="0" border="0"> 
 
<a href="http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Etakeo/teddy/teddy.htm" target="_blank" target="_blank">Teddy</a> 
<img src="http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Etakeo/teddy/teddy/photo.jpg" alt="" border="0" border="0"> 
 
<a href="http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Etakeo/chameleon/chameleon.htm" target="_blank" target="_blank">Chameleon</a> (3D Paint for Teddy) 
<img src="http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Etakeo/chameleon/chameleon.png" alt="" border="0" border="0"> 
 
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/getspatch/" target="_blank" target="_blank">sPatch</a> 
<img src="http://toget.pchome.com.tw/pic_a/head/1118_3d_paint_head.jpg" alt="" border="0" border="0">

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dynafx

11-11-2005, 09:36 PM

file and folder comparison utility 
 
<a href="http://www.scootersoftware.com/" target="_blank">http://www.scootersoftware.com/</a>

he-man

11-11-2005, 09:44 PM

tonnnn's of thnx......dynafx....<IMG src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0">

bijunila

15-12-2005, 06:58 PM

hi dyna 
 
plz let me know if any websites providing free pdf' books for
compositing techniques and softwares. Because I could not buy books for
every topics. 
 
If any others have the links plz help me out

ravi_kumar

28-12-2005, 04:17 AM

very thanx for the links
 
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 ravi

ajaytantra

28-12-2005, 12:37 PM

HEy thanks for all the helpful links <IMG src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0">

hyenaman

28-12-2005, 02:42 PM

<img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0"><img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0"><img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0"><img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0">open source is the way to go people.. 
Hop to the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">sourceforge</a> website and become believers...<img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0">

SteeL

12-08-2007, 04:42 PM

materials Full Library 2007-7-1
http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/gfxworld/2007-07-06/mxm_images.jpg

http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/gfxworld/2007-07-06/Architecture.jpg

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