Joel Bennett's List: The "must have" list of free applications

Movie Maker requires Windows Vista or Windows 7; it is not supported on Windows XP

windowslive.com/...MovieMaker - Preview

Apps Free Video VideoEditors SlideShow Movies WindowsLive on 2009-08-19 and saved by 3 people

"Free" US calling , Free inbound calls on Wi-Fi phone, smart phone, ATA or software of your choosing ...

Google Voice allows you to call out from your web browser for free, and Gizmo5 will give you free 3 minute calls or a 2c/minute rate (cheaper, even, than Skype, unless you go over 500 minutes OUTBOUND, in which case you could possibly use skype's unlimited calling) -- Note that Gizmo Voice inbound calls are free, and you can answer your calls from ANY PC using gizmocall.com in a web browser.

And because Gizmo is a standard SIP phone, you can use any number of different apps on PC/Mac/Linux/Android/iPhone, etc, etc...

www.gizmovoice.com - Preview

Apps Phone VOIP Gizmo Skype Free Freebies Google on 2009-08-10 and saved by 4 people

An (active) Synergy fork, which installs easily on Linux and OS X (as well as Windows)

code.google.com/synergy-plus - Preview

Apps System KVM Synergy Sharing on 2009-07-26 and saved by 13 people

www.msi.com/index.php - Preview

MyComputer Mobo Motherboard Support Drivers on 2009-06-30

www.winsplit-revolution.com - Preview

Apps System Utilities Freeware Tiling on 2009-06-27 and saved by 31 people

Bochs is a highly portable open source x86 PC emulator ... capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS, and all versions of Windows... and the images are portable from one host OS to another.

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Apps Virtualization CrossPlatform OpenSource Emulator on 2009-03-04 and saved by 79 people

Resize images from context menus in Windows Vista/7/XP

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App PowerToys ImageViewers Blogging on 2009-02-16

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution.

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Apps Media Panorama Photos PhotoEditing Stitching on 2008-12-26 and saved by 28 people

FileZilla is an excellent GPL cross-platform FTP Client and Windows-only FTP server. Deffinitely my FTP client of choice.

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apps iNet ftp client server OpenSource Free on 2008-06-13 and saved by 120 people

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility deletes all of the files and registry settings associated with a WMI install so you can successfully re-install to get clean settings (eg: so you can uninstall).

technet.microsoft.com/...cc671182.aspx - Preview

Apps System Utility Cleanup Installer on 2008-08-09

GB-PVR is a fully featured home media center application, allowing you to easily use a remote to watch tv, schedule recordings, watch videos, watch DVDs, listen to music, view photos etc

www.gbpvr.com - Preview

Apps Media TV TvGuide Tuner PVR Free on 2008-09-07 and saved by 77 people

Firefox 3 Launches officially on Tuesday June 17

www.spreadfirefox.com/...firefox3 - Preview

apps inet browsers firefox on 2008-06-13 and saved by 5 people

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apps explorer system tasks vista windows on 2007-12-20 and saved by 28 people

www.abstractpath.com/powermenu - Preview

alwaysontop apps explorer free freeware menus system tasks vista windows on 2007-12-20 and saved by 22 people

A great article on LifeHacker with links to tools and and toys for dual monitor users.

lifehacker.com/...-your-dual-monitors-317479.php - Preview

Lifehacker apps collections dual-monitor howto multimon utilities on 2008-02-16 and saved by 85 people

One of the all around best media players for windows, foobar2000 is also FREE, and supports more formats than you can shake a stick at. Foobar2000 also has tons of plugins which let you do things you never imagined possible, from complete makeovers of the UI to clever digital effects, etc.

www.foobar2000.org - Preview

apps media audio MusicPlayer Freeware Windows foobar free on 2008-06-13 and saved by 185 people

See and manage file extensions, associations, and actions on Windows!

www.nirsoft.net/...file_types_manager.html - Preview

apps filemanagers filesystem filetypes on 2008-02-16 and saved by 18 people

A CardSpace Identity Selector plugin for Firefox

www.codeplex.com/...ProjectReleases.aspx - Preview

Apps CardSpace Firefox extension identity on 2008-01-24

www.vistabootpro.org/ - Preview

apps boot development dualboot free multiboot vista windows on 2007-12-05 and saved by 25 people

A slick screenshot app that can easily take a shot of a region, a window, a control, or the full desktop ... and includes a color picker and ruler, plus global system hotkeys and automatic saving to file

www.mirekw.com/...mwsnap.html - Preview

apps free freeware screencapture screenshot windows on 2008-01-17 and saved by 92 people