Download Resource Sites

[Melbosa]

Seeing as though we all have our sources for information and tools to get what we need, thought it would be nice to keep a compiled list here going of sites.  Just reply with sites, and myself, Magnus, or the other Moderators can edit this post with the list. Will try and keep it alphabetical.

Audio
Clients
Winamp

Tools
Audacity
Media Monkey
MP3Tag
Music Brainz
Music Collectorz


BitTorrents
Clients
Azureus
Shareaza
uTorrent

Websites
MiniNova
The Pirate Bay
TorrentReactor<net>
TorrentReactor<to>
TorrentSpy
TV Torrents

Downloaders
FTP
Filezilla
SmartFTP

Download Managers
Free Download Manager
StarDownloader


Games
Tools
Game Collectorz

Websites
3D Gamers
FilePlanet
FileShack


IRC / Chat
Clients
ChatZilla
mIRC
Trillian


Misc
Anti-Blaxx
GhostScript
CutePDF Writer
Daemon Tools
Winlibre - Free Windows Software


News Groups
Clients
GrabIt
PowerGrab

Websites
alt.binaries.nl
bincrawler
NewzBin


Peer-To-Peers
Clients
eMule
Shareaza


Release Information
Websites
NFOrce Entertainment
VCD Quality


Video
Codecs
DivX

Tools
Alcohol
DVD Decrypter - Software still available, website just dead.
DVD Shrink
Movie Collectorz
AnyDVD

Websites
Doom 9

[Shayne]

 mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) for audio tools.  far and away the best for organizing 14,000+ mp3s

www.tvtorrents.com for torrents (TV torrents )



Done - Melbosa

[Cova]

 Best tool I've ever seen for managing MP3's - will find proper title/artist/etc and set ID3 tags.  Works using "acoustic fingerprints", it will find the proper info even if there is no current ID3 tag and the file is named wrong (or has a wrong ID3 tag).   http://musicbrainz.org/' target='_blank'>http://musicbrainz.org/


Also - for DVD Decrypter, it was shut down due to being threatened with a lawsuit from Macrovision (the analog copy-protection guys).  As part of the agreement to not be sued by them, Macrovision now owns the DVD Decrypter web-site, and is potentially logging any/all accesses to it.  It is recommended that the first thing you do after installing DVD Decrypter is make sure automatic updating is off.  (checking for automatic updates involves an HTTP request to the DVD Decrypter web-site).

Done - Melbosa

[Darren Dirt]

 (FREE!) full-featured multi-track sound recording/editing/converting:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>Audacity

(I use it on my Windoze, my bro' uses it on his Mac... identical interface, gotta luv it)

Very handy when listening to online radio you want to grab - visually pick where the appropriate sound bite starts/ends



(FREE!) PDF creation:
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp' target='_blank'>CutePDF Writer

(haven't tried it yet, but sounds like the above is like a printer driver, i.e. works in your word processor, spreadsheet, browser...)


Done - Melbosa

[Lazybones]

(FREE!) PDF creation:
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp' target='_blank'>CutePDF Writer

(haven't tried it yet, but sounds like the above is like a printer driver, i.e. works in your word processor, spreadsheet, browser...)

I have used it, it works well. There are several free ones out now.

[Melbosa]

 Moderators, reminder, please keep the listing in Alphabetical order to make it easier for scanning.  Thanks.

[Melbosa]

Also - for DVD Decrypter, it was shut down due to being threatened with a lawsuit from Macrovision (the analog copy-protection guys).  As part of the agreement to not be sued by them, Macrovision now owns the DVD Decrypter web-site, and is potentially logging any/all accesses to it.  It is recommended that the first thing you do after installing DVD Decrypter is make sure automatic updating is off.  (checking for automatic updates involves an HTTP request to the DVD Decrypter web-site).
 

Split this into its own topic: http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php?showtopic=2185&st=0' target='_blank'>http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php...topic=2185&st=0

[Shayne]

 What about Emulation?  As in Daemon Tools http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php' target='_blank'>http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php or Alcohol 52% http://www.alcohol-software.com' target='_blank'>http://www.alcohol-software.com

for FTP, filezilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ is unbeatable for both server and client.  The client can connect multiple times to the same site for quick downloading of like 1000 little files (under packet size).





DONE- Lazybones
DONE - Melbosa - Re-edit -> put Daemon Tools in better category of Misc, vs Video

[Mr. Analog]

 Behold my l33t FTP client, installed everywhere there is Windoze...

[Darren Dirt]

WinLibre!
http://www.winlibre.com/en/

This is a collection of free and non-M$ software covering everything from Office tools to compression to audio/video viewing creating, drawing programs (vector, 2D, 3D), instant messaging... and it includes/links to many mentioned above as well as a few others!

Take that, Mr. Gates!

EDIT - Added by Melbosa

[Shayne]

Have you seen Office 12 *drool*

[Darren Dirt]

Just found this handy page, a very long list of freeware recommendations, nicely categorized (covering security, browser aids, Notepad replacements, various other utilities categories)

http://aumha.org/freeware/morefree.htm

[Mr. Analog]

Well, I just installed Chatzilla, what a great program. I likes it!

[Lazybones]

Added:
Free Download Manager and uTorrent
 to the list.

Forgot we had this thread.

[Melbosa]

Added AnyDVD, as I find it is a good replacement for DVD Decrypter.

[Darren Dirt]

Just found this handy page, a very long list of freeware recommendations, nicely categorized (covering security, browser aids, Notepad replacements, various other utilities categories)

http://aumha.org/freeware/morefree.htm

SIMILAR, but even BETTER:

http://www.listible.com/list/open-source-applications-for-windows

Decent list, *all on one page*, including most of the best-known open source apps in most of the important categories (Firefox, Audacity, eMule, etc.) but also quite a few that do stuff for which I didn't even know there was a non-commercial application available!


vnc2swf - Screen Recorder
Vnc2swf is a screen recording tool for X-Window (X11), Windows and Mac OS Desktop. Vnc2swf captures live motion of a screen through VNC protocol and converts it a Macromedia Flash(TM) movie (.swf).

Tor (The Onion Router)
Tor is an implementation of second-generation onion routing - an anonymity system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet.

Paint.NET (features, including layers -- screenshots explain more, WOW!)
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003.

OpenSebJ - Open Source Audio Mixing
An audio production & mixing tool, featuring a - Sequencer, Beat Box, Wave Recording, Frequency Modulation, DJ Scratch interface and sampler playback

Krut Computer Recorder
A computer recorder. Record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. Can be used to e.g. make instructional videos or record games. Could also be used to record streaming video and audio.

Virtual Desktop for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Virtual Desktop will create new desktops for you and let you to switch between desks and windows quick and easy.

PDFtoHTML
A utility which converts PDF files into HTML and XML formats.