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มาดูรายชื่อ Top 101 Freeware App กันครับ
ซึ่งซอฟต์แวร์บางตัวเกือบทุกคนก็คงเคยใช้กันมาแล้วครับ

Audio and Video

1. Audacity – โปรแกรมสำหรับตัดต่อและบันทึก Audio เป็นโปรแกรมบน Windows

2. VirtualDub – โปรแกรมสำหรับ Capture Video ทำงานบน Windows

3. Avidemux – โปรแกรมตัดต่อ Video แบบง่ายๆ

4. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack – อันนี้ส่วนใหญ่ก็รู้จักกันดีครับ Utility Video & Audio  Codec

5. SUPER –  โปรแกรมสำหรับเอาไว้ Convert Multimedia Files Format

6. FormatFactory –  โปรแกรมสำหรับเอาไว้ Convert Multimedia Files Format เช่นกันครับ

7. iTunes – อันนี้คงไม่มี Macuser คนไหนที่ไม่รู้จักครับ โปรแกรมสำหรับฟังเพลงนั่นเอง

8. VLC Media Player –  โปรแกรม Audio & Video Player

9. WinAmp – โปรแกรมฟังเพลงยอดฮิต ที่มี Skin สวยๆ ให้เลือกมากมาย

10. Media Player Classic
ตัวนี้คลาสสิคสมชื่อครับ ตัวนี้ก็ Support AVI subtitle , QuickTime and RealVideo

Automation

11. KeePas –  โปรแกรมบริหารจัดการ Password Manager
ในยุคนี้คนเล่นเน็ตถูกบังคับทางอ้อม หรือเชิญชวนให้ต้องสมัครเป็น Member เว็บอื่นๆ เต็มไปหมด
เช่น  Social Networking, Social Bookmark, SEO, Submit URL, Affiliate Programe,  Emai
เป็นต้น  เราใช้โปรแกรมตัวนี้ก็เป็นตัวเลขาบริหาร Password ให้ก็ไม่เลวครับ

ที่เหลือทิ้งไว้ภาษอังกฤษตามที่เขาเขียนมาก็แล้วกันครับ
เพราะ Software ส่วนใหญ่ก็พอจะรู้จักอยู่แล้วครับ
(พูดง่ายๆ คือวันนี้วันอาทิตย์ สมองทำงานช้าครับ
ชักขี้เกียจ ฺBrief เป็นภาษาไทย…อากาศเย็นๆ ชวนให้นอนตื่นสายเป็นที่สุด)

12. MemoKeys
MemoKeys allows you to create shortcut key combinations (hotkeys)
and associate them with any text information of your choice.

13. AutoIt
AutoIt is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI

14. AutoHotKey
AutoHotKey is a free keyboard macro program.
It supports hotkeys for the keyboard, mouse, and joystick.

Compression, Backup, and File Recovery

15. PeaZip
PeaZip is an open-source file and archive manager

16. 7Zip
7zip is an open-source file archiver predominantly for Microsoft Windows OS

17. GMail Drive
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem
around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium

18. Mozy
Mozy is the industry-leading solution for online backup. Its offers 2GB storage for free.

19. Recuva
Recuva is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that
have been accidentaly deleted from your computer

Blogging

20. Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer is a desktop blog-publishing application that has many features.
21. BlogDesk
An easy-to-use desktop blogging client

Browsers

22. Mozilla Firefox
The award-winning web browser is better than ever.
It’s unlimited extensibility, thanks to the hundreds of useful add-ons available,
makes it an absolute must have.

23. Opera
A full featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking,
tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like an email program,
RSS newsfeeds, and IRC chat.

24. Google Chrome
Google Chrome combines a minimalistic design with sophisticated technology
to make the web faster, safer, and easier. As with all things Google, Chrome is in beta.

CD and DVD Tools

25. CDBurnerXP
Free CD Burning software

26. Ashampoo Burning Studio Free
If you’re looking for a fast, responsive, and high-quality burning software that
does not cost a dime, then Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is for you.

27. DeepBurner
DeepBurner is a free CD and DVD burning tool

28. DAEMON Tools Lite
DAEMON Tools is a virtual CD/DVD-ROM emulator

Cleanup, Tuning, Tweaking, and Updating

29. Defraggler
Defraggler lets you defrag individual files, without having to process the whole drive,
and it allows you to schedule runs

30. CCleaner
CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool.
It removes unused temporary files from your system, allowing it to run faster,
more efficiently, and giving you more hard disk space.

31. Startup Delayer
Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds
after Windows has started, to load each program.

32. RevoUninstaller
RevoUninstaller can be used to uninstall programs,
and scan for leftover registry keys, files, and folders.

33. Eraser
Eraser is a secure data removal tool for Windows

34. SUMo
With SUMo, you’ll be able to keep your PC up-to-date
by detecting required updates for your software.

35. RadarSync
Stop searching for drivers and app updates, update your PC for free with RadarSync

36. FileHippo Update Checker
The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions,
and then send this info to FileHippo.com to see if there are any newer releases.
These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.

Desktop, System & UI Enhancements

37. Samurize
Samurize is a popular advanced desktop enhancement engine for Windows

38. Yahoo! Widgets
The Yahoo! Windget Engine lets you run small utilities called ‘widgets’ on your desktop.

39. TaskSwitchXP
TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where
the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off.

Aside from providing the functionality of Alt+Tab, it adds visual styles to the dialog,
and enhances it by displaying a thumbnail preview of the application you want to switch to.

40. Launchy
Launchy allows you to launch programs with just a few keystrokes

41. ObjectDock
ObjectDock is a program that enables users to add a mac-like dock to their Windows desktop

42. RocketDock
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, application launching dock similar to ObjectDock

43. Google Desktop
Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google

44. Visual Task Tips
Visual Task Tips is a lighweight shell enhancement utility that
provides a thumbnail preview image for each program in the Windows Taskbar.

45. Microsoft TweakUI
This Microsoft PowerToy gives you access to system settings that
are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface ,
including mouse settings, explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more.

Developer Tools

46. FileZilla
FileZilla is a powerful FTP client that is easy-to-use, has many features, and is fast and relaible.

47. SmartFTP
Aside from the usual features any FTP client has, the unique thing about SmartFTP is that
multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time in different tabs.
You can also copy files from one remote host to another.

48. Kompozer
WYSIWYG HTML and CSS editor derived from Nvu

49. HTML-Kit
HTML-Kit is a full-featured and customizable HTML text editor
that can be used to create and edit web pages.

50. Ades Clr Picker
AdesClrPicker is a very easy-to-use, yet powerful color picker application for web designers.

51. PuTTY – PuTTY is a free telnet and SSH client for Windows and Unix platforms

52. Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Download Managers

53. Internet Download Manager
Internet Download Manager is a tool that can increase download speeds,
resume, schedule, and manage downloads.

54. FlashGet
FlashGet is a free download manager that allows you to spit the files
you’re downloading into different sections.

55. Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager supports resumable downloads and multiple simultaneous downloads.

Imaging

56. Picasa
Picasa is a software that helps you find, edit, and share all the pictures on your PC

57. GIMP
The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool.
It’s suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching,
image composition, and image construction.

58. IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast, compact, and innovative graphic viewer for Windows

59. Paint.NET
Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation software.
It’s meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software
that comes with all Windows operating systems.

60. Photo Story 3
Photo Story 3 allows you to create video slideshows of your digital photos with music and tites

61. Google SketchUp
Google Sketchup is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program

Messaging and Chat

62. Mozilla Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser

63. Digsby
IM, email, and social networking in one easy-to-use application

64. Pidgin
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows

65. Skype
Using Skype, you can make telephone calls over the Internet, and calls to other people using Skype.

66. SAM
SAM is a simple voice answering machine for Skype users

67. XChat
XChat is an IRC program for Windows and Unix operating systems

Office and News

68. OpenOffice
OpenOffice is an open-source, multi-platform, and multi-lingual suite comparable with MS Office.

69. AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and
is rapidly becoming a state-of-the-art word processor.

70. PowerPoint Viewer
PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations
created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.

71. CutePDF
CutePDF installs itself as a printer subsystem and
enables any Windows application that can print to create professional quality PDF documents.

72. PDFCreator
PDFCreator can create PDF files from almost any Windows app

73. BullZip PDF Printer
BullZip PDF Printer allows you to create PDF documents from Windows applications.

74. Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader, the original PDF software from Adobe,
let’s you open, view, search, and print PDF files.

75. Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer. It’s incredibly small
(just a few MBs), with a breezing fast launch speed and a rich feature set.

76. FeedDemon
Looking for a great way to view and manage your RSS feeds from your desktop?
Look no further than FeedDemon, the most popular Windows RSS reader.

77. RSS Bandit
RSS Bandit is a free desktop news aggregator for Windows built on the .NET framework.

78. ReadAir
ReadAir is an OSX themed desktop RSS client for Mac or Windows

Screen Recording/Screenshot Taking

79. CamStudio
CamStudio records screen into standard AVI files.
It’s an ideal tool for creating software demonstations.

80. Gadwin PrintScreen
Gadwin PrintScreen is an easy-to-use utility that allows you to capture any portion of the screen,
and save it to a file, copy to Windows clipboard, print it, or email it to a friend.

81. Screenshot Captor
Screenshot Captor is a program for taking screenshots on your PC, with many features.

82. FRAPS
FRAPS is a benchmarking, screenshot capturing, and video capturing software for games.

Security

83. AntiVir Personal Edition
The AntiVir Personal Edition offers effective protection against computer viruses.

84. Avast Home Edition
Avast Home Edition is a full-featured anti-virus package designed exclusively for home users

85. AVG Anti-Virus
AVG AntiVirus is a well known anti-virus tool that is easy-to-use and doesn’t slow the system down

86. BitDefender Free
BitDefender Free Edition uses the same scanning engine found in other BitDefender products,
allowing you to enjoy basic virus protection for no cost at all

87. Comodo Internet Security -

88. ZoneAlarm Free
ZoneAlarm Free is one of the best and well know free firewall software in the market.

89. Ad-Aware Free
Ad-Aware provides protection from spyware

90. Spybot Search & Destroy
Spybot Search & Destroy can detect and remove most spyware from your PC.

91. HijackThis
Hijack This is a tool for in-depth scanning of your computer for spyware

92. Windows Defender
Windows Defender is an anti-spyware program from Microsoft

Torrents

93. uTorrent
uTorrent is an efficient and feature-rich BitTorrent client sporting a very small footprint.

94. Vuze
Vuze is a java BitTorrent client offering queing/priority systems,
start/stop seeding options, and more.

95. BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a BitTorrent client and a good alternative to uTorrent

96. PeerGuardian
PeerGuardian is the premier IP blocker that protects your privacy on P2P.
You can’t go without this one, if, um, you’re downloading stuff you’re not supposed to download.

Others

97. Mozilla Sunbird OpenSource Calendar Application

98. BitMeter โปรแกรม Internet Bandwidth monitoring app.

99. Google Earth
Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps,
and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geopraphic information at your fingertips.

100. nLite/vLite
nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice.

101. FreeMind
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java

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