Links for Programs/Websites

All the programs here are free with no spyware, adware, malware, or any other -ware. Most of the programs have source code available.

Activities

Iowa State
University I attend in Ames, IA
Campus Crusade for Christ
Christian group on campus that I am a member of. I also help maintain the website.
AmesFUG
Ames Free UNIX group, Linux/BSD group in Ames.
Google
Like you've never heard of Google before?
Slashdot
"News for nerds"
Kuro5hin
another news site

Internet

Firefox
Web brower that is far better than Internet Explorer. Better security, no spyware, extensions, doesn't display the same page a different way each refresh (yes, IE does this)
FileZilla
FTP and SFTP client
PuTTY
SSH and Telnet program
Thunderbird
Email program with spam filter. Very customizable
Gaim
Instant messaging that combines AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, ...
Azureus
Bittorrent client
TightVNC
Remote desktop client/server

Security

Crypto-Gram
Security Newsletter
Ethereal
Packet sniffer and analyzer
TrueCrypt
Encrypted drive, similar to loop-aes for Linux
WinPT
Digital signiture and publickey encryption - GPG/PGP frontend
Enigmail
GPG Encrypted/Signed email plugin for Thunderbird
Password Safe
Encrypted database for storage and generation of passwords
Firewalls - Kerio, Sygate, ZoneAlarm
Personal firewalls. Sygate and Kerio's firewalls are more advanced than ZoneAlarm

Audio/Video

Winamp
Music and video player
CDex
CD ripper, encodes to OGG, MP3, WMA, WAV, ...
VirtualDub
Video editor

Files

SpaceMonger
View drive usage by files/programs
Daemon Tools
Virtual CD-ROM drives so you can mount .iso instead of the CD
7-Zip
File compressor; supports 7z, zip, bzip2

Office and Programming

JavaDoc
Since Sun seems to hide it... here's a link
OpenOffice
Office suite, supports Microsoft .doc format and pdf export
Dev-C++
C++ IDE for GCC - Debugger, class browser, syntax highlighting

Misc

Cygwin
Unix/Posix on Windows
Ad-Aware
Spyware removal utility
The Facebook
Social network thingy popular at ISU (at least in Spring 2005)

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