| Useful (Free) Software |
| Skype |
Excellent quality chat, video and conferencing software, with the ability to dial out to, or be called from, the traditional telephone network |
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Securely erase entire harddrives, USB-sticks, etc., or just your filesystems' free-space |
| CCleaner |
Crap Cleaner cleans up all sorts of things on your computer, including dead registry entries, links, temp files, cache, etc. |
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Edit, shrink, grow, copy, move and otherwise manipulate partitions on your system with your data in place |
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Multi-platform secure safe for passwords, PIN-codes, etc. |
| DD-WRT |
Replacement firmware for most major brands of wireless APs for the home, providing lots of additional functionality and configurable parameters |
| VIM Editor |
The very best editor ever |
| AutoStitch |
The best free image-stitching software I've ever used (The best commercial one is AutoPano Pro, which is based on AutoStitch) |
| IPerf |
Test network throughput |
| QuickGamma |
Adjust your display's colour profile so colours are displayed accurately |