TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Animation Software
2. Anti-Adware Products
3. Anti-Virus Software
4. Anti-Spam Products
5. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Components
6. Astronomy Software
7. Benchmarking Software
8. CAD Software: Electronic and Mathematical
9. CAD Software: Mechanical
10. Codecs
11. Content Management Systems (CMS) and Blog Software
12. Database Admin Tools
13. Databases
14. Decompilers
15. DJ Software
16. Email Encryption
17. Embedded System Development
18. File/Hard Disk Encryption
19. File Transfer Software
20. Firewall Products
21. Form Generation Software
22. Forum Software
23. Game Development
24. GIS Extensions
25. Help Authoring
26. Licensing, Copy Protection, and Installers
27. Mobile Applications and Environments
28. Music Scoring
29. Network Sniffer Software
30. Open Source Software
31. Operating Systems
32. Optical Character Recognition and Book Scanning Software and Hardware
33. Password Recovery/Hacking Software
34. PDF Editing and Conversion Programs
35. Programming
36. Screen Capture and Recording Software
37. Search Engine APIs and Marketing
38. Security Investigation and Repair Tools
39. Server Side Scripting Components
40. Shopping Cart Software (E-commerce)
41. Simulation and Debug Software
42. Spam Bots
43. Speech/Voice Recognition
44. System Backup and Recovery Software
45. Terminal Software
46. Text to Speech Conversion
47. Video Authoring Software
48. Video Capture Software
49. Voice Over IP (VOIP)
50. Wallpaper/Screensaver Products
51. Web Authoring
52. Web Browser Automation
53. Web Hosting/Virtualization Software
54. Web Programming
55. Website Link Verification

• 1 Animation Software:

  • AnimationLab Plugin for TurboCAD-IMSI
  • 3D Studio Max-Autodesk
  • BodyPaint 3D-Maxon
  • Cinema 4D-Maxon
  • Flash-Adobe
  • Imagestudio-Autodesk
  • Lightwave 3D-Newtek
  • Maya-Autodesk
  • Poser
  • Renderman-Pixar

• 2 Anti-Adware Products:

  • McAffee Anti-Spyware-best product we have found
  • Pest Patrol
  • Anti-Spyware
  • Free:
    • Ad-Aware
    • SpywareBlaster
  • DoxDesk-Parasites

• 3 Anti-Virus Software:

  • McAfee Virusscan Plus-best product we have found
  • Norton Antivirus
  • ZoneAlarm Antivirus-buggy.  Has disk access problems.

• 4 Anti-Spam Products:

  • BlueBottle.com
  • EliminateSpam for Outlook
  • Inbox Protector-GBS Designs, Inc.
  • IronMail Secure Email Gateway-by Secure Computing
  • Matador client spam filter-MailFrontier
  • SpamArrest-service that automatically screens out offensive automated spam. $19.95 every six months
  • SpamButcher
  • SpamCop-register and report spam offenders
  • SpamInspector-Giant Company
  • SpamNet Outlook Add-in-stops spam at your workstation
  • Stopping Spam-book by O'Reilly
  • StopSpam!-Association for Interactive Marketing

• 5  Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Components

  • DevDirect- Tools and components for software developers
  • MultimediaSoft-Music APIs
  • Lakesoft-real time multimedia audio components
  • TMS Software
  • VCL Components
  • Xtras.net -extensive library of developer tools

• 6 Astronomy Software

  • CyberSky
  • DeepSky
  • Distant Suns
  • Google Earth
  • Megastar Sky Atlas
  • SkyMap
  • Starry Night-best of breed
  • Stellarium
  • TheSky
  • Worldwide Telescope-Microsoft

• 7 Benchmarking Software

  • AIDA64 - PC Benchmark
  • ATTO Disk Benchmark
  • 3DMark-graphics benchmark
  • Cinebench - measures threading performance
  • CPUID-measures system information
  • Euler3D -Computational fluid dynamics benchmark
  • FRAPS- measures frames per second.  Used for benchmarking hardware performance mainly in PC games.
  • Fritz Chess Benchmark -This test is great for looking at thread scaling. It is only marginally affected by memory bandwidth.
  • Geekbench - CPU benchmarking
  • GUP-Z-Graphics Processing Unit test
  • HDTune-hard disk benchmarking software
  • Heaven DX 11 Benchmark -Microsoft DirectX graphics benchmark
  • Intel NAS Performance Toolkit - tests NAS devices
  • LINPACK - math kernel library testing
  • LuxMark OpenCL CPU-
  • Passmark - It is a nice utility, but a ixed bag of CPU, memory, HDD and GPU. OK for an overall "office performance" but not useful for testing CRUNCH, nor GPU performance.
  • PCMark-system benchmark
  • Real Temp -CPU temperature
  • Sandra -CPU benchmarking
  • ScienceMark - Interesting for memory benchmark, but all other tests are single threaded.
  • SuperPI - Very popular with speed-demons but not with crunchaholics. Single core/thread CPU only
  • Swingbench - loads oracle databases
  • TechPowerup Benchmarking Software Database
  • UCBench - RAR password cracker
  • Vellamo- mobile web browser benchmarking
  • wPrime - Good for looking at math crunch, BUT, remember to set the thread count before starting.

• 8 CAD Software: Electronic and Mathematical

  • Altium Designer-PC Board design
  • Cadence
  • Eagle-PCB design
  • MathCAD-Mathematical design
  • Mathematica -Math programming.  Wolfram Research
  • Mentor Graphics-design tools for electrical engineering
  • MultiCAP-Electronics Workbench.  Excellent!
  • OrCAD-Circuit and PCB
  • PADS PCB-Mentor Graphics
  • SPICECreator-circuit design and simulation

• 9 CAD Software: Mechanical

  • Autocad-Autodesk
  • Autocad LT-Autodesk
  • Catia-Dassault Systems
  • Cobalt-3D Modeling, by Ashlar-Vellum
  • Corel Designer Technical Suite-Corel
  • Graphite-2D Drafting, by Ashlar-Vellum
  • SolidWorks Premium-3D Mechanical Design Software
  • SolidWorks Proffessional-3D Mechanical Design Software
  • SolidWorks Standard-3D Mechanical Design Software
  • SmartDraw
  • TurboCAD Deluxe-economical but powerful CAD
  • TurboCAD Pro-best bang for the buck
  • TurboCAD Platium-best bang for the buck
  • TurboCAD Designer-CAD for neophytes
  • Visio-by Microsoft

• 10 Codecs

  • AFreeCodec
  • Codec Download
  • Codecs.com
  • Lead Codecs
  • Movie Codec Forums
  • Xvid Codec

• 11  Content Management Systems (CMS) and Blog Software

  • CMS Matrix-comparison of various content management products
  • E107 Website System
  • Geeklog
  • Mambo
  • PHPNuke
  • Pligg
  • XOOPS

• 12  Database admin tools

  • Big Dumper
  • MySQLDumper
  • Navicat
  • SQL Yog

• 13 Databases

  • Informix-IBM
  • MySQL-Sun/Oracle
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • Sybase

• 14 Decompilers

  • .NET Reflector-Redgate
  • Dis#-.NET Decompiler
  • Flash Decompiler
  • Salamander .NET Decompiler-Remotesoft
  • Spices .NET Decompiler
  • VB Decompiler
  • Winhelp Decompiler

• 15  DJ Software

  • Club DJ Pro
  • Computer DJ Software
  • DJ Programs.com
  • DJ Software.com
  • KraMixer
  • Mix Vibes
  • MixMeister
  • Native Instruments
  • PC DJ
  • Softjock Audio Software
  • Ultramixer

• 16 Email Encryption:

  • PGP Personal Desktop-the best disk and email encryption product on the market.  Very easy to use.
  • Dekart RSA Cryptographic Provider-email encryption
  • Gnu Privacy Guard

• 17 Embedded Systems Development:

  • Atmel-industry leader in embedded system development.  Popular in Europe also.
  • Microchip-a leader in microcontrollers and analog IC's
  • Device Software Optimization (DSO)-Wind River Systems
  • Run Time Platforms-Wind River Systems
  • General Purpose Platform-Wind River Systems
  • Workbench Development Suite-Wind River Systems
  • VxWorks- Wikipedia definition

• 18 File/Hard Disk Encryption:

  • Documentum IRM Services- Secure Document Management
  • MAC or Windows
    • PGP Desktop Professional-the best disk and email encryption product on the market.  Very easy to use.
    • TrueCrypt-disk only encryption.  Free.  Excellent!
    • WinMagic SecureDoc-the best full-disk encryption product out there for a very reasonable price.  Supports USB token device with PIN for added security.  WATCH OUT!  This product can accidentally slick your disk and wipe out all your data, as it did ours!
    • MEO Data Encryption
  • Windows ONLY
    • Bitlocker Drive Encryption-Built into Windows Vista. 
      • Microsoft Technet description of features
      • Wikipedia Article
    • SafeHouse-inexpensive and very easy to use hard disk encryption program.  Creates encrypted virtual drive on your computer
    • Dekart Private Disk-inexpensive and very easy to use hard disk encryption program. Creates encrypted virtual drive on your computer.  Also available with USB token access control (multifactor version).
    • DigiSecret-Tamosoft
    • SecurStar Drivecrypt -inexpensive and easy to use hard disk encryption program.
    • Guardian Edge-encryption products
    • SafeGuard Easy-hard disk encryption software
  • MAC Only
    • Filevault-encrypts home directories only
    • GoSecure
    • AES Crypt
    • GNU Privacy Guard

• 19 File Transfer Software:

  • SSH
  • WS-FTP-IPSwitch

• 20 Firewall Products:

  • Zone Labs Zonealarm Pro-buggy
  • Norton Personal Firewall-locks up unused ports on your computer
  • McAffee Personal Firewall-the best of the bunch

• 21 Form Generation Software:

  • Livecycle Designer-Adobe
  • FormTool-IMSI Software
  • OmniForm-Nuance
  • Oneform Designer Plus-Amgraf

• 22 Forum Software

  • php Bulletin Board
  • Snitz Forums
  • Invision Power Board
  • Simple Machines
  • vBadAdvanded
  • vBulletin
  • XMB Forum

• 23  Game Development:

  • DirectX-Microsoft
  • RAD Game Tools-the most popular Application Programming Interfaces for developing games
  • XNA - Microsoft

• 24  GIS Extensions:

  • amMap (flash maps)
  • ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight
  • ESRI (flash maps)
  • FLA Shop
  • Flashimap (flash maps)
  • US Flash Map

• 25 Help Authoring:

  • Doc-To_Help-based on Microsoft Word
  • RoboHelp-Adobe Systems

• 26  Licensing, Copy Protection, and Installers:

  • FLEXNet InstallshieldFLEXNet Installshield
  • SourceGuardian-PHP script protection
  • PHP Encoder-IonCube
  • Package Foundry-IonCube

• 27 Mobile Applications and Environments

  • Android - open mobile operating system
  • Android Appstores
    • Amazon Appstore
    • Google Android Market
    • Samsung AppStore
  • AppCraver  -Reviews of Iphone Applications
  • Eclipse.org- Android development environment and tools
  • iOS -iPhone proprietary operating system.  Wikipedia article
  • iOS Devcenter-Apple
  • IPhone Appstores
    • iPhone Applications - Apple
  • iPhone Background - Wikipedia description
  • Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI)
  • Mobile Operating Systems- Wikipedia
  • Mobile Phone History - Wikipedia

• 28  Music Scoring

  • Cubase Studio-advanced MIDI software sequencer
  • Encore-music scoring by Gvox
  • Finale-music scoring by Coda Music
  • Sequel-affordable music creation
  • Sibelius-Music scoring. By M-Audio.
  • SmartScore-by Musitek

• 29  Network Sniffer Software:

  • CommView-Tamosoft.  Inexpensive, and VERY good
  • Network Observer-Network Instruments
  • Sniffer Portable-Network General
  • Essential NetTooolsM-Tamosoft.  Shows all network connections

• 30  Open Source Software:

  • Android-mobile platform API used widely by phone manufacturers
  • Apache-server software
  • CPAN-Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  • GNU Project-“a sufficient body of free software”
  • Linux-unix operating system variant
  • OpenBSD-operating system derived from Unix
  • OpenSolaris-Unix Operating System from Sun Microsystems
  • Perl -website scripting language
  • PHP-server side scripting language
  • SorceForge-largest repository of free public domain software

• 31  Operating Systems:

  • Centos
  • Debian
  • MacOSX
  • OpenBSD
  • OpenSUSE
  • RedHat
  • Solaris
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows

• 32  Optical Character Recognition and Book Scanning Software and Hardware:

  • Nuance Omnipage-best and most popular
  • Readiris-by IRIS software
  • SimpleOCR-OCR Application Programming Interface
  • Bookdrive DIY-book scanning cradle
  • 4DigitalBooks
  • PlusTek OpticBook 3600
  • Password Crack-recovery of Word passwords

• 33  Password recovery/Hacking Software:

  • Elcomsoft - professional password recovery tools
  • Tucows: Password
  • Password Crack-recovery of Word passwords

• 34  PDF Editing and Conversion Programs:

  • Adobe Acrobat-very limited PDF editing
  • Nitro PDF Editor-best for PDF editing.  Slick interface
  • Nuance PDF Converter Professional-limited editing but conversion is excellent
  • Expert PDF-excellent
  • CAD-KAS PDF Editor-excellent!
  • FoxIt Software PDF Editor-excellent!
  • Planet PDF -survey of products

• 35  Programming:

  • HPCalc Software ArchiveCalc Software Archive-HPCalc.org
  • Windows and Windows Phone Development
    • Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)
    • Visual Studio-Microsoft Integrated Development Environment
    • Visual Basic-Microsoft
  • Apple Mac/Iphone development
    • developer.apple.com
    • Xcode-Apple's development environment
  • Google Android development
    • Developer.android.com
    • Eclipse-the only development environment for Android apps.  Uses Java language.
  • Database Development Environments
    • Oracle MySQL
    • MySQL Workbench- Oracle
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • Redgate Oracle Tools
    • Redgate SQL Server Tools
  • SWIG-interface tool

• 36  Screen Capture and Recording Software:

  • Camtasia Studio-Techsmith
  • DemoCharge-Yes Software
  • SnagIt-TechSmith

• 37  Search Engine APIs and Marketing:

  • Google Code
  • Yahoo Search Marketing
  • PHPDig.net
  • Sphider
  • HOTSCRIPTS PHP Search Engines

• 38  Security Investigation and Repair Tools:

  • McAffee Internet Security Suiteternet Security Suite
  • Norton Internet Security Suite
  • SpyChecker-download spyware removal and privacy computer programs
  • InternetSeer-monitors your website 24/7 and notifies you if it is down

• 39  Server Side Scripting Components:

  • ActivePDF-PDF generation
  • ceTeSoftware-PDF conversion, mail components
  • Corda Highwire-convert HTML pages to PDF
  • FPDF Library-generates PDFs using PHP
  • Gnostice-PDF server side tools
  • PDF-Tools.com
  • PDFKit.net
  • PDFLib Gmbh - PHP PDF generation.  Expensive
  • PDFTron
  • Pear: PHP Applications and Extension Repository
  • Persits Software -lots of different server web components
  • Web Supergoo-PDF generation, uploads, etc
  • Planet PDF: Server Products

• 40  Shopping Cart Software (E-Commerce):

  • Agora Cart
  • OSCommerce-free, open-source software
  • ClickCart Pro -Perl platform. Inexpensive, cross-platform

• 41  Simulation and Debug Software:

  • Circuit-Magic-circuit simulation for electrical engineering students
  • Circuit Shop-free circuit simulation
  • EasySim-circuit simulation
  • ICAP-circuit simulation by Intusoft
  • MatLAB-mathematical modeling and simulation, by MathWorks
  • MultiSIM-circuit simulation by Electronics Workbench
  • NGSpice-UC Berkeley
  • PSpice A/D-EMA Design Automation
  • SILOS-IC simulator by Silvaco
  • Simcir-free circuit simulator
  • SIMetrix-circuit simulation by Catena.
  • SIMPLORER-high performance electromechanical design by Ansoft
  • SimProcess-CACI process simulation language
  • Simulation Software Development Frameworks-list of simulation development environments
  • SmartSPICE-analog circuit simulation
  • System Studio-circuit simulation by Synopsis
  • TINA Pro-circuit simulation by DesignSoft
  • TINA-TI-free circuit simulation
  • TKGate-free digital circuit simulation
  • TopSPICE-analog/digital circuit simulation by Penzar
  • Verdi Automated Debug System-circuit simulation by Novas
  • Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator-Cadence
  • Visual Spice-schematic editor and mixed mode simulator

• 42  Spam Bots:

  • Forum Equalizer
  • Xrummer Autosubmitter
  • Hrefer

• 43  Speech/Voice Recognition:

  • Dragon Naturally Speakingon Naturally Speaking-Nuance
  • ViaVoice-IBM
  • AngelCom-IVR Voice Recognition.  Interfaces with Skype and telephones
  • Intervoice-company that sells speech recognition products

• 44  System Backup and Recovery Software:

  • Acronis TrueImage-make exact copies of entire hard drive
  • Symantec Partition Magic
  • Symantec Livestate Recovery Desktop
  • Symantec Livestate Recovery Standard Server

• 45  Terminal Software:

  • PenguiNet
  • Putty
  • SSH

• 46  Text to Speech Conversion:

  • TextAloud MP3-turns text into MP3 audio files. Excellent!

• 47  Video Authoring Software:

  • Adobe Premier Pro-best
  • Adobe Premier Elements-best
  • Adobe Video Collection
  • Avid Video Editing Software-industry standard
  • Magix Movie Edit Pro
  • Pinnacle
  • Ulead Media Studio Pro
  • Ulead Video Studio

• 48  Video Capture Software:

  • Replay Media Catcher
  • GTV Media Downloader
  • Sothink Web Video Downloader

• 49  Voice Over IP (VOIP):

  • Counterpath
  • GizmoProject
  • Google Voice
  • Qute.org
  • Skype-ecnrypted proprietary point-to-point FREE internet telephony
  • Yahoo Messenger with Voice-formerly DialPad
  • Zfone-Phil Zimmerman.  Free encrypted software VOIP

• 50  Wallpaper/Screensaver Products:

  • SereneScreens Aquarium Screensaver-awesome!
  • Mike Bonnell Wallpapers-awesome!

• 51  Web Authoring:

  • Dreamweaver-Adobe Systems
  • Creative Suite Web Premium-Adobe Systems
  • Expression Web-Microsoft
  • Frontpage-Microsoft
  • CodeCharge Studio-Yes Software
  • NVU-html authoring

• 52  Web Browser Automation:

  • iMacros-iOpus
  • WebRecorder-MJTnet

• 53  Web Hosting/Virtualization Software:

  • Apache Software Foundation
  • cPanel-the leading web hosting control panel
  • Ensim
  • Microsoft Virtualization
  • Openvz-server virtualization.  Unix
  • Parallels Virtuozzo
  • VHCS
  • Virtual Box
  • Virtual Server-server virtualization.  Microsoft
  • Visioncore-server backup, optimization software
  • VMWare-server and workstation virtualization.  Leading provider
  • Webmin-web based server monitoring

  54  Web Programming:

  • ASP.Net - web programming using microsoft tools
  • Visual Studio-Microsoft
  • ComponentOne-web development components for Microsoft products
  • DevExpress-web development components
  • SorceForge - largest online repository of open source code
  • PerlBuilder-IDE for Perl
  • Komodo IDE-ActiveState.  Web based multi-language authoring
  • Maguma Studio-PHP development
  • Mono- cross platform, open source .net development framework
  • Perl Express-IDE for Perl
  • Perl IDE-IDE for Perl
  • Perl Dev Kit-Activestate
  • PHP Editors List-comprehensive list of PHP editors
  • PHPEd-Nusphere PHP IDE
  • PHP Edit-Waterproof.  PHP IDE
  • Top Perl Studio-IDE for Perl
  • VS.php-development tool for PHP that runs within Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Zend-PHP authoring

• 55  Website Link Verification (check automatically for broken links):

  • Keynote NetMechanic
  • Link Auditor
  • Link Validation Checker
  • Link Validation Utility
  • ShareMe Link Validation Tools
  • The Free Country Validation Links
  • Web Design Group Link Validators
  • Web Link Validator-REL Software

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