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Welcome to thefreecountry.com's collection of free programming resources, free webmasters' resources, free security resources and free utilities.
Free Programmers' Resources
Free Programming Language Compilers
Comprehensive list of compilers for numerous programming languages.
Free Source Code and Programming Libraries
Source code and libraries that you can use in your own programs.
Free Programming Tools and Utilities
Tools to make your programming job easier, such as editors, debuggers, static code analysis, disassemblers,
compiler construction tools and grammars, file comparison, search and replace, help authoring, setup utilities,
resource editors, and lots more.
Programming Documentation
Online tutorials (free), online references (free) and frequently recommended books (not free) for programmers and webmasters.
Free Emulators and Virtual Machines
Run multiple OSes simultaneously, run a Mac OS on a PC (and vice versa), run a PC virtual machine inside your existing PC, etc.
Free Webmasters' Resources
Free Web Hosting and Cheap Web Hosting
Free and budget web hosts where you can place your website, blog, software, video, music, etc.
Free PHP Scripts ||
Free Perl CGI Scripts ||
Free ASP Scripts
Free programs that allow you to add a wide variety of facilities to your website, including forums, polls, counters, search engines,
blogs, wikis, photo galleries, etc.
Free Remote Script Hosting
Free services that allow you to set up a forum, feedback form, search engine, poll, guestbook, counter, gather web statistics, etc, when your
web host does not support scripts.
Free Webmaster Tutorials and Articles
Tutorials on running your own website, earning income from your site, writing your own PHP scripts,
starting a newsletter, search engine positioning, web design, usability, etc.
Other Free Webmaster Resources
Other useful and free webmaster resources that don't fit into the above categories, such as WYSIWYG HTML editors,
validators, DNS, FTP, SSH, and so on.
Free Security Resources
Free Security, Privacy and
Anonymity Tools and Resources
Tools to safeguard your computer (such as antivirus, anti-spyware) and data (backup, recover lost data) as well as to ensure your privacy (eg
encryption, anonymous surfing).
Free Utilities and Applications
Free System Utilities
Free utilities to recover your data, create or manage your partitions, image or backup, and lots more.
Free Multimedia Utilities
Free multimedia tools to edit, capture, process your audio and video, rip your CDs/DVDs, record your TV programs, author your own DVDs or movies, etc.
Free Office and Productivity Applications
Free applications and tools such as word processors, spreadsheets and office suites, image and photo editing software,
free fonts, free translation software and so on.
NetSyndic
Syndicate your articles on your web, with this free article syndication wizard.
Tofrodos: Unix to Windows/DOS Conversion Utility
Convert text files to/from Unix and MSDOS/Windows file formats. Free with source code.
Logtime: Free Online Internet Timer
Track your ISP online time and costs with this free online timer! No nags, no ads!
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- Free Alternative Operating Systems
- How to Put a Clickable Email Address on Your Web Page Using Dreamweaver
- Free PHP Web Based File Managers
- How to Install PrestaShop Shopping Cart on Your Website
- How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse Hovers Over It Using Dreamweaver: Creating Mouseover / Rollover Effects
- Free Electronic Circuit Simulation Software / Circuit Simulators
- Will I Have to Continue to Pay a Fee to Keep My Domain Name After I Buy It? Can I Change Registrars? Can I Terminate My Domain Name?
- How to Put Multiple Feedback Forms on One Website
- Free Make Utilities
- How to Delete a Web Page from Your Website: Removing an Already Uploaded File
- What's The Difference Between Liquid, Elastic, Relative, Fluid, Flexible and Fixed Layouts?
- Free Video Converters: Convert Movies/Videos between Different Formats
- How to Centre a Horizontal Navigation Menu Bar in Dreamweaver
- How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse is Hovering Over It Using KompoZer: Creating a Rollover or Mouseover Effect
- How to Point a Domain Name to Your Website (Or What to Do After Buying Your Domain Name)
- How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form
- What Does It Mean to Park a Domain Name? Domain Name Parking Explained
- Serif WebPlus X2 Tutorial: How to Design Your Website with Serif WebPlus X2
- Is it Possible to Use Microsoft Word or Office to Create a Website? If So, How?
- How to Upload and Link to a PDF File (or PDF Ebook) in KompoZer and Nvu
- How to Upload and Link to a PDF File (or PDF ebook) with Dreamweaver
- Is it Possible to Create a Website Without Buying a Domain Name? The High Price of "Free".
- How to Create a Membership or Password Protected Subscription Website
- Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS4
- How to Install Apache 2.2 on Windows Vista
- How to Secure Your WordPress Blog
- How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS
- What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?
- How to Design a Two Column Layout for Your Website Using CSS
- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
- Free 3D Software Box Image Makers
- The Fine Print in Web Hosting: Resource Usage Limits
- How to Install and Configure PHP 5 to Run with Apache on Windows
- Free Customized CSS Navigation Menu Bar Buttons (Wizard)
- How to Create an Emergency Windows Rescue CD
- How to Add a Feedback Form to Your Website (Video Tutorial)
- How to Delete Undeletable, Locked, Busy or Currently In-Use Files in Windows
- How to Record or Save Streaming Music or Audio
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- How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD on a Preinstalled Windows System
- Free Data Recovery, File and Partition Recovery, Undelete and Unformat Software
- Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities
- Free Partitioning Software - Copy, Create, Move, Resize, Convert, Undelete Partitions
- Free DVD Authoring and Creation Tools
- Free CD and DVD Burners and Copying Software
- Free Spyware and Malware Removal, Detection and Prevention
- Free Antivirus Software
- How to Check Your Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine (Cross-Browser Compatibility Checking)
- PHP Tutorial: Writing Your First PHP Script
- Free Customized Feedback Form PHP / Perl Script
- Free Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler, Free C/C++ Compilers
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- New page: Free Programmer's Fonts. This new page lists monospace (fixed width) fonts that have special features useful to programmers, as well as webmasters who hand code in HTML/CSS. The fonts listed here were moved to their own page from the Free Fonts page, which has a wider variety of fonts that is useful for both documents and visual design.
- A new free anonymous proxy service has been added to the Free Anonymous Surfing and Proxies page. This one gives you a German IP address and is able to remove cookies and scripts from the web pages you visit. There is also a HTTPS (secure) version available. Such services allow you to surf the internet without leaving a trail of information about yourself wherever you go.
- New page: The Decline and Fall of Internet Explorer 6: Implications for Webmasters. Yes, Internet Explorer 6 is finally dying. While webmasters and security pundits the world over breathe a sigh of relief, this article deals with some of the practical aspects of that demise where webmasters are concerned.
- Looking for an email program that you can run on your own computer? The newest addition to the Free Email Clients page works on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, and can handle multiple email accounts, email filtering, spell checking, all the usual email protocols, and even has built-in support for encrypted email (using GnuPG). Check it out.
- A new web server has been added to the Free/Open Source Web (HTTP) Server Software page. Tornado is a scalable non-blocking web server designed for real-time web services. It is able to handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections. It is the open source version of the server developed for FriendFeed.
- New page: Free Font Manager Software. Looking for a program to manage your collection of fonts? These free font managers let you organize your fonts into categories, install and uninstall fonts, load fonts them on-the-fly into your system so that you can use them with a particular program without permanently dumping them into your system font folder (thus potentially slowing your system down), see sample text of fonts (even if they're not installed), check out the font licensing, font metrics and other font information stored in a font, etc.
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A new CAPTCHA script has been added to the Free PHP CAPTCHA Scripts
page. The script allows you to add a test to your contact forms to make sure that the person submitting the form is a human and
not a spam program.
Note: for those who would rather not modify your own PHP scripts by hand, you may prefer to use my step-by-step tutorial on How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form which uses a different set of (free) programs to do the job.
- New page: Should You Choose a Linux or a Windows Web Hosting Package? Is There Such a Thing as a Mac Web Host? Those who are thinking of starting a website will have noticed that some web hosts advertise Linux packages, others Windows, still others FreeBSD. Should you choose a Linux web host or a Windows one? What if you have a Mac? When do you need a Windows web host and when a Linux or FreeBSD? This article attempts to answer these questions.
- Microsoft's research operating system, Singularity, complete with source code, build tools and documentation, is now listed on the Free Alternative Operating Systems page. If you're thinking of creating your own OS, check this out to see how it implements advances in software engineering to make a more reliable system.
- Another frequently asked question (FAQ) has been added to the How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form tutorial. This one deals with the error message from ReCAPTCHA about using the "JavaScript free version of reCAPTCHA" in a browser that has JavaScript. Note: if you do not already have a contact form on your website with CAPTCHA support to filter out spam, read that article for an easy way to do this.
- Thinking of creating your own fonts that will have the exact design you're looking for? Check out the newest addition to the Free Font Editors and Font Creation Software page. This one, Type Light, handles both OpenType TrueType fonts (.ttf) and OpenType PostScript fonts (.otf). And there are a number of other free font editors listed on that page too, if you prefer something else.
- A new shopping cart software has been added to the Free And Open Source PHP Shopping Carts page. Besides the usual features that most shopping carts have, this program (OpenCart), supports product reviews and ratings, the display of related products, downloadable products (for those who are selling ebooks and software), multiple currencies, multiple tax rates, shipping weight calculation, unlimited categories, and so on. If you're thinking of selling anything from your website, check it out.
- New page: Free Text User Interface Programming Libraries and Source Code. Create fancy user interfaces for your text-based programs in a device independent way with these Free Text User Interface (TUI) Programming Libraries. Now you don't have to worry about supporting the wide variety of video adapters, terminals and whatnot while still adding things like windows, dialog boxes and other widgets to your programs.
- Are you thinking of creating your own computer game? Shorten your development time with the newest game engine to be added to the Free Games Programming Libraries and Source Code. The Unity games development tool not only comes with support for graphics, animation, sound, multiplayer networking and scripting, it also ships with an integrated editor that lets you create and edit things like animation clips directly. Or if you prefer another game engine, check out the other 30 or so packages listed on the page.
- A new program that converts video files between different formats has been added to the Free Video Converters or Transcoders page. It can rip (ie, copy) directly from various media (like DVD) and devices and convert it so that it is suitable for playing on other devices (eg, iPod, DVD, PSP, Playstation 3, etc). This particular program is for Linux, but if you use Windows or Mac OS X, there are numerous other software listed on that page that can do the job for your system, so if you want something handy for converting videos or movies, check it out.
- Google's new operating system has been added to the Free Alternative Operating Systems page. This is a minimalist operating system designed for netbooks where the main user interface is probably the web browser. Source code for the system is available, and you can already build it and modify it if you wish.
- New page: How to Redesign a New Website without Affecting the Old Site Until the New One is Completely Finished (Using Dreamweaver). If you have an existing website and you want to redesign it from scratch using Dreamweaver, how do you go about doing it without overwriting the current one while developing? This article describes the procedure, and shows you not only how to defer the publication of your newly redesigned website, but also how you can test your site offline while working on it.
- Have you ever encountered a virus infested computer system that was so badly riddled with malware that you couldn't get programs (including antivirus programs) to run properly? If so, the newest addition to the Free Antivirus Software and Free Online Virus Scans page may prove useful. VIPRE is a command line antivirus program that is specifically designed to clean an already infected system. The entire program is self-contained, containing the latest virus definitions and everything needed for the disinfecting work, and is intended to work under such adverse conditions (or so we're told). It's free.
- Looking for a Help Desk software so that you can provide technical support for your users via a simple-to-use web interface? The latest software to be added to the Free Help Desk Software, Customer Service Management (CSM) and Support Ticket Applications (PHP Versions) lets you to do just that. Your users can send support tickets either online, or if you enable the facility, via email. You can then track, escalate, respond (even with canned replies) to them using the online interface.
- New page: How to Change the Disk Signature of a Drive Without Losing Existing Data or Reformatting. If you've received an error from Windows saying "This disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk", or if you've tried to connect a disk to your system and found that Windows refused to recognize it even though you knew the disk was working properly, read this article to find out one way to solve it.
- Merry Christmas! For those looking for freebies (software and services), you've come to the right place. There're lots of those here.
- Looking for a video editor to trim your holiday home movies (or any other type of video for that matter)? A new Windows video editor from Pinnacle has been added to the Free Video Editing Software page. This editor supports video (AVI, MPEG-1, FLV, etc), audio and image files. You can even extract the sound/music from a video easily and save it as an MP3 file.
- The free online (and searchable) Chambers Dictionary has been added to the Free Online English Dictionaries page. This dictionary not only gives the usual definitions and spelling (both US and UK variants) of words searched, it also supplies their etymology (history/origin). If you need the pronunciation, you can get it from one of the other dictionaries listed on the page. As always, only dictionaries from reputable dictionary publishers are listed here.
- New page: How to Move Your Dreamweaver Files to a New Computer. Have you upgraded to a new computer and are wondering how you can transfer your Dreamweaver website files and site definition from your old system to the new? This article shows you how you can do it in a quick and easy way, without losing any work and without having to redo anything.
