Free Programming Tools and Utilities

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Free Programming Tools / Resources

You can find tools, resources and utilities for a wide variety of programming tasks below.

If you don't see the category of tools you want listed in the index below, please check out the Miscellaneous Free Programming Tools page, a catch-all page for everything that does not have its own page. Note that compilers and interpreters, source code and libraries as well as documentation are listed separately on their own pages.

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Stay Updated (Free) 31 August 2010
  • Create your own first person shooter action game with the latest addition to the Free Games Programming Libraries and Source Code page. This 3D game engine features all the usual 3D graphical effects and 3D sound effects, and comes with a wide variety of tools (model editor, level editor, etc), and a scripting language. It also includes a set of customisable weapon types that you can use for your games, letting you get started quickly creating weapons like pistols, rocket launchers, laser blasters, machine guns, etc. A number of games showing off different features of the software are also included in the package. And it's free.
27 August 2010
  • Convert videos and music between different formats with the newest software to be added to the Free Video Converters or Transcoders page. This one supports a huge variety of formats, from the usual avi, mpg, mov, flv (Flash video), etc, to mobile phone formats like 3gp, 3g2. You can also use it to do simple editing (cut and join video clips) and to extract the audio from DVD or video files. (For more complex tasks, you should get a full video editor like one of those on the Free Video Editors page.)
25 August 2010 19 August 2010
  • Fancy writing a computer program in the C programming language? The Turbo C 2.01 compiler has been restored to the Free C/C++ Compilers and Interpreters page. I'm not sure when it got removed from my list, but I think it was around the time Borland sold its development tools, and the new owners started removing the free compiler suites that Borland used to provide. Anyway, it's back. For those not familiar with Turbo C, it was a famous C compiler known for its fast compilation, built-in graphics library and IDE (development environment).
     
    On the other hand, if you prefer a more up-to-date tool so that you can write computer programs for a modern system like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (etc), take a look at the other free C or C++ compilers on the page. There are now 38 of them listed, so chances are that you should be able to find something you like.
17 August 2010
  • A new COBOL compiler for Windows has been added to the Free COBOL Compilers and Interpreters page. This compiler implements ANSI-74 COBOL with some features from ANSI-85 and ISO 1989:2002. If you're learning the COBOL computer language or want to write programs in COBOL, check it out.
16 August 2010
  • A new ping software has been added to the Free Graphical Ping Utilities to Check Network Connections page. Ping is often used as a rough test to see if a particular host (such as a website) on the network is reachable or alive. While most operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, already come with command line ping software , these Ping tools have a graphical interface and often include additional facilities not present in the built-in programs. All the programs listed on the page are free.
10 August 2010
  • A new screen reader has been added to the Free Screen Readers: Text to Speech Conversion page. Screen readers read whatever is displayed on your monitor aloud, so that the blind can use computers to read and write documents, surf the Internet, etc. If you are a webmaster, you can also use such readers to test your website to make sure it is accessible to the blind.
9 August 2010
  • New page: How to Created Rounded Corners for Your Box Borders in CSS. Tired of putting retro rectangular boxes with right-angled corners on your web pages? This article teaches you how to create boxes with rounded corners to enclose your text and/or pictures, giving it a more modern look. And you don't even need to do tedious things like slice images: the tutorial uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to accomplish the job.
6 August 2010
  • Do you fancy creating your own PDF ebook? Or perhaps you simply want to convert a document into the PDF format? Check out the newest entry in the Free PDF Converters, Editors and Printer Drivers page. There are now 11 PDF conversion tools on that page, so even if you don't like the latest addition, there are many others to choose from. Besides, they are all free: you can get them all if you like.
5 August 2010 3 August 2010
  • Do you have a huge file that you want to send someone but find that it is too large to attach in an email? The newest utility to be added to the Free File Splitters and Joiners page lets you split that file into smaller chunks so that it can be transmitted to someone else and provides an easy-to-use way for them to reassemble the file back together again. It even checks the integrity of the file after recombining it to make sure it's identical to the original.
30 July 2010 28 July 2010 26 July 2010
  • Do you have this nagging feeling that you have multiple copies of the same file on your computer, possibly under different filenames? Now you can find out, and get rid of the duplicates if you wish, with the latest software to be added to the Free Find / Delete Duplicate Files Utilities. This program checks the file on your system for duplicates, even if those files are in diverse locations, with different filenames and dates. It allows you to clean up your system and free your disk space.
23 July 2010
  • A new clipboard manager has been added to the Free Clipboard History Managers and Extenders page. This is a minimalistic and lightweight clipboard extender that stores multiple cut-and-paste text snippets. If you've never used a clipboard manager before, check this page out. You'll be surprised how handy such utilities are, and how much it can improve your productivity.
21 July 2010 13 July 2010 11 July 2010
  • A new open source operating system, designed with security in mind, has been added to the Free Alternative Operating Systems page. Qube OS operates by using security by isolation with the help of virtualisation ("virtualization") technology. Not only are programs isolated from each other, but even some system components (eg networking and storage) are also sandboxed.
6 July 2010
  • Thinking of creating your own font? Check out the newest font construction tool that has been added to the Free Font Editors, Font Creation Software and Sites page. This latest one is a Mac program, but there are other font creation programs listed on the page for Windows and Linux too.
29 June 2010 17 June 2010
  • A free painting program with a wide selection of brushes (including pencil, charcoal, smudge, ink, etc) has been added to the Free Drawing and Painting Software page. The program, MyPaint, is open source, and works on Windows and Linux systems. There are also numerous other free programs listed on that page if you prefer something else, including Mac OS X programs and free photo editors.
16 June 2010
  • Another anonymous surfing service has been added to the Free Anonymous Surfing and Proxies page. Such services aim to let you surf the Internet without leaving a trail of particulars about yourself at the sites you visit.
14 June 2010 7 June 2010 1 June 2010
  • The STIX fonts, a set of free, open source, royalty-free fonts for engineering, mathematical and scientific documents, has been added to the Free Fonts page. Besides the usual characters found in most fonts, these additionally contain the symbols needed in engineering and scientific documents but are not usually found in the standard fonts. Incidentally, if you don't need a font with such an extensive support for scientific symbols, there are also numerous other free fonts found on that page, including fancy ones (eg, if you want something to adorn your images on your website).
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