Free Programming Tools and Utilities
Editors, Debuggers, Help Authoring, Setup, Version Control, etc
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.
Help and Documentation
Text and Source Code Handling
- Free Programmers' Editors, ASCII Text Editors and IDEs
- Free Java IDE and Editors
- Free Text Search and Replace Utilities
- Free Text and Binary Comparison / Merging Utilities (Diff/Merge)
- Free Clipboard Extenders and Clipboard History Managers
- Free Source Code Beautifiers
- Free Version Control Software
- Free Interactive Regular Expression (Regex) Testers and Builders
- Free Static Source Code Analysis Utilities, Source Checkers (Lint)
- Free Fonts for Programmers
Debugging and Binary Code Management
- Free Debuggers, Static Source Code Analysis Utilities, Source Checkers (Lint), Bug Trackers
- Free Disassemblers, Binary and Hex Editors, Hex Viewers
- Free DOS Extenders (Protected Mode)
- Free Text and Binary Comparison / Merging Utilities (Diff/Merge)
- Free Executable Compressors - shrink your EXEs and Binaries
- Free Windows Resource Compilers, Resource Editors, Resource Hackers, Icon Editors
- Free File Patch Makers (for Delivering Small Updates)
Compiler Construction and Grammars
Miscellaneous
- Free 3D Software Box Image Makers
- Free Interactive Regular Expression (Regex) Testers and Builders
- Free File Patch Makers (for Delivering Small Updates)
- Free GUI Builders / Application Builders
- Free Program Maintenance Utilities (Make)
- Free Setup / Installers / Uninstallers
- Free Autorun/Autoplay DVD and CD Menu Creation Software
- Free Java Resources and Tools
- Free Command Line Shells
- Miscellaneous Free Programming Tools and Utilities
Other Programming Resources
- Free Source Code and Programming Libraries - don't reinvent the wheel
- Free Compilers and Interpreters for Programming Languages
- Free Online Programming Documentation, Frequently Recommended Programming Books
- Free Emulators and Virtual Machines
Other Resources of Interest
- Free Security, Privacy, and Anonymity
- Free Utilities and Application Software
- Free Perl CGI Scripts
- Free PHP/Perl CGI Script Hosting
- Free PHP Scripts
- Free JavaScript, AJAX, DHTML and Web 2.0 Scripts
- Free Web Hosts, Budget Web Hosts
- More Free Webmaster Resources
- Free Tutorials and Articles for Webmasters
- Free POP3, IMAP, SMTP, Web Email
New Pages on thefreecountry.com
- Free Personal Information Manager (PIM), Organizer and Desktop Calendar Software
- Free RAM Memory Diagnostics (Software Utilities)
- Free Internet/Network Bandwidth Monitors and Meters
- Free Keyboard Macro, Remapping and Hot Key Software
- Free Antivirus Rescue CDs and DVDs
- Free SSL Certificates for Websites/Web Servers
- Free PHP Encoders, Accelerators and Obfuscators
- Free 3D Software Box Image Makers
- Free DVD and VCD Players, Free Movie and Video Playing Software
- Free DVD Authoring and Creation Software
- Free Antivirus Software and Free Online Virus Scans
New Pages on thesitewizard.com
- How to Create Good Filenames for Your Web Pages
- How to Create a Thumbnail that When Clicked Opens a Larger Version of the Picture in Dreamweaver
- How to Secure Your WordPress Blog
- How to Improve the Accessibility of Your Website
- How to Prevent a Directory Listing of Your Website with .htaccess
- 6 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About Google Chrome
- How to Change the Default Web Page that is Shown When Someone Goes to Your Domain Name
- 3 Things to Be Aware of When Writing English Content for an International Audience
- What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?
- How Much Does It Cost to Set Up a Website?
- How to Design a Two Column Layout for Your Website Using CSS
- Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS3 (Part 1)
New Pages on HowToHaven.com
- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
- How to Back Up Your Hard Disk in Windows
- How to Securely Prepare Your Old Computer for Disposal
- How to Work Around the Missing Up Arrow Button in Vista's Windows Explorer
- How to Create a Bootable "Live" Windows Rescue CD
- How to Delete Undeletable, Locked, Busy or Currently In-Use Files in Windows
- How to Record or Save Streaming Music or Audio
Popular Pages
- How to Create/Start Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide
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- Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities
- Free Spyware/Adware/Trojans/Keyloggers/Hijackers Removal, Detection and Prevention Tools and Sites
- Free Antivirus Software
- Free Device Driver Backup and Extraction Utilities
- Free DVD/CD Emulators, Free Virtual CD/DVD Drives
- Free Data Recovery, File and Partition Recovery, Undelete and Unformat Software
- Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editing Programs, 3D Content Creation Tools
- How to Design and Publish Your Website with Nvu (free WYSIWYG web editor)
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- New page: Free Personal Information Manager (PIM), Personal Planner, Organizer and Desktop Calendar Software. Did you know that your computer can also help you keep track of your calendar, events (birthdays, meetings, appointments, TV programs), TODO lists, etc, and alert you beforehand? The free software listed on this new page allow you to do that and more.
- Are you writing programs for the 8051 microcontroller and doing it the hard way (in assembler)? The latest addition to the Free Pascal Compilers, Free Delphi Compilers page is a cross compiler that runs on Windows and generates code for the 8051. (If you don't want a cross-compiler, there are also other compilers on that page for Windows, Linux, etc.)
- New page: How to Create Good Filenames for Your Web Pages. What makes a good filename for your web page? This article gives some guidelines to creating URLs that will not cause problems in the future.
- New page: Free RAM Memory Diagnostics (Software Utilities). Are you experiencing strange file corruption errors or other glitches on your system? Such glitches may be the result of one of your computer RAM (memory) chips going bad. These free memory diagnostic programs will let you check your RAM for problems.
- New page: How to Create a Thumbnail that When Clicked Opens a Larger Version of the Picture in Dreamweaver. Are you thinking of creating a photo gallery website or a web photo album, but cannot figure out how to create a thumbnail picture link that will lead to a bigger version of the photo when clicked? This tutorial shows you how to do this using Dreamweaver.
- New page: Free Internet/Network Bandwidth Monitors and Meters. Has your Internet provider placed a bandwidth cap on the amount you can download/upload each month? If so, you may be interested in these free bandwidth monitors that you can use to track your own Internet activity so that you either don't exceed the bandwidth cap or so that you can find out if they are overcharging you. There are different types of software listed here, including those that track usage on a single computer as well as those that can track total usage across all the computers in your whole household (useful if you have more than one computer).
- New page: How to Secure Your WordPress Blog. In the past few months, I have come across a number of WordPress blogs that have been hacked to deliver malware. Don't let your blog be the next victim of hackers. This tutorial discusses some ways in which you can increase the security of your blog so that it is less vulnerable to being compromised.
- New page: Free Keyboard Macro, Remapping and Hot Key Software. Make your life simpler by assigning things you repeatedly do to certain keys (or key combinations). Alternatively, create a key for characters that you use frequently, but that your keyboard does not have (eg, the euro character). You can even configure the software to automatically expand your abbreviations so that you only have to type the short form, and it will expand it for you. All these, and more, can be accomplished with the free software on this new page.
- New page: How to Improve the Accessibility of Your Website. Are you unknowingly preventing certain types of visitors from using your website? This tutorial discusses how you can improve the accessibility of your website so that people who are blind, colour-blind, have poor eyesight and those who are both blind and deaf can use your site.
- New page: How to Prevent a Directory Listing of Your Website with .htaccess. If you don't have an index.html in one of your website's directories, do you know that your visitors can see every file that is present in that directory? This article shows you how you can prevent that from happening.
- New page: Free Antivirus Rescue CDs and DVDs. What can you do if you have a system that is so hopelessly infected with viruses and malware that your antivirus software cannot get rid of them? The free antivirus rescue CDs on this new page exist precisely for this purpose. Boot from them and let the antivirus programs on those CDs disinfect and clean your system without viruses and spyware interfering.
- Remember the famous games Hexen and Heretic that you used to play when you were younger? The copyright owners, Activision and Raven, have released the source code for those games under an open source (GNU GPL) licence. Rush now to the Free Games Programming Libraries and Source Code page to get it. Use the engines for your games, modify them, or even just compile them so that you can play those golden oldies.
- 6 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About Google Chrome. It's the hottest new gadget on the Internet. But everybody is talking about Google's new web browser from the point of view of an end-user. As a webmaster, Google Chrome presents both new problems and opportunities. This article discusses 6 things about the browser that every web developer should know.
- Free ASP Blog Scripts and Blogging Software. Fancy starting your own blog? This newest page on thefreecountry.com lists free ASP blogging software that you can use for your blog. Just download, install, customize to your heart's content, and start posting!
- Are you looking for a content management system for your website, one that allows you easily set up and manage your website from your web browser, and that allows users to join in as members, participate and contribute? Check out the newest addition to the Free Content Management Systems (CMS) PHP Scripts page. This one is open source and supports the creation of multiple websites from a single installation.
- New page: How to Change the Default Web Page that is Shown When Someone Goes to Your Domain Name. Do you need a different file (other than index.html) to be displayed when someone types your domain name in a web browser? Perhaps you want a special script to be invoked, or a file with some other name? This tutorial shows you how you can accomplish this by adding a single line to your .htaccess file.
- New page: How to Remove the Underlining from Your Links in Nvu/KompoZer. Is the blue underlining underneath your links spoiling your website's beautiful design? This tutorial shows you how you can remove it using Nvu and KompoZer.
- New page: Free SSL Certificates for Websites/Web Servers. Fancy setting up an ecommerce store on your site? Or perhaps you just want a secure section of your website where you and your members can access through an encrypted HTTPS connection. The free services on this page provide your site with free SSL certificates that allow you to do just that.
- A new survey service has been added to the Free Online Polls/Surveys Script Hosting page. This service provides reports that are tabulated, filtered and have customizable charts, making it easier for you to get the information you really want. Check it out or read more about it.
- New page: How to Write Dates that Can Be Correctly Understood by an International Audience. Find out how to write dates in your blog or website in a format that can be understood correctly by your visitors no matter which country of the world they come from. This article delves into the tricky problem of the ambiguous date formats found on a number of websites today.
- New page: Free Autorun/Autoplay DVD and CD Menu Creation Software. Fancy creating a professional looking CD/DVD menu that automatically loads when the media is placed into the DVD drive? Your menu can give your users the option to install software, or view videos or listen to music or whatever you want. Use it to create your own music or video collection, or to make your own software install CD the way commercial software vendors do. The free software on this page provide a friendly visual interface for you to create your own AutoRun menu, the easy way.
