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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.
Tofrodos: Unix to Windows/DOS Conversion Utility
Convert text files to/from Unix and MSDOS/Windows file formats. Free with source code.
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- How to Play Music or Audio on a Website with HTML (HTML5)
- Free Android Emulators
- How to Give the Cells of a Table the Same Width in HTML (HTML/CSS)
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- How to Make Expression Web Use HTML5 By Default
- How to Hide Images on a Website When It is Viewed on a Mobile Phone
- How to Add a Video to Your Website in HTML (HTML5)
- How to Change the Background Colour of a Web Page in CSS (HTML/CSS)
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- Free Social Network / Media Software
- Free JavaScript Minifiers (Minimizers), Obfuscators and Compressors
- Free Image Pop-Up JavaScripts (Where Image Overlays Current Web Page)
- Free Royalty-Free Stock Photos
- Free Solitaire Games
- Free Online Editors and Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Free PHP Compilers: compile PHP scripts to native code, .NET or Java bytecode
- Free Embedded Web Video Player Scripts/Code
- Free Image/Photo Slide Show JavaScript
- Free Mail Servers (Email Servers / Mail Transfer Agents)
- Free File Synchronization Software
- Free GUI Builders, Application Builders and Rapid Application Development (RAD) Software
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- How to Block the Author ID and Author Archive URLs in WordPress Blogs Using .htaccess
- What is the Best Font Size for a Web Page? And How to Change Font Sizes with CSS
- How to Create a Blog
- Free Static Code Analyzers (Static Source Code Analysis Tools/Lint)
- What's the Difference Between a Domain Name Registrar and a Web Host?
- How to Double-Space Text and Change the Line Spacing on a Web Page (HTML/CSS)
- How to Create a Coloured ("Colored") Box in HTML/CSS
- How to Centre ("Center") Text on Your Web Page with CSS
- The Crucial Task Often Forgotten by New Webmasters (Until It's Too Late)
- Can You Fix a Typo in a Domain Name After You Register It?
- How to Centre an Image with CSS
- How to Use Letters and Roman Numerals in Numbered Lists (HTML/CSS Tutorial)
- How to Add a Contact Form to Your Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3
- How to Publish (Upload) Your Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3
- BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Design a Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3
- What Should the Width of a Web Page Be?
- How to Move Your Website to SSL (ie, Convert from HTTP to HTTPS)
- How to Redirect a URL
- How to Insert a DIV Block and Other HTML Elements into a Web Page Using JavaScript
- How to Insert HTML Code into a Web Page with Expression Web
- Does the Price of a Domain Depend on the Name Chosen? Why do Some Domains Cost So Much?
- How to Hide Content or Data from the Search Engines
- Do I Need a Web Editor if I Create a Blog?
- How to Insert a Table into a Web Page (and Customize it) with Expression Web
- How to Use Web Fonts: CSS Tutorial
- How to Insert a Bullet Point (Unordered) List into Your Website with Expression Web
- How to Add an Automatically Numbered List to Your Website with Expression Web
- How to Add Google AdSense to Your Website with Expression Web
- How to Insert a YouTube Video into Your Website with Microsoft Expression Web
- How to Create a Contact Form with Expression Web
- How to Publish (Upload) Your Website to the Internet with Expression Web
- How to Create and Manage Multiple Pages on Your Website with Expression Web
- How to Insert a Navigation Menu into Your Website with Expression Web
- How to Make Pictures and Text into Clickable Links with Expression Web
- Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web
- How to Install and Configure Apache, PHP, Perl and MySQL on Windows the Easy Way (with XAMPP)
- Can you register a domain name directly with ICANN instead of through a middleman?
- Free Mobile-Friendly Two Column Layout Wizard
- How to Make Your Images Mobile-Friendly (Responsive Design)
- How to Make a Two Column Website Layout Mobile-Friendly
- How to Make a Mobile-Friendly Website: Responsive Design in CSS
- Should I Use a Specialized Blog Host or Install My Own Blog Software?
- How to Make Links Open in a New Window or Tab
- Why Is the Pound Symbol ("£") Displayed as a Question Mark or Rectangular Box On My Web Page?
- Which Web Hosting Package / Plan Should You Choose? How to Plan for the Traffic (Bandwidth) and Disk Space You Need
- Can I Recover My Files From a Website Discontinued a Long Time Ago?
- Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS6
- What Banks Need to Know Before Getting a New Domain Name
- How to Reserve a Domain Name. Do You Need a Web Host if You Want to Reserve a Domain for Future Use?
- What's the Difference Between a Content Management System (CMS), a Blog, a Web Editor and an Online Site Builder?
- HTML Tutorial - Learn to Design a Website using HTML
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- What is MySQL? What is a Database? What is SQL?
- Free / Open Source Non-SQL Database Servers and Engines
- Free Royalty Free Music and Sounds
- How to Point Multiple Domain Names to One Website: And How to Avoid Search Engine Problems When Doing So
- Should You Choose a Linux or a Windows Web Hosting Package? Is There Such a Thing as a Mac Web Host?
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- What's The Difference Between Liquid, Elastic, Relative, Fluid, Flexible and Fixed Layouts?
- 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
- Is it Possible to Use Microsoft Word or Office to Create a Website? If So, How?
- Is it Possible to Create a Website Without Buying a Domain Name? The High Price of "Free".
- 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
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- How to Create / Make Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide
- How to Register Your Own Domain Name
- How Much Does It Cost to Set Up a Website?
- Six Steps to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website
- 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 Antivirus Software
- Free Anonymous Surfing and Proxies
- PHP Tutorial: Writing Your First PHP Script
- Free Customized Feedback Form PHP / Perl Script
- Free C/C++ Compilers, Free Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler
- How to Accept Credit Cards on Your Website
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- New page: How to Play Music or Audio on a Website with HTML (HTML5). If you are interested in playing music or audio on your website, this article shows you the HTML code to use. HTML5 allows you to add an audio player with very little effort.
- New page: Free Android Emulators. These free Android emulators let you run Android apps and games on your Windows, Mac OS X or Linux machine. They are useful if you want to play Android games on your computer or if you want to develop and test your own Android app or game.
- New page: How to Give the Cells of a Table the Same Width in HTML (HTML/CSS). In response to a query from a visitor, who found that each time she added content to the cells of a table, the browser changed the width of every column, this article deals with how you can give all the cells of a table an equal width.
- An open source video editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux has been added to the Free Video Editors page.
- Another RSS Editor has been added to the Free RSS News Feed Editors page. These programs let you create and maintain an RSS newsfeed for your website, and are useful if you create a website using a web editor instead of using a blog script or CMS software.
- New page: How to Make Expression Web Use HTML5 By Default. I was asked by a visitor how he could make Expression Web use HTML5 by default. This article addresses that question.
- Are you tired of having to build a separate package of your Linux application for every single Linux distribution in use? Would it not be so much more pleasant if Linux applications can be built the way Windows and Mac OS X programs are, where all you need to do is to build a single bundle instead of worrying about what shared library versions are available on which distribution? The latest addition to the Free Setup Utilities page lets you do just that.
- New page: How to Hide Images on a Website When It is Viewed on a Mobile Phone. I was asked by a visitor how to make an image disappear from a web page when it is displayed on a phone. This article answers that question.
- A new open source program has been added to the Free Secure Password Managers page. Such software are helpful if you use different passwords for different online services (as you should). All you need to do is to memorize and use a single master password, instead of a zillion, while the program keeps track of all your other passwords, and stores them in an encrypted format.
- Updated: How to Make / Create a Website. The article on how to create a website has been updated with information on the latest developments on the Internet, namely the worldwide move towards using SSL, and how it affects the webmaster.
- New page: How to Add a Video to Your Website in HTML (HTML5). If you are looking for a way to put a video on your web page without hosting it on a video sharing site like YouTube, this article shows you the HTML code to use. With HTML5, this is now a very simple process.
- Two new free software for Windows have been added to the Free Personal Firewalls page. If you are want to block unwanted outgoing traffic from your machine (eg, to prevent apps from phoning home without your permission), and are irritated that the default Windows firewall allows any program on your machine (running with sufficient privileges) to change the firewall rules at will, take a look at these.
- New page: How to Change the Background Colour of a Web Page in CSS (HTML/CSS). In answer to a query from a visitor, this article deals with how you can change the colour of the background of either an entire web page or some portion of it (such as a paragraph or a column) using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- The newest addition to the Free Debuggers and Bug Trackers page is a debugger that can record a failure in a program, allowing you to replay that execution as many times as you need, attaching breakpoints and watchpoints as needed. You can even reverse execute the program, with the debugger stopping the execution when those breakpoints or watchpoints are hit.
- New page: How to Block the Author ID and Author Archive URLs in WordPress Blogs Using .htaccess. I was asked by a visitor how he could block queries for his author ID and archive pages on his WordPress blog using the Apache .htaccess file. He may have wanted to do this to prevent duplicate content and/or the unintended disclosure of his login name. This article answers that question, as well as provides additional things that need to be done if either or both those reasons were behind the query.
- Updated: The entire BlueGriffon Tutorial has been updated for the version 3 series of BlueGriffon. Those who are thinking of using it to create a website can find the complete series online.
- New page: Free Social Network / Media Software. Have you ever wanted to create your own social media or social network website (like Facebook, Twitter and so on)? The free and open source software listed on this page let you do just that without having to write your own program from scratch.
- New page: What is the Best Font Size for a Web Page? And How to Change Font Sizes with CSS. I was asked by one visitor what the ideal font size for a web page is and another about how to change that size. This article answers both questions.
- If you are looking for a news feed reader (for RSS/Atom feeds and even podcasts), check out the latest addition to the Free Standalone News Feed Readers and News Aggregators page. It works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and is open source.
- Another free program has been added to the Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editors page. If you are looking for a photo editor, or even a drawing and painting program to make a logo for your website or blog, check this page out. There are really a lot of free (and even open source) programs around these days.
- New page: How to Create a Blog. This guide takes you through the steps of setting up your own blog. (Note that the article deals specifically with making a blog. If you want some other type of site, you should read How to Create a Website instead.)
- Updated: How to Secure Your WordPress Blog. For those of you who are thinking of starting a website and installing WordPress, my article on securing a WordPress blog has been updated for the current versions of WordPress.
- New page: Free Static Code Analyzers (Static Source Code Analysis Tools/Lint). These free static code analysis tools scan the source code of your C, C++, Fortran, JavaScript and Java programs looking for potential bugs and constructs that may cause problems in the future.
- New page: What's the Difference Between a Domain Name Registrar and a Web Host? This article on whether a domain name registrar is the same thing as a web host answers a question I was asked by a visitor.
- Another source of Free Royalty Free Music and Sounds has been added the site. They have all sorts of sounds and loops that you can use in your commercial multimedia presentations, Youtube videos, animations that you place on a website you made, and so on.
- An open source web editor script has been added to the Free Online Web-Based WYSIWYG HTML Editor JavaScripts page. Note that these scripts are meant for existing webmasters who want to give their visitors the ability to type HTML code (for example, into their forms). If you are looking for an editor to create a website, the Free HTML Editors and WYSIWYG Web Editors page is more relevant. You may also want to read How to Make / Design a Website for a detailed step-by-step guide.
- Another banner rotation script has been added to the Free Banner Rotation JavaScripts page. You can use it to rotate advertisements, photos (like a slide show), banners, text, or whatever else you want on your website.
- New page: How to Double-Space Text and Change the Line Spacing on a Web Page (HTML/CSS). Once again, I'm clearing my backlog of visitor queries on how to accomplish certain things on a website. This time, it is to answer a question on how to add additional space between lines, such as to double-space text, or even the reverse, to reduce the gap. This requires a bit of help from CSS.
- New page: How to Create a Coloured ("Colored") Box in HTML/CSS. I was asked by a visitor how he could create a coloured box into which he could put some text, to supplement the information given in his main content. This tutorial shows you how to do this with a bit of HTML and CSS.
- Another open source text editor has been added to the Free Programmer's Editors, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Plain Text Editors page. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD.
- New page: How to Centre ("Center") Text on Your Web Page with CSS. This article deals with how you can centre text on a web page or in a DIV block or box using CSS.
- A new open source tabbed file manager has been added to the Free File Managers and Graphical Shells page. Such programs are useful if you feel that the default Windows Explorer lacks certain features (eg the ability to open two windows side-by-side without having to manually position the windows every time, so that you can do things like copy or move files from one folder to another).
- New page: The Crucial Task Often Forgotten by New Webmasters (Until It's Too Late). No one likes a nag, but this is not something you want to discover the hard way.
- A new open source program was added to Free Graphical Ping Utilities page. Such software are useful if you want to check if a particular host (ie, machine) on a network (eg, the Internet) is reachable. If you have created your own website, it may even be used to monitor it so as to notify you when it is down or just not reachable.
- New page: Can You Fix a Typo in a Domain Name After You Register It? I was asked by a visitor who made a spelling error when buying a domain name whether he could edit the name to fix the typo. This article answers that question.
- Those who have made their own website may be interested in the latest addition to the Free HTML/CSS Validators, Broken Link and Website Accessibility Checkers page. It not only checks for broken links, but can also give you some useful information about the pages on your site, for example, how many links have to be clicked before that page can be reached, the number of inbound links pointing to it, etc.
- New page: How to Record a Game Video. If you want to record a video of your game playthrough, either for posting to a video sharing site or to put on your own website, you may be interested in this guide. It shows you how you can set up and use free (and open source) software on your computer to record your gameplay.
- New page: How to Centre an Image with CSS. Find out how to centre ("center") an image along the horizontal axis of your web page using CSS. Note that if you have designed your site using my guide on creating a website, and used one of the visual web editors mentioned, you can also centre it from within the editor (as taught in that guide).
