Part one of a huge list of free software. Now, you don’t need to buy any application.

Free 3D Graphics

1. 3Delight: Fast, high quality, compliant renderer designed to produce photo-realistic images in demanding production environments.
2. Anim8or: 3D modeling and character animation program.
3. Blender: free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
4. Houdini: Procedural node based 3D animation and visual effects tools for film, broadcast, entertainment and visualization production.
5. Now 3D: Freeware program for Windows platform written in Visual Basic 6.
6. OpenFx: 3D modelling, animation and rendering.
7. Pov-Ray: Is a totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux.
8. Softimage: 3D Software Solutions for Games, Film, and Television Artists.
9. Terragen: Free scenery generator for Windows and the Mac OS.
10. Toxic: An Open Source Global Illumination Renderer.
11. Wings 3D: This software is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

Free Antivirus

1. A-squared: Remove infections of Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Keyloggers, Rootkits, Dialers and other malicious programs.
2. AntiVir: Free antivirus protection.
3. Avast: Multi-award winning solution to virus protection, with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software built in for added security.
4. AVG: Millions of home users trust AVG to protect their computers.
5. BitDefender: Offers you the possibility to download everything from product evaluation versions , white papers, to free virus removal tools, and more.
6. ClamWin: Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.

Free Anti Spyware

1. Ad-Aware: Powerful protection that detects deceptive malware and spyware applications before they integrate into your PC and steal your personal information
2. Bazooka: Detects a multitude of spyware, adware, trojan, keylogger, foistware and trackware components; sources of irritation that antivirus software does not deal with.
3. HijackThis: A general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the article Hijacked, but expanded with a lot of other checks against hijacker tricks. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks.
4. SpyBot: Protect yourself against spyware.
5. SpaywareBlaster: Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
6. WinPatrol: This software alerts you to hijackings, malware attacks and critical changes made to your computer without your permission.

Free Audio Production

1. Gungirl: is an easy to use audio sequencer.
2. HammerHead: is a simple TR-909-like drum computer program aiming at the dance-scene.
3. Jesusonic: Turns your PC or Mac into a fully programmable real-time effects processor.
4. Kristal Audio Engine: Is a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio.
5. orDrumbox: Is a software drum machine, designed to a creative pattern based way of drum programming with automatic music composition capabilities.

Free Audio Players

1. Cool Player: Fast Audio Player for Win32 Environments.
2. DeejaySystem: is a simple Winamp-style player, yet DJ-oriented in design and operation.
3. DelPlayer: multi format, free audio player for Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.
4. Foobar2000: advanced audio player for the Windows platform.
5. iTunes: Check out the most popular TV shows, movies, and music.
6. jetAudio: Play more than 20 kinds of music data including WAV, MP3, RA, MID and MOD, video data such as AVI, MOV, MPG as well as audio and video CD 2.0.
7. Mixere: free, open-source application for mixing audio files. It runs on Windows NT/2000/XP, and supports WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, and Mod audio files.
8. Mixxx: Open source DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike.
9. monoRAVEik: MR1200 is an MP3 player designed specifically for DJing with. Rather than use a PC to replace an entire two-decks-and-a-mixer rig, it replaces only the decks, so you can continue to use your own separate mixer.
10. MoreAmp: Audio player, transcoder and cd ripper for Mac OS X, OS 9, Windows, Unix, and Linux.
11. Musik: open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library.
12. musikCube: Music Management.
13. Quintesssential Player: feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows.
14. Winamp: may be the most popular media player.
15. XMPlay: Audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists.
16. Zinf: A simple but powerful audio player for Linux and Win32.

In a next post I will add free audio editing, free CD-DVD burner and free compress tools.

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