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Free Programmers', Webmasters' and Security Resources
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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 and
Free Perl CGI Scripts
Free programs that allow you to add a wide variety of facilities to your website, including forums, polls, counters, search engines, 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!
New Pages
This Month
- How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Dreamweaver
- Free Interactive Regular Expression (Regex) Testers and Builders
Last Month
- What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?
- Free Physics Engines (Source Code and Libraries)
- How to Use PHP Sessions to Store Data
- Free RAM Disks or RAMDisk Drivers
- Free PHP Rating Scripts
- How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Nvu
- Free FTP, SFTP and TFTP Source Code and Libraries
- How to Automatically Add or Remove the WWW Prefix from Your Domain Names Using mod_rewrite
- Free Fax Software (Send a Fascimile through Your Fax Modem)
- How to Create an Image in PHP
- Free Uninstallers
A While Ago...
- Free OCR Software (Optical Character Recognition)
- How Much Does It Cost to Set Up a Website?
- Free Command Line Shells
- How to Insert a YouTube Video into Your Web Page with Dreamweaver
- Free Usenet News Readers
- How the Meta Description Tag May Harm Your Website
- Free PHP CAPTCHA Scripts
- How to Add the Copyright Symbol to Your Web Page
- Free PDF Readers / Viewers
- How to Create and Use Cookies in PHP
- How to Design a Two Column Layout for Your Website Using CSS
- Is It Legal to Use Any Piece of Music, Image, or Article for my Website? And Other Questions on Copyright Relevant to Webmasters
- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
- Important Precautions to Take When Buying a Domain Name
- What Sort of Website Should I Create In Order to Earn Money?
- 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)
- Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS3
- How to Delete Undeletable, Locked, Busy or Currently In-Use Files in Windows
- How to Record or Save Streaming Music or Audio
- Free DVD Authoring and Creation Tools
- Free DVD and VCD Players, Free Movie and Video Playing Software
Featured Pages
- How to Create/Start Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide
- Six Steps to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website
- 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 CD and DVD Burners and Copying Software
- Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editing Programs, 3D Content Creation Tools
- Free Spyware and Malware Removal, Detection and Prevention
- Free Antivirus Software
- Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Design
- 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
What's New
3 June 2008- Updated: A new anti-spyware program, SUPERAntiSpyware, has been added to the Free Spyware Detection, Removal and Prevention page. It detects and removes spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, worms, dialers, etc. Read more about it or check it out.
- New page: How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Dreamweaver. Continuing the series of articles on how to earn money from your website is this tutorial on how you can add Google advertisements, or AdSense, to your website using the well-known Dreamweaver web editor. All it takes is 6 easy steps.
- New page: Free Interactive Regular Expression (Regex) Testers and Builders. These free or open source software provide a variety of facilities to make it easier to create and test regular expressions. You can interactively create regular expressions through a point and click interface, test your regex with sample data, debug your expressions, or get the software to describe what a particular regular expression does in plain English. Read more about them and check them out.
- New page: What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website? If you're thinking of starting your own website, and are stumped by terms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl, take a look at this article, explaining them as well as describing what you'll need to do to create a website.
- Updated: Free Content Management Systems (CMS) PHP Scripts. BIGACE is a free content management system (CMS) that lets you create and maintain your website from a web-based interface. It features a customizable template system, categories, search engine friendly URLs, and so on. Read more about it or check it out.
- Updated: Free Antivirus Software and Free Online Virus Scans. A new free antivirus program has been added to this page. This program provides not just resident protection against viruses, trojans, worms and rootkits, it also scans your incoming and outgoing email, provides proactive defence, application access control, program startup control, hidden process detection, application protection, etc.
- New page: Free Physics Engines (Source Code and Libraries). Are you writing a game or a simulation? If so, the free and open source physics engines listed on this page may save you the time writing algorithms to handle things like collision of objects, explosions, liquid movement, cloth, etc. Many of these engines are used in well-known commercial games as well.
- Updated: Free Anonymous Surfing. Another anonymous surfing site has been added to the list. This one allows you to also remove JavaScripts, cookies and images, encode the address you are surfing as well as browse using Secure Socket Layer (ie, SSL or https).
- New page: How to Use PHP Sessions to Store Data. Why struggle with cookies if what you want to do can be done automatically by using the built-in PHP sessions capability? This tutorial shows you how you can use sessions in PHP to store and retrieve your data. It also discusses when it's appropriate to use sessions and when cookies or other data storage methods are more suitable.
- New page: Free RAM Disks or RAMDisk Drivers. RAM disks appear like an extremely fast hard disk on your system. They can be useful for a variety of tasks, for example, as temporary space for certain applications that need to have a scratch space, or in bootable CDs. The fact that the contents of the drive automatically disappear when you reboot or shut down your computer can also come in handy. Read more about it and get a RAM disk for your system.
- New page: Free PHP Rating Scripts. Looking for a way to let your visitors rate the photos, articles, downloads, movies, books, reviews, etc, on your website? These free rating scripts allow you to do just that. They are customizable and have some facility to help prevent double voting.
- A new free PDF viewer that allows you to type into PDF files, even into areas that are not defined as form fields, has been added to the Free PDF Readers / Viewers page.
- New page: How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Nvu. I was asked by a visitor how she could add Google advertisements (AdSense) to her website using the free web editor, Nvu. This article shows you how you can do it in 6 easy steps.
- New page: Free FTP, SFTP and TFTP Source Code and Libraries. If you need to add an auto-updating facility in your application, or have your program access the Internet via FTP or SFTP, take a look at these libraries and source code so that you don't have to code FTP support from scratch.
- New page:
How Add or Remove the WWW Prefix from Your Domain Name.
How do you automatically add the "www" prefix to your domain name? Or perhaps you want to remove the "www" prefix from a URL. Doing either of these may
save your site from duplicate content issues in the search engines if your site is often referred to by both forms (that is,
example.comANDwww.example.com). This article shows you how you can fix this by simply adding a few lines to your.htaccessfile.
- New page: Free Fax Software. Want to set up your computer so that it can send and receive faxes automatically from your fax modem, saving yourself the cost (and space requirement) of a fax machine? Check out this newest page of free fax software for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other operating systems.
- New page: How to Create an Image in PHP. Looking for a way to create or modify an image using PHP? Perhaps you want to set up a CAPTCHA system for your forms. Or maybe you want to dynamically modify a logo or banner on the fly. Whatever the case may be, this tutorial introduces you to the world of image manipulation using PHP.
- New page: Free Uninstallers. Tired of the crud left behind by a program after you uninstall it? These free uninstallers remove files, registry keys, file associations, desktop icons and other debris on your system that are associated with a particular program.
- Microsoft Research's ASIRRA, a type of image-based CAPTCHA facility that you can include in your forms free of charge, has been added to the Free PHP CAPTCHA Scripts page.
- New page: Free OCR Software (Optical Character Recognition). If you want to convert the text from an image that you scanned or captured with your digital camera to a normal text document, you may find this page of free OCR programs useful. These software convert the image into text that you can either edit or process using your normal text tools.
- Updated: NTFS Undelete, a program that will undelete files that have been accidentally deleted, has been added to the Free Data Recovery, File and Partition Recovery, Undelete and Unformat Software page.
- New page: How Much Does It Cost to Set Up a Website? If you are thinking of setting up a website, and are wondering how much it's going to cost, check out this article. It gives a cost breakdown for the things you will need when you start your website.
- New page: Free Command Line Shells. Are you tired of the repetitive tasks you sometimes have to perform from the shell command line? Do you want an interactive shell with more powerful covenience features that will make it faster and easier for you to do things? Or perhaps you want a more powerful scripting facility? Check out this new page which lists free interactive command line shells.
- New page: How to Insert a YouTube Video into Your Web Page with Dreamweaver. Learn how to embed a YouTube video into your web page using Dreamweaver, as well as what to do with the Dreamweaver warnings about the invalid YouTube embed code.
- New page: Free Usenet News Readers. If you frequent Usenet newsgroups, you owe it to yourself to get a decent Usenet newsreader. These specialized news readers have many features that make reading and posting to newsgroups more convenient, including automatic handling of multi-part posts to combine and decode them, support for multiple servers, background thread downloading and multiple identities, and so on. Why suffer the limited support for news in your mail software or browser? The software listed on this page are free. Some of them are also open source.
- New page: How the Meta Description Tag May Harm Your Website. You may think that your web page's meta description tag is helping your site in the search engines when the reverse is actually true. It is possible for this tag to actually hurt your site when it is improperly implemented. Find out more from this article and learn how you can avoid the problems caused by your META description tags.
