Favorite Free and Cheap Apps

These are some of the programs that I install on just about any machine that I use.

First, the Free Ones:

Calibre - eBook management and conversion

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Mobipocket - eBook reader and authoring software

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN

mp3DirectCut - Direct cutting and recording of MP3 files without re-encoding them

http://mpesch3.de1.cc/

mp3tag - Editor for mp3 file tag information

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Notetab Light - Notepad/Wordpad replacement

http://www.notetab.com/

WinDirStat - Graphical display of your disk usage

http://windirstat.info/

WinGrep - grep for Windows - Powerful file search program

http://www.wingrep.com/

WinMerge - Differencing and Merging tool for Window

http://winmerge.org/

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And now the non-shareware apps:

AnyDVD - Removes Region encoding for DVD. This allows be to watch DVDs that have been released in Europe and Asia.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/

DiskAnalyzer Pro - Hard Disk Space Usage Analysis and Management Software

http://www.diskanalyzerpro.com/

Finale Guitar 2003 - Music Transcription software

http://www.makemusic.com/

Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro - FTP softwareused to upload/download to webservers

http://www.ipswitchft.com/products/ws_ftp_pro/index.aspx?n=1&k_id=ipshome

Readerware - catalog software for Books, Music, and Videos

http://www.readerware.com/index.php

Transcribe - "Automatic" music transcribing tool

http://www.seventhstring.com

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Other Interesting Programs and websites:

Direct Note Access - part of Melodyne editor, it allows you to view and edit individual notes in recorded music

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna

Simple Satellite Tracking from Spaceweather

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/flybys.php?zip=91709