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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.
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!
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This Month
- 6 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About Google Chrome
- Free ASP Blog Scripts and Blogging Software
- How to Change the Default Web Page that is Shown When Someone Goes to Your Domain Name
Last Month
- How to Remove the Underlining from Your Links in Nvu/KompoZer
- Free SSL Certificates for Websites/Web Servers
- How to Write Dates that Can Be Correctly Understood by an International Audience
- Free Autorun/Autoplay DVD and CD Menu Creation Software
- How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with .htaccess
- Free Wiki ASP Scripts
- 3 Things to Be Aware of When Writing English Content for an International Audience
- Free Network Attached Storage (NAS) File Server Operating System Distributions
- Which Software Do You Use for Web Development?
- Free ARM Emulators
- How to Add Google AdSense Advertisements to Your Website with KompoZer
A While Ago...
- How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS
- Free PHP Encoders, Accelerators and Obfuscators
- How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse Hovers Over It (Using CSS)
- What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?
- How to Use PHP Sessions to Store Data
- 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
- 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
Featured Pages
- How Much Does It Cost to Set Up a Website?
- 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
- 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
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- 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.
- New page: How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with .htaccess. Tired of all the bots traversing your website, stealing email address, probing for security vulnerabilities and otherwise draining your bandwidth? This article shows you how you can block unwanted bots from your site through a bit of .htaccess magic.
- New page: Free Wiki ASP Scripts. Are you looking for an easy way to set up a website where you and others can easily add and update web pages simply from a web browser. This new page lists free ASP scripts that allow you to set up a Wiki on your site. (Note: if you don't like ASP scripts, you may prefer to check out the Free and Open Source PHP Wiki Scripts page instead.)
- Are you looking for a free hard disk backup software to make an image of your current system (even while you're working on it)? The latest software to be added to the Free Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities page does just that. Besides imaging your system, it also allows you to make 2 different kinds of bootable rescue CD/DVD (one is Linux-based and the other Windows-based) so that when your system really crashes, you can easily pop in your rescue CD and recover it. This software can back up to hard disks, network drives, DVDs, etc. Check it out.
- Another Mac emulator (or more accurately, a virtual machine) has been added to the Free 68k and PowerPC Macintosh Emulators page. This one can run Mac OS and Mac OS X guest operating systems on a Linux PowerPC machine. It also allows the use of AltiVec in the guest OS if the host CPU supports it.
- New page: 3 Things to Be Aware of When Writing English Content for an International Audience. Do you know that "football" does not mean the same game in different countries? Or that "brackets" refer to different symbols depending on where you are? This article discusses the differences in the English that can hurt your site if you are not careful.
- New page: Free Network Attached Storage (NAS) File Server Operating System Distributions. Do you have an old computer that you don't know what to do with? The free NAS file server distributions listed on this page will let you convert that computer to a file server for your network in an easy and convenient way, so that you can store and share files with others on your network. Read more about it.
- A new CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD mastering and writing software has been added to the Free CD and DVD Burners and Copying Software page. This one can not only create the usual CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD discs, audio and video discs, bootable media, but it can also copy a DVD9 (8.5 GB DVD) into 2 DVD+/-R DVDs so that you can back up those DVDs even if you don't have a dual layer DVD+/-R DL lying around. Check it out or read more about it.
- New page: Which Software Do You Use for Web Development? I'm often asked which programs I use in the course of creating and maintaining my websites. This article reviews some of the tools I use.
- Fancy doing some 3D animations? The latest addition to the Free 3D Content Creation Tools page is a cross-platform program that works on Windows, Linux, and other systems. It targets professional artists and generates "motion-picture quality" animation using RenderMan-compliant render engines (as defined by Pixar). There are lots of features. Read more about it or check it out.
- New page: Free ARM Emulators. Are you writing software for PDAs or embedded systems using an ARM processor? Check out this new page listing free ARM emulators that let you develop and test your programs in the comfort, convenience and efficiency of your own desktop. There's even a free ARM device emulator from Microsoft that comes with Windows Mobile 5/6/6.1.
- New page: How to Add Google AdSense Advertisements to Your Website with KompoZer. Are you thinking of adding Google AdSense advertisements to your website but don't know how? This tutorial shows you how you can do it using the free web editor KompoZer, in 6 easy steps.
- New page: How to Make Your Website to Fill an Entire Browser Window with Dreamweaver. When you create a site using one of the supplied layouts in Dreamweaver, your web page does not occupy the full width of the browser window. How do you modify it so that it stretches out to fill the entire width? This article shows you how you can do it in 4 easy steps.
- New page: Free Secure Password Managers and Password Savers. Tired of having to manage a multitude of usernames and passwords for all the websites that you access? Are you scribbling them down on scraps of paper or storing them in a giant text file and having to spend time locating the password when you need them? These free and open source password managers will save you time and effort by making it easy to organize, store, search for and retrieve your passwords. The passwords are even stored in a secure way, in encrypted files, so that all you have to remember is a single master password.
