Free Software No Webmaster Should Be Without?
 

Anyone have links to free software products that can be useful for other webmasters to have?

Things like these:

Rename mp3 files. 1-4a-rename. Freeware file renamer for Windows 95/98/2000/XP - Bulk renaming tool.

https://www.irfanview.com/ - Free software manipulation.

https://www.winzip.com/en/ - .zip file creation & decompression.

Free FTP client, secure file transfer software - Free FTP program.

Any others that should be added to this list that you personally use?

There a ton here https://ninite.com/

I always forget Windows exists, and how horrible it is. This is like something from 1998.

For 2021:

1. Linux.

2. Rename files? Right click in Thunar (and/or maybe any) file manager and choose Rename... (Windows Explorer doesn't do this?)

3. Image editor? GIMP (often preinstalled) and/or https://www.photopea.com

4. Unzip? Archive Manager (often preinstalled) or sudo apt install unzip

5. FTP??? Even when I was still using Windows, about 15 years ago, I used WinSCP. Now just SSH with key authentication and/or rsync.

Doing a significant amount of web development, especially if you're SSHing into a server running Linux + need/want free software = Use Linux. /thread

Yep, on linux everything is already available , almost no need for additional software .

Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
FFmpeg https://www.ffmpeg.org/

In general, writing custom batch scripts to use with a handful of cli tools (Curl, PhantomJS, FFMpeg etc) will get a lot things done. No need to install a different tool for every different task.

Plus Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. But as mentioned, there are good replacements for that, like Gimp or Davinci Resolve (both free).

Yes, came here to poost these two ! Both very high end capable pieces of free software.

Notepad++ is maybe only windows software which is missing on linux :)

I much prefer vscode over notepad++ and it is available on linux.

https://code.visualstudio.com/download

I used Notepad++ on Windows and it certainly had more features than Notepad, which has zero features, but after using Gedit/Pluma and Geany I realized it's another case of Windows being garbage for powerful default or simple to install tools.

Ie. after spending hours Googling for software to do a job, then hours more reading reviews to convince yourself that you're not installing a botnet, you think "WOW" on Windows, for stuff that is no better than tools that are there by default on Linux or can be installed in 20 seconds without any worry of malware.

If anything there are almost too many text editors and programming IDEs for Linux, both GUI and commandline, like Emacs, Vi/Vim, Nano, Lime Text, Atom, Brackets, VS Code (from Microsoft!), as mentioned above, and many more.

Notepad++ itself is replicated as Notepadqq, though I haven't used it and would generally recommend using more standard/native Linux/Unix tools than stuff made to resemble Windows apps.

This is very true, though you spelled "bash" wrong. :winkwink:

I think Atom is the only free software I use.

wp all import and a wp plugin called pages link to

been using core ftp since my filezilla nightmare in my newbie days

FastStone

https://www.turnssoft.com/mini-mouse-macro.html is a free macro program that I use in my quest to work smarter not harder

Hmm since when microsoft is giving stuff for free :1orglaugh

wp file manager

Total commander of course: https://www.ghisler.com/

if it was 2005 i would have said arles LOL remember that software that built the galleries and submitting them for you? i was freeware :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh the hun persian kitty all those big one jj's