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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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- How to Make Pictures and Text into Clickable Links using Dreamweaver CS4 (Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial 5)
- Free Standard ML Compilers
- How to Change the Background of Your Website in Dreamweaver CS4 (Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial 4)
- How to Change Font Typefaces, Weight, Style, Colour and Sizes in Dreamweaver CS4 (Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial 3)
- How to Add Images to Your Website in Dreamweaver CS4 (Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial 2)
- Free Desktop Publishing Software
- Why Access Keys Are Mostly Useless for Accessibility Purposes
- How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS4 (Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial 1)
- How to Install Apache 2.2 on Windows Vista
- Free Online Touch Typing Speed Tests
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- How to Create 3D Buttons Using CSS
- How to Secure Your WordPress Blog
- Free Autorun/Autoplay DVD and CD Menu Creation Software
- How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS
- What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?
- How to Design a Two Column Layout for Your Website Using CSS
- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
- 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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- New page: How to Add a Navigation Menu Bar to Your Website in Dreamweaver CS4. In this 6th chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial series, find out how to add Dreamweaver's built-in navigation menu bar widget to your website, and customize it so that it fits your website's design. By the end of this chapter, you will have completed your home page and have mastered most of the commonly needed skills to build a normal web page.
- New page: How to Make Pictures and Text into Clickable Links using Dreamweaver CS4. Learn how to make pictures and text into clickable links in this fifth chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 web editor tutorial series. This article will also show you how you can make a clickable thumbnail picture that, when clicked, loads a larger picture, such as seen on some photo gallery sites.
- New page: Free Standard ML Compilers for the Standard ML Programming Language. Standard ML is a general purpose programming language with type checking. This new page lists the many free (and open source) Standard ML compilers available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc.
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Added a new raster painting software to the
Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editing Programs
page. If you're looking for something simple to use to touch up your photos, or draw pictures, check this new program out. You can even extend it
using one of the gadzillion
Photoshop plugins around,
or just plain old JavaScript.
- How to Change the Background of Your Website in Dreamweaver CS4. In this fourth chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial, learn how to add a background colour or image to either your entire web page or selectively to the different columns of your site. Note: if you're only just starting out, you may want to begin at the first chapter of the tutorial.
- The free online version of Herbert Schildt's C++ Beginner's Guide has now been added to the Free Online C / C++ Tutorials and Documentation page. With so many books from well-known authors accessible for free online, and just about every reputable C/C++ compiler on the planet also free, there's really no reason for anyone to procrastinate. Start learning how to write C/C++ programs now.
- New page: How to Change Font Typefaces, Weight, Style, Colour and Sizes in Dreamweaver CS4. The third chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial series is now online. Learn how to change fonts, add bold and italics, as well as change the colour and sizes of your text. This chapter also introduces Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and shows you how you can take advantage of its facilities to style your text in Dreamweaver.
- Another free online backup service has been added to the Free Online Backup, Internet Hard Drive for Offsite Backup page. This service works on both Windows and Mac OS X, provide 2 GB of free storage, features scheduled and incremental backups and so on. Don't risk your valuable data; make sure that your computer is backed up, either using a free online backup service like this new entry, or one of the many free hard disk backup and imaging software around.
- A new free WYSIWYG website builder/editor has been added to the Free HTML Editors and WYSIWYG Web Editors page. This one features drag and drop layouts, site managment tools, e-commerce tools, built-in FTP, form builder, photo gallery, Flash, etc. Read more about it or check it out.
- New page: How to Add Images to Your Website in Dreamweaver CS4. The second chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial is now online. Learn how to add images and a site logo to your website with this famous WYSIWYG web editor.
- New page: Free Desktop Publishing Software. Looking for a way to publish your newsletter, magazine, book, newspaper, brochure, greeting card and whatnot? The free desktop publishing software listed on this new page may be just what you need to produce that professional-looking publication. Get the right tool for the job (instead of fighting your wordprocessor to get it done).
- New page: Why Access Keys Are Mostly Useless for Accessibility Purposes. Access keys, we're told, improve the accessibility of a website, making it more usable for people with disabilities. I beg to differ. Find out why I think access keys are not only useless but can even be a hindrance to such people.
- Updated: Microsoft Small Basic has been added to the Free BASIC Compilers and Interpreters page. This is a simple language with only about 15 keywords meant for people who want to learn programming. It is supposed to be easy and fun to learn, and comes with an IDE that has context sensitive help and autocomplete facilities. If you're nostalgic for the days when programming languages were much simpler, or if you just want to learn how to write programs with an easier language, check this one out.
- Updated: The Larabie Fonts have been added to the Free Fonts for Programmers, Webmasters and Designers page. Larabie provides some 300 to 400 well-designed TrueType fonts that you can use for free, for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Unlike some free fonts floating around the internet, these look very professional to me.
- New page: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS4 (Dreamweaver Tutorial). If you are thinking of a way to create your own website, check out this tutorial on how you can use the famous Dreamweaver CS4 web editor to design and build it. The tutorial goes through all the steps necessary for you to create a fully functional website, complete with home page, feedback form, site map, and so on.
- Two new antivirus software have been added to the Free Antivirus Software and Free Online Virus Scans page. One of them uses behavioural protection and does not rely on virus signatures to detect malware. As such, it is supposedly able to better handle (new) zero-day viruses that have no signatures in the virus database yet. Check them out now.
- New page: How to Install Apache 2.2 on Windows Vista. If you try to install Apache 2.2 on Vista just by running the installer, you will run into innumerable problems and a non-functional Apache installation. This guide shows you how you can successfully install Apache 2.2 in such a way that it is even convenient to configure and update your website files after you're done. And you don't even need to permanently disable Vista's notorious User Account Control (UAC) to do it.
- New page: Free Online Touch Typing Speed Tests. Interested in finding out how fast you type and how you compare with others? Typing is very much a part of many things we do nowadays, since the use of computers has crept into so many activities. If you type faster, you can not only be more productive, but it will make your computing tasks so much more pleasant.
- New page: How to Uninstall KompoZer (Free WYSIWYG Web Editor). Since KompoZer does not come with an uninstaller, and some users cannot figure out how to remove it when they have moved on from the editor, this article guides you through the process of removing KompoZer from your Windows computer.
- Updated: Free Drawing and Painting Software, 3D Content Creation Tools. The free Google software that allows you to create 3D models of any object you like (eg houses, cities, vehicles, space ships, etc) has been added to the page. There are now a number of programs listed on that page that allow you to create 3D models, animations, as well as the conventional free graphics and photo editing software.
- Updated: Free Word Processors and Office Suites. Another open source (and free) office suite has been added to the page. This one features OpenXML support, which means it can import the native Office 2007 document formats, embedded Visio diagram support, etc. Included in the suite are a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentation software, database, etc.
- New page: How to Create a Rectangular Box to Contain Your Text/Pictures with CSS. Sometimes it's useful to be able to separate some content from the rest of your page by enclosing it in a rectangular box. This tutorial shows you how you can accomplish this using CSS.
- New page: Why Don't You Use the Keywords Meta Tag on Your Website? If you have heard or read somewhere of the importance of the keywords meta tag, read this article on why I don't use such tags on my website.
