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title: "The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities - By DonationCoder.Com"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/16/the-46-best-ever-freeware-utilities-by-donationcodercom.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/16/the-46-best-ever-freeware-utilities-by-donationcodercom.html"
published: "2007-03-16T17:34:06"
updated: "2007-03-16T17:34:06"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "General Software Devel..."]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The guys over at DonationCoder.com are doing a great job of keeping the spirit of \"I'm a geek who loves to hoard and try every kind of software that ever existed, hopefully free\" alive. As one of those \"I'm a geek who…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities - By DonationCoder.Com

By Roy Osherove March 16, 2007 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 16, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

The guys over at [DonationCoder.com](http://www.donationcoder.com/) are doing a great job of keeping the spirit of "I'm a geek who loves to hoard and try every kind of software that ever existed, hopefully free" alive.

As one of those "I'm a geek who loves to hoard and try every kind of software that ever existed, hopefully free" People (IAGWLTHATEKOSTEEHF-ish for short?), I find that not only the [free software that is freely downloadable from their site pretty cool](http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/index.html) in its own right, but also the discussion boards are lively and a good place to lurk and discover cool free and not free stuff.

They recently released the list of "[The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities](http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm#index)". It's pretty interesting, if not only for the fact that almost half of it is dominated by security, malware and spam protection tools. They sure know their crowd!

I suggest you register [for the forum RSS feed](http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml). It's always alive and it's nice to peek every once in a while discover something you didn't know about. Like [FreeCommander](http://www.freecommander.com/), or [Gobby](http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/) and [MoonEdit](http://moonedit.com/indexen.htm).

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

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- Mar 16, 2007

    ### [Remote Pair Programming with collaborative text editors](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/16/remote-pair-programming-with-collaborative-text-editors.html)

- Feb 5, 2007

    ### [NDepend 2.0 - Beast, not Beauty](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/2/5/ndepend-20-beast-not-beauty.html)

- Dec 21, 2006

    ### [Total Commander - The Ultimate File Manager?](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/21/total-commander-the-ultimate-file-manager.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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