Music

eMule   File sharing program designed to share large files over broadband connections, but still works on dial ups.  If we're online you'll find practically everything we've ever done, as well as complete collections of Bird Squad, Eva Destruction and all our favourite open source audio and ephemeral films.

GoldWave Shareware sound editor, CD ripper and (with the free LAME plug-in) mp3 encoder.

http://www.digidesign.com Free version of ProTools for Macs and PCs with older operating systems.  Complete virtual studio for nothing, as long as you're not running OSX or XP.  Works fine on Windows 98 and ME in our experience.

OmniFlop Reads old floppy disk formats such as Akai samplers etc. in your PC.  Freeware.

Security

http://www.avg.com   AVG virus protection.  Free program and updates, generally hidden among the paid for versions but well worth the search.

http://www.zonelabs.com  Zone Alarm - Free firewall

http://www.spybot.info/  Spybot S&D will clean commercial spyware from your PC, reclaiming precious system resources and bandwidth.  Free, and not to be confused with SpyHunter or SpyKiller

http://www.spywareinfo.com  Hijack This, for when you're default homepage has been changed to some piss weak search engine and won't go back.  Allows you to investigate exactly which programs are running when you start up

Utilities

http://www.pcinspector.de  PC Inspector File Recovery.  Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged, recovers files with the original time and date stamp, supports the saving of recovered files on network drives, recovers files even when a header entry is no longer available.  Freeware.

http://www.pcbit.com  HTML Optimiser.  Cleans up your HTML code for faster downloads.  Freeware

www.flashget.com    Flashget free download manager.  Pause and resume downloads, reconnect automatically.

www.almico.com/speedfan.php  Speedfan Hardware monitoring software that is able to change fan speeds according to system temperatures. SpeedFan can read S.M.A.R.T. values (and temperatures) from your hard disks and change the FSB.  Freeware.

All of the above programs are or have been in regular use by us.  Please respect shareware limitations, and make donations for freeware if you are able.  Software programmers cannot take their art to the stage like musicians and actors. They are the only people who truly lose out to piracy.