Free Graphics Software

• Blender - is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Blender has a relatively small installation size and runs on several popular computing platforms. Though it is often distributed without documentation or extensive example scenes, the software is rich with features that are characteristic of high-end modelling software.

• Inkscape - is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development process, and by making sure Inkcape is easy to learn, to use, and to extend.

• PovRay - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports. The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.

• Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for setup and shell-integration related functionality.

Fun Sites, Fan Sites

The sites below are Fan Sites Directory where you could search your favorite celebrities, may it be an actor, athlete, model etc. You would find here anything and everything about celebrities. Although some of their services are not free. Get ready to see the latest info (gossip) on celebrities like Tom Cruise, Lindsay Lohan, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, Maria Sharapova, J-lo, Jessica Biel, etc.

• CELEBHOO.COM - Founded in 1999, Celebhoo is a leading provider of information and news for celebrity fans around the World. Celebhoo maintains a vast database of reviewed links to celebrity fan pages, as well as providing famous birth dates, gossip, movie reviews and other original, high quality content.

• Celebritywonder.com -Searching our site is now easier. Try our site search on the left, input any celebrity names or movies and click GO button. Adding specific keywords like 'pictures' or 'movies' or 'wallpaper' will provide more accurate results, i.e.: Jennifer Lopez Picture, or Ben Affleck Wallpaper, etc.

• Starbuzz - Founded in 1997, Starbuzz is a guide devoted to all celebrity and entertainment fan sites. All sites featured in the directory are reviewed and handpicked by our talented team of editors. With information on nearly 3,000 stars and over 5,000 web sites, Starbuzz is truly the biggest guide to stars online!

• Celebchaos - in a chaotic world, obsessed by celebrity, there can be only one chaotic celebrity site - a place to find links to the best sites about movies, television and celebrities, plus news, articles, photos and more! In addition, this chaotic site must aim to give the less well known celebrities a global, online audience among the very popular celebrities. The design must also be "simple and basic" for the sole reason of faster downloading time. Where do you find such a site? Right here at Celebchaos.com

Free Ads

• ezClassifieds.com - freis a revolutionary new form of e-commerce that empowers any individual or webmaster to open an online Classifieds Section in just five minutes – ez'ily and for free! The ezClassifieds.com's solution eliminates the traditional barriers to e-commerce faced by inviduals, websites, groups, and clubs. The Classifieds-building wizard allows individuals and online businesses to select/create categories that exactly match their customer profile, to populate the Classified Sections with pre-exising listings, and to customize the look and feel of their Sections.

• Classifieds For Free - online free classifieds and free advertisement site for business opportunity, personal ads, automobiles, real estate, and much more. Place free ads in more than 600 US Cities, All US States and Territories, and more than 60 countries. There is no limit to the number of free ads you can post. Ads will stay for one week. Renew them as many times as you want.

• FreeAds.Net - another online free classifieds with 47,000 plus free ads. Easy to place and post ads.

• AdTrader.co.uk classifieds - The powerful way to buy and sell with over 130,000 classified ads online. Users can buy or sell anything from holidays to computers to cars. AdTrader offers the biggest choice, the best bargains and free online classified ads for private individuals.

Free Adware/Spyware Remover

• Spybot - Search & Destroy v1.4 - can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer with other users. Modules chosen for removal can be sent directly to the included file shredder, ensuring complete elimination from your system.

• Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition v1.06 - boasts a number of improvements from its predecessors. Extended memory scanning now scans all modules loaded by a process. Scanning uses the all-new CSI (Code Sequence Identification) technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets. Extended registry scanning now scans registry branches of multiple-user accounts and performs additional smart checks to detect dynamically created references. Scanning speed is noticeably faster, and this version offers an Extended Scanning mode for known and unknown/possible browser hijackers.

• Microsoft Windows Defender - is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding over 50 ways spyware can enter your PC. Participants in the worldwide SpyNet community play a key role in determining which suspicious programs are classified as spyware. Microsoft researchers quickly develop methods to counteract these threats, which are automatically downloaded to your PC, so you stay up-to-date.

• GoGoData AdBuster v1.8.3 - Browse the web in peace and boost your browsing speed by blocking intrusive forms of advertising! AdBuster recently took first place in Popup-Killer-Review.coms´ testing of intelligent popup blockers, scoring 100%/100%! (116 tested, July, 2004). AdBuster is the only free blocker that stops *all* types of popup ads, including web dialogs which evade most free blockers.

• Startup Mechanic 2.4 - will scan your system for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components and remove them, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web. It will hunt down and remove junk and obsolete programs, freeing up RAM and increasing your system performance. Its other features include the ability for automatic Recycle Bin storage of removed components, and a viewer for backup archives that allows you to review removed components that have been stored for possible future restoration. The application also includes Startup Monitor, a small utility that runs transparently in the background and notifies you when any program registers to run at start-up. It prevents those utterly useless tray applications from registering behind your back, and it acts as an effective prevention tool against harmful Trojan horses, dialers, and spyware.