Having your own desktop computer with a bunch of hard drive space allows you to download a lot of programs. I am going to give a list of different categories, such as bit torrent websites, audio books, games, etc. Along with the list of categories, I am going to give a few website suggestions with a little explanation next to them.
Audiobooks:
Librivox: They record books from public domains and then release them for free. They are one of the more popular audio libraries on the web.
Podiobooks: You download book episodes directly from this website. These are serialized audio books that are distributed through RSS feed.
BitTorrent:
The Pirate Bay: This is my favorite bit torrent website to use. It is easily the largest collection of bit torrent trackers.
Torrent Portal: This is a file sharing website that is extremely similar to how Google works. It does not store files or transfer data, but instead allows the user to search for files on the website.
Torrentz: This is a Sweden-based torrent search engine that indexes various major torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay or Mininova. It provides many different types of trackers per torrent that would work when another tracker is not working.
eBooks:
KnowFree: This website is like a virtual base that allows people to exchange ebooks freely, video training, and other educational material. This features a very nice search engine which lets people search for materials really fast.
Ebookshare: Provides a link to either an e-book torrent file or a direct download. They are then categorized into broader subjects and the site has a great search engine for you to use as well.
Ebookee: This is basically a free book search engine. This helps you find ebook titles that you are looking for, and then list them on the sites in a general subject category.
Clipart:
Open Clipart Library: This website is a huge database of clipart that users can download freely. When you become a user of this website, you are usually encouraged to generate content for the website.
Clipart.com: This is the web’s largest collection of clipart, images, photos, web graphics, fonts, illustrations, and sounds. They offer paid subscriptions to their database, which includes 10 million professional quality images.
Download Hubs
Download.com: This has a lot of freeware on this website. Probably the webs largest website of freeware programs. They have software ranging from security, music, and education.
Tucows: This is the web’s first software download site. You can download basically any type of software you want, which are freeware or shareware. I believe it has over 40,000 software titles.
Freeware:
A+Freeware: This website allows you get copies of software for free. This site offers choice applications, which becomes useful only when combined with a valid operating system.
Windows Downloads: This is Download.com’s Windows only software download site that allows software which has been 100% tested to be free of any malware.
Major Geeks: This is my personal favorite website that I use a lot. It hosts the most comprehensive collection of computer utilities available to you on the web.
Games
Liberated Games: This is a simple listing site that offers free download of legally available games. It’s a listing of the games with a direct link to download them.
Download Full Version PC Games: This is a blog site that has the best legal, free, and full version of PC games. They have games ranging from action games to 3rd person games.
Best of Games: This site has the best of the old video games that you enjoyed when you were younger. These games are all free for download.
Movies
ZML: This is one of my favorite websites I use for movies. If you subscribe to ZML’s paid membership, then you can find out a lot about current movies.
Movie Image Archive: This is a library of free movies, films, and videos updated by site users. They include full length films, news broadcasts, and concerts. Not all these videos are free to download though, so you might have to pay for some of them.
MP3
Music Download: This is the ultimate source for legally available MP3’s. The music here is not usually from big known artists, but you can still download a lot of different types of music here.
iLike: This allows you to discover music playlists available on the web, and allows you to share your own playlist around the world. This also links to iTunes and Amazon stores.
Online Videos
Download YouTube Videos: This site lets you insert the YouTube video’s URL into the site, and then allows you to download the YouTube video onto your computer. After that, you can download a converter, and convert the video to an MP3, and then add it to your iTunes library if you wanted.
Keepvid: This allows you to download streaming videos from YouTube and other websites that allow streaming videos to be viewed.
Sound Effects
Soundsnap: This is a library of more than 100,000 high-quality sound effects that you can use. They offer 5 free downloads per month, then you would have to pay a pro membership monthly fee to download anymore.
System Utilities:
Open Drivers: This is a website that allows users to download free drivers. They categorize their drivers by the category and driver manufacturer. It also includes step by step processes to install and uninstall the drivers.
Free Codecs: This is the ultimate resource for all types of codecs online. This provides codecs for audio, video, and tools. It also comes with codec packages you can download.
Open Office: This is the free version of Microsoft Office, if you don’t want to pay for it. It contains word processing, spreadsheets, databases, graphs, and presentations.
DLL Files: If you have ever missed a DLL file before, then this is a great place to download a new one. It has a database of virtually any DLL file you would need.
These are just a few websites that I personally use and trust. They are really interesting and helpful websites that I think anyone could use to help improve their experiences on the internet and with using technology.
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